Plymouth Proprietary Library

Halliwell-Phillipps No. 13

A quarto volume of three tracts, in three separate hands, 33 leaves (plus blanks), unfoliated, in modern cloth. c.1620s.

Inscribed (f. [2r]) W Stonehouse prt 5s.. Donated by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89), literary scholar and book collector.

ff. [1r-9r]
BcF 60.5: Francis Bacon, Advertisement touching a Holy War ('')

Copy, in an accomplished italic hand, with a general title-page, as By Fr L. Verulam Vicount St Albans. Newly finished.

First published in Certaine Miscellany Works of the Right Honourable Francis Lo. Verulam, ed. William Rawley (London, 1629). Spedding, VII, 1-36. Edited by Michael Kiernan, The Oxford Francis Bacon, Vol. VIII (Oxford, 2012), pp. 183-206.

ff. [30r-3v]
BcF 232.8: Francis Bacon, Offer to the King of a Digest to be made of the Laws of England ('')

Copy.

Spedding, XIV, 358-64.

Halliwell-Phillipps No. 45

Copy, in a neat italic hand, with a title-page and table of contents, as writen in Anno 1684, ii + 219 octavo pages, in contemporary calf (rebacked). c.1684.

Donated by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89), literary scholar and book collector.

HaG 16.5: George Savile, First Marquess of Halifax, The Character of a Trimmer

First published, ascribed to the Honourable Sir W[illiam] C[oventry], in London, 1688. Foxcroft, II, 273-342. Brown, I, 178-243.

Halliwell-Phillipps No. 103

Copy, in a neat mixed and italic hand, transcribed from the 1649 edition, 198 small quarto pages, in 19th-century half-calf. Mid-17th century.

Donated by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89), literary scholar and book collector. Possibly the quarto MS sold by Lewis, 18 July 1851, lot 62, and by Puttick & Simpson, 7 June 1852, lot 203.

MnJ 48.2: John Milton, Eikonoklastes

First published in London, 1649. Columbia, V, 63-309. Yale, III, 335-601.

Halliwell-Phillipps No. 108

A quarto miscellany of verse, academic orations, and devotional works, in Latin and English, in several hands over a period, written from both ends, c. 312 pages (including blanks), in contemporary calf (rebacked). c.1664-9.

Inscribed Antonius Moore me vult. prætium 1s-6d 1664, probably one of the contributors, one poem (pp. [165-7]), dated 1660, relating to St John's College, Oxford. Also inscribed John Bowcher. Item 4658 in an unidentified sale catalogue. Donated by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89), literary scholar and book collector.

pp. [87-94]
MaA 317.5: Andrew Marvell, The Second Advice to a Painter ('Nay, Painter, if thou dar'st design that fight')

Copy, in an italic hand.

First published in Directions to a Painter…Of Sir Iohn Denham ([London], 1667). POAS, I, 34-53. Lord, pp. 117-30. Smith, pp. 332-43. Recorded in Osborne, pp. 28-32, as anonymous.

The case for Marvell's authorship supported in George deF. Lord, Two New Poems by Marvell?, BNYPL, 62 (1958), 551-70, but see also discussion by Lord and Ephim Fogel in Vol. 63 (1959), 223-36, 292-308, 355-66. Marvell's authorship supported in Annabel Patterson, The Second and Third Advices-to-the-Painter, PBSA, 71 (1977), 473-86. Discussed also in Margoliouth, I, 348-50, and in Chernaik, p. 211, where Marvell's authorship is considered doubtful. A case for Sir John Denham's authorship is made in Brendan O Hehir, Harmony from Discords: A Life of Sir John Denham (Berkeley & Los Angeles, 1968), pp. 212-28.

Halliwell-Phillipps No. 130

A folio volume of letters by and to Francis Bacon, in a single professional secretary hand, 60 pages, in modern stiff paper wrapper. c.1620s-30s.

Donated by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89), literary scholar and book collector.

pp. 1-30, 47-52
BcF 636: Francis Bacon, Letter(s) ('')

Copy of a series of twenty letters by Bacon, to Northumberland, Davies, Coke, Tobie Mathew, Robert Cecil, Buckhurst, Ellesmere, James I, Queen Elizabeth, and others.

pp. 53-60
BcF 507: Francis Bacon, Bacon's Humble Submissions and Supplications ('')

Copy of Bacon's supplication on 22 April 1621.

The Humble Submissions and Supplications Bacon sent to the House of Lords, on 19 March 1620/1 (beginning I humbly pray your Lordships all to make a favourable and true construction of my absence...); 22 April 1621 (beginning It may please your Lordships, I shall humbly crave at your Lordships' hands a benign interpretation...); and 30 April 1621 (beginning Upon advised consideration of the charge, descending into mine own conscience...), written at the time of his indictment for corruption. Spedding, XIV, 215-16, 242-5, 252-62.