1177. MILTON (JOHN). Paradise lost. A Poem in Ten Books. The Author John Milton. 8vo, full dark blue levant morocco, gilt back, gilt and blind panelled sides, with corner ornaments, gilt edges, by Rivière. London: Printed by S. Simmons, 1669

FIRST EDITION, with the Sixth title-page (usually termed the Seventh). This edition has the preliminary leaves, with the errata corrected in last line but one, and with the 5 line note "The Printer to the Reader. A BEAUTIFUL COPY.

1178. MILTON (JOHN). The History of Britain, That part especially now call'd England. From the first Traditional Beginning, continu'd to the Norman Conqvest. Collected out of the antientest and best Authours thereof by John Milton. With the brilliant portrait of Milton by Faithorne (remargined). Small 4to, full mottled calf, gilt fillet border on sides, gilt edges, by Rivière. London: Printed by J. M. for James Allestry, 1670 THE EXTREMELY RARE FIRST EDITION, with the correct title-page. It was issued again the following year, using the unsold sheets, but the date on the title changed to 1671. A superb copy. Not in Huth.

In

1179. MILTON (JOHN). Paradise Regain'd. A Poem. IV Books. To which is added Samson Agonistes. 8vo, original calf, some lower edges UNCUT.

London: Printed by J. M. for John Starkey, 1671 FIRST EDITION, and EXTREMELY RARE IN SUCH CRISP ORIGINAL STATE. With the leaf of License preceding title; the separate title to "Samson Agonistes''; and the leaf of Errata at the end. The Daniel-Huth copy, with bookplate of the latter.

1180. MILTON (JOHN). Paradise Lost. A Poem in Twelve Books. The Author John Milton. With brilliant impression of the portrait of Milton by W. Dolle. 8vo, full crimson levant morocco, Jansen style, gilt top, by Stikeman.

London: Printed by S. Simmons, 1674 SECOND EDITION, "Revised and Augmented by the same Author." Rare. This edition was not in Huth.

1181. MILTON (JOHN). Literæ Pseudo-Senatus Anglicani Cromwellii Reliquorumque Perduellium nomine ac jussu conscriptæ a Joanne Miltono. Ornamental device on title. Small 8vo, original calf. In half morocco slip case. Impressæ Anno 1676

THE EXTREMELY RARE FIRST EDITION. Very fine copy. Two editions of this work were published in this year, and there is no way of determining which was the earlier. Milton's nephew, Edward Phillips translated the work, and it was published in 1694 under the title of "Letters of State."

1182. MILTON (JOHN). Paradise Lost. A Poem in Twelve Books. The Author John Milton. With a fine portrait of the author by W. Dolle. 8vo, full olive-brown levant morocco, Jansen style, gilt edges, by Rivière. London: Printed by S. Simmons, 1678

THIRD EDITION. An immaculate copy. Has the contemporary name on title of Richardi Hebson. This edition was revised and augmented by Milton.

1183. MILTON (JOHN). Mr. John Milton's Character of the Long Parliament and Assembly of Divines. In MDCXLI. Omitted in his other Works, and never before Printed, And very seasonable for these times. Ornament on title. Small 4to, full brown levant morocco, gilt and blind tooled sides, gilt edges, by Rivière. London: Printed for Henry Brome, 1681

FIRST EDITION. Extremely Rare, and a large copy, measuring 7 7/16 x 5 7/16 inches. The Church copy measures only 6 15/16 x 5 7/16 inches. There was no copy of this work in the extensive Hagen collection.

This work consists of matter originally written as part of the third book of the author's "History of Britain," 1670, and omitted in that as well as in all of the early editions for the reason given by the publisher in his preface "To the Reader."'

1184. MILTON (JOHN). Comus. A Mask. With 30 illustrations by Pickersgill, Corbould, Birket Foster, Harrison Weir, etc., engraved by the Brothers Dalziel. Small 4to, full polished calf, gilt back, gilt edges, by Rivière. Original blue and gold covers bound in.

THE FIRST ILLUSTRATED EDITION.

London, 1858

THE SMALLEST ALMANAC IN THE WORLD

1185. MINIATURE BOOK. Schloss's English Bijou Almanac for 1841. Poetically illustrated by the Hon. Mrs. Norton. Illustrated with portraits on Napoleon, Mrs. Norton, J. S. Knowles, etc. Size 13/16 x 9/16 inches, full green roan, gilt edges, in original London (1841)

roan case.

Very Rare.

FOR MAGISTRATES.

