The praise of MORIL ENCOM IV M mus Rotero dame. Englished by lit Tho- ANNO. M. D. TP CHALONER (SIR THOMAS). MORIA ENCOMIUM. 1549. (See No. 1455). CHALONER (SIR THOMAS). EXTREMELY RARE FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH of this classic. Small 4to, dark brown levant morocco, gilt, paned sides, a blank corner or two mended, VERY FINE COPY. £52 10s Important as being the First English Translation of the Moria Encomium. CHAMBERLAYNE (WILLIAM). 1456 Pharonnida, A HEROICK POEM, by WILLIAM CHAMBERLAYNE, OF SHAFTESBURY IN THE COUNTY OF DORCET. Printed for R. Clavell, at the Sign of the Stags-head, near St. Gregories Church in St. Pauls Churchyard, 1659. FIRST EDITION, fine portrait by HERTOCHS, 8vo, morocco extra, paned sides, gilt edges by Riviere & Son, A FINE COPY OF A RARE BOOK. £18 18s 6 This poem, with all its interests and its merits, had long lain forgotten and unnoticed by the world, until its claims to public attention and its high poetical worth were recognised by Southey, afterwards by Campbell in his Specimens of British Poets,' and since then by a writer in the Retrospective Review.' From a note appended to his Joan of Arc,' Southey appears to have felt much interest in this poem, and speaks of the author as a poet to whom he had been indebted for many hours of delight, and whom he one day hoped to rescue from undeserved oblivion. According to Campbell, one of the most interesting stories ever told in verse, and containing so much amusing matter as to be made into a prose novel entitled Eromena, or the Noble Stranger.' CHAMBERS (MARIANNE). 5S 1457 Ourselves. A COMEDY, in Five Acts, by their Majesties Servants, at the Theatre-Royal, Lyceum. J. Barker, 1811. FIRST EDITION, 8vo, sewn. This comedy was acted sixteen times. 1458 The School for Friends. A COMEDY, in Five Acts, at the Theatre-Royal, Drury-Lane. Barker, 1805. FIRST EDITION, 8vo, sewn. 5S 1459 1460 Another. The Third Edition. ib. 1806. 8vo, sewn. 2s 6d 2s 6d CHANDLER (MARY). 1461 A Description of Bath. A POEM. In a Letter to a Friend. J. Roberts (c. 1730). FIRST EDITION, folio, sewn. £1 1s 1462 Another. The Third Edition. To which are added, SEVERAL POEMS BY THE SAME AUTHOR. James Leake, 1736 8vo, sewn. CHAP BOOK. 5S 1463 The History of Buckhaven in Fifeshire. CONTAINING THE ENTERTAINING EXPLOITS OF WISE WILLIE AND WITTY EPPIE. With a Description of their College, Coat of Arms, etc. Edinburgh: Printed for the Booksellers in Town and Country (1800). 8vo, sewn, uncut. 5S 1464 The Pleasand and Delightful History of Jack and the Giants. PART THE FIRST. Nottingham. Printed for the Running Stationers. C. 1790.-Do. . . PART THE SECOND. Ib., c. 1700. 2 12 pp. Chap Books in I vol., 12mo, nine quaint woodcuts, half roan, neat. £1 1s CHAP SONG BOOKS. 1465 A Garland of New Songs, all printed at Newcastle by J. Marshall. CHERRY CHEEK'D PATTY, etc., etc., woodcut on title. LOVELY KITTY, etc., etc., woodcut on title. THE DEATH OF NELSON, etc., etc., woodcut on title. THE BATTLE OF THE NILE, etc., etc., woodcut on title. THE BAY OF BISCAYO, etc., etc., woodcut on title. THE STORM, by MRS. ROBINSON, etc., etc., woodcut on title. BESS THE GAWKIE, etc., etc., woodcut on title. THE WORLD'S A STAGE, etc., etc., woodcut on title. SWEET WILLY O' THE GREEN, etc., etc., woodcut on title. GOD SAVE THE KING, etc., etc., woodcut on title. O How I LOVE SOMEBODY, etc., etc., woodcut on title. THE TEMPEST, etc., etc., woodcut on title. YOUNG JOHNSTON, etc., etc., woodcut on title. WILLIAM AND MARGARET, etc., etc., woodcut on title. TWEED SIDE, etc., etc., woodcut on title. OH! LADY FAIR, etc., etc., woodcut on title. THE ARETHUSA, etc., etc., woodcut