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  • Gen MSS Vol. 87

    Copy, in a professional secretary hand, untitled, 159 quarto leaves (plus 23 blanks), in contemporary calf.

    Early 17th century.

    Bookplate of Sir John Percivale, Bt, of Burton, Co. Cork, Ireland, dated 1702. Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), book and manuscript collector: Phillipps MS 13141.

    • MrT 68
      No description or publication history available.

      First published c.1626.

      Sir Thomas More, Cresacre More's Life of Sir Thomas More

  • Gen MSS Vol. 214

    A quarto volume of five university Latin plays, in a single italic hand, 326 pages, in contemporary calf.

    Early 17th century.

    Acquired from C.A. Stonehill Inc, New Haven.

    • AlW 267 item 5

      Copy, with a title-page, Argumentum and Dramatis Personæ, on 43 pages.

      First acted at Trinity College, Cambridge c.1595?. First published in London, 1632. A translation by Dana F. Sutton put online in 1998 by the University of California at Irvine.

  • Gen MSS Vol. 229

    A quarto volume of transcripts by Edmond Malone (1741-1812), literary scholar, biographer and book collector, of letters to Jacob Tonson, copied from the originals in the possn. of Willm. Baker, Esqre, 143 pages (plus numerous blanks), in contemporary vellum.

    Late 18th century.
    • CgW 77 p. 11

      Copy of Congreve's letter to Jacob Tonson, [from Tunbridge], 12 August 1693.

      William Congreve, Letter(s)
    • CgW 80 p. 12

      Copy of Congreve's letter to Jacob Tonson, 20 August 1695.

      William Congreve, Letter(s)
    • CgW 88 p. 15

      Copy of Congreve's letter to Jacob Tonson, from London, 1 July 1703.

      William Congreve, Letter(s)
    • CgW 111 p. 17

      Copy of Congreve's letter to Jacob Tonson, 8 August 1723.

      William Congreve, Letter(s)
    • VaJ 31 pp. 35-7

      Copy of Vanbrugh's undated letter to Jacob Tonson.

      Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)
    • VaJ 27 pp. 39-42

      Copy of Vanbrugh's letter to Jacob Tonson, from London, 13 July 1703.

      Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)
    • VaJ 29 pp. 43-6

      Copy of Vanbrugh's letter to Jacob Tonson, from London, 30 July 1703.

      Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)
    • VaJ 314 p. 47

      Copy of Vanbrugh's letter to an unnamed person, beginning I have just now been with Ld Carlisle..., undated.

      Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)
    • VaJ 292 pp. 49-52

      Copy of Vanbrugh's letter to Jacob Tonson, from London, 1 July 1719.

      Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)
    • VaJ 299 pp. 53-5

      Copy of Vanbrugh's letter to Jacob Tonson, from Whitehall, 5 November 1719.

      Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)
    • VaJ 302 pp. 57-62

      Copy of Vanbrugh's letter to Jacob Tonson, from Whitehall, 29 November 1719.

      Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)
    • VaJ 308 pp. 63-5

      Copy of Vanbrugh's letter to Jacob Tonson, from Whitehall, 31 December 1719.

      Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)
    • VaJ 311 pp. 67-9

      Copy of Vanbrugh's letter to Jacob Tonson, from London, 18 February 1719/20.

      Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)
    • VaJ 340 pp. 71-4

      Copy of Vanbrugh's letter to Jacob Tonson, from London, 18 June 1722.

      Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)
    • VaJ 374 pp. 75-8

      Copy of Vanbrugh's letter to Jacob Tonson, from London, 12 August 1725.

      Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)
    • VaJ 380 pp. 79-81

      Copy of Vanbrugh's letter to Jacob Tonson, from Greenwich, 25 October 1725.

      Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)
    • BeA 54 pp. 121-3

      Copy of Behn's letter to Jacob Tonson, undated.

      Aphra Behn, Letter(s)
    • BeA 63 p. 124

      Copy of Behn's bond relating to Zachary Baggs, 1 August 1685.

      Aphra Behn, Document(s)

  • Gen. MSS Vol. 264

    A quarto volume comprising two works, 119 leaves.

    Early-mid-17th century.

    Formerly MS Vault Shelves/Cavendish.

    • CvG 56 ff. 1r-90r

      Copy.

      Sylvester, No. 30.

      First published in George Cavendish, The Life of Cardinal Wolsey and Metrical Visions, ed. Samuel W. Singer, 2 vols (Chiswick, 1825). The Life and Death of Cardinal Wolsey by George Cavendish, ed. Richard S. Sylvester, EETS, orig. ser. 243 (London, New York and Toronto, 1959).

      George Cavendish, The Life of Cardinal Wolsey
    • MrT 69 ff. 91r-119v

      Copy of the last three chapters.

      First published c.1626.

      Sir Thomas More, Cresacre More's Life of Sir Thomas More

  • Gen MSS 273, Izaak Walton Collection

    A detached autograph inscription by Walton, ffor Mada[m] Jed Maynard, my very good cozen. I:W..

    Mounted as part of a design by Thomas Gosden for the title-page of an edition of The Compleat Angler — accompanied by a printed proof impression of this design and a detached signature of Charles Cotton (above its facsimile).

    17th century.

    Formerly MS Osborn Vault Shelves Walton.

    • *WtI 39
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      Izaak Walton, The Compleat Angler (London, 1653)

  • Gen. MSS Vol. 335

    A fair copy of unpublished Memoirs of the Life and Death of Mrs. Alice Thornton...Collected from Mrs. Thornton's Manuscripts, And other authentic documents, By her G. G. Grandson Thomas Comber, A.B. Vicar of Creech - St. Michael, Somersetshire, And Editor of the Memoirs of Thomas Comber D. D. Dean of Durham [1799], including passages and quotations from MSS of her Autobiography, on 172 octavo pages, with a title-page and two pages of notes, followed (on twelve further pages) by A Brief Sketch of the life of Alice Thornton's father Christopher Wandesford (1592-1640), Lord Deputy of Ireland.

    c.1800.
    • ThA 7
      No description or publication history available.

      First published, [edited by Charles Jackson], Surtees Society, 62 (1875 [for 1873]).

      Alice Thornton, The Autobiography of Mrs Alice Thornton

  • Gen MSS Vol. 339

    An octavo miscellany of verse and prose, in at least two cursive hands, written largely on rectos only, unfoliated, c.90 leaves (plus numerous blanks), in contemporary calf.

    c.1700.

    Inscribed inside the lower cover Will Graves/Memoranda. Thomas Thorpe, Catalogue of upwards of fourteen hundred manuscripts (1836). Afterwards owned by Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), book and manuscript collector: Phillipps MS 9621. Sotheby's, 17 May 1897 (Phillipps sale), lot 627. Donated in 1937 by Leicester Bradner. Formerly MS Vault, Section 10, Drawer 3 Commonplace book.

