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8^o P. Angl. 5346

Copy. Copy, in an italic hand, of a version headed ‘Beatus ille’ and beginning ‘That man is happy borne or taught’, subscribed ‘H: W:’, in some pages of MS verse bound with an octavo printed exemplum of Henry More, Psychodia Platonica (1642). Mid-17th century.

WoH 29.8: Sir Henry Wotton, The Character of a Happy Life (‘How happy is he born and taught’)

First published in Sir Thomas Overbury, A Wife, 5th impression (London, 1614). Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), pp. 522-3. Hannah (1845), pp. 28-31. Some texts of this poem discussed in C.F. Main, ‘Wotton's “The Character of a Happy Life”’, The Library, 5th Ser. 10 (1955), 270-4, and in Ted-Larry Pebworth, ‘New Light on Sir Henry Wotton's “The Character of a Happy Life”’, The Library, 5th Ser. 33 (1978), 223-6 (plus plates).

51.a.14

A few autograph annotations. 1575.

*CmW 132: William Camden, Peucer, Caspar. Commentarius de praecipuis generibus diuinationum (Wittenberg, 1560)

115.k. 3

Exemplum of Vanbrugh's eight-page printed pamphlet. With his autograph deletions and changes, signed by him (p. 2). [1721].

*VaJ 17: Sir John Vanbrugh, Sir John Vanbrugh's Justification of What He Depos'd in the Duke of Marlborough's late Tryal

Printed from this exemplum in Works. Discussed in Frances Harris, ‘Parliament and Blenheim Palace: The House of Lords Appeal of 1721’, Parliamentary History, 8 (1989), 43-62 (pp. 54-5, 61). A letter by Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough, dated 4 May 1721, refers to this work as ‘S^r Johns libell again me’ (British Library, Add. MS 61464, f. 126r-v).

First published [in London, 1721]. Works, IV (1928), pp. 177-92 (Appendix I, No. 1).

162.d.8

MS corrections in an exemplum of the printed edition of 1629. 17th century.

MsP 38: Philip Massinger, The Roman Actor

This item collated in Edwards & Gibson.

First published in London, 1629. Edwards & Gibson, III, 13-93.

231.k.40

Inscription in an unidentified hand, unsigned.and marginalia. Mid-late 16th century.

HvG 178: Gabriel Harvey, Philbert de Vienne. Le Philosophe De Court (Paris, 1548)

Stern, p. 269.

291.a.48

A printed exemplum, with a missing word near the top of sig. F6^v supplied in John Bale's hand. 1549.

LeJ 94.5: John Leland, The Laboryouse Journey and Serche of Johan Leylande for Englandes Antiquitees

See W.W. Greg, ‘Pen-and-Ink Corrections’, RES, 7 (1931), 337.

First published in London, 1549, ed. John Bale.

479. e. 6 (3)

Copy, headed ‘A Sermon Preachd at ye funurell of y^t worthy knight S^r George Dalston of Dalston in Cumberland Sept: 26 1657. By J:T: D.D. iCor: 15. 19’. Neatly written on six folio leaves bound-in at the end of a composite volume of printed works by Taylor (1666-8). Late 17th century.

TaJ 27: Jeremy Taylor, A Sermon Preached at the Funerall of S^r George Dalston

Formerly cited in IELM, II.ii (1993) as TaJ 3.

First published in London, 1658. Eden, VIII, 541-70.

531.f.8

Annotations in an unidentified hand, unsigned. Late 16th century.

*HvG 173: Gabriel Harvey, Gemma Frisius. Gemmae Frisii Medici Ac Mathematici De Astrolabo Catholico Liber quo latissime patentis Instrumenti multiplex usus explicatur, & quicquid uspiam rerum Mathematicarum tradi possit continetur (Antwerp, 1556)

Stern, p. 267.

533.k.1

Autograph annotations and marginalia.

*HvG 74: Gabriel Harvey, Euclid. Liber Primus Geometrie [translated by Boethius] (Paris, 1527)

Stern, p. 212.

533.k.1

Autograph annotations and marginalia.

*HvG 151: Gabriel Harvey, Sacrobosco, Joannis de. Textus de Sphaera...Introductoria Additione...commentarioque, ad utilitatem studientium philosophiae Parisiensis Academiae illustratus, Cum compositione Annuli astronomici Boneti Latensis: Ex Geometria Euclidis Megarensis (Paris, 1527)

Stern, pp. 233-4.

533.k.1(2)

Autograph annotations and marginalia.

*HvG 41: Gabriel Harvey, Bonetus de Lates. Hebrei medici Provenzalis Annuli per eum compositi super astrologiam utilitates incipiunt (Paris, 1527)

Stern, p. 203.

644. b. 57

Proof-sheet of both inner and outer formes of sheet C with twelve manuscript proof-corrections, made either in-house or possibly by Jonson, in an exemplum of the printed edition of 1623/4.

JnB 687.5: Ben Jonson, Neptune's Triumph for the Return of Albion

This proof-sheet recorded in James B. Hammersmith, ……AEB, 7 (1983), 188-215 (p. 214). Discussed, with facsimiles, in Johan Gerritsen, ‘A Jonson Proof-Sheet — Neptunes Triumph’, in Studies in Seventeenth-Century English Literature, History and Bibliography: Festschrift for Professor T.A. Birrell (Amsterdam, 1984), pp. 107-17.

First published in London, 1623[/4]. Herford & Simpson, VII, 675-700.

644. d. 20

Copy, untitled and here beginning ‘A Nostradame with all his Art can guess’. On two quarto pages tipped in between the title-page and Stationer's Address (A2), in a printed exemplum (with pencil annotations) of Beaumont and Fletcher's Philaster, 4th impression (London, 1639), in later half brown morocco on marbled boards. c.1690.

DrJ 141.5: John Dryden, Prologue To The Prophetess. Spoken by Mr. Betterton (‘What Nostradame, with all his Art can guess’)

Among the collection of David Garrick.

First published in Thomas Betterton, The Prophetess: or, The History of Dioclesian (London, 1690). Poems on Affairs of State, Part III (London, 1698). Kinsley, II, 556-7. California, III, 255-6. Hammond, III, 231-4.

669. f. 8 (4)

Copy, in a predominantly italic hand, headed ‘A Letre Concerninge these tymes. 1643’, on both sides of a folio leaf bound in a volume of printed tracts. c.1643.

SuJ 156: John Suckling, To Mr. Henry German, In the Beginning of Parliament, 1640

Among the collection of George Thomason (c.1602-66), bookseller and collector of printed tracts.

This MS collated in Clayton. Microfilm in the British Library (Mic. B.58/245).

First published as A Coppy of a Letter Found in the Privy Lodgeings at Whitehall (London, 1641). Fragmenta Aurea (London, 1646). Clayton, pp. 163-7.

832. a. 34

Autograph annotations.

*LeJ 97: John Leland, Homer's Iliad: Latin translation by L. Valla (Cologne, 1522)

844. k. 4 (2)

Autograph annotations. c.1598.

*CmW 115: William Camden, [Bible. - Song of Solomon] Willerami Abbatis in Canticum Canticorum paraphrasis gemina (Lyons, 1598)

1019. i. 18 (1).

