his fine fancy in Latin poetry, and for certain things which he had written.” These posthumous poems are dedicated in a Latin epistle to Prince Heury. The poems are all in Latin excepting that one of them, "Viridis Draconis Triumphus," on the death of William Herbert, Earl of Pembroke, has a translation into English verse by the same person, and is further embellished with an engraving on copper of the green dragon. The poem begins thus:

The Penbroke Dragon greene of hue, good reader, here behold,
His scaled necke enuironed with glittering chaine of gold,
His hooked clawes, his piercing eyes, his winges prepar'd to flight,
His mighty crest, well fauoured limmes, and body shaped right.
'Twas not this Dragon whom the dames of Colchos did bewaile,
The keeper of the golden Fleece: not Hercules did preuayle
Against the same: it was not this which kept the Golden frute
In Hespers groue, Apollo's sleight right cunningly did shute,
His thousand shafts, which Pythō pierst: yea Cadmus had hath slain
Thy monstrous Dragon (mighty Mars) which kept Baotian plain.
The Gods themselves, the sonnes of God, no Imps of earthy wight,
Not Esons Sonne, not Ioues his youth, not Cadmus (put to flight
By fathers wrath, Agenors ire) could quaile this Dragons might;
No not despightfull death, euen she which cruell lawes doth make
Against al things, who al things tames, which shape in earth do take;
Death, death I say durst not presume this Dragons ouerthrow,

Ne could it do: for when on earth she bid him not to show,
To skies she set his glistering ghost.

The poems are chiefly addressed to Queen Elizabeth and some of the nobles of her time, with some epitaphs at the end, and are not remarkable for any peculiar excellence. The volume concludes with "A Table of all the memorable things contained in the Crudities," and with an apology for the errata, and a list of these.

Besides the engraved title-page by Will. Hole, containing at the bottom a portrait of the author, ætatis suæ 35, (2) the woodcut of Prince Henry's plume and feathers before the Dedication, and (3) of the green dragon mentioned before, the volume contains also (4) a small woodcut of Coryat's shoes encircled with laurel on sig. k 4, and the following engravings on copper by Hole (5) whole length portrait of Coryat "Il Senior Tomaso Odcombiano," with a Venetian courtezan, p. 262; (6) "A Delineation of the Amphitheater of Verona," p. 311; (7) "A true figure of the famous Clock of Strasbourg, p. 452; (8) "A Sciographie or Modell of that Stupendious Vessell which is at this day shewed in the Palace of the Count Palatine of 3 Q

VOL. II. PART. II.

Rhene in the citie of Heidelberg, p. 486; and (9) "Portrait of Frederic 4. Count Palgrave of the Rhine," p. 496.

The descriptions of Coryat are chiefly characterised by their simplicity and truthfulness, and his straightforward faithfulness in relating what he saw. His travels are more remarkable for their description of the cities, buildings and antiquities which he visited, than for the accounts of the manners and customs of their inhabitants. But they also contain many curious anecdotes and quaint observations, which, coupled with his excessive personal vanity, render his narrative very amusing.

Dibdin remarks that there are not any copies of this work on large paper in existence. Mr. Grenville had the presentation copy to Prince Henry from the author, bound in red velvet,* with an original letter inserted from Coryat to Sir Michael Hixes, requesting his influence in obtaining a licence for printing his book, being the same which appeared in the Cens. Liter. See Dibdin's Libr. Comp., vol. i. p. 380. See also further on this subject Wood's Ath. Oxon., vol. ii. p. 208; Biogr. Brit., vol. iv. p. 273; Retrosp.. Rev., vol. vi. p. 206; Bibl. Ang. Poet., No. 113; Bridgew. Cat., p. 70; Granger's Biogr. Hist., vol. ii. p. 149; Quart. Rev., vol. ii. p. 92; and Lowndes's Bibl. Man., p. 487, who has given a full collation and list of plates. Copies of this work have sold at various sales from four to twelve guineas, varying according to condition and completeness: Nassau, pt. i. No. 879, 4l. 14s. 6d.; Perry, pt. i. No. 1027, 4l. 5s.; Bright, No. 1471, 41. 68.; Freeling, No. 637, 4l. 88.; Roxburghe, No. 7282, 5l.; Dent, pt. i. No. 969, 67.; Dowdeswell, No. 255, 6l. 2s. 6d. ; Townley, pt. i. No. 498, 71. 78.; Gordonstoun, No. 675, Sl. 2s. 6d.; Gardiner, No. 596, 7.; North pt. iii. No. 567, 81. 88.; Strettell, No. 582, 71. 178. 6d. ; Utterson, No. 475, 91.; Hibbert, No. 2265, 9l. 19s. 6d.; Bindley, pt. i. No. 1831, 10.; Stanley, 107. 108.; Bibl. Ang. Poet., No. 113, 157.; Williams, No. 333, 16l. 5s. 6d.

Collation Frontispiece and printed title two leaves; Sig. a. four leaves; b. four leaves; a. 4 to 8, b. to g., eight leaves each; h. to 1. four leaves each; B and C eight leaves each; D (before D 2. three leaves, Mr. Laurence Whitaker's "Elogie of the Booke" D 3.) to Z, in eights; A a. to Z z 8, in eights; A a a. to Ddd 4, in eights; the last two leaves containing the errata, marked E e e 3 and 4.