    • SuJ 145 ff. [2r-27r]

      Copy, headed A discourse presented to ye Earle of Dorset by Sr John Suckling.

      This MS collated in Clayton.

      First published, with a separate title-page, in Fragmenta Aurea (London, 1646). Clayton, pp. 168-80.

      John Suckling, An Account of Religion by Reason
    • MaA 95 f. [35r]

      Copy.

      First published in Thompson (1776), I, xxxix. Margoliouth, I, 178. Lord, p. 249. Smith, p. 414, with English translation.

      Andrew Marvell, Bludius et Corona ('Bludius, ut ruris damnum repararet aviti')
    • MaA 273 f. [35r-v]

      Copy, untitled.

      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 MaA 191-8 and Margoliouth, I, 379, 384).

      Andrew Marvell, Upon Blood's Attempt to Steal the Crown ('When daring Blood, his rents to have regain'd')
    • MaA 274 f. [35v]

      Second copy.

      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 MaA 191-8 and Margoliouth, I, 379, 384).

      Andrew Marvell, Upon Blood's Attempt to Steal the Crown ('When daring Blood, his rents to have regain'd')
    • MaA 96 f. [35v]

      Second copy.

      First published in Thompson (1776), I, xxxix. Margoliouth, I, 178. Lord, p. 249. Smith, p. 414, with English translation.

      Andrew Marvell, Bludius et Corona ('Bludius, ut ruris damnum repararet aviti')
    • BuS 0.9 f. [42r]

      Extract.

      Part I first published in London, 1663 [i.e. 1662]. Part II published in London, 1664 [i.e. 1663]. Part III published in London 1678 [i.e. 1677]. the whole poem first published in London, 1684. Edited by John Wilders (Oxford, 1967).

      Samuel Butler, Hudibras ('Sir Hudibras his passing worth')

  • MS 363

    Copy, in a formal accomplished secretary hand, with a title-page decorated in gilt and colours The Life, Araignment, and Death, of the famous learned, Sir Thomas More Knight: Somtymes Lord Chauncellor of England, with a later note about More's death on the rear endpaper dated 1679, ii + 73 quarto leaves, in contemporary limp vellum gilt, with remaining holes for ties.

    Early 17th century.

    Bookplates of Edward May and Alexander Murray of Broughtoun Esqr. Inscribed in pencil (f. iiv) Ap. 10. 1723 Collat. & perfect. P. J. Wright. Later owned by W. Fagg, London. Christie's, 9 December 1965, lot 202, to C.A. Stonehill.

    This MS mentioned (as now belonging to Mr. Fagg) in Hitchcock, pp. xxvi and p. 2.

    • MrT 108
      No description or publication history available.

      First published in London, 1626. Edited, as The Lyfe of Sir Thomas Moore, knighte, written by William Roper Esquire, by Elsie Vaughan Hitchcock (EETS, London, 1935).

      Sir Thomas More, William Roper's Life of Sir Thomas More

  • MS 370

    A largely autograph quarto notebook of heraldic and genealogical material, including matter relating to the claims for the barony of Abergavenny (1598-9), with inserted leaves in a later hand, c.280 pages (plus blanks), in contemporary vellum.

    c.1598-1600s.

    Once owned by the St George family of heralds. Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 13160. Sotheby's, 28 June 1965, lot 40, to Traylen, with a facsimile example in the sale catalogue. Charles W. Traylen, sale catalogue No. 66, item 9. Acquired from C.A. Stonehill in 1967. Bookplate of Albert H. Childs (his fund).

    Discussed in William Huse Dunham, Jr, William Camden's Commonplace Book, YULG, 43 (1969), 139-56. A microfilm is in the Parliamentary Archives, Historical Collections No. 249.

    • *CmW 166
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      William Camden, Collectanea

  • MS 394

    Autograph MS of three dialogues, 24 folio leaves, in contemporary vellum.

    Namely Religio (ff. 2r-10r), De philosophia: Quid considerandum? (ff. 11v-17r), and Qu[estion]: Whatt is moste Necessary in a Common-welth to be Considered (ff. 19r-24v), with a signed dedication to Lord North, probably Dudley, third Baron North (1581-1666) (f. 1r); the title-page (f. ii) inscribed Auspicante Jehovah. Auxilium memoriae Liber. Nicolai Bretoni, opus, non minus sibi Laboriosum, quam Lectori studioso frustuosum.

    [1597-1626].

    Probably in one of the sales of North papers in the 1930s and perhaps purchased by Messrs Bernard Halliday, of Leicester. Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 13 November 1968, lot 20, to C.A. Stonehill.

    Facsimile of the dedication in the Parke-Bernet sale catalogue. Facsimile of f. 5r in IELM, I.i (1980), Facsimile IV (p. 103).

    • *BrN 111
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.

      Unpublished.

      Nicholas Breton, Auspicante Jehovah, Auxilium memoriae Liber

  • MS 566

    Copy, complete in 17 folios apparently in original vellum binding (though the title-page also includes the title of Ralegh's Discourse of...War).

    Early-mid-17th century.

    Formerly Lincolnfield MS 41 at Petworth House, Sussex, this MS recorded in HMC, 6th Report (1877), Appendix, p. 304.

    • RaW 610
      No description or publication history available.

      An epistolary tract addressed to Prince Henry, beginning That the ark of Noah was the first ship because the invention of God himself.... First published, as Upon the first Invention of Shipping, in Judicious and Select Essayes and Observations (London, 1650). Works (1829), VIII, 317-34.

      Sir Walter Ralegh, A Discourse of the Invention of Ships, Anchors, Compass, &c.

  • MS 621

    A folio volume of tracts, in various hands, iv + 107 leaves.

    c.1590s.

    From the library of the Tollemache family, of Helmingham Hall, Suffolk. Acquired in 1980 from Laurence Witten Rare Books, Southport, Connecticut.

    • BcF 545 ff. 79v-81r

      Copy.

      Advice beginning Most Gracious Soveraign and most worthy to be a Soveraign / Care, one of the natural and true-bred children of unfeigned affection.... First published in The Felicity of Queen Elizabeth (London, 1651), pp. 121-56. Spedding, VIII, 43-56.

      Francis Bacon, A Letter of Advice to the Queen (1584)

  • Gen MSS Vol 642

    Autograph fair copy signed, with one correction or revision, headed An Elegy upon ye death of that hopefull, and learned gentleman Henry Lord Hastings, who died of ye small Pox, on the rectos of two conjugate folio leaves.

    c.1649.

    Formerly MS Vault Shelves/Cotton.

    Facsimiles of the second page in Parks, p. 21, and in IELM, II.i (1987), Facsimile IX, after p. xxiv.

    • *CnC 18
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.

      First published in Richard Brome, Lachrymae Musarum (London, 1650). Poems (1689), pp. 655-6. Beresford, pp. 246-7. Buxton, pp. 128-9.

