lector made such an attempt impracticable. Here are few publications of great price: but it is believed, that not many private Collections contain a greater number of really curious and scarce Books." (Advertisement intended to be prefixed to his meditated Catalogue.) ANOTHER last word. I shall, perhaps, find my best apology for the appropriation of certain quantities of time and money to this fascinating pursuit in the fact, that (with the exception of the Library of York Cathedral) there are few Collections of general scholarship nearer than Cambridge or London. In this respect, therefore, I may have been useful in the promoting not only of my own studies, but also of those of others who have profited from the furniture of my shelves. And, with the view partly of ready reference, and partly to assist my representatives in appreciating their value, real or imaginary-ut eorum dissipationem ac viliorem distractionem eo faciliùs evitare queant ; si me erepto illi, præter spem et exspectationem, libros quos per quatuor lustra mugno labore et impendio conquisivi non retinere, sed pro parte vel omnes planè ac singulos divendere velintt-I have taken the trouble of compiling this Catalogue. HUNMANBY, Feb. 28. 1827. FRS. WRANGHAM. * I have found it, indeed, far more agreeable to copy the liberality of Grolier's Jo. Grolierii et Amicorum, and Ascham's 'Poyigo Aoxanov naι TWY pikay, than the moroseness of M. Aubry's Ite ad vendentes, et emite vobis. Bibl. Feverlin. Præf. Page 4. Line 4. from bott. after Literaria, insert III. 5. dele Collier's. In the Education Article after I. II. add III. 9. For 1574 r. 1583. 6. from bott, dele Calam, of Authors. for (M.) r. (Edw. B. D.) Under Eboracensia, dele Lord Grantham. 13. from bott. r. Allan, and dele Yorkshiriana. 209. 211. 226. 230. 273. 279. 17. from bott. r. from Morhof. 11. after popery r. — a result not, &c. 3. from bott. dele Unpublished. Transfer to N. Fairfax the Note attached to John. 18. from bott. for 1789 r. 1689. 4. r. carries in it, and afterward carmina, and mag ENGLISH. FOLIO. ADAMS' Index Villaris Ælian's Tactiks, by Bingham 1690 F. pl. 1616 Aleman's Rogue, or the Life of Guzman De Alfarache, in Two Parts .. 1623 This is an entire translation, prefaced by introductory verses from the pens of J. F., Leo. Diggs, and Ben. Jonson (not included in his Works), Edw. Burton, and W. Browne: the more recent version, into French, by Le Sage, omits nearly half of the original. Of this inferior Gil Blas, the episode of Osmin and Daraxa is the most interesting portion. 1634 Allen's (William) Works, with a Preface by Williams, Bishop of Chichester Andrewes' (Bishop) XCVI Sermons.. 1707 1631 These, with Archbishop Laud against Fisher the Jesuit (as an antidote to Popery), and Hooker's Ecclesiastical Polity, were given by Charles I. to his daughter Elizabeth, at their last solemn interview, on the morning of his execution. Morall Law Expounded, &c. .... H. 1642 "The author was an accomplished Divine, an eminent Preacher, a learned Antiquary, a famous Linguist, and a living Library among scholars."-Nichols' Literary Anecdotes, I. 427. Tucy, who best knew how to praise him, said, 'his character never was exceeded as Doctor A. in the school, Bishop A. in the pulpit, and Saint A. in the closet.' Bishop Horne, in a Note on the Life of this prelate, prayed that God would stir him up ever more and more to follow his example in labour, in diligence, in devotion, and in charity; that so he might be found worthy, at last, to sit at his feet in a better world.' He modernised, and often preached, the Sermon upon the 'Passion of Christ.' (Lam. i. 12.) Animals, Dissected by the Parisian Academy, History of..pl. 1702 Arthur, La Morte d'....UNIQUE....b. I......cuts....Wynkyn de Worde.. 1529 B 2 See Fry's Bibliographical Memoranda, pp. 394—400., and the Roxburghe and Stanley Catalogues. For the curious in bibliography the Colophon is here reprinted: "Thus endeth this noble and ioyous boke entýtled la mort darthur, "notwithstandynge it treateth of the byrthe, lyfe and actes of the "sayd kyng Arthur, and of his noble knyghtes of the rounde table, "theyr meruaylous enquestes & adventures, the achyeuynge of the "holy Sancgreall. And in ye ende the dolorous deth and departynge "out of this worlde of them all, whiche boke was reduced into Eng"lysshe by the moost well dysposed knyght afore named. "Imprynted at London in Flete strete at ye sygne of sonne, by "Wynkyn de Worde. In the yere of our lord god. M.CCCCC.xxix. "the. xviii. daye of Nouember." "The Romance of the Morte Arthur," says Sir Walter Scott, "contains a sort of abridgement of the most celebrated adventures of the Round Table; and, being written in comparatively modern language, gives the general reader an excellent idea of what Romances of Chivalry actually were. It has, also, the merit of being written in pure old English; and many of the wild adventures, which it contains, are told with a simplicity bordering upon the sublime." The 'reducer