Sales catalogue 671: Henry Sotheran & Co

Date:
30 April 1907
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/52/47
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 671: Henry Sotheran & Co. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    steward of Ludlow Castle, where he appears to have written the first part of ‘Hudibras,’ There should be therefore little doubt that the inscription is by the author himself. The first volume is moreover in an unusual state, consisting of 125 (instead of 128) numbered pp., and having the ‘Imprimatur’, which generally faces the title on a biank leaf, on its reverse. Part. Written in the time of the late Wars. Printed in the Year, 1663: The Szeconp Part. Printed in the Year, 1663—2 vols. 16mo. old russia gilt, g. e. (a few headlines shorn, but unusually sound copies), £3. 3s 1663 Like the foregoing editions from Dr. Bliss’s library, with his initials. In connexion with the perplexing question of priority of the different first editions of Hudibras the following note from Lowndes’s ‘ Bibliographer’s Manual’ may be of interest : ‘Of Parts I. and II. there are 3 different editions under the same dates, which, taken merely by the title, may easily be confounded with each other. The legitimate author’s edition [Nos. 139 and 140] would seem to be that printed in small 8vo., all three parts uniform in size and type, and on rather stout paper. The earliest edition of the first part is no doubt that called spurious [No. 145], a small volume, 16mo., dated 1663, without name either of printer, publisher, or licenser. We are led to this knowledge by the following advertisement in the Publick Intelligencer, published by authority, Dec. 23, 1662 :—‘ There is stolen abroad a most false imperfect copy of a poem called Hudibras, without name either of printer or bookseller, as fit for so lame and spurious impression. The true and perfect edition, printed by the author’s original, is sold by R. Marriot. . . .’ When the legitimate ‘ author’s edition’ came out in 1663, another smaller edition [Nos. 141 and 142], the size of the spurious one, appears to have been published at the same time, and by the same publishers, probably to compete in cheapness with its rival.’ The second part of the ‘spurious edition’ is a ‘doggrel substitute’ (Lowndes), no ‘spurious edition’ of the genuine second part having ever been published according to the latter. No 12mo. edition of the Third Part has ever been issued, either genuine or spurious. [Best CritTicaAL EpiTion,| corrected and amended, with large Annotations, and Preface, by Zacnary GREY, LL.D., with fine portrait by Vertue after Soest, and numerous beautiful plates (some folding) after HoGARTH (ORIGINAL IMPRESSIONS), 2 thick vols. 8vo. very sound and clean copy in contemporary panelled calf gilt,£2. 28 1744 ‘The edition of Dr. Grey, which appeared first in 1744, is still considered the standard one.’— D.N.B, Theabove copy contains at end of v. I 4 pp. of MS. referring to the work, by Dr. Buss, AN EXTENSIVE SERIES: EDITIONS, mostly on LARGE PAPER, 24 vols. 8vo., post 8vo.,and 12mo., swmptuously Lound in crimson morocco extra, g.e., by F. BepForD (A VERY CHOICE SET), £55. 1807-24 ConTENTs :—Hours of Idleness, LARGE PapEer, Newark, 1807: English Bards and Scotch Reviewers, Cawthorn, n.d: —— Third Edition, LARGE PAPER, 10: Fourth Edition, ’11 : The Giaour, LARGE Paper, ’13: Lara; and Jacqueline, with portrait, '14: Hebrew Melodies, LARGE PapErR, '15: Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, Cantos III. and IV, LarGE PaPEr, 2v., '16-18: Siege of Corinth, LARGE PaPeErR, ‘16: Prisoner of Chillon, LARGE Paprr, '16: Manfred, LARGE Parer, '17: Beppo; with the Additional Stanzas, '18: Mazeppa, LARGE Paper, ‘19: Don Juan, Cantos III-XVI, 5 v., ’21-4: Sardanapalus, etc.,’21: Marino Faliero, ’21: The Island (title slightly soiled), '23: Werner, LARGE PAPER, '23: The Deformed Transformed, ’24. Philosophy, Aberdeen, with a Discourse on the Roman Art of War; with fine mexxotint portrait, maps, and numerous large engravings, including a fine impression of that of the Burrao, folio, Larce Paper; old brown morocco exira, full gilt lacks, g. e. (¥INE COPY); ScARcE, £8. 8s 1712 150 into Englishe accordyng to the Authors last edition, by T[Homas] N[orron], whereunto is added a TB eg, to fynde the principall matters entreated of in thys boke, conteyning by order of common places the summe of the whole doctrine taught in the same, black letter, with printer's device on title, thick folio, old rough calf, neatly rebacked with black morocco (title soiled, with names, and blank leaf written on, otherwise a sound copy); RARE, £5. R. Harrison, 1562 SECOND ENGLISH EpITIon, and the first containing the copious table—a fact unknown to Lowndes, who mentions the 4to. edition of 1574 as the first with the table. — LATER EpiTIon, with sundry Tables to find the principall matters entreated of, etc., also the declaration of places of Scripture therein expounded, thick sm. 4to. old English calf (XVII. Cent.), with stamped and gilt centre ornament, £3. ) H. Middleton for W. Norton, 1582 There is no copy of this edition in the British Museum. The translator was the author (jointly with Sackville) of the earliest drama in English and in blank verse (‘ The Tragedie of Gorboduc ’),
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