Exemplum of the printed quarto edition of 1604 with the unprinted pages (sigs E1^v-E2^r, E3^v-E4^r, F1^r-F3^r) supplied in MS. 1604.

BcF 128.5: Francis Bacon, Certain Considerations touching the Better Pacification and Edification of the Church of England

Facsimile of sigs D4^v-[E1^r] in Serjeantson and Woolford, p. 146.

First published in London, 1604. Spedding, X, 103-27. The circumstances of the original publication and the book's suppression by the Bishop of London discussed, with a census of relevant exempla, in Richard Serjeantson and Thomas Woolford, ‘The Scribal Publication of a Printed Book: Francis Bacon's Certaine Considerations Touching...the Church of England (1604)’, The Library, 7th Ser. 10/2 (June 2009), 119-56.

1038.e.4

Annotations in an unidentified hand, unsigned.

*HvG 172: Gabriel Harvey, Cardanus, Hieronymus. Hieronymi Castellionei Cardani Medici Mediolanensis de malo recentiorum medicorum medendi usu libellus (Venice, 1536)

Stern, p. 265.

1075.m.16 (3)

A few MS corrections in an exemplum of the printed edition of 1546. Mid-16th century. 16th century.

pp. 219-33

• LeJ 1: John Leland, Laudatio pacis (‘Martia bella canant alij, gladiosque cruentos’)

Exemplum of the edition of 1546 with a few MS corrections.

This item recorded in James Hutton, ‘John Leland's Laudatio pacis’, SP, 58 (1961), 616-26.

First published in London, 1546. Reprinted in Joannis Lelandi...collectanea, ed. Thomas Hearne, 3rd edition (London, 1774), V, 69-78.

1077.e.52

MS of a Latin version by Theodore Bathurst (c.1587-1652), Latin poet and clergyman, beginning ‘Forte puer (nec enim titulo potiore misellus’), bound with a printed exemplum of Spenser's work (1597 edition). Early 17th century.

SpE 27.4: Edmund Spenser, The Shepheardes Calender

Discussed in Leicester Bradner, ‘The Latin Translations of Spenser's Shepheardes Calender’, MP, 33 (1935-6), 21-6.

First published in London, ‘1579’. Variorum, Minor Poems, vol. I, 1-120.

1161.b.1

Inscriptions, probably autograph, ‘Naunton’ (cropped by binder) and ‘Robert Naunton præt 3^s 4^d’ on the title-page, in the first octavo volume of this work (the second volume, 1161.b.2, not inscribed). Late 16th-early 17th century.

*NaR 42: Sir Robert Naunton, Giraldi, Giglio Gregorio. Historiæ poetarum tam Græcorum quam Latinorum Dialogi decem (Basle, 1545)

3205.c.16

Signed by Wotton on the title-page. c.1620.

*WoH 306: Sir Henry Wotton, Cartwright, Thomas. Confutation of the Rhemish Translation...of the New Testament (1618)

3935. aa. 33

MS corrections in two hands, made from a MS source, in an exemplum of the printed edition of ‘1595’. c.1600s.

SoR 311: Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, An Humble Supplication to Her Majesty

This item collated in Bald.

First published (by a secret English press) ‘1595’ [for 1600?]. Edited by R .C. Bald (Cambridge, 1953).

11355

A printed exemplum, with two signatures ‘Edm Waller’ on the title-page. Mid-17th century.

*WaE 892: Edmund Waller, Ovidius Naso, Publius. Epistolae ex Ponto, 4 vols (Paris, 1641-8)

Rodd's sale catalogue No. iv (1837), item 1073. Sotheby's, 17 December 1849, lot 216. Bookplate of A. Russell Pollock, Greenhill, 10 September 1857.

11626. c. 4

Exemplum of Poems (1689). 18th century?

Owned in 1721 by one William Jonge.

p. 296

• CnC 104: Charles Cotton, Q. Cicero de Mulierum levitate. Translat. (‘Commit a Ship unto the Wind’)

Four more lines (beginning ‘They are all treacherous in their love’) added in MS to the printed text.

First published (two texts) in Poems (1689), pp. 296, 614-15.

Ashley 3464

An exemplum of the printed quarto edition (1605) containing on the title-page Jonson's presentation inscription ‘The Testemony of my Affection, & Obseruance to my noble Freind S^r. Robert Townseehend’, also bearing contemporary textual emendations. 1605.

*JnB 729.2: Ben Jonson, Sejanus his Fall

Sotheby's, 13 July 1909, to Dobell. Afterwards owned by Thomas James Wise (1859-1937), book collector and forger.

Edited in Herford & Simpson, IV, 331; VIII, 665.

First published in London, 1605. Herford & Simpson, IV, 327-486.

Bagford 5990

Autograph annotations and marginalia.

*HvG 102: Gabriel Harvey, Harvey, Gabriel. Ode Natalitia, Vel Opus Eius Feriae, quae S. Stephani protomartyris nomine celebrata est anno 1574. In memoriam P. Rami, optimi, et clarissimi viri (London, 1575)

Stern, p. 219.

Bagford 5991

Autograph annotations and marginalia.

*HvG 138: Gabriel Harvey, [Olendorpius, Joan.]. Loci Communes Juris Civilis. Ex mendis tandem, & barbarie, in gratiam studiosorum utiliter restituti. Addita sunt Praesumptionum fere omnium, quae in foro frequentantur. Exempla; cum Joan. Oldendorphii Epistola nuncupatoria (Lyons, 1551)

Stern, p. 229.

C.12.e.17

An exemplum of the printed quarto edition (1607) containing Jonson's presentation inscription to ‘his louing Father, & worthy Freind M^r John Florio’. 1607.

*JnB 737.5: Ben Jonson, Volpone

Later owned by Dr Charles Chauncy (1709-77). Sotheby's, 15 April 1790 (Charles and Nathaniel Chauncy sale), lot b362, to Dent for the Duke of Grafton

Edited in Herford & Simpson, VIII, 665, with a facsimile in I, 56. Facsimiles in the Scholar Press facsimile of this exemplum (Menston, 1968); in DLB, vol. 62, Elizabethan Dramatists, ed. Fredson Bowers (Detroit, 1987), p. 144; and in Nicolas Barker et al., Treasures of the British Library (London, 1988), p. 236.

First published in London, 1607. Herford & Simpson, V, 1-137.

C.12.h.17-18

Early annotations in a printed exemplum. c.1590s-early 17th century.

SpE 89: Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene (London, 1590)

Discussed in the anonymous ‘MS Notes to Spenser's “Faerie Queene”’, N&Q, 202 (December 1957), 509-15, and in Alastair Fowler, ‘Oxford and London Marginalia to “The Faerie Queene”’, N&Q, 206 (November 1961), 416-18.

C.12.h.19

MS of a Latin version by Theodore Bathurst (c.1587-1652), Latin poet and clergyman, beginning ‘Forte puer (nec enim titulo potiore misellus’),in two or more neat italic hands, on interleaves each facing the relevant printed text, in an exemplum of The Shepherds Calender (London, 1597), a quarto in 19th-century calf. Early 17th century.

