205 206 207 208 209 210 A SUPERB COPY OF "LIFE IN LONDON" EGAN, PIERCE. Life in London, or the Day and Night Scenes of Jerry Hawthorn, Esq., and his elegant Friend Corinthian Tom, accompanied by Bob Logic, the Oxonian EMBELLISHED WITH THIRTY-SIX SCENES FROM REAL LIFE, DESIGNED AND ETCHED BY I. R. & G. CRUIKSHANK. (COLORED.) AND OTHER WOODCUTS. 8vo, original printed boards entirely uncut. London: Printed for Sherwood, Neely and Jones, 1821. $360.00 A remarkably fine copy, with the half-title and advertisements, ACCOMPANIED BY THREE OF THE ORIGINAL SKETCHES. EGAN, PIERCE. Sporting Anecdotes, original and selected a new Edition, considerably Enlarged and Improved. (COLOR PLATES BY R. CRUIKSHANK, AND WOODCUTS.) 8vo, original printed boards uncut. London: Sherwood, Jones, and Co., 1825. The Best Edition. $135.00 GEORGE ELIOT'S PRIVATELY PRINTED SONNETS ELIOT, GEORGE. Brother and Sister, Sonnets by Marian Lewes. 8vo, blue printed wrappers, uncut. London: Printed for Private Circulation Only, 1869. A very fine copy of the very rare collection of Sonnets. $45.00 ELIOT, GEORGE. A. L. S. 4 pp., sm. 8vo. The Heights, Witley, July 25, '78, to Mr. Griffiths. $37.50 A friendly letter on many topics among which is her reasons for refusing to comply with the requests for her autograph. "My practice may seem to you churlish, but you would understand it if you saw how many letters I receive, from America especially, where the collection of autographs seems to be a trade. (Signed) M. E. LEWES." IN PRAISE OF THE VIRGIN QUEEN ELIZABETH. (Queen of England.) Oxoniensis Academiæ. Funebre Officium in Memoriam Elizabethæ. (WITH RARE FRONTISPIECE PORTRAIT.) Small 4to, old olive straight grained morocco extra, gilt, g. e., by Gough. Oxon: 1603. $75.00 EXTREMELY RARE. Contains the poetical effusions of 193 members of the University. ELYOT, SIR THOMAS. The Castell of Helth corrected and in some places augmented, by the first author thereof Sir Thomas Elyot Knight, the yere of our lorde 1541. 8vo, full olive levant morocco, g. e., by Riviere. (Colophon). Imprinted at London in Fletestrete, in the house of Thomas Berthelet $45.00 (1541). This rare medical work has as index of seven pages, showing all the various diseases, preventatives and cures therein. A CLEAN AND PERFECT COPY. 211 INSCRIBED BY RALPH WALDO EMERSON EMERSON, RALPH WALDO. Letters and Social Aims 8vo, original cloth. Boston: Jas. R. Osgood and Company, FIRST EDITION. $70.00 PRESENTATION COPY inscribed: "Mrs. Chamberlain, with regards of R. W. E., 17th December, '75." 212 213 ENGLISH LITURGICAL BOOKS AND MANUSCRIPTS MANUALE AD VSUM PER CELEBRIS ECCLESIE With the exception of one in the British Museum, we cannot trace a perfect copy. PROCESSIONALE AD VSUM INSIGNIS ECCLIE Sarum Obseruandos accomodum prefertin in its que in habendis processionibus. Small 4to, brown levant morocco with blind and gilt tooling, g. e., by Francis Bedford. Impressum. London: 1554. $450.00 PRINTED IN RED AND BLACK WITH ALL THE MUSIC. Only a few copies known. 214 MANUSCRIPT XV CENTURY PRIMER OF ENGLISH USE PRIMER OF SARUM USE. Fol. 1-6: CALENDAR. Fol. 7: O DOMINE IHESU XPRISTE ETERNA DULCEDO Fol. 31: HIC INCIPIUNT MATUT' BEATE MARIE VIRGINIS SECUNDUM. Vsum sarum. Folio, 111 leaves, ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT on Vellum, in Missal Characters of great size; with hundreds of painted and gilt capitals, 12 splendid borders of flowers and leaves painted after nature, and 6 MINIATURES enclosed within large initials, in an old English Calf binding. Saec XV. (About 1465.) $3000.00 The Calendar is of the regular Sarum Type, but it contains the names of St. Patrick and St. Thomas of Hereford, which are rarely found in MSS. 215 216 PRINTED BY VERARD ON VELLUM; A MAGNIFICENT SARUM PRIMER. HORE BEATE VIRGINIS MARIE AD This is a superb example of the illustrated work produced by Vérard and is so rare that Brunet knew of it only at third-hand from Panzer. The border illustrations are nearly all female figures in white