into Englysshe' seems to have drawn his work out of many volumes French and Welsh. And if, according to Leland and others after him, he was a Welshman, he was probably a priest; as may be inferred, not only from the legendary vein pervading the general story, but also from the conclusion of the work itself:-" Praye for me whyle I am alyue that God sende me good delyueraunce. And whan I am deed, praye you all praye for my soule. For the translacyon of this boke was fynysshed the .ix. yere of the regne of kyng Edwarde ye fourth by Syr Thomas Maleore, knyght, as Jesu helpe hym for his grete myght, as he is the servaunt of Jesu bothe daye and nyght." This was a favourite Book with King Henry VIII. See Ascham's Schoolmaster, and Beloe's Anecdotes, I. 43.; where note, also, a Memorandum of Dr. Lort's, on the year of Caxton's death (1491.) Assembly's Annotations on the Old and New Testament...2.. 1651 "These volumes contain many excellent criticisms." (Orton.) The remarks on the conduct and prerogatives of Sovereigns, however, are (as might be inferred from the Title) extremely free. Atwood's Constitution of the English Government, &c. .. 1690 Augustine, of the City of God (with Notes by Lud. Vives) by J. H..... 1610 For an account of the modern Plato, Vives, and his Bees, see Plott's Oxfordshire. This mellifluous Doctor,' as the University stiled him in a Letter to Wolsey, was sent to Oxford by the Cardinal in 1520, placed in the 'Alvearium' (Corpus Christi, so called by the Founder in his Statutes) and welcomed by a swarm settling over his head under the leads of his study at the west end of the cloister, where they continued about 130 years. In 1648, for their loyalty to the king they were, all but two, turned out of their places. See Butler's 'Feminin Monarchy,' p. 22. Dr. P. thinks it would not be amiss, if another colony of this immortale genus were provided for the students (Ingeniosas apes, dies noctesque ceram ad Dei honorem et dulciflua mella conficientes ad suam et universorum Christianorum commoditatem); not that he supposes "that learned Society wants any such monitor of industry." Gregory VII. is said to have consigned the works of Varro to the flames. lest Augustine should be accused of plagiarism in his 'City of God.' Bacon's (Lord) Sylva Sylvarum, and New Atlantis H. F. 1631. 1635 .... 1661 1641 Resuscitatio, and Letters to Queen Elizabeth VI., and Mary .... Bodleian Letters, II. 221-228. Advancement of Learning ..... H. 1676 1640 This great man, in his will, bequeathed his “name to Posterity, or after some generations shall be passed!" "The intellectual chart delineated by him," observes a competent judge, "is the only one of which modern philosophy has yet to boast; and the united talents of Diderot and of D'Alembert, aided by all the lights of the eighteenth century, have been able to add but little to what he has performed." (Dugald Stewart.) Pro ingenii acumine, memoriâ fidâ, judicio penetrante, et elocutione profluente (egregiis animi dotibus) insignitus, vix 16 annos natus de nova philosophandi methodo, quòd Aristotelica non placeret, cogitare cœpit; postea vastam in tradendis ac illustrandis Rebus Physicis scientiam ostendens, primum apud conterraneos ejus Philosophiæ amorem excitavit. Ex omnibus illius operibus Moralia fuerunt acceptissima, eò quod præ ceteris hominum negotia stringere et in sinus fluere viderentur; et pro primo agnoscitur laudaturque, qui An. glicanum idioma ad puritatem traduxit. (Harl. Cat. II. 761.) (Nath.) on the Laws and Government of England. 1739 Of the former part of this volume, reaching down from the earliest times till the Reigne of Edward III.,' the first edition was published in 1647; ⚫ and the second, extending untill the end of the Reigne of Queene Elizabeth,' in 1651. Coldly received at first (as Mr. Starkey, the Editor of the folio edition of 1689, informs us), upon the Restoration it became scarce, and was sold at a great rate. This occasioned the private reprinting of it in 1672, upon which both the publisher and the book were prosecuted, and many hundred copies of the latter burnt. It was again reprinted in 1682; and, though the prohibitory act had ceased, Prerogative then getting above the Law, it met with a new persecution, founded upon two passages (Part II. p. 76. beginning I. 24, and p. 148, 1. 32.) which led to the out-lawing of it's publisher by the arbitrary power of the Lord Chief Justice Jefferys. "It was well known, and owned to, by the late L. C. J. Vaughan, one of Selden's executors, that the ground-work was his." Bailey's Advancement of Arts, &c. pl. 1776 Banister's Historie of Man, sucked from the sappe of the most approved Anathomistes, &c. b. l. cuts... Daye. 1578 Wood's Athena Oxonienses, I. 243. His 'Epistle to the Chirurgians,' subscribed "Farewell from Nottingham," is followed by a Latin Epistle from Julius Borgarucius, and some ultra-Alexandrines by his louyng friend, William Clowes.' Barclay's (Alex.) Ship of Fooles......Imp... Cawood. 1570 |