A commonplace book, owned or compiled by John Gybbon.
c.1712.Extracts.
First published in London, 1662.
An indenture for the transfer of manors in Surrey from Francis Howard to Sir George Couthopp, signed by Shadwell as a witness, 16 April 1673.
1673.Sotheby's, 18 July 1973, lot 165. Formerly Gen. MSS. Misc. No. AM 21354.
A duodecimo miscellany of verse, prose and astronomical drawings, in several hands, written from both ends, 89 leaves (including 27 blanks), in contemporary leather.
Associated with Oxford University.
c.1695.Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), book and manuscript collector: Phillipps MS 10580. Formerly Princeton MS 3584.614.
Copy, in a roman hand, incomplete.
First published in Poems (1667), pp. 126-7. Saintsbury, pp. 577-8. Thomas, I, 197-8, poem 80.
Copy, in a roman hand.
First published in Poems (1667), p. 136. Saintsbury, p. 583. Thomas, I, 207-8, poem 90.
Copy, in a roman hand, untitled.
First published in Poems (1667), pp. 145-6. Saintsbury, p. 589. Kissing the Rod, pp. 200-1. Thomas, I, 217-18, poem 99.
A quarto miscellany of verse and prose, in a single italic hand, entitled Gospell Obseruations & Religius manifestations, 370 pages, in contemporary calf.
Entirely in the hand of Robert Overton (1608/9-1678/9), parliamentarian army officer, whose signature appears on a flyleaf. Prepared as a memorial and tribute to his wife, Ann Gardiner (d.1665), and written when in prison, either on Jersey or in the Tower of London.
c.1671/2.Inscribed inside the front cover Saml Atkins Wykeham
and inside the rear cover 17 Feby 1879. Purchased this Book of Prescot Bookseller. Upper Arcade. Bristol...Edwd G. Doggett
.
This volume discussed extensively, with facsimile examples (of pp. 85-6, 151-2, 162, 166, 190-2), in David Norbrook, This blushinge tribute of a borrowed muse
: Robert Overton and his Overturning of the Poetic Canon, EMS, 4 (1993), 220-66.
Adapted verse extracts from Wither's miscelany
, Faire-Virtue (London, 1622).
Facsimile of p. 152 in Norbrook, p. 223 (Plate 2).
Adapted extracts from various poems by Herbert.
Discussed by Sidney Gottlieb in Allusions to George Herbert in Robert Overton's Gospell Obseruations & Religious Manifestations, SP, 90 (1993), 83-100, and in George Herbert and Robert Overton, George Herbert Journal, 18 (1994-5), 184-200.
Adapted extracts from various poems by Donne.
Facsimiles of pp. 162 and 166 in Norbrook, pp. 235 and 238 (Plates 5 and 6).
Copy, an adapted version.
First published in The Temple (1633). John Donne, Poems, By J.D. (London, 1635). Hutchinson, pp. 183-4.
Herbert's poem is a Parodie
of a poem by William Herbert, Earl of Pembroke, first published in John Donne, Poems (2nd edition, London, 1635). Entries in CELM include both poems indiscriminately.
Adapted verse extracts from works by Hall.
Adapted extracts.
First published, among Verses written on several Occasions, in Works (London, 1668). Grosart, I, 165. Waller, I, 441-3.
Adapted extracts.
First published in Katherine Philips, Poems (London, 1667), sig. br-v.
Adapted exracts.
First published in John Donne, Deaths Duell (London, 1632). Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 76-7.
Adapted extracts.
First published in John Donne, Poems (London, 1635), pp. [397-9].
Adapted extracts.
First published in John Donne, Poems (London, 1633). Carew, Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 71-4.
Adapted extracts.
First published in John Donne, Poems (London, 1633), p. 393. Grierson, I, 382-4.
Copy.
First published in John Donne, Poems (London, 1635). Heliconia (1815), II, Spirituall Sonnettes, p. 5. The Poems of John Donne, ed. Herbert J. C. Grierson (2 vols, Oxford, 1912), I, 427. Grundy, p. 185.
Adapted extracts from various poems by Philips, including verses on pp. 173-6, 178-200, 202, 210, 212-14, 234-5, 238, 240-2, 245, 247-8, 250-1, 253, 255-62, and 265.
Facsimiles of pp. 190-2 in Norbrook, pp. 241-3 (Plates 7-9).
A quarto miscellany of Restoration verse, prose and dramatic works, in a single cursive predominantly italic hand, 417 pages.
c.1670s-80s.Formerly Princeton General MSS Misc AM 14401.
This MS discussed in A.S.G. Edwards, Libertine Literature in Restoration England: Princeton MS AM 14401, BC, 25 (Autumn 1976), 354-68, and in PBSA (1977).
Copy, without a title-page but with a prologue headed Prologue To Sodom & Gomorah by Bolloxinian
.
First published (?) at Antwerp
[i.e. London], (?)1684. The only known extant early printed exemplum is a probably early 18th-century octavo entitled Sodom, or the Gentleman Instructed. A Comedy. By the E. of R., sold at Sotheby's 16 December 2004, lot 54 (with facsimile pages in the sale catalogue), now in private ownership; reprinted in colour facsimile (Berlin: Antiquariat Ars Amandi, [2005]).
Edited from MS copies as Rochester's Sodom, ed. L.S.A.M. von Römer (Paris, 1904), and as Sodom (Olympia Press, Paris, [1957]). Love, pp. 302-33, in his Appendix Roffensis.
Of uncertain authorship. For discussions of authorship and texts, see notably Rodney M. Blaine, Rochester or Fishbourne: A Question of Authorship, RES, 22 (1946), 201-6; James Thorpe, New Manuscripts of Sodom, Princeton University Library Chronicle, 13 (Autumn 1951), 40-1; A.S.G. Edwards, Libertine Literature in Restoration England: Princeton MS AM 14401, BC, 25 (Autumn 1976), 354-68, and The Authorship of Sodom, PBSA, 71 (1977), 208-12; Larry Carver, The Texts and The Text of Sodom, PBSA, 73 (1979), 19-40; John D. Patterson, Does Otway ascribe Sodom to Rochester?, N&Q, 225 (August 1980), 349-51; J.W. Johnson, Did Lord Rochester Write Sodom?, PBSA, 81 (1987), 101-53; and Nicholas D. Nace, Some New Light on Sodom, BC, 63 (Winter 2014), 557-67.
Copy of a variant version, with an epilogue.
First published (?) at Antwerp
[i.e. London], (?)1684. The only known extant early printed exemplum is a probably early 18th-century octavo entitled Sodom, or the Gentleman Instructed. A Comedy. By the E. of R., sold at Sotheby's 16 December 2004, lot 54 (with facsimile pages in the sale catalogue), now in private ownership; reprinted in colour facsimile (Berlin: Antiquariat Ars Amandi, [2005]).
Edited from MS copies as Rochester's Sodom, ed. L.S.A.M. von Römer (Paris, 1904), and as Sodom (Olympia Press, Paris, [1957]). Love, pp. 302-33, in his Appendix Roffensis.
Of uncertain authorship. For discussions of authorship and texts, see notably Rodney M. Blaine, Rochester or Fishbourne: A Question of Authorship, RES, 22 (1946), 201-6; James Thorpe, New Manuscripts of Sodom, Princeton University Library Chronicle, 13 (Autumn 1951), 40-1; A.S.G. Edwards, Libertine Literature in Restoration England: Princeton MS AM 14401, BC, 25 (Autumn 1976), 354-68, and The Authorship of Sodom, PBSA, 71 (1977), 208-12; Larry Carver, The Texts and The Text of Sodom, PBSA, 73 (1979), 19-40; John D. Patterson, Does Otway ascribe Sodom to Rochester?, N&Q, 225 (August 1980), 349-51; J.W. Johnson, Did Lord Rochester Write Sodom?, PBSA, 81 (1987), 101-53; and Nicholas D. Nace, Some New Light on Sodom, BC, 63 (Winter 2014), 557-67.
Copy.
A lampoon sometimes called The Gamball or a dreame of ye Grand Caball. First published in A Second Collection of the Newest and Most Ingenious Poems, Satyrs, Songs, &c. (London, 1689). Edited in POAS, I (1963), pp. 191-203, as possibly by John Ayloffe. Ascribed to Marvell in two MS copies (
Copy.
This MS collated in part in A.S.G. Edwards and R.M. Schuler, New Texts of Marvell's Satires, SB, 30 (1977), 180-5 (pp. 182-4).