on title. FAIREST OF THE FAIR, etc., etc., woodcut on title. YOUNG LOVE AMONG THE ROSES, etc., etc., woodcut on title. THE POST CAPTAIN, etc., etc., woodcut on title. THE BONNY SCOTCH LAD AND HIS BONNET SO BLUE, etc., etc., woodcut on title. ALLEN A-DALE, etc., etc., woodcut on title. THE LASS THAT MADE THE BED TO ME, etc., etc., woodcut on title. WILLIAM AND MARGARET, etc., etc., woodcut on title. THE MID-WATCH, etc., etc., woodcut on title. CROCKERY'S LAMENTATION, etc., etc., woodcut on title. THE WOODPECKER, etc., etc., woodcut on title. MUIRLAND WILLIE, etc., etc., woodcut on title. THE FAIREST OF THE FAIR, etc., etc., woodcut on title. MARY'S DREAM, etc., etc., woodcut on title. WILL WATCH THE BOLD SMUGGLER, etc., etc., woodcut on title. Thirty-one 8 pp. Chap Book Garlands (c. 1790-1805). Together in I vol., 12mo, half morocco neat, FROM THE LIBRARY OF DR. W. H. CUMMINGS. CHAPMAN (GEORGE). £4 4s 1466 Bussy D'Ambois: A TRAGEDY. As it hath been often Acted with great applause. Being much corrected and amended by the Author before his death. A. N. for Robert Lunne, 1641. Small 4to, sewn. Prologue, Epilogue (3 pp.). 1467 £6 6s Another Edition. T. W. for Robert Lunne, 1646. Small 4to, some headlines shaved, brown calf. Prologue and Epilogue (3 pp.). £4 4s BATRACHOMYOMACHIA; 1470 The Crowne of all Homers Workes. or, The Battaile of Frogs and Mise, HIS HYMNS and EPIGRAMS translated according to ye Originall. By GEORGE CHAPMAN. London: Printed by John Bill, N.D. (c. 1624). FIRST EDITION, fine impression of the engraved title by Will. Pass (see reproduction), A FINE COPY OF THIS EXTREMELY RARE BOOK. Small folio, original calf. £87 10s Dedication to the Earl of Somerset (6 pp.). The Occasion of the Imposed Crowne (2 pp.). CHAPMAN (GEORGE). 1468 THE TRAGEDIE OF CHARLES Duke of Byron Marshall of France. Acted lately in two playes, at the Written by GEORGE CHAPMAN Printed by G. Eld for Thomas Thorppe, and are to be sold at the Tygers Head in Paules Church-yard 1608. FIRST EDITION. Small 4to, A FINE COPY IN THE ORIGINAL VELLUM, cloth case. Dedication to Sir Tho. Walsingham, Kt. Prologues (2 pp.). £75 See Furnivall's "Allusions," where a passage is quoted as bearing on MACBETH. "The figure of Byron is drawn with epic grandeur. In describing the wild enormities of boundless vainglory, Chapman, however undramatic he may be, is assuredly impressive. The Conspiracie and Tragedie are thickly strewn with striking aphorisms, expressed with fitting eloquence of language. Charles Lamb was of opinion that of all the English dramatists, Chapman approaches nearest to Shakespeare in the descriptive and didactic in passages which are less purely dramatic.' "—A. H. Bullen. 1469 Another Edition. N. O. for Thomas Thorp, 1625. SECOND EDITION. Both parts in one volume, small 4to, separate titles to each, sewn, stained and some headlines shaved, but text perfect, quite a fair working copy. £8 8s 1471 An Epicede or Funeral Song: ON THE MOST DISASTROUS DEATH OF THE HIGH-BORN PRINCE OF MEN, HENRY PRINCE OF WALES, &c. With The Funeralls, and Representation. of the Herse of the same High and Mighty Prince; Prince of Wales, Duke of Cornewaile and Rothsay, Count Palatine of Chester, Earle of Carick, and late Knight of the most Noble Order of the Garter. Which Noble Prince deceased of St. James, the sixt day of November, 1612, and was most Princely interred the seventh day of December following, within the Abbey of Westminster, in the Eighteenth Yeere of his Age. T. S. for John Budge, 1612. FIRST EDITION. Small 4to, half russia, some copies have engraving of Hearse, not in this copy. £8 8s CHAPMAN (GEORGE). 