2716 ALEXANDER (SIR WILLIAM, EARL OF STIRLING). AURORA. |
Containing the firft fancies of the | Authors youth, | VVILLIAM ALEX-
ANDER OF MENSTRIE | London, | Printed by RICHARD FIELD | for
EDWARD BLOUNT. 1604.

4to, full crimson crushed levant morocco, gilt back, edges and borders, gilt panels
on sides, with corner ornaments, by FRANCIS BEDFORD. Device on title. FINE COPY.
RARE. These Juvenile Poems were NOT RE-PRINTED IN THE AUTHOR'S COL-
LECTED WORKS, PUBLISHED IN 1637.

2717 ALEXANDER (WILLIAM, EARL Of Stirling).

Recreations
With the
MVSES.

By WILLIAM Earle of
Sterline

London.

Printed by THO. HARPER.
1637.

Small folio, original calf, gilt ornaments on back and corners, gilt panels on sides,
with device in centre. BRILLIANT IMPRESSION of the EXCESSIVELY RARE PORTRAIT of
the AUTHOR ENGRAVED by WILLIAM MARSHALL. Title within engraved border.
From the EARL of WestmoreLAND'S COLLECTION, containing his book label on inside
cover, together with his written motto on top margin of verso of portrait. (A slight
tear in the lower margin of the portrait has been neatly repaired.)

The following extract from the Bibliotheca Anglo Poetica [1815] will attest the
extraordinary value of such a copy as this:

It

"The circumstance which so much enhances the value of the present fine copy of this
work, is that it possesses a most brilliant impression of the rare portrait of the Earl of
Stirling, engraved by Marshall, and UNDOUBTEDLY THAT ARTIST'S MASTERPIECE.
is conjectured that it was engraved in order that the noble author might present a few
copies to particular friends, and that the copper was then broke up-be it as it may,
IT IS DOUBTFUL IF THERE ARE SO MANY AS THREE NOW KNOWN."
For the copy above spoken of fifty pounds was asked in 1815. It is described as
bound in russia, and as this copy is in the ORIGINAL BINDING, CRISP AND CLEAN AS ON
THE DAY OF ISSUE, IT IS UNQUESTIONABLY THE BETTER. The portrait has all the
original margins, and THE IMPRESSION IS RIch and velvety.

2718 ALEXANDER (SIR WILLIAM, EARL OF STIRLING). DOOM'S
DAY; or, the | LAST JUDGMENT. | A | Poem. | Written by the Right
Honourable | WILLIAM, EARL OF STERLINE. | LONDON: | Printed for
E. CURLL, etc. MDCCXX. (1720).

8vo, half olive levant morocco, top edge gilt.

AVROR A. Containing the firft fancies of the Authors youth,

VVilliam Alexander of Men ftrie.

2719 ALEYN (CHARLES).

The HISTORIE | OF THAT VVISE AND FORTUNATE | Prince, HENRIE of that | Name the Seventh, King of England. | With that famed Battaile, fought betweene the Sayd King Henry and | Richard the third named Crook- | backe, upon Redmoore neere | Bosworth. | In a Poem by Charles Aleyn. | London Printed by Tho. Cotes, for William Cooke, | and are to be fold at his fhop, neere Furni- | vallsInne gate in Holburne. 1638.

12mo, sprinkled calf, gilt back.

The lower inner margin of title pieced, a few

letters supplied in MS. Portrait missing.

2720 [ALLOT, ROBERT.] ENGLANDS | Parnassus: | or | The choysest Flowers of our Moderne | Poets, with their Poeticall comparisons. | Descriptions of Bewties, Personages, Castles, | Pallaces, Mountaines, Groues, Seas, | Springs, Riuers, &c. | Whereunto are annexed other various discourses, | both pleasaunt and profitable. | Imprinted at LONDON for N. L. C. B. | and T. H. 1600.

12mo, full crimson crushed levant morocco, gilt back, edges, and inside borders, by STIKEMAN. Measures 5% x 3 in. A FINe, tall copy of this rare and MOST INTERESTING WORK. Device on title.