SpE 27.5: Edmund Spenser, The Shepheardes Calender

First published in London, ‘1579’. Variorum, Minor Poems, vol. I, 1-120.

C.21.c.42

Five autograph corrections and insertions in the margins of the text of Lycidas. On pages taken from an exemplum of the first printed edition, now re-mounted in an imperfect exemplum of Obsequies to the memorie of Mr. Edward King [a portion of the edition of Justa Edouardo King naufrago, ab amicis moerentibus, amoris] (Cambridge, 1638). 1638.

*MnJ 12: John Milton, Lycidas (‘Yet once more, O ye Laurels, and once more’)

These corrections collated in Columbia (XVIII, 640) and in Darbishire. Facsimile examples in Sotheby, Ramblings, after p. 98, Plate XIV, No. iii; Hugh C.H. Candy, ‘Milton Autographs Established’, The Library, 4th Ser. 13 (1932), 192-200 (Plate II).

First published, among ‘Obsequies to the memorie of Mr. Edward King’, in Justa Edouardo King naufrago, ab amicis moerentibus, amoris (Cambridge, 1638). Poems (1645). Columbia, I, 76-83. Darbishire, II, 163-70. Carey & Fowler, pp. 232-54.

C.28.a.21

A printed exemplum with the signature ‘Ed Waller’ on the title-page. Mid-17th century.

*WaE 901: Edmund Waller, Seneca, Lucius Annaeus. Decem tragoediae (Leiden, 1580)

C.28.c.12 (1)

Exemplum of the ‘Fifth’ edition of Waller's Poems (8°: London, 1686) extensively annotated in MS throughout by ‘P.N.’ [i.e. Philip Neve]. Exemplum of the ‘Fifth’ edition of Waller's Poems (8°: London, 1686) extensively annotated in MS throughout by ‘P.N.’ [i.e. Philip Neve], who records in a MS preface dated July 1788 that his notes (to p. 238) ‘that are written in the same hand as the 3 following pages are transcribed from B[isho]p Atterbury's Copy [i.e. that of Francis Atterbury (1662-1732), Bishop of Rochester] who wrote with Waller's MS before him, as appears at p. 230 (see WaE 371). The B[isho]p either made his Remarks in a Copy of the 3d. Edition, published in 1668 — or the MS he consulted was what Waller had corrected for that Edition — as the Notes &c. go to the very page where that Edition ends. How far in his Alterations Atterbury followed the MS it is fruitless to enquire — very improbably throughout’. The notes record variant readings and alterations for 53 poems in the volume (each of which is given a separate entry below). A selection of these MS readings is listed in Deas, pp. 321-4. c.1788.

The volume with Atterbury's notes and emendations that are copied here can be identified as that in Westminster Abbey (CB 67).

At the end of the volume (on pp. 307-10) are MS copies by Neve of two further poems by Waller [see WaE 417, WaE 780-1] transcribed from an independent [and now unlocated] ‘very antient Ms which contains most of Waller's other Pieces, written before 1645, tho' none afterwards’, as well as poems by Lord Herbert of Cherbury, Sir John Suckling and Thomas Carew, and this ‘Ancient Ms’ is also cited as the source for some MS lines and alterations inserted by Neve in the printed text of poems on pp. 27-8 and 30-3. Neve records three poems by Waller from the same source in his Cursory Remarks on some of the Antient English Poets, particularly Milton (London, 1789), pp. 70-2 [see WaE 103, WaE 532, WaE 780-1]. It is possibly from this source that Neve also derived the text of ‘a few hitherto unprinted Verses of Waller’ which he sent to George Steevens on 14 April 1789, as is witnessed by his accompanying letter of that date in the Folger (MS C. b. 10(116)). For one other, unrelated, MS of the 17th-century verse once owned by Neve, see DnJ Δ 33.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993) as the ‘Atterbury-Neve volume’: WaE Δ 15. For Neve's alterations in the accompanying exemplum of The Seconde Part of Mr. Waller's Poems (London, 1690), see WaE 377. NB. The preface printed in this edition was almost certainly written by Francis Atterbury. According to a MS note by the publisher Jacob Tonson in an unlocated exemplum last recorded in 1891, Atterbury was also responsible for printing the poems published for Tonson in The Maid's Tragedy Altered. With some other Pieces by Edmund Waller (London, 1690), his source being ‘a Manuscript Copy of them’ borrowed by Atterbury ‘of Dr. Birch’ [i.e. Dr Peter Birch (1652?-1710), Chaplain to the House of Commons, who married Waller's daughter Mary]: see Thorn-Drury, II, 150-1; a note by J.T.Y. in N&Q, 7th Ser. 11 (4 April 1891), 266-7; and also Life (1711), p. xl.

Folkestone Williams further records that Atterbury used an exemplum of the ‘Third’ edition of Waller's Poems (1668), ‘probably during his college career’, containing ‘numerous corrections by him’ and that Atterbury ‘compiled a collection of select passages [from Waller] still in his handwriting’ (Memoirs and Correspondence of Francis Atterbury, D.D., 2 vols (London, 1869), I, 48). For other evidence of Atterbury's association with Waller, see WaE Δ 6.

pp. 15-19

• WaE 643: Edmund Waller, To the Queen, Occasioned upon Sight of Her Majesty's Picture (‘Well fare the hand! which to our humble sight’)

MS alterations to the printed text.

First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 8-10.

pp. 19-22

• WaE 685: Edmund Waller, Upon His Majesty's Repairing of Paul's (‘That shipwrecked vessel which the Apostle bore’)

MS alteration to the printed text.

First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 16-18.

pp. 23-4

• WaE 57: Edmund Waller, The Country to My Lady of Carlisle (‘Madam, of all the sacred Muse inspired’)

MS alterations to the printed text.

First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 21.

pp. 24-7

• WaE 51: Edmund Waller, The Countess of Carlisle in Mourning (‘When from black clouds no part of sky is clear’)

MS alteration to the printed text.

First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 22-3.

pp. 27-8

• WaE 100: Edmund Waller, In Answer to One who Writ against a Fair Lady (‘What fury has provoked thy wit to dare’)

Extensive MS alterations to the printed text, with an inserted slip containing six lines in MS beginning ‘Tho' Ceres' child co^d. not avoide the Rape’ to be inserted after line 12, subscribed ‘P.N.’ and ‘Antient Ms’ [i.e. these lines derived from Philip Neve's separate MS: see Introduction].

First published, in a four-stanza version headed ‘In Answer to a libell against her, &c’, in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 24-5.

pp. 29-30

• WaE 336: Edmund Waller, On My Lady Dorothy Sidney's Picture (‘Such was Philoclea, such Musidorus' flame!’)

MS alterations to the printed text.

First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 43.

pp. 30-3

• WaE 657: Edmund Waller, To Vandyck (‘Rare Artisan, whose pencil moves’)

MS alterations to the printed text, with the comment by ‘P.N.’ that these readings are ‘In an antient Ms. (probably before the 1^st. Edit)’ [i.e. they derive from a separate MS, not from Atterbury: see Introduction]. c.1788.

