Sales catalogue 563: Maggs Bros

Date:
1931
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/13/108
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 563: Maggs Bros. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    WITH THE RARE LEAVES OF ‘‘ ERRATA ”’ AND ‘‘ ADVERTISEMENT.’’ 204 PERCY (Thomas). Reliques of Ancient English Poetry: consisting of Old Heroic Ballads, Songs, and other Pieces of our earlier Poets (chiefly of the Lyric kind). Together with some few of later Date. Engraved frontispiece by C. Grignion, and vignettes. FIRST EDITION. 3 vols., small 8vo, ovzginal calf (backs repaired). London, Printed for.]. Dodsley, 1765. £14 14s An epoch-making book in the history of English literature. It promoted with last- ing effect the revival of interest in our older poetry and is, perhaps, the most agreeable selection which exists in any language. Prefixed is an ‘‘ Essay on the ancient English Minstrels.’’ This edition also contains a few Poems not inserted in subsequent issues, It is said that this work ‘‘ owed its finest strokes to the superior pen of Dr. Johnson,’’ Percy himself stating in the Preface that to Johnson he ‘‘ owes many valuable hints for the conduct of the work.’’ With the 14 pp. of ‘‘ Additions and Corrections ’’ at the end of Vol. III, followed by a leaf of ‘‘ Errata ’’ and leaf of ‘‘ Advertisement.’’ These latter are very seldom found. 265 PERSIAN and the Turkish Tales, Compleat. Translated from those Languages into French, by M.. Petis de la Croix, . . . and now into English from that Translation by the late Learned Dr. King, and several other Hands. To which are added Two Letters from a French Abbot to his Friend at Paris; giving an Account of the Island of Madegascar ; and of the French Embassador’s Reception by the King of Siam. 2 vols., sm. 8vo, old calf. London, Printed for W. Mears, etc., 17209. £1 5s 266 [PHILIPS (Ambrose).] A Modest Survey of that Celebrated Tragedy, the Distrest Mother, so often and so highly Applauded by the Ingenious Spectator. FIRST EDITION. Sm. 8vo, half morocco. London, Printed and Sold by William Redmayne, 1712. £6 10s Philips wrote the ‘ Distrest Mother ’’ in 1711-12, an adaptation of Racine’s ‘* Andromaque.’’ Its appearance was heralded by a very complimentary notice from Steele in the ‘‘ Spectator ’’ (No. 209), and Sir Roger de Coverley was taken by Addison to see a performance on 25th March following (No. 335). 267 PHILIPS (Mrs. Katherine). Poems by the most deservedly Admired Mrs. Katherine Philips, The Matchless Orinda. To which is added Monsieur Corneille’s Tragedies of Pompey and Horace, with several Other Translations out of French. Engraved portrait of Mrs. Philips. FIRST COMPLETE EDITION. LARGE PAPER COPY. 8vo, fine copy in contemporary tree calf, full gilt back. London, Printed for Jacob Tonson, 1710. £3 10s Prefixed are congratulatory poems by Abraham Cowley, Tyrell, Flatman, etc.
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