riuedute, & corrette, Con licentia de' Superiori, & aggiuntoui nouamente le Figure in principio d' ogni Nouella. ΑΙ Magnifico, & Eccellente Signore, & Padron Collendissimo Il Sig. Girolamo Rossetti. Con Priuilegio. In Venetia, M.DCIII. Appresso Alessandro de Vecchi.

4°. (71 × 51). Q. 4.

Collation: A-2E8 2F4, paged. Printer's epistle to Rossetti, dated May 10, 1603. Table of contents. This is the only edition having the verses at the end of each novel. There are woodcuts to each novel (often repeated) and also to each 'Giornata'. The first edition of this collection appeared in 1561.

Del Secretario di M. Francesco Sansouino libri quattro. Ne quali con bell' ordine s' insegna altrui a scriuer lettere messiue & responsiue in tutti i generi, come nella Tauola contrascritta si comprende. Con gli essempi delle lettere formate et poste a lor luoghi in diuerse materie con le parti segnate. Et con uarie lettere di Principi a piu persone, scritte da diuersi Secretarii in piu occasioni, e in diuersi tempi. Con priuilegio. In Venetia, Appresso Francesco Rampazetto. 1565. 8°. (51 × 32). Z. 7. I.

Collation: A-08, folios numbered. 07 blank. Wanting O8 (?blank). Epistle dedicatory by Sansovino to Ottaviano Valiero, 'Podestà & Capitano di Feltre', dated Venice, March 1, 1564. Table of contents. Classified table 'de generi delle lettere'. The first edition appeared the previous year.

SAVIOLO, VICENTIO.

Vincentio Sauiolo his Practise. In two Bookes. The first intreating of the vse of the Rapier and Dagger. The second, of Honor and honorable Quarrels. London Printed by Iohn Wolfe. 1595. 4°. (7×5). R. IB.

Collation: A-H1►−31I−2G4T22H-2M4, unpaged. 2M 4 blank. Wanting AI (? blank). The first paragraph on I is repeated on I 1, the three sheets signed 1-3 having been inserted after printing off to repair the omission of 'The first dayes Discourse, concerning the Rapier and Dagger'; so also the catchword on 2G 4' refers to

2H 1, the half-sheet signed ¶ being an insertion 'Of the Duello or
Combat' at the head of which is the note to the binder 'This is to be
placed before the first chapter of Satisfaction'. On K3 and again
on 2 occurs a fine device or emblem with motto 'O wormes
meate: O froath: O vanitie: Why art thou so insolent'. Epistle
dedicatory to Robert, Earl of Essex and Ewe, signed by the author.
Address to the reader. The second book has a separate titlepage at
sig. OI, with same imprint but for date 1594. Preface.
in the first part.

Woodcuts

Sinker 609. BM 1358.

SCOT, REGINALD.

The discouerie of witchcraft, Wherein the lewde dealing of witches and witchmongers is notablie detected, the knauerie of coniurors, the impietie of inchantors, the follie of soothsaiers, the impudent falshood of cousenors, the infidelitie of atheists, the pestilent practises of Pythonists, the curiositie of figurecasters, the vanitie of dreamers, the beggerlie art of Alcumystrie, The abhomination of idolatrie, the horrible art of poisoning, the vertue and power of naturall magike, and all the conueiances of Legierdemaine and iuggling are deciphered: and many other things opened, which haue long lien hidden, howbeit verie necessarie to be knowne. Heerevnto is added a treatise vpon the nature and substance of spirits and diuels, &c: all latelie written by Reginald Scot Esquire. I. Iohn. 4, I. Beleeue not euerie spirit, but trie the spirits, whether they are of God; for manie false prophets are gone out into the world, &c. 1584 [Colophon] Imprinted at London by William Brome.

B. L. 4°. (71⁄2 × 51). Q. 3.

Collation: A8B6C-V8 2A-2C8*22D-2S8, paged. Three epistles dedicatory: to Sir Roger Manwood; to Sir Thomas Scot; and to Dr. Coldwell, Dean of Rochester, and Dr. Readman, Archdeacon of Canterbury, each signed. Address to the readers. Errata. List of authorities. Table of contents at end. Woodcuts. by Henry Denham, with Brome as bookseller.

Sinker 543. BM 1364.

Probably printed

SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM.

The Birth of Merlin.... 1662. 4°. See ROWLEY, William.

The Two Noble Kinsmen.... 1634. See BEAUMONT, Francis, and FLETCHER, John.

Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. Published according to the True Originall Copies. [Portrait.] London Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed. Blount. 1623. [Colophon] Printed at the Charges of W. Iaggard, Ed. Blount, I. Smithweeke and W. Aspley, 1623.

the same.

Fo. (13 × 81). *. I.