First published in A Collection of Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1689). Margoliouth, I, 194-9, as of doubtful authorship. POAS, I, 228-36, attributed to John Ayloffe. See also George deF. Lord, Satire and Sedition: The Life and Work of John Ayloffe, HLQ, 29 (1965-6), 255-73 (p. 258).
Copy, headed New Instruccons to a painter
.
First published in Directions to a Painter…Of Sir Iohn Denham ([London], 1667). POAS, I, 140-6, as anonymous. Recorded in Osborne, pp. 33-5, as anonymous. Regarded as anonymous in Margoliouth, I, 348-50.
Copy, headed A copy of verses presented to ye K:
.
Edited from this MS in Love. Recorded in Vieth and in Walker.
First published in Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1704). Vieth, pp. 60-1. Walker, pp. 74-5. Love (five versions), pp. 85-6, 86-7, 88, 89-90, 90. The manuscript texts discussed, with detailed collations, in Harold Love, Rochester's I' th' isle of Britain: Decoding a Textual Tradition, EMS, 6 (1997), 175-223.
Copy, headed Advice to a Painter
.
This MS collated in part in A.S.G. Edwards and R.M. Schuler, New Texts of Marvell's Satires, SB, 30 (1977), 180-5 (pp. 181-2).
First published in Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1697). Margoliouth, I, 176-7. POAS, I, 163-7. Recorded in Osborne, pp. 38-9. Rejected from the canon by Lord and the authorship considered doubtful by Chernaik, pp. 211-12.
Copy.
First published, among The Delights of the Muses, in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, pp. 185-6.
Copy, headed On ye Dukes-children
.
First published with Directions to a Painter…Of Sir Iohn Denham ([London], 1667). Margoliouth, I, 147. Rejected from the canon by Lord and also by Chernaik, p. 211.
Copy, headed Vpon Blood's attempt of borrowing ye Crowne
.
This MS collated in part in A.S.G. Edwards and R.M. Schuler, New Texts of Marvell's Satires, SB, 30 (1977), 180-5 (p. 181).
First published in Thompson (1776), I, xxxix. Margoliouth, I, 178. Lord, p. 249. Smith, p. 414, with English translation.
Copy, headed Translacon
.
This MS collated in part in A.S.G. Edwards and R.M. Schuler, New Texts of Marvell's Satires, SB, 30 (1977), 180-5 (p. 181).
First published as a separate poem in Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1697). POAS, I, 78. Lord, p. 193. Smith, p. 414.
This poem also appears as lines 178-85 of The Loyal Scot (see
Copy, headed An ancient prophecy of NostrDam's written originally in french and English't thus
.
This MS collated in part in A.S.G. Edwards and R.M. Schuler, New Texts of Marvell's Satires, SB, 30 (1977), 180-5 (p. 182).
First published in A Collection of Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1689). Margoliouth, I, 178-9, as of doubtful authorship. POAS, I, 185-9 (first part only as possibly by John Ayloffe). Rejected from the canon by Lord.
Copy.
This MS collated in Thorpe.
First published in The New Academy of Complements (London, 1669). Thorpe, p. 1.
Copy, headed To ye same
[i.e. a very young lady].
First published in The New Academy of Complements (London, 1671). Miscellaneous Works (London, 1702). The Works of the Honourable Sir Charles Sedley, Bat (2 vols, London, 1722), I, 62-3. Sola Pinto, I, 22.
An indenture signed by both Rochester and his wife Elizabeth, leasing lands in Bishop's Lydeard, Somerset, to John Winter, 29 July 1672.
1672.Sotheby's, 18 July 1973, lot 163.
Photograph in the British Library, RP 989 (2). Formerly Gen. MSS. Misc. No. AM 21597.
Autograph letter signed by Waller, to [? Sir Richard Browne], 10 May 1652.
1652.Formerly John Wild Autograph Collection, Leaf 92.
Autograph annotations and marginalia.
Recorded in 1979 as being in a Private Collection, United States
.
Stern, p. 214.
An exemplum bearing the inscription, in an unidentified hand, Ex libris Johannis Miltonii
.
Possibly owned by Milton the poet, but lacking any sign of his own hand by way of corroboration.
1635.Recorded in LR, I, 292;, and in Boswell, No. 36.
Autograph annotations.
W. H. Robinson's sale catalogue No. 55 (1935), item 51.
Stern, p. 229 (as in a Private collection, United States
).
Copious autograph annotations.
Owned in 1990 by Lucius Wilmerding, Jr and on deposit at Princeton University.
Stern, p. 225 (as in a Private collection, United States
). Discussed in Lisa Jardine and Anthony Grafton, Studied for Action
: How Gabriel Harvey Read his Livy, Past and Present, No. 129 (1990), 1-78. Facsimile examples in Anthony T. Grafton, Gabriel Harvey's Marginalia: New Light on the Cultural History of Elizabethan England, Princeton University Library Chronicle, 52/1 (Autumn 1990, 21-4.
Autograph annotations and marginalia.
Maggs's sale catalogue No. 505 (1928), item 1475, with a facsimile of the title-page as Plate LXII.
Stern, p. 227 (as in a Private collection, United States
).
Autograph signatures and annotations.
Formerly owned by Lucius Wilmerding, Princeton.
Stern, p. 236 (as in a Private collection, United States
).
Autograph annotations on the final blank page, occasional marginalia, and Harvey's signature (Gabrielis Harvey
) on the title-page, an octavo in later leather.
Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1787-1843), book collector. Sotheby's, 3 March 1845, lot 818, and 15 June 1858, lot 778. Puttick & Simpson's, 14 July 1862, lot 130; 16 June 1863, lot 365; and 14 May 1866, lot 1311. W. H. Robinson's sale catalogue No. 77 (1948), item 75, with a facsimile of the title-page in the catalogue.
Stern, p. 205. Recorded in W. Carew Hazlitt, Gabriel Harvey, N&Q, 3/10 (10 November 1866), p. 371.
Autograph annotations on the final blank page, occasional marginalia, and Harvey's signature (gabrielhauejus
) on the title-page, an octavo in later morocco.
Item 123 in an unidentified sale catalogue. In the collection of Robert H. Taylor (1908-85), American book and manuscript collector.
Stern, pp. 204-5.
A large-paper printed exemplum of the first edition (1596) of A new discovrse of a stale svbiect called the matamorphosis of Aiax, inscribed on the title-page in red ink Seen and dissalowed
, dated (on the verso of the title-page) 3 August 1596.
Five loosely inserted pages of notes in the hand of Isaac Reed (1742-1807), literary editor and book collector. Later owned by Richard Heber (1774-1833), book collector. In the Britwell Court Library of William Henry Christie Miller, MP (1789-1848) and Samuel Christie Miller, MP (1810-89), at Burnham, Buckinghamshire. Sold by John R. B. Brett-Smith (1917-2003), publisher and bookseller. In the collection of Robert H. Taylor (1908-85), American book and manuscript collector.
This volume described in William Beloe, Anecdotes of Literature and Scarce Books, 2 vols (London, 1814), II, 372-84. Also recorded in Proceedings and Papers of the Oxford Bibliographical Society, 2 (1927-30), 212.
Harington's autograph marginal annotations and additions throughout, including his autograph dedication to his uncle Thomas Markham.
First published in London, 1596. Edited by Elizabeth Story Donno (New York, 1962).
Copy, in an unidentified hand, headed An Epigram of the Book - Hanging in Cheyns. To the Lady
, here beginning Fair Dames yf any took in scorn or spite
.
First published in 1618, Book I, No. 44. McClure No. 45, p. 165. Kilroy, Book I, No. 86, p. 124.
Copy, in an unidentified hand, headed Epilogue
and here beginning They that of dainty food make deer prouision
.
First published in 1618, Book I, No. 45. McClure No. 46, p. 165. Kilroy, Book I, No. 87, p. 124.
Twenty-nine quarto leaves of MS verse, bound up before and after a printed exemplum of Pseudo-Boethius, De disciplina scholarium cum notabili commento (Deventer, 1496), in contemporary blind-stamped calf.
In the hand of one John Symson, who also inscribes the first page liber ioannus symson dmi xxi
.
Also inscribed on the first page Wm Herbert 1774
: i.e. William Herbert (1718-95), bibliographer and print seller. Later in the library of Richard Heber (1774-1833), book collector. In the collection of Robert H. Taylor (1908-85), American book and manuscript collector.
Copy of a longer version, in the hand of John Symson, in black and red ink, subscribed Explicit J Skelton
.
