Milton] (J.) Of True Religion, Hæresie, Schism, Toleration and what best means may be us'd against the growth of Popery (the author's name on title filled in in early MS.), 8 II., blue mor., by Rivière, London, 1673, sm. 4to. (105), July 12, Hodgson £3 [Sotheby, May 25, 6; Hodgson, March 31, £9 9s.] Milton (J.) Paradise Lost, a Poem written in Ten Books by John Milton, Licensed and Entred according to Order, orig. sheep, in protecting covers formed from a rafter in a room in Milton's house at Westminster, brass clasps, London, printed and are to be sold by Peter Parker, 1667, sm. 4to. (208), Jan. 20, Anderson Galleries $2,500

[A remarkable copy of the excessively rare first ed., with the first title-page, some of the edges being in uncut condition, and being in the original binding, with the genuine blank end-leaves. Hodgson, July 12, soiled, £30; July 12, second title, £20; July 12, 10 IOS.] Milton (J.) Paradise Lost, a Poem in Ten Books, the Author, J. M., first ed., third title, with the author's initials only, with the address The Printer to the Reader," 5 lines, "The Argument," The Verse" and Errata, also with the blank leaf before title (title repaired and some 11. soiled, back slightly defective and joints rubbed), russ., g.e., 1668 (144), July 12, Hodgson Maggs, £26

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[Sotheby, Dec. 13, defective, £5 5s.; April 18, £12 10s.] Milton (J.) Paradise Lost, a Poem in Ten Books, the author, John Milton, first ed., fourth title, with a four-line fleurde-lis ornament under the author's name and a change of imprint, with the address, The Printer to the Reader," 5 lines, "The Argument, The Verse" and errata (a few margins neatly repaired and a few ll. very slightly soiled), crimson mor., gt. panels on sides, gt. back, London, S. Simmons, and to be sold by S. Thomson, H. Mortlack, M. Walker and R. Boulter, 1668, sm. 4to. (145), July 12, Hodgson Dobell, £15

[March 14, £9 5s.]

Milton (J.) Paradise Lost, a Poem in Ten Books, first ed. (one leaf stained, a small corner of one leaf torn off, affecting a ruled line, some letters damaged by rust and other stains), cf. gt. (one cover loose), Printed by S. Simmons, 1668, 4to. (410), July 27, Sotheby

Robertson, £8 15s.

[Fifth title-page, with The Printer to the Reader,' amended by Milton. Sotheby, Nov. 24, 11 IOS.; March 1, 16 10S.; Hodgson, July 12, £10.]

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Milton (J.) Paradise Lost, a Poem in Ten Books, the author, John Milton, first ed., sixth title, commonly known as the Eighth," without the address, but with "The Argument,' The Verse" and errata (some 11. soiled and a few margins slightly wormed), contemp. cf., gt. back, London, 1669, sm. 4to. (152), July 12, Hodgson [Sotheby, Jan. 17, £10 5s.]

Dobell, £10

Milton (J.) Paradise Lost, a Poem, written in Ten Books, first ed., with argument and errata, two title-pages, the first and seventh, old marbled cf. gt., Peter Parker, etc., 1667. S. Simmons to be sold by T. Helder, 1669, sm. 4to. (1034), May 25, Sotheby Pickering, £82 Milton (J.) Paradise Lost, a Poem in Ten Books, the author, John Milton, first ed., with the seventh title-page, blue mor. ex., gt. line and scroll borders, gt. back, inside borders gt., g.e., by J. Clarke, with bookplate of D. C. Majoribanks, fine copy, S. Simmons, to be sold by T. Helder, 1669, 4to. (763), Jan. 17, Sotheby Maggs, £13

[Oct. 21, 28; Lot 764, £12; April 25, £9 10s.; March 14, 19 IOS.; March 1, 13; May 4, £7 10s.] Milton (J.) Paradise Lost and Paradise Regain'd, port. and plates, 2 vol., contemp. red mor. gt., scroll borders, g.e., Birmingham, J. Baskerville, 1758, 8vo. (1055), May 25, Sotheby Tregaskis, £8

[Jan. 17, £8; March 14, £3 12s. 6d.; Hodgson, Dec. 1, £3 38.; American Art Association, Jan. 25, $65; Puttick, May 20, £6.]