      Charles Cotton, An Elegy upon the Lord Hastings ('Amongst the Mourners that attend his Herse')

  • Gen MSS Misc Group 1218, Item F-1

    Copy, on six pages of four folio leaves.

    Late 17th century.
    • BuS 4
      No description or publication history available.

      First published in London, 1671. Thyer (1759), I, 145-54. Lamar, pp. 97-103.

      Samuel Butler, To the Happy Memory Of the most Renown'd Du-Val (''Tis true, to compliment the Dead')

  • Gen MSS Misc Group 2315, item F-1

    An indenture between the playwright's father, Daniel Wycherley, and Thomas Lyster, also signed by William Wycherley, 30 September 1696.

    1696.

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

    • *WyW 31
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      William Wycherley, Document(s)

  • Gen MSS Misc Group 2759, Item V-1

    A folio volume of 65 poems by Edmund Waller, in a professional hand, an anonymous poem in a different style of hand on pp. 104-6, and three poems by others added in yet another, probably Scottish, hand on pp. 2 and 106-9, 110 pages, in contemporary red morocco gilt, with the armorial bookplate of the Earl of Breadalbane.

    c.1640s.

    The first page inscribed The Book belongeth to Jn Campbelly [i.e. John Campbell] Janwarie: 3: 1657 in a hand probably responsible for a couplet on p. 110. The volume may have belonged originally to Sir John Campbell, tenth Laird of Glenorchy (d.1686), and evidently owned by his son, John Campbell (1635-1717), first Earl of Breadalbane, one of the most powerful of the Highland chiefs, who on 17 December 1657 married Lady Mary Rich (grand-daughter of Penelope Rich, Sidney's Stella; Lady Mary's father being Henry, first Earl of Holland who was executed by Parliament in 1649). The Earls of Breadalbane were also related to Waller's friend, Lady Isabella Thynne. Later owned, in 1927, by John Grant Jr, and in 1934 by Roswell G. Ham (1891-1983), scholar. Bearing an early pressmark and sold at some time by Sanders & Co., Oxford. Formerly MS Vault Sect. 10, Drawer 3, Waller Poems.

    The MS exhibited at the Bodleian Library, 16-28 June 1930: see Proceedings & Papers of the Oxford Bibliographical Society, 2 (1927-30), p. 213. Cited in IELM, II.i (1993) as the Breadalbane MS: WaE Δ 5.

    • WaE 120 pp. 3-4

      Copy.

      First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 111.

      Edmund Waller, The Miser's Speech. In a Masque ('Balls of this metal slacked At'lanta's pace')
    • WaE 567 pp. 4-6

      Copy.

      First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 31-2.

      Edmund Waller, To My Lord Northumberland, upon the Death of his Lady ('To this great loss a sea of tears is due')
    • WaE 561 pp. 6-8

      Copy, headed To the Lord Admirall of his late Sicknes and Recovery imediatly after his Ladies Death, his Brother being sicke too.

      First published in Thomas Carew, Poems, 2nd edition (London, 1642). Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 33-5. The Poems of Thomas Carew, ed. Rhodes Dunlap (Oxford, 1949), pp. 200-1.

      Edmund Waller, To my Lord Admiral, of his late Sickness and Recovery ('With joy like ours, the Thracian youth invades')
    • WaE 355 pp. 8-9

      Copy, headed Of the friendship betwixt Sacharissa & Amorett.

      First published, as On the Friendship betwixt Sacharissa and Amoret, in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 60-1.

      Edmund Waller, On the friendship betwixt two Ladies ('Tell me, lovely, loving pair!')
    • WaE 87 pp. 9-10

      Copy.

      First published, as On the Rose, in Wits Recreations (London, 1645). Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 128. Setting by Henry Lawes published in The Second Book of Ayres, and Dialogues (London, 1655).

      Edmund Waller, 'Go, lovely Rose'
    • WaE 472 pp. 10-12

      Copy.

      First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 40-2.

      Edmund Waller, Thyrsis, Galatea ('As lately I on silver Thames did ride')
    • WaE 33 pp. 13-21

      Copy.

      First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 66-74.

      Edmund Waller, The Battle of the Summer Islands ('Aid me, Bellona! while the dreadful fight')
    • WaE 80 pp. 21-3

      Copy of the 34-line version, headed An Answere to one that did write against Healths.

      First published, in an 18-line version beginning at line 7, Let Bruits, and Vegetals that cannot think, in Workes (1645). A 34-line version first published in Thorn-Drury (1893), pp. 89-90. Thorn-Drury (1904), I, 89-90.

      Edmund Waller, For Drinking of Healths ('And is antiquity of no more force!')
    • WaE 694 pp. 23-6

      Copy.

      First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 37-40.

      Edmund Waller, Upon the Death of my Lady Rich ('May those already cursed Essexian plains')
    • WaE 635 p. 26

      Copy.

      First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 35-6.

      Edmund Waller, To the Queen Mother of France, upon her Landing ('Great Queen of Europe! where thy offspring wears')
    • WaE 262 pp. 27-33

      Copy.

      First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 1-7.

      Edmund Waller, Of the Danger His Majesty (being Prince) escaped in the Road at Saint Andrews ('Now had his Highness bid farewell to Spain')
    • WaE 201 pp. 33-4

      Copy.

      First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 11-12.

      Edmund Waller, Of His Majesty's Receiving the News of the Duke of Buckingham's Death ('So earnest with thy God! can no new care')
    • WaE 615 pp. 35-6

      Copy.

      First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 15-16.

      Edmund Waller, To the King, on his Navy ('Wher'er thy navy spreads her canvas wings')
    • WaE 683 pp. 36-8

      Copy.

      First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 16-18.

      Edmund Waller, Upon His Majesty's Repairing of Paul's ('That shipwrecked vessel which the Apostle bore')
    • WaE 251 pp. 39-40

      Copy, headed Of the takeing of Salley.

      First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 13-14.

      Edmund Waller, Of Salle ('Of Jason, Theseus, and such worthies old')
    • WaE 641 pp. 40-3

      Copy.

      First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 8-10.

      Edmund Waller, To the Queen, Occasioned upon Sight of Her Majesty's Picture ('Well fare the hand! which to our humble sight')
    • WaE 16 pp. 43-4

      Copy, headed The Apologye of Somnus for not aproaching the Lady who can doe any thinge but sleepe when she pleaseth.

      First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 80-1.

      Edmund Waller, The Apology of Sleep ('My charge it is those breaches to repair')
    • WaE 56 p. 45

      Copy.

      First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 21.

      Edmund Waller, The Country to My Lady of Carlisle ('Madam, of all the sacred Muse inspired')
    • WaE 49 pp. 46-7

      Copy.

      First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 22-3.

      Edmund Waller, The Countess of Carlisle in Mourning ('When from black clouds no part of sky is clear')
    • WaE 99 pp. 48-9

      Copy, headed In Answer to a Libell against her.

      First published, in a four-stanza version headed In Answer to a libell against her, &c, in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 24-5.

