118 DEFOE (Daniel) MEMOIRS OF THE CHURCH OF SCOTLAND, in four periods, The Church in her Infant State, from the Reformation to Queen Mary's Abdication; The Church in its Growing State, from the Abdication to the Restoration; The Church in its Persecuted State, from the Restoration to the Revolution; The Church in its Present State, from the Revolution to the Union, with an Appendix of some Transactions since the Union. 1717. FIRST EDITION, 8vo, fine copy in old calf, 188 119 DEFOE (Daniel) THE CONSOLIDATOR; or, Memoirs of Sundry Transactions from the World in the Moon, Translated from the Lunar Language, by the Author of The Trueborn Englishman. 1705. FIRST EDITION, 8vo, fine copy in old calf, 188

"This prose satire contains the first hints of many of the ideas which Swift afterward embodied in Gulliver, and also a great many sly hits at all the authors of the time, from Dryden to Tom D'Urfey."-Lowndes. 120 DERBYSHIRE.--DOVEBRIDGE. An Act for Establishing and Confirming an Exchange of Divers Lands and Hereditaments in the Parish of Dovebridge, in the County of Derby, for other Lands and Hereditaments in same Parish, pursuant to an Agreement between John Fitzherbert, Clerk. Master of Arts, Vicar of the Vicarage and Parish Church of Dovebridge, within the Diocese of Litchfield and Coventry, and Sir Henry Cavendish, Baronet, by and with the Consent of the Patron of the said Vicarage and the Ordinary of the Diocese. 1770. (Very interesting) 58

121 DEVOTIONAL.-Mount Tabor, or Private Exercise of a Penitent Sinner, Serving for a Daily Practice of the Life of Faith, Reduced to Special heads comprehending the chiefe comforts and refreshings of true Christians, also certain occasional Observations and Meditations Profitably Applied, written in the time of a voluntary retrait from secular affaires, by R. W., Esq.. published in the Year of his Age 75. 1639, 12mo, original vellum, from the Earl of Westmoreland's Library, £1 108 Unknown to Lowndes. A curious and interesting volume. It is dedicated to "My Deere Wife and Children" "Three sons, two sons and two daughters-in-law, Grand children eleven,

Besides those six and five already gone to heaven." Containing some clever POETICAL pieces at end. 122 DROLLERY.-THE ACADEMY OF COMPLIMENTS, wherein Ladies, Gentlewomen, Schollers, and Strangers may accommodate their courtly Practice with gentle Ceremonies, COMPLEMENTAL, AMOROUS, HIGH EXPRESSIONS, forms of Speaking, or writing of Letters most in fashion. A work perused, exactly perfected, everywhere corrected and enlarged, and enriched by the Author, WITH ADDITIONS OF MANY WITTY POEMS AND PLEASANT SONGS, WITH AN ADDITION OF A NEW SCHOOL OF LOVE, and a Present of excellent similitudes, comparisons, FANCIES, AND DEVICES, the last Edition, with two Tables, the one expounding the most hard English Words, the other resolving the most delightful Fictions of the Heathen Poets. 1663. Frontispiece, 12mo, original sheep, £3 38

123 DRYDEN (John) ALEXANDER'S FEAST; OR THE POWER OF MUSIQUE, an ODE IN HONOUR OF ST. CECILIA'S DAY. Jacob Tonson, 1697. FIRST EDITION, sm. folio, very fine copy, sewn, £5 5s

The last poem written by Dryden, and the finest and most popular of all his poetical productions. Warton observed of this poem:-"That it is difficult to express our admiration of the variety, the richness, the melody of its numbers, the force, beauty, and distinctness of its images, the succession of so many different passions and feelings, and the matchless perspicuity of its diction." "The Ode to St. Cecilia's Day, PERHAPS THE LAST EFFORT OF HIS POETRY, has been always considered as exhibiting the highest flight of fancy, and the exactest nicety of art. This is allowed to stand without a rival. If. indeed, there is any excellence beyond it in some other of Dryden's Works, that excellence must be found."-Dr. Johnson.

