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Credit: Sales catalogue 580: Maggs Bros. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![{583] MILTON (John). [Lycipas.] Justa Edouardo King naufrago, ab Amicis meerentibus, Amoris & pveiag xépiv. With second title: Obsequies to the memorie of Mr. Edward King, Anno Dom., 1638. CoNTAINING THE Excesstvety Rare First Epition of Mitron’s “ Lycrpas.’”’ Small 4to. Full red morocco gilt, g.e. Cantabrigie, Apud Thomam Buck, ¢» Rogerum Daniel, Celeberrimee Academie typographos, 1638. £850 The inner margin of the first six leaves repaired, otherwise a fine copy of this excessively rare book. Prefixed is an account of Edward King in Latin, printed in capitals, and supposed by Warton to have been written either by Milton or Henry More, the Platonist. The volume is divided into two portions, the first containing the Latin and Greek tributes, the second, those in English, with a separate title: ‘“Obsequies to the Memorie of Mr. Edward King, Anno Dom. 1638.” Among the writers of the English elegies are Henry King, John Cleveland, and J.(ohn) Hall). Milton’s “ Lycidas” appropriately crowns the collection, coming last in order. It bears only his initials. [584] MUIR (Thomas). THe TrLecrarH; a Consolatory Epistle from Thomas Muir, Esq. of Botany Bay, to the Hon. Henry Erskine, late Dean of Faculty. First Epirion. 12 pp., 4to. Unbound. No date or place. (Circa 1795). £2 10s In verse througheut. Thomas Muir (1765-1798), parliamentary reformer, was in 1793 sentenced to fourteen years’ transportation to Botany Bay for exciting a spirit of disloyalty and disaffection, of recommending Paine’s “Rights of Main,” of distributing seditious writings, etc. His case excited sympathy in the United States, and a ship was sent from New York to rescue him. This was effected on Feb. 11, 1796. After a variety of adventures, shipwreck in Nootka Sound, captivity among the American Indians, hospitable treatment in Mexico, and imprisonment at Havannah, Muir was sent in a Spanish frigate to Cadiz. The frigate was attacked by two English vessels and Muir severely wounded, which wound finally proved fatal, and he died at Chantilly 27 Sept., 1798. Henry Erskine, to whom the above poetical epistle is addressed, was lord advocate of Scotland, and was to have defended Muir at his trial, but the latter would not give him a free hand, so he declined the case. [585] RICH (Barnabe). My Lapres Looxine Grassz. Wherein may be discerned a Wise Man from a Foole, a good Woman from a bad: and the true resemblance of vice, masked under the vizard of vertue. First Eprtion. Small 4to. Full morocco, g.e., by Riviere. London, Thomas Adams, 1616. 485 A fine tall copy of an extremely rare piece. Dedicated “To the worthily Honoured and most worthy to be worthily honoured, the Lady Saint Jones, wife to the Right Honourable Sir Oliver Saint Jones, Knight, Lord Deputie of Ireland.” , On the back of 3 is a short poetical address ‘To the wide world.” Tue First Fotio, 1623. ) The following six items have been extracted from a genuine copy of the First Folio. [586] SHAKESPEARE (William). Tue TracEepre of ANTHONIE AND CLEOPATRA. First Eprtion. The Complete Play. 29 pp., folio. Full morocco gilt, by Riviere. (London, Jaggard, 1623). £65 The first appearance in print of “Anthony and Cleopatra.” The margins of several leaves cropped and slightly wormed in inner margin, otherwise a very good tall copy. [ 110 ]](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b31805978_0116.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
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