Catalogue of the Library of the Late Thomas Jefferson McKee

4to, full crimson crushed levant morocco, gilt back, edges and borders, gilt panels
on sides, with corner ornaments, by FRANCIS BEDFORD. Device on title. FINE COPY.
RARE. THESE JUVENILE POEMS WERE NOT RE-PRINTED IN THE AUTHOR'S COL-
LECTED WORKS, PUBLISHED IN 1637.

2717 ALEXANDER (WILLIAM, EARL OF STIRLING).

Recreations

With the
MVSES.

By WILLIAM Earle of

Sterline

London.

Printed by THO. HARPER.
1637.

Small folio, original calf, gilt ornaments on back and corners, gilt panels on sides,
with device in centre. BRILLIANT IMPRESSION of the EXCESSIVELY RARE PORTRAIT of
the AUTHOR Engraved by WILLIAM MARSHALL. Title within engraved border.
From the EARL OF WESTMORELAND'S COLLECTION, containing his book label on inside
cover, together with his written motto on top margin of verso of portrait. (A slight
tear in the lower margin of the portrait has been neatly repaired.)

The following extract from the Bibliotheca Anglo Poetica [1815] will attest the
extraordinary value of such a copy as this:

"The circumstance which so much enhances the value of the present fine copy of this
work, is that it possesses a most brilliant impression of the rare portrait of the Earl of
Stirling, engraved by Marshall, and UNDOUBTEDLY THAT ARTIST'S MASTERPIECE.
is conjectured that it was engraved in order that the noble author might present a few
copies to particular friends, and that the copper was then broke up-be it as it may,
IT IS DOUBTFUL IF THERE ARE SO MANY AS THREE NOW KNOWN."

For the copy above spoken of fifty pounds was asked in 1815. It is described as
bound in russia, and as this copy is in the ORIGINAL BINDING, CRISP AND CLEAN AS ON
THE DAY OF ISSUE, IT IS UNQUESTIONABLY THE BETTER. The portrait has all the
original margins, and THE IMPRESSION IS RICH AND VELVETY.

2718 ALEXANDER (SIR WILLIAM, EARL OF STIRLING).

DOOM'S

8vo, half olive levant morocco, top edge gilt.

AVROR A.

Containing the first fancies of the Authors youth,

VVilliam Alexander of Men strie.

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2719 ALEYN (CHARLES).

12mo, sprinkled calf, gilt back. The lower inner margin of title pieced, a few letters supplied in MS. Portrait missing.

12mo, full crimson crushed levant morocco, gilt back, edges, and inside borders, by STIKEMAN. Measures 5% x 334 in. A FINE, TALL COPY OF THIS RARE AND MOST

It is the FIRST POETICAL ANTHOLOGY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE, and is also the MOST VALUABLE. This extremely rare Selection from SHAKESPEARE and other Poets has enabled Editors to assign to their true authors various pieces not otherwise known. It has also preserved numerous verses of the Elizabethan and ante-Elizabethan period nowhere else to be met with, and the names of poets who are not otherwise known in literary history than by their mention in England's Parnassus. IT CONTAINS NO LESS THAN 79 EXTRACTS FROM SHAKESPEARE ALONE.

2721 ANNALIA DUBRENSIA. ANNALIA | DVBRENSIA. | Vpon the yeerely celebration of | Mr ROBERT DOVERS Olimpick | Games vpon Cotswold-Hills. | Written by | MICHAELL DRAYTON. Esq. * * * BEN: JOHNSON. * * * THOMAS HEYWOOD. Gent. (and thirty others). LONDON, Printed by Robert Raworth, for Mathewe Walbancke. 1636.

4to. Bound in half dark brown morocco, gilt edges. ENGRAVED FRONTISPIECE of the COTSWOLD GAMES (early reproduction), mounted. The title has also been neatly mounted, and bears the Autographs of THOMAS and RICHARD ROSS. (1664). The headlines of a few leaves cut into, and a small hole in one. Last leaf (K 2) missing. Mr. J. HALLIWELL-PHILLIPPS'S COPY, WITH A NOTE IN HIS Handwriting.

RARE. MR. Dover was eminently a man "of parts." He conducted these noted games for 40 years, wrote a poem in response to the tributes herein contained, and is addressed as "the great Architect and Inginere of the Famous and Admirable Portable Fabricke of Dover Castle." The book possesses SHAKESPEAREAN INTEREST, as the Poet speaks of a stout fellow as a Cotswoldman.

4to, calf, gilt corner ornaments. Stain on side, one leaf re-margined, a few corners repaired, and text of two leaves cut into. RICHARD FARMER'S COPY, with his AUTOGRAPH on fly-leaf.

2724 ARMIN (ROBERT). The ITALIAN TAYLOR, and his Boy. By ROBERT ARMIN, Seruant to the Kings most excellent Maiestie. At LONDON, printed for T. P. 1609. (reprint, 1810.)

4to, cloth. Curious cuts. CONTAINS MS. NOTE BY REV. A. B. GROSART RELATING

TO THE BOOK.

Three parts in one vol. (third part dated 1624) 4to, full straight-grained blue morocco, gilt back, ornamented corners, gilt edges and borders, by W. PRATT. A few leaves cut close, and some neatly re-margined, title neatly mounted. CONTAINS THE THREE ENGRAVED FRONTISPIECES (lower line of one cut into). FINE COPY.

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