First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 44-5.

pp. 33-4

• WaE 275: Edmund Waller, Of the Lady who can Sleep when she Pleases (‘No wonder sleep from careful lovers flies’)

MS alterations to the printed text.

First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 49.

pp. 34-6

• WaE 299: Edmund Waller, Of the Misreport of her being Painted (‘As when a sort of wolves infest the night’)

MS alterations to the printed text.

First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 50.

pp. 36-7

• WaE 194: Edmund Waller, Of her Passing through a Crowd of People (‘As in old chaos (heaven with earth confused)’)

MS alterations to the printed text.

First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 51.

pp. 37-8

• WaE 466: Edmund Waller, The Story of Phoebus and Daphne, Applied (‘Thyrsis, a youth of the inspired train’)

MS alterations to the printed text.

First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 52.

pp. 39-40

• WaE 231: Edmund Waller, Of Mrs. Arden (‘Behold, and listen, while the fair’)

MS alteration to the printed text.

First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 91. A musical setting by Henry Lawes published in Select Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1669).

C.28.c12(2)

Exemplum of The Second Part of Mr. Waller's Poems (London, 1690). accompanying the Atterbury-Neve volume (C. 28. c. 12 (1)). c.1788.

pp. 62-72

• WaE 377: Edmund Waller, A Panegyric to my Lord Protector, of the present Greatness, and joint Interest of His Highness, and this Nation (‘While with a strong and yet a gentle hand’)

Extensive MS alterations to the printed text., probably collations with the edition of 1655.

First published London, 1655. The Second Part of Mr. Waller's Poems (London, 1690). in The Maid's Tragedy Altered (London, 1690). Thorn-Drury, II, 10-17.

C.28.e.7

Exemplum of Waller's Poems, ‘Third’ edition (London, 1668). After December 1677.

Volume presented by Waller to Mary of Modena, Duchess of York, wife of the future James II, the elaborate binding bearing her arms.

[unnumbered pages]

• WaE 610: Edmund Waller, To the Duchess, when he presented this book to Her Royal Highness (‘Madam! / I here present you with the rage’)

Copy in a calligraphic hand, written on Waller's behalf, headed ‘This Booke, never Dedicated to any before, humbly desires the Patronage of hir R: Highness’, written sideways along the length of the page on five preliminary pages.

This MS recorded in Thorn-Drury, II, 212.

First published in Poems, ‘Fourth’ edition (London, 1682). Thorn-Drury, II, 71.

[unnumbered pages]

• WaE 688: Edmund Waller, Upon our late Loss of the Duke of Cambridge (‘The failing blossoms which a young plant bears’)

Copy in a calligraphic hand, written on Waller's behalf, headed ‘Vpon our Publick loss of The late Duke of Cambridge’, written sideways down the length of the page on three pages at the end.

This MS recorded in Thorn-Drury, II, 212.

First published in Poems, ‘Fourth’ edition (London, 1682). Thorn-Drury, II, 79.

C.28.e.9

Exemplum of Poems. 1638.

passim

• RnT 589: Thomas Randolph, Vir Durus ac honestus Richardus Westonus (‘Allthough your Lordshipps happy anagram’)

Ascribed to ‘Tho Randolph’ on the flyleaf.

Printed in Parry, p. 219.

Published in Parry, p. 219.

C.28.e.15

Printed octavo exemplum of A New Collection of Poems relating to State Affairs, from Oliver Cromwel to this present Time (London, 1705), annotated, and the lacunae supplied in MS throughout, by the poet Alexander Pope (1688-1744), in old speckled leather (rebacked). Early 18th century.

Inscribed (f. [ii^r]) Ex libris Alexandri Pope and (f. [i^r]) ‘J. Mitford, 1849’.

Described and the annotations edited in Maynard Mack, ‘A Finding List of Books Surviving from Pope's Library with a Few That May Not Have Survived’, Collected in Himself: Essays Critical, Biographical, and Bibliographical on Pope and Some of His Contemporaries (Newark, Delaware, 1982), 394-460 [434-437].

pp. 31-42

• MaA 363.5: Andrew Marvell, The Third Advice to a Painter (‘Sandwich in Spain now, and the Duke in love’)

A sidenote (p. 37) and emendations in two lines (p. 39) in the hand of Alexander Pope.

First published in Directions to a Painter…Of Sir Iohn Denham ([London], 1667). POAS, I, 67-87. Lord, pp. 130-44. Smith, pp. 346-56. Recorded in Osborne, pp. 32-3, as anonymous.

See discussions of the disputed authorship of this poem, as well as of the ‘Second Advice’, cited before MaA 314.

pp. 98-104

• MaA 144.5: Andrew Marvell, A Dialogue between the Two Horses (‘Wee read in profane and Sacred records’)

Copy of five lines (in the margin p. 100) and some names and lacunae supplied, in the hand of Alexander Pope.

First published in The Second Part of the Collection of Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1689). Margoliouth, I, 208-13, as ‘probably Marvell's’. POAS, I, 274-83, as anonymous. Rejected from the canon by Lord.

p. 562

• DoC 190: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, On the Countess of Dorchester (III) (‘Proud with the spoils of royal cully’)

Copy of the third stanza, beginning ‘Her Bed is like the Marriage Feast’, in the hand of Alexander Pope.

First published in A Collection of Miscellany Poems, by Mr. Brown (London, 1699). POAS, V (1971), 384-5. Harris, pp. 43-4. In most texts the poem runs directly on from the previous poem on the Countess of Dorchester (DoC 173-85).

C.28.g.5

Jonson's autograph dedication to Queen Anne, in Latin, in his presentation exemplum of the printed quarto edition (1609). 1609.

*JnB 685.2: Ben Jonson, The Masque of Queens

Later owned by Richard Heber (1774-1833), book collector, and by Thomas Grenville (1755-1846), politician and book collector.

The inscription edited in Herford & Simpson, VII, 279. Facsimile in Greg, English Literary Autographs, Plate XXIV(a).

First published in London, 1609. Herford & Simpson, VII, 265-317.

C.28.m.2

Autograph epistle signed, in Latin, written by Elyot in his italic hand on the flyleaf of a printed exemplum of The Dictionary of Syr T. E. Knyght (London, 1538) presented by him to Thomas Cromwell. 1538.

*ElT 14: Thomas Elyot, Letter(s)

Wilson, pp. 33-5, with an English translation on pp. 35-7.

C.28.m.6

Bale's autograph annotations and additions in his exemplum of the printed edition of 1557 (Part I). [1557-63].

BaJ 27: John Bale, Scriptorum illustrium Maioris Brytanniae catalogus

Bale's MS marginalia in this exemplum printed in Joannis de Trokelowe, Annales Eduardi II, ed. Thomas Hearne (Oxford, 1729). Facsimile of p. 226 (with Bale's annotations) in Theodore Besterman, The Beginnings of Systematic Bibliography, 2nd edition (London, 1936), facing p. 22.

First published in Basle, 1557. Reprinted in facsimile (Farnborough, 1971).

