Sales catalogue 505: Maggs Bros

Date:
1928
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/13/63
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 505: Maggs Bros. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    1326 ADVICE TO A PAINTER, ETC. 4 pp., folio. N.D. — 1328 pore Together in one vol., small folio. Boards. 1678. £10 Ios Two excessively rare poetical pieces by Andrew Marvell. Tue REHEARSAL TRANSPOS’D, or Animadversions upon the late book, inituled, A Preface shewing what grounds there are of Fears and Jealousies of Popery. Both Parts. First Eprrion. 2 vols. in 1. 12mo. Original calf. London, 1672-3. £5 58 Shakespeare allusions. ‘And then as for extortion: who but such an Hebrew Jew as you, would, after an honest man had made so full and voluntary restitution, not yet have been. satisfied without so many pounds of his flesh over into the bargain? Though J 20. be in a desperate condition, yet methinks Mr. B. not ‘ being past grace,’ shou!4 not neither ‘ have been past mercy.’ ”’ ‘‘T cannot but observe, Mr. Bayes, this admirable way (like fat Sir John Falstaffe’s singular dexterity in sinking) that you_have of answering whole Booke or Discourses, how pithy and knotty soever, in a line or two, nay, sometimes with a word.’’ “T remember within our time one Simmons, who rob’d alwayes upon the Bricolle, that is to say, never interrupted the Passengers, but still set upon the Thieves themselves, after, like Sir John Falstaff, they, were gorged with a booty ; and by this way, so ingenious, that it was scarce criminal, he lived secure and unmolested all his dayes, with the reputation of a Judge rather than an High-way A Suort Hisroricat Essay touching General Councils, Creeds, and Impositions in Matters of Relgion; very seasonable at tnis 1 tine. Small gto. Boards. London, 1687. 18s Works, Poetical, Controversial, and Political. With engraved portrait. 3 vols., 4to. Original calf gilt. London, Printed for the Editor, by Henry Baldwin, 1776. 1235 Containing many Original Letters, Poems, and Tracts, never before printed, with a new Life of the Author, by Capt. Edward Thompson.