The Early Oxford Press / A Bibliography of Printing and Publishing at Oxford, '1468'-1640; With Notes, Appendixes and Illustrations

by Falconer Madan

1609.

1. Butler, Charles. THE | FEMININE MONARCHIE | Or | A TREATISE CONCERNING BEES, | AND THE DVE ORDERING OF THEM: | Wherein | The truth, found out by experience and diligent | observation, discovereth the idle and fond | conceipts, which many haue writ-|ten anent this subiect. | By | Char: Bvtler Magd. | [device.] |

Impr. 7: 1609: (eights) 12^o: pp. [240], signn. a⁴ b, A-N⁸ O⁴: sign. B 1^r beg. animum, artem, L 1^r In Aquarius: Pica Roman. Contents:—sign. a 1^r, title: a 2^r-a 4^r, “The preface to the Reader”, dated from Wotton (St. Lawrence) 11 July 1609: a 4^v-b 1^r, three commendatory poems, by Warner South (Latin) and A. Crosley: b 1^v-b 8^v, “The contents of this Booke”: A 1^r-O 4^v, the treatise.

See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., iii. 209, and 1633 B, 1634 B, 1682 B (in Latin): there are also edd. at Lond. 1623 and (in Latin) 1673. This is a remarkable book, from the style and evident practical experience of its author. Rude engravings occur on signn. C 7^r, C 7^v and (the first music printed at Oxford) F 1^r. The author mentions incidentally in the preface that a book on bees by T. H. of London (presumably Thomas Hill’s Profitable instructions for the ordering of bees, Lond. 1579 and 1593) is really a plagiarism from Georgius Pictorius.

2. Du Moulin, Pierre (d. 1658). HERACLITUS: | OR | MEDITATIONS VPON THE | vanity & misery of humane life, first | written in French by that excel-|lent Scholler & admirable di-|vine Peter Du Moulin Mi-|nister of the sacred | word in the refor-|med Church | of Paris: | And translated into English by | R. S. Gentleman. | [woodcuts.]

Impr. 7a: 1609: (twelves) 16^o: pp. [14] + 121 + [1]: p. 11 beg. time is, 111 will say: English Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title: (3–6) Epistle dedicatorie “to his much honored Father: S. F. S.”: (7–13) “The authors epistle dedicatory to the Lady Ann of Rohan, Sister to the Duke of Rohan”, signed “Peter du Moulin”: 1–121, the work.

See 1634 D. The original edition of Pierre Du Moulin’s Héraclite, ou de la Vanité et Misère de la vie humaine was printed in 1609. The present translator was probably Robert Stafford of Exeter college, who matr. on 15 Mar. 1604
5 at the age of 16, his father being sir Francis (?) Stafford, see Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ii. 291, and especially Bliss’s MS. additions in his own copy of the Athenæ in the Bodleian. The coincidence of initials with Richard Smith in the 1634 edition seems to be accidental. See next art.

3. ——. [Another issue, almost identical in appearance, but entirely reprinted: easy tests of the two issues are such as (1) on the titlepage of this second issue, if it be the second, the fourth line begins immediately under the beginning of the third line, whereas in the first issue it begins an em to the right: (2) the O of the imprint is upside down in the first issue: (3) in the title of the author’s Epistle the second issue has “Anne”, the first “Ann”: (4) p. 41 l. 6 of text, the first issue has “Enuy”, the second “Envy”: (5) p. 121 l. 1 of text, the first issue ends with “God”, the second with “God is.” But it is difficult to say which is a reprint of the other: the second issue is more modern in spelling and type, and the woodcut ornaments are possibly less worn in the first. In fact it is conceivable that the second issue is in reality a few years later.]

4. D[unster], I[ohn]. A | CONFESSION OF | CHRISTIAN RELIGION. | [four mottos, then woodcuts.]

Impr. 7: 1609: (eights) 12^o: pp. 52 + [4]: p. 11 beg. and punishment: English Roman. Contents:—p. 1, title: 3–48, the treatise: on p. 48 “Etiam sic sentio, sic credo. I. D.”.

For the author see Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ii. 42. This is a reprint, omitting the poem at the end, of 1607 D. The paging is wild.

5. H[eale], W[illiam]. AN | APOLOGIE | FOR VVOMEN. | OR | AN OPPOSITION TO M^r. | D^r. G. his assertion. Who held | in the Act at Oxforde. | Anno. 1608. | That it was lawfull for husbands to beate | their wiues. | By W. H. of Ex. in Ox. | [motto: then device.]

Impr. 2: 1609: sm. 4^o: pp. [6] + 66: p. 11 beg. lemnize marriage: English Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title: (3–4) dedication “to the honourable and right-vertuous Ladie, the Ladie M. H. ...”: (5) “The contents of this Apologie”: (6) the arms of the University: 1–66, the work.

See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ii. 89, where Wood states that the author was William Heale and the person opposed dr. William Gager, D.C.L. in 1589. The question “An liceat marito uxorem verberare” was one of those selected for the degree of D.C.L., 11 July 1608, but Gager was neither inceptor nor respondent. The lady M. H. seems from the dedication to have commanded Heale to undertake the task of replying and to have allowed him scant time in which to do it.

6. Reuter, Adam. EX L. VT | VIM 3. D. IVST: | ET JVRE. | QVÆSTIONES | Iuris controversi | 12. | Auctore | Adamo Revter. Cotbusio L. | Siles. | [woodcuts.]

Impr. 11: 1609: sm. 4^o: pp. [56], signn. A-G⁴: sign. B 1^r beg. pi patitur: Pica Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title: (3–4) dedication to New College, dated “Cursim ex Musæo. Oxon.” 1 Jan. “1609”: (5–56) the 12 quaestiones.

See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ii. 420. Wood is mistaken in calling Reuter a Welshman. He was a Silesian from Cottbus, as he testifies above and in the admission register of the Bodleian, 3 Sept. 1608. L probably stands for Licentiatus utriusque juris. He was never matriculated.

7. Sanderson, John. INSTITVTIONVM | DIALECTICARVM | Libri Quatuor, | A | IOANNE SANDERSONO, | Lancastrensi, Anglo, Liberalium | artium Magistro, et sacræ Theologiæ | Doctore, Metropolitanæ Ec-|clesiæ Cameracensis Ca-|nonico, conscripti. | Editio quarta. | [woodcuts.]

Impr. 11: 1609: 8^o: pp. [4] + 91 + [1]: beg. ^hPropriū est: Brevier Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title: (3–4) “Auctoris praefatio. Ad iuventutem bonarum artium studiosam”: 5–91, the work.

A reprint of 1602 S, which see.