RB 49490
Autograph signature and annotations. Including ‘gabrielharuey. 1592’, ‘giuen mee bie Mr Woolfe [the publisher], for a special rare Discourse’, and other annotations on the title-page and a twelve-line list of books on the verso; various marginal annotations throughout (some badly cropped); considerable underlining; and on the last page ‘gabrielharuey: this August: 1592. Il legere nutrica lo ingegno’; also, tipped-in a long folded sheet of paper with a tabulated list of duchies, provinces, peers, archbishoprics, and academies in France, endorsed ‘A compendious description of france / A proffitable Table’; the book a quarto in modern brown morocco gilt, the pages cropped. 1592.
*HvG 112: Gabriel Harvey, [Hurault, Michel]. An Excellent Discovrse vpon the now present estate of France. Faithfvlly translated out of French, by E.A. [Edward Aggas] (London, 1592)
The annotations printed and discussed in Caroline Brown Bourland, ‘Gabriel Harvey and the Modern Languages’, HLQ, 4 (1940-1), 85-106 (pp. 102-4). Stern, p. 223.
Stern, p. 223.
RB 53880
Autograph signature and annotations. Including three lines on the flyleaf opposite the title page; ‘Percyuals Bibliotheca Hispanica. 1591.’ and ‘gabrielisharueij...GH’ on the title-page; occasional underlining; five lines of notes in Latin on linguistic matters signed ‘gabrielharuejus: 1590’ on the last page, and a ten-line list of books in Spanish, Latin and English headed by the motto ‘Poco y bueno’ on a final blank; the book a quarto in modern brown morocco gilt, the pages cropped. 1591.
*HvG 55: Gabriel Harvey, Corro, Antonio de. The Spanish Grammer; with certeine Rules teaching both the Spanish & French tongues...With a dictionarie adioyned vnto it, of all the Spanish wordes cited in this booke...By John Thorius (London, 1590)
The annotations printed and discussed in Caroline Brown Bourland, ‘Gabriel Harvey and the Modern Languages’, HLQ, 4 (1940-1), 85-106 (pp. 95-7). Stern, p. 207.
RB 53922
Autograph signature and annotations. Including ‘gabrielharuey. Ex dono Autoris, Monsieur du Ploiche’ and ‘The French A.B.C.’ on the title-page; minor underlining and occasional substantial marginal annotations, such as ‘A necessary Introduction...A paradox in lerning: quo plus, eo minus. Beginners must not leap ouer hastely, lest they ouerleape all. Apt & reddy pronunciation of ye Alphabet on weeks exercise’ (A2v) and ‘This, with ye first, will serue for good part of ye grammer. pronunciation, & ye verbs, perfectly learn'd: little othe[r] Grammer needith. My homagenral Dictionary, with daily reading, & speaking will soone supply ye rest’ (Hiijr); the motto ‘Poco, y bueno’ on A3r and ‘gabrielharuey.1580’ on Iivv; the book a quarto in modern brown morocco gilt, the pages cropped. 1580.
*HvG 70: Gabriel Harvey, Du Ploiche, Pierre. A treatise in Englishe and Frenche, right necessarie, and profitable for all young Children (London, 1578)
The annotations printed and discussed in Caroline Brown Bourland, ‘Gabriel Harvey and the Modern Languages’, HLQ, 4 (1940-1), 85-106 (pp. 94-5). Stern, pp. 10-11.
RB 56422
Proof sheet, with MS markings calling for ten corrections, of sig. rr3r (p. 297) in an exemplum of the First Folio (1623). 1623.
ShW 54: William Shakespeare, King Lear
This item discussed with facsimiles, in James G. McManaway, ‘Another Discovery of a Proof Sheet in Shakespeare's First Folio’, HLQ, 41 (1977-78), 19-26.
First published in London, 1608.
RB 56972
Autograph signature and annotations. Including ‘gabrielharuejus’ and ‘Corranus Spanish, & French Grammer: translated by M. Thorius’ on the title-page of one part; ‘GH. Huc meum Dictionarium Homogeneum, propriè, et merè Hispanicum’ on the title-page of the second part; with occasional markings; several lines on the last page, including the reference ‘Copia de Carta de su Maiestad al Dugur de Alua, en recommendacion del Doctor Gemma Frisio. In fine Cosmoiriticæ, Cornelij Gemmæ, Medici celeberrimi’; the book a quarto in modern brown morocco gilt, the pages cropped. c.1591.
*HvG 140: Gabriel Harvey, Perceval, Richard. Bibliotheca Hispanica. Containing a Grammar; with a Dictionarie in Spanish, English, and Latine...the Dictionarie being inlarged with the Latine by the advise of Master Thomas Doyley, Doctor in Physicke (London, 1591)
The annotations printed and discussed in Caroline Brown Bourland, ‘Gabriel Harvey and the Modern Languages’, HLQ, 4 (1940-1), 85-106 (pp. 97-9). Stern, p. 230.
