307 SHAKSPEARE. Richardson's Essays on several of Shakespeare's Dramatic Characters, with an Essay on the Faults of Shakespeare, and some general Observations on the study of him, 3 vols. 12mo. boards, scarce, 6s 1786 308 309 SHAKSPEARE GALLERY; containing a select Series of Scenes and Characters (accompanied by criticisms and remarks) adapted to the works of that admired author, fifty plates, royal 8vo. calf, gilt, very neat, scarce, 12s 1792 The engravings by C. Taylor and W. Nutter. [Tyrwhit's] Observations and Conjectures upon some passages of Shakespeare, 8vo. sewed, 2s 6d Oxford, 1766 Anonymous, but the author Thomas Tyrwhitt. 310 SHIRLEY'S (JAMES) DRAMATIC WORKS, with Notes, and illustrations by W. Gifford and A. Dyce, 6 vols. 8vo. boards, 1l 16s (pub. at 3l) 1829 1802 311 SIBBALD'S (James) Chronicle of Scottish Poetry from the XIII. Century to the Union of the Crowns, with a Glossary, 4 vols. 8vo. calf, neat, 21 2s 312 SIDNEY'S (Sir Philip) Countesse of Pembroke's Arcadia, interspersed with Poetry, with his Sonnets, Defence of Poesie, Astrophel and Stella, 3rd edition, folio, old calf, 12s Will. Ponsonbie, 1598 313 314 315 316 "This species of composition (the Arcadia) may be considered as forming the second stage of romance-writing. The heroism and the gallantry, the moral and virtuous turn of the chivalry-romance, were still preserved; but the dragons, the necromancers, the enchanted castles were banished, and some small resemblance to human nature was admitted.". -Chalmers. Defence of Poesy, 4to. boards, 4s Beautifully printed by Bulmer, edited by Lord Thurlow. another copy, in calf, gilt, 6s 1810 1810 "Live ever, sweet book! the silver image of his gentle wit, and the golden pillar of his noble courage; and ever notify unto the world, that he who wrote thee was the secretary of eloquence, the breath of the muses, and the honey bee of the daintiest flowers of wit and art."-Gabriel Harvey. Works, in Prose and Verse, 3 vols. 8vo. best edition, calf, neat, but wormed, scarce, 1l 5s 1725 This best edition of the works of Sir Philip Sydney, was edited by Mrs. Stanley; there is a Life of Sir Philip prefixed. On a page in this copy is written "E. Churton (Archdeacon), from the library of the Rev. H. Kett, Oxford, May 20, 1824." Miscellaneous Works, containing Sonnets, Masque, Defence of Poesy, &c., with Life and Illustrative Notes by W. Gray, small 8vo. boards, 9s 1829 This volume is very carefully edited. "Sidney was the greatest poet, and the noblest genius of any that have left writings in our own or any modern language.". Sir William Temple. 317 SKELTON. (John) Pithy, Pleasaunt, and Profitable Workes of Maister Skelton, Poete Laureate to K. Hen. VIII., 12mo. calf, neat, 18s 1736 Erasmus styled Skelton "Britannicarum literarum decus et lumen.” "He was chaplain "The restorer 318 SONNETS. Specimens of English Sonnets, by the Rev. Alexander Dyce, 16mo. boards, 6s 1829 A selection of the best Sonnets from the Earl of Surrey to Wordsworth. "A beautiful selection, and we recommend it for the taste and judgment in the choice, and for the elegance of the typography."com Gentleman's Magazine. 319 SOUTHEY'S (Robert) Specimens of the later English Poets, with preliminary Notices, 3 vols. 12mo. half bound in morocco, uncut, top edges gilt, 1l 16s 1807 Commences with Thomas Otway, 1651, and ends with William Cowper, who died in 1800; enumerating 223 Poets. This work was intended by the author as supplemen. tal to Ellis's" Specimens," and is bound uniformly with a copy described at No. 105. April 1st, 1807. Southey's Specimens of later English Poems. Preface and preliminary notices very lively. They contain a pretty complete code of Anti-Johnsonian criticism. The style is a good imitation of Lord Orford." Sir James Mackintosh. 