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61 BEAUMONT'S (Dr. Joseph) Psyche, or Love's Mystery, in 24 Cantos, folio, calf, gilt, neat, 7s 1648 Psyche is deserving of notice on various accounts; among others, it possesses the singular distinction of being (to the best of our knowlegde) the longest Poem in the English Language; it is written with enthusiasm and a lively fancy, which overgrows all its details and reflections like an efflorescence."-Retr. Review.

62 BEAUTIES OF Ancient PoetRY, intended as a Companion to the Beauties of English Poetry, 12mo. boards, 2s 6d 1797

63 BEAUTIES OF THE BRITISH POETS, with a few Introductory Observations, by Rev. George Croley, wood cuts, 12mo. calf, extra, marbled leaves, 12s

1828

64 BEEKE'S (Dr. H. late Dean of Bristol) Observations on the Ancient Inhabitants, Roman Stations, and Roads in and near Berkshire, 4to. Is 6d

1804

65 BEOWULF, an Anglo-Saxon Poem, edited, with a Glossary and an Historical Preface, by J. M. Kemble, Esq. small 8vo. boards, 158

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1830 translated into English, with a Glossary, by J. M. Kemble, Esq. small 8vo. boards, 15s 1830

67 BERNER'S (Juliana) Treatise of Fishing with an Angle, crown 8vo. boards, 5s reprinted, 1827 68 BERNI'S (Francisco) Orlando Innamorato, translated into Prose from the Italian, and interspersed with Extracts in the same Stanza as the original, by William Stewart Rose, small 8vo. boards, 4s 6d-half calf, gilt, very neat, 7s Edinburgh, 1823 "This project is to give a mere ground-plan of the Gothic Edifice of Boiardo upon a small scale the reader is to look for the mere story in my prose abridgment; while he may form some notion of its tone and style from the stanzas with which it is interspersed." "The story indeed, is that which took a strong possession of the imagination of Milton, who refers with more apparent enthusiasm to the Innamorato than to the Furioso." Rose's Introduction.

69 BETHAM'S (Sir Wm.) Gael and Cymbri; or an Inquiry into the Origin and History of the Irish Scoti, Britons, and Gauls, and of the Caledonians, Picts, Welsh, Cornish, and Bretons, 8vo. calf, gilt, very neat, 18s

Dublin, 1834 70 BIBLIOTHECA ANGLO-POETICA or, a Descriptive Catalogue of a rare and rich Collection of Early English Poetry, in the possession of Messrs. Longman and Co., illustrated by occasional Extracts and Remarks, Critical and Biographical, royal 8vo, boards, 1l 4s—half russia, neat, UNCUT, tops gilt, 11 58

1815 "This extremely useful catalogue, made by Acton Fred Griffith, is deserving of a place in every good library, from the interesting information which it affords of the works of our early poets."-LOWNDES.

71 BIBLIOTHECA GLOUCESTRENSIS; a Collection of scarce and curious Tracts relating to the County and City of Gloucester; illustrative of, and published during the Civil War, with an Historical Introduction, Notes, and an Appendix, map and plate, 4to. cloth boards, 18s (published at 21 2s) Gloucester, 1825

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LARGE PAPER, in 3 parts, royal 4to. boards, 1l 11s 6d (published at 4l 4s) ib. 1825 73 BLOUNT'S (Sir Thomas Pope) Remarks upon Poetry, with Characters and Censures of the most considerable Poets, ancient and modern, 4to. calf, neat, SCARCE, 6s

This vol. is priced 17 5s in the Bibliotheca Anglo-Poetica.

1694

74 BOETHII (An. Man. Ser.) Consolationis Philosophiæ, lib. V. Ang. Sax. redditi ab Ælfredo Anglo-Saxonum Rege; ad apogr. Junianum expressos ed. Rawlinson, portrait, 8vo. calf, neat, ll 1s

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Oxon. 1698

new edition, with an English Translation and Notes, by J. S. Cardale, 8vo. boards, 11 5s London, Pickering, 1830 ib. 1830

the same, Large paper, boards, 2l 2s

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Metres of, see Alfred.