This MS collated in Dyce. Edited in Walter De Gray Birch, A New Poem by John Skelton, Athenaeum (29 November 1873), p. 697.
Skelton wrote a Wofully araid but it is uncertain whether his version can be identified with any extant poem incorporating these words: see Canon, L118, pp. 32-3. First published in Sir John Hawkins, General History of the Science and Practice of Music (London, 1776), III, 2. Dyce (1843), I, 141-3.
Copy.
Edited from this MS in Flügel.
Canon, R68, p. 22. Edited in Ewald Flügel, Liedersammlungen des XVI. Skelton, Athenaeum (29 November 1873), p. 697.
An extensive series of autograph corrections and revisions, made possibly in preparation for the first authorized printed edition (1643), on 84 pages of a portion (pp. 49-190) of a printed exemplum of the first, unauthorized, octavo edition (1642), disbound.
c.1643.In the collection of Robert H. Taylor (1908-85), American book and manuscript collector.
A microfilm of this volume is in the British Library, RP 2300.
First published (unauthorized edition) [in London], 1642. Authorized edition published [in London], 1643. Wilkin, II, 1-158. Keynes, I, 1-93. Edited by Jean-Jacques Denonain (Cambridge, 1953). Martin, pp. 1-80. Endicott, pp. 1-89.
MS verse, in an italic hand, written in a printed exemplum of Donne's Deaths Dvell (London, 1633), in modern half-leather.
c.1633-40.In the collection of Robert H. Taylor (1908-85), American book and manuscript collector.
Copy, headed Ode
, subscribed J. D.
First published in John Donne, Poems (London, 1635). The Poems of John Donne, ed. Herbert J.C. Grierson (Oxford, 1912), I, 350. Moore Smith, pp. 119-20.
Copy, on the verso of the printed frontispiece.
First published in Poems (1635). Grierson, I, 368-9. Gardner, Divine Poems, p. 50. Shawcross, No. 192.
Copy, headed His parting from his mistress
.
First published, in a 42-line version as Elegie XIIII
, in Poems (London, 1635). Published complete (104 lines) in Poems (London, 1669). Grierson, I, 100-4 (as Elegie XII). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 96-100 (among her Dubia). Shawcross, No. 21. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 332-4 (with versions printed in 1635 and 1669 on pp. 335-6 and 336-8 respectively).
An exemplum signed by Walton on the title-page.
c.1627.Facsimile of the inscribed title-page in Robert H. Taylor Collection, Princeton University Library Chronicle, 38 (1977), Plate 8, after p. 96.
An exemplum of the printed edition of 1633, marked up as a prompt-book probably for a theatre production in the Restoration.
Late 17th century.A.S.W. Rosenbach's sale catalogue of English plays to 1700 (1940), item 204.
Recorded in Bentley, Jacobean & Caroline Stage, III, 464.
First published in London, 1633.
An exemplum of the printed edition of Katherine Philips's Poems (London, 1664), with MS additions in an unidentified cursive hand, including additional titles in The Table
for pages 243-7 which are not present in the volume.
Inscribed John ffreeman
on the title-page.
The text for line 12, printed as a row of asterisks, added in MS (possibly from the 1667 edition of the Poems).
First published in Poems (1664), pp. 9-10. Poems (1667), p. 5. Saintsbury, p. 509. Hageman (1987), p. 585. Thomas, I, 73, poem 4.
The text for line 26, printed as a row of asterisks, added in MS (possibly from the 1667 edition of the Poems).
First published in Poems (1664), pp. 29-31. Poems (1667), pp. 14-15. Saintsbury, pp. 515-16. Hageman (1987), pp. 586-7. Thomas, I, 83-4, poem 12.
The text for line 6, printed as a row of asterisks, added in MS (possibly from the 1667 edition of the Poems).
First published in Poems (1664), pp. 52-4. Poems (1667), pp. 26-7. Saintsbury, pp. 522-3. Hageman (1987), p. 590-1. Thomas, I, 95-6, poem 20.
MS copy.
First published in Poems (1667), p. 184. Saintsbury, p. 604. Thomas, III, 92.
MS copy.
First published in Poems (1667), pp. 130. Saintsbury, p. 559. Thomas, I, 201, poem 84.
MS copy.
First published in Poems (1667), pp. 130-1. Saintsbury, pp. 579-80. Thomas, I, 201-2, poem 85.
MS copy.
First published in Poems (1667), p. 136. Saintsbury, p. 583. Thomas, I, 207-8, poem 90.
MS copy, lacking the last four lines.
First published in Poems (1667), pp. 126-7. Saintsbury, pp. 577-8. Thomas, I, 197-8, poem 80.
A printed exemplum inscribed by Walton for Mrs Anne King.
c.1678.A printed exemplum inscribed by Walton for Mr Danvers.
c.1670.A printed exemplum with Wycherley's autograph inscription For his much esteem'd and honourd Friend, Sr George Browne, from his humble Servant, W: Wycherley
.
Bookplate of John Sheepshanks, 1852. American Art Association, New York, 1 January 1938 (Joseph B. Shea sale, Pt II), lot 458.
A printed exemplum with Wycherley's autograph inscription For Sr Brocas Gardiner…
.
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.
Copy, in two cursive hands, entitled A Short view of the state of Ireland from the yeare 1640 to the yeare 1652
, 203 folio pages, followed (pp. [204-25]) by a tract on the trial of Mr Mordaunt in yet another cursive hand, in contemporary calf.
Formerly Princeton AM 2002-18. In the collection of Robert H. Taylor (1908-85), American book and manuscript collector.
A set of photocopies is in British Library, RP 4683 (1).
First published in Dublin, 1719-20. Published in London, 1720. Incorporated into the 1816, 1826 and 1849 editions of The History of the Rebellion. Reprinted as Vol. II of A Collection of Several Valuable Pieces of Clarendon (2 vols, London, 1727).
A folio miscellany of poems on affairs of state, including twelve poems in the Marvell canon (plus prose and apocryphal poems), in probably a single professional hand with variations of style (but for another hand on pp. 189-92), 192 pages (plus over 90 blank leaves and an Index), in modern red morocco.
The predominant hand in the MS is the same as that in
In the collection of Robert H. Taylor (1908-85), American book and manuscript collector. Formerly Restoration poetry MS 1.
Cited in IELM as the Taylor MS
:
Copy, as supposed to be Written by Sr: J: Denham
.
This MS collated in POAS, I.
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.
Copy.
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.
Copy, headed The Fourth Advice or The New Instructions to a Painter
.
This MS collated in POAS, I.
First published in Directions to a Painter…Of Sir Iohn Denham ([London], 1667). POAS, I, 140-6, as anonymous. Recorded in Osborne, pp. 33-5, as anonymous. Regarded as anonymous in Margoliouth, I, 348-50.
Copy, headed The House warming to the Chancellor
.
This MS collated in POAS, I.
First published with Directions to a Painter…Of Sir John Denham ([London], 1667). Margoliouth, I, 143-6. POAS, I, 88-96. Lord, pp. 144-51. Smith, pp. 358-61.
Copy.
This MS collated in POAS, I.
First published [in London], 1679. A Collection of Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1689), as by A-M-l, Esq
. Thompson III, 399-403. Margoliouth, I, 214-18, as by Henry Savile. POAS, I, 213-19, as anonymous. Recorded in Osborne, pp. 40-2, as by Henry Savile.
Copy, headed Upon Sr Robert Viners setting up the Kings Statue
.
This MS collated in POAS, I.
First published in A Collection of Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1689). Margoliouth, I, 188-90. POAS, I, 266-9. Lord, pp. 193-6. Smith, pp. 416-17.
Copy.
A lampoon sometimes called The Gamball or a dreame of ye Grand Caball. First published in A Second Collection of the Newest and Most Ingenious Poems, Satyrs, Songs, &c. (London, 1689). Edited in POAS, I (1963), pp. 191-203, as possibly by John Ayloffe. Ascribed to Marvell in two MS copies (
Copy.
This MS collated in POAS, I.
First published in The Second Part of the Collection of Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1689). Margoliouth, I, 190-4. POAS, I, 237-42. Lord, pp. 196-201, as Upon the Citye's going in a body….
Copy, with (p. 85) The Answer.
This MS collated in POAS, I.
First published in Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1704). Margoliouth, I, 201-8. POAS, I, 252-62. Rejected from the canon by Lord.
Copy, headed On King Charles ye First his Statue Why it is soe long before it is put up at Chareing crosse
.
