Sales catalogue: Francis Edwards

Date:
1936
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/5/37
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue: Francis Edwards. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    133 DRAYTON (MicHAEL) PoEMs, Newly corrected by the Author, sm. 8vo., contemporary calf, rebacked, Printed for John Smethwicke, 1610 Contains Baron’s Warres, England’s Heroicall Epistles, Sonnets, Duke of Normandy, Legend of Matilda, Pierce Gaveston. 134 DRYDEN (JoHN) An Eveninc’s Love, acted at the Theatre Royal, FIRST EDITION, sm. 4to., calf, in the Savoy, 1671 £4 This play was disliked by Pepys on account of its freedom, and Evelyn wrote of it as ‘‘ A symptom of the degeneracy and polluting of the stage.” 135 DRYDEN (JoHN) THE TEMPEST, or the Enchanted Island: a Comedy, as it is now Acted at His Highness the Duke of York’s Theatre, sm. 4to., calf, Printed by J. Macock, for Henry Herringman, 1676 £4 Adapted from Shakespeare’s play. Sir Wilham Davenant was the suggester and had’a principal hand in the alteration. The prologue contains a long account of Fletcher and Jonson’s debt to Shakespeare, considered the most masterly tribute laid at his shrine. 136 DRYDEN (Joun) TroiLus AND CRESSIDA, or Truth Found Too Late: a Tragedy as it is Acted at the Dukes Theatre, FIRST EDITION, sm. 4to., calf, Printed for Abel Swall . . . and Jacob Tonson, 1679 £4 10s. 137 DU BARTAS (G.) His DEUINE WEEKES AND WORKES, trans- lated by Joshua Sylvester, third edition, FIRST ISSUE, corrected and augmented, containing the first edition of the ~‘ Fourth Day,’ several engravings, 4to., contemporary brown rough calf, with the arms and initials “‘].F.’’ of John Fleming, the uncle of Sir Daniel Fleming of Rydal Hall, on sides, Humfrey Lownes, 1611 £10 Dan Fleming is written on the title page and elsewhere, and there are MS. verses and notes by both above owners. 138 D’URFEY (T.) A Foo.’s PREFERMENT, or the Three Dukes of Dunstable: a Comedy, as it was Acted at the Queens Theatre in Dorset-Garden, by Their Majesties Servants .. . together with all the Songs and Notes to ’em excellently compos'd by Mr. Henry Purcell, FIRST EDITION, sm. 4to., calf, Printed for Jos. Knight, and Fra. Saunders, 1688 £4 With the autograph of W. Sacheverell 1705 on title. Mention is made of Hamlet, Macbeth and Julius Cesar. 139 DYKES (W. R.) THE GENus Iris, 48 fine coloured plates, folio, half morocco, 1913 £8 10s.
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