vMHj IB HHi 9 DM lilllSftl^ : SsSmK i '/70 2, &6 QJotncU Hmttttaitg ffiibrarg 3lltaca, 'Stra iork FROM THE BENNO LOEWY LIBRARY COLLECTED BY BENNO LOEWY 1854-1919 BEQUEATHED TO CORNELL UNIVERSITY Z2012.H43 O C6 vStf* Library COl ffiliSlliw?IIIIIIIIIIU 0,eS f 1867 "1876. olin 3 1924 032 393 757 Cornell University Library The original of this book is in the Cornell University Library. There are no known copyright restrictions in the United States on the use of the text. http://www.archive.org/details/cu31924032393757 COLLECTIONS AND NOTES 1867— 1876 BY W. CAREW HAZLITT LONDON REEVES AND TURNER 196 STRAND 1876. /\ 7 $ %$ PEINTFD BY BAI.LANTVNE, HANSON AND CO. EDINBURGH AND LONDON PREFACE. It may perhaps be recollected that, nine years ago, the present writer published a Bibliographical Account of Early English Litera- ture, being the earliest experiment of the kind made on anything approaching to a large and systematic scale. Few persons, and probably no one of practical experience, were surprised to find that this work was both incomplete and inaccurate ; and that it was so was due to causes over which the author had only partial control. Where a book to be described was not accessible to him personally, it became necessary to resort to secondary authorities, all more or less treacherous — (1) transcribers, (2) earlier bibliographical publi- cations, (3) catalogues. Even professional copyists are naturally not infallible, and the mistakes arising from the necessity for employing them were both numerous and grave ; but it was not in every case practicable to secure the services of such persons, and the help of amateurs was thankfully accepted. Of my predecessors in the same field of work it becomes me at the same time to speak both respectfully and indulgently, and I shall confine myself to the general remark that Sir Egerton Brydges, Joseph Haslewood, the editor of the Bibliotheca Anglo-Poetica, and other men of that period, as well as some of their followers, do not seem to have regarded it as urgent or imperative to transfer to their own pages the particulars of the books which they describe with that literal exactitude which belongs to my plan. The consequence is, PREFACE. that where I was led (from no choice of my own) to adopt the titles and collations ready-done (as it seemed) to my hand else- where, it has proved no economy of labour in the long tud, as the whole ground has had to be traversed again, and the articles to be rewritten with the volumes themselves before me. 1 Since 1867 no undescribed, or misdescribed, book of my class has come within my reach — I might almost say, has come into the market — without being examined and catalogued, and in this way thousands of books and tracts have passed under my personal scrutiny. In the course of these years much has been added to our knowledge, as well of works, as of editions of works, not previously traced or recognised. My individual researches, which have been almost incessant, have resulted in the verification of many points which were in doubt, and in the discovery of much that was supposed to have perished. Ex pede Herculem — even a damaged leaf will establish the existence at one time of an impression, per- haps a large one, of the entire work. The present is emphatically an intermediate undertaking. There is no pretence or attempt to furnish, in every case, either the com- plete works of an author, or all the editions of his works, or every early English volume not included in the Handbook. The following pages represent the result of nine years' laborious and steady gatherings from a variety of quarters, and, as such, are submitted diffidently to the favour and judgment of the public. These Col- lectanea, which may be considered as having substantially much of the value aud interest attached to a descriptive catalogue of a particular library, have a moral of their own, illustrating the extraordinary changes which have occurred in literary tastes and opinions, and showing the prominence which was once given, and the value once attached, to many hundreds of now forgotten and neglected authors or subjects. 1 Considerable mischief has been done by persons who. under pretence of fur- nishing exact copies of old titles in reprints of books and tracts, have departed from their originals, not only linearly and literally, but verbally. Such is the case ■with nine-tenths of the reproductions of the last and present century, and it is well that it should be generally known. PREFACE. For years to come (if he is spared) the author has no intention of venturing on so gigantic an enterprise as a new edition of the Handbook of Early English Literature, and assuredly now such an attempt would have been altogether premature. It is his wish and design to avail himself of every addition which may be made from time to time to our bibliographical stores, and ultimately to produce an entirely new and remodelled book, which may serve as a companion to an enlarged Biographia Britannica, the latter a scheme which was entertained by the late Sir Frederic Madden. The volume now offered to the public is composed partly of rewritten matter, but chiefly of new. So far as the rewritten matter is concerned, it cannot be too distinctly stated or understood that, though it may often appear to repeat what has been already given with sufficient copiousness of detail, the information has been drawn from entirely independent sources, or, in other words, from the boots described, instead of being taken unavoidably at second- hand. Not a single line of the Handbook has been reprinted totidem verbis, as such a proceeding would have been an unwarranted encroachment on the rights of the proprietor of that work. It is understood, I presume, that a bibliographer does not treat it as part of his duty to draw the line of distinction too nicely between productions of intrinsic importance and productions whose principal value lies in their curious character and accidental scarcity. But I have occasionally pointed out cases where it seemed that too great a stress was laid on mere rarity as a recommendation, and I think that English collectors have still a good deal to learn in this direc- tion ; nor would a Manual, not to be like Dibdin's Library Com- panion, but to be formed somewhat on the same plan, be ill-timed. A Key to the choice of Early English Literature, which should give sound and independent advice, and assist in dissipating the costly illusion that everything in the similitude of an old book is valuable, might prove indeed what the Library Companion purported to be, "the young man's guide, and the old man's comfort." My own taste as to the choice of books is widely different from PREFACE. that of the major part of our present race of collectors ; and I lili to look forward to the time when buyers or fanciers of such thing will cultivate what is old, not because it is old and uncommon, bi in spite of its antiquity and uncommonness. The aggregation ( miscellaneous assemblages of literary gewgaws or emptinesses b undiscerning persons is surely a very unsatisfactory spectacle. Bu books if you love books ; buy them if you are a student — if you ar a reader; but, in the name of reason, do not buy them simp! because your neighbour does. That is one of the least wise form which flattery can take. The foundation and possession of a good or even a fine library, rank among the most delightful incidents o cultivated life, and even some scholars (take Heinsius, Selden Burton, formerly, or in our own day, Buckle) have condescendei to become book-hunters. But above every one we have to plac the all-accomplished Heber, to whose enormous attainments Dibdii has borne some testimony in a well-known passage of the Literar\ Reminiscences. He was indeed " velut inter ignes luna minores." Perhaps Brunet goes a little too far in underrating the importanci of articles, but it is the better and safer extreme ; and it may be taker as a very good basis of operations by intending collectors or budding bibliomaniacs, that the majority of old books, like the majority of olc pictures, and (in short) old everything, are comparatively worthless in a pecuniary point of view, while those which