This MS collated in POAS, I.
First published in Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1698). Margoliouth, I, 199-201. POAS, I, 270-3. Lord, pp. 201-4. Smith, pp. 418-19.
Copy.
This MS collated in POAS, I.
First published in The Second Part of the Collection of Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1689). Margoliouth, I, 208-13, as probably Marvell's
. POAS, I, 274-83, as anonymous. Rejected from the canon by Lord.
Copy, headed The History of the Tymes
.
See Vivian de Sola Pinto in The History of Insipids: Rochester, Freke, and Marvell, MLR, 65 (1970), 11-15 (and see also Walker, p. xvii). Rejected by Vieth, by Walker, and by Love.
Copy.
This MS collated in POAS, I.
First published in A Collection of Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1689). Margoliouth, I, 194-9, as of doubtful authorship. POAS, I, 228-36, attributed to John Ayloffe. See also George deF. Lord, Satire and Sedition: The Life and Work of John Ayloffe, HLQ, 29 (1965-6), 255-73 (p. 258).
Copy, headed Satyr
.
This MS recorded in Vieth and in Walker.
First published in Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1704). Vieth, pp. 60-1. Walker, pp. 74-5. Love (five versions), pp. 85-6, 86-7, 88, 89-90, 90. The manuscript texts discussed, with detailed collations, in Harold Love, Rochester's I' th' isle of Britain: Decoding a Textual Tradition, EMS, 6 (1997), 175-223.
Copy.
Sometimes called Upon the cutting of Sr John Coventry's nose. First published in Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1704). Thompson, I, xxxix-xli (from Marvell's writing
). Grosart, I, 456-8. Edited in POAS, I (1963), 168-71, as doubtfully by Marvell.
Copy, headed On Bloods stealing ye Crowne
.
This MS collated in POAS, I.
First published as a separate poem in Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1697). POAS, I, 78. Lord, p. 193. Smith, p. 414.
This poem also appears as lines 178-85 of The Loyal Scot (see
Copy, headed Satyr
.
This MS recorded in Vieth; collated in Walker.
First published in Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1704). Vieth, pp. 46-7. Walker, pp. 68-9, as Lampoone. Love, p. 42, as Lampoone by the Earle of Rochester.
Copy, headed His Majesties Speech
.
A mock speech, beginning I told you last meeting the winter was the fittest time for business...
. First published, and ascribed to Marvell, in Poems on Affairs of State, Vol. III (London, 1704). Cooke, II, Carmina Miscellanea, pp. 36-43. Grosart, II, 431-3. Augustine Birrell, Andrew Marvell (London, 1905), pp. 200-2. Discussed in Legouis, p. 470, and in Kelliher, pp. 111-12.
Copy, headed Upon Oliver Cromwell late Lord Protector. By John Dryden
.
First published in Three Poems Upon the Death of his late Highnesse Oliver Lord Protector of England, Scotland and Ireland (London, 1659). Kinsley, I, 6-12. California, I, 11-16. Hammond & Hopkins, I, 18-29.
Copy, headed On ye same Subject: By Mr Waller
.
First published as a broadside (London, [1658]). Three Poems upon the Death of his late Highnesse Oliver Lord Protector (London, 1659). As Upon the late Storm, and Death of the late Usurper O. C. in The Second Part of Mr. Waller's Poems (London, 1690). The Maid's Tragedy Altered (London, 1690). Thorn-Drury, II, 34-5.
Copy.
This MS collated in Mengel.
First published, as Hodge a Countryman went up to the Piramid, His Vision
, in A Collection of Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1689), p. 5. Sometimes called Hodge's Vision from the Monument, [December, 1675]. Cooke, II, Carmina Miscellanea, pp. 81-8. Thompson, III, 359-65. Grosart, I, 435-40. Poems on Affairs of State: Augustan Satirical Verse, 1660-1714, Volume II: 1678-1681, ed. Elias F. Mengel, Jr (New Haven & London, 1965), pp. 146-53.
First attributed to Marvell in Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1697), but probably written in 1679, after Marvell's death.
Copy, headed The Lord Rochesters farewell
and here beginning Fill'd wth ye noisome folly of the Age
.
This MS (or
First published in A Third Collection of the Newest and Most Ingenious Poems, Satyrs, Songs &c (London, 1689). POAS, II (1965), 217-27. Discussed and Dorset's authorship rejected in Harris, pp. 190-2. The poem is noted by Alexander Pope as being probably by the Ld Dorset
in Pope's exemplum of A New Collection of Poems Relating to State Affairs (London, 1705),
Copy, headed A Satyr on the Parsons
.
This MS collated (as No. 2
) in Harris.
Unpublished. Discussed in Harris, pp. 189-90.
A folio miscellany of poems on affairs of state, in a single professional rounded hand, entitled A Collection of Choyce Poems, Lampoons, and Satyrs from 1673 to 1689. Never Extant in Print
, 335 pages (plus a Table of contents and blanks), in modern red morocco.
In the collection of Robert H. Taylor (1908-85), American book and manuscript collector. Formerly Restoration poetry MS 2.
This MS collated in POAS, I.
Copy, headed Dildoides. By the Author of Hudibras, 1673
.
Dated in some sources 1672 but not published until 1706.
Copy, headed Earle of Rochesters Conference with a Post Boy
. This MS in the same hand as
This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution; collated in Walker.
First published, in shortened form, in Johannes Prinz, Rochesteriana (Leipzig, 1926), p. 56. Vieth, pp. 130-1. Walker, p. 103. Love, pp. 42-3.
Copy, as By E: of Rochester. 1673
.
This MS recorded in Vieth and in Walker.
First published in Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1704). Vieth, pp. 54-9. Walker, pp. 75-8.
The poem discussed, texts collated, and the attribution to Rochester questioned, in Harold Love, A Restoration Lampoon in Transmission and Revision: Rochester's(?) Signior Dildo, SB, 46 (1993), 250-62. Love (two versions and added stanzas), pp. 248-9, 250-2, 252-3, 253-7, among Disputed Works.
Copy, without The Answer, headed The Chequer Inne...By Mr H: Savile. 1674
First published in Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1704). Margoliouth, I, 201-8. POAS, I, 252-62. Rejected from the canon by Lord.
Copy of the later version of lines 149-52.
First published in Englands Heroicall Epistles (London, 1599). Hebel, II, 147-52.
Lines 149-52 (beginning Th' Arabian Bird, that never is but one
) later published in a version beginning 'Tis the Arabian bird alone
, attributed to John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, in Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1703), p. 191.
Copy, ascribed to Mrs Behn
.
Ascribed to Aphra Behn in
Copy, the poem dated 1682.
This MS collated in Thorpe.
First published in Miscellaneous Works, Written by…Buckingham, Vol. I (London, 1704). Thorpe, pp. 62-4.
Copy, headed On K. William. By Ld Dorset. occasion'd by his deliverance from the Barbarous Assassinacon
.
This MS collated in Harris.
First published in Harris (1979), pp 61-2.
Copy, the poem here dated 1686/7
.
This MS collated in POAS and in Harris.
First published in The Works of the Earls of Rochester, Roscommon, and Dorset (London, 1707). POAS, IV (1968), 189-214. Harris, pp. 136-67.
A quarto miscellany of poems on affairs of state, largely in a single hand, 304 pages (plus an Index and blanks), in contemporary calf.
c.1680s-90s.Sotheby's, 21-22 April 1958, lot 397, to Seven Gables bookshop. In the collection of Robert H. Taylor (1908-85), American book and manuscript collector. Formerly Restoration poetry MS 3.
A microfilm of this volume is in the British Library, M/546.
Copy, headed A Duell betwixt 2 Monsters upon my Lady Bettys Cunt wth ye Chainge of Government from Monarchical to Democratical
.
This MS collated in Harris (as No. 1
).
First published, ascribed to Henry Savile, in The Annual Miscellany: for the year 1694 (London, 1694). Harris, pp. 118-23.
Copy.
This MS colated (as No. 1
) in Harris.
First published in Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1697). POAS, II (1965), 167-75. Harris, pp. 124-35.
Copy.
A satire written in 1675 by John Sheffield, Earl of Mulgrave, but it was widely believed by contemporaries (including later Alexander Pope, who had access to Mulgrave's papers) that Dryden had a hand in it, a belief which led to the notorious assault on him in Rose Alley on 18 December 1679, at the reputed instigation of the Earl of Rochester and/or the Duchess of Portsmouth.
