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![17168—7 English—continwed. YorkKsHIRE. The Dialect of Craven, (York) a Glossary and two dialogues, 2 vols. 12mo. -cloth, 12s 1828 ATKINSON (J. C.) Glossary of the Cleveland Dialect, explanatory, derivative, and critical, thick 8vo. pp. 608 (pub. 24s) cloth, 16s 1868 English Dictionaries: COTGRAVE’S French and English Dictionary, with another: English-French, and a French Grammar, by Howell, folio, fine copy in old calf, £2.12s 6d 1660 GALFRIDI GRAMMATICI Promptorium Parvu- lorum sive Clericorum, Dictionarius Anglo- Latinus princeps, recensuit Way, 3 parts complete in 1 thick vol. sm. 4to. 3 facsimiles, half morocco, Roxburghe style, 15s Camden Society, 1865 JOHNSON’S Dictionary of the English Lan- guage; with Additions by Topp, second und best edition, 3 stout vols. 4to. portraits, calf gilt, £2. 10s 1827 Waker, Idiomatologia Anglo-Latina, sive Dictionarium Anglo-Latinum: a Dictionary of English and Latin Idiomes, the two lan- guages in parallel columns, 12mo. sixth edition, JSront. calf, 3s 6d 1708 WALKER (J.) Rhyming Dictionary, answering the purposes of spelling and pronouncing the English Language, 12mo. dds. 3s 6d 1824 English Literature, Early: BEAUMONT (Francis) Poems, viz. the Her- maphrodite, the Remedy of Love, Elegies, Sonnets, and other Poems, with preliminary verses by Ben Jonson, Rob. Herrick, etc. 12mo. calf, antique style, carmine edges, £3. 128 London, L. Blacklock, 16538 Cuapman (G.) The Conspiracie and Trageedy of Charles Duke of Byron, Marshall of France, 2 parts, in one vol. sm. 4to. half russia, 208 NV. O. for T. Thorp, 1625 CHARLES I. The King and Queen’s Enter- tainment, after their Departure from Oxford : in a Masque presented by Prince Charles, Sept. 12, 1636, small 4to. RARE, purple morocco extra, gilt edges, £6. 6s Oxford, 1636 A VERY RARE play, of considerable literary merit. DONNE (Dr. John) Porms, with Elegies on the Author’s Death, portrait of the Author at the age of 18, by Marshall, Lond. J. Marriott, 1650— Poems by J. C. [Cleaveland] with additions never before printed, 1663—C ertaine Elegant Poems, written by Dr. Corbet, Bishop of Norwich, 1647, 3 vols. inone, 18mo. original calf binding, £4. 10s ‘‘ This edition (of Donne’s Poems) contains more than the former editions, and was revised by the author’s son.” Hazlitt. DAVIES (Sir John) Nosce Teipsum. This Oracle expounded in two Elegies—1. Of Humane Knowledge. 2. Of the Soule of Man—Hymunes of Astre in Acrostic Verse— Orchestra, or Poeme of Dauncing, 12mo. old English crimson morocco extra, gilt edges, the English Literature, Harly— continued. sides elaborately tooled in gold, £5. 15s 6d Lond. A. Mathewes, 1622 Priced in the Bibliotheca Anglo Poetica, £5. 1s 6d. Dedicated in a poetical epistle of great spirit and beauty to Queen Elizabeth. 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GREENE (Robert) The Honorable History of Frier Bacon and Frier Bongay, as it was lately plaid by the Prince Palatine his Ser- vants, sm. 4to. woodcuts on title, front. margin of title cropt, unbound, 15s E. Alide, 1630 [HALL (Bishop Joseph)] Virgidemiarum Sixe Bookes. First three Bookes of Tooth-lesse Satyrs, 1. Poetical, 2. Academical, 3. Morall; the three last Bookes of Byting Satyres, 2 parts in 1 vol. 16mo. half calf, £5. 1602-1599 The first of English Satirists, and hardly surpassed by any of his followers except Pope, whom he also resembles in the musical smoothness of his heroic couplets; an excel- lence which was not attained by Shakespeare and Ben Jonson at a later date. At the end of the Virgidemie, the following rare pieces by Bishop Hall are added : The Statelie Tragedie of Guistard and Sismond, 26 leaves, (sign. B, C, D, in eights, E in two;) the Northern Mother’s Blessing, 10 leaves (E 3 to E 8, and F 4); and the Way to Thrift, 2 leaves. There is a title to the Northern Mother’s Blessing, with the date 1597. Heywoop (T.) The English Traveller, as it hathe beene publikely acted at the Cock-pit in Drury Lane, sm. 4to. headlines cut elose, hf. morocco, 15s R. Raworth, 1633 Husert (Sir Francis) Ant. The Historie of Edward the Second, surnamed Carnarvan, one of our English Kings : together with the fatall Downfall of his two unfortunate Favo- rites, Gaveston and Spencer, [an Epic Poem] 18mo. portrait, calf, 15s Lond. for L. Chapman, 1629 Jests. The Pleasant Conceits of Old Hobson the Merry Londoner, full of humorous dis- courses and wittie merriments, woodcut, 18mo. black letter, A UNIQUE EDITION, containing additional jests, but the last four leaves are suyi- plied from another edition of equal rarity, green morocco extra, gilt edges, with gold borders, 25s London for William Gilbertson, 1640 Litty (John) Six Court Comedies often pre- sented and Acted before Queene Elizabeth by the Children of her Majesties Chappel and](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b31813318_0023.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
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