RB 56973
Autograph signature and annotations. Including ‘GH. gabrielharuey.1592.’ on the title-page; occasional brief marginal notes and underlining; ‘gabrielisharueij, et amicorum. 1592’ on the verso of the last page, and brief references to ‘France. 1592’ and ‘Henrie 4.’ on a flyleaf; the book a quarto in modern brown morocco gilt. 1592.
*HvG 72: Gabriel Harvey, [Eliot, John]. The Svrvay or Topographical Description of France: With a new Mappe, helping greatly for the Surueying of euery particular Country, Cittye, Fortresse, Riuer, Mountaine, and Forrest therein; Collected out of sundry approued Authors (London, 1592)
The annotations printed and discussed in Caroline Brown Bourland, ‘Gabriel Harvey and the Modern Languages’, HLQ, 4 (1940-1), 85-106 (pp. 104-6). Stern, p. 211, where is mistakenly recorded the presence of ‘a folio leaf of MS. in Harvey's hand’, for which see HvG 00.
RB 56974
Autograph signature and annotations. Including ‘GH.’, ‘gabrielis harueij. 1580’, and ‘Sallust, du Bartas, the only braue Poet in this sacred vein’ on the title-page; various underlinings; ‘Hetherto the ancient Originals, before the Histories of the Kinges’ (E5r), notes on Solomon (Gr3r), and notes on Judith (K2r-v), the book, which includes 94 woodcuts after Hans Holbein, a quarto in modern brown morocco gilt. 1580.
*HvG 56: Gabriel Harvey, Corrozet, Giles [translator]. The Images of the Old Testament; Lately expressed, set forthe in Ynglishe and Frenche, with a playn and brief exposition (Lyons, 1549)
Sale of the library of George Hibbert (1757-1837), merchant and book collector (16 March, 4 and 25 May 1829), lot 8666.
The annotations printed and discussed in Caroline Brown Bourland, ‘Gabriel Harvey and the Modern Languages’, HLQ, 4 (1940-1), 85-106 (p. 106). Stern p. 239.
RB 58691
Copy of an eighteen-line poem here ascribed to ‘Ed: Waller’, written on a flyleaf in a printed exemplum of Poems (London, 1645). c.1657.
WaE 757: Edmund Waller, On the Marriage of Mrs Frances Cromwell with Mr Rich, Grandchild to the Earl of Warwick (‘Peace ye loud violins, peace’)
Edited from this MS text in Book Lover's Almanac (1893) and in Beverly Chew (1926).
First published in Book Lover's Almanac (New York, 1893). Reprinted in Beverly Chew, Essays & Verses about Books (New York, 1926), pp. 29-32.
RB 59378
Autograph annotations.
*CmW 129: William Camden, Leowitz, Cyprianus von. De coniunctionibus magnis insignioribus superiorum planetarum (London, 1573)
RB 60231
Autograph signature and annotations. Including ‘G.H.’, ‘gabrielharuey. 1593.’ and ‘For ye French, & Spanish’ on the title-page; occasional marginal notes and underlining throughout, such as ‘A ready way to learne Language’ (p. 5), ‘ye Queenes Languages’ (p. 17), ‘The like Commendation of ye Queen in Florios First Fruits &c’ (p. 57), and (pp. 30-3) various references to ‘brave’ Virgil, Ariosto, Tasso (the last two ‘heroicall, & diuine Wittes: most braue, & souerain Poets next Homer & Virgil; still my two singular Types [the rest cropped]’), and Du Bartas (‘for ye maiesty of his heauenly matter, & diuine forms, a most-excellent, & singular Poet: the only Christian Homer to this day’); the book a quarto in modern brown morocco gilt, the pages cropped. 1593.
*HvG 71: Gabriel Harvey, Eliot, John. Ortho-epia Gallica. Eliots First Fruits for the French: Enterlaced with a double new Inuention which teacheth to speake truely, speedily and volubly the French-tongue (London, 1593)
The annotations edited and discussed in Caroline Brown Bourland, ‘Gabriel Harvey and the Modern Languages’, HLQ, 4 (1940-1), 85-106 (pp. 99-102). Stern, p. 211.
RB 60659
An exemplum of the printed quarto edition (1605) containing Jonson's presentation inscription to his ‘perfect Freind, Mr Francis Crane’, in contemporary vellum. 1605.
*JnB 729.5: Ben Jonson, Sejanus his Fall
Also inscribed in Latin by ‘F: M.’ [Francis Mundy]. Bookplate of Robert Cony, MD. Booklabel of Henry Huth (1815-78), book collector. Sotheby's, 22 January 1827, p. 12. Then owned by George Daniel (1789-1864), writer and book collector. Sotheby's, 20 July 1864 (Daniel sale), lot 951. Acquired by Henry Huth (1815-78), book collector. Sotheby's, 7 July 1914 (Huth sale, Part 4), lot 4064, with a facsimile of the inscribed page in the sale catalogue.