First published in London, 1689. POAS, I (1963), pp. 396-413.
The authorship discussed in Macdonald, pp. 217-19, and see John Burrows, Mulgrave, Dryden, and An Essay upon Satire, in Superior in His Profession: Essays in Memory of Harold Love, ed. Meredith Sherlock, Brian McMullin and Wallace Kirsop, Script & Print, 33 (2009), pp. 76-91, where is it concluded, from stylistic analysis, that Mulgrave had by far the major hand
. Recorded in Hammond & Hopkins, V, 684, in an Index of Poems Excluded from this Edition
.
Copy, here beginning Fild wth ye noise & folly of ye Age
.
This MS (or
First published in A Third Collection of the Newest and Most Ingenious Poems, Satyrs, Songs &c (London, 1689). POAS, II (1965), 217-27. Discussed and Dorset's authorship rejected in Harris, pp. 190-2. The poem is noted by Alexander Pope as being probably by the Ld Dorset
in Pope's exemplum of A New Collection of Poems Relating to State Affairs (London, 1705),
Copy, headed On ye Lord Mayor (Sr Robt: Viner) and ye Court of Aldermen Goeing to Whitehall & presenting the King & Duke a Goulden Box in which were ye Coppies of yr freedome of ye Citty 1674
.
First published in The Second Part of the Collection of Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1689). Margoliouth, I, 190-4. POAS, I, 237-42. Lord, pp. 196-201, as Upon the Citye's going in a body….
Copy, headed The Cronicle
.
See Vivian de Sola Pinto in The History of Insipids: Rochester, Freke, and Marvell, MLR, 65 (1970), 11-15 (and see also Walker, p. xvii). Rejected by Vieth, by Walker, and by Love.
Copy, headed Essay
.
This MS recorded in Vieth.
First published in Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1704). Vieth, pp. 46-7. Walker, pp. 68-9, as Lampoone. Love, p. 42, as Lampoone by the Earle of Rochester.
Copy, headed A Ballet
and here beginning Tho: Religeon's a Pollertick law
.
This MS recorded (as No. 1
) in Harris.
Unpublished. Discussed in Harris, pp. 189-90.
Copy, headed On Sr Rob: Vyners setting up ye Kings Statue in Stocks Markett 1673
.
This MS collated in POAS, I.
First published in A Collection of Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1689). Margoliouth, I, 188-90. POAS, I, 266-9. Lord, pp. 193-6. Smith, pp. 416-17.
Copy, headed Upon ye old Kings statue sett up in Brass at Chareing Cross
.
First published in Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1698). Margoliouth, I, 199-201. POAS, I, 270-3. Lord, pp. 201-4. Smith, pp. 418-19.
Copy, headed A Lampoon on ye Court
.
This MS collated (as No. 1
) in Harris.
First published in A Third Collection of…Poems, Satyrs, Songs (London, 1689). POAS, II (1965), 339-41. Harris, pp. 50-4.
Copy.
First published in The Genius of True English-men (London, 1680). Love, p. 55 (21-line version) and pp. 257-8 (30-line version, among Disputed Works). Also attributed to Robert Wolseley.
Copy, with additions in another hand.
First published [in London], 1679. A Collection of Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1689), as by A-M-l, Esq
. Thompson III, 399-403. Margoliouth, I, 214-18, as by Henry Savile. POAS, I, 213-19, as anonymous. Recorded in Osborne, pp. 40-2, as by Henry Savile.
Copy.
First published in A Collection of Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1689). Margoliouth, I, 194-9, as of doubtful authorship. POAS, I, 228-36, attributed to John Ayloffe. See also George deF. Lord, Satire and Sedition: The Life and Work of John Ayloffe, HLQ, 29 (1965-6), 255-73 (p. 258).
Copy.
First published in The Fourth (and Last) Collection of Poems, Satyrs, Songs, &c. (London, 1689). Margoliouth, I, 218-23, as of doubtful authorship. POAS, II, 154-63, as anonymous. Rejected from the canon by Lord.
Copy, as by ye E: of R. June 30. 75
.
This MS recorded in Vieth; collated in Walker.
First published in Richard Head, Proteus Redivivus: or the Art of Wheedling (London, 1675). Vieth, pp. 73-80. Walker, pp. 69-74. Love, pp. 49-54.
Copy of a slightly abbreviated version, headed A Satyr on ye Hipocracy of Dissentrs by A. Cowley
and here beginning I have bin Sr where so many Puritans dwell
.
First published, as by A. C. Generosus
, in London, 1642. Collected Works, I, pp. 94-101, as The Puritans Lecture. Cowley's authorship uncertain but probable: see Perkin, pp. 25-9.
Copy, headed A Poem made by ye E— R for wch ye K. banisht him.
This MS recorded in Vieth and in Walker.
First published in Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1704). Vieth, pp. 60-1. Walker, pp. 74-5. Love (five versions), pp. 85-6, 86-7, 88, 89-90, 90. The manuscript texts discussed, with detailed collations, in Harold Love, Rochester's I' th' isle of Britain: Decoding a Textual Tradition, EMS, 6 (1997), 175-223.
Copy, headed Roch: to a Post boy
.
This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution, and in Walker.
First published, in shortened form, in Johannes Prinz, Rochesteriana (Leipzig, 1926), p. 56. Vieth, pp. 130-1. Walker, p. 103. Love, pp. 42-3.
Copy, originally headed On a Minument by ye E[arl of] R[ochester]
, this inscription later deleted and Squire Cotton
and In Print
written at the side.
First published in Poems (1689), pp. 354-6. Beresford, p. 283.
Copy, headed A Pastorall between Thirsis & Dorinda
.
First published, in a musical setting by John Gamble, in his Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1659). Miscellaneous Poems (London, 1681). Margoliouth, I, 19-21. Lord, pp. 261-2, as of doubtful authorship. Smith pp. 244-5. The authorship doubted and discussed in Chernaik, pp. 207-8.
Copy, as by ye Authour of ye 1st A.M.
.
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.
Copy, headed On ye Countess of Mack- by ye E. of Dor:
.
This MS collated in POAS and (as No. 1
) in Harris.
First published (among poems of Charles Montagu, Earl of Halifax) in Poems on Affairs of State…Part III (London, 1698). POAS, V (1971), 378-81. Harris, pp. 37-40.
An octavo miscellany of verse and prose, chiefly on affairs of state, including nine poems by Rochester, as well as apocryphal items, in a single small hand, 356 pages (misnumbered in pencil 1-344 and lacking the first few original leaves), in contemporary boards.
Probably compiled by an Anglican cleric (or student before taking orders) associated with Cambridge University.
c.late 1690s-1704.Later owned by John R.B. Brett-Smith (1917-2003), publisher and bookseller. In the collection of Robert H. Taylor (1908-85), American book and manuscript collector. Formerly Restoration poetry MS 5.
Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Cambridge Miscellany MS:
Copy, superscribed By ye E. of Dorset at Bugden. Ordinat. at ye. Mitre in 88 -- written wth a coal on ye Wall
.
A twelve-line poem. Unpublished?
Copy of a version headed An Epitaph on K. Ch: 2d by Ld Rochester
and beginning Here lies our prettie wittie King
.
First published, in a version headed Posted on White-Hall-Gate and beginning Here lives a Great and Mighty Monarch
, in The Miscellaneous Works of the Right Honourable the Late Earls of Rochester and Roscommon (London, 1707). Vieth, p. 134. Walker, p. 122, as [On King Charles].
See Vivian de Sola Pinto in The History of Insipids: Rochester, Freke, and Marvell, MLR, 65 (1970), 11-15 (and see also Walker, p. xvii).
See Vivian de Sola Pinto in The History of Insipids: Rochester, Freke, and Marvell, MLR, 65 (1970), 11-15 (and see also Walker, p. xvii). Rejected by Vieth, by Walker, and by Love.
Copy, headed A Letter fancyd from Artemisia in ye Town to Cloe in the Country
.
First published, as a broadside, in London, 1679. Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp
, 1680). Vieth, pp. 104-12. Walker, pp. 83-90. Love, pp. 63-70.
Copy, here beginning Poets of late such monstrous Fools' have shown
.
First published in Sir George Etherege, The Man of Mode: or, Sr Fopling Flutter (London, 1676). Kinsley, I, 158-9. California, I, 154-5. Vinton A. Dearing, A Manual of Textual Analysis (Berkeley & Los Angeles, 1959), pp. 69-72. Danchin, II, 705 et seq. Hammond & Hopkins, I, 301-3.
