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356 QUEEN ELIZABETH'S PRAYER BOOK. A Booke of Christian Praiers, collected out of the ancient Writers, and best learned in our time; worthy to be read with an earnest minde of all Christians in these daungerous and troublesom daies, that God for Christs sake will yet still be merciful vnto vs. Ornament. Black Letter. Title surrounded by a woodcut border consisting of a pictorial genealogical tree. Portrait of Queen Elizabeth on verso of title-page, kneeling at her prie-dieu. Each leaf of the text within woodcut borders representing scenes from the Bible, Holbein's Dance of Death, symbolic figures, etc., with emblems at the foot, the English rose, Leicester's bear and staff, etc.

At London; Printed for the Company of Stationers. 1608 4to, old russia, elaborately blind tooled, with a St. Andrew's Cross inlaid in the centre of both covers, tooled inside borders, gilt edges. FOURTH EDITION. The First Edition appeared in 1569 and is known as Queen Elizabeth's Prayer Book as the Litany and Prayers for the Queen are in the first person; only two copies of this are known. It was reprinted for general use in 1578 and 1590, and this is a reprint of those editions, with the prayers changed in favor of the new sovereign, James.

This is the only English Prayer Book which can be compared with the celebrated French "Livres d'Heures". With the Tempsford Hall Library and Thomas Glen Arthur bookplates.

356A [RALPH (JAMES).] Clarinda: or the Fair Libertine. A Poem. In Four Cantos.

London: Printed for John Gray, at the Cross-Keys
in the Poultry. 1729. [Price ls.]

8vo, half red crushed levant morocco, gilt tops.
owner on half-title.

Signature of former

357 RANDOLPH (THOMAS). Poems With the Mvses Looking-
Glasse: And Amyntas. By Thomas Randolph Master of
Arts, and late Fellow of Trinity Colledge in Cambridge.
Device.
Oxford, Printed by Leonard Lichfield Printer to the Vniver-
sity, for Francis Bowman: M.DC.XXXVIII

The Jealovs Lovers. A Comedie presented to their gracious
Majesties at Cambridge, By the students of Trinitie-Col-
ledge. Written by Thomas Randolph, Master of Arts, and
Fellow of the House. Ornament.

Printed by the Printers to the Universitie of Cambridge.
Ann. Dom. 1634

Aristippvs, Or The Iouiall Philosopher: Demonstrativelie
proouing, That Quartes, Pintes, and Pottles, Are sometimes
necessary Authours in a Scholers Library. To which is
added, The Conceited Pedlar.

London, Printed by Thomas Harper, for Iohn Marriot, and are to be sold by Richard Mynne, at his shop in Little Britayne, at the signe of Saint Paul. M.DC.XXX

3 vols. in one, 4to, polished calf, gilt tooled, gilt inside borders and edges, by Bedford. Small and skilful repair to first title-page; lower outer margin of C3 repaired, and title` of “Aristippvs". With the genuine blank leaves ¶ and L4 in "The Jealovs Lovers".

FIRST EDITION of "Poems"; SECOND EDITION of "The Jealovs Lovers"; FIRST EDITION of "Aristippvs". There are separate title-pages for "The Mvses Looking-Glasse" and "Amyntas”. The Second Edition of "Aristippvs" was issued in the same year as the First, with "Printed for Robert Allot".

On the fly-leaf is a note by Mr. Locker-Lampson: "This volume contains the 1st. Edition of Aristippus viz. 1630. Which is very rare. It contains a ridicule of Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida (the prologue) & at Page 18 is a line which Milton has nearly verbally copied in L'Allegro-"To make me blithe buxom and debonaire'." With the Rowfant bookplate.

358 RANDOLPH (THOMAS). Poems, With the Muses LookingGlasse, and Amyntas. By Tho. Randolph M.A. and late Fellow of Trinity Col. in Cambridge. The second Edition Enlarged. Engraved frontispiece with portrait, by Marshall.

Oxford Printed by L. Lichfield Printer to the Vniveristy,
for Francis Bowman. 1640

In one vol., small 8vo, dark green crushed levant morocco, gilt tooled,
inside dentelle borders, gilt edges, by Alfred Matthews.
SECOND EDITION. There is another state of the title, with the imprint
"Printed by Leonard Lichfield Printer". There are no other differ-
ences. "The Mvses Looking-Glasse" and "Amyntas" have separate
title-pages. The frontispiece is unsigned, but by Marshall. This is a
reprint of the First Edition as far as p. 115; the next 12 poems,
including "Vpon an Hermaphrodite", which is really by Cleveland,
first appear here. The W. L. Andrews copy, with the name of a
former owner on the reverse of the frontispiece. A fine, clean copy.

