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  • 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.

    • BcF 60.5 ff. [1r-9r]

      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.

      Francis Bacon, Advertisement touching a Holy War
    • BcF 232.8 ff. [30r-3v]

      Copy.

      Spedding, XIV, 358-64.

      Francis Bacon, Offer to the King of a Digest to be made of the Laws of England

  • 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
      No description or publication history available.

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

      George Savile, First Marquess of Halifax, The Character of a Trimmer

  • 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
      No description or publication history available.

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

      John Milton, Eikonoklastes

  • 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.

    • MaA 317.5 pp. [87-94]

      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.

      Andrew Marvell, The Second Advice to a Painter ('Nay, Painter, if thou dar'st design that fight')

  • 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.

    • BcF 636 pp. 1-30, 47-52

      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.

      Francis Bacon, Letter(s)
    • BcF 507 pp. 53-60

      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.

      Francis Bacon, Bacon's Humble Submissions and Supplications

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