Sales catalogue 333: Ellis

Date:
1936
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/33/19
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 333: Ellis. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    108 109 Old and Rare Books 25 PLAYFAIR (William), France as it is, not Lady Morgan’s France. London, 1819-20. 2 vols. 8vo, First Eprrion, original boards, uncut, 5s. PLUTARCH. The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romaines, compared together by that grave learned philo- sopher and historiographer Plutarke of Cheronea. Trans- lated out of Greeke into French by James Amiot Abbot of Bellozane, Bishop of Auxerre, and out of French into Eng- lish, by Sir Thomas North. Imprinted at London by Richard Field for Thomas Wighi. 16038. Folio, with numerous medallion heads engraved on wood within borders, old calf, with gilt centre ornaments and the initials ** Io. Mo.”’ on sides (back neatly repaired), £15 10s. This book has been well described as SHAKESPEARE’S storehouse of classical learning, for to it we owe the plays of Julius Cesar, Coriolanus, and Antony and Cleopatra, while A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Pericles and Timon of Athens are also all considerably indebted to it. The initials on the sides of the binding are those of Sir John Monson (1600-83), eldest son of Sir Thomas Monson of Carlton in Lincolnshire, and of his wife Margaret, daughter of Sir Edmund Anderson, lord chief justice of the common pleas. Sir John represented Lincoln in the parliament of Charles I, and undertook the drainage of low-lying lands by the banks of the river Ancholme in Lincolnshire. Inside the front cover is the book-plate of Sir Edmund Anderson, Baronet 1708, who was des- cended from Sir John Monson’s maternal grandfather. ecclesie vsum: accuratissime castigatum, cum multis annotacitculis ac litteris Alphabeticis, EKuangeliorum & Epistolarum, capitulorumqz originem indicantibus: que nusqz hucusqz fuerunt addite. Pars hyemalis: [et esti- valis]. [Colophon at end of Pars hyemalis]: Londini impressum, per JOHANNES KYNGSTON et HENRICUS SUTTON typographi. Anno dni Millesimo quingétesimo quinquage- simo quinto [1555] Die vero septima mensis Martit. Ato, Buack LETTER, printed in red and black, with woodcuts, some worm-holes in a few leaves, but a beautifully fresh copy, with some rough leaves, in the original wooden boards covered with stamped calf, £35.
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