Engraved portrait on titlepage, signed Martin Droeshout. Collation: 46, with titlepage inserted after A 1, 2 leaves unsigned, A-2B62C2a-g62g3h-x4, 2 leaves unsigned, T-2¶, 1 leaf signed 3¶, 2a-2f® 2g2 2Go 2h6 2k-3b6, paged (irregularly and in three portions, beginning respectively on A 1, a 1 and 2a 1, in the last of which the numbering jumps from 156-257). Verses to the reader signed B. I. facing title. Titlepage with portrait. Epistle dedicatory to William Earl of Pembroke and Philip Earl of Montgomery, signed by Iohn Heminge and Henry Condell. Address to the readers, signed by Commendatory verses signed Ben: Ionson and Hugh Holland. Table of contents (which omits 'Troilus and Cressida '). More commendatory verses signed L. Digges and I. M. List of the principal actors. The three parts, comedies, histories, and tragedies, have separate pagination and signatures. 'Troilus and Cressida ' which is inserted at the head of the tragedies, is unpaged and occupies sigs. T-3¶ and the two unsigned leaves preceding them. The arrangement of the preliminary matter offers some difficulties. The only leaves signed are the third and fourth, A 2 and A 3, containing the epistle dedicatory and the address to the readers. The fifth leaf, containing Jonson's verses, certainly forms one sheet with A 3; and in the same way the sixth leaf, containing Holland's verses, certainly forms one sheet with A 2. It is further highly probable that the seventh leaf, containing the table of contents, forms one sheet with the verses signed B. I. (A 1), and that the titlepage is on a single leaf inserted; also that leaves eight and nine, containing the further commendatory verses and the list of actors, form one sheet together. As the present copy shows no trace of ever having been tampered with, the above arrangement is probably original. It should however be noted that in the Chatsworth copy the unsigned sheet here placed after quire A is there bound up in the middle. This may be the correct arrangement, but the copy is

not in its original state. In the Grylls copy the preliminary matter has been rearranged. For the irregularities in the making up of the volume and the variations presented by different copies see Mr. Sidney Lee's Introduction to the Oxford Facsimile. The first collected edition of Shakespeare's plays, in which twenty appeared for the first time.

BM 1385.

Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies. Published according to the true Originall Coppies. The second Impression. [Portrait.] London, Printed by Tho. Cotes, for Robert Allot, and are to be sold at his shop at the signe of the blacke Beare in Pauls Church-yard. 1632. [Colophon] Printed at London by Thomas Cotes, for Iohn Smethwick, William Aspley, Richard Hawkins, Richard Meighen, and Robert Allot, 1632.

Fo. (13×91). *. 2.

Engraved portrait as before. Collation: A (A 3 misprinted A 2) *1; A-2B 2C2a-yo2a-3c63d1, paged (irregularly and in three parts, beginning respectively on A 1, a 1, and 2a 1, in the last of which the numbering jumps from 168 to 269). Verses to the reader, signed B. I., facing title. Epistle and address as before. Commendatory verses, two copies unsigned not in previous edition, copies signed L. Digges and I. M. List of principal actors. More commendatory verses signed Ben. Ionson, I. M. S. (not in previous edition), and Hugh Holland. Table of contents including 'Troilus and Cressida'. The three parts have separate pagination and signatures and 'Troilus and Cressida' begins those of the tragedies. The misprint in the signatures of the preliminary matter is accounted for by the fact of the compositor having reprinted that in the first folio, irrespective of the fact that the titlepage is here included in the quire. In the present copy sufficient room has not been allowed for the imposition of the portrait which consequently covers some of the printing of the titlepage. In some copies one of the other stationers' names replaces Allot's in the imprint. But beyond this there were two distinct settings up of the titlepage. Thus the Grylls copy differs from the present in reading 'Mr.' for 'M.', 'Copies' for 'Coppies', 'sold at the signe' for 'sold at his shop at the signe', and 'Blacke' for 'blacke'. There are also two settings of sig. A 5 in the preliminary matter, one having an ornamental initial 'S' at the beginning of the first copy of verses, the other a factotum. Second edition.

BM 1386.

Mr. William Shakespear's Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies. Published according to the true Original Copies. The third impression. And unto this Impression is added seven Playes, never before Printed in Folio. viz. Pericles Prince of Tyre. The London Prodigall. The History of Thomas Ld. Cromwell. Sir John Oldcastle Lord Cobham. The Puritan Widow. A York-shire Tragedy. The Tragedy of Locrine. London, Printed for P. C. 1664.

Fo. (131×82). A. 2.

Collation: A (A 3 misprinted A 2) b6; A-2A 2B8 2C-4D64E4a6b4 *-4*1¶A¬¶B®¶C-¶F1¶Go, paged (continuously in the original sheets and in two parts beginning at sigs. a 1 and I in the additional; see below). Two leaves containing portrait with verses signed B. J. printed below and titlepage, replacing original A 1 and 2. The present copy has the original A preserved after A 4. Epistle and address as before. Commendatory verses signed: L. Digges, (1 copy unsigned), J. M., Ben. Johnson, J. M. S., (1 copy unsigned), and Hugh Holland. List of principal actors. Table of contents. In the present copy the additional plays are misplaced immediately after the preliminary matter. There was an earlier issue of this edition with different titlepage and preliminary leaf, and without the additional plays. In that issue the leaf before the titlepage contains the verses only and the titlepage runs 'Mr. William Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories and Tragedies. Published according to the true Original Copies. The Third Impression. [Portrait.] London, Printed for Philip Chetwinde, 1663.' Third edition.

Mr. William Shakespear's Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies. Published according to the true Original Copies. Unto which is added, Seven Plays, Never before Printed in Folio: viz. Pericles Prince of Tyre. The London Prodigal. The History of Thomas Lord Cromwel. Sir John Oldcastle Lord Cobham. The Puritan Widow. A Yorkshire Tragedy. The Tragedy of Locrine. The Fourth Edition. London, Printed for H. Herringman, E. Brewster, and R. Bentley, at the Anchor in the New Exchange, the Crane in St. Pauls Church-Yard, and in Russel-Street Covent-Garden. 1685. Fo. (141 × 9). A. 3.

Collation: 2 leaves unsigned, A1; A-Y®Z1; 2B-3D63E8; 3A-4B6 4C2, paged (in three parts beginning respectively at A 1, 2B 1, and 3A1 in last set of signatures). Engraved portrait, as before,