CROWNE (J.)-continued. 403 ANDROMACHE, a Tragedy. FIRST EDITION. Small 4to. Boards. London, 1675. 404 405 406 THE DESTRUCTION OF JERUSALEM BY TITUS VESPASIAN. London, 1677. £4 IOS THE ENGLISH FRIER: or the Town Sparks. A Comedy, as it is acted by their Majesty's Servants. FIRST EDITION. Small 4to. New boards. London. 1690. £2 109 HENRY THE SIXTH, The Second Part, or the Misery of FIRST EDITION. Small 4to. New boards. £225 407 HISTORY OF CHARLES THE EIGHTH OF FRANCE: or, the Invasion of Naples by the French. CROWNE (J.)-continued. 408 THYESTES. A Tragedy acted at the Theatre Royal. London, 1681. Boards. £335 The editor of " Shakespeare's Centurie of Prayse" remarks: "Crowne was evidently a great admirer of Shakespeare." In the Prologue to his "Thyestes, a Tragedy," 1681, he says, to spite the critics : "You upstart Sectaries of wit cry down The world will ask (in scorn of your dispraise) Where was your wit, Sirs, before Shakespears days? 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Memoirs of his Life and Writings. 2 vols., small 8vo. £335 To which is prefix'd, Fine copy, bound by Bedford in full London, Printed for R. Gosling, 1718. £335 mottled calf gilt. DANIEL (Samuel)—continued. 414 415 calf. WORKS, newly augmented. Woodcut title. FIRST COLLECTED EDITION. Small folio. Fine copy in old London, S. Waterson, 1602. (SEE ILLUSTRATION, PLATE NO. XV.) £40 Contains, besides The Civil Wars, his "Tragedie of Cleopatra," The Complaint of Rosamond, and Delia, &c. Daniel's Delia was first published in 1592, and Mr. Malone, in his preliminary remarks on Shakespeare's Sonnets, says: "In these Compositions, Daniel's Sonnets, which were published in 1592, appear to me to have been the model that Shakespeare followed." THE WHOLE WORKS OF SAMUEL DANIEL, IN POETRIE. Small 4to. 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