Edited in Herford & Simpson, VIII, 665.
First published in London, 1605. Herford & Simpson, IV, 327-486.
RB 62101, vol. 1
A printed exemplum containing Jonson's presentation inscription ‘To his most learned and honor'd Freind Mr Edward Heyward’. 1616.
*JnB 752: Ben Jonson, Workes (1616)
Later owned by Robert Hoe (1839-1909), New York businessman and book collector.
RB 62184
Autograph signature and annotations. Including ‘Gabrielis Harveij...1579. mese Aprili’ on the title page; the motto ‘Poco y bueno’; some underlining and many brief marginal annotations throughout (often cropped); a substantial note on p. 155 referring to the ‘Excellent Comedies, & Tragedies following: full of sweet, & wise Discourse’ which were evidently once bound with this book; and (p. [56]) Gabriel Harueius. 1579...Vt de hac Terentij tralatione Sentirem honorificentius; fecit Aldi exquisita Editio; the book an octavo in modern dark brown morocco. 1579.
*HvG 119: Gabriel Harvey, Lentulo, Scipio. An Italian Grammer; written in Latin by Scipio Lentvlo a Neopolitane: And Turned in Englishe: By H. G. [Henry Grantham] (London, 1575)
The annotations printed and discussed in Caroline Brown Bourland, ‘Gabriel Harvey and the Modern Languages’, HLQ, 4 (1940-1), 85-106 (pp. 91-4). Stern, p. 224.
RB 62806
A printed exemplum of Sir Thomas Overbury, A Wife, 9th impression (London, 1616). c.1616.
sig S3r
• WeJ 1: John Webster, ‘Some giue there wiues these tytles’
Copy of untitled verses possibly by Webster, inscribed at the end of the book.
Edited from this MS, with a facsimile, in Savage.
First published in James E. Savage, ‘An Unpublished Epigram, Possibly by John Webster’, University of Mississippi Studies in English, 8 (1967), 13-18.
sig. S3v
• WeJ 2: John Webster, A Purueiour of Tobacco
Copy of the ‘Character’ inscribed at the end of the book.
Edited from this MS, with a facsimile, in James E. Savage, ‘An Unpublished Epigram, Possibly by John Webster’, University of Mississippi Studies in English, 8 (1967), 13-18.
First published in Sir Thomas Overbury, A Wife, 6th impression (London, 1615). Lucas, IV, 44. Cambridge edition, III, 485.
RB 68558
Exemplum of the first edition with MS corrections. [1613?].
ChG 14: 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.
RB 69107
Printed exemplum of the first edition, first issue, of Ralegh's The History of the World (London, 1614). Late 18th-early 19th century.
[preliminary blank page]
• MrC 14: Christopher Marlowe, The Passionate Shepherd to his Love (‘Come live with mee, and be my love’)
Copy of a four-stanza version, headed ‘A Pastoral made by Sr Walter Raleigh’, apparently transcribed from an early MS source, written on the recto of the leaf before the title-page.
Sold by Charles Sessler, bookseller, Philadelphia.
Edited from this MS in Susanne Woods, ‘“The Passionate Sheepheard” and “The Nimphs Reply”: A Study of Transmission’, HLQ, 34 (1970), 25-33 (pp. 25-6).
First published in a four-stanza version in The Passionate Pilgrime (London, 1599). Printed in a six-stanza version in Englands Helicon (London, 1600). Bowers, II, 536-7. Tucker Brooke, pp. 550-1. Gill et al., I, 215. For Ralegh's ‘Answer’ see RaW 189-99.
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• RaW 195: Sir Walter Ralegh, The Nimphs reply to the Sheepheard (‘If all the world and loue were young’)
Copy of lines 1-6, headed ‘The Answer by Sr Arthur’, apparently transcribed from an early MS source, written on the recto of the leaf before the title-page.
Edited from this MS in Susanne Woods, ‘“The Passionate Sheepheard” and “The Nimphs Reply”: A Study of Transmission’, HLQ, 34 (1970), 25-33 (pp. 26).
One stanza published in The Passionate Pilgrime (London, 1599). First published complete in Englands Helicon (London, 1600). Latham, pp. 16-17. Rudick, Nos 45A and 45B, pp. 117, 119-20 (two versions, as ‘Her answer’ to Marlowe's poem on p. 116 and as ‘The Milk maids mothers answer’) respectively. For the companion poem by Marlowe, which accompanies most of the texts of Ralegh's ‘reply’, see MrC 10-19.
RB 69242
An exemplum of the printed edition, owned and annotated by James, Duke of York, later King James II, a folio in brown calf elaborately gilt with semé fleurs de lys. 1638.
SaG 15.8: George Sandys, A Paraphrase upon the Divine Poems
Inscribed on the title-page ‘Livre de S. A. Rlle. Jacques. D. de Yorc’. Inscribed names of Jos: Crowther and John Banks. Bookplate of Robert Hoe (1839-1909), New York businessman and book collector.
