178 GOLDSMITH (OLIVER). The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith, M.B. containing all his Essays and Poems. London: Printed for W. Griffin, Catherine-Street, in the Strand. MDCCLXXV

8vo, original calf.

FIRST COLLECTED EDITION. This copy contains the half-title, which has been neatly repaired at the top. The book was published a year after Goldsmith died, but as the Preface is from his pen, it is evident that the collection was under way at the time of his death. VERY

RARE.

179 GOULD (ROBERT). Poems Chiefly consisting of Satyrs and Satyrical Epistles. By Robert Gould. Licensed. Jan. 8th 1868. Title printed in red and black. London, Printed, and are to be sold by most Booksellers in London and Westminster. MDCLXXXIX

Small 8vo, red crushed levant morocco, gilt and blind line tooling, gilt edges, by Riviere.

FIRST EDITION. With the M. C. Lefferts, H. W. Poor and H. V. Jones bookplates.

180 GOWER (JOHN). Jo. Gower de confessio Amantis. Black Letter, printed in double columns. Title within an ornamental woodcut border.

Imprinted at London in Flete-strete by Thomas Berthelette printer to the kingis grace An. M.D.XXXII. Cvm Privilegio.

Folio, rose crushed levant morocco, central and corner gilt ornaments
in Lyonnaise style, gilt edges, by Bedford.

SECOND EDITION. The First Edition was printed by Caxton in 1483.
A beautiful copy. With the Hoe bookplate.

181 GOWER (JOHN). Jo. Gower de confessione Amantis. Black Letter, printed in double columns. Title within elaborate borders.

Imprinted at London in Flete-strete by Thomas Berthelette the. XII. daie of Marche. An. M.D.LIIII. Cvm Privilegio. Small folio, brown russia, gilt tooled, gilt edges, by Roger Payne. Small and skilful repair in lower margin of title-page; one hinge strengthened.

THIRD EDITION. The border on the title-page, or rather the series of borders, is the same as the one used by Berthelette in the edition of 1532. The type and composition are different, although the body of the work contains the same number of pages. The preliminary matter in this edition consists of six leaves, instead of eight in the earlier edition. The date on the back of the cover is given wrongly as 1532 instead of 1554.

This was George Daniel's copy. With the M. M. Sykes and Hoe bookplates, and some manuscript notes.

182 GRAY (THOMAS). An Elegy wrote in a Country Church Yard.

London:

Printed for R. Dodsley in Pall-mall;

And sold by M. Cooper in Pater-noster-Row. 1751
[Price Six-pence.]

4to, dark blue crushed levant morocco, gilt tooled, gilt inside borders,
gilt edges, by Bedford. The first letter of Finis is defective, as usual.
Collation: Title, 1 leaf; Advertisement, 1 leaf; text, 4 leaves.
FIRST EDITION. First Issue, with the words "Some hidden” on p. 10,
which were corrected in the Second Issue (printed shortly afterwards)
to "Some kindred". A MAGNIFICENT COPY, measuring 7 29/32 by 10
inches. An autograph note by Gray, "E. Libris Thomæ Gray Schol:
Eton: alum: 1733", is pasted in.

[SEE ILLUSTRATION]

183 GRAY (THOMAS). Odes by Mr. Gray. Vignette of Strawberry Hill.

Printed at Strawberry-Hill, for R. and J. Dodsley in
Pall-Mall, MDCCLVII

4to, original gray wrappers, entirely uncut. Enclosed in a cloth
protecting cover, in a brown levant morocco solander case.
FIRST EDITION. This was the First Book printed at the Strawberry-
Hill Press, and this copy is of EXCEPTIONAL IMPORTANCE, as it has
Walpole's bookplate on the title-page, his marginal notes throughout,
and other evidences of his extreme interest. Bound in at the end
are two leaves from Critical Review, Aug. 1757, reviewing the Odes
with fine appreciation, and painstaking attention to details; five leaves
from the Literary Magazine, reviewing the Odes and incidentally
reviewing the previous reviewer; two leaves from the British
Chronicle; and the EXCESSIVELY RARE LEAFLET, "To Mr. Gray, on his
Odes", on which Walpole has written, "by David Garrick. Printed
at Strawberry hill." ONLY SIX COPIES OF THIS LEAFLET WERE PRINTED.
Walpole has also written in the name and date on the leaves containing
the reviews, where the information was not printed.

Walpole has identified several passages derived from or referring to
Shakespeare. On p. 7 he quotes Mrs. Garrick:-"Mrs Garrick, for-
merly the Violette, a famous Dancer, sd, nobody had ever understood
dancing like Mr Gray in this description." The description includes
the line "Glance their many-twinkling feet", which pained one critic
who declared that many and twinkling could not properly be linked
together, while another pointed out that the epithet was a translation
of one applied by Homer to Venus.

At the bottom of the vignette on the title-page, Walpole has written "R. Bentley design. Grignion sculp."; and beneath the imprint he has supplied the date "Aug. 4th." He bequeathed the copy, with the material that he had carefully added, to his executrix, Mrs. Anne Seymour Damer. It is of course ENTIRELY UNIQUE.

AN

ELEGY

WROTE IN A

Country Church Yard.