on BLACK DOTTED back grounds almost two inches wide. THE HAND ILLUMINATED PAGES ARE WORKS OF ART. "The contentis of thys booke Matines of oure lady wyth prime and the houres wyth the houres of the passion of oure lorde. lytil prayers wyche Kyng Garry the Sitth (sic) made. houres of the Passion. folowyng Two The XV Diuerse commemoracions to these sayntes . . deuovet prayers in English. The vii psalmes xv psalmes with the letanye and suffrages. "This description extracted from the list of contents is sufficient to indicate the nature of the book. ONE OF THREE KNOWN COPIES, BUT BY FAR THE FINEST AND MOST COMPLETE. ONE OF THE MOST FAMOUS ENGLISH MANUSCRIPTS YORK MANUAL or RITUAL with KALENDAR. MANUALE (seu RITUALE) AD USUM ECCLESIÆ EBORACENSIS, cum CALENDARIO. Small folio, English Manuscript on vellum (in English and Latin) 176 leaves, written in bold Gothic characters, 21 lines to a full page, the Kalendar in red and black and rubrications in the text; with Musical Notation, in a rich binding of brown levant morocco, richly blind tooled in compartments with doublure of dark blue levant upon which is lettered the pedigree of this famous and precious manuscript, dull gold edges, a superb specimen of bookbinding in the best style of Riviere and Son. $7500.00 A rarety of the highest order, and moreover of great liturgical importance. Only three manuscript copies, besides this, are stated by Dr. Henderson in his Manuale et Processionale ad usum insignis Ecclesiæ Eboracensis, edited by him for the Surtees Society, to be in existence, viz.: those in the University Library, Cambridge, the Bodleian (very imperfect), and the Minster Library at York. Even as a printed book the York Manual is represented by very few copies. Two editions only are known, one printed by Wynkyn de Worde, 1509, the other by Gachet at York, 1516. THIS MANUSCRIPT IS CONSIDERED BY AUTHORITIES TO BE ONE OF THE FINEST LITURGICAL MANUSCRIPTS IN EXISTENCE. 217 HENRY VIII'S PRIMER, in Englishe and Latyn, set foorth by the Kynge's Maiestie and his Clergie to be taught, heard and read, and none other to be used throughout all his Dominions. Small 4to, olive green morocco, g. e. London: Richard Grafton, 1545. $650.00 Of the highest degree of rarity and importance as it antedates the First English Book of Common Prayer, which was published in 1549. This is the Appleton copy (lacking two leaves) which brought $610.00 at auction in 1903. 218 219 THE FIRST EDITION OF "THE PRAISE OF FOLLY," 1549 ERASMUS. The Praise of Folie. Moriæ Encomivm: a booke made in latyne by that great clerke Erasmus Roterodame. Englished by Sir Thomas Chaloner Knight. Anno M.D.XLIX. BLACK LETTER, Small 4to, straight grained red morocco, floreate gilt ornaments on back, blind and gilt tooled borders, inside dentelle, g. e. (by Roger Payne.) 1549. Colophon. Imprinted at London in Fletestrete in the House of Thomas Berthelet. Cum . . Anno M.D.LXIX. $350.00 THE FIRST EDITION. There is an obvious discrepancy between the dates on the title page and the Colophon, which seems to be common to all known copies. It is no doubt an accidental transposition of the letters XL in the Colophon, the correct date being 1549. THE HEBER-CORSER-HUTH COPY, in a superb binding by Roger Payne. See illustration. FAIRFAX, EDWARD. Tasso's Godfrey of Boulogne or The Recouverie of Ierusalem. Done into English Heroicall verse by Edward Fairefax, Gent. (PORTRAIT OF GODFREY BY W. PASS.) 4to, Russia extra, the back elaborately tooled, gilt edges by F. Bedford. London: Iohn Bill, 1624. $50.00 220 IN A FINE OLD ENGLISH BINDING FARLEY, ROBERT. Lychnocavsia sive Moralia Facum Emblemata. Lights Moral Emblems. Small 8vo. London: Printed by Tho. Cotes for Michael Sparke Junior, 1638.—and— Kalendarium Humanae Vitae. The Kalender of Man's Life. Small 8vo. London: William Hope, 1638. Two volumes bound together in old red morocco, gilt. $135.00 An excessively rare volume of English Verse, illustrated with many wood cuts and copper plates; some by Glover. |