Whose sense will not without much study come,hr 410 Let him, for me, be altogether dumb. No Persius be my Reader; but such may, q As He, who once threw Persius away... I i huwa 1--12:1 、 བ་་་་་་་s;། HAUCER (Geoffrey)-The Canterbury Tales of Geoffrey Chaucer. -Black Letter.-Imprinted at Folio. £25. This is Pynson's first edition, and is supposed by Mr. Tyrwhitt to have been printed not long after 1491, the year of Caxton's death. It is certain that the first book with a date, printed by Pynson, was "Dives and Pauper," which appeared in 1493. On comparing the two works it evidently appears that Chaucer was printed anterior to the other.-The present is not a perfect copy, as it wants part of the Prohemye," and several other leaves. It does not appear that any title was prefixed to this edition, or it would have been given above, in full.gd op 85. CHAUCER (Geoffrey). The workes of Geffray Chaucer newly printed, with dyuers workes whiche were neuer in print before: As in the table more playnly dothe appere. Cum priuilegio. Black Letter.-Imprinted at London by Wyllyam Bonham, dwellyng in Paules church yarde at the sygne of the reed Lyon (no date). £7. 78. Folio, pp. 726. Ritson assigns the year 1542 as the date of this edition: it is a well printed volume, and profusely decorated with ornamented capitals, many of which are executed with considerable taste. The dedication is to King Henry VIII. but the name of the editor is not mentioned. In this edition first appeared the Plowman's Tale, but Mr. Tyrwhitt says that as he cannot understand that there is the least ground of evidence, either external or internal, for believing it to be a work of Chaucer's, he has not admitted it into his own edition. 86. 87. The Workes of our Antient and lerned English Poet Geffrey Chaucer, newly Printed. In this Impression you shall find these Additions: 1 His Portraiture and Progenie shewed. 2 His Life collected. 3 Arguments to euery Booke gathered. 4 Old and Obscure Words explained. 5 Authors by him cited, declared. 6 Difficulties opened. 7 Two Bookes of his neuer before printed.-Black Letter.FINE COPY IN RUSSIA. Londini, impensis Geor. Bishop, 1598. Folio, pp. 858. £3. 10s. Another copy, same edition.-HALF BOUND, RUSSIA (two last leaves wanting).-Londini, impensis Geor. Bishop, 1598. Folio, pp. 858. . £2. 12s. 6d. This edition was edited by Thomas Speght, and is dedicated "To the Right Honorable Sir Robert Cecil Knight, Principal Secretarie to the Queens most excellent Maiestie;" after the address to the reader, comes one to the editor from Francis Beaumont the Dramatist. The dedication to Henry VIII, in the edition of 1542, is repeated in the present, and called "The Epistle of William Thinne to King Henry the eight," ref 88. CHAUCER (Geoffrey).—The Workes of our Ancient and learned English Poet, Geffrey Chaucer, newly Printed. To that which was done in the former Impression, thus much is now added. 1 In the life of Chaucer many things inserted. 2 The whole worke by old Copies reformed. 3 Sentences and Prouerbes noted. 4 The Signification of the old and obscure words prooued: also Characters shewing from what Tongue or Dialect they be deriued. 5 The Latine and French not Englished by Chaucer, translated. 6 The Treatise called lacke Vpland, against Friers and Chaucers A.B.C. called La Prière de nostre Dame at this Impression added.Black Letter.-FINE COPY IN RUSSIA.-London, printed by Adam Islip, 1602. Folio, pp. 826. £4. 45. This is a re-impression of Speght's edition, with the additions and amendments as stated in the title. 89. 90. The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer, compared with the former editions and many valuable MSS. Out of which, three Tales are added which were never before printed; by John Urry, Student of Christ-Church, Oxon, deceased; together with a Glossary, by a Student of the same College. To the whole is prefixed the Author's Life, newly written, and a Preface, giving an Account of this Edition. (Portrait of Chaucer by Vertue, of Urry by Payne, and engravings of the Pilgrims.)