Sales catalogue: Sotheby's

Date:
23-25 November 1931
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/20/971
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

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

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    2167 2168 2169 2170 2171 2172 2173 a : 2174 Relation . .. du Voyage et Sejour, que... Charles I]... a fait en Hollande, depuis le 25. May, jusques au 2 Juin, 1660, folding portrait and four double-page plates (one slightly defective), original vellum gilt folio. The Hague, 1660 Reynard the Fox. Most Delectable History of Reynard the Fox, 2 parts in 1 vol. Sfacts fetter, without the “ shifts of Rey- nardine,’ woodcuts, name cut from title, calf gut 4to. 1701 RicHAaRDS (NATHANIEL) POEMS SACRED AND SATYRICAL, FIRST EDITION (A-N3 in eights), portrait and engraved titles (both cut close and inlaid, wants N 4 (? blank), calf, g.e. by Riviére 8vo. 1641 [Ritson (Joseph)| Bibliographia Poetica: A Catalogue of Engleish (sic) Poets, FIRST EDITION, many MS, annotations and additions, half russia 8vo. 1802 [Ritson (J.)| Bibliographia Poetica, another copy, interleaved, with MS. notes and additions by J. I. Dredge, half russia, joints broken 8vo. 1802 [Ritson (J.)] Remarks, Critical and Illustrative, on the Text and Notes of the Last Edition of Shakspeare, 1783; The Quip Modest . . . Supplement to Remarks Critical and Illus- trative, 1788, in 1 vol. boards, uncut, SCARCE 8v0 Robin Hood’s Garland: Being a Compleat History of all the Notable and Merry Exploits perform’d by him . . . To which are added, Three Original Songs which have not been Printed in any Edition for upwards of an Hundred Years (A-p in twelves), some numerals cropped, original sheep 12mo. [? about 1740] *%; Besides the title quoted above (on A 2) there is another on a 1, reading “The Enghsh Archer: or, Robert Earl of Hunting- ton; Vulgarly called Robin Hood,” with a woodeut below. According to Halliwell, this chap-book gives the earliest copy known of the ballad “ Robin and the Ranger.” To which are added Theodosius’s Advice to his Son. 2175 FIRST EDITION, dedicated to James, Duke of Monmouth, half TUSSUL 8vo. 1671 Rosse (A.) Mel Heliconium: or Poetical Honey gathered out of the weeds of Parnassus, calf, rebacked, 1642—Rapin (R.) Re- flections on Aristotle’s Treatise of Poesie, contemporary calf, 1674—| Kenrick (W.)| The Kapelion, or Poetical Ordinary, frontispiece, one cover loose, n. d.; and others 8vo. (6)
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