77 BOETHIUS'S Consolations of Philosophy, translated by R. Duncan, 8vo. 3s Edinb. 1789 79 BORDE'S (Andrew) Boke of the Introduction of Knowledge, wood cuts, black letter, 4to. boards, ( Sir F. Freeling's copy) 9s 1542, reprint, 1814 Only 124 copies were printed.

"A curious and interesting work, containing many genuine traits and characteristic notions of various countries."-LOWNDES.

80 BORLASE'S Antiquities, Historical and Monumental, of the County of Cornwall, plates, folio, calf, neat, 17 Is 1754

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another copy, SECOND EDITION, maps and plates, folio, calf, very

neat, 11 88

1769

the same, with the Natural History of Cornwall, 2 vols. in 1, folio, fine copy, BEST EDITIONS, beautifully bound in russia, extra, marbled leaves, 41 4s

1758-60 "This learned and ingenious writer has left nothing to be desired on the subject of the DRUIDS, and their Institutions."-Mallett's Northern Antiquities.

83 BOUCHER'S (Rev. Jon.) Proposals for publishing by Subscription in 2 vols. 4to. Linguæ Anglicana Veteris Thesaurus; or a Glossary of the Ancient English Language, intended to be a Supplement to Johnson, 8vo. Is 6d n. d.

84 BOURNE'S (Henry) Antiquitates Vulgares; or, the Antiquities of the Common People, giving an account of several of their Opinions and Ceremonies, 8vo. calf, 3s Newcastle, 1725 BRAND'S (John) Observations on Popular Antiquities, including the whole of Bourne's edition, with Addenda to every chapter of that work, containing such articles as have been omitted, 8vo. boards, 8s

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LARGE PAPER, royal 8vo. calf, gilt, very neat, 14s Observations on Popular Antiquities, chiefly Illustrations of the Origin of our Vulgar Customs, Ceremonies, and Superstitions, comprising the former editions of BOURNE and BRAND, arranged and revised with additions by SIR HENRY ELLIS, F.S.A. 2 vols. 4to. boards, 2l 10s (published at 41 4s)

1813

88 BOUTERWEK (F.) Geschichte der Poesie und Beredsamkeit, 12 vols. 8vo. sewed, 37 188 Gotting: 1801

"Bouterwek's literary reputation rests upon his Geschichte der neuem Poésie.' This work contains separate critical histories of the Belles Lettres of Italy, Spain, Portugal, France, England, and Germany, from the revival of letters to the close of the 18th century, and is still reckoned one of the best books that Germany has produced in this kind. "-PENNY CYCLOPÆDIA.

89 BOUTERWEK'S (Fred.) History of Spanish and Portuguese Literature, translated from the German, by Thomasina Ross, 2 vols. 8vo. boards, 14s (published at 1l 4s)

1823

"A most learned work, which has procured for the fair translator considerable praise." 90 BOWLES'S (Rev. W. L.) Grave of the last Saxon; or, the Legend of the Curfew, a Poem, 8vo. boards, 4s 6d (published at 6s) Illustrations of those Stupendous Monuments of Celtic Antiquity,

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Avebury and Silbury, &c. 8vo. sewed, 1s 6d

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92 BOWRING'S Russian Anthology, or Specimens of the Russian Poets, with preliminary Remarks and Biographical Notices, 12mo. boards, 4s 6d (published at 7s) Batavian Anthology; or Specimens of the Dutch Poets, 12mo. boards, 3s 6d (published at 78 6d)

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Specimens of the Polish Poets, with Notes, 12mo. boards, 3s 6d (published at 88)

1827

95 BRADY'S (Dr. Robert) Introduction to the Old English History, with a GLOSSARY of words used in our Ancient Records, Laws, and Historians, folio, calf, neat, 7s 6d

1684

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96 BRAITHWAIT'S (Richard) Drunken Barnabie's Four Journeys to the North of England, in Latin and English metre, THIRD EDITION, 6 plates, 12mo. calf, very neat, 58

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1723 FOURTH EDITION, to which is added (never before published) the Ancient Ballad of Chevy Chase, in Latin and English Verse, 12mo. half calf, gilt, very neat, 3s 6d 1778

another edition, plates, 12mo. half calf, gilt, neat, 3s 6d 1805 another edition, 12mo. boards, 78

1818

This edition, of which there were but 250 copies printed, was edited by Mr. Haslewood, who has prefixed an account of Brathwait, a bibliographical history of the former editions of the Journal, and illustrative notes.