C.28.m.11

Autograph fair copy, inserted in a printed exemplum of Jonson's folio Workes (London, 1640). With his note ‘These verses were made by the aucthor of this booke, and were deliuered to the Earle of Somersett vpon his lo:^pps wedding day; they are written by his owne hand’. [1613].

*JnB 529: Ben Jonson, To the most noble, and aboue his Titles, Robert, Earle of Somerset (‘They are not those, are present w^th theyre face’)

Sotheby's, 9 February 1852, lot 585.

Edited from this MS in anon. article and in Herford & Simpson. Facsimile in Flower & Munby, English Poetical Autographs, p. 8.

First published in anon., ‘Ben Jonson's Verses on the Marriage of the Earl of Somerset’, N&Q, 5 (28 February 1852), 193-4. Herford & Simpson, VIII, 384.

C.32.e.14

An exemplum of the printed edition of 1600, with the arms of the persons mentioned therein emblazoned in the margins. This exemplum may have been presented to Queen Elizabeth I. 1600.

CmW 16.5: William Camden, Reges, reginae, nobiles & alij in Ecclesia Collegiata B. Petri Westmonasterij sepulti, vsque ad annum 1600

First published in London, 1600.

C.4.c.5

An exemplum of the printed edition of 1616, marked-up as a promptbook, possibly used by the King's Company in the 1660s-70s. c.1660s-70s.

B&F 166.5: Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, The Scornful Lady

First published in London, 1616. Dyce, III, 1-113. Bullen, I, 355-473, ed. R.W. Bond. Bowers, II, 464-545, ed. Cyrus Hoy.

C.34.c.15

An original proof-sheet (inner forme of sheet D) with MS corrections, in an exemplum of the printed quarto edition of 1606. 1606.

ChG 17: George Chapman, Monsieur D'Olive

This item described in W.W. Greg, ‘A Proof-Sheet of 1606’, The Library, 4th Ser. 17 (1936-7), 454-7. Also discussed in James P. Hammersmith, ‘Early Proofing: The Evidence of Extant Proof-Sheets’, AEB, 7 (1983), 188-215 (pp. 198-9).

Recorded in Holaday, pp. 401-2, and in Jan Moore, p. 69.

First published in London, 1606. Edited by Allan Holaday in Urbana edition, Comedies, pp. 397-471.

C.34.d.4

Jonson's autograph dedication to Queen Anne, in Latin, in his presentation exemplum of the printed quarto edition (1608). 1608.

*JnB 684.5: Ben Jonson, The Masques of Blackness and of Beauty

Later owned by David Garrick (1717-79), actor and playwright.

The inscription is edited inHerford & Simpson, VIII, 663.

C.34.d.51

Extract, beginning ‘O, could I flow...’, written on a rear flyleaf in a printed exemplum of Robert Peele's The Arraignment of Paris (London, 1584). c.1650s-60s.

DeJ 7.5: Sir John Denham, Cooper's Hill (‘Sure there are Poets which did never dream’)

First published in London, 1642. Poems and Translations (London, 1668). Banks, pp. 62-89. O Hehir, Hieroglyphicks.

C.34.e.18

A few minor MS corrections in an exemplum of the printed quarto edition of 1612. 17th century.

WeJ 13: John Webster, The White Devil

Formerly owned by David Garrick.

These corrections recorded in Lucas, I, 276 et seq.

First published in London, 1612. Lucas, I. Cambridge edition, I, 139-254.

C. 34.g.33

This volume has bound in at the beginning a leaf, evidently extracted from some other book, bearing the inscription ‘Ex dono Phineae ffletcheri authoris’ and, in a different hand, two lines in Latin subscribed ‘Phinees ffletcher’, but none of this writing is in Fletcher's hand. The volume once had bindings stamped with the arms of Edward Benlowes (1603?-76), the dedicatee of the work. 1633.

FlP 21: Phineas Fletcher, The Purple Island...together with Piscatorie Eclogs and other Poetical Miscellanies (Cambridge, 1633)

See Boas, I, xii; II, vii.

C.39.a.37

An octavo verse miscellany, chiefly (ff. 1r-14r) in a single small mixed hand, i + 15 leaves, the eighth and last item in a composite volume of otherwise printed amatory poems and pamphlets, in 19th-century quarter brown calf. c.1620s.

The volume inscribed (on flyleaves) ‘E Bedford’, ‘W Monteagle’, ‘Fra: Goodwin’, ‘Edw nedwarde’.

The MS poems here edited in Frederick J. Furnivall, Love-Poems and Humourous Ones, The Ballad Society (Hertford, 1874; reprinted New York, 1977).

f. 1r-v

• CmT 166: Thomas Campion, ‘Young and simple though I am’

Copy of a six-stanza version, untitled.

Furnivall, pp. 5-6.

First published in Alfonso Ferrabosco, Ayres (London, 1609). Campion, The Third and Fourth Booke of Ayres (London [1617]), Book IV, No. ix. Davis, p. 177. Doughtie, p. 295.

ff. 2v-3v

• HoJ 325: John Hoskyns, John Hoskins to the Lady Jacob (‘Oh loue whose powre & might non euer yet w^thstood’)

Copy, untitled.

Furnivall, pp. 7-9.

Osborn, p. 301.

f. 9r-v

• RnT 6: Thomas Randolph, Ad Amicam (‘Sweet, doe not thy beauty wrong’)

Copy, untitled and here beginning ‘Deare doe not your faire bewtie wronge’.

Furnivall, p. 16. This MS recorded in Parry, p. 369.

First published, in a version beginning ‘Deare, doe not your fair beauty wrong’, in Thomas May, The Old Couple (London, 1658), p. 25. Attributed to Randolph in Parry (1917), p. 224. Thorn-Drury, p. 168.

ff. 9v-10r

• JnB 21: Ben Jonson, A Celebration of Charis in ten Lyrick Peeces. 4. Her Triumph (‘See the Chariot at hand here of Love’)

Copy of lines 21-30, untitled and here beginning ‘Haue you seene the white lilly growe’, with an additional stanza beginning ‘Haue you seene the faire christall rocke’.

Furnivall, pp. 16-17.

First published (all ten poems) in The Vnder-wood (ii) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 131-42 (pp. 134-5). Lines 11-30 of poem 4 (beginning ‘Doe but looke on her eyes, they do light’) first published in The Devil is an Ass, II, vi, 94-113 (London, 1631).

f. 12v

• RaW 403: Sir Walter Ralegh, ‘ICUR, good Mounser Carr’

Copy.

Furnivall, p. 20.

First published in Love-Poems and Humourous Ones, ed. Frederick J. Furnivall, The Ballad Society (Hertford, 1874; reprinted in New York, 1977), p. 20. Listed but not printed in Latham, p. 174. Rudick, No. 48, p. 121 (as ‘Sir Walter Raleigh to the Lord Carr’).

f. 13r

• HrJ 143: Sir John Harington, Of a Lady that left open her Cabbinett (‘A vertuose Lady sitting in a muse’)

Copy, untitled, here beginning ‘A uirtuouse ladie sittinge in a muse’.

Furnivall, p. 21.