124 [DRYDEN (John)] Scandalum Magnatum: or, Potapski's case, a SATYR AGAINST POLISH OPPRESSION. 1682. FIRST EDITION, Small 4to, sewn, 10s 6d

Ascribed to Dryden.

125 DRYDEN (John) AN EVENING'S LOVE, or the MOCK-ASTROLOGER, acted at the Theater Royal by His Majestie's Servants. In the Savoy, 1671. FIRST EDITION, small 4to, sewn, unbound, 10s 6d

Prefixed is a long and interesting PROSE PREFACE on the merits of the older dramatists.

126 DRYDEN (John) ANNUS MIRABILIS, THE YEAR OF WONDERS, 1666, AN HISTORICAL POEM, containing the Progress and various Successes of our Naval War with Holland, under the Conduct of his Highness Prince Rupert, and his Grace the Duke of Albemarl, and Describing the Fire of London. H. Herringman, 1667. FIRST EDITION, small 8vo, original sheep, £2 28

Sir Walter Scott says that Dryden seldom suffers his poem to languish, every stanza presents some strong thought or vivid description, but that the structure of the verse (four-line stanza) has laid him under the odd and unpleasing necessity of filling up his stanza, by compiling a simile, or a moral expressed in the two last lines along with the fact which had been expressed in the first. DRYDEN'S FIRST BOOK.

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127 DRYDEN (John) A POEM UPON THE DEATH OF HIS LATE HIGHNESS, OLIVER, LORD PROTECTOR OF ENGLAND, SCOTLAND, AND IRELAND, WRITTEN BY MR. DRYDEN. London, printed for William Wilson; and are to be sold in Well-yard, near Little St. Bartholomew's Hospital, 1659. THE EXCESSIVELY RARE FIRST EDITION, 4to, sprinkled calf extra, by RIVIERE, £10 10s A most important piece-Dryden's ACTUAL FIRST PUBLICATION in book form. The rarity of this poem is too well known to need many remarks, and we think it sufficient to say it escaped the vigilant researches of Mr. Malone, and that it is not mentioned by Lowndes. The rarity can be accounted for by the fact that a few months after its publication the Restoration took place, and the author addressed a congratulatory poem to the King; an incident which Sir Walter Scott refers to in these words :-"IT IS SINGULAR THAT THE POET WHO SOLEMNIZED BY ELEGY THE DEATH OF THE PROTECTOR SHOULD HAVE HAILED THE RESTORATION OF THE STUART LINE." 1his elegy was never acknowledged by the author in the collection of his work, though not forgotten by his enemies, and many years after its first appearance it was reprinted by one of his mean and malignant antagonists, with the hope of making him (Dryden) appear as an apostate, under the title of "An Elegy on the Usurper, Oliver Cromwell, by the author of Absalom and Achitophel.'” The poem consists of thirty-seven stanzas, written in the measure and somewhat in the manner of Gondibert. The flow of his versification improved, and his command of poetical language extended, but no marks were yet discovered of the luxuriance of early genius, or the overflow of a mind full of poetry; nor are there any traces in his language from which we may collect that his curiosity had been directed to the study of great poets who flourished in the preceding age. His poetry was in the general style of the time in which he lived; it did not partake of any individual character, nor was it controlled by any presiding genius. It shows rather a vigorous understanding and quick discernment than a rich imagination, or a fancy lavish of its youthful store. How little does it resemble the early poems of Milton, which were published but a few years previous to this time.

DRYDEN'S SECOND BOOK.

128 DRYDEN (John) ASTREA REDUX, a Poem on the happy of his Sacred Majesty Charles the Second, by JOHN DRIDEN. Herringman, 1660. FIRST EDITION, folio, sewn [SOLD]

Restoration and Return
Printed by J. M. for H.

A fine copy of an important and exceedingly rare Poem, the actual second publication of JOHN DRYDEN in book form.