Mr. Ritson regarded Barnaby rather as a real than fictitious character.

100 BRAND'S Popular Antiquities, see Bourne.

101 BRANT'S Stultifera Navis, or Ship of Fools, by BARCLAY, with his Eclogues, wood cuts, black letter, title supplied by two others, one neatly copied in MS. and the other, a fac-simile reprint, a fine copy, folio, calf, very neat, (Sir F. Freeling's copy) 4l 14s 6d

1570

The divers other works adjoined to this edition, viz.-"The Mirrour of Good Manners," and "Certayne Eclogues," are supposed by Warton to have been the first that appeared in the English Language.

102 BRITANNIA REDIVIVA, a Collection of Congratulatory Odes, Lat. Eng. and Heb. on the Restauration of Charles II. 4to. sewed, 7s 6d Oxon, 1660 103 BRITANNIA after the Romans, being an Attempt to Illustrate the Religious and Political Revolutions of that Province in the Fifth and succeeding Centuries, 4to. boards, 1l 10s

1836

104 BRITISH BARDS; or Choice Selections from the Works of the principal Poets of England, from Spencer to Cowper, with short Biographical Sketches, 12mo. boards, 5s ( published at 7s 6d)

1820

105 BRITISH DRAMA, (Ancient) containing the Old Plays published in Dodsley's Collection, with additional ones, edited by SIR WALTER SCOTT, frontispiece, 3 vols. royal 8vo. boards, 2l 2s

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1810

(Modern) containing nearly all the best Tragedies, Comedies, Operas, and Farces, in the English Language, (excepting Shakspeare) edited by SIR WALTER SCOTT, frontispiece, 5 vols. royal 8vo. boards, 21 12s 6d (published at 5l 10s)

Miller, 1811

107 BRITISH COSTUME (History of) from the earliest period to the present time, with the National Costume of Scotland and Ireland, numerous wood cuts, 12mo. boards, 4s 6d-calf, gilt, very neat, 8s

1834

108 BRITISH MARTIAL; or, an Anthology of English Epigrams, with some Originals, 2 vols. 12mo. boards, 4s

1806 109 BRITISH MELODIES, containing some of the Minor Pieces, and other Extracts, from the works of the Modern Poets, including many Original Pieces never before published, 8vo. boards, 10s 6d

n. d.

110 BRITISH POETS. ANDERSON'S Complete Edition of the British Poets from Chaucer, with the English Poetic Translations of the Greek and Latin Classics, 13 vols. royal 8vo. calf, gilt, very neat, 5l 15s 6d 1795 Containing Chaucer, Surrey, Wyat, Sackville, Spenser, Shakspeare, Davis, Hall, Drayton, Carew, Suckling, Donne, Daniel, Browne, P. Fletcher, Ben Jonson, Drummond, Crashaw, Davenant, Milton, Cowley, Waller, Butler, Denham, Dryden, Rochester, Roscommon, Otway, Pomfret, Stepney, J. Philips, Walsh, Smith, Duke, King, Sprat, Montague. Halifax, Parnell, Garth, Rowe, Addison, Hughes, Sheffield, Prior, Congreve, Blackmore, Fenton, Granville, Yalden, Pope, Gray, Tickell, Somerville, Pattison, Hammond, Savage, Hill, Broome, Pitt, Blair, Swift, J. Thomson, Watts, Hamilton. A. Philips, G. West, Collins, Dyer, Shenstone, Mallett, Akenside, Hart, Young, Gray, R. West, Lyttleton, Moore, Boyse, W. Thompson, Cawthorn, Churchill, Falconer, Lloyd, Cunningham, Green, Cooper, Goldsmith, P. Whitehead, Brown, Grainger, Smollet, Armstrong, Wilkie, Dodsley, Smart, Langhorne, Bruce, Chatterton, Græme, Glover, Shaw, Lovibond, Penrose, Mickle, Jago, Scott, Johnson, W. Whitehead, Jenyns, Logan, Warton. Cotton, Blacklock. Translations of Homer, Pindar, Virgil, Juvenal, Persius, Lucan, Hesiod, Theocritus, Anacreon, Sappho, Bion, Moschus, Appollonius Rhodius, Rape of Helen, Lucretius, Tibullus. "To good old Anderson the Poets and the Literature of our country are deeply beholden." Quarterly Review.

