ALES (Alexander): ORDO DISTRIBUTIONIS-continued. where Archbishop Cranmer employed him to translate into Latin the first liturgy of King Edward VI. for the use of Martin Bucer and Peter Martyr, whose views on the Communion Book were desired by Cranmer, but who lacked the requisite knowledge of the English tongue. It is with reference to this piece of work and the changes afterwards introduced into the communion service that, at a disputation held at Oxford, 18 April, 1554, between Latimer and a numerous body of opponents, the prolocutor Dr. Weston declared that a 'runagate Scot did take away the adoration or worshipping of Christ in the sacrament; by whose procurement that heresy was put into the last communion book; so much prevailed that one man's authority at that time."" D.N.B. 25 ALEXANDER (Sir William, Earl of Stirling). THE TRAGIDIE OF DARIUS. FIRST ENGLISH EDITION. Small 4to. Half green morocco, g. c. London, Printed by G. Elde for Edward Blount. 1604. 26 ALEYN (Charles). THE BATTAILES OF CRESCEY AND POICTIERS, under the Fortunes and Valour of King Edward the Third of that name and his sonne, Edward, Prince of Wales, named the black. The Second Edition enlarged. Small 8vo. Bound by Riviere in full crushed red levant morocco extra, g. e. London, 1633. £4 4s THE FIRST POETICAL ANTHOLOGY IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE. 27 ALLOT (Robert). ENGLAND'S PARNASSUS; or, The Choysest Flowers of our Modern Poets, with their Poeticall Comparisons. Small 8vo. Fine copy in full morocco, g. e. Imprinted at London for Nicholas) L(ing), C(uthbert) B(urby) and T(homas) Hayes). 1600. (SEE ILLUSTRATION, PLATE No. II.) £160 This is the first Poetical Anthology of English Literature, and is also the most valuable. This extremely rare selection from Shakespeare, and other poets, has enabled (Continued over) ALLOT (Robert): ENGLAND'S PARNASSUS continued. Editors to assign to their true authors various pieces not otherwise known. It has also preserved numerous verses of the Elizabethan and ante-Elizabethan period nowhere else to be met with, and the names of poets who are not otherwise known in literary history than by their mention in England's Parnassus. It has hitherto been the custom to consider that the initials R. A. at the foot of the dedication to Sir Thomas Mounson concealed the name of Robert Allot, but Mr. Collier, who devotes three pages to a description, has adduced very plausible reasons for identifying them with Robert Armin, Actor and Author, who was a member of Shakespear's company in 1603. Among other early English Authors the following are referred to: 28 WITS THEATER OF THE LITTLE WORLD. FIRST EDITION. Small 8vo, vellum gilt. Printed by I. R. for N. L. and are to be sold at the West doore of Paules. 1599. SEE ILLUSTRATION, PLATE NO. III.) £84 Very fine copy of the First Edition. One of the most popular of the Elizabethan collections of Maxims from the Philosophers. A collection of moral sayings gathered from classical authors, anecdotes of famous men, historical epitomes, and the like. It contains much curious information. Dedicated to John Bodenham and printed for Nicholas Ling the Stationer with his woodcut device on the title. There is little doubt that Allot and not Bodenham was the editor, for a copy of this edition in the British Museum contains an epistle in which Allot dedicates to Bodenham this " collection of the flowers of antiquities and histories." 29 ALMANACKS. BRETNOR (1615). A NEWE ALMANACKE and Prognostication for the yeare of our Lord God, 1615. Being the thirde after Leap yeare. 30 31 Calculated and composed according to Act for the latitude and Meridian of the honourable City of London, and may well serue all the South parts of Great-Britaine. By Thomas Bretnor, Professor of the Mathematicks and Student in Physicke in Cowlane, London. Small 8vo. BLACK LETTER. Title within woodcut border in red and black; full calf. (London, 1615.) £88s A very rare and most interesting Almanack. For each month is given a fourline verse. June has: "Now hunt the Hare, the fearefull Buck pursue Bid idlenesse and Venus sports adieu: The careful Husband that intends to thriue, Opposite the Calendar for each Month a blank space has been left for Notes. A COLLECTION OF THIRTEEN EARLY AND VERY RARE £12 128 The above Almanacks (one or two of the later ones slightly imperfect) include those published by Thomas Bretnor 1618-19; Daniel Browne 1621-22, 1624; and by Richard Allestree 1623, 1625-29. Several of these Almanacks have verses heading each month, e.g., May 1619: "Be bold to use such physicall intentions As are prescrib'd by Artists true inventions : Yet often under colour of accord, Is hatred hatcht and rancor often stored." A COLLECTION OF EIGHTEEN RARE ALMANACKS FOR THE YEAR 1648. Ι ASTROLOGICAL Bound in I vol. Thick small 8vo. Original vellum. Containing Almanacks issued under the names of Lelborn, Lilly, Wharton, Swallow, Staynred, White, Neve, Vaux, Booker, Wing, Dove, Parkhurst, Pond, Nye, Langley, Chamberlaine, Woodhouse; and the Scripture Almanack. Containing amongst others rare almanacks issued under the names of Booker, Wharton, Pond, Dove, Wing, Allestree, Harflete, Leybourn, Swallow, Dade, White, Daniel, Rowley, Shakerley etc. Original calf (with £6 10S 33 34 35 Including almanacks issued by Culpeper, Smith, Crooke, Vaux, Saunders, Hewit, White, Pond, Dove, Dade, Neve, and others. A COLLECTION OF TWENTY-SEVEN ASTROLOGICAL ALMANACKS FOR THE YEAR 1653. Bound in I vol. Thick small 8vo. Original calf. Including those issued by Culpeper, Streete, Vere, Smith, Coulton, Crook, Jackson, Pool, Vaux, Saunders, Nightingale, Hewit, Dade, White, etc. A COLLECTION OF FOURTEEN RARE ASTROLOGICAL ALMANACKS FOR THE YEAR 1678. Bound in I vol. Small 8vo. Full contemporary red morocco gilt. London, 1678. Besides the Almanacks issued under the names of Lilly, Partridge, Andrews, Gadbury, Dove, White, Fly, Rose, and others, there is the following very curious Quaker Almanack:— A Yea and Nay Almanack for the people called by the men of the World Quakers, with curious Verses, and the Quaker Catechism at the end. |