CAMBRIDGE POEMS-continued. 232 233 234 235 MUSARUM CANTABRIGIENSIUM THRENODIA IN OBITUM INCOMPARABILIS HEROIS AC DUCIS ILLUSTRISSIMI GEORGII DUCIS ALBAEMARLAE. Small 4to. Calf. Cambridge, 1670. £335 This contains Poems in Latin and English to the memory of General Monck, Duke of Albemarle, by J. Beaumont, W. Quarles, T. Nixon, Hatton, Isaac Craven, Gervase Scrope, etc. REX REDUX, SIVE MUSA CANTABRIGIENSIS VOTI DAMNAS DE INCOLUMITATE ET FELICI REDITU REGIS CAROLI POST RECEPTAM CORONAM, COMITIAG: peracta in Scotia (Latin Poems by various authors, including Richard Crashaw, Henry More, Wm. Cartwright, and others). Small 4to. Curiously bound in contemporary full vellum gilt, with inlays of red velvet. Cantab., 1633. £12 125 Doubtless the copy given to the King. An old MS. note inside cover says: "This book was in King Charles the First his Study. In all probability it is the Book that was presented to His Majesty by the University of Cambridge on his return from Scotland." REX REDUX, Sive Musa Cantabrigiensis voti damnas de incolumitate & felici reditu Regis Caroli post receptam Coronam, Comitiaq; peracta in Scotia. Small 4to. Half vellum. Ex Academiae Cantabrigiensis Typographeo, 1633. £4 4s THRENO-THRIAMBEUTICON: ACADEMIAE CANTABRIGIENSIS OB DAMNUM LUCROSUM, & INFAELICITATEM FAELICISSIMAM, LUCTUO SUS TRIUMPHUS. Cambridge, 1603. OXFORD POEMS. Academiae Oxoniensis Pietas Erga Serenissimum et Potentissimum Jacobum Angliae Scotiae Franciae, & Hiberniae Regum, etc. Oxford, 1603. CAMBRIDGE POEMS: THRENO-THRIAMBEUTICON—continued. LATER POEMS: On the Coronation of James I. of England: By the Graduates of Cambridge and Oxford Universities. Together in 1 vol., 4to. Calf, with the private badge of Queen Elizabeth (the Crowned Falcon holding a Sceptre) in gold on sides. £24 It is curious to note that the binder should have used the late Queen's (Elizabeth) Private Book Stamp to ornament the covers of this book. 236 CAMBRIDGE (Richard Owen). THE SCRIBLERAID: AN HEROIC POEM. In six Books. With frontispiece and six engraved plates (one depicting an aerial combat between an Englishman and a German). 4to. Original calf. London, Printed for R. Dodsley, 1751. £2 IOS This mock-heroic poem, intended to expose false taste and false science, is replete with happy parodies of distinguished passages in the classics, particularly Virgil. Contains the long preface not prefixed to the first edition. A considerable part of Book IV. is devoted to a description of an aerial combat between an Englishman and a German, resulting in the victory of the former. 66 'Let brisker youths their active newes prepare, Fit their light silken wings, and skim the buxom air. Mov'd by my words, two youths of equal fire Spring from the crowd, and to the prize aspire. The one a German of distinguished fame : His rival from projecting Britain came. They spread their wings, and with a rising bound, The Briton's rapid flight outstrips the wind: The lab'ring German urges close behind." Etc. WITH THE ARMS OF KING JAMES I. 237 CAMDEN (Wm.). BRITANNIA; sive Florentissimorum Regnorum Angliae, Scotiae, Hiberniae, et Insularum adjacentium ex intima antiquitate Chorographica descriptio. Numerous large maps of the various Counties" Christopher Saxton, descripsit.' " Folio. Original calf. London, 1607. £12 128 Dedicated to James I., and having the Arms of the King on the sides; also on either side of the Coat of Arms the initials "H.D." (probably these initials stand for Henry Prince of Wales, who was then Henricux Dux (of Cornwall). CAMDEN (Wm.)—continued. 238 REMAINS CONCERNING BRITAINE : But especially England, and the Inhabitants thereof. Their Languages, Names, Surnames, Allusions, Anagrammes, Armories, Monies, Empresses, Apparell, Artillarie, Wise Speeches, Proverbs, Poesies, Epitaphes. Reviewed, corrected and encreased. Small 4to. Original vellum. London, Printed by John Legatt for Simon Waterson, 1614. PRINTED BY WYNKYN DE WORDE. 239 [CAPGRAVE (John).] NoOVA LEGENDA Angliæ. Printed in BLACK LETTER. Both sides of the preliminary leaf occupied with a large woodcut of the Saints, Martyrs and the Holy Trinity, which is repeated on the obverse of the final leaf; the reverse has Wynkyn de Worde's device. A Fine Copy of the First Edition of this famous Book, and in unusually perfect state, except that the two large woodcuts at beginning and end are slightly imperfect. Folio. Bound by Leighton in full levant morocco, tooled in blind, g. e. (Colophon). Explicit (Noua legeda anglie). Impressa lodonias: i domo Winadi de Worde: comoratis ad signu solis : in vico nucupato (the flete strete). Anno dñi M.CCCCCXVI. xxvii. die Februarij (1516). £85 This book on the Lives of British Saints is one of the most meritorious and useful books printed by Wynkyn de Worde. It is almost always found defective of the woodcut leaves which appear in this copy. It includes the Life of St. Thomas à Becket, which was suppressed from many copies. 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. 1594. FIRST ENGLISH EDITION. Small 4to. Old boards. London, Printed by Adam Islip for C. Hunt of Excester, 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. London, Printed for Humphrey Moseley, 1655. £55s 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 15s 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. 245 CARLETON (G.). A THANKFUL REMEMBRANCE OF GODS MERCIE. Engraved title-page. Portrait of the Author and numerous copperplate engravings in the text. sor." Small 4to. Calf. London, 1630. IO IOS Referred to by Douce in his "Illustrations" of "The Merry Wives of WindIt 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: |