1186. MIRROUR A Myrrovr for Magistrates. Wherein maye be seen by example of other, with howe greuous plages vices are punished; and howe frayle and unstable worldly prosperity is founde, even of those whom fortune seemeth most highly to fauour. Anno. 1563. Title within a fine architectural woodcut border. Printed in Gothic type. Small 4to, full olive levant morocco, doublures of the same, marbled flys, gilt edges, by The Club Bindery. Imprinted at London by Thomas Marshe, 1563

A FINE COPY OF THE SECOND EDITION. Contains the leaf of "Faultes escaped in Printing.' The editor was William Baldwin and the basis of the work was Lydgate's Fall of Princes."

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1187. MIRROUR FOR MAGISTRATES. The Seconde part of the Mirrour for Magistrates, conteining the falles of the infortunate Princes of this Lande. From the Conquest of Cæsar, vnto the comyng of Duke William the Conquerour. Title within a fine architectural border. Small 4to, full old wine color morocco, gilt back, fillet border on sides, with rosettes, gilt edges, by Rivière.

Imprinted by Richard Webster, 1578

THE FIRST (Blennerhassett) EDITION, and only separate edition of this part. The legends are twelve in number and were written entirely by Thomas Blennerhassett. Very Rare.

1188. MITCHELL (S. WEIR). The Wonderful Stories of FuzBuz the Fly, and Mother Grabem the Spider. With tinted illustrations. 8vo, original boards, cloth back, uncut. Philadelphia, 1867

LARGE PAPER COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION OF THE AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK. Very Scarce in this state.

1189. MOLIERE (I. B. P.). L'Escole des Femmes.

Comedie.

The frontispiece is wanting. Small 8vo, full olive levant morocco, Jansen style, gilt edges.

Paris: Chez Iean Gvignard, 1663

FIRST EDITION. VERY RARE.

FIRST PRESS IN MILAN

1190. MOMBRITIUS (BONINUS). De Dominica Passione Libri VI. (A poem in 6 books, written in Latin, on the Passion of Jesus Christ, dedicated to Pope Sixtus IV.) Printed in Roman type, 73 unnumbered leaves, without signatures or catchwords, and 1 blank leaf at the beginning. Small 4to, half polished calf, leather label, by Tout.

Colophon: Opus Impssum Mli per Antoniu Zarotus (1474 in MS).

THE FIRST EDITION OF A WORK OF GREAT RARITY, from the FIRST MILAN PRESS. It was reprinted in Leipzig in 1499.

On the first blank leaf is a MS. verse of 6 lines; and at the foot of the colophon is written in the date "1474" and three lines of note; all in an ancient hand. From the library of George Dunn of Woolley Hall, with bookplate.

Mombritius wrote only two works, the poem in very good Latin, and an enormous work, "Legends and Lives of Martyrs and Saints, " also published in Milan by an unknown printer, and never republished. Both of these works of great rarity.

The poems are mentioned by Hain *11542, but not seen by him, and therefore he gives a very meagre description. Copinger 11542 quotes the poems and gives poor description, after a copy in the Br. Mus. Proctor, 5789 says printed after 9 Dec. 1474, and before 23 March, 1475. This means that in all probability the book belongs to the year 1474 not 1475, as in Milan at that time, the New Year began on March 1st. Proctor identifies the type as No. 2, which differs very little from Zarotus' early type, only being smaller (108 millimeters for 20 lines instead of 112 mm.). Burger, p. 650.

Pollard, in the Hawkins Cat. p. 159, speaking of Zarotus, says: "His first book was the 'Collectanea de verborum significatione of Festus,' finished 3 August, 1471. . . . In May, 1472, he entered into an association for three years with four moneyed partners, who agreed to supply him with funds for printing books in consideration of receiving two-thirds of the profits. The association only lasted fourteen months, but Zarotus must have found other supporters . . . and . . seems to have weathered successfully the storm which fell so heavily on the early printers of Rome and Venice. He went on printing until 1497, by which time he had produced about 140 incunabula.

...

Tiraboschi VI.I.317, speaks at length about the author and the book and quotes several copies in Italy. Reichling III, p. 114, gives detailed description after a copy in the Neapolitan Nat. Libr. Woolley photos 221, has reproduction of one page.

A BEAUTIFUL MONTAIGNE

1191. MONTAIGNE. The Essayes or Morall, Politike and Militarie Discourses of Lo: Michaell de Montaigne . . . First written by him in French. And now done into English By him that hath inviolably vowed his labors to the Eternitie of their Honors, whose names he hath severally inscribed on these his consecrated Altares. Small folio, full seventeenth century calf, rebacked.

Printed at London by Val. Sims, 1603

THE RARE FIRST EDITION OF FLORIO'S TRANSLATION OF WHICH SHAKEPEARE'S COPY IS NOW IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

The present copy contains the TWO FINAL LEAVES OF ERRATA which are lacking in most copies. There is a different leaf of Errata at the beginning.