First published in London, 1637.
RB 69317
An exemplum of the quarto printed edition of The Second part of Henrie the fourth (London, 1600), with numerous MS additions recording stage entrances and exits and (sig. B2) with a small rough stage plan, in 19th-century red morocco. Late 17th century?
ShW 49.5: William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part II
Containing two pages of notes in the hand of James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89), literary scholar and book collector, dated June 1866. Bookplate of Frederick Locker-Lampson (1821-95), poet, and book label of E. D. Church.
Recorded in Shattuck, p. 141, No. 1.
RB 69337
An exemplum of the printed quarto edition of The Tragoedy of Othello, The Moore of Venice (London, 1622), with MS annotations recording stage business and prompt markings, the pages all now mounted, in modern red morocco gilt. Late 17th century?.
ShW 72.8: William Shakespeare, Othello
Inscribed name on the title-page of George Steevens (1736-1800), literary editor and scholar. Annotated in 1804 as ‘Collated & Perfect’ by John Philip Kemble (1757-1823), actor.
Recorded in Shattuck, p. 354, No. 1.
First published in London, 1622.
RB 69441
Copy written in a printed exemplum of Arcadia (London, 1590) to fill the blank space left for this epitaph. End 16th-17th century.
SiP 67: Sir Philip Sidney, The Epitaph (‘His being was in her alone’)
This MS recorded in Ringler, p. 493.
First published in Arcadia (London, 1593), a blank space having been left for this epitaph in the edition of 1590. Ringler, p. 241.
RB 69442
Copy written in a printed exemplum of Arcadia (London, 1590) to fill the blank space left for this epitaph. End 16th-17th century.
SiP 68: Sir Philip Sidney, The Epitaph (‘His being was in her alone’)
This MS recorded in Ringler, p. 493.
First published in Arcadia (London, 1593), a blank space having been left for this epitaph in the edition of 1590. Ringler, p. 241.
RB 82400
A printed exemplum, with ‘inscription on title in the hand of [Waller] “Edm Waller. Ex dono Aucthoris. 30° Sept: 1642”’. 1642.
*WaE 875: Edmund Waller, Eutychius. Scriptoris…Ecclesiae suae origines…edidit…Ioannes Seldenus (London, 1642)
Sotheby's, 18 March 1926 (Christie-Miller sale), lot 550. This may correspond to lot 316 in the Waller sale of 1832.
RB 98537
Autograph four-line inscription, presenting the volume to Inigo Jones, followed by the inscription ‘Inigo Jones 1613’. 1613.
*ChG 22: George Chapman, Chapman, George. Epicede or Funeral Song: On the most disastrous Death, of ... Henry Prince of Wales (London, 1612)
Later owned by Robert Hoe (1839-1909), New York businessman and book collector.
Facsimile in Cummings, p. 229.
RB 102357
An exemplum bearing on a pasted-down slip of paper Cowley's autograph inscription ‘For Mr. Keck from His most humble servant the Author’. 1662.
*CoA 211.5: Abraham Cowley, Cowley, Abraham. Plantarum libri duo (London, 1662)
RB 102361
Copy. Headed ‘To the Reader, vpon the intent of Lessius his booke concerning Temperance’ and beginning at line 15 (here ‘Hearke hither Reader: wouldst thou see’), transcribed from the text in Hygiasticon (1634), on both sides of a single duodecimo leaf once owned by Frederick Locker (1821-95) and tipped-in an exemplum of Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Mid-17th century.
CrR 76: Richard Crashaw, In praise of Lessius his rule of health (‘Goe now with some dareing drugg’)
Puttick and Simpson's, 3 June 1878, lot 84 (erroneously described as ‘Auto[graph]. lines in his singularly minute hand’) and at Sotheby's, 22 March 1907, lot 39.
This MS recorded in The Complete Poetry of Richard Crashaw, ed. George Walton Williams (New York, 1972), p. 673.
First published (lines 15-46 only) in Leonard Leys, Hygiasticon…done into English, 2nd edition (Cambridge, 1634). Published, among The Delights of the Muses, in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Reprinted, as ‘Temperance, Or the Cheap Physitian Vpon the Translation of Lessivs’, in Carmen Deo Nostro (Paris, 1652). Martin, pp. 156-8 (and later version pp. 342-4).
RB 109086
An exemplum of the quarto printed edition of Milton's Paradise Lost (London, 1667), in modern calf elaborately gilt and decorated.
Book label of Beverly Chew (1850-1924), book collector.
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• DrJ 82: John Dryden, Lines on Milton (‘Three Poets, in three distant Ages born’)
Copy, headed ‘Upon the Author’, subscribed ‘John Dryden’, on a blank leaf before the title-page. c.1700.
This MS recorded in California.
First published in John Milton, Paradise Lost, 4th edition (London, 1688). Kinsley, II, 540. California, III, 208. Hammond, III, 200.