320 SOUTHEY's Specimens, vol. 3, 8vo. boards, 3s 6d 321 322 1807 Early English Poets, collected into 1 vol. thick 8vo. bds., 1l 10s 1830 A useful and convenient volume, with short biographies of the lives of those poets whose works are contained in it. Essay on the Lives and Works of our uneducated Poets, prefixed to the "Attempts in Verse," of John Jones, an old servant, whom Mr. Southey befriended, 8vo. boards, 10s 6d 1831 This volume is inserted here, as it contains a large and most interesting life, with extracts from the poetry of Taylor the Water Poet, as he was called, an edition of whose works was published in a folio volume in 1630. 323 SPECIMENS OF THE LIVING POETS OF ENGLAND, with Biographical and Critical Notices, and an Essay on English Poetry, 2 vols. 8vo. boards, 15s Paris, 1827 324 SPECIMENS OF THE EARLY POETRY OF FRANCE from the time of the Troubadours and Trouvers to the Reign of Henri Quatre, by Louisa Stuart Costello, small 8vo. extra boards, 1l 1s Pickering, 1835 A most elegant volume, tastefully illustrated with four illuminated paintings of "Nature instructing the Poet," and portraits of "Jean de Meun," "Christine de Pise," and "Charles Duke of Orleans." 325 SPENSER'S (Edmund) Works, Prose and Poetical, with Glossary, an Essay on Allegorical Poetry, and Life, by Hughes, 6 vols. 18mo. fine copy, very neat, 326 327 328 329 - 1/ 1s Tonson, 1750 One of the Series called "English Elzevir's." 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Observations on the Fairy Queen of Spenser, 2 vols. 8vo. boards, 10s 1807 "By this work he not only established his character as an acute critic, but opened to the world at large, that new and important field of criticism and illustration which bas since been so ably cultivated by Steevens, Malone, Reed, Todd, and other commentators on our ancient Poets."-Chalmers. 330 STEBBING'S (Henry) Lives of the Italian Poets, medallion portraits, 3 vols. 8vo. boards, 1l 1s-half bound, gilt, very neat, 1l 5s 1831 These interesting volumes, contain the Lives of Dante, Petrarch, Boccaccio, Lorenzo de Medici, Angiolo Poliziano, Boiardo, Ariosto, Guarini, Tasso, Metastasio, Alfieri, besides 24 other celebrated Italian Poets. 331 STEBBING AND CATTERMOLE's Sacred Poetry of the XVII. Century, 2 vols. 18mo, boards, 8s 1835 "A well-written Essay introduces these Specimens of English Sacred Poetry, which we cordially recommend to ourreaders." "A delightful Selection."-Literary Gazette, No. 972 332 STORER'S (Thomas) Life and Death of Thomas Wolsey, Cardinal, and his aspiring, triumph, and death, 4to. boards, 10s 6d 1815 Only 250 copies re-printed at the private press of Messrs. Longman and Co. from the rare edition of 1599. "The value of the poem which was praised for its elegant verse by Bp. Nicolson, is heightened by its apparent fidelity as an historical record."-T. Park. 333 SUCKLING'S (Sir John) Works, containing his Poems, Letters, and Plays, 2 vols. 12mo. calf, gilt, neat, scarce, 5s 6d 1770 "For a perfect specimen of those men of wit and pleasure,' who were,' about town' during the first Charles's time, commend us to Sir John Suckling-the gay, the graceful, the accomplished-the witty, the valiant, the wise-the scholar, the courtier, the soldier, and the gentleman."-Retrospective Review, vol. ix. p. 20. 334 SURREY AND WYATT. The Works of Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, and of Sir Thomas Wyatt the elder, edited, with Biographical Memoirs, Dissertations, and large Notes, by Dr. G. F. Nott, portraits and plates, 2 vols. large 4to. 1l 16s (pub. at 71 7s) 335 1815 "We now emerge from the twilight of learning to an almost classic author, that ornament of a boisterous, yet not unpolished Court, the Earl of Surrey, celebrated by Drayton, Dryden, Fenton, and Pope, illustrated by his own muse, and lamented for his unhappy and unmerited death; a man,' as Sir Walter Raleigh says, 'no less valiant than learned, and of excellent hopes." "Walpole. "Dr. Nott's edition is, for plan, copiousness, and erudition, like a dutch quarto variorum of an ancient classic. Those who love much digging for healthful exercise will be delighted with such toil as these handsome quartos hold out.”