maintain then rank in the market have frequently nothing to justify the prices which they realise but the single circumstance that very few per- sons formerly thought them worthy of preservation. In fact, there are thousands of old English books which bear a disagreeable resemblance, in the writer's estimation, to waste-paper, and among these are the most costly and the most highly-prized treasures oi collections in our day. That there are exceptions, it is true. Some of the works oi Spenser, Shakespeare, Daniel, Drayton, Bacon, exist for us in one or two copies, of which the worth is not capable of measurement PREFACE. by any commonplace standard ; but these are pieces of literature, not bric-a-brac, like the effusions of Nicholas Breton and certain other pamphleteers, from whom a few casual allusions, rendered interesting by circumstances or time, are all the purchaser gets in return for what would yield a small annuity. After all said, however, the five or six thousand articles which are comprised within the present volume belong to what was once a current and accepted literature — a literature which fulfilled a certain share in the im- portant duty of instructing our ancestors and amusing them ; and surely a faithful record and full descriptive account of such a body of material cannot be treated as superfluous. Old English books may be classed under three heads — (1) Direct importance ; (2) indirect or collateral importance ; (3) biblio- graphical curiosity. Of these it may be said that only the first and second categories repay the attention of literary inquirers ; and even as regards works of which the value consists in some feature not immediately connected with the writer, the interest is often so languid or so fractional, that it is apt to be exhausted in some judicious essay or in a descriptive catalogue. Articles which fall within the third and remaining section — bibliographical curiosi- ties — are to be treated rather as cabinet specimens than as books, and are worth — what they fetch. They are liable to great fluctuations in their marketable worth, for the simple reason that their worth is as uncertain as an unknown quantity in equations. The counsel which should be tendered to the forthcoming race of bibliophilists by some new Dibdin might with advantage, perhaps, be grounded on the principle of keeping in sight, in the formation of a library, the literary or intrinsic, in preference to the com- mercial or casual, qualities of the material employed, so to speak, in its construction. Curiosities rise and fall with the caprices of taste and fashion ; but standard books never vary. An eminent collector, who buys rare and dear books, not because they are rare and dear, but notwithstanding their rarity and dearness, has remarked to the writer that the best -books, for the most part, PREFACE. are the commonest, and this observation holds true, saving a few- isolated and exceptional cases, of the literature which possesses the highest claim to our attention — the literature which is intrin- sically and directly important — important, not from associations which happen to have grown up round it, but in itself and for its own sake. Bookbinding is indirectly connected with bibliography, in so far as it exerts so vast an influence over the selling value of copies. But it rather belongs to the Fine Arts than to literature proper, and it is a subject which I have rarely approached. Old English books with early decorated bindings of conspicuous beauty are, in point of fact, of such rare occurrence, that a descriptive account of all known examples would fall far short of filling a volume like that of Libri. Perhaps it is virtually nothing to the purpose that bibliopegy is treated by severely practical book-fanciers as the mere upholstery of the question. A folio MS. in the library of Mr Henry Huth includes among its multifarious contents a catalogue of old plays, which becomes of curiosity, as it seems to supply the earliest record of the formation of a dramatic collection in England. It is to be presumed that the owner of it was Henry Oxenden of Barham, and it comprised one hundred and twenty-one separate pieces, bound in six volumes. Among them may be recognised some of the most extraordinary rarities in our language, such as Udall's Ralph Roister Doister, the Hamlet of 1603, The Tide tarrieth no Man, Marlowe's Dido, and others, which are entitled from their scarcity to rank as MSS. The list is printed entire in Mr Huth's forthcoming Catalogue. In conclusion, I have extreme pleasure in recognising the assist- ance which has been rendered to me in the course of my nine years' additional labours by several friends, who allowed me to enrich myself at the expense of their information or stores to an extent beyond any claim I had on their kindness. I beg to mention especially my obligations to Mr Henry Huth ; Mr Henry Bradshaw who manifested the warmest interest in my imperfect labours, and PREFACE. opened to me freely the too-little-known stores of the Cambridge University Library ; the Rev. H. 0. Coxe, Bodley's Librarian ; Mr Furnival, who sent me memoranda of everything he considered likely to be serviceable ; Mr Henry Pyne, who afforded me constant access to his valuable collections, as well as the benefit of his still more valuable knowledge ; Mr George Bullen, who greatly facili- tated my supplementary researches at the British Museum ; Mr Sketchley, with whose kind co-operation I supplied certain im- portant deficiencies in my original work from the treasures of the Dyce Collection at South Kensington ; and the Bight Honourable the Earl Spencer (through the good offices of the Hon. and Rev. F. J. Ponsonby, Rector of Brington), by whose liberality I have been again enabled to profit, as was the case in 1867. Dr Ingleby also supplied me with the titles and collations of some curious books in his possession. Nor must I omit to record my gratitude to those well-known firms of auctioneers, Messrs Sotheby, Wilkinson, & Hodge, and Messrs Puttick & Simpson ; and to Mr Pearson, Mr Ellis, Mr Pickering, Mr Quaritch, Messrs JSTattali & Bond, and other eminent booksellers, for the facilities which they always afforded to me in the course of my researches. W. C. H. Kensington, January 1876. COLLECTIONS AND NOTES. ABBEY OF THE HOLY GHOST. The Abbaye of the Holy Ghost. [Col.] Inrprynted at Westinestre by wynken de worde. [Circa 1500.] 4°, black letter, 20 leaves. Br. Museum (no title) and Public Library Cambridge. On A ij there is the following headline : " Here begynneth a matere spekynge of a place that is named the abbaye of the holy ghost (y* shall be fouded or grouded- in a clene consoyence/ in whiche abbaye shall dwelle. xxix. ladyes ghostly." The present is a short treatise in English in the form of a sermon. The work is printed in the same form, though with a different type, and is bound up in the British Museum copy with the Exhortatio facta Cartusienti- 6ms, said to be by Dean Alcock. The Abbey was most probably written by Richard Hampole, to whom it is ascribed in MS. Lambeth 432. But there is a much earlier copy in MS. Vernon, written about 1391. ABBOT, GEORGE, Archbp. of Canterbury. A Briefe Description of the Whole World . . . 'London, Printed for William Sheares, at the signe of the Harrow in Britaines Bursse. 1635. 12°, A — P in twelves, in- cluding an engraved title by W. Marshall, dated 1634, in the upper centre of which is a portrait of the author. A. B. C. ' The A. B. C. Set forthe by the Kynges maiestie and his Clergye,andcommaunded to be taught through out all his Realme. All other vtterly set a part : as the teachers thereof tender his graces fauour. [Col.] God save the Kynge, the Queene, and the Realme, and send vs peace in Christ. Amen. Imprinted at London by wyllyam Powell. [Circa^l545.] 8°, 8 leaves. Br. Museum (Grenville). All the Letters of the A. B.C. . . . 1575. Eeprinted in Halliwell's folio Shakespear. The A. B. C. With the Catechism, &c. London : Printed for the Company of Stationers. 1719. Cum Privilegio. 