Sales catalogue 574: Maggs Bros

Date:
1932
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/13/118
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 574: Maggs Bros. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    204 LAGNIET (Jacques). Recueil des plus illustres proverbes divisés en trois livres. With 196 (should be 206) extraordinary full-page copperplate engravings. Four parts in 1 volume as follows: Part I. Proverbes moraux. Part II. Proverbes joyeux. Part III. Vie des Gueux. Part IV. Vie de Tiel Wlespiégle. (Till Owlglass). 4to. Bound by Chambolle-Duru in crimson levant morocco, gilt lines on sides, gilt fleurons in corners, full gilt back, inside dentelles, g.e. Paris, Jacques Lagniet, [c. 1657]. (SEE ILLUSTRATION OPPOSITE, PLATE NO. XXVIII). £40 205 AUSTIN (Samuel, the “younger’’). Naps upon Parnassus : A sleepy Muse nipt and pincht, though not awakened. Such Voluntary and Jovial Copies of Verses, as were lately receiv’d from some of the Wits of the Universities, in a Frolick, dedicated to Gondibert’s Mistress by Captain Jones and others, etc. First Epirion. 8vo. Calf. London, Printed by express order from the Wits, for N. Brook, 1658. £52 12S Austin at Oxford made a laughing-stock of himself by his inordinate self-conceit. A number of his prose and poetical pieces fell into the ** hands of the satyrical wits of the University and they served him as the wits did Tho. Coryat in his time.’’ These pieces of verse and prose, rendered more ridiculous by grotesque alterations and additions, were published in 1658, ‘“ by express order from the Wits,’’ under the title of “‘ Naps upon Parnassus.’’ A number of satirical commendatory verses are prefixed. Among the contributors were Thomas Flatman, fellow of New College ; Thomas Sprat, of Wadham College, afterwards Bishop of Rochester.