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208 WALLER (Edmund, of Beckonsfield) POEMS, ETC., WRITTEN BY MR. ED. WALLER; 

 Lately a Member of the House of Commons. And Printed by a Copy of his own 

 hand-writing. All the Lyrick Poems in this Booke were set by Mr. Henry Lawes, 

 Gent., of the King's Chappell, and one of his Majesties Private Musick, Printed 

 and Published according to Order, London, /. N. for Hit. Mosley, at the Princes 

 Armes in Pauls Church-yard, 1645, FIRST KDITION, sm 8vo, with the extra 20 

 pages of speeches, separately paged, but with following signatures, after the 2 leaves of 



Table, interesting early XVIIlth Century annotations, few slight water stains, 



REMARKABLY FINE LARGE COPY, SEVERAL LEAVES RETAINING THEIR ORIGINAL 



ROUGH EDGES, old panelled calf, worn, ji$ 



EXCESSIVELY RARE, PARTICULARLY IN THE VERY FINE STATE OF THE PRESENT COPY. Waller 

 will always live as the author of " Goe lovely Rose" and " Lines on a Girdle." Interesting 

 too are the poems " Upon Ben. Johnson," " In answer of Sir John Sucklin's Verses" and 

 "On Mr. John Fletcher's Playes," while the poem, in three Cantos, entitled "The Battell 

 of the Summer Islands " (Bermudas) should appeal to American collectors. 



[See Illustration.] 



209 [WALLER (Edmund)] ON THE PARK AT ST. J.\MESK's[<w</0J, Printed for Tho. 

 Dring, n.d. (i 660-61), FIRST EDITION, folio, fears in margins mended, large copy, 

 preserved in a cloth case, 20 



THIS is THE EXCEEDINGLY RARE SURREPTITIOUS ISSUE, referred to in the end note of the first 

 authorised edition published by E. Bedell in 1661, as follows " The Reader is desired to take 

 notice that a filse copy of these verses on Si . James 's Park was surreptitiously and very imperffctly 

 printed in one sheet, without the author s knowledge and consent, several lines being there left 

 out." So rare that the compiler of the Grolier Club Catalogue of the works of English writers 

 from Wither to Prior. 1905, thus speaks of it " Mr. Drury remarks that he has not met with 

 any traces of this surreptitious edition.'''' A copy, however, turned up for sale at Sotheby's in 

 May. 1903, but beyond it this is the only other copy of which we can find any trace. 



210 WATSON (Thomas, D.D., Bishop of London} Two NOTABLE SERMONS before the 

 Queenes (Mary I.) highnes, concernynge the reale presence of Christes body and 

 bloude in the blessed Sacrament and also the Masse, London, J. Cawood, 1554, 

 t> ISC ft ICttCt mixed with roman, sm. sq. 8vo, title within ornamental woodcut 

 border with figures and Royal Arms at lop, large ornamental initials, title and last 

 leaf backed and small portion of blank margin of each missing, name on former of 

 each owner, few contemporary MS. notes, some margins water stained, but a good and 

 tall copy ^ old calf , rebacked, VERY RARE, 2 los 



The Author was the friend of Roger Ascham, Sir John Cheke, Sir T. Smith, and others. 

 Fellow of St. John's, Cambridge, 1535 and Master 1553-4. He was a fastidious scholar and on 

 the accession of Queen Mary became one of the chief Catholic controversalists, was always in 

 request as a preacher and drew large audiences. Bishop Ridley wrote some annotations 

 upon these sermons which he sent to John Bradford the Martyr, and in 1569 a work was 

 published by Robert Crowley controverting them. After Tunstall and Pope the greatest of 

 Queen Mary's bishops and the first sufferer for religion under Queen Elizabeth. Roger 

 Ascham spoke warmly of Watson's friendship for him and bore high testimony to his 

 scholarship. 



211 WEST INDIES THREE EARLY MAPS OF THE FRENCH POSSESSIONS IN THK 

 WEST INDIES, comprised of Carte de 1'Isle de la Martinique ; de Saint Domingue ; 

 et des Antilles Francoises et des Isles Voisines, par G. de 1'Isle, a Amsterdam, J. 

 Covens et C. Mortier, n.d. (1741), 17 J by 23-inches, boundaries coloured, the maps 

 of Martinique and Dominica are in great detail, that of the French Antilles includes 

 a map of the English possession of Barbadoes, fine copies, with wide margins, VERY 



SCARCE, 2 25 



212 WHYTE MELVILLE (G. J.) 1821-1878, NOVELIST. AUTOGRAPH LETTER, SIGNED, 

 3 pp., 8vo, Melton Moivbray, Feb. 28, no year given, to CHAPMAN the Publisher, 2is 



Mentions review in Bell's Messenger of " The True Cross." Gives an account of his horses and 

 hunting matters. " Saw a *ood gallop very well yesterday, a fine run the .lay before, and feel as 

 if I was'ys\ " 