12°, 8 leaves. ABELL, THOMAS, Priest. Invicta Veritas. An answere. That by no maner of law, it maye be lawfull for the moste noble Kinge of Englande, Kinge Henry the eyght to be diuorsed fro the quenes grace, his lawful and very wyfe. [Col.] Imprinted at Luneberge the yere of oure Lorde God. m.d.xxxii. in Maye. 4°, S. in fours. Br. Museum and Lambeth. See Maitland's List, 1843, p. 421. A. (C.) The Vnmasking of the Masse- Priest, with a Dve and Diligent examination of their holy Sacrifice. Shewing how they par- take with all the ancient Heretiques, in their profane, impious, and idoJatrous worship. London, Printed for Richard Whittaker, &c. 1624. 4°, Hh 2 in fours, last leaf having the Errata. The dedication and preface are signed by the Kev. John Lewis. ACADEMY OF COMPLIMENTS. The Academy of Complements. Wherein Ladyes, Gentlewomen, Schollers, and Strangers may acoommodate their Courtly Practice with most Curious Ceremonies, Complementall, Amorous, High expres- sions, and formes of speaking, or writing. A Work penned and most exactly per- fected by the Author, with Additions of Witty Amorous Poems. And a Table expounding the hard English Words. London, Printed by T. B. for H. Mosley, and are to be sold at his Shop at the Princes Armes, in S. Pauls Churchyard. 1640. ACADEMY. AC ST A. Sm. 8°, (M. 10), in twelves, title on A 2. "With a frontispiece by W. Marshall. Br. Museum (frontispiece wanting). Dr Bliss was inclined to attribute this highly curious little volume to John Gough, author of the Strange Discovery, 1640. The Address to the Reader is signed Philomusus. Bliss, in 1858, £2. 2s. The Academy of Complements, &c. Lon- don, Printed by T. Badger for H. Mosley, &c. 1640. 12°, M in twelves, last leaf blank, and preceding one occupied only by the Imprimatur (different from that in a. The first leaf was also probably a blank. A different impression of the foregoing. Sothebys, Dec. 6, 1871, No. 8. The Academy of Complements . . . The sixt Edition, with two Tables . . . London, Printed by T. Badger, for H. Moseley . . . 1645. 12°, A — N in twelves, including the frontispiece. The Academy of Complements. Where- in, Ladies, Gentlewomen, Schollers, and Strangers, may accommodate their Courtly practice with gentile ceremonies . . . The Last Edition, with two Tables . . . Lon- don, Printed for Humphrey Moseley . . . 1650. 12", A— P in twelves, besides the frontispiece, by W. Marshall. Br. Museum (Jolley's copy). The Academy of Complements. Where- in, Ladies, Gentlewomen, Schollers, and Strangers, may accommodate their Courtly practice with gentile Ceremonies, comple- mentall amorous high expressions, and Forms of Speaking or writing of Letters most in Fashion. A work perused, exactly perfected, every where corrected and enlarged, and inriched by the Author, with additions of many witty Poems and pleasant Songs. With an Addition of a new School of Love, and a Present of excellent Similitudes, Comparisons, Fan- cies, and Devices. The Last Edition, with two Tables . . . London, Printed for Humphrey Moseley at the Prince's Arms, in St. Pauls Church-yard. 1658. 8°, A— P in twelves, and a, 4 leaves, between A and B. H. Huth, Esq. (Inglis's copy). The Academy of Complements : or, A new way of Wooing. Wherein is variety of Love- Letters, very fit to be read of ail Young Men and Maids, that desire to learn the true way of Complements. . . . London, Printed for Thomas Passinger at the Sign of the Three Bibles on Lon- don-Bridge, 1685. 8°, chiefly black letter, A— B 4 in eights. A chapbook. Tire New Academy of Complements, erected for Ladies, Gentlewomen, Cour- tiers, Gentlemen, Scholars, Souldiers, Citizens, Country-men, and all persons, of what degree soever, of both Sexes. Stored with Variety of Courtly and Civil Complements, Eloquent Letters of Love and Friendship. With An Exact Collec- tion of the Newest and Choicest Songs a la Mode, Both Amorous and Jovial, Com- piled by the most refined Wits of this Age. London : Printed for Samuel Speed, near the Inner Temple-gate in Fleetstreet. 1669. 8°, with a frontispiece. N in twelves, except A, which has only the (printed) title. The New Academy of Compliments. . . . London : Printed for John Churchill. . . . 1713. 12°, with a frontispiece. The Delightful New Academy of Compli- ments, Being the rarest and most exact Art of wooing a Maid or Widow by way of Dialogue ... to which is added a choice Collection of the newest Songs, &c. New- castle. Printed in this present year [circS, 1780.] 8°, 12 leaves. Woodcut on title. In prose and verse. A chapbook. The Newest Academy of Complements. Containing Variety of Proper Letters and Answers, relating to Love and Business. . . . Several Delightful Dialogues . . . Loves Master-Piece ... A Collection of the Newest and Choicest Songs . . . Lon- don, Printed for J. Gwillim, against Cros- by-square, in Bishopsgate-Street. 1701. 12°, A — H in twelves, besides the frontispiece. ACCIDENCE. Accidence. [Col] Prynted in Caxtons hous by wynkyn de word at westmynstre. [Circa 1495.] 4°, A, 8 leaves; B, 6. Bodleian (Douce). This had probably been Herbert's copy. See his edition of Ames, p. 205. ACOSTA, JOSEPH. The Natvrall and Morall Historie of the East and West Indies. Intreating of the remarkeable things of Heaven, of the Elements, Metalls, Plants and Beasts which are proper to that Country : to- gether with the Manners, Ceremonies. Lawes, Governements, and Warres of the Indians. Written in Spanish by Ioseph Acosta, and translated into English by E dward] G[rimeston.] London Printed by Val. Sims for Edward Blount and William Aspley. 1604. 4°, A, 4 leaves, first marked A, but otherwise blank : a — b in fours, b 4 blank ; B— P p in eights. ACTORS. ADIS. Dedicated to Sir Robert Cecil, viscount Cranborue. ACTORS. The Actors Remonstrance, or Complaint : For the silencing of their profession, and banishment from their severall Play- houses. In which it is fully set downe their grievances, for their restraint ; es- cially since Stage-players, only of all publike recreations aTe prohibited ; the exercise at the Beares Colledge, and the motions of Puppets being still in force and vigour. As it was presented in the names and behalfes of all our London Comedians to the great God Phoebus — Appollo, and the nine Heliconian Sisters, on the top of Pernassus, by one of the Masters of Requests to the Muses, for this present month. And published by their command in print by the Typographe Royall of the Castalian Province. 1643. London, Printed for Edw. Nickson. Ianu- ar. 24. 1643. 4°, 4 leaves. Br. Museum and H. HutA, Esq. ADAM, MELCHIOR. The Life and Death of Dr Martin Luther, the passages whereof have bin taken out of his owne and other Godly and learned mens writings, who lived in his time. . London. Printed by I. L. for Iohn Staf- ford, &c. 1641. 4°, with a portrait and frontispiece. A translation by Thomas Hayne. With commendatory verses by F. Quarles and John Vicars. See Fry's Bihliogr. Memor. 1S16, pp. 293-301. ADAMITES. The Adamites Sermon : Containing their manner of Preaching, Expounding and Prophesying : As it was delivered in Marie-bone Park, by Obadiah Couchman, a grave Weaver, dwelling in Southwark, &c. Printed for Erancis Coules, in the Yeare 1641. 4°, 4 leaves. Black letter. With a cut representing the preacher and his strange auditory. ADAMSON, JOHN. Ta Ton Mouson Eisodia. The Mvses Welcome to the High and Mightie Prince lames by the Grace of God King of Great Britaine France and Ireland, De- fender of the Faith, &c. At His M. Happie Returne to His Old and Native Kingdome of Scotland after xiiii. Years absence in A nn0 1617. Soli sio pervius orbis [and a Greek motto]. Edinbvrgh, Printed by Thomas Finlason, Printer to His most excellent Maiestie. 