Copy, headed An Epistolary Essay from M.B. to O.G. upon their mutuall Poems
, subscribed Rochester.
Edited in part from this MS in Love.
First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp
, 1680). Vieth, pp. 144-7. Walker, pp. 107-9. Love, pp. 98-101.
Copy, headed On Sr. Robert Vyners erecting the Kings Statue
.
First published in A Collection of Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1689). Margoliouth, I, 188-90. POAS, I, 266-9. Lord, pp. 193-6. Smith, pp. 416-17.
Copy, headed A Satyr on Man
, subscribed Rochester
.
First published (lines 1-173) as a broadside, A Satyr against Mankind [London, 1679]. Complete, with supplementary lines 174-221 (beginning All this with indignation have I hurled
) in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp
, 1680). Vieth, pp. 94-101. Walker, pp. 91-7, as Satyr. Love, pp. 57-63.
The text also briefly discussed in Kristoffer F. Paulson, A Question of Copy-Text: Rochester's A Satyr against Reason and Mankind, N&Q, 217 (May 1972), 177-8. Some texts followed by one or other of three different Answer poems (two sometimes ascribed to Edward Pococke or Mr Griffith and Thomas Lessey: see Vieth, Attribution, pp. 178-9).
Copy, headed The maim'd Debauchee / The E. of Rochester to his Companions when he lay sick
, subscribed Rochester
.
First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp
, 1680). Vieth, pp. 116-17. Walker, pp. 97-9. Love, pp. 44-5.
Copy, headed A Satyr made by Mr Abraham Cowley
and here beginning I have been Sr where so many Puritan's dwell
.
First published, as by A. C. Generosus
, in London, 1642. Collected Works, I, pp. 94-101, as The Puritans Lecture. Cowley's authorship uncertain but probable: see Perkin, pp. 25-9.
Copy, headed Rochesters Translation of part of the Chorus of the 2d Act of Seneca's Troas; post Mortem &c
.
First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp
, 1680). Vieth, pp. 150-1. Walker, p. 51. Love, pp. 45-5, as Senec. Troas. Act. 2. Chor. Thus English'd by a Person of Honour.
Copy, as By Rochester
.
First published, as a broadside, [in London, 1679]. Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp
, 1680). Vieth, pp. 118-20. Walker, pp. 62-4. Harold Love, The Text of Rochester's Upon Nothing, Centre for Bibliographical and Textual Studies, Monash University, Occasional Papers 1 (1985). Love, pp. 46-8.
Copy, untitled, subscribed By Rochester
.
First published, in shortened form, in Johannes Prinz, Rochesteriana (Leipzig, 1926), p. 56. Vieth, pp. 130-1. Walker, p. 103. Love, pp. 42-3.
Copy.
First published in Miscellaneous Works (London, 1702). Sola Pinto, I, 46-7.
Copy.
First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp
, 1680). Vieth, pp. 161-2. Walker, pp. 127-8, among Poems Possibly by Rochester. Love, p. 247, among Disputed Works.
Copy, in a mixed hand, headed A Poem to the King's most Sacred Majesty. by Sr William Dauenant. 1663
, 22 quarto pages, in modern calf gilt.
In the collection of Robert H. Taylor (1908-85), American book and manuscript collector.
First published in Madagascar (1638). Gibbs, pp. 90-1.
Copy of an early version, in two neat secretary hands, with lines added in the margin of f. 19r in the first hand, 45 folio pages of text, lacking a title, disbound.
c.1609.Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 13 November 1968, lot 86. In the collection of Robert H. Taylor (1908-85), American book and manuscript collector.
This MS recorded in Wilkes, II, 463-4.
An early version first published in London, 1609. A later version first published in Certaine Learned and Elegant Workes (London, 1633). Bullough, II, 63-137. Wilkes, I, 210-97.
Copy of a 581-stanza version, in a single small mixed hand, untitled and here beginning I sing thy sad disaster fatall King
, subscribed finis Infortunio
, followed by a poem on five pages in another secretary hand headed Vpon the death of a Pigeon slaine by a fowler on a plowed land in an Aprill eueninge 1615
, beginning Yee Joue begotten graces yt can reare
, and subscribed in a cursive hand Garnet Maners
, the octavo pages all unnumbered, in old red morocco blind-stamped.
Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), book and manuscript collector: Phillipps MS 9185. In the collection of Robert H. Taylor (1908-85), American book and manuscript collector.
First published, in an unauthorized edition as The Deplorable Life and Death of Edward the Second. Together with the Downefall of the two Unfortunate Favorits, Gavestone and Spencer. Storied in an Excellent Pöem, London, 1628. First authorized edition, as The Historie of Edward the Second, Surnamed Carnarvan, one of our English Kings. Together with the Fatall down-fall of his two vnfortunate Favorites Gaveston and Spencer, London, 1629. An edition of a 576-stanza version in three cantos, entitled The Life of Edward II, was printed in London 1721 from an unidentified MS.
Mellor, pp. 4-169 (664-stanza version, headed The Life and Death of Edward the Second, including The Authors Preface beginning Rebellious thoughts why doe you tumult so
?).
Autograph MS of My Booke of Remembrance
, closely written in Isham's italic hand, untitled, 38 quarto leaves, in modern cloth-backed marbled boards.
Bequeathed to Elizabeth Isham's brother, Sir Justinian Isham, second Baronet (1611-65), scholar and politician, and his children. In the collection of Robert H. Taylor (1908-85), American book and manuscript collector.
Discussed in Anne Cotterill, Fit Words at the pitts brinke
: The Achievement of Elizabeth Isham, HLQ, 73/2 (2010), 225-48.
An autobiography modeled on St Augustine's Confessions. Transcription of
A quarto volume comprising A Forest of Varieties by Dudley North, third Baron North, in the italic hand of an amanuensis with North's autograph corrections and revisions, 85 pages (plus blanks), in contemporary limp vellum gilt.
c.1640s.Inscribed inside the front cover Given to V. A. N. by her Father-in-law Lord North Aug 1932
. In the collection of Robert H. Taylor (1908-85), American book and manuscript collector.
Copy, with a correction in darker ink, untitled.
First published in Dudley North, A Forest of Varieties (1645). Poems (1660), pp. 26-7, superscribed P.
. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition
and as by Dudley North, third Baron North.
Copy, with corrections in darker ink, untitled.
Poems (1660), pp. 33-4, superscribed P.
. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition
. This poem is by Dudley North, third Baron North. First published in North's A Forest of Varieties (1645), p. 46.
Copy, in a professional rounded hand, 79 folio leaves, in olive green morocco gilt.
c.1660s.In the collection of Robert H. Taylor (1908-85), American book and manuscript collector.
First performed on the London stage 13 August 1664. First published London, 1668. Clark, I, 165-224.
Copy, including a Prologue and Epilogue, in a professional rounded hand, with corrections, emendations and deletions in another hand, 125 folio leaves, in contemporary red morocco gilt.
c.1660s.Inscribed on a flyleaf Ex dono J. Anstis Garter King at Arms
: i.e. John Anstis (1669-1744), antiquary. Bookplate of Thomas Morell, DD, FRS, FSA (1703-84), classical scholar and librettist. Later in the collection of Robert H. Taylor (1908-85), American book and manuscript collector.
First performed on the London stage 10 October 1667. First published London, 1669. Clark, I, 305-72.
An octavo miscellany of poems on affairs of state, largely in one small neat hand, with additions (pp. 71-5 plus 20 pages at the reverse end) in later hands c.1709, 95 pages (plus numerous blanks), in contemporary vellum gilt.
c.1680-1700s.A label: Sold by Robert Paske Stationer in the Piatza on ye North side of the Royal Exchange London
.
This volume is probably that sold at Sotheby's, 1 March 1871 (Sir John Simeon sale, 7th day), lot 1675, to Quaritch, and probably item 1279 in Dobell's sale catalogue The Literature of the Restoration (1918). In the collection of Robert H. Taylor (1908-85), American book and manuscript collector. Restoration poetry MS 4.
Copy, headed Rawley's Ghost
.
First published in A Collection of Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1689). Margoliouth, I, 194-9, as of doubtful authorship. POAS, I, 228-36, attributed to John Ayloffe. See also George deF. Lord, Satire and Sedition: The Life and Work of John Ayloffe, HLQ, 29 (1965-6), 255-73 (p. 258).
Copy, headed On ye Lord Mayor & Court of Aldermen presenting ye K & ye D: of York each wth a Copy of their freedome. 1674. Vyner Mayor
.