From Book 1. Chap. 30, on "The Caniballes," Shakespeare has inserted in his Tempest" (in the speeches of Gonzala in Act II, Scene I) some of the very words of Florio's translation as to the happy life of a nation not trammelled by the customs of civilization.

1192. MONTEIRO (MARIANA). Legends and Popular Tales of the Basque People. With illustrations in photogravure by Harold Copping. Large 4to, cloth, uncut.

London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1887 LARGE PAPER COPY, with the plates on India paper. With the bookplate of Seward Brice.

1193. MONTEMAYOR (GEORGE DE). Les sept livres de la Diane. Traduits d'Espagnol en Francois. Printer's device on title. Small 8vo, in a fine 17th century French morocco binding, richly gilt back, gilt fillet borders on sides, gilt edges, silk lining and marbled flys. A Rheims: Par Iean de Foigny, 1579

A BOOK OF GREAT RARITY AND INTEREST. This Spanish pastoral Romance has been assigned as the origin of "The Two Gentlemen of Verona." It was translated into English prose by B. Young, and was published in 1598, a copy of which is in the present library. Portions of the work were rendered into English by Sir Philip Sydney at the end of his "Arcadia.''

This copy is from the library of Alfred Werle of Rheims.

The first English translation is in the present collection (following number).

1194. MONTEMAYOR (GEORGE DE). YOUNG (BARTHOLOMEW). Diana of George of Montemayor. Translated out of Spanish into English by Bartholomew Yong of the Middle Temple Gentleman. Title within elaborate woodcut border. Small folio, full sprinkled calf, gilt back, canary edges, by Cecil and Larkins. At London: Printed by Edm. Bollifant, Impensis G. B., 1598

A very

THE EXTREMELY RARE FIRST EDITION OF YOUNG'S TRANSLATION. fine copy. This is a most important volume, as it is to Young that the English novel is chiefly indebted for his translation of "Diana, THROUGH WHICH THE SPANISH PASTORAL SCHOOL WAS INTRODUCED INTO ENGLAND. This work, printed in Spanish about 1559, is thought to have had a distinct influence upon Sidney, and Shakespeare must have been familiar with it in some form. Young's translation existed in manuscript some sixteen years before it was published. The story of Felismena in the second book is said to be the original of “The Two Gentlemen of Verona.”’ See preceding number.

GEORGE MOORE'S FIRST BOOK. PRESENTATION COPY 1195. MOORE (GEORGE). Flowers of Passion. Small 4to, original cloth gilt. London: Provost & Co., 1878 FIRST EDITION OF THE AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK. Presentation copy from the author, with "From the Author' inscribed on the title in the author's hand. Extremely Scarce.

AUTOGRAPH PRESENTATION COPY, WITH AUTOGRAPH

LETTER

1196. MOORE (GEORGE). Pagan Poems. 12mo, original cloth. London: Newman and Co., 1881 THE VERY RARE FIRST EDITION. Autograph presentation copy from the author, inscribed on the title-page To Violet Fane From the Author. At the bottom, over the imprint, Moore has signed his initials "G. M." Laid in, is a 3 pp. A. L. S. to Mrs. Singleton (Violet Fane), dated May 3, 1889, referring to the present copy.

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"A strange story reaches me to-day through Mr. Geary. It appears that you ordered your bookseller to procure you a copy of my unfortunate volume of 'Pagan Poems.' That you should have done this is sufficiently surprising; that your bookseller should have supplied you with a copy inscribed to Violet Fane is simply extraordinary. I did not know you, except through your writings, at the time the book was printed. I suppose I must have intended to send you a copy (on such a matter of course memory is blank: intentions of ten years ago!!)"

1197. MOORE (GEORGE). A Modern Lover. 3 vols. 12mo, original cloth, uncut. London: Tinsley Brothers, 1883

FIRST EDITION. Very Scarce.

1198. MOORE (GEORGE). Literature at Nurse; or, Circulating Morals. 8vo, stitched, in new boards.

FIRST EDITION. Extremely Scarce.

London: Vizetelly & Co., 1885

1199. MOORE (GEORGE). A Mummer's Wife. 12mo, original cloth. London: Vizetelly & Co., 1885

FIRST EDITION.

1200. MOORE (GEORGE). A Drama in Muslin. Frontispiece. 12mo, original cloth, uncut. London: Vizetelly & Co., 1886

FIRST EDITION.

AUTOGRAPH PRESENTATION COPY

1201. MOORE (GEORGE). A Mere Accident. 12mo, original cloth, uncut. London: Vizetelly & Co., 1887 FIRST EDITION. Autograph presentation copy from the author: "To my dear friend and critic George Barlow. George Moore."

1202. MOORE (GEORGE). Parnell and His Island. original wrappers, in cloth case.

FIRST EDITION. Very Scarce.

12mo,

London, 1887