Milton (J.) Paradise Lost, proof plates on sunk mounts by W. Strang, buckram, uncut, one of 150 copies, 1896, folio (973), April 25, Sotheby Maggs, 1 10S. Milton (J.) Paradise Lost, a Poem in Twelve Books, vell., The Doves Press, 1902, 4to. (1064), May 25, Sotheby B. F. Stevens, £14 10s. Milton (J.) Le Paradis Perdu, Poëme, édition en Anglais et en Français, ornée de douze Estampes imprimées en couleur d'après les Tableaux de M. Schall, col. plates, 2 vol., marbled cf. gt., g.e., Paris, chez Defer de Maisonneuve, 1792, 4to. (1057), May 25, Sotheby Maggs, £22 [Anderson Galleries, March 1, $65; Hodgson, July 12, £15 15s.]

Milton (J.) Paradise Regain'd, a Poem in Four Books, to which is added, Samson Agonistes, maroon mor., g.e. (a few headlines cut into), Printed by J. M. for John Starkey, 1671 (295), July 25, Sotheby Tregaskis, £12 May

[The Hargreaves copy sold in 1919 for £22 10s. 25, £3; Jan. 17, £9 15s.; Puttick, Dec. 1, £5; Hodgson, July 12, £7 10S.] Milton (J.) Paradise Regain'd, a Poem in Four Books, to which are added, Samson Agonistes and Poems, limp vell., Doves Press, 1905, sm. 4to. (289), July 12, Hodgson Edwards, £6 10S. Milton (J.) Poems, both English and Latin, compos'd at several times, printed by his true copies, first ed., port. by Marshall, buff mor. ex., g.e. (some pagination shaved and the W. M., sculp." at foot of port. slightly cut into), otherwise a fine clean copy, name E. T. Bridges, Q. C. C., Jan. 7, 1774," written on title-page, Ruth Raworth for Humphrey Moseley, 1645, sm. 8vo. (1017), May 25, Sotheby Maggs, £130

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Milton (J.) Poems, etc. upon Several Occasions, both English and Latin, etc., composed at several times, with a small Tractate of Education to Mr. Hartlib [second ed.], marbled cf., g.e., by R. de Coverly, Printed for Tho. Dring, 1673, sm. 8vo. (1038), May 25, Sotheby Ellis, £8

[March 14, 6 10s.; Hodgson, July 12, 1 15s.] Milton (J.) Poetical Works, from the text of T. Newton [with Life], Baskerville's first ed., first issue, with misprint in headlines of pp. 285 and 311 of Vol. i., with preface and list of subscribers, but no port., with proposals for printing this ed., 8 ll., 1767, loosely inserted, 2 vol., contemp. crimson mor. gt. (back and joints worn), g.e., Birmingham, J. Baskerville, 1758 (228), July 12, Hodgson

Tregaskis, £3 Milton (J.) Poetical Works, with Life of the Author by William Hayley, ports. and engraved plates by Earlom and others after R. Westall, together with 15 of Westall's water-colour drawings for the work, six signed (initials only), 3 vol., red mor., by Rivière, W. Bulmer for J. and J. Boydell, 1794-7, folio (18), June 9, Sotheby Cater, £80 [Dec. 2, £10 10s.; Hodgson, Dec. 9, £3 3s.] Milton] (J.) The Readie and Easie Way to Establish a Free Commonwealth and the Excellence therof compar'd with the inconveniences and dangers of readmitting kingship in this nation, first ed. (some 11. soiled), brown mor., by Zaehnsdorf, London, T. N., and are to be sold by Livewell Chapman, 1660, sm. 4to. (98), July 12, Hodgson