1618. Folio. Collation : Portrait of James I., printed title as above, Dedication, verses, &c. 5 leaves : A — L, 2 leaves each : Oratio per Joannem Haium, &c. 4 leaves : M — D d, 2 leaves, each: E e — D d, 2 leaves each : E e — D d d in fours : [a new title page,] Planctus & Vota Musarum in Avgvstissimi Monarchse Iacobi Magnaa Britannire, &c. Recessu e Scotia in Ang- liam Augusti 4. Anno 1617. Edinborgi, Excvdebat Andreas Hart, Anno 1618. Cum Privilegio, &c. A — C 2 in fours, C 2 blank. This interesting publication includes pieces by Drummond of Hawthornden (a reprint of his Forth Feasting), Alexander Craig of Rose-craig, Sir William Mure of Eowallan, David Hume, and most of the eminent writers of the day. There were two issues of this volume in 1618, varying in the preliminaries only, which were set up twice, and are arranged differently. As the device of Andro Hart appears in one of the ornaments in the other, it may be questioned whether the whole volume was not really printed by him, and whether Finlason did more than attach his name to certain copies. It may be added that the catchword No, at sign. L 2 verso, does not correspond with the first word on any of the subsequent pages, and it appears as if some matter had been suppressed. ADAMSON, PATRICK. The Recantation of Maister Patrik Adani- sone, sometime Archbishop of Saint- Androwes in Scotlande. No place or printer's name, 1598. 8°, 12 leaves. H. Huth, Esq. ADARNO, ANTHONY DE. An Anatomi, that is to say a Parting in Peeces of the Mass. Which discouereth the horrible errors, and the infinit abuses vnknowne to the people, aswel of the Mass as of the Mass Book, very profitable, yea most necessary for al Christian people. With a Sermon of the Sacrament of thanksgyuyng in the end, which declareth whether Christ be bodyly in the Sacra- ment or not. By Chrystis humble seruant Anthoni de Adarno. [Quot. from Hebr. 4.] a.d. 1556. No place or printer's name, 8°. ADDISON, JOSEPH. A Table of the principal Matters con- tained in Mr Addison's Remarks on several parts of Italy, &c, in the years 1701-1702-1703. 4 leaves, demy-octavo. A jeu-d'esprit. See Fry's Bibliogr. Memor. 317. ADIS, HENRY. A Fannaticks Primmer, For the Instruc- tion of their Little Ones, in order to the ADRIAN. ^ESOP. attaining to perfect Beading. By Henry Adis. [Several quotations.] London, Printed for Francis Smith, at the Ele- phant and Castle -without Temple-Bar [circa 1660]. 8°, I 4, in eights, besides a, four leaves, following the title. ADEIAN, MASTER. The pnostication of maister Adrian of arte and medicine doctour moost expert mais- ter and excellet in astronomy. Por the yere of our lorde. m.d.sx. Cu priuilegio a regia maiestate ldulto. 4°, large wood- cut on title. [London, R. Pynson.] A mutilated title is all I have yet seen. ADVICE. The Pacquet-Boat Advice : Or a Discourse concerning the War with France, between some English Gentlemen and a French- man, betwixt Calis and Dover. London : Printed for Jonathan Edwin at the three Roses in Ludgate-street, 1678. 4°, A — C in fours. Advice to a Parson : Or, The True Art of Preaching, in Opposition to Modern Prac- tice. Written by a Person of Honour to Dr S. his late Chaplin : Made Publick Chiefly for the Edification of both Uni- versities. Printed in the Year, mdcxci. 8°, A — D in eights, E — F in sixes, and a leaf of Errata. In verse. JENEAS. The Conspiracy of iEneas & Antenor against the State of Troy. A Poem. Lvcian, the Cock or Dream . . . London, Printed for John Spicer, 1682. 4°, A, 4 leaves ; B, 6 leaves. jERODIUS [AYRAULT], PETRCJS. A Discovrse for Parents honour,? and authoritie. Written respectively to re- claime a young man that was a counter- feit Iesuite. Done into English at the instance of some worthy learned friends by Io. Budden, Doctor of the Lawes, &c. London Printed by Edw. Griffin for William Harper and Thomas Harper. 1614. 8°, A, 4 leaves ; B — L in eights ; M, 4 leaves ; N, one leaf. Dedicated to Tobie Mathew, Archbishop of York. jESOP. The Fables of Esope in Englishe with all his lyfe and Fortune, howe he was sub- tylL wyse, and borne in Grece, not farre from Troy the greate . . . whereunto is added the Fables of Auyan, And also the Fables of Alfonce, with the Fables of Poge the Florentine very pleasaunt to Gev' God the praiz That taecheth al-waiz Reade. [Col] Imprinted at London by Henry Wykes for Iohn Waley. 8°,. black letter, S 3 in eights. The only copy of this volume, which I have yet examined (formerly Mr Inglis's), had the bottom of the title-page, probably ' with the imprint, cut off. The following note respecting the Royal copy of Caxton's edition is taken from Herbert's Ames, vol. i., p. 54 : " This Esop's Fables, now in the King's Library, was left to his Majesty by the late Mr Hewet of Ipswich in Suffolk, and delivered to Mr Allen by Philip Broke, Esq., and Sir John Hewet, Bart., to present to the King, as appears by a MS. note pre- fixed." The Fables of Esop, in English. With all his life and fortune, &c. Whereunto are added the Fables of Avian, &c. London, Printed by F. B. for Andrew Hebb, &c. 1647. 8°, M in eights. Br. Museum. iEsopz Fablz in tru Ortography with Grammar - Notz. Her-vntoo ar also iooined the Short Sentencez of the Wj r z Cato im-printed with lyk form, and order : bdth of which Autorz are trans- lated out - of Latin intoo English by William Bullokar. ) f When truth trieth J ( Erroor flieth. Imprinted at London by Edmund Bolli- fant, dweling in the litl' old Baily in Eliotz Court, whser al' the bookz sett-forth by William Bullokar in tru ortography ar too be sold. '1585. 8°, black letter, 192 leaves. Bodleian. The paging commences at p. 65, and continues to p. 319, the remainder of the volume, beginning and end, is unpaged, ex- cept the Cato, which is paged 1-31, and has a separate title-page, but continuous signa- tures. . that the first part had passed through editions between 1630 and 1633. A Banqvet of Jests, Or Change of CO &c. The fifth Impression, with : Additions. London, Printed for Rii Royston, &c, 1639. 12°, I in twi first leaf blank. ARNOLD, RICHARD. In this booke is Conteyned the nan y e baylifs, Custos mairs and sherefs < cite of londo from the tyme of king ard the furst, & also thartycles o: Chartur and libarties of the same And of the Chartur and liberties of land wyth odur dyuers mat's gooc necessary for euery Citeze to vndir and knowe. Whiche ben shewid I tirs, after the fourme of this kal folowing. [Antwerp, John Doesb 1502,] folio. The above title is on the left-hand c< of A ij, A i having been probably a 1 Collation : a, 3 leaves : A— D in eigh fours alternately : E, 8 leaves : F, 6 lc 6— T, in sixes ; TJ, 5 leaves (but, reel a blank, also in sixes). Between R i are two leaves marked a and (J, ar tween S and T are three leaves marl v, vi, vij. The foregoing descriptic been taken from the Grenville copy c heterogeneous miscellany. In this boke is conteined y b names < baylyfs Custose mayers and sherefs cyte of london, &c. [This title is o left-hand column of A ij, as in the edition.] [South wark, P. Treveris, folio, black letter. Br. Museum. (( ville). v This edition continues the list of s] ARROWSMITH. 13 ARTHUSIUS. down to 12 Hen. VIII. (1521) and is executed apparently with English types. It has been assigned to the press of P. Treveris. Colla- tion : A, 3 leaves : 13, 8 leaves : 4 leaves marked Q : B in fours : C — E in eights : F— Q in sixes : K, in eights : S— U in sixes (hut the last leaf of XT probably blank, and in the copy before me deficient. Unless Herbert was less than usually accurate in his account of ed. (a), it seems to follow that this work must have seen more than two impressions, as his title differs in several respects orthographically from the Grenville copy. See his Edit, of Ames, 1746 and 1814. — M.A. ARROWSMITH, - The Reformation, a Comedy. Acted at the Dukes Theater. [Quot. from Horace.] London, Printed for William Cademan . . . mdclxxiii. 4°. A, 2 leaves : B — L in fours. ARTHUR, KING. Morte d'Arthur. [Col.] Thus endyth this nolole & Joyous boke entytled Le morte dathur. Notwythstondyng it treateth of the hyrth lyf & actes of the sayd kynge Arthur of his noble knyghts of the rounde table, theyr merueyllous enquestes & aduentures. thachyeuynge of the Sant[e] greall. ' And in the ende the dolourous deth & deparytynge out of this worlde of them al. Whyche boke was reduced in to Englysshe by the wel dys- posyd knyghte afore namyd. And de- uyded in to xxi. bokes chapitred . & enprynt[ed] first by Wylliam Caxton, on wh[ose] soule god haue mercy. And newel[ie] prynted . and chapitres of the sa[me fur]brisshed at Westmestre by Wynk[yn de] Worde y e yere of our lord. M.