      Edmund Waller, In Answer to One who Writ against a Fair Lady ('What fury has provoked thy wit to dare')
    • WaE 333 p. 49

      Copy.

      First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 43.

      Edmund Waller, On My Lady Dorothy Sidney's Picture ('Such was Philoclea, such Musidorus' flame!')
    • WaE 655 pp. 50-1

      Copy.

      First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 44-5.

      Edmund Waller, To Vandyck ('Rare Artisan, whose pencil moves')
    • WaE 27 pp. 52-3

      Copy.

      First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 64-5.

      Edmund Waller, At Penshurst ('While in the park I sing, the listening deer')
    • WaE 22 pp. 54-5

      Copy.

      First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 46-7.

      Edmund Waller, At Penshurst ('Had Sacharissa lived when mortals made')
    • WaE 581 pp. 55-6

      Copy.

      First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 47-8.

      Edmund Waller, To My Lord of Leicester ('Not that thy trees at Penshurst groan')
    • WaE 516 pp. 56-7

      Copy, headed To the young Lady Lucy Sidney.

      First published, as To my young Lady Lucy Sidney, in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 57.

      Edmund Waller, To a very young Lady ('Why came I so untimely forth')
    • WaE 271 pp. 57-8

      Copy.

      First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 49.

      Edmund Waller, Of the Lady who can Sleep when she Pleases ('No wonder sleep from careful lovers flies')
    • WaE 297 pp. 58-9

      Copy.

      First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 50.

      Edmund Waller, Of the Misreport of her being Painted ('As when a sort of wolves infest the night')
    • WaE 190 pp. 59-60

      Copy.

      First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 51.

      Edmund Waller, Of her Passing through a Crowd of People ('As in old chaos (heaven with earth confused)')
    • WaE 447 pp. 60-1

      Copy.

      First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 53-4.

      Edmund Waller, Song ('Say, lovely dream! where couldst thou find')
    • WaE 527 pp. 62-4

      Copy.

      First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 58-60.

      Edmund Waller, To Amoret ('Fair! that you may truly know')
    • WaE 462 pp. 64-5

      Copy.

      First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 52.

      Edmund Waller, The Story of Phoebus and Daphne, Applied ('Thyrsis, a youth of the inspired train')
    • WaE 226 pp. 65-6

      Copy.

      First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 91. A musical setting by Henry Lawes published in Select Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1669).

      Edmund Waller, Of Mrs. Arden ('Behold, and listen, while the fair')
    • WaE 342 pp. 66-7

      Copy.

      First published, as On a patch'd up Madam, in Wits Recreations (London, 1645). Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 99.

      Edmund Waller, On the Discovery of a Lady's Painting ('Pygmalion's fate reversed is mine')
    • WaE 483 pp. 67-8

      Copy.

      First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 109.

      Edmund Waller, To a Lady, from whom he received a Silver Pen ('Madam! intending to have tried')
    • WaE 316 pp. 68-9

      Copy.

      First published in Wits Recreations (London, 1645). Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 121.

      Edmund Waller, On a Brede of Divers Colours, Woven by Four Ladies ('Twice twenty slender virgin-fingers twine')
    • WaE 363 pp. 69-70

      Copy.

      First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 110.

      Edmund Waller, On the Head of a Stag ('So we some antique hero's strength')
    • WaE 497 pp. 70-1

      Copy, headed To a Ladye in retirement.

      First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 113.

      Edmund Waller, To a Lady in a Garden ('Sees not my love how time resumes')
    • WaE 443 pp. 71-2

      Copy, headed Banish't, if he make Love.

      First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 124.

      Edmund Waller, Song ('Peace, babbling Muse!')
    • WaE 209 pp. 72-4

      Copy.

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

      Edmund Waller, Of Love ('Anger in hasty words or blows')
    • WaE 628 pp. 74-7

      Copy.

      First published, as The Reply, in Wits Recreations (London, 1645). Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 106-8.

      Edmund Waller, To the Mutable Fair ('Here Celia! for thy sake I part')
    • WaE 676 pp. 77-8

      Copy, headed Vpon Ben: Johnson the most Excellent of Comicke Poets.

      First published in Jonsonus Virbius (London, 1638). Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 29-30.

      Edmund Waller, Upon Ben Jonson ('Mirror of poets! mirror of our age!')
    • WaE 130 p. 78

      Copy.

      First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, II, 2.

      Edmund Waller, Of a Lady who writ in Praise of Mira ('While she pretends to make the graces known')
    • WaE 587 p. 79

      Copy.

      First published, as To the wife being marryed to that old man, in Wits Recreations (London, 1645). Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, II, 2.

      Edmund Waller, To one Married to an old Man ('Since thou wouldst needs (bewitched with some ill charms!)')
    • WaE 649 pp. 79-80

      Copy, headed To Mrs: Braughton.

      First published, as To Mistris Braughton, in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 55-6.

      Edmund Waller, To the Servant of a Fair Lady ('Fair fellow-servant! may your gentle ear')
    • WaE 416 p. 81

      Copy.

      First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 82.

      Edmund Waller, Puerperium ('You gods that have the power')
    • WaE 595 pp. 82-3

      Copy.

      First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 27-8.

      Edmund Waller, To Phyllis ('Phyllis! 'twas love that injured you')
    • WaE 739 p. 83

      Copy, headed Song.

      First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 127. A musical setting by Henry Lawes published in Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1653).

      Edmund Waller, 'While I listen to thy voice'
    • WaE 454 p. 84

      Copy.

      First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 123.

      Edmund Waller, Song ('Stay, Phoebus! stay')
    • WaE 521 pp. 84-5

      Copy.

      First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 83.

      Edmund Waller, To Amoret ('Amoret! the Milky Way')
    • WaE 573 pp. 85-6

      Copy, headed To the Lord of Falkland goeing into Scotland.

      First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 75-6.

      Edmund Waller, To my Lord of Falkland ('Brave Holland leads, and with him Falkland goes')
    • WaE 44 pp. 87-8

      Copy.

      First published, as On the approaching Spring, in Wits Recreations (London, 1645). Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 114-15.

      Edmund Waller, Chloris and Hylas ('Hylas, oh Hylas! why sit we mute')
    • WaE 546 p. 88

      Copy, headed To his worthy freind Mr: George Sandys on his sacred Poems written in a burning feavour.

      First published in George Sandys, Paraphrase upon the Divine Poems (London, 1638). Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 28-9.

      Edmund Waller, To Mr. George Sandys, on his Translation of some parts of the Bible ('How bold a work attempts that pen')
    • WaE 669 p. 89

      Copy of lines 3-8, beginning Such Helen was….

      Edited from this MS (then owned by John Grant, Jr) in H.J.C. Grierson, Poems by Waller, TLS (29 December 1927), p. 989.

