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. 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 Loggan, and of Horace by Dunstall.-CALF EX- 16s. 77. BROOME (William).-Poems on several Occasions. By William Broome, Chaplain to the Right Honourable Charles Lord Cornwallis, &c. &c. Fine portrait by Vertue.-CALF EXTRA.— London, 1727. Octavo, pp. 260. 128, 78. BARNES (Barnabe).-A Divine Centvrie of Spiri tuall Sonnets. (By Barnabe Barnes.)-London, printed by Iohn Windet, dwelling at Poules Wharf, at the signe of the Crosse Keys, and are there to be sold, 1595. Quarto, pp. 62. £30. Dedicated "To the Right Reverende Father in God the Right honourable and my very good Lord, Tobie (by the grace of God) Bishop and Counte Palatine of Duresme and Sadberge;" then follows a prose address "To the fauorable and Christian Reader," after which the sonnets, in number one hundred, commence, and are succeeded by a Hymne to the glorious honovr of the most blessed and indiuisible Trinitie." Between this and the colophon comes "A Table to find out any Sonnet herein Alphabetically." The volume is neatly printed with italic type, and has a border around each page. Ames remarks, that Windet was a good printer and used a pretty device, which he describes, but it is in no respect like the device in this very rare volume. The following is the opening sonnet ; Sonnet I. No more lewde laies of Lighter loues I sing, Nor teach my lustfull Muse abus'de to flie, With Sparrowes plumes and for compassion crie, To mortall beauties which But my Muse fethered with an Angels wing, Diuinely mounts aloft unto the skie. Where her loues subjects with my hopes doe lie: His quenchlesse Torch foreshowes hell's quenchles fire Thy wounds my Cure deare Sauiour I desire To pearce my thoughts thy fierie Cherubinne, F (By kindling my desires) true zeale t'infuse, Thy loue my theame and holy Ghost my Muse. 79. BRICE (Thomas).-A Compendious Register in Metre, conteining the names, and pacient suf fryngs of the membres of Jesus Christ and the tormented; and cruelly burned within England, since the death of our famous Kyng, of immortall memory Edwarde the sixte: to the entrance and beginnyng of the raign, of our soueraigne & derest Lady Elizabeth of Englande, Fraunce, and Irelande quene, &c. (by Thomas Brice).-Black Letter.-Imprynted at London by Jhon Kyngston, 1559. Small octavo, pp. 58. £10. Dedicated "To the righte honourable Lorde Par, Marques of Northampton: Thomas Brice, your lordshippes dayly Oratour, wisheth continuall encrease of grace, concorde, & consolation in hym that is, was, and is to come, euen the first and the laste." Then comes a prose address to the reader, and "The maner how to vnderstande the letters and fygures."-Warton, who had never seen this book, says he knows not how far Fox may have profited by it, but thinks he does not mention it. 80. BUTLER (Samuel).-Hudibras, in three parts, written in the Time of the Late Wars: Corrected and Amended. With Large Annotations and a Preface, by Zachary Grey, L.L.D. Adorn'd with a new Set of Cuts (from the designs of Hogarth). 2 Vol. RUSSIA.-Cambridge, printed for J. Bentham, 1744.-The Genuine Remains in Verse and Prose of Mr. Samuel Butler. Published from the Original Manuscripts, formerly in the Possession of W. Longueville, Esq. with Notes by R. Thyer. 2 Vol. RUSSIA.-London, printed for J. and R. Tonson, 1759. Four vols. octavo. 81. £5. 58. Hudibras, by Butler, edited by Dr. Grey.-LARGE PAPER, RUSSIA.-Cambridge, Large paper copies of this edition are of rare occurrence. £12. 82. BUTLER (Samuel).-Hudibras, by Samuel Butler. -CALF EXTRA.-London, printed by T. Rickaby, This is Dr. Nash's beautiful and celebrated edition. It is illustrated by copious notes, and fine engravings taken from the designs of Hogarth; others from original designs, and from drawings by La Guerre; it also has a fine print of Oliver Cromwell's Guard-room, after a painting by Dobson.-A new Life of Butler is prefixed. 83. BARKSDALE (Clement).-Nympha Libethris: or the Cotswold Muse, presenting some extempore Verses to the imitation of yong Scholars. In four parts. (By Clement Barksdale.)-London, printed for F. A. at Worcester, 1651. Small octavo, pp. 108. It appears by Wood's Athenæ, vol. ii. col. 812, that this little volume, the rarity of which is so extreme that no other copy is known, was written by Clement Barksdale.-Opposite the title are some verses apologizing for the want of a frontispiece, and on the back of the title are two extracts from Pliny's Epistles, in apology for this volume, besides a preparatory motto to conciliate the reader's good will. Then follows "The Consecration of all. To my Lady Chandos;" after which are six lines addressed to the same. Latin verses and English compliments succeed, with the signatures of Sackvill, Stratford, Tounsend, and T. B. After a title page to Part I. he gives a short dedication to his complimentary friends" adoloscentibus bonæ spei ;" and also a list of the chief persons honoured by his muse. Each part has a separate title, and is prefaced by a dedicatory epistle in verse. From some verses "To F. A. Stationer," it is evident that the name of the Worcester publisher was Francis Ash, and that he was a noted Bookbinder,-The work ends as follows: To the Readers. My verse, because they are not hard and rare, I write, just as I speak, to be understood. Whose sense will not without much study come, 10 Let him, for me, be altogether dumb. 5 No Persius be my Reader; but such may, HAUCER (Geoffrey)-The Can- Folio. 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, to 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.20d on an 1 |