[ccccc.]Lxxxxviij. and ended the . xx [i daye of] Marche . the same yere. Folio, black letter, printed in two columns. Al- thorp. Collation: Table, 8 leaves ; a leaf (perhaps a blank) wanting : Prologue, 2 leaves : a— v in eights and sixes alternately, except that «,has 8 leaves as well as t : A— G in sixes : D, 8 leaves : E, 6 leaves : F, 8 leaves : G — H, 8 leaves each : I— S in sixes : no signatures T— V : X— Y, 4 leaves each: no Z ■ A— E in sixes, with W. de "Worde's larger device on E 6 verso. The Althorp copy, formerly Herbert's, wants title and several other leaves, and is much mutilated. It has many fine woodcuts. The Story of King Arthur. [Col.] Thus endeth this noble and ioyous book en- tytled la mort darthur / notwythstand- ynge it treateth of the byrthe/ lyfe and actes of the sayd kyng Arthur / and of his noble knyghtes of the rounde table / theyr meruaylous enquestes & aduentures / the achyuynge of the holy Sancgreall. And in y e ende the dolorous deth and depart- ynge out of this world of them all / whiche boke was reduced into Englysshe by the moost Well dysposed knyght afore named [Sir T. Malory], [Imprynted at London in Mete strete at y e sygne of sonne by Wynkyn de Worde. Jn the yere of our lord god. m.ccccc.xxix. The ■ xviij * daye of Nouember. Folio, black letter. Br. Museum (Grenville). Imperfect, but supposed unique. It was purchased at "Wrangham's sale for £51. Collation : a a apparently in eights, but a a i — vii wanting : bb in eights : a — v in eights and sixes alternately, except that t—v have both eight leaves : A — C in sixes : D — H in eights : E — TJ in sixes : X, 4 leaves : Y, 6 leaves : no Z : A— D 5 in sixes. On the verso of D 5 is an undescribed device of the printer. The Story of the most noble and worthy - Kynge Arthur. W. Copland, 1557. Folio. Signature E has 9 leaves. Dent, 1827, part 1, No. 162, fine in morocco, £20, 9s. 6d., bought for Mr Perkins, or purchased subse- quently by him. The copy is now in Mr Huth's library. The Storye of Kynge Arthur . . . T. East. Folio. I find that I have here made two editions out of one — a form of error occasioned in bibliography very often by an obligation to two different friends for a description of the same work, and each varying in his account, however minutely. The Most Famovs and Ancient History of the Renowned Prince Arthur King of Britaine, wherein is declared his Life and Death, with all his glorious Battailes against the Saxons, Saracens and Pagans, which (for the honour of his Country) he most worthily atchieved. As also, all the Noble Acts and Heroicke Deeds of his valiant Knights of the Round Table. Newly refined, and published for the delight, and profit of the Reader. London, Printed by William Stansby for Iacob Bloome. 1634. 4°, black letter. In three parts, each with a woodcut frontispiece. Part i, B — I i in fours, besides prefixes, 12 leaves : Part ii, prefixes, 7 leaves : and a—Jt r i in fours : Part iii, prefixes, 8 leaves, and A— Pp in fours. ARTHUSIUS, GOTARDUS. Dialogves in the English and Malaiane Languages ; Or, Certaine common formes' of Speech, first written in Latin, Malaian, and Madagascar tongues, by the diligence and painfull endeauour of Master Gotardue Arthvsivs, a Dantisker, and now faith- fully translated into the English tongue ARTICLES. 14 ASSIZE. by Avgvstine Spalding Merchant for their sakes, who happily shall hereafter vnder- take a voyage to the East-Indies. At London, Imprinted by Felix Kingston for William Welby, &o. 1614. 4°, Roman letter, A — K in fours, and a leaf of L. Dedicated to Sir Thomas Smith. ARTICLES, &c. In this boke is coteyned the Articles of oure fayth. The x. comaudementis. The . vii . words of mercy. The . vii . dedely synnes. The . vii. pryncypall vtues. And the . vii. Sacramentis of holy Chirche whiche euery curate is bounde for to de- clare to his parysshens. iiii. tymes in the yere. [Col.] Impressum per Richardum Pynson. 4°, black letter, 4 leaves. Br. Museum (Grenville). ARTILLERY-MEN. The Exercise for yong Artillery Men : or the Militia of the Kingdome in its Pos- ture of Warre. Whereunto are added the Orders rueete to be observed upon any Forraigne Invasion, for the Shires that lye on the Sea Coast. London, Printed, for Michael Sparke Senior, and are to bee sold at the Blev Bible in Greene Arbour, 1642. 4°. The Exercise, A, 2 leaves, including a frontispiece, B, 4 leaves. The Orders, with a fresh title, &c. A — B 3 in fours. (Military Discipline.) ARWAKER, E. Eons Perennis. A Poem on the Excel- lent and Useful Invention of making Sea-Water fresh. Humbly dedicated to the Kings most Sacred Majesty. By Edm. Arwaker, M.A. Author of the Vision. London, Printed for Henry Bouwicke, at the Red Lion in St. Paul's Church-yard. 1686. 4°, 12 leaves. ASCHAM, ANTHONY. A little Herball of the Properties of Herbes, newly amended and corrected, wyth certayn additions, m.d.l. The xii. daye of February. [Col.] Imprynted at London in Pauls Churche-yarde at the signe of the Swanne by Jhon kynge. [1551.] 8°, K in eights, the last leaf blank. ASCHAM, ROGER. Toxophilvs, The Schole, or partitions of Shooting contayned in ij. bookes, writte by Roger Ascham. 1544. And now newlye perused. . . . Anno 1571. Im- printed at London in Fleetstreate neare to Saint Dunstones churche by Thomas Marshe. 4°, black letter, with the title in a compartment. Title, 1 leaf : table and preface, 3 leaves : the work, fol. 1 — 63 numbered; or, by signatures, A— H in eights. Br. Museum. ASHE, SIMEON. Gray Hayres crowned with Grace, a Sermon Preachedat Redrith [Rotherhithe] near London, Aug. 1, 1654, At the Fune- rall of that Reverend, eminently Learned and faithfull Minister of' Jesus Christ, Mr. Thomas Gataker. By Simeon Ashe Minister of the Gospel in London. To- gether with his Studious, laborious, reli- gious Life, and patient, comfortable Death. Whereunto are annexed many learned Poems and Elegies, both English and Latin, sent from Cambridge and other places. [Two quotations from Proverbs.] London, Printed by A. M. for George Sawbridge, &c. 1655. 4°, L in fours. ASHWELL, JOHN. The letters whyche Iohan Ashwell Prionr of Newnham Abbey besydes Bedforde sente secretly to the Bysshope of Lyn- colne, in the yeare of our Lord, m.d.xxvii. Where in the said pryour accuseth George Ioye, that time beiyng felow of New col- lege in Cambrydge, of fower opinyons : wyth the answere of the sayde George vnto the same opynyons. [Quotat. from Iohan iii.] At the end : At Straszburge the 10 daye of Iune. [1527.] 8°, A— D 4 in eights. Br. " ASKEW, ANNE. Anne Askew, Intituled, I am a Woman Poor and Blind. Sine ulla nota. A broadside, in two columns, in verse, with a woodcut. ASLADOWNE, THOMAS. The Coppie of a Letter sent from one of the Qveenes Servants at the Hague to a Gentleman in Westminster Dated the Second of May, 1642. Wherevnto is added two strange Prophesies concerning these times. With the predictions of Henry of Huntington, written by Tho. Asladowne, in the year of our Lord, 1556. London, Printed for I. T. 1642. 4° 4 leaves. Partly in verse. The only portion for which Asladowne is responsible is the "Prophecy concernine these times." ° ASSIZE OF BREAD. Here begynneth the boke named the As- syse of Breade / what it ought to waye / after the Pryce of a quarter of Wheate ASTLEY. 15 AUDLEY. And also the Assyse of Ale, with all maner of woode and cole / lath / bourde / tyinbre / and the weyght of Butyre / and Chese. Imprynted by me Robert wyer. [Col.] Imprynted by me Robert wyer, Dwellynge in seynt martyns parysshe at Charynge crosse, at the Sygne of seynt Iobfi Euangelyst. 8°, black letter, A — D in half sheets, or 16 leaves. Woodcuts. Br. Museum. ASTLEY, JOHN, Master of the Jewel House. The Art of Riding, set foorth in a breefe treatise, with a due interpretation of cer- teine places alledged out of Xenophon, and Gryson, verie expert and excellent Horsemen wherein also the true vse of the hand by the said Grysons rules and precepts is speciallie touched : and how the Author of this present worke hath put the same in practise .... Im- printed at London by Henrie Denham. 1584. 4°, roman letter, L in fours. De- dicated by G. B. to Mr Henry Mack- william and Mr William Fitzwilliams. ATKINS, RICHARD. The copie of a dovble letter sent by an Englishe Gentilman from beyond the seas to his frende in London containing the true aduises of the cause, and maner of the death of one Richard Atkins, exe- cuted by Fire in Rome, the seconde of August. 