      First published, in a six-line version headed To be ingraven under the Queen's Picture and beginning at line 3 (Such Helen was! and who can blame the boy), in Wits Recreations (London, 1645). Workes (1645). An eight-line version first published in Thorn-Drury (1893), p. 129. Thorn-Drury (1904), II, 1.

      Edmund Waller, Under a Lady's Picture ('Some ages hence, for it must not decay')
    • WaE 4 pp. 89-90

      Copy.

      First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 85-6.

      Edmund Waller, À la Malade ('Ah, lovely Amoret! the care')
    • WaE 94 pp. 90-3

      Copy, headed A Coppie of verses of Sr: John Succlings against fruition taken in peices & Answered by Mr: Waller.

      First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 116-19. The Works of Sir John Suckling: The Non-Dramatic Works, ed. Thomas Clayton (Oxford, 1971), pp. 181-3.

      Edmund Waller, In Answer to Sir John Suckling's Verses ('Stay here, fond youth! and ask no more. be wise')
    • WaE 476 pp. 93-4

      Copy, headed To A:H: of the different success of theire Loves.

      First published, as The Variable Lover. or a Reply to the Melancholy Lover, in Wits Recreations (London, 1645). Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 102-3.

      Edmund Waller, To a Friend, of the different Success of their Loves ('Thrice happy pair! of whom we cannot know')
    • WaE 175 p. 95

      Copy.

      First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 26.

      Edmund Waller, Of her Chamber ('They taste of death that do at heaven arrive')
    • WaE 421 pp. 96-7

      Copy.

      First published, as The Melancholy Lover, in Wits Recreations (London, 1645). Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 101. A musical setting by Henry Lawes published in Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1653).

      Edmund Waller, The Self-Banished ('It is not that I love you less')
    • WaE 220 pp. 97-8

      Copy.

      First published, headed The Reply on the Contrary, in Wits Recreations (London, 1645). Workes (1645). Ascribed to Tho. Batt. in Francis Beaumont, Poems (London, 1653). Thorn-Drury, I, 100.

      Edmund Waller, Of Loving at First Sight ('Not caring to observe the wind')
    • WaE 307 pp. 98-100

      Copy, headed Of: And to the Queene.

      First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 77-9.

      Edmund Waller, Of the Queen ('The lark, that shuns on lofty boughs to build')
    • WaE 75 p. 101

      Copy.

      First published, as The Reply, in Wits Recreations (London, 1645). Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 96.

      Edmund Waller, The Fall ('See! how the willing earth gave way')
    • WaE 600 p. 102

      Copy, untitled.

      First published, as The cunning Curtezan, in Wits Recreations (London, 1645). Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 84.

      Edmund Waller, To Phyllis ('Phyllis! why should we delay')
    • WaE 540 pp. 102-3

      Copy, untitled.

      First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 125.

      Edmund Waller, To Flavia. A Song (''Tis not your beauty can engage')
    • WaE 238 pp. 103-4

      Copy.

      First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 90.

      Edmund Waller, Of My Lady Isabella, Playing on the Lute ('Such moving sounds from such a careless touch!')

  • MS Vault More

    More's prayer book.

    1534-35.
    • *MrT 46 The MS as a whole
      Autograph

      More's prayer book, comprising two incomplete printed books (a Latin Book of Hours, 1530, and a liturgical Latin Psalter, 1522), bound together and containing his autograph annotations, including the English prayer known as A Godly Meditation; used and probably annotated by More while he was a prisoner in the Tower of London (17 April 1534 - 6 July 1535, but before 12 June 1535 when he was denied writing materials).

      Published in facsimile as Thomas More's Prayer Book, ed. Louis L. Martz and Richard S. Sylvester (New Haven & London, 1969). Facsimile examples also in The Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library: A Guide to its Collections (New Haven, 1974), Plate XI; in J.B. Trapp and Hubertus Schulte Herbrüggen, The King's Good Servant: Sir Thomas More 1477/8-1535 (National Portrait Gallery, London, 1977), p. 117; and in A Thomas More Source Book, ed. Gerard B. Wegemer and Stephen W. Smith (Washington, DC, 2004), pp. 172-3, 269.

      Sir Thomas More, Prayer Book
    • *MrT 25
      Autograph

      Autograph marginalia in More's Prayer Book denoting his arrangement of verses of the Psalms to form what was eventually his deuoute prayer, collected oute of the psalmes of Dauid (beginning Domine quid multiplicati sunt qui tribulant me?), probably written while he was a prisoner in the Tower of London.

      Workes (1557), pp. 1408-16; Yale, Vol. 13, pp. 214-25. The annotated pages reproduced in Thomas More's Prayer Book (Yale, 1969), and see pp. xxxi-xxxiv; discussed in Yale, Vol. 13, p. clviii et seq.

      Devout Instructions &c. first published in Workes (London, 1557), pp. 1405-18. Yale, Vol. 13, with English translation.

      Sir Thomas More, Devout Instructions, Meditations and Prayers
    • *MrT 26
      Autograph

      Autograph of More's English godly meditacion (beginning Gyve me thy grace good lord...) inscribed in his Prayer Book probably while he was a prisoner in the Tower of London.

      Workes (1557), p. 1416-17. Edited from this MS in Yale, Volume 13, pp. 226-7. This MS reproduced, with a transcript, in Thomas More's Prayer Book (Yale, 1969), pp. 3-21, 185-7. Also discussed, with facsimile examples, in G. Marc'hadour, A Godly Meditation, Moreana, No. 5 (1965), 53-72.

      Devout Instructions &c. first published in Workes (London, 1557), pp. 1405-18. Yale, Vol. 13, with English translation.

      Sir Thomas More, Devout Instructions, Meditations and Prayers

  • MS Vault Shelves Shakespeare

    Copy of the full text, with an ornate title-page.

    Copy of the full text, with an ornate title-page: Macbeth A Tragedy As it is now acted at the Dukes Theatre 1674; pp. 1-8, 11-15, 22-63 predominantly in a single hand with corrections, deletions and additions, some on pasted-in slips, in three other hands; the title-page and dramatis personae added in another hand, and later additions (supplying missing text) in a modern bookseller's hand; probably copied for the most part from Davenant's foul papers in preparation for a promptbook, 65 large folio pages (plus blanks), in contemporary marbled boards.

    c.1664-74.

    Afterwards owned by Sir William Turner (d.1692), philanthropist, of Kirkleatham, Yorkshire. Acquired in 1948, at the sale of the library of Turner's Hospital and Free School, by Seven Gables Bookshop, New York, and annotated then by Alexander Schultze.

    Edited from this MS (with facsimiles of ff. 1, 2, 24, 30v and 34v, between pp. 74 and 79) in Spencer.

    • DaW 94
      No description or publication history available.

      First published in London, 1673. Dramatic Works, V, 295-394. Edited by Christopher Spencer (New Haven, 1961).

  • 1742 Library. 3.2.3

    A printed exemplum with Sandys's autograph motto and signature on the title-page.

    Early 17th century.

