Three hundred notable books added to the Library of the British Museum under the keepership of Richard Garnett 1890-1899.

Date:
1899
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Three hundred notable books added to the Library of the British Museum under the keepership of Richard Garnett 1890-1899. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    to all Backsliders. By John Bunyan, a Prisoner of Hope. [Quotation from Heb. vi. 7, 8.] London^ Printed for F. Smith, at the Elephant and Castle without Temple Bar. twelves. The book is dated at the end: ‘ From my place of Confine- ment in Bedford, this 17th of the 4th Month, 1663.’ Bought in 1895. One of several interesting books by Bunyan recently acquired. DRYDEN, John. The Rival Ladies. A tragi-comedy, As it was Acted at the Theater-Royal.—Nos haec Novimus esse nihil. London, Printed by IV. W. for Hejiry Heringman, and are to be Sold at his Shop in the Lower-walk in the New-Exchange. 1664. QUARTO. The first edition of Dryden’s first play. With the dedicatory letter to the Earl of Orrery, in which he writes, ‘ the advantages which Rhyme has over Blanck Verse, are so many, that it were lost time to name them,’ etc. Bought in 1892. BAXTER, Benjamin. Mr. Baxter Baptiz’d in Bloud, or, a Sad History of the Unparallel’d Cruelty of the Anabaptists in New- England. Faithfully Relating the Cruel, Barbarous, and Bloudy Murther of Mr. Baxter an Orthodox Minister, who was kill’d by the Anabaptists, and his Skin most cruelly dead off from his Body. With an Exact Account of all the Circumstances and Particularities of this Barbarous Murther. Published by his mournfull Brother Benjamin Baxter Living in Fen - Church - Street, London. With Allowance. Londott, Printed in the Year, 1673. QUARTO. A circumstantial but wholly fictitious narrative; written to bring the Anabaptists into further odium. Bought in 1894.