Folger Shakespeare Library
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Estate of Robert S Pirie, New York

United States

  • [Bacon/Novum Organum]

    Copy, on a blank page in a printed exemplum of Francis Bacon, Novum organum scientiarum (Leiden, 1650).

    Mid-late 17th century.

    Owned in 1689 by one Quil Domlin and later by one William Fogg. Christie's, South Kensington, 19 November 1993, lot 234A.

    • CoA 193
      No description or publication history available.

      First published in Poems, by Several Hands (Dublin, 1663). Verses, Lately Written upon several Occasions (London, 1663). Waller, I, 448-53.

      Abraham Cowley, To the Royal Society ('Philosophy the great and only Heir')

  • [Camden/Britannia]

    A printed exemplum of Britannia owned and annotated by Camden's correspondent Jacques Auguste de Thou (1553-1617), French historian.

    Early 17th century.
    • CmW 13.183
      No description or publication history available.

      First published in London, 1586, with additions in 1607 and successive editions.

      William Camden, Britannia

  • [Cowley/Martial]

    Cowley's printed exemplum containing three preliminary leaves and five other pages of his autograph annotations in Latin, the spine labelled The Legacy of Mr A. Cowley.

    Mid-17th century.

    Bookplates of Thomas Sprat (1635-1713) and James Veitch (d.1793), Lord Eliock. Later owned by James Crossley (1800-83), author and book collector. Sotheby's, 21 July 1887 (Crossley sale). J.E. Cornish's sale catalogue [1890], item 407, sold to Quaritch.

    • *CoA 212
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      Abraham Cowley, Martial. M Valerii Martialis epigrammatum libri XV...cum indice Josephi Langii (Paris, 1617)

  • [Cowley/Plantarum]

    Autograph Latin verse of eight lines inscribed in a copy of A Couleii Plantarum libri duo (London, 1662) presented by Cowley to Sir Alexander Fraizer.

    c.1662.

    Formerly owned by John Sparrow (1906-92). Christie's, 21 October 1992 (Sparrow sale), in lot 239 (unidentified, among 7 others), to Quaritch.

    Edited from this MS in Sparrow, loc. cit. Photocopies in British Library, RP 5278.

    • *CoA 203
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.

      First published in John Sparrow, Cowley's Plantarum Libri Duo: A Presentation Copy, The London Mercury, 20 (August 1929), 398-9.

      Abraham Cowley, Ornatissimo Doctissimoq' Viro Dom°. Doct. Fraser Augustissimi Regis Caroli 2di. Medico Primario ('Helleborum tantum, Medicorum summe, remittas')

  • [Donne/letter]

    Autograph letter signed, to Bridget White, Lady Kingsmill, 26 October 1624.

    1624.

    Maggs's sale catalogues, with facsimile pages, Nos 597 (1934), item 353; 600 (1934), item 93; and 611 (1935), item 614. Maggs's sale catalogue No. 730 (1943), item 381. Then owned by Halsted B. Vander Poel (1911-2003), American politician, archaeologist, and book collector. Christie's, 3 March 2004 (Vander Poel sale), lot 28, with a facsimile page in the sale catalogue, to Dr Schram. Christie's, 3 July 2007 (Schram sale), lot 54, with a facsimile page in the sale catalogue.

    Edited in Gosse, II, 210-12.

    • *DnJ 4133
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      John Donne, Letter(s)

  • [Donne/letters]

    One leaf of what was originally two conjugate folio leaves bearing copies of five letters by Donne, in a single mixed hand.

    The other leaf is in London Metropolitan Archives, St Paul's Cathedral archive, CF 56 (uncatalogued).

    c.1620s-30s.

    Puttick & Simpson's, 19 December 1855, lot 1436. Owned before 1879 by J.H. Anderdon. Later owned by Roger Barrett, Chicago lawyer. Acquired from Maggs bros. 28 October 1998.

    A facsimile is in the British Library, RB 6976.

    • DnJ 4117 item 1

      Copy of a letter by Donne, to an unnamed correspondent [possibly Sir G. B.], 12 February 1613/14.

      Edited in Gosse, II, 33-4.

      John Donne, Letter(s)
    • DnJ 4114 item 2

      Copy of an unfinished or incomplete letter by Donne, to an unnamed correspondent [possibly a member of the Brydges family], [July 1612].

      Edited in Gosse, II, 309-10.

      John Donne, Letter(s)

  • [Donne/Meditation MS]

    Copy in the hand of Sir Nathaniel Rich, headed Meditation on a good friday ridinge from London into ye west Countrey, on the first page of two conjugate folio leaves.

    c.1613-17.

    This MS reproduced and discussed in Nicolas Barker, Goodfriday 1613: by whose hand?, TLS (20 September 1974), pp. 996-7 (and see also p. 1018); the correct identity of the hand established by R.E. Alton and P.J. Croft in TLS (27 September 1974), pp. 1042-3; also discussed in Gardner, pp. 155-6. A photocopy is at the British Library, RP 2391.

    • DnJ 1431
      No description or publication history available.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 336-7. Gardner, Divine Poems, pp. 30-1. Shawcross, No. 185.

      John Donne, Goodfriday, 1613. Riding Westward ('Let mans Soule be a spheare, and then, in this')

  • [Dryden letter]

    Autograph letter signed by Dryden, to Elizabeth Steward, 1 October 1698.

    1698.

    Later owned by Roger W. Barrett, lawyer, of Chicago. Simon Finch's sale catalogue No. 35 (1998), item 57. Christie's, New York, 14 December 2000, lot 60, with a facsimile in the sale catalogue.

    Ward, Letter 52.

    • *DrJ 343
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      John Dryden, Letter(s)

  • [Fanshawe MS]

    Copy, in the hand of Lady Eleanor Charlotte Butler (1739-1829), in contemporary green morocco.

    1785.

    Presented by the Ladies of Llangollen to Sarah Tighe. Quaritch, 1 May 2007.

    • FaA 2
      No description or publication history available.

      First published as Memoirs of Lady Fanshawe, wife of the Right Hon. Sir Richard Fanshawe, Bart,...Written by herself, ed. Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas (London, 1829). Edited also as The Memoirs of Ann Lady Fanshawe, wife of the Right Honble. Sir Richard Fanshawe, Bart., ed. Herbert Charles Fanshawe (London & New York, 1907), and in The Memoirs of Anne, Lady Halkett and Ann, Lady Fanshawe, ed. John Loftis (Oxford, 1979), pp. 89-192.

      Ann, Lady Fanshawe, The Memoirs of Ann, Lady Fanshawe

  • [Fragmenta Regalia MS]

    Copy, in a single secretary hand, in columns, 86 oblong quarto pages (plus blanks), in brown morocco elaborately gilt and bearing the Royal Arms with initials C R.