First published in The Second Part of the Collection of Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1689). Margoliouth, I, 190-4. POAS, I, 237-42. Lord, pp. 196-201, as Upon the Citye's going in a body….
Copy, headed On C. S—
.
First published in Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1704). Vieth, pp. 60-1. Walker, pp. 74-5. Love (five versions), pp. 85-6, 86-7, 88, 89-90, 90. The manuscript texts discussed, with detailed collations, in Harold Love, Rochester's I' th' isle of Britain: Decoding a Textual Tradition, EMS, 6 (1997), 175-223.
Copy, headed On the Monument upon Fish street Hill
.
First published, as On the Monument upon Fish-street Hill
, in The Second Part of the Collection of Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1689), p. 27. Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1703-4).
Copy, headed Upon ye Prince of Orange
.
First published in The Works of the English Poets, ed. Alexander Chalmers, 21 vols (London, 1810), VIII, 68-9. Thorn-Drury, II, 82-3.
Copy.
First published in Miscellaneous Works, Written by…George, late Duke of Buckingham (London, 1704-5). POAS, II (1965), 391-2. Harris, pp. 55-6.
A small quarto miscellany, in a single neat hand, 34 pages, in marbled stiff paper wrapper.
c.1720. In the collection of Robert H. Taylor (1908-85), American book and manuscript collector. Formerly cited as the Addison Miscellany
.
Copy, headed To Celia. by Sir Charles Sedley
.
First published in A Collection of Poems (London, 1672). Miscellaneous Works (London, 1702). Sola Pinto, I, 16.
Copy, as By Sir George Etherege
.
First published in The New Academy of Complements (London, 1669). Thorpe, p. 1.
Copy, as By the same Author
[i.e. Sir George Etherege].
First published in A Collection of Poems, Written upon several Occasions (London, 1672). Thorpe, p. 26.
Copy, headed To Celia. By Sir Charles Sedley
.
First published in The New Academy of Complements (London, 1671). Miscellaneous Works (London, 1702). The Works of the Honourable Sir Charles Sedley, Bat (2 vols, London, 1722), I, 62-3. Sola Pinto, I, 22.
Copy, as By the same Author
[i.e. Sir Charles Sedley].
First published in A Collection of Poems (London, 1672). Miscellaneous Works (London, 1702). Sola Pinto, I, 11.
Copy, headed The Lamentations of Jeremiah. By Ms: Wharton
.
This MS collated in Greer & Hastings.
First published in A Collection of Poems by Several Hands (London, 1693), pp. 224-33. Greer & Hastings, No. 10, pp. 145-62.
Autograph MS of a dozen aphorisms and anecdotes, headed Elegancies Miscellany. Apr. 22. 1601
, on both sides of a single quarto leaf.
Sotheby's, 31 March 1875, lot 22, to Sabin. Later in the collection of Robert H. Taylor (1908-85), American book and manuscript collector. Formerly General MSS Misc AM 21463.
This MS unpublished. Conceivably belonging to the Promus of Formularies and Elegancies (
A collection of Bacon's Apothegmes first published in London, 1625. An enlarged collection published in Resuscitatio, 2nd edition (London, 1661). Further enlarged in Spedding, VII, 111-86. Edited by Michael Kiernan, The Oxford Francis Bacon, Vol. VIII (Oxford, 2012), pp. 209-78, 647-52.
Four lines of Latin verse, in a cursive hand, subscribed Gulielmus Cartwright
, on a pair of conjugate sextodecimo leaves.
Possibly written by the poet William Cartwright, but equally likely that it was written by another eponymous member of the Cartwright family of Aynho, Northamptonshire.
Mid-17th century.With a note by one P. B.
saying that the MS appeared in the 1841 sale of Mr Leonard's books of Aynho
and that It came from an odd volume of the Orations of Cicero printed by Richd Field. Lond. 1600. 12o.
Unpublished poem against book thieves.
A receipt to John Warner, signed by Congreve, 27 October 1720.
1720.Autograph letter signed by Cowley, to Sir Richard Browne, from Paris, 1 February [1644/5].
1645.Autograph letter signed by Cowley, to an unnamed person, from London, 3 April 1656.
1656.Photocopy and microfilm in the British Library, RP 266 and RP 267.
Copy, in the italic hand of Sir Nathaniel Rich (c.1585-1636), colonial investor and politician, headed Meditation on a good friday ridinge from London into ye West Country
, on one side of a single folio leaf.
Formerly among the muniments of the Duke of Manchester on deposit in the Huntingdon Record Office. In the collection of Robert H. Taylor (1908-85), American book and manuscript collector.
Recorded in HMC, 8th Report, Appendix, Part II (1881), p. 63, No. 597. Reproduced and transcribed by R .S. Thomson and David McKitterick in TLS (16 August 1974), pp. 869-73. where the MS is mistakenly claimed to be autograph. 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 of the MS is in the British Library, RP 2823.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 336-7. Gardner, Divine Poems, pp. 30-1. Shawcross, No. 185.
Autograph lrtter signed by Dryden and by Elizabeth Dryden, to Sir Robert Robert Long, [from Charlton, Wiltshire], 14 August 1666.
Ward, Letter 3. Facsimiles in Catalogue of the Collection of Autograph Letters and Historical Documents formed between 1865 and 1882 by Alfred Morrison, II (1885), Plate 67, after p. 46, and in Wolfgang Keller and Bernhard Fehr, Die Englischer Literatur (Potsdam, 1928), p. 180.
Copy, in a cursive hand, headed Apr. 13. 1675
, on three pages of a pair of conjugate folio leaves, once folded as a letter or packet.
In the collection of Robert H. Taylor (1908-85), American book and manuscript collector.
A mock speech, beginning I told you last meeting the winter was the fittest time for business...
. First published, and ascribed to Marvell, in Poems on Affairs of State, Vol. III (London, 1704). Cooke, II, Carmina Miscellanea, pp. 36-43. Grosart, II, 431-3. Augustine Birrell, Andrew Marvell (London, 1905), pp. 200-2. Discussed in Legouis, p. 470, and in Kelliher, pp. 111-12.
Autograph letter signed by Marvell, to Edward Thompson, from London, 2 December 1676.
1676.Later owned (before 1833) by J. L. Anderdon, and later by John Wild.
Unpublished Letters from the Collection of John Wild, ed. R.N. Carew Hunt (London, 1930), pp. 15-17. Margoliouth, II, 349-50.
Autograph letter signed by the Countess of Pembroke and by her husband Henry Herbert, and on his behalf, to Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex, [1596?].
1596?.Edited in Collected Works, II, 288, and also in Margaret P. Hannay, Unpublished Letters by Mary Sidney, Countess of Pembroke, Spenser Studies, 6 (1986), 165-90 (pp. 166-7), with a facsimile. A facsimile also in Sotheby's sale catalogue 21 July 1983, lot 7 (on p. 8).
Copy of a fifteen-stanza version, in a cursive italic hand, in double columns, untitled, on both sides of a single folio leaf, once folded as a letter or packet.
Early 17th century.Sotheby's, 23 March 1900 (John Waller sale), lot 159 (erroneously described as autograph
). Once owned by William Augustus White (1843-1927), American banker and collector. In the collection of Robert H. Taylor (1908-85), American book and manuscript collector.
This MS collated and additional stanzas edited in Samuel Tannenbaum, Unfamiliar Versions of Some Elizabethan Poems, PMLA, 45 (1930), 809-21 (pp. 810-14). Recorded in Latham, pp. 130, 134-5.
First published in Francis Davison, A Poetical Rapsodie (London, 1611). Latham, pp. 45-7. Rudick, Nos 20A, 20B and 20C (three versions), with answers, pp. 30-45.
This poem is attributed to Richard Latworth (or Latewar) in Lefranc (1968), pp. 85-94, but see Stephen J. Greenblatt, Sir Walter Ralegh (New Haven & London, 1973), pp. 171-6. See also Karl Josef Höltgen, Richard Latewar Elizabethan Poet and Divine, Anglia, 89 (1971), 417-38 (p. 430). Latewar's answer
to this poem is printed in Höltgen, pp. 435-8. Some texts are accompanied by other answers.
Copy, in an italic hand, headed Sr Walter Rawleighes speech att his death who was beheaded att the ould Pallace att westminster the 28th of October betwene 8 and 9 of the clocke in the morninge
, on the rectos of five small folio leaves, in loose paper wrapper.