—Dibdin. Poetical Works, with Original Memoirs by Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas, 2 vols. small 8vo. boards, 18s 1830 336 TANSILLO'S (Luigi) Nurse, a Poem in Italian, with a translation in English, by W. Roscoe, and Notes, 12mo. boards, 3s Liverpool, M'Creery, 1804 "A singular and interesting production of one of the brightest wits in that constellation of genius which appeared in Italy in the XVI. Century."- -Preface. The author was contemporary with Ariosto, Bembo, Casa, and the Tasso's. 337 Tasso's Jerusalem Delivered, done into English Heroical Verse by E. Fairfax, a new edition, to which is prefixed a Glossary, and Lives of Tasso and Fairfax, 2 vols. cr. 8vo. boards, 12s 338 339 340 1817 "This translation is particularly distinguished by the harmony of its versification, in which respect the translator ranks nearly if not entirely, upon a level with Spenser. Waller acknowledged that he had learned his numbers from Fairfax.”—Adelung. Jerusalem Delivered, translated from the Italian by J. 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(that of Q. Mary) His first edition was printed in 1557. 349 TYTLER'S (Alex. Fraser) Essay on the Principles of Translation, 8vo. boards, 7s 6d (pub. at 12s) Edinburgh, 1813 Best edition of an ingenious and interesting work. 350 UNION; or, Select Scotch and English Poems, 3rd edition, 12mo. neat, 3s 6d 1766 "Made under the immediate inspection and conduct of several ingenious gentlemen, whose names it would do us the highest honour to mention. It contains a variety not to be found even in the admirable collection (Dodsley's) just spoken of."-Preface. "A small, but choice collection of poems, edited by Tho. Warton, D. D."-Lowndes. 351 UTTERSON's (Edw. 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WIFFEN, portrait, and vignettes on India paper, 8vo. fine copy in calf, gilt, gilt edges, 18s "The chastest, and perhaps the most celebrated, of the Poets of Castile." bold to assert, that the Poets, and readers of Poets of the day, will be no way degraded by coming in contact with his simplicity; our taste for the wilder flights of imagination has reached a height from which the sooner we descend to imitate the nature and unassuming ease of simpler lyrists-the Goldsmiths and the Garcilassos of past ages, the better it may chance to be both for our poetry and language."— Wiffen, preface, p. 13. 353 VIRGIL'S NEIS, translated into Scottish Verse by the famous GAWIN DOUGLAS, Bishop of Dunkeld, and Uncle to the Earl of Angus, a new edition, with a large Glossary, (by Ruddiman) and an Account of the Author's Life and Writings, (by the Rev. JOHN SAGE,) folio, neat, 1l 11s 6d Edinb., 1710 "This translation is executed with great spirit and fidelity; and is a proof that the lowland Scottish and English languages were now (in 1513) nearly the same. The several books are introduced with metrical prologues, which are often highly poetical, and show that Douglas's proper walk was original poetry."-Warton. It was begun in 1513 at the request of Henry Earl of St. Clair. The excellent glossary, compiled by the industry of the learned Ruddiman, may, indeed, "serve for a dictionary of the old Scottish language." The life is written by one every way equal to the task. 354 VOLTAIRE'S (Mons.) Critical Essays on Dramatic Poetry, with Notes by the translator, 12mo. neat, 2s 6d 1761 355 WALES. THE MYVYRIAN ARCHAEOLOGY OF WALES, collected out of Ancient Manuscripts, 3 vols. royal 8vo. boards, VERY RARE, 6l 16s 6d 1801-7 "This valuable publication, embracing the works of eminent bards and historians, was conducted by that eminent Welsh Philologist, Mr. William Owen."