-BOARDS.-London, printed for Bernard Lintot, 1721. Folio, pp. 760. £1. 15s. Another copy of the same edition.-large paper.-London, 1721. Folio, pp. 760. £3. 38. This edition was completed by Mr. William, and his brother Dr. Timothy, Thomas: It contains two singularly curious and valuable poems, which are erroneously attributed to Chaucer, viz. "The Cokes tale of Gamelyn," and "The Merchants second tale, or the History of Beryn:" the "author of which," says Ritson, "be he whom he might, was certainly a writer of uncommon merit." 91. CHAUCER (Geoffrey).-The Canterbury Tales of Chaucer. To which are added, an Essay upon his Language and Versification; an Introductory Discourse; Notes, and a Glossary.-RUSSIA. -London, 1775-8. £6. 16s. 6d. 92. Five vols. octavo. Another set of the same edition, with proof prints from Bell's edition, and portraits of Chaucer and Tyrwhitt.-мoROCCO.-London, 1775-8. Five vols. octavo. £8. 8s. The present is the celebrated edition, edited by the learned and industrious Mr. Tyrwhitt, in which he has settled the text by an indefatigable collation of all the printed and manuscript copies. 93. 94. The Canterbury Tales of Chaucer. To which are added an Essay on his Two vols. quarto. £2. 10s. The Canterbury Tales of Chaucer, Modernis'd by several hands. Publish'd by Mr. Ogle.-NEAT.-London, printed for J. and R. Tonson, 1741. 95. 96. Three vols. octavo. £1. 11s. 6d. Another set, with a por trait of Chaucer.-CALF EXTRA.-London, 1741. The assemble of foules. Here foloweth the assemble of foules veray pleasaunt and compendyous to rede or here compyled by the preclared and famous clerke Geffray Chaucer.Black Letter.-CALF EXTRA.-Imprynted in london in Flete strete at the sygne of the 74. BACCHVS BOVNTIE, Describing the debonaire dietie of his bountiful godhead, in the royall obseruance of his great feast of Pentecost. Necessarie to be read and marked of all, for the eschuing of like enormities. By Philip Foulface of Alefoord, student in good fellowship.-At London, printed for Henry Kyrkham, 1594. £6. This curious little tract is partly in verse, and partly in prose; it is written in an ironical manner, with considerable humour, and much resembles the style of Robert Greene. "The intention of this Pamphlet was to expose the sin of drunkenness, and the folly and danger of those who give themselves up to that chargeable, silly, and health-destroying vice: a vice, in which a man takes the utmost pains to drown his own reason, to commence a fool, the object of a sober man's resentment and reproach, and to ruin both his own estate and constitution. And it plainly demonstrates, that drunkenness is not the peculiar vice of the present age, as some pretend; but that strong liquor was both as intoxicating, and as much abused in the reign of Queen Elizabeth, as in our days: otherwise it could not have given occasion to the severe satire of this ancient treatise; it was thought as necessary to forewarn the temptations, as to anatomize the vice, by its reputed author Mr. Philip Foulface, who it appears was a miracle of his age, forasmuch as he was a reformed drunkard; and, though he could not rub the ale-wife's score out of his carbuncled face, was resolved to be no more ensnared with the goodness of her ale."-Oldys. 75. BROME (Alexander).-Songs and other Poems. By Alex. Brome, Gent.-Portrait by D. Loggan. -CALF EXTRA.-London, printed for Henry Brome, 1664. Dedicated "To Sir John Robinson, Lieutenant of the Tower of London," with commendatory verses by W. Paulet, Rob. Napier, Iz. Walton, Cha. Steynings, and Valentine Oldis. 76. The Poems of Horace, Consisting of Odes, Satyrs, and Epistles, Rendred in English Verse by Several Persons, (chiefly by Alexander Brome,) with a portrait of Brome by |