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• DrJ 43.87: John Dryden, An Essay upon Satire (‘How dull and how insensible a beast’)
Copy of a ten-line extract, headed ‘In prayse of the Author’, beginning ‘The way is shewn, but who has strength to goe?’, subscribed ‘Earle of Mulgrave's Essay upon Poetry pag. 21.’ c.1700.
A satire written in 1675 by John Sheffield, Earl of Mulgrave, but it was widely believed by contemporaries (including later Alexander Pope, who had access to Mulgrave's papers) that Dryden had a hand in it, a belief which led to the notorious assault on him in Rose Alley on 18 December 1679, at the reputed instigation of the Earl of Rochester and/or the Duchess of Portsmouth.
First published in London, 1689. POAS, I (1963), pp. 396-413.
The authorship discussed in Macdonald, pp. 217-19, and see John Burrows, ‘Mulgrave, Dryden, and An Essay upon Satire’, in Superior in His Profession: Essays in Memory of Harold Love, ed. Meredith Sherlock, Brian McMullin and Wallace Kirsop, Script & Print, 33 (2009), pp. 76-91, where is it concluded, from stylistic analysis, that ‘Mulgrave had by far the major hand’. Recorded in Hammond, V, 684, in an ‘Index of Poems Excluded from this Edition’.
RB 120156
A printed exemplum, bearing a pencilled note ‘from Waller the Poets Library 11256’. The first flyleaf bearing the couplet in ink, ‘New Castles on the air this Lady builds, / While nonsence with Philosophy she guilds’ apparently in the hand of one of Waller's daughters, with a later pencil note suggesting ‘This couplet may have been written by Waller’. Late 17th century.
*WaE 870: Edmund Waller, Cavendish, Margaret, Duchess of Newcastle. Philosophical and Physical Opinions, 2nd edition (London, 1663)
Later in the library of Beverly Chew (1850-1924), book collector. This corresponds to lot 196 in the Waller sale of 1832.
RB 121981
Copy written and dated on the first flyleaf of an exemplum of Dryden's The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis (London, 1697). March 1698.
DrJ 197: John Dryden, To Mr. Granville, on his Excellent Tragedy, call'd Heroick Love (‘Auspicious Poet, wert thou not my Friend’)
This MS (erroneously described as ‘an unpublished poem in the autograph of John Dryden’) offered for sale in Rosenbach catalogue No. [22] (1911), item 48.
This MS recorded in Osborn, p. 289.
First published in George Granville, Heroick Love (London, 1698). Kinsley, III, 1433-4. Hammond, V, 19-21.
RB 123687
Exemplum of the edition of 1666 of Instructions to a Painter, imperfect. Late 17th century.
p. 19
• WaE 109: Edmund Waller, Instructions to a Painter (‘First draw the sea, that portion which between’)
With sixteen lines added at the end in MS for insertion on page 18, beginning ‘As those bold Gyants when they fought with Jove’ and subscribed ‘These lines should have come in immediatly before the foure last, but for a mistake in the Printing’.
First published as a broadside (London, 1665). Poems, ‘Third’ edition (London, 1668). Thorn-Drury, II, 48-59. See also Mary Tom Osborne, Advice-to-a-Painter Poems (Austin, Texas, 1949), pp. 26-7.
RB 134086-7
An exemplum, which has a MS emendation on p. 19 probably in the hand of Izaak Walton. 1642.
DeJ 16.5: Sir John Denham, Cooper's Hill (‘Sure there are Poets which did never dream’)
Recorded in Brendan O Hehir, Expans'd Hieroglyphicks: A Critical edition of Sir John Denham's Coopers Hill (Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1969), pp. 56-7.
First published in London, 1642. Poems and Translations (London, 1668). Banks, pp. 62-89. O Hehir, Hieroglyphicks.
RB 134219-29, No. 8
Copy, in the same professional hand as DrJ 292, headed ‘The Fall of Angels or Man in Innocency by Mr: Dryden’, 21 folio leaves. In a composite volume of printed and manuscript tracts and pamphlets. c.1674-7.
DrJ 293: John Dryden, The State of Innocence, and Fall of Man
Owned, and numbered, by John Egerton, second Earl of Bridgewater.
This MS discussed in Whiting and in Hamilton.
First published in London, 1677. Scott-Saintsbury, V, 93-178. See Vinton A. Dearing, ‘Textual Analysis of Dryden's State of Innocence’, TEXT, 2 (1985), 12-23.
RB 135830, No. 52
Exemplum of the first edition of the Prologue and Epilogue, dated in MS 13 February 1681/2, on a single leaf. 1682.
In a large collection of printed pamphlets owned in 1681-2 by Narcissus Luttrell (1657-1732), annalist and book collector, and afterwards by his relative by marriage Edward Wynne (1734-84), of Chelsea. Purchased at the Wynne sale (1786) by James Bindley (1737-1818), book collector. Sotheby's, 14-17 November 1900 (Ashburton sale), lot 627, to Alexander Denham & Co. Purchased by Frederic Robert Halsey and then, in December 1915, by Henry E. Huntington.
