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![240 Digby (Sir Kenelm) Letters between The Ld. George Digby, and Sr. Kenelm Digby, Kt., concerning Religion. London, Hum- phrey Moseley, 1651 £2 10s Sm. 8vo. 132 pp., 8 pp. Humphrey Moseley’s advertisements. Old sheep. Very slight worming in lower blank margin of first few leaves. There were two editions of this book in the same year. This one is dated on the last page *‘ Sherburn, March 39 (sic), 1639.” The other is dated ‘* Sherborn, March 30, 1639.’ 241 Digby.—Castrations from the Private Memoirs of Sir Kenelm Digby. Not Pub- lished, 1828 £2 10s 8vo. 50 pp. Wrappers. Portrait. Sir Harris Nicolas when he printed Digby’s memoirs in 1827 omitted certain passages which he considered unsuitable for the public eye. These, however, yielding to a touch of literary conscience, he printed in a small edition the following year for private dis- tribution. This is usually bound up with the memoirs, & is very difficult to procure separately. 242 (Diorama).—A Pictorial and Descriptive Diorama, with Twenty-four Illustrations of Scenes from the Lives of the Industrious and Slothful Apprentices! with Appro- priate Moral Reflections on What they were and what they Became ; for the Instruction and Warning of Boys. (Lond), Sutton, Bishop’s Court, Old Bailey, N.p. (circa 1840) 10s Sm. 8vo. Folding diorama inculcating in a most nauseous way the lessons of industry & self-improve- ment. Published at a penny. 243 Directory (A) for the Publique Worship of God, Throughout the Three Kingdoms of England, Scotland, and Ireland. To- gether with an Ordinance of Parliament for the taking away of the Book of Common Prayer : and For establishing and observing of this present Directory throughout the Kingdom of England, and Dominion of Wales. London, Evan Tyler, Alexander Fifield, Ralph Smith, and John Field, 1644 £2 15s Sm. 4to. 48 leaves. Sheep. This book is the famous document by which the Parliament abolished the Book of Common Prayer and substituted the directions herein contained. There were two issues in the same year: the present one, presumably the first, consisting of 48 leaves, and another, typographically compressed into 24 leaves. The first leaf is a blank. We assume that our copy possesses it, though there follow two stubs, as if there had been cancels & some doubt about the precise wording. The catchword on the verso of the second leaf has been cut away. An Unrecorded English Book. 244 Discours au Vray de.ce qui s’est passe en ?Armee conduicte par sa Majesté, depuis son aduenement a la Couronne, jusques 4 la prinse de la ville-de Honfleu, au moisde Jean Wolfe, 1590 £15 15s Sm. 8vo. 74 pp. (possibly a final blank leaf cut away). Whole brown crushed levant morocco, g.e. Lower blank corner of title and second leaf repaired. Not in S.T.C. & no other copy can be traced. The book records the martial achievements of Henry IV. of France, from his accession in August, 1589, till January, 1590, when he took Honfleur. 245 (Dodd). — Callimachus, The Hymns of, Translated from the Greek into English Verse, with Explanatory Notes ... by William Dodd, B.A., late of Clare Hall, CABLE ADDRESS : London, Printed for the Trans- Cambridge. £2 2s lator, 1755 4to. 212, 8 leaves. Half calf. By ‘the unfortunate Dr. Dodd,’ whose misfortune. it was to be hanged for forgery. of)] The Oeconomy of Human Life, Trans- lated from an Indian Manuscript, written by an Ancient Bramin. London, W. Gardiner ; and Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe, 1806. 12s 6d Tall 12mo. 116 pp. Full morocco, gilt, g.e. Charming vignettes by Harding. Poem, in Three Cantos, &c., &c. London, James Harper and Co., 1816 10s 6d Tall 12mo. 88 pp. Original boards, uncut. Not in Halkett & Laing or Stonehill & Block. The First and Second Cantos of Byron’s ‘‘ Don Juan ”’ appeared in 1819. Wherein out of Certaine Propositions and Gradations, this Conclusion is evicted. That those which are of the Romane Religion in this Kingdome, may and ought to take the Oath of Allegeance. London, Printed by W. Stansby for Walter Burre, 1610 £26 Sm. 4to. 20 leaves, 392 pp. Calf (back skilfully repaired); blank margin of last leaf repaired. S.T.C. 7048. Keynes, 1. A good copy of Donne’s first printed book. It was written in the period when Donne was in constant attendance at the court and hoping for some civil preferment. Walton says that it was undertaken at the King’s command, though this is veiled in the dedication to James, as would possibly be natural when that great luminary had himself written on the same subject. Doctor of Divinitie, and Deane of Saint Pauls, London) A Sermon upon the XX. Verse of the V. Chapter of the Booke of Judges. Wherein occasion was justly taken for the Publication of some Reasons, which his Sacred Majestie had been pleased to give, of those Directions for Preachers, which hee had formerly sent -foorth. Preached at the Crosse the l5th of September, 1622. And now by com- mandement of his Majestie published, as it was then preached. London, Printed for Thomas Jones, 1622 Pek Sm. 4to. 2 leaves, 68 pp. Vellum. Autograph of Dud: ae on title-page. Good copy. S.T.C. 7054. Keynes, 14. This is the third issue of Donne’s first printed sermon. The two former issues, printed in the same year, bore a misprint on the title-page—‘‘ A Sermon upon the XV: Verse of the XX. Chapter ’’’—strange in the printing of a discourse which had attracted a vast crowd at Paul’s Cross, and which was an official exposition of the King’s views. (John) Juvenilia: or certaine and Problemes, written by I. Printed by E. P. for £42 Paradoxes, Donne. London, Henry Seyle, Anno Dom. 1633 Sm. 4to. 32 leaves. Original vellum, gilt. S.T.C. 7043. Keynes, 43. Donne died in 1631, and two years later an enter- prising publisher somehow obtained the manuscript & printed these secular and cynical small essays, the work of Donne’s youth, so ill-befitting the late Dean of St. Paul’s. The Bishop of London made it a Star Chamber matter, and Sir Henry Herbert was sum- moned to explain why he had licensed the book.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b33159191_0018.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
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