    In the hand of Thomas Lord, one of Naunton's two secretaries, and prepared as a presentation copy for Charles I, the left column on each page throughout reserved for Naunton's commentary made specifically for the King (and unique to this manuscript).

    [1634].

    Bookplates of Brigadier-General Sir Herbert Conyers Surtees, DSO, CB, CBE, MVO (1858-1933), of Mainsforth Hall, Co. Durham, and Hans Fürstenberg (1890-1982), German book collector.

    Edited from this MS, with a complete facsimile, by Roy E. Schreiber (Roxburghe Club, London, 2002).

    • NaR 31
      No description or publication history available.

      Fragmenta Regalia (or, Observations on the late Q. Elizabeth, her Times and Favorites), first published in London, 1641. Edited by John S. Cerovski (Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, D.C., etc., 1985).

      Sir Robert Naunton, Fragmenta Regalia

  • [Frendraught MS]

    An octavo verse miscellany, in various hands, including seventeen poems by Carew, a title-page inscribed A book of Verses / Seria mixta Jocis, c.260 pages, in calf blind-stamped V/I F 1667.

    References to Westminster Drollerie (which was not published until 1671) added on pp. 1 and 242.

    c.1667-8.

    Inscribed on the title-page Frendraught Legi: i.e. by James Crichton (d.1674/5), second Viscount Frendraught. Bookplate of Thomas Fraser Duff (1830-77), of Woodcote, Oxfordshire. Bloomsbury Book Auctions, 9 April 1987, lot 272 (with a facsimile of p. 131 in the sale catalogue), sold to Quaritch.

    • CwT 168.5 p. 2

      Copy.

      First published (stanzas 1-2), in a musical setting, in Walter Porter, Madrigales and Ayres (London, 1632). Complete in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 18. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1653).

      Thomas Carew, Disdaine returned ('Hee that loves a Rosie cheeke')
    • CwT 850.5 pp. 2-3

      Copy.

      First published (complete) in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 15. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in Select Musicall Ayres, and Dialogues (London, 1653). The second stanza alone published in Samuel Pick, Festum Voluptatis (London, 1639), and a musical setting of it by Henry Lawes published in The Treasury of Musick, Book 2 (London, 1669).

      Thomas Carew, Song. Conquest by flight ('Ladyes, flye from Love's smooth tale')
    • CwT 491.5 p. 3

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 108.

      Thomas Carew, On a Damaske rose sticking vpon a Ladies breast ('Let pride grow big my rose, and let the cleare')
    • CwT 519.5 pp. 3-4

      Copy, headed On My Mirs face in the watters and here beginning Stand of you Floods do not deface.

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 102.

      Thomas Carew, On sight of a Gentlewomans face in the water ('Stand still you floods, doe not deface')
    • CwT 313.5 pp. 4-5

      Copy of the third song, Separation of Lovers, here beginning Stop the chafed Boore, and play.

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 59-62.

      Thomas Carew, Foure Songs by way of Chorus to a play, at an entertainment of the King and Queene, by my Lord Chamberlaine ('From whence was first this furie hurld')
    • CwT 568.8 pp. 5-6

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1640) and in Poems: written by Wil. Shake-speare, Gent. (London, 1640). Dunlap, pp. 11-12.

      Thomas Carew, A prayer to the Wind ('Goe thou gentle whispering wind')
    • CwT 1145.5 pp. 6-7

      Copy, headed A Lady resembling my Mris and here beginning Fair coppie of my Mistris face.

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 26-7.

      Thomas Carew, To T.H. a Lady resembling my Mistresse ('Fayre copie of my Celia's face')
    • DnJ 714.5 pp. 7-9

      Copy.

      First published, as Elegie, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 90-2 (as Elegie VIII). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 5-6. Shawcross, No. 9. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 51-2.

      John Donne, The Comparison ('As the sweet sweat of Roses in a Still')
    • ShJ 49 pp. 9-10

      Copy, here ascribed to Carew.

      First published as Treedle's verses in The Witty Fair One, Act III, scene ii (London, 1633). Gifford & Dyce, I, 273-362 (pp. 311-12). As The Hue and Cry in Thomas Carew, Poems (London, 1640). Shirley, Poems (London, 1646). Armstrong, p. 2.

      James Shirley, Loves Hue and Cry ('In Loves name you are charg'd, oh fly')
    • ClJ 156 pp. 10-11

      Copy, headed The answer of a young man to an old woman courting him. ij.

      First published in Character (1647). Morris & Withington, pp. 18-20.

      John Cleveland, A young Man to an old Woman Courting him ('Peace Beldam Eve: surcease thy suit')
    • DnJ 284.5 pp. 11-12

      Copy.

      First published, as Elegie. The Autumnall, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 92-4 (as Elegie IX). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 27-8. Shawcross, No. 50. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 277-8.

      John Donne, The Autumnall ('No Spring, nor Summer Beauty hath such grace')
    • CwT 254.5 p. 14

      Copy, headed A Flie in my Mirs eye. 25 and here beginning While this flie lived she us'd to play.

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 37-9. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in The Treasury of Musick, Book 2 (London, 1669).

      Thomas Carew, A flye that flew into my Mistris her eye ('When this Flye liv'd, she us'd to play')
    • StW 823 p. 15

      Copy, headed On My Mistris.

      First published in Walter Porter, Madrigales and Ayres (London, 1632). Dobell, p. 41. Forey, pp. 76-7. The poem also discussed in C.F. Main, Notes on some Poems attributed to William Strode, PQ, 34 (1955), 444-8 (pp. 445-6), and see Mary Hobbs, Early Seventeenth-Century Verse Miscellanies and Their Value for Textual Editors, EMS, 1 (1989), 182-210 (pp. 199, 209).

      William Strode, Song ('I saw faire Cloris walke alone')
    • FeO 34 p. 17

      Copy, headed Departing from My Mris.

      First published in Lusoria (London, 1661). Pebworth & Summers, p. 18.

      Owen Felltham, A Farewell ('When by sad fate from hence I summon'd am')
    • CwT 973.5 p. 17

      Copy, deleted.

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 3.

      Thomas Carew, The Spring ('Now that the winter's gone, the earth hath lost')
    • DnJ 69.5 pp. 18-19

      Copy, headed The Jeire. 22.

      First published as Elegie II in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 80-2 (as Elegie II). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 21-2. Shawcross, No. 17. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 217-18.

      John Donne, The Anagram ('Marry, and love thy Flavia, for, shee')
    • JnB 27.5 p. 19

      Copy of lines 21-30, headed The Properties of My Mistres. 23 and here beginning Have you seen ye Whitt Lillie grow.