1581. No place, printer's name, or date. [1581.] 8°, 12 leaves. Roman letter. ATWELL, GEORGE, late Teacher of the Mathematics in Cambridge. The Faithful] Surveyour : teaching how to Measure all manner of Ground exactly, by the chain onely, &c. Cambridge, Printed for William Nealand at the Crown in Duck-lane. 1662. 4°, pp. 14 + 143. Prefixed are lines by the Author to his book, and six sets of encomiastic verses. ATWOOD, WILLIAM. A Caveat for the Ortlibdox Christian : Or, A Discovery of the Presbyterians False Exposition of Scripture. With their Observation of Christmasse, and of the Oath of the King's Supremacy. Sent in a Letter to his Honored Kinsman Ro- bert Broke, Esq. London: Printed for the Author .... 1662. 4°, A— G in fours. AUBIN, PENELOPE. Moral Virtue Delineated, in One Hun- dred and three Short Lectures, both in French and English, on the most import- ant Points of Morality. Each Lecture exemplify'd with a Copper Plate, done by the most Famous Monsieur Daret, In- graver to the late French King. . . . The Whole recommended for the instruc- tion of youth, especially those of the Highest Quality. The Second Edition. London : Printed for J. Darby, &c. m.dcc.xxvi. Folio. Frontispiece and engraved title, 2 leaves : a — c, 2 leaves each : B — H h h, 2 leaves each. The dedication to the Duchess of Or- mond and the Advertisement to the Reader are signed by Penelope Aubin, who, how- ever, does not appear to have been the author. The translator was Thomas Man- ington Gibbs. AUBREY, JOHN. Miscellanies upon the following Subjects. — I. Day Fatality. II. Local Fatality. III. Ostenta. IV Omens. V. Dreams. VI. Apparitions. VII. Voices. VIII. Impulses. &c. Collected by John Aubrey, Esq. F.R.S. The Second Edition, with large Additions. To which is Prefixed Some Account of his Life. London : Printed for A. Bettersworth and J. Batt- ley, &c. 1721. Price 4s. 8°, Q 6 in eights, not including the frontispiece. AUDLEF, LADY ELEANOR. Given to the Elector Prince Charls of the Rhyne from the Lady Eleanor, Anno 1633. At her being in Holland or Belgia. Lamentation, Mourning, and Wo, &c. Amsterdam : Printed by Frederick Stam, 1633. 4°, E in fours. The address to the Elector Charles is in 8-line stanzas ; but after that, with con- tinuous signatures, succeed two other tracts in prose, entitled The Dragons Blasphemous Charge against her, and From the Lady Lleanor Her Blessing to her Beloved Daugh- ter, the Bight Honorable, Lvcy, Coomtesse of Huntingdon, &c. The last leaf is blank. Amend, Amend ; Gods Kingdome is at hand : Amen, Amen. The Proclamation : Mene, Mene ; Thine finished or Ended ; (Anagram) Tekel, Thou found fickle, or weak by Them. Peres, Thy Peers or Parliement Mene : Mene Tekel upharsin. K : Parlifement house. The New Song : Come and See. [This is the whole of the title.] First Printed at Amsterdam : 1633. April ; 1643. [This is on verso of a 2.] 4°, 8 leaves. In verse. Strange and Wonderfull Prophesies By the Lady Eleanor Audeley ; who is yet alive, and lodgeth in White- Hall. Which AUDLEY. 16 AUGUSTUS. Shee Prophesied sixteen yeeres agoe, and had them Printed in Holland, and there presented the said Prophesies to the Prince Elector ; For which she was imprisoned seven yeers here in England, by the late King and his Majesties Councell : First, She was put into the Gate-house, then into Bedlam, and afterwards into the Tower of London. With Notes upon the Said Prophesies, &c. London Printed for Robert Ibbitson in Smithfield near the Queens head Tavern. 1649. 4°, 4 leaves. In verse. Samsons Fall, Presented to the House 1642. [Quot. from Kings 13.] London Printed in the Year 1642. 4°, 8 leaves. A Prayer or Petition for Peace. Novem- ber 22, 1644. Printed in the Year, 1644. 4°, 4 leaves. P. 8 has a catchword, obliterated, with a pen in the present copy. A Prayer or Petition for Peace. Novem- ber 22, 1645. Printed in the Year, 1645. 4°, 8 leaves, the last blank. This edition contains at the end For an Absolution or a general Pardon, October, 1647. The Word of God to the Citie of London, From the Lady Eleanor : of the Earle of Castle-Haven: Condemn'dand Beheaded : April 25, 1631, &c. [Quot. from Luke 21.] Printed in the yeare 1644. 4°, 10 leaves. Great Brittains "Visitation. By the Lady Eleanor. Printed in the Year 1645. 4°, 22 leaves. Apocalypsis Jesv Christj [Quotation from 2 Psalm 8, 3.] Printed in the Yeare, 1644. Arch-Angell Michael. 4°, D, in fours, not including title and Address, 3 leaves. Of Errors Ioynd with Gods Word. By the Lady Eleanor. [Quot. from Isaiah 41.] Printed in the yeare, 1645. 4°, 4 leaves. The Day of Ivdgements Modell. By the Lady Eleanor Douglas. [Quot. from Revel, 7.] Printed in the Yeare, 1 646. 4°, 8 leaves. From the Lady Eleanor the Handmaid of the Holy Spirit, To Our beloved Brother Mr Mace, the Anointed of our Lord. [This is a headline on A 2 of a tract which has lost part of the title in the copy be- fore me. Two quotations from Scripture.] Printed in the Year, 1646. 4°, 16 leaves. In prose. The Bevelation Interpreted : By the Lady Eleanor. [Quot. from 2 Thessal. 2, 3. Printed in the yeare, 1646. 4,° 8 leaves. AUDLEY, HENEY. The Court Convert : Or, A Sincere Sor- row for Sin, Faithfully Travers'd : Expres- sing the Dignity of a True Penitent. Drawn in Little by One, whose Manifold Misfortunes Abroad ; have render'd him Necessitated to seek for Shelter Here, by Dedicating himself, and the said small Poem, to the Divine Astbea. By H. A. Gent. Printed for the Author. [circS, 1670.] 8°, 16 leaves. Dedicated (in the present copy) to Whit- lock Bulstrode, Esq., but the inscriptions were altered to suit the persons to whom the writer sent his begging production. AUDLEY, HUGH. The Way to be Rich, According to the Practice of the Great Audley, Who began with two hundred Pound, in the year 1605, and dyed worth four hundred thousand Pound this instant November, 1662. Bern, quocunque modo, Rem. [Quot. from Ps.] London, Printed for E. Davis, 1662. 4°, 20 leaves. In prose, with the exception of the 11th sect., which contains the Art of Thriving, in verse. Audley is referred to by T. Scot in his Philomythie, Part 2, sign. B verso, ed. 1616. AUGUSTINE, ST. A Shorte Relation of Divers Miracles, wrovghte at the Memories or Shrines of certaine Martirs, especially S. Steuene, the Protomartyr of Christes Church. Written by the auncient, learned, and holy doctor S. Augustine, and translated into our English tongue by P. W. [Quo- tations from Hebrews and St. Gregory.] Printed at Paris. 1608. 12°, A a— b b in twelves. Apparently a portion of some other pub- lication. AUGUSTUS. Avgvstus. Or, An Essay of those Meanes and Counsels, whereby the Common- wealth of Rome was altered, and reduced into a Monarchy. [Quot. from Virgil's ^Eneid.] London. Printed by B. A. and T. F. for Henry Seile, &c. 1632. 12°, K in twelves. Dedicated by the publisher to "My Mvoh Honored Friend, Thomas Levet, of Tick- ford, in the County of Rutland, Esquire," in an address, where he states that "this following Essay, long since written by the. Author for his private satisfaction, is now by his consent made common, and for pub- like view." The copy before me has the book-plate of Pepys's friend : " 1699. ' W m Hewer of Clapham in the County of' Surrv Esq"." J AURELIO. 17 AUSTIN. AURELIO AND ISABELLA. ' Histoire de Avrelio et Isabella, Fille dv Roy de scoce nouuellement traduict en quatre langues, Italien, Espaignol, Fran- cois, & Anglois. ... A Brvxelle, chez lean Mommart & lean Reyne, Anno 1608. Anecq. Priuilege, I. D. Bussohere. 8°, A — P 6 in eights, besides 2 introduc- tory leaves with the title and the begin- ning of the address to the Reader. Printed, like the ed. of 1556, in four parallel columns. AURORA. Aurora : Or, A Dawne of Day-Light. Post tenebras lucem. London, Printed in the Yeare, 1648. 