BACON (Sir Francis)—continued. 83 84 85 RESUSCITATIO, or, Bringing into Publick Light severall Pieces, of the Works, Civil, Historical, Philosophical, and Theological, hitherto sleeping; of the Right Honourable Francis Bacon. According to the best Corrected Coppies. Together, with his Lordships Life. By William Rawley. With engraved portrait of Bacon. FIRST EDITION. Folio. Original calf. London, Printed by Sarah Griffin for William Lee, 1657. The "Resuscitatio" is a collection of English pieces and translations. Each THE TWOO BOOKES OF FRANCIS BACON. Of the profi- A few head-lines cut into. £25 The "Advancement of Learning" is one of the landmarks of what high thought and rich imagination have made of the English Language. "It is the first great book in English Prose of Secular interest; the first book which can claim a place beside the "Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity." It contains some of Bacon's finest writings." (R. W. Church). THE TWOO BOOKES OF FRANCIS BACON: Of the proficience and advancement of Learning, divine and humane. London, Printed for Henrie Tomes, 1605. THE ESSAYES OR COUNSELS, CIVIL AND MORALL: With a Table of the Colours, of Apparances of Good and Evill, and (Continued over) BACON (Sir Francis): Twoo Bookes of Francis BACON continued. their Degrees, as places of Perswasion, and Disswasion, and their London, Printed by John Beale, 1639. £31 108 IOS 86 BADGER IN THE FOX-TRAP, OR A SATYR UPON SATYRS. Folio. New boards. Circa 1681. 8 pp. 87 BAKER (Thomas). TUNBRIDGE WALKS; or, the Yeoman of FIRST EDITION. Small 4to. Buckram. Title margined. Thomas Baker, who flourished at the commencement of the 18th Century, was the son of an eminent attorney in London. "Tunbridge Walks" is his most celebrated Comedy. In it he has introduced a character named "Maiden," which was intended by the Author as a portraiture of himself. 88 BALE (John). A MYSTERYE OF INYQUYTE CONTAYNED WITHIN THE HERETYCALL GENEALOGYE OF PONCE PANTOLABUS, is here both dysclosed and confuted by John Bale. Woodcut title. Small 8vo. Full russia, g. e. £5 55 Interspersed with English Verse. BALE (John) continued. 89 THE TWO PARTS OF THE ACTES OF ENGLISH VOTARIES, comprehendynge their unchast practises and examples by all ages from the worldes beginning to the raygne of King Jhon. 90 BANCROFT (Richard, Archbp. of Canterbury). DAUNGEROUS POSITIONS AND PROCEEDINGS, published and practised within this Iland of Brytaine, under pretence of Reformation, and for the Presbiteriall Discipline. FIRST EDITION. Small 4to. Fine copy in full levant morocco gilt, g. e. London, Imprinted by John Wolfe, 1593. This was Bancroft's most notable production. £335 91 BANKS (John). CYRUS THE GREAT; or the Tragedy of Love. FIRST EDITION. Small 4to. New boards. London, 1696. 92 £225 This play was at first forbidden, but afterwards came on and met with very good success. Downes says that Smith, having a long part in it, fell ill upon the fourth day, and died. This occasioned it to be laid aside, and it was not acted afterwards. Vertue Betray'd; or, Anna Bullen, a Tragedy. £315s This tragedy, on the story of Anna Boleyn, was the most successful of all Bank's works, and held the stage until 1766. Mr. Halliwell-Phillipps, in his "Outlines of the Life of Shakespeare," draws attention to the interesting notice of the poet and Stratford-on-Avon contained in the preface: 66 I say not this to derogate from those excellent Persons who, I ought to believe, have written more to please their Audiences,than themselves; but to persuade them, as Homer, and our Shakespeare did, to Immortalize the places where they were Born; and then, perhaps, I will sit down, and leave it to much abler Pens." 93 BARON (Robert). MIRZA, a Tragedie. Esq. Really acted in Persia, in the last Age. Illustrated with Historicall Annotations, the Author R. B., "The story of this play is the same as that which Denham made the groundwork of his 'Sophy,' and which may be found in Sir Thomas Herbert's Travels'; yet Baron has handled them in a different manner from that author, having finished three complete acts of this before he saw that tragedy; nor found himself then discouraged from proceeding, on a consideration of the great difference in their respective pursuits of the same plan. Baron has made Jonson's Catiline' in great measure his model, having not only followed the method of his scenes, but even imitated his language; and anyone may perceive that his ghost of Emirhamze Mirza is an evident copy of that of Sylla in Catiline.' It is, however, a good play, and is commended by five sets of verses by his Cambridge friends; but it does not seem to have been acted."-W. C. Hazlitt. 94 BARRET (Robert). THE THEOrike and Practike of Moderne WARRES. Discoursed in Dialogue wise: Wherein is declared the Neglect of Martiall discipline: the inconvenience thereof: the imperfections of manie training Captaines: a redresse by due regard had the fittest weapons for our Moderne Warre: the use of the same: the parts of a perfect souldier in generall and in particular: the Officers in degrees, with their severall duties: inbattailing of men in formes now most in use: with figures and tables to the same: with sundrie other martiall points. Large woodcut Coat of Arms on reverse of title, and numerous diagrams in the text. FIRST EDITION. Folio. Original vellum binding. London, Printed for William Ponsonby, 1598. his son. £25 Dedicated to Henry Earl of Pembroke, and William Lord Herbert of Cardiff, BASKERVILLE PRESS. 95 BARCLAY (Robert). AN APOLOGY FOR THE TRUE CHRISTIAN DIVINITY, being an Explanation and Vindication of the Principles and Doctrines of the People called Quakers. The Eighth English Edition. 4to. Half cloth, edges uncut. 96 HORACE. With frontispiece by Henriquez, and 4 other plates by Gravelot, engraved by Godfroy, Voy and Lainé, Leveau, and C. le Vaisseur. 4to. Contemporary red morocco, g. e. Birminghamiae, Typis Johannis Baskerville, 1770. £23 10S The rarest of the classic quartos and the only one issued by Baskerville with plates. 98 SHAFTESBURY (Anthony, Earl of). CHARACTERISTICKS OF MEN, MANNERS, OPINIONS, TIMES. With engraved portrait of Shaftesbury, and vignettes by Sim. Gribelin. LARGE PAPER COPY. 3 vols., 8vo. Original calf. £7 15s |