Sir THOMAS OVER BVRIES Vifion. With the ghoalts of wefton, M. Turner, the late Lief tenant of the Tower, and Franklin. 3076 NICCOLS (RICHARD). Sir | THOMAS OVER BVRIES│ Vision. With the ghoasts of Wefton, Mris. Turner, the late Lief- | tenant of the Tower, and Franklin. | By R. N. Oxon. | In pænum infectatur & vmbra. |[LONDON.] PRINTED FOR R. M. & T. I. 1616. 4to, bound in full brown crushed levant morocco, gilt back, with inside morocco borders, gilt ornaments on corners, edges gilded on the rough, by RIVIÈRE. CURIOUS WOODCUT ILLUSTRATIONS. Trimmed closely at top edges, cutting into a few headlines, OTHERWISE A VERY FINE COPY. Reprinted in Harl. Misc. VII. 3077 NICOLLS (THOMAS). The hystory | writtone by Thucidides | the Athenpan of the warre, whiche | was betwene the Peloponesians | and the Athenpans, translated | oute of Frenche into the En- | glych language by Tho- | mas Nicolls Cite= | zeine and Golde- | smpth of | London. Imprinted the XXV. day of Julp in the peare of oure Lorde God dredde and fyftpe. Folio, Black Letter, bound in full sprinkled calf, paneled sides, with blind tooling, gilt edges. Title printed within an elaborate woodcut border. BEAUTIFUL COPY. This translation was made from the French of CL. DE SEYSSEL. The name of the printer does not appear in the volume, but it came FROM THE Press of JOHN WAYLAND, and is A FINE TYPOGRAPHICAL SPECIMEN. 3078 NORRIS (JOHN). A | COLLECTION | of | MISCELLANIES: | Consifting of POEMS, ESSAYS, DIS- | COURSES & LETTERS, | Occafionally Written. By JOHN NORRIS, Rector of Bemerton near Sarum. | The Third Edition, Corrected. | LONDON: | Printed for S. MANSHIP, etc. 1699. 8vo, in the original calf, blind tooling on sides. FINE COPY. 3079 NORTH (FRANCIS DUDLEY, THIRD LORD). A | FOREST 1 OF VARIETIES. | First Part. | Non-Aliena meo preffi pede. London Printed by Richard Cotes, 1645; EXONERATIONS. Second Part. | Printed at London by Richard Cotes, 1645; THIRD PART. | Printed at London by Richard Cotes, 1645. Small folio, FIRST EDITION, bound in the original calf, gilt ornaments on corners, red edges. PRIVATELY PRINTED. FINE COPY. 3080 NORTH (SIR THOMAS). The Dial of Prin- | ces, Compiled by the reuerend father | in God, Don Antony of Gueuara, Byfhop | of Guadix, Preacher, and Chronicler to | Charles the fifte, late of that name | EMPEROVR. Englished out of the Frenche by T. North, imprinted in our vul gar tongue. Right neceffarie and plealaunt to Now newly imprinted by Richarde Tottill, and Thomas Marthe. Folio, Black Letter, elaborately bound in full claret straight-grained morocco, richly ornamented gilt back and borders, broad gilt inside borders, dull gilt edges, by C. HERING. THIS COPY FORMERLY BELONGED TO THE GREAT DUKE OF MARL BOROUGH, as described in JOHNSON's Typographia, folios 564 and 567, AND HAS HIS ARMS STAMPED IN GILT ON EACH COVER. The title (mounted) is printed within an elaborate woodcut border, and the last leaf has been re-margined, some leaves water-stained. AN EXCEPTIONAL COPY OF AN EXTREMELY RARE WORK. 3081 LDHAM (JOHN). POEMS | and | TRANSLATIONS. | By | JOHN 8vo, FIRST EDITION, in the original calf. Name on title. Small hole in blank margin of first leaf of "Horace, his Arte of Poetry." GOOD COPY. 3082 OTWAY (THOMAS). WINDSOR CASTLE, | in | a MONUMENT | TO our Late Sovereign | K. CHARLES II. | Of ever Blessed Memory. | A | Poem. | By THO. OTWAY, LONDON, Printed for CHARLES BROME, at the Gun, | at the Weft-end of St. Paul's. 1685. 