Sales catalogue: Sotheby's

Date:
June 1920
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/20/476
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue: Sotheby's. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Lor 7937—continued. MS. Machlinia. Thi goddes name in vanyte Thy goddes name in vanitee pow schalt not take for wele ne wo Thou schalt not take for wel nor woo ffals sweryng and vayne loke pt pu fle Dismembre hym not that on rode tree Vf pe to heuen thenk for to go. For the was maade bothe blake and bloo On the last leaf is written :— Orate pro aia Witti fllete pro amore ihu xpi. Deo gras. William Flete being probably the name of the scribe. 7938 [Warron (J.)] ‘“Increir LIBER QUI vocaATUR SPECULUM XpPRIS- TIANI” (Latin and English), black letter, long lines, 23 to a Sull page [Colophon] Jste Libellus imp’ssus est 1 opulentissina Ciuitate LondoniaYy p me WILLELMU DE MACHLINIA ad tnstan- ciam necnon expensas Henrici Vrankenbergh mercatoris. (Cired 1480) *,* 116 ll. Without catchwords or signatures. On recto of fol. 97, Baeplicit liber que Vocatur Speculu Xpranr” ; and on recto of fol. 98, * Sequitur exposicio oracionis dominice ct quodam bono notabili. Septé Caprtalia Vicia cui aliquibus ramis eoru.” EXCESSIVELY RARE, ONLY VERY FEW COPIES KNOWN. 7939 Watts (Dr. Isaac) The Art of Reading and Writing English: Or, The Chief Principles and Rules of Pronouncing our Mother- Tongue both in Prose and Verse; with a Variety of Instructions for True Spelling. Written at first for Private Use, and now Published for the Benefit of all Persons who desire a better Acquaintance with their Native Language.... 8v0. Printed for John Clark, at the Bible and Crown in the Poultry, ee. MDCCAXT *,* A—P in sixes. With a dedication ‘To Mrs. Sarah, Mrs. Mary, and Mrs. Elizabeth, Abney, Daughters of Sir Thomas Abney Knt. and Alderman of London,” by their affectionate Instructor, I. Watts, dated from Theobalds in Hertfordshire, July 31, 1720. This dedication is of much interest, and refers to the neglect of the subjects here dealt with till the establishment of a school at Cheshunt under the patronage of the Abneys. THIS COPY WAS PRESENTED BY THE AUTHOR TO Lapy ABNEY, in whose family, as it is well known, he was long domesticated. An autograph memorandum on the fly-leaf says: “To the Honoured Lady The Lady Abney. I. W.” ExTREMELY RARE. 7940 Watts (Dr. I.) Divine Songs attempted in easy language for the use of children, engraved frontispiece and vignettes, after Bromley, by Worthington, two portraits, one a proof, of Dr. Watts inserted, russia gilt, m.e.(G. Daniel's copy) cr. 8vo. J. Ridgway, 1810
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