    Later in the library of Bishop Berkeley (1685-1753), Bishop of Cloyne.

    Recorded in Rogers, p. 370.

    • *SaG 58
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      George Sandys, Plato. Opera omnia quae exstant. Marsilio Ficino interprete (Lyons, 1590)

  • 1974 +3

    Presentation exemplum of the first edition (1693).

    With Dryden's autograph inscription For his true Friend Mr [Tho: Monson deleted] from the Authour, three autograph alterations in the text of the prefatory Discourse of Satire (pp. ii, xxii), and a total of seventeen additional lines of verse written in the margins of Juvenal's Satire VI (pp. 96, 100. 102, 105-6), in an unidentified contemporary hand [?Monson's].

    c.1693.

    Owned before 1930 by the Marquess of Lansdown. Sotheby's, 3 July 1973, lot 258. Formerly 1974 +40.

    The MS additions recorded and discussed in California.

    • *DrJ 173
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.

      First published (…together with the Satires of Aulus Persius Flaccus) in London, 1693 [i.e. 1692] (as By Mr. Dryden, and Several other Eminent Hands, Dryden's contribution being the prefatory Discourse concerning Satire and Satires I, III, VI, X and XVI). Kinsley, II, 599-740 (Dryden's contributions). California, IV, 2-252 (Dryden's contributions). Hammond & Hopkins, IV, 3-137.

      John Dryden, The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis ('Still shall I hear, and never quit the Score')

  • 1975 380

    An exemplum with Ralegh's signature, W Ralegh (struck through), on the title-page (part way down on either side) and his autograph motto, Medium Medijs, at the bottom.

    c.1583.

    Also inscribed L. Berard. Bookplate of Charles Bruce (1682-1747), third Viscount Bruce of Ampthill, dated 1712.

    • RaW 1037
      No description or publication history available.
      Sir Walter Ralegh, Tasso, Torquato. Rime, e prose. Parte prima (Ferrara, 1583)

  • 1975 2318

    Copy, subscribed in another flourished hand (possibly autograph) Henry: Kinge: mee fecit, on a leaf bound in a printed exemplum of Solis Britannici perigaeum, sive Itinerantis Caroli auspicatissima periodus (Oxford, 1633).

    c.1633.

    From the Tollemache Library of Helmingham Hall. Sotheby's, 14 June 1965, lot 213, with a facsimile of the subscription in the sale catalogue.

    • KiH 782
      No description or publication history available.

      First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 81-2.

      Henry King, Upon the King's happy Returne from Scotland ('So breakes the Day, when the Returning Sun')

  • 1977 +422

    Exemplum of Jonson's printed Workes (London, 1616) belonging to Mildmay Fane, second Earl of Westmorland (c.1603-65), which was possibly made up from printing-house remnants.

    c.1635.
    • JnB 498.5 sig. 3X3r

      Copy in the hand of Mildmay Fane, second Earl of Westmorland (c.1603-65) on a missing sheet in his exemplum of Jonson's Workes.

      Discussed in Mark Bland, William Stansby and the Production of The Workes of Beniamin Jonson, 1615-16, The Library, 6th Ser. 20 (1998), 1-33 (pp. 20-3), with a facsimile (p. 21).

      First published in Epigrammes (xcvi) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 62.

      Ben Jonson, To Iohn Donne ('Who shall doubt, Donne, where I a Poet bee')
    • JnB 511.5 sig. 3 X 3r

      Copy of the last twenty lines in the hand of Mildmay Fane, second Earl of Westmorland (c.1603-65), on a sheet in his exemplum of Jonson's Workes.

      Discussed in Mark Bland, William Stansby and the Production of The Workes of Beniamin Jonson, 1615-16, The Library, 6th Ser. 20 (1998), 1-33 (pp. 20-3), with a facsimile (p. 21).

      First published in Epigrammes (xcv) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 61-2.

      Ben Jonson, To Sir Henrie Savile ('If, my religion safe, I durst embrace')
    • JnB 410.5 sig. 3 X 3r-v

      Copy in the hand of Mildmay Fane, second Earl of Westmorland (c.1603-65), headed xcviii, on a sheet in his exemplum of Jonson's Workes.

      Discussed in Mark Bland, William Stansby and the Production of The Workes of Beniamin Jonson, 1615-16, The Library, 6th Ser. 20 (1998), 1-33 (pp. 20-3), with a facsimile of the first four lines (p. 21).

      First published in Epigrammes (xcvii) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 62-3.

      Ben Jonson, On the new Motion ('See you yond' Motion? Not the old Fa-ding')
    • JnB 517.5 sig. 3 X 3v

      Copy in the hand of Mildmay Fane, second Earl of Westmorland (c.1603-65), headed xciii, on a sheet in his exemplum of Jonson's Workes.

      Discussed in Mark Bland, William Stansby and the Production of The Workes of Beniamin Jonson, 1615-16, The Library, 6th Ser. 20 (1998), 1-33 (pp. 20-3).

      First published in Epigrammes (xcviii) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 63.

      Ben Jonson, To Sir Thomas Roe ('Thou hast begun well, Roe, which stand well too')
    • JnB 548.5 sig. 3 X 3v

      Copy in the hand of Mildmay Fane, second Earl of Westmorland (c.1603-65), on a sheet in his exemplum of Jonson's Workes.

      Discussed in Mark Bland, William Stansby and the Production of The Workes of Beniamin Jonson, 1615-16, The Library, 6th Ser. 20 (1998), 1-33 (pp. 20-3).

      First published in Epigrammes (xcix) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 63-4.

      Ben Jonson, To the same ('That thou hast kept thy loue, encreast thy will')
    • JnB 406.5 sig. 3 X 4r

      Copy in the hand of Mildmay Fane, second Earl of Westmorland (c.1603-65), on a sheet in his exemplum of Jonson's Workes.

      Discussed in Mark Bland, William Stansby and the Production of The Workes of Beniamin Jonson, 1615-16, The Library, 6th Ser. 20 (1998), 1-33 (pp. 20-3).

      First published in Epigrammes (c) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 64.

      Ben Jonson, On Play-wright ('Play-wright, by chance, hearing some toyesI'had writ')
    • JnB 316.8 sig. 3 X 4r-v

      Copy in the hand of Mildmay Fane, second Earl of Westmorland (c.1603-65), on a sheet in his exemplum of Jonson's Workes.

      Discussed in Mark Bland, William Stansby and the Production of The Workes of Beniamin Jonson, 1615-16, The Library, 6th Ser. 20 (1998), 1-33 (pp. 20-3).

      First published in Epigrammes (ci) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 64-5.

      Ben Jonson, Inviting a Friend to Svpper ('To night, graue sir, both my poore house, and I')
    • JnB 499.5 sig. 3 X 4v

      Copy of the first two lines in the hand of Mildmay Fane, second Earl of Westmorland (c.1603-65) on a sheet in his exemplum of Jonson's Workes.