First published in ‘Epigrammes’ appended to J[ohn] C[lapham], Alcilia, Philoparthens Louing Folly (London, 1613). McClure No. 404, p. 312. Kilroy, Book IV, No. 57, p. 231.

f. 13v

• HrJ 197: Sir John Harington, Of a pregnant pure sister (‘I learned a tale more fitt to be forgotten’)

Copy of a ten-line version, untitled and here beginning ‘A puritane, with one of hir societie’.

Furnivall, p. 22.

First published (13-line version) in The Epigrams of Sir John Harington, ed. N.E. McClure (Philadelphia, 1926), but see HrJ 197. McClure (1930), No. 413, p. 315. Kilroy, Book IV, No. 80, p. 239.

f. 15r-v

• CwT 711: Thomas Carew, Secresie protested (‘Feare not (deare Love) that I'le reveale’)

Copy, untitled and here beginning ‘Thinke not, deare loue that I'le reueale’.

Furnivall, p. 24.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 11. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in The Second Book of Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1655).

C.39.b.54

An imperfect exemplum of the printed edition of 1603, with MS corrections probably made in the printing house. 1603.

HlJ 3.1: Joseph Hall, The Kings Prophecie: or Weeping Ioy (‘What Stoick could his steely brest containe’)

Recorded in Davenport, p. lxxv.

C.45.a.9

Autograph annotations and marginalia.

*HvG 60: Gabriel Harvey, Demosthenes. Gnomologiae, sive sententiae collectaneae et similia ex Demosthenis orationibus et epistolis, in certa virtutum ac vitiorum capita, collectae per J. Loinum. Divi Gregorii sententiarum spiritualium libri tres J. Lango interprete. Arithmologia ethica, sententiae morales certis numeris comprehensa...a J. Camerario conversae (Basle, [1552])

Stern, p. 208. Discussed in Walter Colman, ‘Gabriel Harvey's Holograph Notes in his Copy of Gnomologiae’, in Elizabethan and Modern Studies, ed. J. P. Vander Motten (Ghent, 1985), pp. 57-65.

C.45.c.6

An autograph dedicatory epistle to Prince Charles and, on page 88, an autograph ‘Note omitted in the Presse’, in a printed exemplum of the 1624 edition. 1624.

*WoH 259.1: Sir Henry Wotton, The Elements of Architecture

The epistle edited in Pearsall Smith, II, 284-5. A facsimile in Greg, English Literary Autographs, Plate LXXXI(b).

First published in London, 1624.

C.46.i.1

Charles I's exemplum of the printed Oxford edition of 1640 with his motto and various comments and annotations by him in his neat rounded hand, a folio in modern crimson velvet gilt. 1640.

BcF 54.926: Francis Bacon, The Advancement of Learning

Bookplate of Sir Richard Brooke, Bt.

First published, as The Twoo Bookes of Francis Bacon. Of the proficience and aduancement of Learning, diuine and humane, in London, 1605. Spedding, III, 253-491. Edited by Michael Kiernan, The Oxford Francis Bacon, Vol. IV (Oxford, 2000).

C.47.e.13

Autograph inscription ‘Sum Nicolai vdalli. 1536’. 1536.

*UdN 9: Nicholas Udall, Cicero, Marcus Tullius. Commentarii questionum Tusculanarum editi a Philippo Beroaldo (Paris, 1509)

Juhász-Ormsby, No. 6.

C.60.1.7

An exemplum with Milton's autograph inscription, ‘Jo: Milton pre: 2^s.-6^d. 1631’, and some autograph annotations in the text (notably on pp. 1, 17, 30, 38, 45, 48 and probably 79 and 81) among various notes in other hands. Mid-17th century.

*MnJ 117: John Milton, Aratus. Phaenomena & Diosemeia (Paris, 1559)

Later owned by James Bindley, FSA (1737-1818), book collector. Evans's (i.e. Sotheby's), 7 December 1818 (Bindley sale, Part I, 2nd day), lot 540, to Triphook.

The annotations (including some not by Milton) edited in Columbia, XVIII, 325-7, and discussed in Maurice Kelley and Samuel D. Atkins, ‘Milton's Annotations of Aratus’, PMLA, 70 (1955), 1090-106. Facsimile examples in Sotheby, Ramblings, after p. 98, Plate XIV, No. ii; in Frederick G. Netherclift, The Hand-Book to Autographs (London, 1862), No. 6; in Maurice Kelley and Samuel D. Atkins, ‘Milton and the Harvard Pindar’, Studies in Bibliography, 17 (1964), 77-82. Recorded in Hanford, No. 5, and in Boswell, No. 61.

C.60.a.1(1)

Autograph annotations. 1582.

*HvG 96: Gabriel Harvey, Guazzo, S. Stefano. La Civil Conversatione...Divisa in IIII. Libri (Venice, 1581)

Stern, p. 217. Discussed in Kirsty Cochrane, ‘A Civil Conversation of 1582: Gabriel Harvey's Reading of Guazzo’, AUMLA, 78 (November 1992), 1-28.

C.60.a.1(2)

Autograph annotations and marginalia.

*HvG 106: Gabriel Harvey, Holyband, Claudius [Desainliens, Claude]. The pretie and wittie historie of Arnalt & Lucenda with certen rules and dialogues for the learner of the Italian tong (London, 1575)

Stern, p. 221.

C.60.e.13

Autograph annotations and marginalia.

*HvG 91: Gabriel Harvey, [Gasser, Achilles Pirminus]. Historiarum, et Chronicorum Totius Mundi Epitome ([Basle?], 1538)

Stern, p. 216.

C.60.e.14

Autograph annotations and marginalia.

*HvG 108: Gabriel Harvey, Hopperus, Ioachim. In veram Iurisprudentiam Isagoges ad filium Libri octo (Cologne, 1580)

Stern, p. 221.

C.60.f.4

Autograph annotations and marginalia.

*HvG 84: Gabriel Harvey, Freigius, Johannes Thomas. Mosaicus; Continens Historiam Ecclesiasticam, 2494 annorum, ab orbe condito usque as Mosis mortem (Basle, 1583)

Stern, p. 214.

C.60.f.8(1)

Autograph annotations and marginalia.

*HvG 42: Gabriel Harvey, Bourne, William. A Regiment for the Sea, Containing verie necessarie matters for all sorts of men and travailers; whereunto is added an Hydrographicall discourse touching the five several passages to Cattay; written by William Borne. Newlie corrected and amended by Thomas Hood; who hath added a new Regiment, and Table of declination (London, [1592])

Stern, p. 203.

C.60.f.8(2)

Autograph annotations and marginalia.

*HvG 107: Gabriel Harvey, Hood, Thomas. The marriners guide, set forth in forme of a dialogue, wherein the use of the plaine sea card is briefly and plainely delivered (London, 1592)

Stern, p. 221.

C.60.f.9

Autograph annotations and marginalia.

*HvG 54: Gabriel Harvey, Cicero. M. Tullii Ciceronis Epistolae Ad Atticum. Ad M. Brutum, Ad Quinctum Fratrem, Cum correctionibus Pauli Manutii (Venice, 1563)

Stern, p. 207.

C.60.h.17(2)

Autograph annotations and marginalia.