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• DrJ 113: John Dryden, A Prologue spoken at Mithridates King of Pontus, the First Play Acted at the Theatre Royal this Year, 1681 (‘After a four Months Fast we hope at length’)
MS emendations to the printed text in Luttrell's hand.
Edited from this text in California. Collated in Kinsley.
First published (with the Epilogue, on a single half sheet) in London, 1681. Kinsley, I, 212-13. California, II, 185-6. Danchin, III, 323-5. Hammond, I, 437-40.
f. [1v]
• DrJ 25: John Dryden, Epilogue [to Mithridates] (‘Pox on this Play-House, 'tis an old tir'd Jade’)
MS emendations to the printed text in Luttrell's hand.
Edited from this text in California. Collated in Kinsley.
First published (with the Prologue, on a single half sheet) in London, 1681. Kinsley, I, 213-14. California, II, 186-7. Danchin, III, 325-7. Hammond, I, 440-3.
RB 143290-96
A folio composite volume of printed and MS verse, principally on the death of Queen Mary. c.1695.
Bookplate of Beverly Chew.
[flyleaf]
• DoC 308: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, ‘As far in Vertues race att Thirty two’
Copy of a series of untitled verses, the first six lines beginning ‘The Queen so Greatly dies, the King so grieves’ subscribed ‘Lord Dorset’; the next four lines beginning ‘As far in Vertues race att Thirty two’ subscribed ‘Mr Dryden’; followed by three sets of anonymous lines: two beginning ‘Nor shalt thou pass unmourned, not euen by those’, six lines beginning ‘The Queen is dead, and we great Sr suruiue’, and, on the next flyleaf, sixteen lines beginning ‘The Queen reuoluing on ye powers of Fate’.
Dorset's verses edited from this MS in Harris (1940). Discussed in Harris (1979), p. 181.
First published in Harris (1940), p. 166.
RB 280856
Copy of the Latin translation of Cooper's Hill by Moses Pengry, written on twelve pages interleaved in the printed text in an exemplum of the octavo London edition of 1709. c.1709.
DeJ 19.6: Sir John Denham, Cooper's Hill (Latin translation)
A Latin translation of Cooper's Hill by Moses Pengry, Chaplain to the Earl of Devonshire (beginning ‘Si fuerint Vates, Parnassi nulla bicollis’), prepared for Lord William Cavendish and printed at Oxford in 1676. The text is reprinted in O Hehir, Hieroglyphicks, pp. 257-75.
RB 283000. Vol. III
Autograph calligraphic MS, on one side of a single sheet (366 x 149 mm.). Comprising Latin verses by Bartholomew Kello to the Earl of Mar, followed by a pen-and-ink emblematic drawing of Mary Queen of Scots by Esther Inglis, subscribed by further verses in Latin and French, in Roman and italic scripts, with modest decoration. 1622.
*InE 7: Esther Inglis, [Emblematical Drawing of Mary, Queen of Scots] Insigni Pietate Heroinæ Mariæ Stewartæ prædic: Illvstriss: Comit: Vxori Lectissimæ Castissimæq: Emblema Christianvm. Drawin and writin be me Esther Inglis Ianvar 1622
Presumably presented to John Erskine (1558-1634), Earl of Mar, Lord High Treasurer of Scotland. Later owned by James West (1704?-72), President of the Royal Society (his library sold by Langford, 8 April 1773); bought by Thane.
Scott-Elliot & Yeo, No. 52 (p. 79). Briefly discussed, with a facsimile, in Thomas Lange, ‘A Rediscovered Esther Inglis Calligraphic Manuscript in the Huntington Library’, PBSA, 89 (September 1995), 339-42.
RB 284482, Vol. V, after p. 250.
Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to Henry Joynes, from London, 28 November 1710. 1710.
*VaJ 151: Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)
Edited in Frances Harris, ‘An Unpublished Letter of Sir John Vanbrugh’, HLQ, 50 (1987), 395-6.
RB 297343
Copy of Elizabeth Egerton's ‘Meditations on the seuerall Chapters of the Old Testament’ (pp. 1-318) and (pp. 319-79) the New Testament, 379 large folio pages (plus nearly 200 blank pages), in contemporary calf gilt over wooden boards, with brass clasps. c.1660s.
C&E 188: Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, Loose Papers and Meditations of Elizabeth Egerton, Countess of Bridgewater
Item 46 in the Bridgewater sale (March 1951).
Edited in Travitsky, Subordination (1999), pp. 172-207 (collations pp. 208-40).
RB 428736
A total of sixteen additional lines of verse for Juvenal's Satire VI, headed ‘Verse written by mr Dryden in his Translation of the Sixth Satyr: but omitted in ye printed coppy’, written as a list, with page and line references, on the end-paper of an exemplum of the first edition; these lines correspond to sixteen of the seventeen lines in DrJ 173. End of 17th century.