      First published (all ten poems) in The Vnder-wood (ii) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 131-42 (pp. 134-5). Lines 11-30 of poem 4 (beginning Doe but looke on her eyes, they do light) first published in The Devil is an Ass, II, vi, 94-113 (London, 1631).

      Ben Jonson, A Celebration of Charis in ten Lyrick Peeces. 4. Her Triumph ('See the Chariot at hand here of Love')
    • DnJ 644.5 p. 20

      Copy.

      First published, as Elegie III, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 82-3 (as Elegie III). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 19-20. Shawcross, No. 16. Variorum, 2 (2000), p. 198.

      John Donne, Change ('Although thy hand and faith, and good workes too')
    • DnJ 2941.5 pp. 20-1

      Copy, headed No woman Good and faire and deleted.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 8-9. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 29-30. Shawcross, No. 33.

      John Donne, Song ('Goe, and catche a falling starre')
    • CwT 1007.5 pp. 21-5

      Copy, headed The Persuasion to Love, 26 Tho Carew, deleted.

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 4-6.

      Thomas Carew, To A.L. Perswasions to love ('Thinke not cause men flatt'ring say')
    • DnJ 520.5 pp. 30-1

      Copy.

      Lines 1-16 first published in A Helpe to Memory and Discourse (London, 1630), pp. 45-6. Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 48-9. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 51-2. Shawcross, No. 29.

      John Donne, The broken heart ('He is starke mad, who ever sayes')
    • CwT 102.5 pp. 36-8

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 99-101.

      Thomas Carew, The Complement ('O my deerest I shall grieve thee')
    • JnB 727.5 p. 40

      Copy, headed O Love and death. 41 and here beginning Though young I am I cannot tell.

      First published in Workes (London, 1641). Herford & Simpson, VII, 1-49.

      Ben Jonson, The Sad Shepherd, I, v, 65-80. Song ('Though I am young, and cannot tell')
    • CwT 892.5 pp. 58-9

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1640) and in Wits Recreations (London, 1640). Dunlap, p. 8.

      Thomas Carew, Song. Murdring beautie ('Ile gaze no more on her bewitching face')
    • CwT 342.5 p. 59

      Copy, headed On Lover to another. 6 and here beginning Why do thy sad numbers flow.

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 44-5. The eight-lline version first published in Hazlitt (1870), p. 7, and reprinted in Dunlap. p. 234.

      Thomas Carew, Griefe ingrost ('Wherefore doe thy sad numbers flow')
    • JnB 610.5 pp. 59-60

      Copy, headed To the Court Ladies. 7.

      First published in London, 1625. Herford & Simpson, VII, 701-29 (p. 727).

      Ben Jonson, The Fortunate Isles, and their Union, lines 586 et seq. Song ('Come, noble Nymphs, and doe not hide')
    • BmF 99.5 pp. 60-1

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (London, 1640). Dyce, XI, 492.

      Francis Beaumont, The Indifferent ('Never more will I protest')
    • CwT 910.5 p. 78

      Copy, headed Persuasions to Love. 23.

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 16. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in Select Musicall Ayres, and Dialogues (London, 1652).

      Thomas Carew, Song. Perswasions to enjoy ('If the quick spirits in your eye')
    • CwT 425.8 p. 80

      Copy, headed Ane Looking Glasse. 27 and here beginning That flattring fac ques smoth fac wears.

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 19.

      Thomas Carew, A Looking-Glasse ('That flattring Glasse, whose smooth face weares')
    • CwT 510.5 pp. 118-19

      Copy, headed Upon a Lovers Marriage day being Tempestouus. 39

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 79-80.

      Thomas Carew, On the Mariage of T.K. and C.C. the morning stormie ('Svch should this day be, so the Sun should hide')
    • ClJ 138 pp. 121-3

      Copy.

      First published in Character (1647). Morris & Withington, pp. 10-11.

      John Cleveland, Upon an Hermophrodite ('Sir, or Madame, chuse you whether')
    • DeJ 75.2 pp. 159-60

      Copy.

      First published in Poems and Translations (London, 1668). Banks, pp. 153-4.

      Sir John Denham, On the Earl of Strafford's Tryal and Death ('Great Strafford! worthy of that Name, though all')
    • WaE 215 pp. 192-4

      Copy, headed Boldness in lov prevails with women.

      First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 87-8.

      Edmund Waller, Of Love ('Anger in hasty words or blows')
    • KiH 408.5 p. 200

      Copy, headed On A man that wold have lyen with his Mirs a night or two befor there marriage.

      First published in The Academy of Complements (London, 1646). Poems (1657). Crum, p. 169.

      Henry King, Love's Harvest ('Fond Lunatick forbeare. WHy dost thou sue')
    • CwT 863.5 pp. 202-3

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 23-4.

      Thomas Carew, Song. Eternitie of love protested ('How ill doth he deserve a lovers name')
    • SiP 164.5 pp. 208-9

      Copy.

      Sir Philip Sidney, Old Arcadia. Third Eclogues, No. 65 ('Who doth desire that chaste his wife should be')
    • ToA 65 pp. 234-5

      Copy.

      First published, in a musical setting by William Webb, in John Playford, Select Musical Ayres (London, 1652), p. 22. Chambers, pp. 4-5. Brown, pp. 19-21.

      Aurelian Townshend, To the Countess of Salisbury ('Victorious beauty, though your eyes')
    • EtG 125.5 p. 242

      Copy, untitled and here beginning To litle or no purpos I have spent.

      First published in London, 1668. Brett-Smith, II, 1-179 (p. 169). Thorpe, p. 23.

      Sir George Etherege, She wou'd if she cou'd, Act V, scene i, lines 312-23. Song ('To little or no purpose I spent many days')
    • RaW 185.3 p. 244

      Copy, untitled.

      First published in Brittons Bowre of Delights (London, 1591). Latham, pp. 11-12. Rudick, Nos 57A and 57B (two versions, pp. 135-6).

      Sir Walter Ralegh, Like to a Hermite poore ('Like to a Hermite poore in place obscure')
    • LoT 8.5 pp. 245-6

      Copy, untitled and here beginning Now I see thy looks ar fained.

      First published in The Phoenix Nest (London, 1593). Phillis: Honoured with Pastorall Sonnets, Elegies, and amorous delights (London, 1593). Gosse, II, (p. 58). The song-version beginning Now I see thy looks were feigned first published in Thomas Ford, Musicke of Sundrie Kindes (London, 1607).

      Thomas Lodge, An Ode ('Now I find thy lookes were fained')
    • DyE 91 pp. 254-5

      Copy.

      First published in A Poetical Rapsody (London, 1602). Sargent, No. XII, p. 197. May, Courtier Poets, p. 307. EV 23336.

      Sir Edward Dyer, 'The lowest trees haue topps, the ante her gall'
    • EsR 87 pp. 255-6

      Copy of the first three stanzas only, untitled, here beginning Ther was a tyme yn sille Bees did speak.