― Lowndes. H 356 WALKER'S (Joseph B.) Historical Memoirs of the IRISH BARDS, interspersed with Anecdotes of, and occasional Observations on, the Music of Ireland; also, an Historical and Descriptive Account of the Musical Instruments of the Ancient Irish, Biographical Papers, and select Irish Melodies, portrait of Cormac Common, and plates, 4to. fine copy, very scarce, 1l 1s 357 358 Dublin, 1786 "The history of the Irish bards is, perhaps, of all others the most extraordinary.”- Historical Memoir on, ITALIAN TRAGEDY, illustrated with Specimens Memoirs of Alessandro Tassoni, with Specimens of his Works, Biographies of Rinuccini, Galeili, Chiabrera, Guarini, and an inedited Poem of Tasso, portrait and plates, 8vo. boards, 7s 6d 1815 "It will gratify the admirers of Italian literature to learn that Mr. Walker has left them a valuable legacy in the Life of Tassoni, which will add another wreath to the crown which criticism has entwined for the author of the Memoirs on Italian Tragedy, and the Historical Memoirs of the Irish Bards." 359 WALLER'S (Edmund) Works in Verse and Prose, published by Mr. Fenton, 18mo. very neat, 5s 6d Glasgow, Foulis, 1752 "Upon the whole review of Waller, the elegance of his diction, the equality and force of his writings, and, above all, the harmony of his numbers, rank him among the fathers of our modern and improved versification."—Neve's Remarks on the Poets. 360 WARTON'S (Thomas) History of English Poetry, from the close of the Eleventh to the commencement of the Eighteenth Century: with three Dissertations, of the Origin of Romantic Fiction in Europe, on the Introduction of Learning into England, on the Gesta Romanorum, a new edition, with the Notes of Ritson, Dr. Ashby, Douce, Park, and others, incorporated by the editor, RICHARD PRice, Esq., Barrister, portraits, 4 vols. 8vo. boards, 1l 18s-calf, gilt, 2l 18s 1824 "This work displays the most singular combination of extraordinary talents and attainments. It unites the deep and minute researches of the antiquary with the elegance of the classical scholar, and the skill of the practised writer. The style is vigorous and manly; the observations acute and just; and the views of the subject extensive and accurate."-Sir Egerton Brydges. There is a very excellent preface by the editor, Mr. Price, a very learned Anglo-Saxon scholar, occupying 113 pages. 361 363 Remarks upon the Eighteenth Section of the second volume of Mr. Warton's History of English Poetry, 8vo. sewed, 2s 6d n. d. This anonymous pamphlet belongs to the Rowley controversy. 362 WEBB'S (Daniel) Remarks on the Beauties of Poetry, small 8vo. cf, nt., 3s 1762 Observations on the Correspondence between Poetry and Music, small 8vo. calf, neat, 3s 6d 1769 364 WEBER'S (Henry) Metrical Romances of the 13th, 14th, and 15th Centuries, published from ancient MSS., with an Introduction, Notes, and a Glossary, 3 vols. 8vo. boards, 1 1s (pub. at 2l 2s) 365 WEBSTER'S (John) Dramatic Works, with an Essay on his Life and Writings, by the Rev. Alex. Dyce, 4 vols. small 8vo. boards, 1l 16s (pub. at 21 2s) 1830 "We take the opportunity of expressing our very high opinion of the diligence, skill and judgment of Mr. Dyce, whose editions of Peele, Green, and Webster leave little to desire and less to improve."- -Quarterly Review. 1810 366 WHINCOP'S (Tho.) Scanderbeg; or Love and Liberty, a Tragedy, with a List of all the Dramatic Authors, some Account of their Lives, and of all the Dramatic Pieces ever published in the English Language, to the year 1747, portraits 8vo. neat, 4s 367 WILKES'S (Tho.) General View of the Stage, 8vo. neat, 5s 1747 1759 368 WILLIAMS's (Edward, Bardd wrth Fraint a Defod Beirdd Ynys Prydain) Poems, Lyric and Pastoral, 2 vols. small 8vo. sewed, 7s 6d 1794 The notes to the poems of this intelligent Welsh antiquary contain some valuable historical and biographical matter relating to South Wales. |