Sales catalogue 477: Maggs Bros

Date:
1926
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/13/43
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 477: Maggs Bros. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    127 BEVIS OF HAMPTON. Tue History or THe Famous AND RENOWNED KNIGHT, Sir Bevis of Hampton. Finely executed woodcut on title, and numerous half-page woodcuts throughout the volume. Brack Lerrer. Small 4to. Contemporary russia. London, Printed by A. Ibbitson, for Andrew Crook, 1667. (See ILLustraTion, Pirate No. VII.) £52 10s This old romance in verse is of especial interest, as SIR BEVIS OF HAMPTON | is referred to by SHAKESPEARE in HENRY AEE = ‘That former fabulous story, Being now seen possible enough, got credit, That Bevis was believed.’’ Ete., ete. 128 BEWICK (John). A New Lottery Book or Brrps anp Beasts, for Children to learn their Letters by, as soon as they can Speak. With numerous woodcuts by Bewick, and woodcut border round each page. 18mo, in its original old flowered paper boards. Newcastle, Printed by T. Saint, 1771. 2.108 A good copy of a very early and scarce Bewick chap-book. 129 BEZA (Theodore). A DiIscouRsSE wrYTTEN BY M. THEODORE DE Beza, conteyning in briefe the Historie of the life and death of Maister John Calvin, with the Testament and laste will of the saide Calvin, and the Catalogue of his Bookes that he hath made. Turned out of French into Englishe, by I. S. Brack Lerrer. First Epirion IN ENGLISH. I2mo, Morocco, g. €. London, Imprinted by Henry Denham |1564]. £9 18s Theodore Beza, a Genevese Reformer, after his appointment as theological professor and president of the college at Geneva, became Calvin’s ablest coadjutor. Through Beza, Calvin made his influence felt in the great struggle in France between the Guises and the Protestants.
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