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Newton, Thomas : "The Trial of aMansowne Self. Done 

 into English by Thomas Newton." John Windet London, 

 1586. 



"The Noblenesse of the Asse. A worke rare learned and 

 excellent. By A. B." A translation from the Italian of Adriano 

 JBanchieri. Printed by Thomas Crede and sold by William 

 Parley, London, 1595, 



" The Widdowes Treasure, plentifully furnished with 

 sundry secrets in phisicke and chirurgery." Printed by d. 

 Roberts for Edward White, London, 1599. 



Kyd, Thomas: "The Spanish Tragedie." Printed for 

 T. Pavier, London 1602. An earlier edition than any pre- 

 viously in the British Museum, and the first containing the 

 " new additions of the Painters part " usually ascribed to 

 Ben Jonson. 



" A Discovery of the Conspiracie of Scottish Papists. 

 Confessed and subscribed by M. George Ker and David 

 Grahame of Fentrie." T. Snodham, London, 1603. 



Gardyne, Alexander : " Garden of grave and godlie 

 Flouers, Sonets, Elegies and Epitaphs." Printed by T. 

 Finlason, Edinburgh, 1609. This is the only known copy of 

 this book, and was in the possession of Mr. Robert Pitcairn, 

 when it was used for the reprint published by the Abbotsford 

 Club in 1845. 



"■ Specimen Epigrammatum Jacobo Primo Brit. Regi 

 dicatum a G. Cragio." London, 1624. One other copy only 

 of this book, preserved in the Edinburgh University Library, 

 is known. 



(^onn, George : " G. Conaei Assertionum Catholicarum 

 libri tres." Rome, 1629. In 1636-37 the author was Papal 

 Agent at the Court of Queen Henrietta Maria, and is said to 

 have been a personal friend of King Charles I. 



Jenner, Thomas : " The Soules Solace, or Thirtie and one 

 Spirituall Emblems." Thomas Jenner, London, 1631. The 

 Poem on Tobacco in this book has been, probably erroneously, 

 attributed to George Wither, of whom the engraving of a 

 m oker on the last leaf is said to be a portrait. 



A large collection of pamphlets and broadsides by or 

 relating to the early Quakers, 1654-77, including forty-one 

 tracts by George Fox. 



Dryden, John : " The Hind and the Panther." Jacob 

 Tonson, London, 1687. The first edition. 



An addition of Bishop Ken's " Morning, Evening and 

 Midnight Hymns," printed for Charles Brome, London, 1694. 

 According to the Rev. J. Julian's Dictionary of Hymnology 

 these hymns first appeared as part of an edition of the 

 " Manual of Prayers for the use of the Scholars of Winchester 

 College " in 1695. The present edition consists of eleven 

 pages, without title, preceded by an advertisement readino- ; 