When the Restoration took place, Dryden's kinsman and protector in London (Sir Gilbert Pickering, a staunch Republican) retired to his native country, and Dryden, now left on his own resources, hastened, in conjunction with his brother poets, to efface all memory of his former delinquency by publishing his Astræa Redux in 1660. This poem is written in the taste and feeling of the former. One line

A horrid stillness first invades the ear

And in that silence we a tempest fear,

has been much ridiculed for the incorrectness and supposed absurdity of thought; but it has been successfully vindicated by the reasoning of Johnson. Silence is a privation; and yet the poets give it an active influence and power over the mind-Simul ipsa silentia terrent-are the words of one whose exquisite propriety of expression and correctness of thought are yet unrivalled.

In this poem, 66 some of the similes," says Scott, "are brought out with singular ingenuity." "Waller, as well as Dryden, altered his sentiments and changed his notes on the Restoration; and when the King hinted to him the inferiority of his second poem to the former, answered, 'Poets, Sir, succeed better in fiction than in truth.' What notice Charles took of Dryden's Astræa we are ignorant."-Dr. Joseph Warton.

DRYDEN'S THIRD BOOK.

129 DRYDEN (John) To HIS SACRED MAJESTY, A PANEGYRICK ON HIS CORONATION. H. Herringman, 1661. FIRST EDITION, folio, sewn, [SOLD]

There is an animation of language and an energy of style, it is said, in this poem, yet mixed up with conceits of his preceding productions.

The following couplet could not be easily surpassed in the works of Flecknoe and Shadwell :A queen near whose chaste womb, ordained by fate,

The souls of kings unborn for bodies wait.

'If, says Sir Walter Scott, the souls of any unborn monarchs waited for bodies from Queeu
Catharine, they waited long in vain;' perhaps it was not her fault, for, as the same writer
sensibly observes, for a woman to bear children, it is necessary that someone should take the
trouble of getting them.'

DRYDEN'S FOURTH BOOK.

130 DRYDEN (John) To MY LORD CHANCELLOR, PRESENTED ON NEW-YEAR'8-DAY;
BY J. DRIDEN. H. Herringman, 1662. FIRST EDITION, folio, sewn (very rare), [SOLD]
This poem approaches more closely to the metaphysical style of Cowley and his contemporaries than
any other of Dryden's compositions. Scott ingeniously conjectures that Dryden professedly wrote
after the manner of those with whose works the Chancellor had formerly been acquainted; in
fact, that he strove to please, by bringing again before the eyes of the aged statesman that glitter
of sentiment which had delighted him in his youth. Johnson says Dryden never after strove to
bring on the anvil such stubborn and unmanageable thoughts.

131 DRYDEN (John) BRITANNIA REDIVIVA, A POEM ON THE BIRTH OF THE
PRINCE. J. Tonson, 1688. FIRST EDITION, small folio, fine copy, sewn, £4 48
"Dryden, who knew how to assume every style that suited the occasion, writes here in the character
of a devout and grateful Catholic, with much of the unction which marks the hymns of the Romish
Church. In English poetry we have hardly another example of the peculiar tone which the invo-
cation of saints and an enthusiastic faith in the mystic doctrines of the Catholic faith can give
poetry. To me, I confess, that communion seems to offer the same facilities to the poet, which it
has been long famous for affording to the painter: and the Britannia Rediviva, while it celebrates
the mystic influence of the sacred festivals of the Paraclete and Trinity, and introduces the war.
like forms of St. Michael and St. George, has often reminded me of one of the ancient altar-
pieces, which it is impossible to regard without reverence, though presenting miracles which
never happened, or saints who never existed."-Sir Walter Scott.
132 DRYDEN (John) MAC FLECKNOE, OR A SATYR UPON THE TREw-Blew-
PROTESTANT POET, T. S., by THE AUTHOR OF ABSALOM AND ACHITOPHEL. 1682.
FIRST EDITION, small 4to, sewn [SOLD]