It is the FIRST POETICAL ANTHOLOGY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE, and is also the MOST VALUABLE. This extremely rare Selection from SHAKESPEARE and other Poets has enabled Editors to assign to their true authors various pieces not otherwise known. It has also preserved numerous verses of the Elizabethan and ante-Elizabethan period nowhere else to be met with, and the names of poets who are not otherwise known in literary history than by their mention in England's Parnassus. IT CONTAINS NO LESS THAN 79 EXTRACTS FROM SHAKESPEARE alone.

2721 ANNALIA DUBRENSIA. ANNALIA | DVBRENSIA. | Vpon the yeerely celebration of | Mr ROBERT DOVERS Olimpick | Games vpon Cotswold-Hills. | Written by | MICHAELL DRAYTON. Efq. ** BEN: JOHNSON. * * * THOMAS HEYWOOD. Gent. (and thirty others). LONDON, Printed by Robert Raworth, for Mathewe Walbancke. 1636.

4to. Bound in half dark brown morocco, gilt edges. ENgraved fronTISPIECE of the COTSWOLD GAMES (early reproduction), mounted. The title has also been neatly mounted, and bears the Autographs of THOMAS and RICHARD Ross. (1664). The headlines of a few leaves cut into, and a small hole in one. Last leaf (K 2) missing. MR. J. HALLIWELL-PHILLIPPS'S COPY, WITH A NOTE IN HIS HANDWRITING.

RARE. MR. DOVER was eminently a man of parts." He conducted these noted games for 40 years, wrote a poem in response to the tributes herein contained, and is addressed as "the great Architect and Inginere of the Famous and Admirable Portable Fabricke of DoVER CASTLE." The book possesses SHAKESPEAREAN INTEREST, as the Poet speaks of a stout fellow as a Cotswoldman.

2722 [AMES (RICHARD).] Fatal Friendship; | or, the | Drunkards Milery: | Being a SATYR | Against | HARD DRINKING. |

By the AUTHOR of The Search after Claret. | London, | Printed for, and Sold by Randal Taylor, near Stationers-Hall, 1693. 4to, half roan.

2723 ANTON (ROBERT). THE | PHILOSOPHERS | SATYRS, | written by M. ROBERT | ANTON, of Magdalen Colledge in Cambridge. | LONDON, | Printed by T. C. and B. A. for Roger Iackson, and are to be sold at his shop in Fleet street, ouer against the great Conduit,

1616.

4to, calf, gilt corner ornaments. Stain on side, one leaf re-margined, a few corners repaired, and text of two leaves cut into. RICHARD FARMER'S COPY, with his AUTOGRAPH on fly-leaf.

2724 ARMIN (ROBERT).

At

The ITALIAN TAYLOR, and his Boy. By
the Kings most excellent Maieftie.
1609. (reprint, 1810.)

ROBERT ARMIN, Seruant to
LONDON, printed for T. P.

4to, cloth. Curious cuts. CONTAINS MS. NOTE BY REV. A. B. GROSART RELATING TO THE BOOK.

2725 ARTHUR.

THE MOST | ANCIENT AND | FAMOVS 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 wor- | thily atchieued. | As alfo, all the Noble Acts, and Heroick | Deeds of his Valiant KNIGHTS of the ROVND TABLE. | newly refined, and published for the delight, and profit of the READER. | London, | PRINTED BY WILLIAM STANSBY, for Iacob Bloome, 1634.

Three parts in one vol. (third part dated 1624) 4to, full straight-grained blue morocco, gilt back, ornamented corners, gilt edges and borders, by W. PRATT. A few leaves cut close, and some neatly re-margined, title neatly mounted. CONTAINS THE THREE ENGRAVED FRONTISPIECES (lower line of one cut into). FINE COPY.

2726 ASCHAM (ROGER). THE | SCHOLEMASTER | or plaine and perfite way of tea- | ching children, to understand, write, and | speake, the Latin tong, but specially purposed for | the priuate bringing up of youth in Ientlemen | and Noble mens houses, and commodious alfo for | all fuch, as haue forgot the Latin tonge, | and would, by them felues, without | à Scholemaster, in fhorte time, and | with