Formerly Princeton AM 20450 and General MSS Misc Ralegh unnumbered file.
Transcripts of Ralegh's speech have been printed in his Remains (London, 1657). Works (1829), I, 558-64, 691-6. VIII, 775-80, and elsewhere. Copies range from verbatim transcripts to summaries of the speech, they usually form part of an account of Ralegh's execution, they have various headings, and the texts differ considerably. For relevant discussions, see Anna Beer, Textual Politics: The Execution of Sir Walter Ralegh, Modern Philology, 94:1 (August 1996), 19-38, and Andrew Fleck, At the time of his death
: Manuscript Instability and Walter Ralegh's Performance on the Scaffold, Journal of British Studies, 48:1 (January 2009), 4-28.
Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to Peter Le Neve, 16 October 1707.
Microfilm in the British Library (RP 683). Edited in Judith Milhous, Five New Letters by Sir John Vanbrugh, HLB, 27 (1979), 434-41 (pp. 435-6).
Warrant authorizing John Grigsby to pay to Thomas Kynaston a South Sea Company dividend on behalf of Charles Vanbrugh, in a professional hand and signed by Sir John Vanbrugh, 24 February 1712/13.
1713.Edited in Judith Milhous, Five New Letters by Sir John Vanbrugh, HLB, 27 (1979), 434-41 (p. 437).
Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to Peter Le Neve, Thursday
[between July 1717 and April 1718].
Photocopy in the British Library (RP 666, item 4). Edited, with a facsimile example, in Catalogue of the Collection of Autograph Letters…by Alfred Morrison, VI (1892), 297. Reprinted from thence in Albert Rosenberg, New Light on Vanbrugh, PQ, 45 (1966), 603-13 (pp. 607-8). Edited from the original in Judith Milhous, Five New Letters by Sir John Vanbrugh, HLB, 27 (1979), 434-41 (p. 439).
Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to Jacob Tonson, from Whitehall, 5 November 1719.
1719.Christie's, 17 December 1907 (Tonson sale), lot 166. Christie's, 12 June 1980 (Arthur A. Houghton Jr sale, Part II), lot 514, with a facsimile example in the sale catalogue; Quaritch's sale catalogue No. 1013 (1981), item 82.
Edited in Works, IV, 120 (No. 111).
Autograph letter signed by Waller, to John Evelyn, [28 August 1651].
1651.Autograph letter signed by Taylor, to John Evelyn, 23 August 1656.
1656.Edited in Eden, I, liv-lv.
Autograph letter signed by Taylor, to John Evelyn, discussing religion, [? from London], 29 August 1657.
1657.Thomas Rodd's sale catalogue for 1838, item 1108. Puttick & Simpson, 11 July 1878, item 214. Sotheby's, 16 April 1918, to Maggs. Afterwards in the collection of Alfred Morrison (1821-97), manuscript and art collector. Maggs's sale catalogue No. 449 (1924), item 416. Quaritch's sale catalogues No. 938 (1974), item 152, and No. 1013 (1981), item 78, with a facsimile in the catalogue.
Edited in Eden, I, lxvi-lxviii; Wheatley, III, 240-4. Edited, with facsimile examples, in Catalogue of the Collection of…Alfred Morrison, 6 vols (1883-92), VI, 231-2. Photocopy of the MS in the British Library (RP 2795).
Autograph letter signed by Taylor, to Lady Annabella Howe, [from London], 29 August 1657.
1657.Sotheby's, 6 December 1921, to Maggs, 14 July 1931 to Maggs, 29 October 1945, lot 47, and 29 June 1982, lot 267.
Facsimile in Sotheby's sale catalogue. Photocopy of the MS in the British Library (RP 2785).
Autograph letter signed by Taylor, to John Evelyn, [from London], 17 February 1657/8.
1678.Sotheby's, 6 May 1858, lot 174, t Skeffington, 27 May 1887, lot 389, and 10 December 1918, to Halliday. Later owned by F.W. Joy.
Edited in Bray, II, i, 176-8. Eden, I, lxxv-lxxvi. Wheatley, III, 245-7.
Autograph letter signed by Taylor, to Edward, Viscount Conway, 26 February 1658/9.
1659.Sotheby's, 6 May 1858, lot 176, to Skeffington.
Cited from Murray's transcript in QR (1871), pp. 119, 125. Extracts from the transcript edited in Stranks, pp. 191-2. Photocopy of the autograph MS in the British Library (RP 527).
Autograph letter signed by Taylor, to Edward, Viscount Conway, from Dublin, 2 January 1660/1.
1661.Sotheby's, 6 May 1858, lot 181, to Skeffington.
Cited from Murray's transcript in QR (1871), p. 121. Extracts from the transcript edited in Stranks, pp. 225-6. Photocopy of the autograph MS in the British Library (RP 527).
Autograph letter signed by Taylor, to Edward, Viscount Conway, from Portmore, 10 March 1658/9.
1659.Sotheby's, 6 May 1858, lot 177, to Skeffington.
Extracts from Murray's transcript edited in Stranks, pp. 192-3. Photocopy of the autograph MS in the British Library (RP 527).
Autograph letter signed, to Edward, Viscount Conway, 9 April 1659.
1659.Sotheby's, 6 May 1858, lot 179, to Skeffington. Maggs's sale catalogue No. 449 (1924), item 417.
Cited from Murray's transcript in QR (1871), pp. 119, 125. Edited from the transcript in Stranks, pp. 193-5. Photocopy of the autograph MS in the British Library (RP 527).
Autograph letter signed by Taylor, to Edward, Viscount Conway, from Hillsborough, 2 March 1660/1.
1661.Sotheby's, 6 May 1858, lot 180, to Skeffington.
Cited from Murray's transcript in QR (1871), pp. 120, 122. Extracts from the transcript edited in Stranks, pp. 233-4. Photocopy of the autograph MS in the British Library (RP 527).
Autograph letter signed by Taylor, to Edward, Viscount Conway, [undated, but c.1661].
c.1661.Cited from Murray's transcript in QR (1871), p. 127. Extracts from the transcript edited in Stranks, p. 234. Photocopy of the autograph MS in the British Library (RP 527).
Autograph letter signed by Taylor, to Edward, Viscount Conway, from Portmore, 18 June 1662.
1662.Sotheby's, 6 May 1858, lot 182, to Skeffington.
Extracts from Murray's transcript edited in Stranks, p. 249 (where the letter is incorrectly dated January). Photocopy of the autograph MS in the British Library (RP 527).
Autograph letter signed by Taylor, to Edward, Viscount Conway, 28 January 1664/5.
1665.Sotheby's, 6 May 1858, lot 183, to Skeffington.
Cited from Murray's transcript in QR (1871), p. 122. Extracts from the transcript edited in Stranks, pp. 258-9. Photocopy of the autograph MS in the British Library (RP 527).
Autograph letter signed by Taylor, to Edward, Viscount Conway, from Portmore, Lammas
, [1 August] 1666.
Sotheby's, 6 May 1858, lot 184, to Skeffington.
Extracts from Murray's transcript edited in Stranks, p. 270. Photocopy of the autograph MS in the British Library (RP 527).
Fragment of an autograph letter signed by Taylor, to Edward, Viscount Conway, [undated, but after 25 July 1666].
1666.Extracts from Murray's transcript edited in Stranks, p. 269. Photocopy of the autograph MS in the British Library (RP 527).
Autograph signature and copious annotations, bound with other works.
Sotheby's, 9 June 1980, lot 25, to Kraus. Kraus's sale catalogue No. 186 (1991), item 79.
Recorded in David McKitterick's review of Stern, The Library, 6th Ser. 3 (1981), 348-53. Facsimile of the signed title-page in the Sotheby's sale catalogue.
Autograph signature and substantial annotations, bound with other works.
Late 16th century.Sotheby's, 9 June 1980, lot 25, to Kraus. Kraus's sale catalogues No. 164 (1983), item 143, and 186 (1991), item 79.
Recorded in David McKitterick's review of Stern, The Library, 6th Ser. 3 (1981), 348-53.
Autograph signature and annotations, bound with other works.
Late 16th century.Sotheby's, 9 June 1980, lot 25, to Kraus.
Recorded in David McKitterick's review of Stern, The Library, 6th Ser. 3 (1981), 348-53.
Autograph annotations and marginalia.
Late 16th century.Quaritch's General Catalogue (1868), item 2228.
Stern, p. 226. W.C. Hazlitt. Moore Smith, p. 84. Stern, p. 226 (as in a Private collection, United States
).