      First published, in a musical setting by John Dowland, in his The Third and Last Booke of Songs or Aires (London, 1603). May, Poems, No. IV, pp. 62-4. May, Courtier Poets, pp. 266-9. EV 12846.

      Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, A Poem made on the Earle of Essex (being in disgrace with Queene Eliz): by mr henry Cuffe his Secretary ('It was a time when sillie Bees could speake')

  • [Godfrey of Bulloigne]

    A presentation inscription, possibly in the hand of the author.

    In an exemplum of the first edition (1600) presented to Mr Huntington, the verses possibly imperfect, the page torn away at the foot.

    c.1600.

    Formerly in the library of John Sparrow (1906-92), literary scholar and book collector. Christie's, 21 October 1992 (Sparrow sale), in lot 133 (not mentioned in the sale catalogue). Sotheby's, 19 July 1993, lot 212, sold to Quaritch.

    Facsimile of the inscribed verses in the Sotheby's sale catalogue.

    • *FaE 2.9
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.

      Six verses, unpublished.

      Edward Fairfax, To my noble frend mr huntington ('Godfrey of Bulloigne & his great wonders')

  • [Gower MS]

    The Gower manuscript of poems by Thomas Carew.

    A quarto volume of 77 leaves (29 of them blank) containing 47 poems by Carew, in a single professional hand, with Carew's autograph corrections, revisions and additions in black ink on various pages affecting some sixteen poems, in contemporary vellum.

    c.1631-2.

    Owned by John Leveson-Gower (1694-1754), Baron Gower of Stittenham, Viscount Trentham and Earl Gower, Privy Councillor (and possibly by earlier members of his family). Sotheby's, 19 November 1906 (Trentham Hall Library sale), lot 1316. Acquired in 1959 from Seven Gables Bookshop, New York.

    This volume is discussed and the contents listed, with facsimile examples, in Peter Beal, An Authorial Collection of Poems by Thomas Carew: The Gower Manuscript, EMS, 8 (2000), 160-85.

    • CwT 1223.5 ff. 1r-1 bis verso

      Copy, headed Vppon ye sickiness of (EP) and here beginning Must she then languish wee sorrowe thus.

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 31-2.

      Thomas Carew, Vpon the sicknesse of (E.S.) ('Mvst she then languish, and we sorrow thus')
    • CwT 962.5 f. 1 bis verso

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 33.

      Thomas Carew, Song. To one who when I prais'd my Mistris beautie, said I was blind ('Wonder not though I am blind')
    • CwT 834.5 f. 2r

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 39. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in The Treasury of Musick, Book 2 (London, 1669).

      Thomas Carew, Song. Celia singing ('You that thinke Love can convey')
    • *CwT 922.5 f. 3r
      Autograph

      Copy, with an autograph correction by Carew in line 8.

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 34-5.

      Thomas Carew, Song. To her againe, she burning in a Feaver ('Now she burnes as well as I')
    • CwT 940.5 f. 2v

      Copy, headed Song. To his Mrs. he burning in loue.

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 34.

      Thomas Carew, Song. To my Mistris, I burning in love ('I burne, and cruell you, in vaine')
    • *CwT 235.5 ff. 3v-4r
      Autograph

      Copy, with an autograph revision by Carew in line 11, headed A flye that flewe into his Mrs her eye.

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 37-9. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in The Treasury of Musick, Book 2 (London, 1669).

      Thomas Carew, A flye that flew into my Mistris her eye ('When this Flye liv'd, she us'd to play')
    • CwT 798.5 f. 4r-v

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 38.

      Thomas Carew, Song. Celia singing ('Harke how my Celia, with the choyce')
    • CwT 950.8 ff. 4v-5r

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 39-40. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in The Treasury of Musick, Book 2 (London, 1669).

      Thomas Carew, Song. To one that desired to know my Mistris ('Seeke not to know my love, for shee')
    • CwT 357.5 ff. 5v-6r

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 40. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1653).

      Thomas Carew, In the person of a Lady to her inconstant servant ('When on the Altar of my hand')
    • CwT 1101.5 f. 6r-v

      Copy, headed To his Riuall.

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 41.

      Thomas Carew, To my Rivall ('Hence vaine intruder, hast away')
    • CwT 536.5 ff. 6v-8v

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 42-4.

      Thomas Carew, A Pastorall Dialogue ('As Celia rested in the shade')
    • *CwT 1172.9 f. 9r
      Autograph

      Copy, headed in Carew's hand To Cupid.

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 41.

      Thomas Carew, Truce in Love entreated ('No more, blind God, for see my heart')
    • CwT 10.5 f. 9v

      Copy, headed A Marigold.

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 63-4.

      Thomas Carew, Another. A Lady rescued from death by a Knight who in the instant leaves her, complaines thus ('Oh whither is my fayre Sun fled')
    • *CwT 332.5 f. 10r
      Autograph

      Copy, headed in Carew's hand Sorrowe Engrossed.

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 44-5. The eight-lline version first published in Hazlitt (1870), p. 7, and reprinted in Dunlap. p. 234.

      Thomas Carew, Griefe ingrost ('Wherefore doe thy sad numbers flow')
    • CwT 903.5 f. 10v

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 16. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in Select Musicall Ayres, and Dialogues (London, 1652).

      Thomas Carew, Song. Perswasions to enjoy ('If the quick spirits in your eye')
    • CwT 144.5 f. 11r-v

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 16-17. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in The Treasury of Musick, Book 2 (London, 1669).

      Thomas Carew, A deposition from Love ('I was foretold, your rebell sex')
    • *CwT 365.5 f. 12r-v
      Autograph

      Copy, with an autograph correction by Carew in line 3.

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 17-18. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in The Second Book of Ayres, and Dialogues (London, 1655).

      Thomas Carew, Ingratefull beauty threatned ('Know Celia, (since thou art so proud,)')
    • CwT 156.5 ff. 12v-13r

      Copy.

      First published (stanzas 1-2), in a musical setting, in Walter Porter, Madrigales and Ayres (London, 1632). Complete in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 18. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1653).

      Thomas Carew, Disdaine returned ('Hee that loves a Rosie cheeke')
    • *CwT 419.8 ff. 13v-14r
      Autograph

      Copy, with minor autograph corrections by Carew in line 6.

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 19.

      Thomas Carew, A Looking-Glasse ('That flattring Glasse, whose smooth face weares')
    • *CwT 186.5 ff. 14r-16v
      Autograph

      Copy, with Carew's autograph revisions in lines 17 and 26.

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 19-21.

      Thomas Carew, An Elegie on the La: Pen: sent to my Mistresse out of France ('Let him, who from his tyrant Mistresse, did')
    • CwT 1083.5 ff. 16v-17v

      Copy, headed To his Mrs. in absence.

