1621.
1. Broad, Thomas. THREE | QVESTIONS | ANSVVERED. | I. Qvestion. | What should our meaning be, when after the reading of | the fourth Commandement, we pray; Lord incline our | hearts to keepe this law? | II. Qvestion. | How shall the fourth Commandement, being deliuered in | such forme of words, binde vs to sanctifie any day, but onely | the seauenth, the day wherein God rested, & which the Iewes | sanctified? | III. Qvestion. | How shall it appeare to be the Law of Nature to sancti-|fie one day in every weeke? | [motto, then device.]
Impr. 39: 1621: sm. 4o: pp. [4] + 38 + [2]: p. 11 (“10”) beg. which is the: English Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title: (3–4) “To the Reader”, signed “Th. Broad”: 1–26, the work: 27–33 “A DIALOGVE | betvveene a Ievv and a Christi-|AN of the Common | Opinion.” 33–38, “A note touching the Lords Day”: (1) “Errata.”
See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ii. 594. A treatise against too strict observance of Sunday, answered by George Abbot, M.P. for Guildford, in his Vindiciæ Sabbathi, Lond. 1641.
2. [Burton, Robert.] THE | ANATOMY OF | MELANCHOLY⸴ | VVHAT IT IS. | VVITH ALL THE KINDES, | CAVSES, SYMPTOMES, PROG-|NOSTICKES, AND SEVE-|RALL CVRES OF IT. | IN THREE MAINE PARTITIONS | with their seuerall Sections, Mem-|BERS, and Svbsec-|TIONS. | PHILOSOPHICALLY, MEDICI-|NALLY, HISTORICALLY, OPE-|NED AND CVT VP. | BY | Democritvs Iunior. | With a Satyricall Preface, conducing to | the following Discourse. | [motto.]
Impr. 48: 1621: (eights) sm. 4o: pp. [4] + 72 + [8] + 783 + [9]: pp. 11 beg. sed and busied and Lethargye, 111 Mutavere viros, 611 u Mille habet: Pica Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title: (3) dedication to lord Berkeley: 1–72, “Democritus Iunior to the Reader”: (1–8) “The Synopsis of the first partition”: 1–783, the work: (1) 3 mottos: (2–7) “The Conclusion of the Author to the Reader”, signed “Robert Burton. From my Studie in Christchurch Oxon. Decemb. 5. 1620”: (8) “Errata.”
See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ii. 653. For subsequent Oxford editions see 1624 B, 1628 B, 1632 B, 1638 B, 1651. Other editions are Lond. 1660 (7th), 1676 (8th), 1800 (9th), (10th), 1806 (11th), 1845, 188-, as well as epitomes. This celebrated work is replete with erudition, humour, and acuteness. The recondite sources of the numberless quotations are perhaps only to be found in the Bodleian, to which Burton bequeathed his printed books, of which a catalogue is among the Bodleian MSS. This first edition, which is anonymous except for one signature on p. (7) of the Conclusion, is accounted rare, but copies not infrequently appear for sale. Each successive edition during the author’s lifetime (he died in Jan. 1639
40) shows alterations.
3. Denison, John. DE | CONFESSIONIS | AVRICVLARIS | VANITATE, AD-|versvs Cardinalis | Bellarmini | Sophismata, | ET DE | SIGILLI CONFESSIONIS IMPIE-|tate, contra Scholasticorum, & Neoterico-|rum quorundam dogmata | Disputatio. | AVTHORE | Ioanne Denisono Oxoniensi | Sacræ Theologiæ Doctore. | [motto, then woodcuts.]
Impr. 39: 1621: sm. 4o: pp. [10] + 126: p. 11 beg. catione, tum, 111 Cap. 2. Argumenta: Pica Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title: (3–6) dedicatory epistle to the king: (7–8) “Ad Lectorem”: (9–10) “Elenchus Capitum ...”: 1–126, the work, in two parts: 126 “Errata”.
See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ii. 439.
4. Heylyn, Peter. MICROCOSMVS, | OR | A LITTLE DE-|SCRIPTION OF | THE GREAT WORLD. | A Treatise Historicall, Geographicall, | Politicall, Theologicall. | [line] | By P. H. | [line, then motto, then device.]
Impr. 39: 1621: sm. 4o: pp. [16] + 417 (“317”) + [3]: p. 11 beg. pearance of diuers, 111 of Florence: Pica Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title: (3–5) Epistle dedicatory to prince Charles, signed “Pet. Heylyn”: (7–11) “The Preface”: (12–13) “To my brother the Author” an English poem by Edw. Heylyn: (14–15) “The Table” of contents, in alphabetical order: (16) “A computation of the forraine Coynes herein mentioned with ours”: 1–417, (1–2) the work: (3) “Errata.”
See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., iii. 557, where 1622 is a misprint for 1621 and 1624 for 1625. For other Oxford editions of this well-known and popular manual of Geography see 1625 H, 1627 H, 1629 H, 1631 H, 1633 H, 1636 H, 1639 H: there are also London editions (entitled Cosmographie) of 1652, 1657, 1664?, 1666, 1670, 1674?, 1677, 1682, 1703.
5. Savile, sir Henry. [two lines] | PRAELE-|CTIONES TRES-|DECIM IN PRIN-|CIPIVM ELEMENTO_|RVM EVCLIDIS, | OXONII HABITÆ.| M.DC.XX. | [device, see below.]
Impr. 40: 1621: sm. 4o: pp. [4] + 260: p. 11 beg. ma. Quid, 111 trag; à centro: Great Primer Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title: (2) “Errata ...”: (3) “Henricus Savilius lectori”: 1–260, the work.
See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ii. 314. This was Savile’s last publication, for he died 19 Feb 1621
2. There are many woodcuts of figures of propositions. Most copies have a device on the titlepage, but a presentation copy from the author to the Bodleian and the copy in the Savile Library omit it. The absence of a dedication is unusual.
6. Thornborough, bp. John. ΛΙΘΟΘΕΩΡΙΚΟΣ, | SIVE, | NIHIL, ALIQVID, OMNIA, | ANTIQVORVM | SAPIENTVM VI-|vis coloribus depicta, Philo-|sophico=theologicè, | In gratiam eorum qui Artem auriferam Physico-chymicè & piè profitentur. | AVTHORE | Iohanne Thornbvrgh, episcopo | VVIGORNIENSI. | [2 mottos.]
Impr. 40: 1621: sm. 4o: pp. [12] + plate + 152: p. 11 beg. tur potiùs, 111 lestium corporum: English Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title: (3–6) dedication to the duke of Lennox: (7–11) “Ad Lectorem benevolum”: (12) “Παραρυάδες sic restituantur ...”: folded quarto leaf, see below: 1–152, the work in three divisions.
See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., iii. 5. The Episcopal Alchemist endeavours to find the Philosopher’s stone through Sulphurous Magnesia (Nil), water (Aliquid) and gold (Omnia). Vitriol is regarded as of vital importance. Much Theology is introduced. The woodcut plate represents the concord and discord of the four elements in various relations, in a circular table.