111 BRITISH POETS.-CHALMERS's (Alexander) Works of the ENGLISH POETS, from Chaucer to Cowper, including the series edited, with Prefaces, biographical and critical, by DR. SAMUEL JOHNSON, with the most approved Translations, and additional Lives, 21 vols. 8vo. boards, 8-calf, gilt, very neat, marbled leaves, 137 13s (published at 25l in boards)

1810

"The body of the English Poets. edited by the judicious labour, the elegant pen, the nice and correct taste, and virtuous mind of Mr. A. Chalmers, has been augmented by the accession of some of our rarest writers in that class. Gower, Surry, Wyatt, Gascoigne, Turberville, Warner, Habington, Stirling, &c. &c."-Preface to British Bibliographer.

112 BRITISH POETS, Select, comprising the Works of twenty-five of our best British Poets, 3 vols. 8vo. boards, 12s (published at 17 11s 6d) See JOHNSON.

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114 BROUGHTON'S (Rich.) Memorial of the Ancient, most Holy and Religious State of Great Britain; flourishing with Apostles, Apostolic Men, MONASTERIES, Religious Rules and Orders in great number in the time of the BRITAINS; and Primitive Church of the SAXONS, Small 8vo. calf, gilt, very neat, 12s

1650

115 BROWN'S (Dr.) Dissertation on the Rise, Union, and Power, the Progressions, Separations, and Corruptions, of Poetry and Music, to which is prefixed the Cure of Saul, a Sacred Ode, 4to. boards, 12s

1763

116 BROWNE'S (William) Works, containing Britannia's Pastorals, Sheperd's Pipe, &c. never published before, with other Poems, and an Account of his Life, 3 vols. 12mo. neat, 128

1772

This edition was edited by T. Davies. "We are not, indeed, aware of any book, which contains more original and accurate images, drawn from rural life and scenery, then are to be found in the Britannia's Pastorals. "The Poems of Browne are above all remarkable for their opulence, richness, and propriety of phrase."-Retrospective Review.

117 BRYDGES'S (Sir Egerton) CENSURA LITERARIA; containing Titles, Abstracts and Opinions of Old English Books, with Original Disquisitions, Articles of Biography, and other Literary Antiquities, SECOND and BEST EDITION, with the articles classed in chronological order, under the seperate heads, 10 vols. 8vo. boards, SCARCE, 5l 15s 6d (published at 107 10s )

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1815

"These volumes deal principally with that kind of literature which is of all others the most interesting and delightful. Poetry forms the principal head of the works here registered."-Introduction.

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British Bibliographer, portraits, 4 vols. 8vo. calf, scarce, 31 3s

1810-14

This, and the following article, "Restituta," were intended as continuations of the Censura Literaria." This, besides containing large extracts from the rarest of our Poets, has reprints of the whole of "Tusser's hundred good pointes of Husbandrie, 1557;" of the Paradise of dainty Devices, 1576;" of "England's Helicon, 1614;" and of the "Mirrour for Magistrates, 1587."

RESTITUTA; or Titles, Extracts, and Characters of Old Books, in English Literature revived, 4 vols. 8vo. boards, 11 8s-rich marbled calf, gilt, very neat, marbled leaves, 21 18s (published at 5l 12s) 1814 120 BUCHAN'S Ancient Ballads and Songs of the North of Scotland, portrait, 2 vols. 8vo. boards, 10s 6d 1828

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121 BUCHANANI (Geo.) Rerum Scoticarum Historia, small 8vo. fine copy, original binding, 6s Francof, 1584 122 BUCK's (George) Great Plantagenet, or a continued succession of that Royall Name from Henry the Second, to our Sacred Sovereign, King Charles, 4to. vellum, uncut, 1l 11s 6d

Printed by Nicholas and John Okes, 1635

Marked 4/ 10s in the Bibliotheca Anglo Poetica.

