William Wycherley

Copy.

Once owned by C. Stuteville (inscribed f. 2r) and later, c.1880, by the Grimston family and by the Byrom family, of Kilnwick Hall, East Yorkshire. Bought from E.L.G. Byrom in 1921.

Bookplate of William, Earl of Craven (1608-97), soldier and Privy Counsellor, of Hampstead Marshall, Berkshire.

Copy.

Cited in IELM, II.ii as the Vienna MS: RoJ Δ 12. Discussed in Rudolf Brotanek, Beschreibung der Handschrift 14090 (Supplement 1776) der Nationalbibliothek in Wien, in Festschrift der Nationalbibliothek in Wien (Vienna, 1926), 145-62. Recorded and selectively collated in Vieth and in Walker.

Copy.

This MS is closely related to Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Vienna, Cod. 14090.

Later owned by Alexander Dyce (1798-1869), literary scholar and editor, who records that £50 was given by Perry, for these 2 volumes.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Dyce MS: RoJ Δ 15.

Copy in the neat hand of Alexander Pope, headed An Epistle to Mr. Dryden; Occasion'd by his desiring me to join with him in writing a Comedy By Mr. Wycherley, on two pairs of conjugate folio leaves.

Volume CCXXXVI of the Trumbull Papers, of the Trumbull family, including chiefly William Trumbull (1576/80?-1635), diplomat and government official. Later belonging to the Marquess of Downshire, of Easthampstead Park. Formerly Berkshire Record Office Trumbull Add 17 and 18.

Sotheby's sale catalogue, The Trumbull Papers (14 December 1989), part of lot 39.

The hand identified by Hilton Kelliher.

Most of the spaces left by the printer in the text of the poem filled in Wycherley's own hand: namely, his autograph insertions on pp. 26 (2 lines), 27 (2 lines), 28 (1 line), 29 (½ line), 30 (1 line and a one-word change), 32 (1½ lines), 34 (one word), 37 (five-word alteration), 39 (two words), 41 (4 lines and a three-word alteration), 46 (1 line), and 74 (one letter added to a word).

Later owned by one F. J., whose notes on endpapers are dated 2 March 1789 and 9 March 1791. Later owned by Alexander Dyce (1798-1869), literary scholar and editor. Formerly pressmark D.17.P.55.

This volume briefly discussed, and some of the MS readings quoted (not always accurately), in McCarthy, pp. 37-9, 45 (where also the later notes are misattributed to Alexander Dyce).

Copy of a ten-line poem ascribed to Witcherley on a small slip of paper.

Among papers formerly at Pitchford Hall, Shropshire.

Extracts.

Sotheby's, 13 July 1855, lot 1364.

Copy of a letter by Wycherley, to Alexander Pope, 22 March 1705/6.

Edited in Sherburn, I, 14-15, and (from W.J. Courthope's printed transcript of 1889) in Summers, II, 205-6. An adapted extract from the letter edited by Pope in The Posthumous Works of William Wycherley, Vol. II (London, 1729), and in Letters of Mr. Pope (London, 1735). Reprinted in Summers II, 227.

Copy of a letter by Wycherley, to Alexander Pope, 11 November 1707.

Edited in Sherburn, I, 29-30, and (from W.J. Courthope's printed transcript of 1889) in Summers, II, 206-7. An adapted version edited by Pope in The Posthumous Works of William Wycherley, Vol. II (London, 1729), and in Letters of Mr. Pope (London, 1735). Reprinted in Summers II, 229-30.

Copy of a letter by Wycherley, to Alexander Pope, 6 December 1707.

Edited in Sherburn, I, 34,6, and (from W.J. Courthope's printed transcript of 1889) in Summers, II, 207-8.

Copy of a letter by Wycherley, to Alexander Pope, from Shrewsbury, 19 January 1707/8.

Edited in Sherburn, I, 38-40, and (from W.J. Courthope's printed transcript of 1889) in Summers, II, 208-10.

Copy of a letter by Wycherley, to Alexander Pope, 13 November 1708.

Edited in Sherburn, I, 52-4, and (from W.J. Courthope's printed transcript of 1889) in Summers, II, 210-11.

Copy of a letter by Wycherley, to Alexander Pope, 19 February 1708/9.