4°, A— C 4 in fours. In prose. AUSTIN, SAMUEL, the Younger. The Author's own Verse and Prose. With Marginall Illustrations on his Ob- scurities, by a Friend to the Reader. Annexed to Naps upon Parnassus. This pretends to be a selection from the Poems announced in the Panegyric on Charles II. 1661, printed surreptitiously with satirical notes. Two Exact Characters, One of a Tempo- rizer, the other of an Antiquarian. Notus nimis omnibus, Ignotus moriar mihi. In prose. Annexed to Naps upon Parnassus, 1658. These two specimens of the author's prose purported to be derived from the same source as the poetical effusions, which pre- cede them. A Panegyrict on his Sacred Majesties Royal Person, Charles the II d , by the Grace of God, King of England, Scotland, France, and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, &c. and Corronation. Aut Caesar, aut nullus. By Samuel Austin Jim. B.A. Com. W.C. Oxon. London, Printed for William Mil- ler at the Acron (sic) in Saint Pauls Churchyard, 1661. 8°, 16 leaves, or A— B in eights, first and last leaves blank. In verse. After the Epistle to the Reader there is the following curious Notice: — "The Author, according as these find acceptance, intends a larger Book of Poems : The Sub- jects of which these following. King Charles the first his disguise. King Charles the second his flight from Worcester. Pair Royal of Strength and beauty : The Duke of York and his Dutchesse. An Elegy on the Duke of Glocesters Death. Christ's love to his Church Shadowed out in Joseph and Potiphar's Daughter, in a familiar dialogue betwixt them. The Drones Indictment of the Bee. The Mystery of God in the World. The unusefulnesse of the five Senses. The Common Five. Two Lovers in one Heart. The sensual Lover, or an Old Man Court- ing a Young Woman, in a Dialogue. The High-way to a Throne, and Estab- lishment of Kingdoms. Every Faction humour'd, or the Humour- ous Sectary. The Author's descant thereon. Mr. Cleveland's Encomiums, by the Au- thor styled, The Poet Laureat. A Copy on Mr. Abraham Cowley, and his excellent faculty in Poesy. The young Man's speech to a silent Woman. The Answer, with the true Symptomes of Love. Directions for a Maid's Choice. Upon the Oracle. Upon Death procured by a sent or smell. The Author's Answer to Mr. Randolphs Poem styled Love fondly refused for Conscience sake, &c. As also Letters in Prose, &c. . . ." The foregoing Catalogue is probably all that really remains of these productions, unless the poem of 3 leaves in 4°, called the King's Disguise, be identical with No. 1. AUSTIN, W., of Lincoln' s-Inn. Deuotionis Angustinianse Flamma. or Certayne Deuout Godly & Learned Medi- tations written by the Excellently-Acom- plisht Gentleman William Austin of Lincolnes Inne Esquier. The particulars whereof y e may find in y e page following. Set forth after his decease by his deare wife and Executrix Mrs. Anne Austin as a Suruiuing Monument of some part of the great worth of her euer-honoured Husband, who changed his life Ian. 16th 1633. London, Printed for Iohn Legat and Ralph Mab 1635. Folio. With the title-page beautifully engraved in twelve compartments, including that in the lower centre, with a small portrait of the Author. Hsec Homo, Wherein the Excellency of the Creation of Woman is described, By way of Essay. By William Austin Esquire. London, Printed by Richard Olton for Ralph Mabb, and are to be Sold by Charles Greene. 1637. Sm. 8°, B— I 10, in twelves, and the title, besides an engraved frontispiece, containing in the lower centre a small portrait of Austin, and a portrait of Mrs. Mary Griffith, "both by Glover. B A USTRALIA, AYLWORTH. AUSTRALIA. Terra Australis Incognita : Or, A New Southern Discovery, containing a Fifth Part of the World ; lately found out by Ferdinand de Quir, A Spanish Captain. Printed in the Year 1617 ; And now Re- printed. London : Printed for William Bray in Exeter - Court, near Exeter- Change in the Strand. [Circa 1720.] 8°, A — D in fours, first leaf blank. AVERELL, WILLIAM. A Dyall for dainty Darlings, rockt in the Cradle of Securitie. A Glasse for all Dis- obedient Sonnes to looke in. A Myrrour for vertuous Maydes. A Booke right ex- cellent, garnished with many woorthy examples, and learned aucthorities, most needefull for this tyme present. Compiled by W. Auerell, Student in Diuinitie, and Schoolemaister in London. Imprinted at London for Thomas Hackette, and are to be solde at his shoppe in Lumbert Streete, vnder the Popes head. 1584. 4°, 24 leaves. In prose. Br. Museum (Bliss's copy). Bliss, in 1858, from the Inglis and Heber collections, £7, 15s. It sold at Inglis's sale in 1826 for £4, 6s. Dedicated "To the right Worshipfull, and his singuler good freend, Maister William Wrather Warden of the Worshipfull Company of the Mer- cers." AmeruailousCombatof Contrarieties. Ma- lignantlie striuing in the mebers of mans bodie, allegoricallie representing vnto vs the enuied state of our florishing Common wealth : wherin dialogue- wise by the way, are touched the extreame vices of this pre- sent time. With an earnest and vehement exhortation to all true English harts, couragiously to be readie prepared against the enemie. by W. A. Printed by I. C. for Thomas Hacket, and are to be solde at hys shop in Lumberd Streete, vnder the signe of the Popes heade. Ann. D. 1588. 4°, 28 leaves, reckoning F 4 as a blank, or F in fours, and prefixes, 4 leaves. In prose and black letter. Br. Museum (Baynton's copy). Dedicated to George Bonde, Lord Mayor of London. Foure notable Histories, applyed to foure worthy examples : As, 1. A Diall for daintie darlings. 2. A spectacle for negligent Parents. 3. A glasse for disobedient Sonnes. 4. And A myrrour for virtuous Maydes. Whereunto is added a Dialogue, expressing the corruptions of this age. A booke right excellent and profitable, garnished with many learned authorities, necessary for this time present. Written by W. A. At London. Printed for Thomas Hacket, and are to be sold at hys Shop in Lum- bert-streete, vnder the Popes heade. 1590. 4°, black letter. A, 2 leaves : B — in fours. Dedicated to Maister Hugh Ofley, Alder- man of London, by William Averell, School- master. Of Averell's History of Charles and Julia, 1581, the only copy known, besides that of Sir C. Isham, appears to be incomplete. See Notes and Queries, Jan. 2, 1869. AVILA, DOCTOR. The Avdi Filia, or A Rich Cabinet Ml of Spiritvall Iewells. Composed by the Reuefend Father, Doctovr Avila, trans- lated out of Spanish into English [By L. T.] . . . Permissu Superiorum, m . DC . xx. 4°, *— * * * * 2, 14 leaves : A— F f f f in fours. Dedicated by the translator to all English Catholics. AWDLEF, JOHN, Stationer and Printer. An Epitaphe vpon the death [of] Mayster Iohn Viron Preacher. Finis. Quod John Audelie. Imprinted at London by John Audely, dwellyng in lytle Britayne Streete by great Saint Bartelmewes. A sheet. Britwell. The cruel assault of Gods Fort. To this say al right Christen men, God saue our Quene. Amen. Amen. Telos. Q d . J. A. Imprinted at London by John Awdeley, dwelling by great S. Bar- telmewes beyonde Aldersgate. A sheet. Britwell. Eccles. xx. Remember Death, and thou shalt never sinne. Finis. Quoth Ioh. Awd. Imprinted at London by Iohn Awdeley, dwelling in litle Britaine Streete wythout Aldersgate. 1569. The . xxx. of Aprill. A sheet. Britwell. Awdeley's Fraternity of Vagabonds was licensed in 1560-1, and may have been then printed. It evidently preceded Harman's Caveat, 1567, where it is referred to. The present Lord Spencer (1868) told me that the copy of the Fraternity, 4°, 1603, at Al- thorp, which is bound up with Humors Antique Faces, the History of Fuordanus, Ratseis Ghost, &c, in old vellum, was pur- chased privately by his grandfather. AYLWORTH, THOMAS, of the Middle 1 em/ple. The Massacre of Money. Terunteo seu vitioso nuce non emitur. A YRES. 19 A YTON. [Woodcut device of Fortune with a motto round the oval svch as I make svch will I take.] London Printed by Thomas Creede, for Thomas Bushell. 1602. 4°, 23 leaves. In verse. AYRES, PHILIP. Lyric Poems, Made in Imitation of the Italians. Of -which many are Translations from other Languages. [Quot. from Mart.] London, Printed by J. M. for Jos. Knight and F. Saunders, &c. 1687. 