123 BULLET (J. B.) Mémoires de Langue Celtique, ou Dictionnaire Celtique renferment tous les termes de cette Langue, 3 vols. folio, neat, 4l 4s

Becançon, 1754-9

"A master piece of philological erudition, and the basis of very much that is valuable and entertaining in Northern Literature.'

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124 BURNETT'S (Geo.) Specimens of English Prose Writers, from the earliest times to the close of the seventeenth century, with sketches, biographical and literary, 3 vols. small 8vo. half calf, neat, 14s

1807 125 BURNS's Poems, chiefly in the Scottish Dialect, with a Glossary, portrait, 8vo. calf, neat, 68 1787 126 BURRIDGE, (Ezekiel) Historia nuperæ Rerum Mutationis in Anglia, 8vo. calf, 58 Lond. 1697 127 BURTON'S (William) Commentary on Antoninus his Itinerary, or Journies of the Romane Empire, so far as it concerneth Britain, fine portrait by Hollar, and map, folio, slightly stained, 15s

This writer is highly commended by Ant. a Wood.

1658

128 BURY'S (Rich. de) Philobiblon, a Treatise on the Love of Books, written in 1344, and translated from the first edition in 1473, small 8vo. boards, 6s 1832

129 BUTLER'S (Samuel) Hudibras, with large Annotations, and a Preface by Dr. ZACHARY GREY, plates, 2 vols. 8vo. calf, neat, 1l 1s Cambridge, 1744 Best Cambridge edition. The cuts are beautifully engraved, and Hogarth is much indebted to the designer of them, but who he was does not appear.

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the same, plates, 2 vols. Cambridge and London, 1744.-BUTLER'S Genuine Remains in Prose and Verse, with Notes by Thyer, 2 vols. 1759, together 4 vols. 8vo. calf, neat, 11 6s

1744-59

HUDIBRAS, with large Annotations and a Preface by Dr. ZACHARY GREY, portrait and plates after Hogarth, with wood head and tail pieces, 2 vols. royal 8vo. LARGE PAPER, calf, gilt, neat, 17 10s

Bensley, 1799

HUDIBRAS, with Notes by Dr. T. R. NASH, portrait and plates, 2 vols. 8vo. boards, 12s Murray, 1835

Mr. Nash's edition of Hudibras, in three large vols. 4to. first pubsished in 1793, and not since then, until now reprinted-had become so scarce that Mr. Nicol resolved to give a new impression. It contains all Dr. Nash's notes, with a few others by the editor, chiefly derived from the Dictionary of Archdeacon Todd; and the Glossary of Archdeacon Nares.

Genuine Poetical and Prose Remains, selected, with Notes, by Thyer, portraits of Butler and Thyer, and some exquisite wood cuts, 8vo. boards, 7s 6d-calf, gilt, very neat, 10s 6d 1827

134 BYSSHE'S (Edw.) Art of English Poetry, containing-I. Rules for making Verse. II. A Collection of Sublime Thoughts, selected from the English Poets. III. A Dictionary of Rhymes, THIRD EDITION, 8vo. neat, 38 6d

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137 CÆDMONIS Monachi Paraphrasis Poetica Genesios ac præcipuarum Sacræ paginæ Historiarum, abhinc annos MLXX Anglo-Saxonicæ conscripta, et nunc primum edita à Franciso Junio cum notis in Cadmonis Paraphrasin, small 4to. calf, neat, 21 28 Amst. 1655-1752

The 2 last leaves containing the notes are rarely found with the work.

138 CÆDMON'S Metrical Paraphrase of Parts of the Holy Scriptures, in AngloSaxon, with an English translation, Notes, and a Verbal Index, by Benj. Thorpe, 8vo. boards, 10s 6d (published at 1l 1s)

1832

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