3139 SENECA | HIS TENNE TRA- | GEDIES, TRANSLA- | TED INTO | English. | Mercurij nutrices, hora. | [Edited by THOMAS NEWTON] IMPRINTED AT LONDON IN Fleetftreete neere vnto Church by Tho mas Marsh. Title neatly 4to, FIRST EDITION, Black Letter, bound in half dark brown morocco, gilt edges. Title within woodcut border, with signatures of former owners. mounted (a small portion of margin cut off). AUTOGRAPH SIGNATURE of EDW. WOTTON (to whom the fifth tragedy, "Edipus," was dedicated) pasted on fly-leaf. BOOKPLATE of W. P. TURnbull. A few leaves trimmed close and some leaves water stained, OTHERWISE GOOD COPY. EXTREMELY RARE. The translations were made by JASPER HEYWOod, Alex. NEVILE, JOHN STUDLEY, T. NUCE and THOMAS NEWTON. TWO OF THE TRAGedies, "Thebais" and "Hippolitus," WERE HERE FIRST PRINTED. The others had a previous and separate publication. 3140 SETTLE (ELKANAH). Carmen Frenicum. THE UNION OF THE | Imperial Crowns | OF | Folio, bound in full morocco, with the ROYAL ARMS STAMPED ON SIDES, enclosed 3141 SHAKESPEARE (WILLIAM). VENUS and ADONIS, from the hitherto unknown edition of 1599; THE PASSIONATE PILGRIME, from the first edition of 1599; of which only two copies are known; EPIGRAMMES, written by SIR JOHN DAVIES, and certaine of OVID'S ELEGIES, translated by CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE, from a rare early edition. Edited by CHARLES EDMONDS, Editor of the "Poetry of the Anti-Jacobin." LONDON: 1870. 8vo, vellum boards, uncut. No. 19 OF ONLY 25 COPIES PRINTED ON LARGE PAPER. 3142 SHAKESPEARE (WILLIAM). THE RAPE OF LVCRECE. By Mr. William Shakespeare. Newly Reuifed LONDON Printed by I. B. for Roger Iackson, and are in Fleet-ftreet. 1624. 12mo, bound in full green crushed levant morocco, gilt tooling on back and sides, inside morocco border, gilt edges, by BRADSTREET. Title has been skillfully repaired. Some former owner has copied a few words of the imprint on the title. A very slight hole in one leaf, evidently the result of natural wear of the paper. THE BOOK HAS EVEN THE AMPLE MARGINS, NOT A HEAD-LINE OR A CATCH-WORD BEING AFFECTED. AN EXCESSIVELY RARE EDITION. The copy sold at PUTTICK's in May, 1866, for £54 is presumably the one described in the LOCKER-LAMPSON Catalogue. 3143 SHAKESPEARE (WILLIAM). POEMS: | VVRIT TEN BY WIL. SHAKE-SPEARE. | Gent. Printed at London by Tho. Cotes, and are to be fold by Iohn Benfon, dwelling in St. Dunstans Church-yard. 1640. 12m0, FIRST EDITION, beautifully bound in full dark blue morocco, richly tooled gilt back, paneled sides, with tasteful corner ornaments, broad gilt tooled morocco inside borders, edges gilded on the rough, by FRANCIS BEDFORD. BRILLIANT and ORIGINAL IMPRESSION of the RARE ENGRAVED PORTRAIT of SHAKESPEARE, by WILLIAM MARSHALL (most skillfully remargined). A BEAUTIFUL COPY OF THIS EXCESSIVELY RARE WORK, THE LEAVES CRISP AND CLEAN, AND THE MARGINS AMPLE. |