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 22.

      Thomas Carew, To my Mistresse in absence ('Though I must live here, and by force')
    • CwT 1037.5 ff. 17v-18r

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 23.

      Thomas Carew, To her in absence. A Ship ('Tost in a troubled sea of griefes, I floate')
    • CwT 853.5 f. 18r-v

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 23-4.

      Thomas Carew, Song. Eternitie of love protested ('How ill doth he deserve a lovers name')
    • *CwT 1215.5 ff. 18v-19r
      Autograph

      Copy, with an autograph correction by Carew in line 15, headed Vppon some alterations in his Mrs. after his departure into France.

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 24-5.

      Thomas Carew, Vpon some alterations in my Mistresse, after my departure into France ('Oh gentle Love, doe not forsake the guide')
    • *CwT 313.8 ff. 19v-20r
      Autograph

      Copy, with an autograph correction by Carew in line 15.

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 25.

      Thomas Carew, Good counsell to a young Maid ('When you the Sun-burnt Pilgrim see')
    • CwT 24.5 f. 20r-v

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 26.

      Thomas Carew, Celia bleeding, to the Surgeon ('Fond man, that canst beleeve her blood')
    • CwT 1132.5 ff. 20v-1v

      Copy, headed A Lady resembling his Mrs.

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 26-7.

      Thomas Carew, To T.H. a Lady resembling my Mistresse ('Fayre copie of my Celia's face')
    • CwT 1111.5 ff. 21v-3r

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 27-9.

      Thomas Carew, To Saxham ('Though frost, and snow, lockt from mine eyes')
    • CwT 1184.5 f. 23r-v

      Copy, headed Vppon a ribban and here beginning This silken wreathe wch in myne arme.

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 29.

      Thomas Carew, Vpon a Ribband ('This silken wreath, which circles in mine arme')
    • CwT 966.5 f. 24r-v

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 3.

      Thomas Carew, The Spring ('Now that the winter's gone, the earth hath lost')
    • *CwT 982.5 ff. 24v-6v
      Autograph

      Copy, with autograph corrections by Carew in lines 23 and 59, headed Persuasions to Loue.

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 84-6.

      Thomas Carew, To A.D. unreasonable distrustfull of her owne beauty ('Fayre Doris breake thy Glasse, it hath perplext')
    • *CwT 392.5 f. 27r
      Autograph

      Copy, with an autograph correction by Carew in line 11, headed partly in his hand Lipps and Eyes. Fr. Mar:.

      Facsimile of this page in Beal, An Authorial Collection, Plate 8, p. 173.

      First published in Poems (1640) and in Wits Recreations (London, 1640). Dunlap, p. 6.

      Thomas Carew, Lips and Eyes ('In Celia's face a question did arise')
    • CwT 764.5 f. 27v

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 105.

      Thomas Carew, A Song ('In her faire cheekes two pits doe lye')
    • CwT 176.5 f. 28r

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 6-7.

      Thomas Carew, A divine Mistris ('In natures peeces still I see')
    • *CwT 114.2 f. 28v
      Autograph

      Copy, headed partly in Carew's hand A Cruell Mrs. Tr: Gr:

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 8.

      Thomas Carew, A cruel Mistris ('Wee read of Kings and Gods that kindly tooke')
    • CwT 871.5 f. 29r

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1640) and in Wits Recreations (London, 1640). Dunlap, p. 8.

      Thomas Carew, Song. Murdring beautie ('Ile gaze no more on her bewitching face')
    • CwT 458.5 ff. 29v-31v

      Copy, headed His Mrs. commanding him to returne her letters.

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 9-11.

      Thomas Carew, My mistris commanding me to returne her letters ('So grieves th'adventrous Merchant, when he throwes')
    • CwT 664.5 ff. 31v-2r

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 103-4.

      Thomas Carew, The second Rapture ('No worldling, no, tis not thy gold')
    • CwT 544.5 ff. 32r-3r

      Copy, headed A prayer to ye winde. Im: Gr:.

      First published in Poems (1640) and in Poems: written by Wil. Shake-speare, Gent. (London, 1640). Dunlap, pp. 11-12.

      Thomas Carew, A prayer to the Wind ('Goe thou gentle whispering wind')
    • CwT 1098.5 ff. 33r-4r

      Copy, headed To his Mrs. sitting by a Riuers side, An Eddye.

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 14.

      Thomas Carew, To my Mistris sitting by a Rivers side. An Eddy ('Marke how yond Eddy steales away')
    • CwT 841.5 f. 34r-v

      Copy.

      First published (complete) in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 15. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in Select Musicall Ayres, and Dialogues (London, 1653). The second stanza alone published in Samuel Pick, Festum Voluptatis (London, 1639), and a musical setting of it by Henry Lawes published in The Treasury of Musick, Book 2 (London, 1669).

      Thomas Carew, Song. Conquest by flight ('Ladyes, flye from Love's smooth tale')
    • CwT 930.5 ff. 34v-5r

      Copy, headed Song. To his inconstant Mrs..

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 15-16. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1653).

      Thomas Carew, Song. To my inconstant Mistris ('When thou, poore excommunicate')
    • *CwT 1022.5 ff. 35v-6v
      Autograph

      Copy, with autograph corrections by Carew in lines 8 and 38, headed To Ben: Johnson vppon occasion of his Ode to himself.

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 64-5.

      Thomas Carew, To Ben. Iohnson. Vpon occasion of his Ode of defiance annext to his Play of the new Inne (''Tis true (deare Ben:) thy just chastizing hand')
    • *CwT 194.5 ff. 37r-9v
      Autograph

      Copy, with an autograph revision by Carew, headed An Elegie vppon ye Deane of Pawles Dr Donne.

      Facsimile of f. 35v in Beal, An Authorial Collection, Plate 7, p. 171.

      First published in John Donne, Poems (London, 1633). Carew, Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 71-4.

      Thomas Carew, An Elegie upon the death of the Deane of Pauls, Dr. Iohn Donne ('Can we not force from widdowed Poetry')
    • *CwT 626.5 ff. 40r-3r
      Autograph

      Copy, here beginning I will enjoye you now my Caelia, come, with numerous autograph corrections and revisions by Carew in lines 18, 32, 35-6, 69, 72, 79, 80, 84-6, 93, 101, 120, 128-9, 134, 139-41, 144, 149, 154-5, and 160.

      Facsimile of ff. 42v and 43r in Beal, An Authorial Collection, Plates 3 and 4, pp. 164-5.

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 49-53.

      Thomas Carew, A Rapture ('I will enjoy thee now my Celia, come')
    • *CwT 1154.5 ff. 43v-5r
      Autograph

      Copy, with autograph corrections and revisions by Carew in lines 3, 5, 19, 20, 28, 40-2, 52, 64, 66, 67, and 80.