8°. M in eights. Dedicated to Sir John Fenwick. The Revengeful Mistress ; Being an Amor- ous Adventure of an English Gentleman in Spain. In which are also contain'd three Novels, viz. The Wrong'd Innocence Clear'd, The Generous Impostor, and The Unfortunate Collonel. [Quot. from Juvenal.] Writ, by Ph. Ayres, Esq ; London, Printed for R.Wel- lington at the Lute in St. Paul's Church- Yard. 1696. A, 4 leaves : B— O 4 in eights, last leaf blank. Br. Museum. This seems to be an original production. AYSCU, EDWARD. A Historie Contayning the Warres, Trea- ties, Merriages, and other occurrents be- tweene England and Scotlande, from King William the Conqueror, vntill the happy Vnion of them both in our gratious King lames. With a briefe Declaration of the first Inhabitants of this Island : And what seuerall Nations have sithence settled them-selues therein one after an other : Imprinted at London by G. Eld. 1607. 4°, A— C c 4 in eights, the first and last leaves of A blank. Dedicated to Prince Henry. Ayscu, who dates from Cotham in Lincolnshire, 2d March, 1606[-7], seems to say that he had written this book before the Union, and had laid it aside. AYTON, SIR ROBERT. Several of Ayton's poems are printed or reprinted in Watson's Collection, 1706-11. In Stanley's Historical Memorials of Westminster Abbey is mentioned a bust of the poet from a portrait by Vandyke. "Where is that portrait ? There are some lines to Ayton in Dunbar's Epigrams, 1616, p. 73 ; and he himself has a laudatory poem before Alexander's Monarchic Tragedies, 1604. B. B. A. D. The Covrt of the Most Illvstriotis and Magnificent James, the first ; King of Great Britain, France, and Ireland : &c. .... London Printed by Edw : Griffin, in Eliots-Court in the Little old-Baily, neere the Kings-head. 1619. 4°, title and dedication, 3 leaves ; A — Y in fours. B. E., D.D. The Rosarys of the B. Virgin Mary and of the most H. Name of Jesus Re-printed. Answers to three curious Letters. 1. Of the Infallibility. II. Of Easter -Con- fession. III. Of Holy - Communion, and hearing Mass, Sundays and Holy- Days. [Two quotations.] Lovanij Apud jEgidium Denique 1725. Cum Appro- batione. 8°. Prefixes, 4 leaves : A — E in fours. B. G. A free admonition without any fees, To warns the Papistes to beware of three trees. Einis q a G. B. Imprinted at London by John Awdely, for Henry Kirkhani, dwelling at the middle North doore of Paules, at the signe of the blacke Boy. The. xv. of December. 1571. A sheet. Britwell. B. G. A New Song, called Jaoke Dove's Resolution, by which he doth showe That he cares not a rush how ere the world goe. To the tune of To drive the cold winter away. In two parts, with a woodcut to each. A broadside. Printed at London for John Wright, and are to be sold at Ms Shop -in Giltspur-street at the signe of the Bible, [c. 1630.] Roxb. Coll. B. G., M. A. A Most Wicked worke of a Wretched Witch (the like whereof none can record these manie yeares in England.) wrought on the Person of one Richard Burt, ser- uant to Maister Edling of Woodhall in the Parrish of Pinner in the Countie of Myddlesex, a myle beyond Harrow. Latelie committed in March last, An. 1592 and newly recognised according to the truth. By G. B. maister of Artes. Printed by R. B. for William Barley, and are to be sold at his shop in Gratious streat. [1593.] 4°, 4 leaves. Woodcut \ on title. Lambeth. B. J. The copy of a letter, lately written by a Spanish Gentleman to his friend in Eng- ■ land, in refutation of sundry calumnies, here falsely bruited, and spread amonge the people. The originalle whereof was written in Spanish, since the authors being in England, who by reason of a ship of those that miscarried of the late Armado, was taken, and there detained prisoner, vntill his deliuery by ransom. Now newly translated into Englishe, for the benefite of those (of that nation) that vnderstand not the Spanishe tounge. Anno. m. d. lxxxix. 8°, 19 leaves, or pp. 38. Roman letter. Br. Museum. B. J. I. The Hope of Peace. By laying open such doubts and manifest vntruthes as are divulged by the Arch-priest [Blackwell] in his Letter or Answere to the Bookes which were published by the Priestes. Imprinted at Franckford by the heires of D. Turner. 1601. 4°, F in fours. With a Preface signed I. B. B. J. Algiers Voyage in A Iovrnall or Briefe Reportary of all occurrens hapning in the fleet of Ships sent out by the King his most excellent Maiestie, as well against the Pirates of Algiers, as others: the whole body of the Fleete consisting of 18. Sayle. Viz. Sixe of his Maiesties B. J. 21 B. R. Ships. Ten Marchants Ships. Two Pinnaces. Vnder the command of Sir Robert Mansel Knight, Vice- Admiral 1 of England, and Admirall of that Fleet : and a Councell of Warre appointed by his Maiestie. The Accidents of euery particular Moneth (since the first setting forth) being in this discouery, expressed by one that went along in the Voyage. Imprinted mdoxxi. 4°, A — F in fours, first and last leaves blank. After a prose address to the Eeader, fol- lows The Authour to his Boooke {sic), in verse, and "The Preface to the Eeader," in 6 6-line stanzas, subscribed, " Yours or not his owne. I. B." Sir E. Mansel is one of the heroes of Scot's Duellum Britanni- cum. There are some letters to him in the Epislolce Mo-eliance. B. J. An Excellent and Materiall Discovrse. Prooving by many and forceable Reasons ■what great danger will hang ouer our heads of England and France, and also diuers other Kingdomes and Prouinces of Europe, if it shall happen that those of Germanie, which are our Friends be sub- dued, and the King of Denmarke van- quished. . . . Printed. 1626. 4°, A— E in fours, besides the title and a blank before it. The preface is signed J. B. B. J. A Faire in Spittle Fields, where all the Knick Knacks of astrology are exposed to open sale, to all that will see for their Love, and buy for their Money. &c. Written by J. B. Gent, and Printed by J. C. in the yeare 1652. 4°, 4 leaves. In verse. B. J. Heroick Edvcation, Or Choice Maximes and Instructions for the most sure and facile training vp of youth, in the ways of eminent learning, and vertues. A Treatise very necessary for all men, but most especially for such as undertake the charge, to govern the young Nobility and Gentry. In Two Books, together with a short Appendix. By I. B. Gent. Lon- don, Printed for William Hope at the blew Anchor behind the Old Exchange, and Henry Herringman, at the blew Anchor in the lower Walk in the New Exchange. 1657. 8°, K 4, in eights. With a portrait of William of Nassau. B. J. The Temple (sacred poems), 16S0-2. 8°, 237 pp. numbered. B. J. The Young Lovers Guide, Or, The Un- successful Amours of Philabius, a Country Lover ; set forth in several kind Epistles, writ by him to his Beautious. unkind Mis- tress. With the Answer of Helena to Paris, by a Country Shepherdess. As also the Sixth iEneid and Fourth Eclogue of Virgil, both newly Translated. . . . London : Printed, and are to be sold by the Booksellers of London. 1699. 8°. A, 4 leaves (including a frontispiece): B — I 4 in eights. B. 0. In Mr S. Christie-Miller's library at Brit- well is a copy of this curious tract, with a new and different title-page, in which it is called The Display of vayne life. It bears the same date. Another, or possibly indeed the same, copy was in George Steevens's catalogue, No. 940, and sold for £1. Is. , Mr Caldecbtt the purchaser. The Britwell copy was bound up with other pieces, and was sold at Hodgson's rooms in 1870. B. P. Juvenilia Sacra, or, Divine Youthfull Meditations ; Consisting, of a Dialogue between Christ and the Soul. A Prepara- tion to the Lords Supper. Characters of the Pious and Impious Man. Of the Good, and Wicked Woman. The Foure Quarters of the Yeare. Ten Historicall, Ten Scripture, and Ten Occasional Appli- cations. By P. B. Gent. London, Printed by Tho. Mabb, for John Playfere, at the White Bear in the Upper Walk of the New Exohange. 1664. 8°. A, 4 leaves : B — K 4 in eights. Dedicated "To his Honoured Friend, Francis Dash wood, Esq." B. R. An Apologicall Epistle : Directed to the right honorable Lords, and others of her Maiesties prime Counsell. Seruing aswell for a Preface to a Booke entituled A Reso- lution of Religion : as also containing the Authors most lawfull Defence to all estates for publishing the same. The Argument of' that Worke is set downe in the page following. Printed at Antwerp with license the flue and twenty day of March. 1601. Stilo nouo. 8°, a — A in eights, first and last two leaves blank, and h 6 having only the colophon and printer's device. Br. Museum, Bodleian,