Wants A,, containing woodcut only, folios 284-292 containing the biography of Thomas à Becket, and last leaf containing woodcut. Worm holes through some leaves. 241 CAREW (Richard). EXAMEN DE INGENIOS. The Examination of Mens Wits. In which, by discovering the varietie of natures, is shewed for what profession each one is apt, and how far he shall profit therein. By John Huarte. Translated out of the Spanish tongue by M. Camillo Camilli. Englished out of his Italian, by R. C. Esquire. FIRST ENGLISH EDITION. Small 4to. Old boards. London, Printed by Adam Islip for C. Hunt of Excester, 1594. Dedicated to Sir Francis Godolphin, who lent Carew Camilli's version, a loan recorded in the words, God, Sir, your booke returneth unto you clad in a Cornish gabardine." A remarkable book, containing some new truths, with many bold paradoxes. 242 CARLELL (Lodovick). ARVIRAGUS AND PHILICIA. As it was acted at the Private House in Black Fryers by his Majesties. Servants. The First and Second Parts. FIRST EDITION. 12mo. Original calf (rebacked). London, Printed by John Norton, 1639. £6 6s The story is founded on old romantic British History. Arviragus reigned in Britain at the time of Claudius Caesar. CARLELL (Lodovick)-continued. 243 THE PASSIONATE LOVERS, a Tragi-Comedy. Twice presented before the King and Queens Majesties at Somerset House, and very often at the Private House in Black-Friars, with great Applause, by his late Majesties Servants. The First and Second Parts. FIRST EDITION. Small 4to. Full calf gilt, g. e. London, Printed for Humphrey Moseley, 1655. £5 5s Dedicated to "The Illustrious Princess Mary Dutchess of Richmond and Lenox." With the unpaged leaf of Epilogue at end. 244 CARLETON (George). THE MEMOIRS OF AN ENGLISH OFFICER, who serv'd in the Dutch War in 1672 to the Peace of Utrecht, in 1713. Containing several Remarkable Transactions both by Sea and Land, and in divers countries, but chiefly those wherein the Author was personally concern'd. FIRST EDITION. 8vo. Fine copy in original calf. £5 158 This work has often been ascribed to Defoe, but there is in reality little to justify this, beyond the fact that it was written in Defoe's lifetime, and in style and structure strongly resembles his fictitious narratives. No better proof of its merits could be given than that it has been so often and so strenuously claimed as one of Defoe's fictions; but what more particularly entitles its author to a place in literature is its importance as a piece of historical evidence bearing on a period for which trustworthy evidence is scarce. OF GODS 245 CARLETON (G.). A THANKFUL REMEMBRANCE OF MERCIE. Engraved title-page. Portrait of the Author and numerous copperplate engravings in the text. Small 4to. Calf. London, 1630. Referred to by Douce in his "Illustrations" of "The Merry Wives of Windsor." It also illustrates "The Merchant of Venice," for pages 164 to 198 relate to the Trial of Dr. Lopez for attempting to poison Queen Elizabeth, headed with a copper-plate engraving of "Lopez compounding to poyson the Queene.” Dr. Lopez is the original of Shakespeare's Shylock. Sidney Lee in his "Life of William Shakespeare" adds the following note:- : CARLETON (George): A THANKFULL Remembrance—continued. chief physician from that date. An accomplished linguist, with friends in all parts of Europe, he acted in 1590, at the request of the Earl of Essex, as interpreter to Antonio Perez, a victim of Philip II.'s persecution, whom Essex and his associates brought to England in order to stimulate the hostility of the English public to Spain. Don Antonio (as the refugee was popularly called) proved querulous and exacting. A quarrel between Lopez and Essex followed. Spanish agents in London offered Lopez a bribe to poison Antonio and the Queen. The evidence that he assented to the murderous proposal is incomplete, but he was convicted of treason, and, although the Queen long delayed signing his death-warrant, he was hanged at Tyburn on June 7, 1594. His trial and execution evoked a marked display of anti-Semitism on the part of the London populace. Very few Jews were domiciled in England at the time. That a Christian named Antonio should be the cause of the ruin alike of the greatest Jew in Elizabethan England and of the greatest Jew of the Elizabethan drama is a curious confirmation of the theory that Lopez was the begetter of Shylock.” 246 CARPENTER (Agricola). PSEUCHOGRAPHIA ANTHROPOMAGICA: or, A Magicall Description of the Soul: Wherein is set forth the Nature, Genesis and Exodus of it. With a curious engraved frontispiece. London, Printed for John Browne, 1652. £4 4s 247 CARPENTER (John). A PREPARATIVE TO CONCENTRATION: Conteining a display of the wonderfull distractions of men in opinions and straunge conceits: And of the severall Discontentations which are incident to everie particular vocation and condition of men in this life, with the causes and inconveniences of the same: Also how they may be either salved or qualified; pacified or eased, etc. Small 4to. Contemporary vellum. London, Printed by Thomas Creede, 1597. £6 6s 248 CARPENTER (Richard). A NEW PLAY: Call'd The Pragmatical Jesuit New-Leven'd. A Comedy. With the Excessively Rare Portrait of Carpenter. FIRST EDITION. Small 4to. Fine сору in full morocco gilt, g. e. London, Printed for N. R. Circa 1660. £18 18s (Continued over) CARPENTER (Richard)—continued. 66 This is a Play against the Jesuits. The Author, Richard Carpenter, educated at Eton and King's College, Cambridge, was converted to Roman Catholicism by an English monk in London, and studied in Rome. He became a Benedictine monk at Douay for some time, and was sent as a missionary to England, where, after about a year, he returned to the Protestant religion, was ordained, and through the intervention of the Archbishop of Canterbury, was presented, in 1635, to the small living of Poling, near Arundel. During his incumbency he was much annoyed by the Roman Catholics in Arundel, who lost no opportunity of slandering him or holding him up to ridicule before his parishioners, they affirming that his change of creed was in "order to gain a wife. and that he had run away with the wife of the man with whom he lodged." During the Civil War he went over to Paris and again joined the Roman Church, and made it his business to rail at Protestantism. Returning to England, he joined the Independents, and Dodd's "Church History "records that "he played his pulpit pranks according to the humour of the time, and became a mere mountebank of religion." Towards the latter part of his life he became very serious, and, in company with his wife, embraced Catholicism for a third time. Wood, who was intimately acquainted with him, says, "that he was a fantastical man that changed his mind with his clothes, and that for his juggles and tricks in matters of religion he was esteemed a theological mountebank." (D.N.B.). 249 CARTWRIGHT (Wm.). COMEDIES, TRAGI-COMEDIES, with other Poems, by William Cartwright. The Ayres and Songs set by Mr. Henry Lawes, Servant to His late Majesty in His Public and Private Musick. FIRST EDITION. With fine impression of the portrait of Cartwright, by Lombart. Thick small 8vo. Full mottled calf. London, Printed for Humphrey Mosely, and are to be sold at his Shop, at the Sign of the Prince's Arms in St. Paul's Churchyard, 1651. £15 155 This copy contains the cancelled leaves of verses pp. 301-306, and also the leaves containing the substituted Poems. Mr. Halliwell-Phillipps only possessed an imperfect copy. The volume is referred to in "Shakespeare's Centurie of Prayse on account of the Shakespeare allusions in the Commendatory verses, namely : |