1 ACADEMY OF COMPLEMENTS. The Academy of Complements. Wherein, Ladies, Gentlewomen, Schollers, and Strangers, may accommodate their Courtly practice with gentile Ceremonies, Complementall amorous high expressions, and Forms of speaking or writing of Letters most in Fashion.. . The last Edition, with two Tables; the one expounding the most hard English words: the other resolving the most delightfull Fictions of the Heathen Poets.

London, Printed for Humphrey Moseley, . . . 1658

Small 12mo, original sheep, with new red leather label (worn).
The Inglis-Huth copy, with the Huth bookplate; the ONLY COPY of this
edition we can trace. The First Edition was issued in 1640.

2 ADAM BELL. Adam Bell, Clim of the Clough, and VVilliam of Cloudesle. Woodcut of the three archers, with their names to identify them. Black Letter. London, Printed by E. Cotes, for Tho. Passinger at the Three Bibles upon London-Bridge, 1668

Small 4to, half green straight-grain morocco, with the Roxburghe
crest and coronet in gilt on the side covers. Top outer corners of C
and C2 restored.

George Daniel has written on the fly-leaf: "This is the Roxburghe
Copy, which sold for £4:0:0. I know of no other copy of this date.
In Major Pearson's sale a copy of this Poem in Black Letter printed
by J. Roberts in 1604 occurred in a Volume of Political Tracts. A
copy, wanting the four first Pages, was in the Bib: Anglo Poetica
priced at £3:0:0. A copy (no date) sold in the Chart Park Library
Sale (Sir Chas. Talbot's), Lot 106, at Sotheby's for £7:15:0.
Ritson says, "This very ancient, curious, & popular performance was
apparently composed for the purpose of being sung in publick to the
Harp
As there is no memorial of these celebrated Archers
than this Legend, to which all the passages cited from different
Authors by Bishop Percy are evident allusions, any inquiry as to the
time of their existence must be little else than the sport of imagina-
tion.'-George Daniel. Canonbury. 1938."

The Farmer-Roxburghe-Daniel-Huth copy, with the Huth bookplate.
We can trace NO OTHER COPY.

3 ALEYN (CHARLES). The Historie of That wise and Fortunate Prince, Henrie of that Name the Seventh, King of England. With that famed Battaile, fought betweene the sayd King Henry and Richard the third named Crookbacke, upon Redmoore neere Bosworth. Brilliant engraved portrait of King Henry, by William Marshall, facing title. London Printed by Tho. Cotes, for William Cooke, and are to be sold at his shop, neere Furnivalls-Inne gate in Holburne, 1638

8vo, original sprinkled calf.

FIRST EDITION, and a crisp copy. The portrait is a reduced copy of that engraved by John Payne and appearing in Bacon's History of Henry VII issued in 1622.

ANNALIA DVBRENSIA. See Dover (Robert).

A Litany

4 ARABIC PRAYER BOOK. Dala'il-ul-Khairát. for Muhammad beautifully written in Arabic with interlinear Persian translation within gold lines on a delicate green ground, upon 134 leaves of bombycine paper. With 18 pages brilliantly illuminated in gold and colors.

[Sæc. XVIII]

Size 7% by 4% inches, in an elaborate Persian lacquered binding, with flap, painted outside and in with flowers in gold and other colors. In a maroon straight-grain morocco case.

Folios 115, verso, and 116, recto, apparently represent the famous Kaabah at Mecca and the Mosque of Medina. There are two seals

of former owners stamped in the volume showing that it belonged to Hussain, A. H. 1217 (Ā.D. 1802), and in A.H. 1226 to Murád Khān, who presented it to Nasrullah Khan.

This Manuscript was exhibited by Mr. Chew at the Grolier Club. With the Hoe bookplate, and with manuscript notes laid in.

5 ARMINIAN NUNNERY. The Arminian Nvnnery: or, A Briefe Description and Relation of the late erected Monasticall Place, called the Arminian Nvnnery at Little Gidding in Hvntington-Shire. Humbly recommended to the wise consideration of this present Parliament. The Foundation is by a Company of Farrars at Gidding. Woodcut.