* Coryat, in allusion to the book being bound in crimson velvet, in his oration to the Prince on presenting it calls it "this tender feathered Red-breast."

The Freeling copy, very fine, with all the plates.

Bound by James Black. In Russia, gilt leaves.

CORYAT, (THOMAS.) - Coryat's Crudities; Reprinted from the Edition of 1611. To which are now added, his Letters from India, &c. and Extracts relating to him, from various Authors: Being a more particular Account of his Travels (mostly on Foot) in different Parts of the Globe, than any hitherto published. Together with his Orations, Character, Death &c. With Copper-Plates. In Three Volumes.

London: Printed for W. Cater, No. 274. Holborn; J. Wilkie, No. 71. St. Paul's Church-yard; and E. Easton, at Salisbury. M.DCC.LXXVI. 8vo.

In a short "Preface to the Reader," prefixed to this reprint of Coryats Crudities, the editor says:

The Fame of this "Odcombian Leg-Stretcher," and the favourable reception his Book has always met with, rendered it so very scarce and valuable, that it was thought adviseable to reprint it, with all the original Copper-Plates. Had the Author lived to return to England, after his second Peregrination, he intended to have published the Remainder of his Travels, in different Parts of the Globe, but his dying in India prevented it. Several Persons have wrote concerning him, each of whom has given some account of his Travels; and many Letters of his own writing from India and other Places, have likewise made their appearance: But as all the different Publications concerning Coryat, are very rarely (if at all) possessed by one Person, it was imagined, that if every thing material relating to him were extracted from the different Authors, and subjoined to his Crudities, it would be a very acceptable present to the Public. This is done in the present Work, in which nothing of consequence, that could be procured, is omitted.

The Books from which the Extracts relating to Coryat are chiefly taken, consist of Purchas's Pilgrims, Taylor the Water Poet, Terry's Voyage to India, &c. with the whole of several Publications by his Friends, of his Letters from India, Orations, Poems &c. all which are contained in the third Volume.

The whole of the contents of the original quarto volume are accordingly here reprinted, together with all the plates, although some of them are somewhat reduced in size. In the third volume, at the end of the Crudities and posthumous fragments of George Coryat, the father, is a reprint of a small tract published in 1616, 4to, and noticed hereafter, called Thomas

Coriate, Traueller for the English Wits: (Greeting) From the Court of the Great Mogul, Resident at the Town of Asmere, in Easterne India. This contains "Coryats Letters from India" to various persons, and is embellished on the title with a woodcut portrait of the author riding on an elephant (of which there is a duplicate on sig. L 4.), a fac-simile of which is here given,

another of him as a pedestrian, and woodcuts of an antelope and an unicorn. Then follow the "Petitian to the Prince" concerning the printing of his travels, and his "Orations" to the King, Queen, &c. These are succeeded by "Extracts from Purchas's Pilgrims relating to Thomas Coryate," published in 1625; others "from the Works of John Taylor the Water Poet," printed in the year 1613. The chief part of these is Taylor's Laugh and be

Fat: or a Commentary upon the Cdcombian Banket. And lastly "Extracts from the Voyage of the Rev. Edward Terry, Chaplain to the Right Hon: Sir Thomas Rowe Knt. Lord Ambassador to the Great Mogul. Printed in the year 1655." At the end is "A Table of all the Memorable Things contained in the Crudities."

The book is well printed, and is by no means scarce.

Bound in Calf extra, marbled leaves.

CORYAT, (THOMAS.) - The Odcombian Banqvet: Dished foorth by Thomas the Coriat, and serued in by a number of Noble Wits in prayse of his Crvdities and Crambe too.

Asinus portans Mysteria.

Imprinted for Thomas Thorp. 1611. 4to.

This volume is merely the preliminary and laudatory verses which preceded the original edition of the Crudities, reprinted under the above title of The Odcombian Banquet, without the travels. It does not contain any additional verses, but, after an anagram on Coryat's name on the back of the title, commences with "Mr. Laurence Whitaker's Elogie of the Booke," "The Character of the Author," and Ben Jonson's "Acrostic" on Coryat. Then follow the "Distichs on the Emblemes of the Frontispiece," by L. Whitaker, and "Certaine other verses" by Ben Jonson, and the author's "Introduction to the ensuing Verses." The verses are the same as in the former edition, with the exception of the omission of the Greek epigram by Farnaby on sig. G 4. At the end of the book, on the last page, is an advertisement from the publisher to the reader, thus:

Nouerint vniversi &c. Know (gentle Reader) that the booke, in prayse whereof all these preceding verses were written, is purposely omitted for thine and thy purses good: partly for the greatnes of the volume, cōtaining 654 pages, ech page 36. lines, each line 48. letters, besides Panegyricks, Poems, Epistles, Prefaces, Letters, Orations, fragments, posthumes, with the commas, colons, and ful-points; and other things therunto appertaining: which beeing printed of a Character legible without spectacles, would haue caused the Booke much to exceed that price, whereat men in these witty dayes value such stuffe as that and partly for that one,

Whose learning, judgement, wit and braine,

Are weight with Toms iust to a graine.

Instead therefore of epitomizing the present book, he resolves to wait