Edited in Sherburn, I, 54-6, and (from W.J. Courthope's printed transcript of 1889) in Summers, II, 211-13. An adapted and abridged version (redated Feb. 19, 1706/7) edited by Pope in The Posthumous Works of William Wycherley, Vol. II (London, 1729), and in Letters of Mr. Pope (London, 1735). Reprinted in Summers II, 228-9.

Copy of a letter by Wycherley, to Alexander Pope, 17 May 1709.

Edited in Sherburn, I, 58-9, and (from W.J. Courthope's printed transcript of 1889) in Summers, II, 213-14. An abridged version edited by Pope in The Posthumous Works of William Wycherley, Vol. II (London, 1729), and in Letters of Mr. Pope (London, 1735). Reprinted in Summers II, 235.

Copy of Wycherley's letter to Alexander Pope, 23 May 1709.

Edited from this copy in Sherburn, I, 61-2, and (from W.J. Courthope's printed transcript of 1889) in Summers, II, 214-15.

Copy of a letter by Wycherley, to Alexander Pope, 14 June 1709.

Edited in Sherburn, I, 64-6, and (from W.J. Courthope's printed transcript of 1889, misdated June 4) in Summers, II, 215-17.

Copy of a letter by Wycherley, to Alexander Pope, from London, 14 February 1709[/10].

Edited in Sherburn, I, 78-9, and (from W.J. Courthope's printed transcript of 1889) in Summers, II, 217-18.

Copy of a letter by Wycherley, to Alexander Pope, 1 April 1710.

Edited in Sherburn, I, 79-80, and (from W.J. Courthope's printed transcript of 1889) in Summers, II, 218-19. A slightly abridged version edited by Pope in The Posthumous Works of William Wycherley, Vol. II (London, 1729), and in Letters of Mr. Pope (London, 1735). Reprinted in Summers II, 238-9.

Copy of a letter by Wycherley, to Alexander Pope, 27 April 1710.

Edited in Sherburn, I, 84-5, and (from W.J. Courthope's printed transcript of 1889) in Summers, II, 219-20. A slightly abridged version edited by Pope in The Posthumous Works of William Wycherley, Vol. II (London, 1729), and in Letters of Mr. Pope (London, 1735). Reprinted in Summers II, 240.

Copy, in John Caryll's hand, of a letter by Wycherley to him, from London, 17 May 1704.

Donated by Sir Charles W. Dilke, MP.

Edited in Summers, II, 242, and in Connely, p. 280.

Autograph letter signed by Wycherley, to Lord Halifax, 12 May 1704.

A folio composite volume of letters, in various hands and paper sizes, 107 leaves, in modern black morocco gilt.

Bequeathed in 1829 by N. Hart, Esq.

Edited in Summers, II, 242, and in Connely, pp. 267-8. Facsimile examples in Garnett & Gosse (1903), III, 163, and in T.J. Brown, English Literary Autographs XLI, BC, 11 (Spring 1962), 62-3.

Copy of a letter by Wycherley, to John Sheffield, Earl of Mulgrave, from London, 20 August 1677.

Edited in Robert J. Allen, Two Wycherley Letters, TLS (18 April 1935), p. 257. Reedited in McCarthy, pp. 86-8.

Copy of a letter by Wycherley, to John Sheffield, Earl of Mulgrave, from Fleet Prison, 24 October 1685.

Edited in Robert J. Allen, Two Wycherley Letters, TLS (18 April 1935), p. 257. Reedited in McCarthy, pp. 145-6.

Facsimile in IELM, II.ii (1993), Facsimile XXIII, after p. xxi.

Edited, with a reduced facsimile, in Connely, pp. 214-15. Reprinted in McCarthy, p. 176.

Edited, with a reduced facsimile, in Connely, pp. 216-17. Reprinted in McCarthy, pp. 176-7.

Formerly among the papers of the Earl of Dartmouth, largely dispersed.

Edited in HMC, 11th Report, Appendix, Part V (1887), p. 446. Reprinted in B. Eugene McCarthy, Biographical Data on William Wycherley and his Father, N&Q, 216 (January 1971), 34-6, and in McCarthy (1979), p. 144.

For this case, see Howard P. Vincent, William Wycherley's Miscellany Poems, PQ, 16 (1937), 145-8.

Recorded in Eleanore Boswell, Footnotes to Seventeenth-Century Biographies, MLR, 26 (1931), 341-5.