Printed for Thomas Underhill. MDCXLI

4to, red morocco, gilt tooled, gilt inside borders and edges, by J. Mackenzie.

Collation: A, 4 leaves; B, 2 leaves. Total, 6 leaves.

This rare pamphlet is an attack by the Puritans on the religious community founded at Little Gidding by Nicholas Ferrar, which is perhaps best remembered to-day by the elaborately embroidered book bindings which its members executed. The little community was swept away before the rising storm in 1647. With the Huth bookplate.

6 AYRES (PHILIP). Cupids addresse to the Ladies. Emblemata Amatoria. Emblems of Love. Embleme d'Amore. Emblemes d'Amour. In four Languages Dedicated to the Ladys. by Ph: Ayres Esq. Engraved pictorial title-page, engraved frontispiece (following the title-page) and 44 engraved plates.

London, 1683. Sold by R. Bently in Covent Garden. S. Tidmarch at the Kings head in Cornhill, &ct. Small 8vo, old mottled calf, sprinkled edges. Emblems 5, 6, 7, 8 were misfolded by the binder, 6, 5, 8, 7. The preliminary leaves, the engraved title-page and frontispiece, the sonnet "Cupid to the Ladies", and the same in French, all have the versos blank. The engraved plates are on the versos of every alternate leaf, beginning with the last unmarked leaf, and the emblems are engraved on the rectos of the following leaves. All the intermediate pages are blank. The verses are in Latin, English, Italian and French. The plates were used in two later editions.

FIRST EDITION. With the H. Buxton Forman bookplate.

7 AYRES (PHILIP). Lyric Poems, Made in Imitation of the Italians. Of which, many are Translations From other Languages. By Philip Ayres Esq: Licensed, R. L. S. Engraved frontispiece.

London, Printed by J. M. for Jos. Knight and F. Saunders at the Blue Anchor in the Lower Walk of the NewExchange, 1687

Small 8vo, half calf and boards. Tiny piece torn from top outer corner of frontispiece, and the bottom corner of H; C is also slightly torn, not affecting the text.

FIRST EDITION. The copy of Thomas Campbell, the poet, with his bookplate, and the H. Buxton Forman bookplate. Some manuscript notes are laid in.

8 [AYRES (PHILIP).]

Emblemata Amatoria Emblemes d'Amour en Quatre Langue. A Londe Chez L'Amoureux. Engraved frontispiece, engraved title-page, 44 plates and 44 pages of engraved text. [London, n.d.]

Small 8vo, original paper covers. In a black straight-grain morocco solander case.

The title-page is signed Jan Van Viaren, and some of the plates are signed by him. Apparently this is a Dutch copy of "Cupids addresse to the Ladies", 1683, as the verses which are English in the original are here Dutch, and the plates are re-engraved, and sometimes reversed. With the H. Buxton Forman bookplate, and manuscript notes laid in. A note by Mr. Chew is on the fly-leaf.

9 BAKER (SIR RICHARD). A Chronicle of the Kings of
England From the Time of the Romans Government unto
the Raigne of our Soveraigne Lord King Charles. By Sr R.
Baker, Knight. Engraved portrait of Charles as Prince, by
Van Dalen. The highly decorative title-page is engraved by
Marshall.
London. Printed for Daniel Frere, and are to be sold at his
Shop, at the Red Bull in Little Brittaine. 1643

Folio, old calf. Name of a former owner on title page.
three small stains.

Two or

FIRST EDITION. Mr. Chew notes on fly-leaf that Lowndes quotes a copy as of 1641 in the Fonthill sale, but that is an error, as the Fonthill catalogue gives it correctly, 1643. With the signature of Edward Whymper on fly-leaf, and the John Croker bookplate.