*HvG 100: Gabriel Harvey, Harvey, Gabriel. Gratulationum Valdinensium quatuor (London, 1578)

Stern, p. 219.

C.60.h.18

Autograph annotations and marginalia.

*HvG 128: Gabriel Harvey, [Meier, Georg, M.D. of Würtzburg]. In Judaeorum Medicastrorum calumnias, & homicidia; pro Christianis pia exhortatio. Ex Theologorum, & Juresconsultorum Decretis ([Speyer], 1570)

Harvey's annotations transcribed, with a facsimile of the annotated title-page and last page, in Frank Marcham, Lopez the Jew executed 1594: An Opinion by Gabriel Harvey (Harrow Weald, Middlesex, 1927). Stern, p. 227.

C.60.l.11

Autograph annotations and marginalia.

*HvG 144: Gabriel Harvey, Quintilian, M. Fabius. M. Fabii Quintiliani Oratoris eloquentissimi, Institutionum oratorium Libri XII (Paris, 1542)

Stern, p. 231.

C.60.O.6

Autograph annotations and marginalia.

*HvG 30: Gabriel Harvey, [Anon.]. These Oiles, Waters, Extractions, or Essence Saltes, and other Compositions; are at Paules wharfe ready made to be solde, by John Hester, practisioner in the arte of Distillation; who will also be ready for a reasonable stipend, to instruct any that are desirous to learne the secrets of the same in few dayes [n.d.]

Stern, p. 241.

C.60.O.7

Autograph annotations and marginalia.

*HvG 38: Gabriel Harvey, Blagrave, John. The Mathematical Jewel, shewing the making, and most excellent use of a singuler Instrument so called: in that it performeth with wonderfull dexteritie, whatsoever is to be done, either by Quadrant, Ship, Circle, Cylinder, Ring, Dyall, Horoscope, Astrolabe, Sphere, Globe...The use of which Jewel...leadeth...through the whole Artes of Astronomy, Cosmography, Geography, Topography, Navigation, Longitudes (London, 1585)

Stern, p. 202.

C.60.O.8

Autograph annotations and marginalia.

*HvG 19: Gabriel Harvey, Alkindus, Jacobus. Alkindus De Temporum Mutionibus, sive de imbribus, nunquam antea excussus. Nunc vero, per D. Io. Hieronymum a Scalingiis, emissus (Paris, 1540)

Stern, p. 199.

C.60.O.9

Autograph annotations and marginalia.

*HvG 77: Gabriel Harvey, Firmin de Beauval. Firmini reportorium de mutatione Aeris; Tam Via Astrologica, quam metheorologica; pristino notori restitutum, per Phillippum Iollainum Blereium, cum scholiis eiusdem (Paris, 1539)

Stern, p. 213.

C.60.O.10(2)

Autograph annotations and marginalia.

*HvG 110: Gabriel Harvey, Huggelius, Joannes Jacobus [Hugkel]. De Semeiotice Medicinae Parte, Tractatus: Ex probatis collectus authoribus, & in tabulae formam redactus (Basle, 1560)

Stern, p. 222.

C.60.O.10(3)

Autograph annotations and marginalia.

*HvG 43: Gabriel Harvey, Braunschweig, Hieronymus von. A most excellent and perfecte homish apothecarye, or homely physick booke for all the grefes and diseases of the bodye (Cologne, 1561)

Stern, p. 204.

C.60.O.10(3b)

Autograph annotations and marginalia.

*HvG 25: Gabriel Harvey, [Anon.]. An excellent, perfect, and an approved medicine and waie to helpe and cure the stone in the raines [n.d.]

Stern, p. 240.

C.60.O.11(1)

Autograph annotations and marginalia.

*HvG 44: Gabriel Harvey, Bruele, Gualterus. Praxis medicinae theorica, et empirica familiarissima (Antwerp, 1585)

Stern, p. 204.

C.61.d.2

Copy, in a neat roman hand, dated 16 August 1610, on a flyleaf. In a printed exemplum of Weston's Parthenicôn...Libri III (Prague, [1608]), together with some Latin verses inscribed in probably the same hand in Liber I, sigs D2^v-D3^r: namely, two lines subscribed ‘E. J. W.’; four lines subscribed ‘E. J. W.’; and two lines subscribed ‘E. D. WL.’; a four-line Latin inscription on the last blank leaf of Liber III in possibly another hand. c.1610.

WeE 1: Elizabeth Weston, Ad Lectorem (‘Omnia præsenti, Lector, quæcunque libello’)

The poem ‘Ad Lectorem’ edited from this MS in Collected Writings, with a complete facsimile on Plate 8 after p. xxxi.

Twenty-four verses to the reader of Weston's Parthenica, subscribed ‘Elisabetha Joanna, Vxor Joannis Leonis...Pragæ 16. Augusti A^o 1610’. Collected Writings (2000), pp. 304-7, with a facing English translation (beginning ‘Reader, in this present volume all works whatsoever’).

C.61.k.5

An exemplum with Walton's autograph memoranda on family births and deaths, including his epitaph on his wife Ann, dated from 22 August 1640 to 20 April 1662. 1640-62.

*WtI 136: Izaak Walton, Book of Common Prayer (London, 1639)

The memoranda edited in Keynes (1929), pp. 583-4. Facsimiles in Greg, English Literary Autographs, Plate LXXXVII, and in Facsimiles of Royal, Historical and Literary Autographs in the British Museum (1899), No. 97.

C.78.d.12

Autograph inscription ‘Sum Nicolai Vdalli Magnes amoris modestia 1524’ and annotations. 1524.

*UdN 7: Nicholas Udall, Apuleius, Lucius Madaurensis. Apuleius cum commento Beroaldi, et figuris nouiter additis (Venice, 1510)

Once owned by Thomas Cranmer (1489-1556), Archbishop of Canterbury; by Henry Fitzalan (1512-80), twelfth Earl of Arundel; by John, first Baron Lumley (c.1533-1609), collector; by Henry, Prince of Wales (1594-1612); and donated by George II in 1757.

Juhász-Ormsby, No. 1.

C.83.i.7

A printed exemplum, with the arms of Charles I, possibly presented to him.

SaG 50: George Sandys, A Paraphrase upon the Divine Poems (London, 1638)

See WaE 901.

C.117.b.10

Copy of Bathurst's Latin version, in a neat italic hand, on 71 pages of interleaves in an exemplum of the 1597 small quarto printed edition of Spenser's poem. Early 17th century.

SpE 27.6: Edmund Spenser, The Shepheardes Calender

Inscribed at the end ‘Edm: Withypoll’ [?]. Formerly bound with Ben Jonson's exemplum of George Chapman's Seven Bookes of the Iliades (London, 1598), which is now British Library C.39.d.46.

First published in London, ‘1579’. Variorum, Minor Poems, vol. I, 1-120.

C.117.e.52

MS, possibly autograph, of a Latin version by Theodore Bathurst (c.1587-1652), Latin poet and clergyman, beginning ‘Forte puer (nec enim titulo potiore misellus’), bound with a printed exemplum of Spenser's work (1597 edition). Early 17th century.