Pope's

THIS IS ONE OF THE BEST, AS WELL AS THE SEVEREST, SATIRES EVER PRODUCED IN OUR LANGUAGE.
celebrated Dunciad was founded on it Thomas Shadwell is the hero of the piece, and was
introduced, as if pitched upon, by Flecknoe to succeed him in the throne of dulness; for Flecknoe
was never poet-laureate, as has been ignorantly asserted in Cibber's Lives of the Poets.
In this poem, observes Malone, ample vengeance is taken by Dryden on his corpulent antagonist
(Shadwell); a torrent of wit and satire, mixed with contempt, indignation and derision, over.
whelmed, in one gigantic effort, and by a well directed blow, the wretched poet against whom it
was levelled. The most cutting sarcasm was conveyed in skilful versification, which gave point
and keenness to the edge of its wit, and which has been emulated and copied, but not exceeded
even on the broader canvas of the Dunciad.

133 DRYDEN (John) OF DRAMATIC POESIE, AN ESSAY BY JOHN DRYDEN, ESQ.-
Fungar vice cotis, acutum Reddere quæ farrum valet, exoris ipsa secundi. Horat. De
Arte Poet. London, printed for Henry Herringman, at the Sign of the Anchor on the
Lower Walk of the New Exchange, 1668. FIRST EDITION, 4to, a fine copy in new
sprinkled calf extra, rough gilt edges, with Frederick Locker's Bookplate, £4 48
This was Dryden's principal prose production. The character of Shakespeare's genius which he
exhibits here in so masterly a manner called forth the highest encomiums from Dr. Johnson, who
says, "It will not be easy to find in all the opulence of our language a treatise so artfully
variegated with successive representations of opposite probabilities, so enlivened with imagery, so
brightened with illustrations. His portraits of the English Dramatists are wrought with great spirit
and diligence. The account of Shakespeare may stand as a perpetual model of encomiastic criticism,
exact without minuteness, and lofty without exaggeration. The praise lavished by Longinus on the
attestation of the heroes of Marathon, by Demosthenes, fades away before it. In a few lines is
exhibited a character so extensive in its comprehension, and so curious in its limitations, that
nothing can be added, diminished, or referred, nor can the editors and admirers of Shakespeare,
in all their emulation of reverence, boast of much more than of having diffused and paraphrased
the epitome of excellence, of having changed Dryden's gold for baser metal of lower value,
though of greater bulk."

134 DRYDEN (John) RELIGIO LAICI, OR A LAYMAN'S FAITH, a Poem. 1682. FIRST
EDITION, small 4to, half morocco neat, gilt edges. (From the libraries of Col. Grant
and Frederick Locker, with bookplates of each inserted, also a MS. note in the latter's
handwriting). £3 38

Of this poem Dr. Johnson says: "That it is a composition of great excellence of its kind, in which
the familiar is very properly diversified with the solemn, and the grave with the humorous, in
which metre has neither weakened the force, nor clouded the perspicuity of argument; nor will it
be easy to find another example equally happy of this middle kind of writing, which, though
prosaic in some parts, rises to high poetry in others, and neither hovers to the skies, nor creeps
along the ground."

135 DRYDEN (John) RELIGIO LAICI, OR A LAYMAN'S FAITH, а Роem. Another Copy, sewn, lower edges UNCUT, £2 2s

136 DRYDEN (John) THE HIND AND THE PANTHER, A POEM, IN THREE PARTS.

London, printed for Jacob Tonson, at the Judge's Head, in Chancery Lane, near Fleet Street, 1687. FIRST EDITION, 4to, fine copy in morocco super extra, rough gilt edges, by RIVIERE, £12 128

Dryden's chief production in verse. The first lines are justly reputed among the most musical in our language. THE PRESENT COPY CONTAINS THE LICENSE LEAF BEFORE TITLE, THIS IS FREQUENTLY WANTING, and at end is bound "The Hind and Panther Transversed to the story of the CountryMouse and the City-Mouse. 1687.' This was an attack on Dryden's poem by Matthew Prior, then a student at Cambridge, assisted by Charles Montagu, afterwards Earl of Halifax. Also, "Notes upon Mr. Dryden's Poems in Four Letters, by M. CLIFFORD, late master of the Charter House, London. To which is annexed some Reflections upon the Hind and Panther, by Another Hand (T. BROWN). Printed in the year 1689.