10 BALLADS.

Corrected from

With IntroducIllustrated with

A Collection of Old Ballads. the best and most Ancient Copies Extant. tions Historical, Critical, or Humorous. Copper Plates. The Second Edition. London: Printed for J. Roberts, and D. Leach; and sold by J. Brotherton in Cornhill; . . . MDCCXXIII [1723-25]

3 vols., 12mo, green crushed levant morocco, gilt tooled, gilt inside borders and edges, by Stikeman.

SECOND EDITION of Vol. I, and FIRST EDITION of Vols. II and III. The title-pages of the three volumes differ slightly.

With all the 45 plates, including "The Swiming Lady", usually missing. Generally ascribed to Ambrose Philips as editor. With the J. H. Purdy bookplate in each volume.

11 BANCROFT (THOMAS). Two Bookes of Epigrammes, and Epitaphs. Dedicated to two top-branches Of Gentry; Sir Charles Shirley, Baronet, and William Davenport, Esquire. Written By Thomas Bancroft.

London: Printed by I. Okes, for Matthew Walbancke, and are to be sold at his shop in Grayes-Inne-gate 1639 Small 4to, olive crushed levant morocco, gilt edges, by Riviere. Some figures on recto of the Imprimatur.

FIRST EDITION. On F2 a former owner has carefully revised one line, preferring the improved reading: "To you ungratefull in my Promised Love." This copy has the license leaf, which is usually wanting. With the W. H. Hagen bookplate. A fine copy of this RARE book.

12 BARCLAY (ALEXANDER). Stultifera Nauis, qua omnium mortalium narratur stultitia, admodum vtilis & necessaria ab omnibus ad suam salutem perlegenda, è Latino sermone in nostrum vulgarem versa, & iam diligenter impressa. An. Do. 1570. The Ship of Fooles, wherein is shewed the folly of all States, with diuers other workes adioyned unto the same, very profitable and fruitfull for all men. Translated out of Latin into Englishe by Alexander Barclay Priest. Black Letter. Numerous woodcuts. [Colophon] Imprinted at London in Paules Church-yarde by Iohn Cavvood Printer to the Queenes Maiestie. [1570] Folio, old russia, blind tooled, gilt fillet borders, gilt edges. SECOND EDITION. A remarkably fine copy. This work was first written in Latin by Sebastian Brandt at Basle, about 1494. Barclay has added somewhat to the text. At the end, after "The Index or Table of the Ship of Fooles", is "The Mirrour of good Maners", and following it, "Certayne Egloges". With the Hugh Perkins bookplate.

13 BARCLAY (J.). Io. Barclaii Argenis. Editio novissima. Cvm Clave, Hoc est, nominum propriorum elucidatione hactenus nondum edita. Engraved title-page.

Lvgd. Bat. Ex officina Elzviriana Anno clɔɔ cxxvii

Small 12mo, modern vellum, red edges.

First and rarest of the seven editions issued from the Elzevir press. Fine copy.

14 BARCLAY (J.). Io. Barclaii Argenis. Cum Clave. Hoc est, nominum propriorum elucidatione hactenus nondum edita. Engraved title-page.

Amstelodami. Ex Officina Elzeviriana. Anno cIɔ Iɔ c lix Small 12mo, vellum, red edges. Wormhole in lower inner corner of A to end of signature, injuring a few letters.

15 B[ARON] (R[OBERT]). Pocula Castalia. The Authors Motto. Fortunes Tennis-Ball. Eliza. Poems. Epigrams, &c. By R. B. Gen. Frontispiece portrait of Baron by Marshall. London, Printed by W. H. for Thomas Dring, and are to be sold at his shop at the signe of the George, near CliffordsInne in Fleet-street. 1650

Small 8vo, brown crushed levant morocco, gilt tooled, gilt edges, by Riviere.

FIRST EDITION. The portrait by Marshall first appeared in "The Cyprian Academy", 1648; the age has been changed to 19. "Fortvnes Tennis-Ball", "Eliza", "Poems", and "Epigrams, &c." have separate title-pages. The different E in the running head of "Eliza" on pp. 91 and 97 will be noticed. The Chew-Huntington copy.