Order. Small 4to, original sheep, in protecting covers formed from a rafter in a room in Milton's house at Westminster, brass clasps. London: Printed, and are to be sold by Peter Parker, 1667 A REMARKABLE COPY OF THE EXCESSIVELY RARE FIRST EDITION, WITH THE FIRST TITLE-PAGE. SOME OF THE EDGES BEING IN UNCUT CONDITION, AND BEING IN THE ORIGINAL BINDING WITH THE GENUINE BLANK END LEAVES. The penultimate line of Book 3 has the correction "in". The volume is preserved in covers, made from the wood of a rafter of the house in Westminster, WHERE MILTON COMMENCED HIS WRITING OF THE POEM. Pasted on the inside of the protecting covers, are: A printed account of the demolition of Milton's house, and a Manuscript authenticating statement by Charles Edmonds regarding the covers. The volume was discovered at Lamport Hall in 1867, the seat of the Isham Family, and the Isham bookplate is found in the volume. There is also inserted an A. L. s., 4pp., regarding both the book and the cover, from Charles Edmonds to Sir Charles Isham. 209. [SEE ILLUSTRATION] Paradise Lost. The Authour John Milton. The Fourth Edition, Adorn'd with Sculptures. Portrait by White, and numer ous fine plates. Folio, full calf, rebacked.. London: Jacob Tonson, 1688 LARGE PAPER COPY. THIS IS THE FIRST ISSUE OF THE FAMOUS ILLUSTRATED EDITION OF MILTON, published by Tonson in honor of his acquir ing the copyright of Paradise Lost. At the end is printed the list of subscribers. Among them will be found the names of John Dryden, Thomas Flatman and Narcissus Luttrell. Beneath the engraved portrait is the superb verse on Milton by Dryden. 210. MOFFAT (THOMAS). The Silkewormes and their Flies: Liuely described in verse, by T. M. a Countrie Farmer, and an apprentice in Physicke. For the great benefit and enriching of England. Small 4to, full crimson levant, gilt back, panels and inside borders, gilt edges, by Bedford. Printed at London by V[alentine] S[ims] for Nicholas Ling, 1599 FIRST EDITION. the title has woodcut of the silk worm, the fly and the cocoon, and the book is not in Black Letter as stated in the collation given by the Grolier Club. Although published with initials only, this interesting and learned old treatise has long been accepted as the work of Thomas Moffat, a distinguished physician of the Elizabethan period. A lengthy description of Moffat and this poem will be found in Collier's Early English Literature. The present is a very fine, crisp copy, with wide margins, a very few of which have slight repairs and some have contemporary annotations and marks. Contains the Frederick Locker "Jester' bookplate. VERY SCARCE. 211. [MONARDES (NICOLAS).] Ioyfull Nevvew ovt of the newe founde worlde, wherein is declared the rare and singular vertues of diuerse and sundrie Hearbes, Trees, Oyles, Plantes, and Stones, with their aplications, as well for Phisicke as Chirurgerie .....also the portrature of the saied Hearbes, very aptly discribed: Englished by Jhon Frampton Marchaunt. Woodcut illustrations in the text. Small 4to, old calf, blind stamped sides, with the letters E. F. and design of a bird, on sides, remnants of clasps, rebacked. In brown levant morocco solander case. Imprinted at London.....by William Norton, 1580 Second Edition. Slight repairs to title and some pin-head wormings. Bound in, is "A Short Discours Of the excellent Doctour and Knight, Maister Leonardo Phioravanti Bolognese vppon Chirurgerie." Translated out of Italian into English by John Hester. London, 1580. Pages 35-43 of the first work are occupied with an account of Tobacco. FIRST AMERICAN NOVEL 212. [MORTON (SARAH W. A.).] The Power of Sympathy; or, The Triumph of Nature. Founded in Truth. Frontispiece by Samuel Hill. 2 vols. 12mo, full green levant morocco, Jansen style, gilt edges. Boston: Isaiah Thomas, 1789 FIRST EDITION OF THIS FIRST AMERICAN NOVEL. A sad incident in the family life of the author, is said to have inspired the writing. It was issued anonymously, and dedicated to the Young Ladies of United Columbia. It created a social sensation upon its publication, and an attempt to suppress it at the time, has made the work VERY SCARCE. The pages are somewhat time-stained. 213. [MUNDAY (ANTHONY).] The Downfall of Robert, Earle of Huntingdon, afterward called Robin Hood of Merrie Sherwodde. Black Letter. Small 4to, crushed red levant morocco, gilt edges, by Rivière. Imprinted at London, for William Leake, 1601 THE VERY RARE FIRST EDITION. Title in facsimile, and a few head-lines cut into. 214. NABBES (THOMAS). The Springs Glorie. Vindicating Love by temperance against the tenent, Sine Cerere & Baccho friget Venus. Moralized in a Maske. With other Poems, Epigrams, Elegies, and Epithalamiums of the Authors. Small 4to, crushed blue levant morocco, by The French Binders. London: Printed by I. D. for Charles Greene, 1638 FIRST EDITION. The J. P. Kemble copy, with "First Edition on title, in his hand. A number of the leaves have been mounted on inner margins. VERY SCARCE. 215. Totenham Covrt. A Pleasant Comedie Acted in the Yeare MDCXXXIII. At the private House in Salisbury-Court. Printer's device on title. Small 4to, full brown levant morocco, gilt fillet back and sides, by Sangorski and Sutcliffe. At London: Printed by Richard Ovlton for Charles Greene, 1638 FINE COPY OF THE EXTREMELY SCARCE FIRST EDITION. With the H. V. Jones bookplate. 216. The Vnfortunate Mother. A Tragedie. Never Acted; but set down according to the intention of the Author. Small 4to, crushed olive levant morocco, gilt edges, by Rivière. London: Printed by J. O. for Daniell Frere, 1640 FINE COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION. From the Arbury Library, with label. 217. NAPOLEON. The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte. Engraved title and plates. By W. B. Heweston. 3 vols. in four. 8vo, full red Paradife loft. A POEM Written in TEN BOOKS By JOHN MILTON. Licensed and Entred according LONDON Printed, and are to be fold by Peter Parker THE FIRST TITLE-PAGE OF "PARADISE LOST"-THE MAGNIFICENT BRITWELL COPY [NUMBER 208] |