      Discussed in Mark Bland, William Stansby and the Production of The Workes of Beniamin Jonson, 1615-16, The Library, 6th Ser. 20 (1998), 1-33 (pp. 20-3).

      First published in Epigrammes (ciii) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 66-7.

      Ben Jonson, To Mary Lady Wroth ('How well, faire crowne of your faire sexe, might hee')
    • JnB 554.5 sig. 3 X 4v

      Copy in the hand of Mildmay Fane, second Earl of Westmorland (c.1603-65) on a sheet in his exemplum of Jonson's Workes.

      Discussed in Mark Bland, William Stansby and the Production of The Workes of Beniamin Jonson, 1615-16, The Library, 6th Ser. 20 (1998), 1-33 (pp. 20-3).

      First published in Epigrammes (cii) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 66.

      Ben Jonson, To William Earle of Pembroke ('I doe but name thee Pembroke, and I find')

  • 1977 2355

    A printed exemplum with Davenant's autograph inscription For the right Hoble. [Martha] the Countesse of Munmouth.

    c.1651.

    Inscribed Margaret Simeon 1700. Bookplate of Thomas Weld. Maggs, sale catalogue No. 640 (1937), item 357, with facsimile of the inscribed flyleaf and title-page.

    • *DaW 151
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      Sir William Davenant, Gondibert (4to, London, 1651)

  • 1977.1079

    An exemplum signed by Cotton on the title-page.

    Mid-late 17th century.

    Recorded in Parks, p. 15.

    • *CnC 183
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      Charles Cotton, Léry, Jean de. Histoire d'un voyage faict en la terre du Brésil (Geneva, 1580)

  • 1983 219

    Three possibly autograph corrections, supplying omitted words on sig. B2v, B4r and D1r.

    In an exemplum of the quarto edition of 1653, in contemporary calf.

    Inscribed on the front paste-down Charles Hurt jun: Wirksworth: May: 7: 1823. Quaritch's sale catalogue No. 1027 (1982), item 55.

    An apparently unique recorded exemplum of this edition was isted in Quaritch's catalogue No. 1027 (1982), with a facsimile of the title-page.

    • *DeJ 9
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.

      First published in London, 1642. Poems and Translations (London, 1668). Banks, pp. 62-89. O Hehir, Hieroglyphicks.

      Sir John Denham, Cooper's Hill ('Sure there are Poets which did never dream')

  • 1984 + 145

    A printed exemplum, inscribed in the hand of the book's editor Simon Grynaeus (1493-1541) Thomas More lib. ex dono authoris, and inscribed by More himself Tho More, Eq.

    c.1532.

    Also inscribed by Gennaro Cejannelli and Bartolomeo Diana, and once in the monastery of San Domenico, Bologna.

    • *MrT 50
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      Sir Thomas More, Novis orbis regionum ac insularum veteribus incognitarum (Paris, 1532)

  • BO48.Ep2.*G446.Copy 1

    An exemplum inscribed on a flyleaf by Cotton to Colonel Wodcastle.

    c.1670.

    Gift of J. Ogden Bulkley.

    Facsimile of the inscription in Parks, p. 17.

    • *CnC 157
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      Charles Cotton, Cotton, Charles. The History of the Life of the Duke of Espernon [trans. from Guillaume Girard] (London, 1670)

  • BO48.Ep2.*G446.Copy 2

    An exemplum inscribed on the verso of the title-page by Cotton to Charles Agard.

    c.1670.

    Facsimile of the inscription in Parks, p. 17.

    • *CnC 158
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      Charles Cotton, Cotton, Charles. The History of the Life of the Duke of Espernon [trans. from Guillaume Girard] (London, 1670)

  • EC + 13

    A printed exemplum containing (on p. 5) Jonson's presentation inscription to his Amicissimo...Francis Yong.

    Later owned by John Dent (c.1761-1826), politician and book collector. Sotheby's, 25 April 1827 (Dent sale, Part 2), lot 309. Bookplate of William Gott. Henry Sotheran & Co., sale catalogue Bibliotheca Pretiosa, [1907], item 277, with a facsimile of the inscribed contents page. Donated by Alexander S. Cochran, December 1911.

    Facsimile of the inscribed page in Stephen Parks, The Elizabethan Club of Yale University and Its Library (New Haven & London, 1986), p. 143.

    • *JnB 759
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      Ben Jonson, Workes (1616)

  • Eliz 191

    An exemplum of the printed quarto edition of 1599, lightly marked up with stage cues.

    17th century?.

    Signed on the title-page by George Steevens (1736-1800), literary editor and scholar. Initials G. D. in gilt on the red leather cover.

    Recorded in Shattuck, p. 411, No. 1.

    • ShW 86.9
      No description or publication history available.

      First published in London, 1597.

      William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

  • If M81 +S529

    Exemplum of the second edition (London, 1529).

    With MS annotations and emendations apparently made by William Rastell, used as the printer's copy of this work in Rastell's edition of More's Workes (1557).

    c.1557.

    Armorial bookplate of Henry Cunliffe.

    This item discussed in Yale, Vol. 12, p. xlviii, with facsimile examples after p. 320. See J.K. Moore, Primary Materials (1992), p. 32.

    • MrT 35
      No description or publication history available.

      First published in London, 1529. Yale, Vol. 7, pp. 109-228.

      All exempla of the two editions of 1529 bear a MS correction, evidently made in the printer William Rastell's workshop, on sig h2v: see Ralph Keen, A Correction by Hand in More's Supplication, 1529, Moreana, Vol. 20 (February 1983), 100.

      Sir Thomas More, The Supplication of Souls

  • Ih D718 C633H Copy 2

    An exemplum of the 1669 edition of Donne's Poems, with numerous annotations and markings in the hand of S.T. Coleridge and in another hand.

    Once owned by Charles Lamb.

    Described and the annotations edited in The Collected Works of Samuel Coleridge, Vol. 12: Marginalia II, ed. Kathleen Coburn et al. (London & Princeton, 1984), pp. 213-43, with a facsimile page facing p. 239.

    • DnJ 4167
      No description or publication history available.
      John Donne, Poems

  • Ih. J738. 640E. Copy 2

    An exemplum signed Izaak Walton on the title-page.

    Mid-17th century.
    • *WtI 183
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      Izaak Walton, Jonson, Ben. Execration against Vulcan (London, 1640)

  • Ih. Sa57. Zz 596

    A printed exemplum with Sandys's autograph motto and signature on the title-page.

    Early-mid-17th century.

    Donated in 1896 by Eugene Davenport Alexander.

    Recorded in Rogers, p. 370.

    • *SaG 56
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      George Sandys, Petronius. Satyricon: cum notis & observationibus variorum (Leiden, 1596)

  • lh Sp 617m

    A printed exemplum of the edition of 1617, with copious virulently hostile MS comments in the margins by a reader, quite possibly the target of the pamphlet, Joseph Swetnam (d.1621), in preparation for an intended (but not published) answer.

    c.1617.
    • SpR 1
      No description or publication history available.