137 DRYDEN (John) THE HIND AND THE PANTHER.

Another Edition,

Holy-Rood-House Reprinted by James Watson, printer to his most excellent Majestie's Royal Family and Household. 1687. Small 4to, the foredges of the two leaves of "Address to the Reader" neatly added to, and a few headlines shaved, brown calf extra, gilt edges, by RIVIERE, £5 58

This is a very rare edition, and though mentioned on the title to be "Reprinted," IS THOUGHT BY MANY TO BE THE FIRST ISSUE. Mr. Mackenzie's copy sold for £10 10s.

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139

Another, THE SECOND EDITION, 4to, half bound, £1 18

- Another, THE THIRD EDITION, 4to, half bound, 10s 6d 140 DRYDEN (John) THE MEDAL, a Satyre against Sedition, by the Author of Absalom and Achitophel. 1682. FIRST EDITION. 4to, FINE COPY, £1 18 Spence has mentioned, in his Anecdotes, that Charles II. suggested the subject of this poem (as he seems to have done others) to the poet. One day the King was walking in the Mall, and talking with the poet; he said, If I was a poet, and I think I am poor enough to be one, I would write a poem on such a subject, in the following manner.' He then gave him the plan of the Medal. Dryden took the hint, carried the poem as soon as it was finished to the King, and had a present of a hundred broad pieces for it.

141 DRYDENIANA.-PORDAGE (SAMUEL) The Medal ReverSED, a Satyre against Persecution, by the Author of Azaria and Hushai. 1682. FIRST EDITION, Small 4to, sewn, 4s 6d

142 DRYDENIANA.-SHADWELL (THOMAS) SATYR TO HIS MUSE, by the Author of Absolom and Achitophel. 1682. FIRST EDITION, small 4to, sewn, 58

143 DRYDENIANA.-SHADWELL (THOMAS) THE MEDAL OF JOHN BAYES, a Satyr against Folly and Knavery. 1682. FIRST EDITION, small 4to, sewn, 58

144 DUELS.-A PUBLICATION OF HIS MAJESTIE'S EDICT AND SEVERE CENSURE AGAINST PRIVATE COMBATS AND COMBATANTS; whether within His Highness Dominions or without; with their Seconds, Accomplices, and Adherents, straitly charching all Officers, and other His Majestie's subjects, to use no connivencie, or remisse proceeding toward such offenders: for the necessary and timely prevention of those heavy events, whereunto aswell Kingdomes, was worthy Families become obnoxious, by the Odious and enormous Impieties inevitably subsequent thereupon. Robert Barker, 1613. Small 4to, sewn, £1 48

DUELS.-See also under BACON (FRANCIS)

145 EDUCATION.-An Account of Charity Schools lately erected in Great Britain and Ireland, with the Benefactions thereto, and of the Methods whereby they were set up, and are governed; also a Proposal for enlarging their number, and adding some work to the Children's Learning, thereby to render their Education more useful to the Publick. 1709. Small 4to, sewn, unbound, 58

146 EARLY SCHOOL BOOK.-Joh. Amos Commenii Orbis Sensualium Pictus, Hoc est, Omnium Fundamentalium in Mundo Rerum, et in Vitâ Actionum, Pictura et Nomenclatura. Joh. Amos Commenius's VISIBLE WORLD: OR A PICTURE AND NOMENCLATURE OF ALL THE CHIEF THINGS THAT ARE IN THE WORLD; and of MEN'S EMPLOYMENTS THEREIN. A Work newly written by the Author in Latine and High Dutch (being one of his Last Essays, and the MOST SUITABLE TO CHILDREN'S CAPACITIES of any that he hath hitherto made), and translated into English by CHARLES HOOLE, M.A., FOR THE USE OF YOUNG LATINE-SCHOLARS. 1672. Portrait, and over one hundred and fty brilliant little engravings of a very interesting character, 12mo, half calf, £3 3s