DrJ 175: John Dryden, The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis (‘Still shall I hear, and never quit the Score’)
Discussed, with a facsimile in W.B. Carnochan, ‘Some suppressed verses in Dryden's translation of Juvenal VI’, TLS (21 January 1972), pp. 73-4 (where it is erroneously suggested that the MS might be in the hand of Jacob Tonson). Collated in California. Facsimile in Hammond, IV, facing p. 168.
First published (‘…together with the Satires of Aulus Persius Flaccus’) in London, ‘1693’ [i.e. 1692] (as ‘By Mr. Dryden, and Several other Eminent Hands’, Dryden's contribution being the prefatory ‘Discourse concerning Satire’ and Satires I, III, VI, X and XVI). Kinsley, II, 599-740 (Dryden's contributions). California, IV, 2-252 (Dryden's contributions). Hammond, IV, 3-137.
RB 600990
Exemplum of the edition of 1604 with the unprinted pages, sigs E1v-E2r, E3v-E4r, F1r-F3r, supplied in MS in three secretary hands, in contemporary limp vellum with remains of ties. c.1604.
BcF 131.8: Francis Bacon, Certain Considerations touching the Better Pacification and Edification of the Church of England
The upper cover inscribed ‘for Mr. Robert Fil[mer?]’.
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.
ST 13
A large folio volume containing autograph ‘Observations Out of ye Old & New Testament also out of Lord Bacons Essays & Fuller's Holy State Jan: 16: 1696/7’ by Samuel Brydges, afterwards first Duke of Chandos, with some pages relating to naval matters in a scribal hand, 176 pages (plus a few blanks), in contemporary panelled calf.
Among the Stowe Papers of the Brydges and related families, brought together at Stowe House, Buckinghamshire. Bookplate of James Brydges of Wilton Castle, Herefordshire.
pp. 6-7, 9, 11-12, 14-16, 34-6, 38, 40-3, 50-2, 54-5, 57, 59, 61-5, 67-8, 70-2
• BcF 207.5: Francis Bacon, Essays or Counsels Civil and Moral
Series of extracts from Bacon's Essays, interspersed with passages from Fuller (FuT 6.5) and the Bible.
Ten Essayes first published in London, 1597. 38 Essaies published in London, 1612. 58 Essayes or Counsels, Civill and Morall published in London, 1625. Spedding, VI, 365-591. Edited by Michael Kiernan, The Oxford Francis Bacon, Vol. XV (Oxford, 2000).
pp. 8, 10-14, 16, 33, 35, 37, 39-42, 49, 51-6, 58, 60, 62-3, 65-6, 68-9, 71, 73
• FuT 6.5: Thomas Fuller, The Holy State
Series of extracts from The Holy State, interspersed with passages from Bacon (BcF 207.5) and the Bible.
First published in London, 1642. Edited by M.G. Walten, 2 vols (New York, 1938).
STB Box 1 (1-44)
Collection of 44 unbound letters written to Cassandra by various correspondents, 94 pages (chiefly quarto, on single leaves or bifolia). Her correspondents including Ema Chamblayne (nee Brydges) (5), Lettice Cornwallis (24), Elizabeth Dawson (nee Brydges) (5), Anne Hoskyns Abrahall (nee Leigh), Mary Hutchinson (nee Scurfield), M. Jeffreys, Cassandra Molyneaux (nee Cornwallis), Katherine Bourchier Perrot (nee Brydges), Emma Cornwallis Robinson (nee Charlton) (6); the letters dating from 24 May 1726 to 6 January 1730[/1?]. 1726-30.
WiC 13: Cassandra Willoughby, Duchess of Chandos, Letter(s)
Among the Stowe Papers of the Brydges and related families, brought together at Stowe House, Buckinghamshire.
STB Box 1 (45)
A pencil drawing of a stately house, on a sheet of paper. Endorsed in ink ‘A drawing of Thoarsby by Cass: Willoughby’. Early 18th century.
*WiC 15: Cassandra Willoughby, Duchess of Chandos, Drawing
Among the Stowe Papers of the Brydges and related families, brought together at Stowe House, Buckinghamshire.
Facsimile of this drawing in O' Day, p. 342.
STB Box 1 (46-47)
Two items. One a fragment of an anonymous letter sent to Emma Robinson [7 June 1726] and sent on to Cassandra [8 June 1726], on an oblong 8vo strip of paper; the other an autograph letter by Cassandra, to ‘Sr.’, on one side of a single quarto leaf, 28 May 1725. 1725-6.
*WiC 14: Cassandra Willoughby, Duchess of Chandos, Letter(s)
Among the Stowe Papers of the Brydges and related families, brought together at Stowe House, Buckinghamshire.
STB Box 2 (1)
Unbound miscellaneous papers of Cassandra Willoughby, Duchess of Chandos, five items in all. End of 17th-early 18th century.
Among the Stowe Papers of the Brydges and related families, brought together at Stowe House, Buckinghamshire.