      First published in London, 1617.

      Rachel Speght, A Mouzell for Melastomus

  • Ij C829 681 Copy 3

    An exemplum inscribed by Walton Izaak Walton, given me by Mr. Cotton. August 30, 1681 and with Walton's copious corrections or emendations (notably on pp. 26, 37, 40-1, 48-9, 63, and 66).

    1681.

    Sotheby's, 20 December 1838 (the Rev. H.S. Cotton sale), lot 72, to Bagster. According to a 19th-century note in an exemplum of this edition in Derby Central Library (4810), Walton's exemplum came from the library of J.C. Grove Esq. sold at Leighs 1794: i.e. Leigh & Sotheby's, 10 February 1794 (library of William Chafin Grove, of Zeals, Wiltshire), lot 1354, to [Richard] Heber.

    • *WtI 146
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      Izaak Walton, Cotton, Charles. The Wonders of the Peake (London, 1681)

  • Ij W175. Zz652g

    A printed exemplum, the work with a preface by I.W., attributed to Walton, with Walton's autograph signature Izaak Walton on the title-page and on a flyleaf.

    Mid-17th century.
    • *WtI 201
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      Izaak Walton, Skeffington, Sir John. The Heroe of Lorenzo, [trans. from Baltasar Gracian y Morales] (London, 1652)

  • Ij C829.Zz660g

    A printed exemplum signed by Cotton on a flyleaf.

    Late 17th century.

    Bookplate of William, third Lord Byron. Inscribed by one J. Lee.

    Recorded by W. C. Hazlitt in The Antiquary, 37 (1901), 89. Also recorded in Turner, p. 445 et seq.; in Dust, p. 21; and in Parks, p. 32.

    • *CnC 189
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      Charles Cotton, Quarles, Francis. Divine Fancies (London, 1660)

  • Ij C829.Zz663t

    An exemplum signed by Cotton, 1660.

    1660.

    Recorded in Parks, pp. 15, 35.

    • *CnC 192
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      Charles Cotton, Recueil de diverses pièces (Cologne, 1563)

  • Ij W175 661 copy 2

    A printed exemplum inscribed on a flyleaf Catherine Cotton. given mee by my Dearest Father and Given mee T: Prise. by her Father, Ingenious Mr: Charles Cotton: 1687.

    c.1661-87.

    Sotheby's, 15 February 1932, lot 423, to Pickering, with a facsimile of the inscriptions in the sale catalogue. Bookplates of E. M. Cox and Samuel Lambert.

    • CnC 201
      No description or publication history available.
      Charles Cotton, Walton, Izaak. The Compleat Angler, 3rd edition (London, 1661)

  • Ij W175 676 Copy 4

    Copy of eleven stanzas, incomplete.

    Copy of eleven stanzas, incomplete, on four pages bound at the end of an exemplum of Izaak Walton, The Compleat Angler (London, 1676).

    Late 17th century.

    This MS recorded in Parks, p. 29.

    • CnC 2
      No description or publication history available.

      First published in Poems (1689), pp. 76-81. Beresford, pp. 73-6. Buxton, pp. 31-5.

      Charles Cotton, The Angler's Ballad ('Away to the Brook')

  • Ij W175 Zz609D

    An exemplum inscribed Izaak Walton 1654, with various autograph annotations, including an early draft of Walton's dedication to George Morley, Bishop of Winchester, of his The Life of Dr. Sanderson (1678).

    Late 17th century.
    • *WtI 151
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      Izaak Walton, Daniel, Samuel. Civile Wars (London, 1609)

  • Ij W175. +Zz617

    Walton's exemplum.

    Early 17th century.
    • *WtI 178
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      Izaak Walton, Hooker, Richard. Of the Lawes of Ecclesiasticall Politie (London, 1617)

  • IIj W175 Zz672

    Walton's exemplum.

    c.1672.
    • WtI 130
      No description or publication history available.
      Izaak Walton, Ashmole, Elias. The Institution, Laws & Ceremonies of the most Noble Order of the Garter (London, 1672)

  • Ij W175 Zz673h

    An exemplum inscribed Izaak Walton. given me by Mr [Robert] paulet [publisher]. Feb. 13° 1673.

    1673.
    • *WtI 173
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      Izaak Walton, Hales, John. Golden Remains (London, 1673)

  • Lmd96 + 700e

    A composite volume of printed Oxford verse.

    Early-mid-18th century.

    Once owned by Falconer Madan (1851-1935), librarian and bibliographer.

    • CgW 32 pp. 340-1, 344

      Copy, in a neat hand, headed To the Queen, on the victorious Progress of her Majesty's Arms under the Conduct of the Duke of Marlborough. A Pindaric Ode. By Mr Congreve, on three folio blank pages of printed pamphlets dated 1713-14.

      First published in London, 1706. Summers, IV, 82-91. Dobrée, pp. 335-41. McKenzie, II, 419-23.

      William Congreve, A Pindarique Ode Humbly Offer'd to the Queen On the Victorious Progress of Her Majesty's Arms, under the Conduct of the Duke of Marlborough ('Daughter of Memory, Immortal Muse')

  • Me65 D925 +R4G 1630

    Exemplum of the edition of 1630, with Lady Falkland's autograph verses under the engraved portrait of du Perron, her autograph sonnet to Queen Henrietta Maria, and her autograph corrections and additions in the printed text.

    c.1630.

    Recorded in Wolfe, p. 12. The autograph poem To the Queenes most Excellent Maiestie ('Tis not your faire out-side (though famous Greece) edited from this MS in Kissing the Rod, ed. Germaine Greer et al. (New York, 1988), pp. 59-60.

    • *CaE 42
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.

      Lady Falkland's translation of a controversial tract by Jacques Davy (1556-1618), Cardinal of Perron. First published in Douai, 1630. Most exempla coming into England were destroyed by command of George Abbot, Archbishop of Canterbury. Most surviving presentation exempla include an autograph poem To the Queenes most Excellent Maiestie ('Tis not your faire out-side (though famous Greece), which is edited in Kissing the Rod, ed. Germaine Greer et al. (New York, 1988), pp. 59-60.

      Elizabeth Cary, Viscountess Falkland, The Reply of the most Illustrious Cardinall of Perron, to the Answeare of the most Excellent King of Great Britaine

  • Zd 1270

    Exemplum of the first edition, first issue [1647], with seven MS corrections probably made in the printing house.

    [1647].

    This item discussed in Sullivan, SB, 28 (1975), 268-76.

    • DnJ 4056
      No description or publication history available.

      First published in London, [1647]. Reprinted in facsimile, ed. J.W. Hebel (New York, 1930). Edited by Michael Rudick and M. Pabst Bettin (New York, 1982) and by Ernest W. Sullivan II (Newark, NJ, 1984).

      John Donne, Biathanatos

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