359 RANDOLPH (THOMAS). Poems. with the Muses LookingGlasse. Amyntas. Jealous Lovers. Arystippus. By Tho: Randolph, M.A. and late Fellow of Trinity Col. in Cambridge. The fourth Edition enlarged. Engraved frontispiece by [Marshall], with the date and number of the edition altered from the Second Edition frontispiece.

London, Printed for F. Bowman, and are to be sold by William Roybould at the Unicorne in S. Pauls Church-yard neer the little North-door. 1652

In one vol., small 8vo, blue crushed levant morocco, gilt tooled, inside dentelle borders, gilt edges, by Bedford. With the genuine blank leaf P7.

FOURTH EDITION. This is the First Collected Edition to include “Aristippvs” and “The Conceited Pedler", which appeared separately in 1630. All the parts have separate title-pages, dated London, 1652. With the Hoe bookplate. A fine, clean copy, with the faded name of a former owner, and the date 1720, on the verso of the frontispiece.

360 RAVIS (CHRISTIAN). A Generall Grammer for the Ebrew, Samaritan, Calde, Syriac, Arabic and Ethiopic Tongue. With an engraved portrait of the author at the age of 32. Writing on verso.

London: Printed by W. Wilson, for T. Iackson, and are to be sould by him at the Starre in Duck-lane, 1648

12mo, contemporary sheep.

FIRST EDITION, with the Second and Third Editions, dated respectively 1649 and 1650 bound in, each with separate title-page.

In regard to this portrait, it is interesting to note that the same effigy has done service as Henry Bold in his "Wit a Sporting in a pleasant Grove of new Fancies", published in 1657, and also as William Williams in his "Divine Poems", published in 1677.

361 [REYNOLDS (HENRY).] Torqvato Tasso's Aminta Englisht To this is added Ariadne's Complaint in imitation of Angvillara; Written by the Translater of Tasso's Aminta. London, Printed by Avg: Mathewes for William Lee, and are to bee sold at the Signe of the Turkes Head in Fleetstreet. 1628

4to, red morocco, blind tooled, gilt edges.
FIRST EDITION. Reynolds was the author of "Mythomystes". With
the Maidment and Rowfant jester bookplates.

362 RICCIUS (BARTHOLOMÆUS). Trivmphvs Iesv Christi Crvcifixi per R. P. Bartholomæu Riccium à Castro-Fidardo Societatis Iesv. Antverpiæ Adrianus Collaert figuras sculpsit. Title-page engraved, with the thorn-crowned head of Christ and emblems of the gospel story—the dice for casting lots, the cock that crew at Peter's denial, the scourging implements, etc. With 70 plates representing the crucified martyrs of each month, by Collaert. Narrationem Historicam, qua Trivmphvs illustratur, typis Plantinianis excudit Ioannes Moretus, CIO. INC. VIII.

8vo, old red morocco, gilt tooling and edges, in the style of Derome. Brilliant impressions of the plates, which are on the recto of each leaf. The "Index Sanctorum Crucifixorum Martyrum" is at the end. A fine copy, with the Hoe bookplate.

363 RICHARDS (NATHANAEL). The Celestiall Pvblican. A Sacred Poem: Liuely describing the Birth, Progresse, Bloudy Passion, and glorious Resurrection of our Saviovr. The Spiritvall Sea-Fight. (Etc.)

London, Imprinted by Felix Kyngston, for Roger Michell. 1630

Small 8vo, original calf, blind and gold tooled, with praying publican in centre of covers. In a brown levant morocco solander case. Initials on title-page. A2, which contained the suppressed Dedication to Sir Thomas Soame, is wanting as usual.

FIRST EDITION. Apparently the Huth-Huntington and British Museum copies are the only perfect ones known.

364 R[ICHARDS] (N[ATHANAEL]). Poems. Divine, Morall, and Satyricall; in sundry Tracts. viz. The Celestiall Pvblican. Spirituall Sea-fight. World. Flesh. Flesh. The Vicious Covrtier. Iesvite. Divell. Together with sundry Epitaphs and Anagrams. By N. R. Gent. Printed at London for Iames Boler, dwelling at the Marigold in Pauls-Church yard. 1632 Small 8vo, original vellum. In a green straight-grain morocco solander case.

FIRST EDITION. Second Issue. THE ONLY KNOWN COPY OF THIS ISSUE, comprising the sheets of the First Issue which appeared in 1630 under the title "Celestiall Publican", with the title-page and dedication cancelled and a new title-page inserted. The Jolley-Corser-Huth copy, with the Jolley and Huth bookplates.

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