[unnumbered item]
• WiG 36: George Wither, ‘When Pirrhous did wedd Hipodama’
Copy, in a scribal hand, on three pages of a pair of conjugate folio leaves, untitled, subscribed ‘Finis George Withers’, corrected and endorsed in the hand of Cassandra Willoughby ‘By Mr George Withes ye Poett Feb: 1610’.
Unpublished epithalamion and dramatic poem of 77 lines (including performance directions such as ‘Enter Musick’ and ‘Enter a Page with wine in a Cup of Massy Gold’), apparently written by the young George Wither for the marriage of Sir Francis Willoughby and Lady Cassandra Ridgeway in 1610.
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• *WiC 4: Cassandra Willoughby, Duchess of Chandos, Family History
Autograph quarto booklet, written from both ends, on 18 leaves (plus a tipped-in leaf), in paper wrappers, containing: ‘Copies of Letters from Thomas Ridgeway Earl of London=Derry & Cicilia his Lady To Sr Percivall Willoughby & his Lady concerning ye Match between my Grand=father & Grandmother. An: D 1610’; a related note by Cassandra dated 6 January 1703/4; and ‘Copies of Letters from Sr Percivall to his Lady before, & after they Married’.
Cassandra Willoughby's An Account of the Willughby's of Wollaton, in two volumes, unfinished and unpublished in full. The greater part of Vol. I edited in HMC, Lord Middleton, Wollaton Hall, Nottinghamshire (1911), pp. 504-608. Volume II edited as The Continuation of the History of the Willoughby Family by Cassandra Duchess of Chandos, ed. A.C. Wood (Eton, Windsor, 1958).
[three unnumbered items]
• *WiC 5: Cassandra Willoughby, Duchess of Chandos, Family History
A series of three autograph quarto booklets in grey paper wrappers, entitled ‘An Account of ye Willoughby's of Wollaton taken out of ye Pedigree & old letters in my Brother Willoughbys study Decr - 1702 by Cass: Willoughby’, with many deletions and revisions, covering family history from the 14th to early 17th century: the ‘First Book’ on 40 leaves; the ‘Second Book’ on 54 leaves; the ‘Third Book’ on 46 leaves.
Cassandra Willoughby's An Account of the Willughby's of Wollaton, in two volumes, unfinished and unpublished in full. The greater part of Vol. I edited in HMC, Lord Middleton, Wollaton Hall, Nottinghamshire (1911), pp. 504-608. Volume II edited as The Continuation of the History of the Willoughby Family by Cassandra Duchess of Chandos, ed. A.C. Wood (Eton, Windsor, 1958).
STB Box 2 (2)
Unbound miscellaneous papers of Cassandra Willoughby, Duchess of Chandos, with a few relating to her written after her death, 20 items (48 pages) in all, on quarto, octavo and folio leaves or bifolia. End of 17th-early 18th century.
Among the Stowe Papers of the Brydges and related families, brought together at Stowe House, Buckinghamshire.
[no item number]
• *WiC 1: Cassandra Willoughby, Duchess of Chandos, Being in a Melancholy Mood, upon Satisfaction (‘Thou empty sound that long hast tir'd my Brain’)
Autograph copy, on one side of a single quarto leaf, the poem dated at the head ‘Wollaton May ye 7th - 1706’, and signed ‘Cass: Willoughby’. 1706.
Poem of nine lines. Unpublished?
[no item number]
• WiC 2: Cassandra Willoughby, Duchess of Chandos, Verses of the late dutchess of Chandos making upon the recovering of the small pox on reflecting how sensless she had been in that Distemper (‘Like Lucifer with swelling pride I grew’)
Copy in an unidentified hand, on two conjugate quarto leaves, the poem subscribed ‘Cass: Willoughby’. After 1735.
59 lines. Unpublished?
[no item numbers]
• *WiC 6: Cassandra Willoughby, Duchess of Chandos, Family History
Series of largely autograph papers relating, inter alia, to family history, including her copies or summaries of various family letters (from c.1564 to 1674), as well as of letters by ‘my Father’ etc.; extracts from a book in French, signed and dated 1706; her copy of a 38-line poem ‘Upon Writing -- by Mrs Finch’ (beginning ‘Bless'd be ye man his Memory at least’); extracts from devotional texts; and memoranda about Lady Chandos (not complaining ‘of any pain like ye stone’) and ‘my Grandfar’. Early 18th century.
Cassandra Willoughby's An Account of the Willughby's of Wollaton, in two volumes, unfinished and unpublished in full. The greater part of Vol. I edited in HMC, Lord Middleton, Wollaton Hall, Nottinghamshire (1911), pp. 504-608. Volume II edited as The Continuation of the History of the Willoughby Family by Cassandra Duchess of Chandos, ed. A.C. Wood (Eton, Windsor, 1958).
STT 1795
Autograph letter signed by Sedley, to Sir Richard Temple, [August 1674]. 1674.
*SeC 127: Sir Charles Sedley, Letter(s)