LONDON:

Printed for R. DODSLEY in Pall-mall ; And fold by M. COOPER in Pater-nofter-Row 1751. [ Price Six-pence. ]

ONE OF THE LARGEST COPIES IN EXISTENCE
[NUMBER 182]

184 GUTENBERG BIBLE. Biblia Sacra Latina (commonly called the Vulgate). Gothic characters, double columns, 40-41-42 lines to the page. A Genuine Perfect Leaf, containing the last portion of the 22nd, and first portion of the 23rd Chapters of the Gospel according to St. Luke. With one Capital in blue, and rubrications throughout.

[Moguntiæ (Mainz): Jo. Gutenberg et Jo. Fust, 1450-55]
Folio, black morocco, blind tooled. In a slip-case.

A LEAF FROM THE FIRST BOOK PRINTED FROM MOVABLE TYPE AND THE
EDITIO PRINCEPS OF THE HOLY BIBLE.

This leaf is bound, with a specially prepared title-page, and a
Bibliographical Essay by A. Edward Newton. These preliminary
pages were printed under the direction of Bruce Rogers, at the shop
of William Edwin Rudge.

185 [HABINGTON (WILLIAM).] Device.

Castara. The first part.

London, Printed by Anne Griffin for William Cooke, and are to bee sold at his shop neare Furnivals Inne gate in Holburne. 1634

Small 4to, cherry morocco, gilt and blind tooled, gilt inside borders
and edges.

FIRST EDITION. First Issue. "The second part" has a separate title-
page on G3. Castara was Lucy or Lucia Herbert, Lord Powis's
daughter, and Habington's wife. The Corser-Rowfant copy, with the
Locker-Lampson bookplate and manuscript notes by Mr. Chew on
fly-leaf. An EXCEEDINGLY SCARCE book, enumerated by John Payne
Collier in his "Rarest Books in the English Language", and described
by Dr. Bliss as the rarest volume of poems of the period.
Mr. Chew has written: "This copy has the last leaf L4 blank and
genuine some later copies have L4 cancelled and a leaf with errata
inserted-Some few have both the blank and errata leaf."

The book has decided Shakespearean interest.

"Of this wine should Prynne

Drink but a plenteous glasse, he would beginne
A health to Shakespeares ghost."-Page 52.

186 [HABINGTON (WILLIAM).]

Device.

Castara. The first part.

London, Printed by Anne Griffin for William Cooke, and
are to bee sold at his shop neare Furnivals Inne gate in
Holburne. 1634

4to, polished calf, with the Bridgewater Arms blind stamped on the
sides, gilt tooled, red edges.
FIRST EDITION. First Issue. The First Issue has L4 blank; in the
Second Issue the leaf contains a note by the printer, followed by the
Errata. This copy has had the blank_removed, and the leaf with the
note and Errata pasted in. With the Bridgewater armorial bookplate.

187 [HABINGTON (WILLIAM).] Castara.-Carmina non prius Audita, Musarum sacerdos Virginibus.-The second Edition. Corrected and Augmented.

London, Printed by B. A. & T. F. for Will: Cooke, and are to be sold at his shop neare Furnivals-Inne gate in Holburne, 1635

Small 12mo, brown levant morocco, elaborate gilt tooling, gilt edges, by Riviere. F12 is a cancel leaf, as the poem on the verso is repeated on the recto of G, and the sense follows directly from F11 to G. SECOND EDITION. With the Hoe bookplate.

188 [HABINGTON (WILLIAM).] Castara: The third Edition. Corrected and augmented. Ornament on title-page. Engraved frontispiece by W. Marshall.

London Printed by T. Cotes, for Will. Cooke: and are to be sold at his Shop neere Fernivals-Inne Gate in Holburne.

1640

12mo, red crushed levant morocco, gilt tooled, richly gilt inside borders, blue crushed levant doublures, gilt edges, by Cuzin. With the genuine blank leaf A.

THIRD EDITION. This is the First Complete Edition containing all three parts: each part has a separate title-page, Part II with the date 1639, and Part III dated 1640. Parts I and II were first issued in 1634; Part III appears here for the first time. The pagination is continuous. With the G. H. Stephenson and Hoe bookplates. A fine сору.

"Castara was Lucia, the daughter of Lord Powis, and she became Habington's wife. The year of their marriage is not known, but in one of his poems, as they appeared in the third impression, Habington speaks of Lucia as Castara."-Collier's account of the rarest books in the English language.

189 HALL (JOHN). Horæ Vacivæ, or, Essays. Some Occa-
sionall Considerations By John Hall. Engraved frontis-
piece portrait by Marshall.
London, Printed by E. G. for J. Rothwell, at the Sun and
Fountaine in Pauls Church-yard, 1646

Small 12mo, blue straight-grain morocco, gilt and blind tooled, gilt
edges. The portrait by Marshall is shaved on outer edge.
FIRST EDITION. Dedicated to Mr. John Arrowsmith, Master of St.
Johns Colledge in Cambridge; commendatory verses by Tho. Stanley,
J. Shirley and others. The portrait appeared in Hall's Poems, 1646,
printed by Roger Daniel at Cambridge. The "Hora" was probably
printed by E. Griffin II. At the end is the placating notice, "The
Judicious Reader may be pleased to passe the literal slips, they being
easily corrigible"; and facing it is, "Imprimatur Charles Herle.
With the E. B. Holden bookplate.