[Sotheby, May 25, £8 5s.] Barnard, £11 IOS. Milton (J.) Milton's Republican Letters, or a Collection of such as were written by comand of the Late Commonwealth of England, from the year 1648 to the year 1659, first ed. (one headline and a few page numerals and catchwords cut), hf. vell., 1682, sm. 4to. (109), July 12, Hodgson Barnard, £28 Milton (J.) The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates, proving that it is lawful for any who have the power to call to account a Tyrant or wicked King, new hf. blue mor., M. Simmons, 1649, sm. 4to. (1020), May 25, Sotheby [Hodgson, July 12, £2 5s.] Tregaskis, £4 5s. Milton] (J.) A Treatise of Civil Power in Ecclesiastical Causes, first ed., contemp. sheep, Printed by T. Newcomb, 1659, 24mo. (27), March 31, Hodgson Quaritch, £19 108. [Sotheby, May 25, £9 10s.; Hodgson, July 12, £7 5s.] Milton (J.) Works, printed from the orig. eds., with a life of the author by the Rev. J. Mitford, blue levant mor. ex., g.t., by R. de Coverly, fine set, Wm. Pickering, 1851, 8vo. (1002), May 25, Sotheby Maggs, £15

[Hodgson, Oct. 27, £9 15s.; March 22, £3 17s. 6d.; Feb. 16, £4 4s.; Sotheby, May 18, £3 1OS.] Milton (J.) Masson (David). The Life of John Milton narrated in connexion with the Political, Ecclesiastical and Literary History of his Time, 1608-1674, ports., 6 vol.,

cl., uncut, London, 1871-1880, 8vo. (223), Jan. 24, American Art Association

$32

[Hodgson, July 12, 1881-94 ed., 7 vol., £7 15s.] Minsheu (J.) Ductor in Linguas, the Guide into Tongues, first ed., old cf., 1617, folio (289), July 22, Puttick [June 15, 1627, 17s. 6d.] Atkins, 15s. Mionnet (T. E.) Description de Médailles Antiques, 7 vol., with Supplement, 9 vol., Medailles Romaines, etc., plates, together 20 vol., hf. cf., a sound set, Paris, 1806-37 (357), April 21, Hodgson Quaritch, £15 Mireur (H.) Dictionnaire des Ventes d'Art faites en France et a l'etranger pendant les XVIII. et XIX. siècles, 7 vol., new hf. mor., gt. tops, uncut, Paris, 1911, 4to. (283), March 1, Anderson Galleries $20 Mirk (John). Liber Festualis. Quattuor Sermones, black letter, double columns, 31 lines, with headlines, Liber Festualis only with foliation, woodcut initials [folios 3-167 (except 108 and 109 wanting) only and 22 ll. only of Quattuor Sermones, not subject to return], hf. cf., [colophon on folio 166] . . . In celeberrima urbe Rotho magensi per Magistrum Martinum Morin. Anno domini Millescimo quadringentesimo nonagesimonono die vero vicesimasecunda mensis Junii impensis Johannis Richardi. Martin Morin for Jean Richard, Rouen, 1499, 4to. (402), July 18, Sotheby Dobell, £4

[Extremely rare. There are copies in the Bodleian, U.L.C. (imperfect) and Cranmore Hall (imperfect).] Mirouer Historial de France, gothic letter, long lines, 42 to a page, I full-page woodcut, 7 large and 8 smaller woodcuts, etc. (wants 4 11., 2 11. defective and half of the folding genealogy torn off, not subject to return), brown leather stamped in blind (very badly damaged), Paris, Galliot Du Pré, 1516-17, folio (207), April 18, Sotheby