SpE 27.7: Edmund Spenser, The Shepheardes Calender

Discussed in Leicester Bradner, ‘The Latin Translations of Spenser's Shepheardes Calender’, MP, 33 (1935-6), 21-6.

First published in London, ‘1579’. Variorum, Minor Poems, vol. I, 1-120.

C.128.f.6

A printed exemplum with Sandys's autograph motto and signature on the title-page and his arms on the binding. Early 17th century.

*SaG 62: George Sandys, Voragine, Jacobus de. Legendario delle vite de' Santi (Venice, 1607)

Recorded in Davis pp. 456-7, and in Rogers, p. 369. Illustration of the book-stamp in Cyril Davenport, English Heraldic Book-Stamps (London, 1909), p. 333.

C.134.a.11

Autograph annotations. 1610.

*CmW 126: William Camden, Hotman, François.Francogallia (Cologne, 1574)

C.142.b.19

An original proof sheet (the inner formes of sheet F) containing three MS proof corrections in an exemplum of the printed quarto edition of 1630. [1630].

MsP 35: Philip Massinger, The Renegado

First published in London, 1630. Edwards & Gibson, II, 11-96.

C.142.d.16

Exemplum of the printed edition of 1632 (second issue) with the text of the missing leaves sigs I1-3 supplied in MS and with numerous MS corrections throughout. Mid-17th century.

MsP 28: Philip Massinger, The Maid of Honour

First published in London, 1632. Edwards & Gibson, I, 117-97.

C.175.dd.17

An original proof-sheet (sigs K2^v, K5^r), with eleven MS corrections, in an exemplum of the printed edition of 1618.

DaS 40: Samuel Daniel, The Collection of the History of England

Recorded in Jan Moore, p. 69. A facsimile example of the proof corrections is in Hofman & Freeman's sale catalogue No. 36 (April 1973), item 31.

First part first published in London, 1612. First published complete in London, [1618?]. Grosart, IV, 69-299. V, 1-291.

C.175.i.4

Autograph annotations and marginalia.

*HvG 39: Gabriel Harvey, Blundevill, Thomas. The foure chiefest Offices belonging to Horsemanship, That is to saie, The office of the Breeder, of the Rider; of the Keeper; and of the Herrer (London, 1580)

Stern, p. 202.

E.206 (9)

Copy, in an italic hand, on five pages of three quarto leaves bound at the end of a composite volume of otherwise printed pamphlets. Mid-17th century.

ClJ 27: John Cleveland, A Dialogue between two Zealots, upon the &c. in the Oath (‘Sir Roger, from a zealous piece of Freeze’)

Among the collection of George Thomason (c.1602-66), bookseller and collector of printed tracts.

First published in Character (1647). Morris & Withington, pp. 4-5.

Eve a 24

Exemplum of the first printed edition with copious autograph notes for a projected new edition (viz. the second edition of 1678), imperfect.

*EvJ 21: John Evelyn, A Philosophical Discourse of Earth

This volume bought at Christie's, 13 July 1978, lot 1701.

First published in London, 1676. Keynes, pp. 207-13.

G.2931

A printed exemplum, with a missing word near the top of sig. F6^v supplied in John Bale's hand. 1549.

LeJ 94.8: John Leland, The Laboryouse Journey and Serche of Johan Leylande for Englandes Antiquitees

See W.W. Greg, ‘Pen-and-Ink Corrections’, RES, 7 (1931), 337.

First published in London, 1549, ed. John Bale.

G.5443.(1)

Autograph annotations and marginalia.

*HvG 45: Gabriel Harvey, [Buchanan, George]. Ane admonition direct to the trew Lordis mantenaris of the Kingis Graces Authoritie M.G.B....accordyng to the Scottish copie Printed at Strivilyng by Robert Lekpreuik (London, 1571)

Stern, p. 204.

G.5543(2)

Autograph annotations and marginalia.

*HvG 88: Gabriel Harvey, G., R. [title-page missing] (London, 1571)

Stern, p. 215.

G.11214

MS corrections in an exemplum of the first printed edition. [1613?].

ChG 13: George Chapman, The Memorable Masque

This item recorded in Blakemore Evans, pp. 559-60.

First published in London, [1613]. Edited by G. Blakemore Evans in Urbana edition, Comedies, pp. 557-94. Also in Stephen Orgel and Roy Strong, Inigo Jones: The Theatre of the Stuart Court, 2 vols (University of California Press, 1973), I, 253-63.

G.11535-36

Early annotations in a printed exemplum. c.1590s-early 17th century.

SpE 88: Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene (London, 1590)

G.13221

An exemplum with Walton's autograph corrections. c.1658.

WtI 65: Izaak Walton, The Life of John Donne (London, 1658)

G.16448

Copy. Written on the end-leaf of a printed exemplum of Wits Recreations (London, 1641). Mid-17th century.

WoH 236.5: Sir Henry Wotton, A Farewell to the Vanities of the World (‘Farewell, ye gilded follies, pleasing troubles!’)

First published, as ‘a farewell to the vanities of the world, and some say written by D^r. D[onne], but let them bee writ by whom they will’, in Izaak Walton, The Complete Angler (London, 1653), pp. 243-5. Hannah (1845), pp. 109-13. The Poems of John Donne, ed. Herbert J.C. Grierson, 2 vols (Oxford, 1912), I, 465-7.

I. B. 41526 a & b

Autograph annotations concerning the invention of printing.

*DrW 348: William Drummond of Hawthornden, Boethius. De consolatione philosophiae (Lyons, 1486)

MacDonald, Library of Drummond, No. 425.

The British Library: Rare Books Room

8o P. Angl. 5346

51.a.14

115.k. 3

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231.k.40

291.a.48

479. e. 6 (3)

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533.k.1

533.k.1(2)

644. b. 57

644. d. 20

669. f. 8 (4)

832. a. 34

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1038.e.4

1075.m.16 (3)

1077.e.52

1161.b.1

3205.c.16

3935. aa. 33

11355

11626. c. 4

Ashley 3464

Bagford 5990

Bagford 5991

C.12.e.17

C.12.h.17-18

C.12.h.19

C.21.c.42

C.28.a.21

C.28.c.12 (1)

C.28.c12(2)

C.28.e.7

C.28.e.9

C.28.e.15

C.28.g.5

C.28.m.2

C.28.m.6

C.28.m.11

C.32.e.14

C.4.c.5

C.34.c.15

C.34.d.4

C.34.d.51

C.34.e.18

C. 34.g.33

C.39.a.37

C.39.b.54

C.45.a.9

C.45.c.6

C.46.i.1

C.47.e.13

C.60.1.7

C.60.a.1(1)

C.60.a.1(2)

C.60.e.13

C.60.e.14

C.60.f.4

C.60.f.8(1)

C.60.f.8(2)

C.60.f.9

C.60.h.17(2)

C.60.h.18

C.60.l.11

C.60.O.6

C.60.O.7

C.60.O.8

C.60.O.9

C.60.O.10(2)

C.60.O.10(3)

C.60.O.10(3b)

C.60.O.11(1)

C.61.d.2

C.61.k.5

C.78.d.12

C.83.i.7

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