Among the numerous quaint engravings are representations of a Bookseller's Shop, Bookbinding, Brewing, Tennis-Playing, Angling, Hunting, Fowling, Gardening, Husbandry, Stage Playing, Cooking, Dice-Playing, Printing, Paper-Making, etc., etc. The work is unmentioned by Lowndes. 147 EGAN (Pierce) THE SHOW FOLKS, to which is added a Biographical Sketch of the late Mr. Theodore Lane. 1831. FIRST EDITION, several clever illustrations by Theodore Lane, 12mo, original covers, as issued, 78 6d

148 ENGLISH MENDICANT FRIARS.-Collectanea relating to the Bristol Friars Minors (Gray Friars) and their Convent, with a Concise History of the Dissolution of the Houses of the Four Orders of Mendicant Friars in Bristol, by G. E. Weare. 1893. Plates, 8vo, cloth, 68

149 EPISCOPACY.-F. (N.) Unparalleled Reasons for abolishing Episcopacy: 1. It will assure his Majesties authority Royall. 2. Increase his Revenue. 3. Settle a good Union in his Majesties owne Kingdomes and between them and other Reformed Churches. 4. Cause a Good Understanding between his Majesty and his People. 1642. 4to. newly half bound, 4s

CONCE. NING

THE

150 EPISCOPACY.-THE BISHOP OF ARMAGH'S DIRECTION LITURGY AND EPISCOPALL GOVERNMENT. 1659. 4to, half bound, 58 151 EPISCOPACY.-The Recantation and Humble Submission of Two Ancient Prelates, subscribed by their own hands and sent to the General Assemblie, as also the Act of the late said Assemblie, CONDEMNING EPISCOPACY and other abuses contrary to the Word of God, and the Laws of the Church and Kingdome. 1641. 4to, half bound, 48

152 EPISCOPACY.-Two DISCOURSES CONCERNING EPISCOPACY, the former made by the Right Hon. the late Lord Viscount Falkland, and the latter by his Friend, Mr. William Chillingworth. 1660. 4to, half bound, 4s

153 ERASMO DI VALVASONE (Signor) ANGELEIDA. In Venetia, 1590. Device on title, 4to, blue morocco extra, gilt, gilt edges (choice copy), £1 18

With two autograph letters enclosed to the late Mr. Thompson, Master of Trinity College, Cambridge. One is from EDMUND GOSSE, and in it he says: "I thank you for a sight of this curious and very uncommon poem. It recalls to me not Paradise Lost so much as Heywood's Hierarchie of Angels, a folio poem of the reign of Charles I, which I dare say you may know rather from its handsome set of plates than for its verses. I think Heywood must have known the Angeleida, which distinctly reminds one of his epic."

154 ESSEX.-A Declaration of the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament, for Appeasing and Quieting of all Unlawfull Tumults and Insurrections in the several Counties of England and Dominion of Wales. 1642. Small 4to, half bound, 68 6d An interesting tract, CONCERNING THE INSURRECTION IN ESSEX, and the despatch of Sir T. Barrington and Mr. Grymston to appease the people by the Parliament.

155 ESSEX.-CASE OF MR. PETER LEFEBURE, CHRISTOPHER BARTON, DANIEL BISSON, and JOHN BANNISTER. 1743. A folio sheet, 38

Relates to a Waterway at the Three Mills, Westham, Essex.

156 FACETIÆ.-D'HORSAY, OR THE FOLLIES OF THE DAY, by a Man of Fashion. 1844. FIRST EDITION, with numerous characteristic etchings, 8vo, stained calf extra, top edges gilt, UNCUT, by RIVIERE, £2 108

157 FACETIÆ. THE CIGAR, by the author of "Three Courses and a Dessert," etc. N.D. FIRST EDITION, with numerous clever woodcuts, said to be by GEORGE CRUIKSHANK, thick 18mo, stained calf extra, top edges gilt, UNCUT, by RIVIERE, £1 10s