Hall, £4 15s. Mirror for Magistrates (A), black letter, title within woodcut border (slightly defective and mended), one leaf (66) defective, a few small wormholes, otherwise a good copy, with the last leaf of Faultes escaped, mor. gt., g.e., Thomas Marshe, 1563, 4to. (959), May 18, Sotheby Quaritch, £23 Mirror for Magistrates. The Seconde Part of the Mirrour for Magistrates, conteining the falles of the infortunate Princes of this Lande, from the Conquest of Cæsar vnto the comyng of Duke William the Conqueror, maroon mor., by Rivière, [London], Richard Webster, 1578, sm. 4to. (251), Nov. II, Anderson Galleries $60 Mirror for Magistrates (A), being a True Chronicle Historie of the untimely falles of such unfortunate Princes and men of note as have happened since the first entrance of Brute into this Island untill this our latter Age . . . with a poem called England's Eliza [edited by T. Baldwyn, with contributions by T. Blenerhasset, T. Sackville, T. Churchyard, J. Skelton, R. Niccols, etc.], [collation: A 8 11.,

B 2 11., C-L llo in 8's], woodcut ports., without the suppressed dedication of the "Winters Nights Vision," orig. limp vell., London, Felix Kyngston, 1610, sm. 4to. (114), July 21, Hodgson Dobell, £26

[See "The Times Lit. Supp.," Sept. 22nd, 1921. Sotheby, June 28, defective, 2; May 25, 16.] Miscellanea Genealogica et Heraldica, edited by J. J. Howard, F.S.A., First Series, 2 vol., 1868-76-New Series, Vol. i.-iv., 1874-84-Second Series, 5 vol., 1885-93-Third Series, Vol. i., 1896, together 12 vol., cf. gt., 1868-96, 8vo. (389), July 20, Sotheby Gosse, £6 15S. Miscellanea Scotica, a Collection of Tracts relating to the History, Antiquities, Topography and Literature of Scotland, 4 vol., crimson mor. ex., gold tooled sides, uncut, g.t., by Ramage, Glasgow, 1818-20, 8vo. (519), Nov. 15, Sotheby Hopkins, £4 15S. Missale Secundum consuetudinem romane curie, printed on vell., in red and black, gothic letter, double columns, 30 lines, 256 ll. (including one blank), full-page woodcut of Crucifixion, on the first page after the calendar an initial A painted in green and purple on a gold ground and on the same page a floreated marginal ornament with gold roundels, initials in red (a small defect in the first leaf of the Calendar affecting two or three letters and a defect in the vell. of another leaf affecting several words), [Hain *11384, Proctor 2259], crushed brown mor. ex., gt. panelled tooling on sides, panelled back, g.e., by F. Bedford, Nurnberg, Georg Stuchs, 1484, 4to. (81% in. by 6 in.), 4to. (501), April 18, Sotheby Quaritch, £120 Missale Secundum Consuetudinem Romane Curie, printed on vell., in red and black, gothic letter, 240 11., measuring 131 by 9 in. [Copinger 4207, Weale p. 141, Van Praet, second cat. iv., 138], woodcut initials in red and black, square musical notation, the first page of the text within a finely-painted architectural border ornamented with festoons, fruits, flowers, birds, amorini, etc., and containing on the outer margin three vignettes (1) The Virgin and Child, (2) St. George slaying the Dragon, (3) St. Luke, a superbly painted miniature of the Crucifixion (8 by 5 in.), with the Blessed Virgin and St. John standing beside the cross, Impressuz Rome p. Magistrů Stephanu Planck Patauensem. Anno Dni M.CCCCXCVI. die vero ultima mesis Octobris, Sedente Alexandro VI. pōtifice maximo: Anno, eius quinto, Laus deo, Rome. S. Planck, 1496, folio (1076), May 25, Sotheby Quaritch, £625

Missal.

[Presentation copy to Pope Alexander VÏ.] Missale Magdeburgense, [colophon] impressis literis ptulerint Cōsumatu Opulenta in vrbe Magdeborch Arte et ingenio Mauritij Bradis Anno immacl'ate 'ginis marie post ptu vltra Millesimu qterqz cētesimu nonogesimoseptimo Die vero veneris Kalendas Maij XVII, gothic type, in three sizes, canon in large, text in two smaller