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![years he met Benjamin West in America & it was through Williams that West chanced on the career of painting. 270 (East Molesey Press).—({Udall (John)] A Essay on Translated Verse. London, J acob Tonson, 1684 15s 4to. 7 leaves, 24 pp. Title & last page soiled. First EDITION. The 2 in 1 vol. Recent boards & cloth back. 264 Dryden.—The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis. Translated into English Verse. By Mr. Dryden, and Several other Eminent Hands. Together with the Satires of Aulus Persius Flaccus. Made English by Mr. Dryden. With Explanatory Notes at the | End of each Satire. To which is Prefixed a Discourse Concerning the Original and Progress of Satire... by Mr. Dryden. London, Jacob Tonson, 1693 £3 3s Folio. 315, 87 pp. Russia gilt, rebacked, m.e. 265 Dryden (John) The Fourth Volume of the Works of Mr. John Dryden. Containing, A Poem upon the Death of O. Cromwell. Poem on the Return of K. Charles II. On the Coronation of K. Charles II. A Poem on the L. Chancellor Hide. Annus Mira- bilis. Mack Flecknoe. Absolom and Achitophel. The Medal, a Poem. Religio Laici, a Poem. Elegy on the Death of K. Charles Il. The Hind and Panther. Poem on the Birth of the Prince. Eleonora. London, ‘Printed for Jacob Tonson, 1695 Demonstration of the trueth of that Discip- line which Christe hath prescribed in his worde for the government of his Church, in all times and places, untill the ende of the worlde. [East Molesey, R. Waldegrave, 1588] £30 Sm. 8vo. 102 pp. Full brown morocco, g.e. With the folding table. Last leaf repaired. Lacks the final blank leaf (Q4). S.T.C. 24499. No copy recorded in America. This is the first book printed secretly at the East Molesey Press. It was circulated in November, at the_.same time as John Penry’s “ Epistle,’ which was the first of the Marprelate Tracts. This book of Udall’s, therefore, is a landmark in the heroic fight of Dissent against Episcopacy. The civil authorities & the bishops were tireless in their efforts to discover & destroy this secret and migratory press, which was so inconvenient & powerful a witness to wider ideals. Begun by Himself, and Concluded by his Daughter, Maria Edgeworth. Second Kdi- tion, Corrected. London, R. Hunter, 1821 £1 15s 8vo. 2 vols. Calf, gilt. Portraits of Edgeworth, Thomas Day, Erasmus Darwin, and Lord Longford. 5 plates. Fine copy. 4to. Old calf. Slight water-staining, & very slight worming in a few lower blank margins. This volume was made up by Tonson from separate editions, with their own title-pages & dates, to range with the collected edition of 1693. It is impossible here to give bibliographical details of each item. 266 Dueck (Sir Arthur) Vita Henrici Chichele, Archiepiscopi Cantuariensis sub Regibus Duck, LL.D. Oxoniae, Excudebat Josephus Barnesius, 1617 £6 638 Sm. 4to. 108 pp., 2 leaves. Calf (joints weak). Isaac Reed and Heber copy. Bears the eighteenth century bookplate of Nicholas Hardinge (1699-1758), Clerk to the House of Commons. Suls@idonss 267 (Du Moulin and Clavet).—The Monk’s Hood pull’d off; or the Capucin Fryar described. Translated out of French. Lon- don, 1671 258 8vo. Calf. Engraved frontispiece of one of the friars. A bitter attack on the Capucin friars. Ob- Cittie of London) Observations upon Caesars Commentaries. [London], N.p. £1 15s Folio. 199, 138, 218 pp. Old calf, gilt, several small holes in the first leaf (portrait of Caesar), a trifle wormed & water-stained, but a very fair copy. Plates. S.T.C. 7492. Dedicated to Prince Henry, with his portrait in the engraved title-page. (Elizabethan Psalter and Prayers).—The Psalter or psalms of David, after the trans- lation of the Great Bible, printed as it shal be said or sung in Churches. With the Morning and Evening praier, and certaine additions of Collectes, and other the or- dinarie service gathered out of the book of common praier. London, Richard Bradocke 1598 12mo. A-Aaé4. The Psalter has a separate title-page with the imprint printed by Peter Short, by the assignes of W. Seres, 1599. This edition appears to be unrecorded. indication who the English translator was. <A very small round worm-hole, otherwise good. 268 Durfey (Thomas) Butler’s Ghost: or, Hudibras, The Fourth Part. With Reflec- tions upon these Times. London, Joseph Hindmarsh, 1682 18s Sm. 8vo. 188 pp., 2 leaves advertisements. Old half calf (joints cracked). Name on title-page, small portion torn from top corner of title, & a portion from lower blank margin of last leaf. 269 [Eagles (John)| The Journal of Llewellin Penrose. London, Jobn Murray, 1815 £3 10s Sm. 8vo. 4 vols. Calf. eee copy of the very scarce first edition of this OOK. , Thomas Eagles, the father of the editor, derived this remarkable Robinson Crusoe narrative from a man English meeter by T. Sternhold, J. Hopkins, W. Whittingham and others. London, John Windet, for the Assignes of Robert Day, 1598 £18 12mo. A-Mm8g._ Lacks signs CCl & CC2, and the 8 leaves of sign. Kk. Probably S.T.C. 2496, of which only one copy (B.M.) is recorded. Or it may be the lost edition cited in Steele’s ‘“‘ Music Printing,”’ p. 100, No. 54. This edition has the music notation. 2 vols in 1. Full and sound contemporary calf, remains of brass clasps. Sides panelled and blind tooled, the back with the sturdy raised bands of the period. This charming dumpy volume, apart from its biblio- graphical interest, presents a well-preserved specimen of the small portable prayer-books fashionable in Shakespeare’s time. They are now very difficult to obtain in anything like the good condition of this one. Williams, when a young sailor, was wrecked about the year 1747 off Florida, & the book contains an account of 28 years continual adventure. In his later S. 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