Book Auction Records, Volume 4

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Frank Karslake
Wm. Dawson, 1907 - Autographs
A priced and annotated annual record of London, New York and Edinburgh book-auctions.

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Page 444 - The First part of the Contention betwixt the two famous Houses of Yorke and Lancaster , with the death of the good Duke Humphrey : And the banishment and death of the Duke of Suffolke , and the Tragicall end of the proud Cardinall of Winchester, with the notable Rebellion of lacke Cade: And the Duke of Yorkes first elaime vnto the Crowne.
Page 114 - William Shake-speare, His True Chronicle History of the life and death of King Lear, and his three Daughters.
Page 444 - The | Whole Contention | betweene the two Famous | Houses, LANCASTER and | YORKE. | With the Tragicall ends of the good Duke Humfrey, Richard Duke of Yorke, | and King Henrie the \ sixt. \ Diuided into two Parts: And newly corrected and | enlarged. Written by William Shakespeare, Gent. | Printed at LONDON, for TP...
Page 490 - Pauline — written in pursuance of a foolish plan I forget, " or have no wish to remember ; involving the assumption of " several distinct characters : the world was never to guess that " such an opera, such a comedy, such a speech proceeded from
Page 525 - The Copie of a Leter, Wryten by a Master of Arte of Cambridge to his friend in London, concerning some talke past of late between two worshipful and grave men about the present state, and some procedinges of the Erie of Leycester and his friendes in England (Antwerp, 1584), p.
Page 270 - The first part Of the true and honorable historie, of the life of Sir John Old-castle, the good Lord Cobham.
Page 237 - Paradise lost. A Poem written in Ten Books By John Milton. Licensed and Entred according to Order. London printed, and are to be sold by Peter Parker under Creed Church neer Aldgate ; And by Robert Boulter at the Turks Head in Bishopsgatestreet ; And Matthias Walker under St. Dunstons Church in Fleetstreet 1667.
Page 215 - England — being the first that ever was here; cut and done by the best Pattern that could be had, which being in some places defective it made the other less exact: yet doth it sufficiently shew the Scituation of the Country, and conveniently well the distance of Places...
Page 445 - The most excellent Historic of the Merchant of Venice. With the extreame crueltie of Shylocke the lewe towards the sayd Merchant, in cutting a iust pound of his flesh : and the obtayning of Portia by the choyse of three chests.
Page 534 - A Proposal for Putting Reform to the Vote throughout the Kingdom, by the Hermit of Marlow (Percy Bysshe Shelley).

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