1472 Homer, Prince of Poets. TRANSLATED ACCORDING TO THE GREEKE, IN TWELVE BOOKES OF HIS ILIADS, by GEO. CHAPMAN. London: Printed for Samuel Macham, N.D. (circa 1610). Fine engraved title-page by W. HOLE (see Reproduction). FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST TWELVE BOOKS. Small folio, engraved titlepage by W. Hole, old calf, neatly rebacked, WITH THE RARE LEAF AT END CONTAINING THE TWO EXTRA SONNETS, OF WHICH ONLY FIVE COPIES ARE KNOWN; MALONE AND MITFORD'S COPY, HAVING NUMEROUS CUTTINGS AND MANUSCRIPT NOTES IN THEIR HANDWRITINGS, ON FLY LEAVES. £90 Collation: Two leaves without signatures; A-A 7; the work, B-Z; Aa-Cc, in fours (CC4 blank); Dd, two leaves; Ee, four leaves; Ff, two leaves (FF 2 blank). Engraved title: Dedication to Prince Henrie (*2) to A 2 (three leaves); To the Reader, A 3-A 6; To Anne, Queene of England, A 7; the work, p. 1 to 218, last four pages misprinted, 115-116-117-118; To the Duke of Lennox, Dd; To the Lord Chancellor, Dd verso; To the Lord Treasurer, Dd 2; To the Earle of Suffolk, Dd 2 verso; To the Earl of Northampton, Ee; To the Ladie Arbella Stuart, Ee verso; To the Countess of Bedford, Ee 2; To the Earl of Sussex, Ee verso; Against the Enemies of Humanitie, Ee 3; To the Earl of Montgomerie, Ee 3 verso; To the Lord Lisle, Ee 4; To the Lord Wotton, Ee 4 verso; To the Earl of Southampton, Ff; To the Prince Henrie, Ff verso; TO THE COUNTESS OF MONTGOMERY (unsigned), recto; To LADIE WROTHE (unsigned), verso. THE CONTAINING AN EXTRA UNSIGNED LEAF WITH TWO SONNETS, OF WHICH ONLY FIVE OTHER COPIES ARE RECORDED. THE FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST TWELVE BOOKS OF THE ILIAD. The poetical dedicatory epistle to Prince Henry is of remarkable dignity. Altogether there are fourteen sonnets to noble patrons at the end of the volume, together with the two others found in few other copies. The Sonnet to Lady Arabella Stuart was not reprinted in subsequent editions; she was committed to the Tower soon after its publication. "To do justice to Chapman's vigcrous and faithful Homer-which Pope should never have displaced-a continuous reading is necessary. It shines less brightly on isclated passages than on its whole surface, various and burnished like the shield of Achilles. It is a poet's echo of a poet-loud and bold. Justly may the same indulgence be granted Chapman which he would claim for Homer; he must not bee read for a few lynes with leaves turned over capriciously on dismembered fractions, but throughout, the whole drift, weight, and height, of his workes sit before the apprehensive eyes of his judge.' Then shall we perceive the true merit of Chapman's Masterpiece. From end to end it gives proof of an abouding life, a quenchless energy. There is a grandeur and spirit in Chapman's rendering, not unworthy of the original of all bookes extant in all kinds the first and best." The long swinging line of fourteen syllables, chosen for the Iliad, is the fairest representative of Homer's majestic hexameters, and it is matter for regret that Chapman preferred the heroical distich in his rendering of the Odyssey. Moreover, Chapman claimed an advantage over his fellows in that he translated his author without a French or Latin intermediary. His knowledge of Greek was not impeccable. Errors due to ignorance or haste are not infrequent, nor need they cause us surprise, if it be true, as he asserts, that he translated the last twelve books in fifteen weeks. As little need they our censure. If Chapman, the scholar, sometimes nodded, Chapman the poet, was ever awake, and his version of Homer will ever remain one among the masterpieces of his age and country."-CHARLES WHIBLEY. |