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 69-71.

      Thomas Carew, To the Countesse of Anglesie upon the immoderatly-by-her-lamented death of her Husband ('Madam, men say you keepe with dropping eyes')
    • *CwT 483.5 ff. 46r-7v
      Autograph

      Copy, with autograph corrections by Carew in lines 17, 42, 50, 51, 58, 62, and 74.

      Facsimile of f. 47r in Beal, An Authorial Collection, Plate 6, p. 169.

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 67-8.

      Thomas Carew, Obsequies to the Lady Anne Hay ('I heard the Virgins sigh, I saw the sleeke')

  • [Harvey Five Hundred Pointes]

    Autograph annotations and marginalia, a quarto volume in later vellum.

    18 August 1580.

    Sotheby's, 21 March 1966, to Rathbone. Sotheby's, 3 July 1973, to Francis Edwards.

    W.C. Hazlitt. Moore Smith, p. 85. Stern, pp. 237-8.

    • *HvG 164
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      Gabriel Harvey, Tusser, Thomas. Five Hundred Pointes of Good Husbandrie, as well for the Champion, or open countrie, as also for the woodland, or Severall, mixed in everie Month with Huswiferie (London, 1580)

  • [Henry VII]

    Exemplum of the second issue of the first edition, with Bacon's six-line autograph signed presentation inscription, in Latin, to Tobie Matthew, Archbishop of York.

    1622.
    • *BcF 657
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      Francis Bacon, Bacon, Francis. The History of the Reign of King Henry VII (London, 1622)

  • [Hobbes letter]

    Autograph letter signed, to the Earl of Devonshire, from Paris, 23 July/2 August 1641.

    1641.

    Sotheby's, 9 May 1840 (Thomas Lloyd sale), lot 95, to Thorpe. Owned by Sir William Molesworth, Bt (1810-55) and/or his sister, Mary Ford (née Molesworth, 1816-1910), of Pencarrow, Cornwall. Sotheby's, 8 December 1999 (Pencarrow sale), lot 32, to Quaritch, with a facsimile in the sale catalogue.

    Unfolding facsimile in Molesworth, English, I, after p.v. Edited in Tönnies, Analekten, pp. 302-3 (erroneously citing the source as British Library, Harley MS 6796). Malcolm, Correspondence, I, 120-1, letter 37.

    • *HbT 121
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      Thomas Hobbes, Letter(s)

  • [Knowsley MS]

    A quarto booklet of poems on affairs of state, in a single professional hand, 38 pages, in marbled paper wrappers.

    Late 17th century.

    Once belonging to the Stanley family, Earls of Derby, of Knowsley House, Merseyside. Later acquired from Seven Gables Bookshop, New York.

    • MaA 349 Item 1, pp. [i], 1-11

      Copy, including the Envoy, the poem here described as Being the last worke of Sr. John Denham and dated 1666.

      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.

      Andrew Marvell, The Second Advice to a Painter ('Nay, Painter, if thou dar'st design that fight')
    • MaA 382 Item 2, pp. [i], 1-13

      Copy, including the Envoy, with a title-page Sr John Denham's Speech or The Third Advice to A Painter. Octob: primo: 1666.

      First published in Directions to a Painter…Of Sir Iohn Denham ([London], 1667). POAS, I, 67-87. Lord, pp. 130-44. Smith, pp. 346-56. Recorded in Osborne, pp. 32-3, as anonymous.

      Andrew Marvell, The Third Advice to a Painter ('Sandwich in Spain now, and the Duke in love')

  • [Lovelace document]

    Autograph signature, on a document appointing Isaac Hunt as Lovelace's attorney for the sale of Mungeam farm to John Mungeam of Smarden, also signed by Lovelace's brother Dudley Posthumus Lovelace, 29 March 1647.

    1647.

    Phillips, 14 June 1990, lot 37, to Quaritch, with a reduced facsimile in the sale catalogue, after p. 20.

    Cited in Clarke, p. 363.

    • *LoR 63
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      Richard Lovelace, Document(s)

  • [Mustapha MS]

    Copy, in a professional hand, 54 folio leaves (plusa number of blanks), in contemporary black morocco gilt.

    Late 17th century.

    Inscribed (p. 1) Elyzebeth Walsingham her boock 1680. Bookplate of Sir William Bennet, second Baronet (d.1729), of Grubett, 1707. Christie's, 22 June 1988, lot 96 to Quaritch.

    • OrR 34
      No description or publication history available.

      First performed on the London stage 3 April 1665. First published, as Mustapha, The Son of Solyman the Magnificent, London, 1668. Clark, I, 225-304.

  • [Ossbert MS]

    Copy, on four pages in a sixteen-page octavo booklet, in vellum wrappers.

    Mid-17th century.

    Inscribed Miss Ossbert Her booke 1759. Sotheby's, 5 June 1973, lot 422.

    • RnT 80
      No description or publication history available.

      First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 101-4.

      Thomas Randolph, An Eglogue occasion'd by two Doctors disputing upon predestination ('Ho jolly Thirsis whither in such hast?')

  • [Overbury Observations MS]

    Copy, in a secretary hand, headed Observations on the United Provinces. The State of the Arch-Duke's Countrie, 31 quarto leaves, in contemporary vellum.

    c.1620s.
    • OvT 54
      No description or publication history available.

      A tract beginning All things concurred for the rising and maintenance of this State.... First published as Sir Thomas Overbvry his Observations in his Travailes vpon the State of The Xvii. Provinces as they stood Anno Dom. 1609 (London, 1626). Rimbault, pp. 223-30. Authorship uncertain.

      Sir Thomas Overbury, Observations in his travailes

  • [Pliny volume]

    Autograph ownership inscription (Su Nicolai Vdalli: Magnes amoris modestia. 1524) in a printed exemplum.

    1524.

    Also inscribed Edoardi P: i.e. ? the young Prince Edward, afterwards Edward VI. Sotheby's, 20 July 1989, lot 13, with a facsimile of the inscribed page in the sale catalogue.

    • *UdN 17
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      Nicholas Udall, Pliny. C. Plinii Secundi Novocomensis epistolaru libri decem (Venice, 1508)

  • [Prayer book MS]

    Copy of three prayers, to the Father of Heauen, To the Seconde Parson, and To the Holy Gooste.

    At the end of an octavo 16th-century MS prayer book (use of Sarum), 129 leaves, in contemporary vellum.

    1583.

    Inscribed on the cover Robert Cooke. Later owned by John Meade Falkner (1858-1932), writer and businessman. Sotheby's, 12 December 1932 (Falkner sale), lot 86, to Quaritch. Sotheby's, 8 July 1957, lot 78.