4to, bound in full olive crushed levant morocco, gilt panels on sides, with corner ornaments, inside morocco borders, gilt top. Front edges slightly cut into, other WISE A FINE COPY. A POEM OF GREAT RARITY. Unmentioned by HAZLITT or LOWNDES. NOT IN 3083 OVERBURY (SIR THOMAS). A WIFE | Now | THE WIDDOW | of SIR THOMAS OVERBVRYE. | Being | A moft exquifite and fingular Poem of THE CHOICE OF A WIFE. | Wherevnto are added | many WITTY CHARACTERS, and conceited | NEWES, WRITTEN BY HIMSELF, and OTHER | LEARNED GENTLEMEN his | FRIENDS. | LONDON | Printed for L AURENCE LISLE, etc. 1614. 4to, SECOND EDITION, bound in full mouse-colored calf, gilt back, gilt edges, by AITKEN. Title, last leaf, and a few others, soiled. Some leaves repaired, and one cut into at top margin. Lacks the engraved portrait, by SIMON PASS. Two lines of verse written on the title, and two six-line stanzas on a fly-leaf, are signed J. M. The possibility of their having been written by JOHN MILTON is naturally suggested. Regarding this, a former owner of the volume has written on the inside cover, "The writing on the title-page signed J. M. is VERY LIKE THE WRITING IN THE EPITAPH LATELY DISCOVERED IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM. Compare "From wit" and For so." Both have the double f. And the careful writing on the fly-leaf is VERY LIKE THE OTHER WRITING OF MILTON IN THE MUSEUM.” "As by a wife thou liu'st, soe by a wyfe Thou was cut of: thus vice & vertue striue: In his extended notice of this work, MR. COLLIER was able to quote only from a copy of the third edition. 3084 PAINTER AINTER (WILLIAM). The Pallace of Pleasure Historyes and excellent | Nouelles, selected out of diuers good and commenda | ble Authours. ¶ By William Painter Clarke | of the Ordinaunce and | Armarie. | 1569. | Imprinted at London in| Fletestreate neare to S. Dunstones | Church by Thomas Marshe. also, THE SECOND | Tome of the Palace of Pleasure contapning store of goodlye | Histories, Tragical matters, & other | Morall argumentes, very requifite for delight and profpte. | Chofe and felected out of diuers good and commendable Au- | thors, and now once agayn correc-| ted and encreased. | By William Painter, Clerke of the | Ordinance and Armarie | Imprinted at London | In Fleatftrete by Thomas. MARSHE. (1580). 2 vols. Black Letter, SECOND EDITION of each volume, elegantly bound in full dark blue straight-grained morocco, elaborately tooled gilt back, paneled sides, with tasteful ornamentation at corners, inside morocco borders with gilt tooling, gilt edges, by FRANCIS BEDFORD. The title to Vol. II has beeh delicately and skillfully restored at the front edge, and a few leaves have been repaired at margins. EVERY LEAF IN THE TWO VOLUMES IS GENUINE, and THE COPY IS AN EXCEPTIONALLY FINE ONE. It was BOUND TO ORDER by its former owner, the late MR. C. FISKE HARRIS, and BEARS HIS BOOKPLATE. "The Palace of Pleasure" was the great storehouse from whence the dramatists of the Elizabethan Age drew their plots, SHAKESPEARE having found here the story of "Romeo and Juliet," and WEBSTER that of “The Duchess of Malfi." OF EXTREME RARITY. 3085 PAYNELL (THOMAS); BARCLAY (ALEXANDER). The Conspi= | racie of Catiline, written | by Constancius, Felicius, Du= | rantinus, and translated bi Tho= | mas Papnell: with the historye of Jugurth, writen by the fa | mous Romaine Salust, and trans= lated into En-glyshe by Alexander | Barcklape. [Colophon]. * * * John Waley. (1557). Imprinted at London in Fofter lane by Title printed 4to, Black Letter, bound in full crimson morocco, richly tooled gilt back, gilt borders on sides with corner ornaments, dull gilt edges, by T. AITKEN. within a woodcut border. FINE COPY. |