Maggs's sale catalogue No. 570 (Spring 1932), item 488. Sotheby's, 18 June 1934, lot 519, and 21 July 1936, lot 337.

A registered copy of Wycherley's last will and testament, 31 December 1715, proved 13 January 1715/16.

Sotheby's, 23 March 1907, lot 243, to Quaritch.

American Art Association, New York, 4 December 1935, lot 449, with a facsimile of the inscription in the sale catalogue. Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 23 April 1946 (Hogan sale), lot 174.

A printed exemplum with Wycherley's autograph presentation inscription to the Earl of Radnor (nephew of Wycherley's first wife, the Countess of Drogheda).

Later in the library of Sir Andrew Fontaine (1676-1753), of Narford Hall, Norfolk, antiquary and art collector.

Sotheby's, 4 June 1930 (Duke of Leeds sale), lot 707, to Rosenbach, with a facsimile of the inscription in the sale catalogue.

American Art Association, New York, 5 January 1938 (Joseph B. Shea sale, Part II), lot 458.

Charles W. Traylen, sale catalogue No. 77 (1972), item 92. Christie's, 20 November 1980, lot 282, to Maggs. Maggs's sale catalogue No. 1234 (1997), item 169, with a facsimile of the inscribed page.

W.H. Robinson's sale catalogue No. 73 (1941), item 633, with a facsimile of the inscription in the sale catalogue.

Also inscribed Ex Dono Eli: Gibbons [i.e by Gibbons's daughter Elizabeth]. Sotheby-Parke Bernet, New York, 15 November 1977 (David Borowitz sale), lot 279. Blackwell's sale catalogue A1 (1979), item 115, with a facsimile of the inscription in the sale catalogue. Christie's, New York, 10 December 1999, lot 257, with a facsimile of the inscription in the sale catalogue.

Sotheby's, 30 June 1933 (Earl of Roseberry sale, 5th day), lot 1306, to Scheuer, with a facsimile of the inscription in the sale catalogue. Christie's, New York, 16 November 1984, lot 404, with a facsimile of the inscription in the sale catalogue.

Howard S. Mott, Sheffield, Mass., sale catalogue No. 209 (July 1983), item 510.

This is presumably the presentation exemplum to Henley which F. J., in his notes dated 9 March 1791 in the Dyce exemplum of Hero and Leander (see WyW 6), records having purchased of M^r Payne, Bookseller, at The Mews-gate from the library of the late Earl of Northington.

Sotheby's, 19 June 1934, lot 398, to Maggs, with a facsimile of the inscription in the sale catalogue. W.H. Robinson's sale catalogue No. 84 (1940s), item 335, with a facsimile of the inscription in the sale catalogue. Parke Bernet Galleries, New York, 27 November 1950, lot 773.

Sotheby's, 5 March 1934, lot 177, with a facsimile of the inscription in the sale catalogue. W.H. Robinson's sale catalogue (1934), item 29, with a facsimile of the inscription.

Sotheby's, 6 February 1900, lot 793, to Sabin.

Puttick & Simpson's, 10 July 1861 (Dering sale), lot 679. Anderson Auction Company, New York, 1 May 1911 (Robert Hoe sale, Part II), lot 3526, with a facsimile of the inscription in the sale catalogue. Sotheby's, Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 27 November 1950, lot 773. 18 June 1962, lot 743, to Holloway.

This volume evidently once in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector, and recorded in a 19th-century MS (Phillipps MS 8101) Catalogue of Books and Pamphlets being part of the Library of Sir Roger Twysden Bar^t of Roydon Hall in the 17^th Century, a catalogue now at the University of Salford.

A.S.W. Rosenbach's sale catalogue [No. 22] (1911), item 132.

Puttick & Simpson's, 10 July 1861, lot 679; Sotheby's, 18 June 1962, lot 743, to Holloway. Anderson Auction Company, New York, 1 May 1911 (Robert Hoe sale, Part II), lot 3526, with a facsimile of the inscription in the sale catalogue. This volume is also recorded in Phillipps MS 8101, a 19th-century MS Catalogue of Books and Pamphlets being part of the Library of Sir Roger Twysden Bar^t of Roydon Hall in the 17^th Century, a catalogue preserved at the University of Salford.

Bookplate of John Sheepshanks, 1852. American Art Association, New York, 1 January 1938 (Joseph B. Shea sale, Pt II), lot 458.