    Recorded in De Ricci, Supplement, p. 406.

    • SkJ 20
      No description or publication history available.

      Canon, D54, p. 17, First published in Certaine bokes copyled by mayster Skelto (London, c.1545). Dyce, I, 139-40.

      John Skelton, [Prayers]

  • [Pseudo-Martyr]

    Autograph letter signed, to Sir Thomas Egerton, accompanying a presentation exemplum of Pseudo-Martyr (London, 1610).

    1610.

    Edited in Grierson, II, 204. Facsimiles in Sotheby's sale catalogue, 19 March 1951, lot 109, and in British Literary Manuscripts, Ser. I (Pierpont Morgan Library, New York, 1981), No. 29.

    • *DnJ 4112
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      John Donne, Letter(s)

  • [Ralegh MS]

    Two texts by Ralegh, in a single hand, on a pair of conjugate folio leaves.

    c.1620.

    Bonhams, 18 December 2002, lot 776, with a facsimile example in the sale catalogue, p. 173.

    • RaW 975 pp. [1-2]

      Copy of a letter by Ralegh, to his wife.

      Sir Walter Ralegh, Letter(s)
    • RaW 732.3 p. [3]

      Copy, headed These woordes following he putt into his La: Pockitt the night befoer he was executed charging her nott to publish them by Lore he was deade.

      Ralegh's note, 1618, denouncing false allegations, beginning I did never receive advise from my Lord Carew to make any escape, neither did I tell ytt Stukeley.... First published in The Works of Sir Walter Ralegh, ed. Thomas Birch (London, 1751), II, 280-1. Edwards (1868), II, 494-5.

      Sir Walter Ralegh, Ralegh's Second Testamentary Note

  • [Ralegh / Vignier volume]

    An exemplum, in contemporary vellum, bearing Ralegh's crest on the cover and the near-contemporary inscription inside This was Sr Walter Raleighs booke.

    c.1610.

    Sotheby's, 26 June 1986 (Lionel Robinson sale), lot 126, to Rizwick, and 19 July 1993, lot 223, to Quaritch.

    • RaW 1038
      No description or publication history available.
      Sir Walter Ralegh, Vignier, Nicolas. Theatre de L'Antechrist ([La Rochelle], 1610)

  • [Shadwell song]

    Copy of the Fiddler's song, in a non-professional hand, on a flyleaf in an exemplum of Abraham Cowley's Works, 4th edition (London, 1674).

    c.1674-78.

    The leaf variously inscribed Planford or Clanford, ye guift of mr John Mould of Lond. 1678, and [?] S. A. Janford Aug 4 1857.

    • SdT 25.5
      No description or publication history available.

      Summers, II, 95-182 (pp. 139-40).

      Thomas Shadwell, Epsom-Wells, Act III, scene i. Song ('Oh, how I abhor')

  • [Shadwell volume]

    The dedication exemplum of the first edition (London, 1689), inscribed by Shadwell on a flyleaf For the Ld Chamberlain: i.e. for the play's dedicatee Charles Sackville, sixth Earl of Dorset.

    c.1689.

    Inscribed on a flyleaf M:C:, probably denoting Dorset's second wife (whom he married in 1685) Lady Mary Compton. Later in the library of Richard Heber (1774-1833), book collector. Sotheby's, 10 November 1834 (Heber sale, Part III), lot 3210. Afterwards in the Britwell Court Library, at Burnham, Buckinghamshire, founded by William Henry Miller, MP (1789-1848) and maintained by Samuel Christie Miller, MP (1810-89). Then in the libraries of Frank Brewer Bemis (1861-1935), Boston banker and book collector, and of Arthur A. Houghton, Jr (1906-90), American businessman and collector. Christie's, 11 June 1980 (Houghton sale, Part II), lot 414. Pickering & Chatto, sale catalogue No. 652 (January 1984), item 358, where the inscription is reproduced in facsimile.

    • *SdT 23.3
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.

      First published in London, 1689.

      Thomas Shadwell, Bury-Fair

  • [Spenser MS]

    Copy; in a single secretary hand, iv + 63 quarto leaves, together with the anonymous A Breviate of ye Getting of Irelande and the Decaye of the same in another secretary hand on i + 25 leaves at the reverse end, in contemporary limp vellum.

    1596-early 17th century.

    Once owned by Richard Towneley (1629-1707), of Towneley Hall, near Burnley, Lancashire. Later owned by William Horatio Crawford, of Lakelands, Cork, 19th-century book collector, and by Arthur A. Houghton, Jr (1906-90), American businessman and collector. Christie's, 11-12 June 1980 (Houghton sale Part II), lot 440, to H.D. Lyon.

    Collated in Variorum. Recorded in De Ricci, Supplement, p. 201. A set of negative photocopies is in the Folger, PR 1405 S7.

    • SpE 56
      No description or publication history available.

      First published in Sir James Ware, The Historie of Ireland (Dublin, 1633). Variorum, Prose Works (ed. Rudolf Gottfried), pp. 39-231.

      Spenser's authorship of this View is generally accepted, especially in light of the comparable views about Ireland in The Faerie Queene. A cautionary note about authorship is sounded, however, in Jean R. Brink, Constructing the View of the Present State of Ireland, Spenser Studies, 11 (1994), 203-28; in her Appropriating the Author of The Faerie Queene: The Attribution of the View of the Present State of Ireland and A Brief Note of Ireland to Edmund Spenser, in Soundings of Things Done: Essays in Early Modern Literature in Honor of S.K. Heninger, Jr, ed. Peter E. Medine and Joseph Wittreich (Newark, Delaware, 1997), 93-136. See also, inter alia, Andrew Hadfield, Certainties and Uncertainties: By Way of Response to Jean Brink, Spenser Studies, 12 (1998), 197-202, and Jean R. Brink, Spenser and the Irish Question: Reply to Andrew Hadfield, Spenser Studies, 13 (1999), 265-6.

      Edmund Spenser, A View of the Present State of Ireland

  • [Suckling MS]

    MS.

    Later owned by Arthur A. Houghton, Jr (1906-90), American businessman and collector. Christie's, 12 June 1980 (Houghton sale, Part 2), lot 486.

    • SuJ 209 f. [1r]

      Copy.

      First published in Wit and Drollery (London, 1656). Clayton, pp. 204-5.

      John Suckling, Upon Sir John Suckling's hundred horse ('I tell thee Jack thou'st given the King')
    • SuJ 228 f. [1v]

      Copy.

      First published in Wit and Drollery (London, 1656). Clayton, pp. 205-6. Sometimes erroneously attributed to Suckling himself.

      John Suckling, Sir John Suckling's Answer ('I tell thee foole who'ere thou be')

  • [Sylva Sylvarum]

    Exemplum of the first edition, with Bacon's autograph signed presentation inscription, in Latin, to Tobie Matthew, Archbishop of York.

    1626.
    • *BcF 668
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      Francis Bacon, Bacon, Francis. Sylva Sylvarum (London, 1626)

  • [Waller/Etherege deed]

    A deed of purchase of Widgenden and Diffield by George Gosnold of Beaconsfield, on vellum, signed by Waller, also by his second wife Mary, and attested by George Etherege (see EtG 157) and others, 8 June 1655.

    1655.

    Puttick & Simpson's, 13 May 1867 (the Rev. F.B. Woodward sale), 4th day, lot 1346. Sotheby's, 8 May 1868, lot 545, to Waller. Maggs's sale catalogue No. 536 (1930), item 2401.

    • *WaE 846
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      Edmund Waller, Document(s)

  • [Waller/Etherege deed]

    Etherege's signature as witness to a deed of purchase of Widgenden and Diffield by George Gosnold of Beaconsfield, on vellum, also signed by Waller and his second wife Mary, and others, 8 June 1655 (see WaE 846).

    1655.

    Puttick & Simpson's, 13 May 1867 (the Rev. F.B. Woodward sale), 4th day, lot 1346. Sotheby's, 8 May 1868, lot 545, to Waller. Maggs's sale catalogue No. 536 (1930), item 2401.

    • *EtG 157
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      Sir George Etherege, Document(s)

  • [Waller document]

    A signed marriage settlement between Waller and his second wife, on a vellum leaf, January 1645[/6].

    1646.

    Acquired from Seven Gables Bookshop, New York.

    • *WaE 843
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      Edmund Waller, Document(s)

  • [Waller 1686]

    An exemplum of Waller's Poems, Fifth edition (London, 1686), in contemporary red morocco gilt.

    End of 17th century.

    Once owned by Sir Roger Strickland, MP (1640-1717), Admiral and Jacobite. Later in the Britwell Court Library, at Burnham, Buckinghamshire, founded by William Henry Miller, MP (1789-1848) and subsequently owned by Samuel Christie Miller, MP (1810-89). Later booklabel of Graham Pollard (1903-76), bookseller and bibliographer.

    • WaE 542 f. [irv]

      Copy, on a flyleaf.

      First published as a separate leaf inserted in some exempla of Poems, Fifth edition (London, 1686). Thorn-Drury, II, 106-7.

      Edmund Waller, To His Majesty, upon his Motto, Beati Pacifici, occasioned by the taking of Buda, 1686 ('Buda and Rhodes proud Solyman had torn')
    • WaE 287 [rear endpapers]

      Copy, on the final endpaper and paste-down.

      First published in Poems, Fifth edition (London, 1686). Thorn-Drury, II, 144.

      Edmund Waller, Of the last Verses in the Book ('When we for age could neither read nor write')

  • [Waller/Sacrabosco]

    A printed exemplum bearing Waller's signature, three Latin aphorisms in his hand (from Ptolomy, Jeremiah and elsewhere) on the flyleaf, and some autograph notes by him on an end-paper (including note that the ancients thought that part of the Earth not habitable wch was beyond 50 degrees northward/ vid de Clyn:).

    Mid-17th century.
    • *WaE 898
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      Edmund Waller, Sacrabosco, Joannes. Sphaera (Cologne, 1610)

  • [Walton document]

    Walton's autograph signature as a witness to a bond and obligation by Walter Fowler, Robert Pickin and Brian Lane of Staffordshire, for payment of £1,000 to John Gough of Bushbury, 25 October 1659.

    1659.

    Later owned by E.M. Dring. Sotheby's, 18 July 1991, lot 165, to Quaritch, with a facsimile of the signatures in the sale catalogue.

    • *WtI 26
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      Izaak Walton, Document(s)

  • [Walton/Donne Essayes]

    Walton's exemplum, signed and annotated by him.

    Mid-17th century.

    Peter Murray Hill's sale catalogue No. 72 (1960), item 47, with a facsimile of a page with one of Walton's autograph annotations. J.C. Lynn Angling collection.

    • *WtI 154
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      Izaak Walton, Donne, John. Essayes in Divinity (London, 1651)

  • [Walton/Donne Life]

    An exemplum with Walton's autograph corrections.

    c.1658.
    • *WtI 67
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      Izaak Walton, The Life of John Donne (London, 1658)

  • [Walton/Lives (I)]

    A printed exemplum inscribed by Walton for [Humphrey Henchman], Bishop of London.

    c.1670.
    • *WtI 79
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      Izaak Walton, The Lives of Dr. John Donne, Sir Henry Wotton, Mr. Richard Hooker, Mr. George Herbert (London, 1670)

  • [Walton/Lives (II)]

    A printed exemplum inscribed by Walton for William Chetwynd.

    c.1675.

    Peter Murray Hill's sale catalogue No. 72 (1960), item 51, with an illustration of a page bearing Walton's impression of Donne's seal.

    • *WtI 106
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      Izaak Walton, The Lives of Dr. John Donne, Sir Henry Wotton, Mr. Richard Hooker, Mr. George Herbert, 4th edition (London, 1675)

  • [Walton/Lives (III)

    A printed exemplum inscribed by Walton for John Lillie, the inscription deleted.

    c.1675.

    Later in the Oxford Library of John Sparrow (1906-1992), literary scholar and book collector. Christie's, 21 October 1992, lot 289, to Rota.

    • *WtI 107
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      Izaak Walton, The Lives of Dr. John Donne, Sir Henry Wotton, Mr. Richard Hooker, Mr. George Herbert, 4th edition (London, 1675)

  • [Wither warrant]

    A warrant authorizing payment to Edward Basse, the assignee of Francis Dodsworth, signed by Wither as member of the Committee of Trustees for the Sale of the Late King's Goods, 10 October 1651.

    1651.

    Sotheby's, 12 May [4th day 26 May] 1988, lot 1479, to Buckland. Sotheby's, 15 November 1991, lot 1023, to Quaritch.

    • *WiG 74
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      George Wither, Warrant(s)

  • [Wotton MS]

    Copy, in two professional secretary hands (changing over on p. 180), 292 small folio leaves, in contemporary vellum with remains of ties.

    Ascribed to Wotton in a title-page added in a later hand.

    c.1620s-30s.

    Owned in the 18th century by the Marquess of Lothian. Anderson Galleries, 27 January 1932, lot 30. Booklabel of Donald S. Stralem, New York collector.

    Facsimile page in Anderson Galleries sale catalogue.

    • WoH 301
      No description or publication history available.

      A lengthy treatise, beginning After that I had lived many years in voluntary exile and banishment.... First published in London, 1657. Wotton's authorship is not certain.

      Sir Henry Wotton, The State of Christendom

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