1640.

Impr. 194: 1640: (fours) la. 8^o: pp. [36] + 60 + [14] + 479 (“477”) + [21]: pp. 11 beg. Nature, but, and on between, 401 hard and severe: Great Primer Roman. Contents:—p. (1) engraved title, see below: (3–4) dedication to the king and the two universities, in Latin, by Wats: (5–8) dedication to prince Charles, signed “Gilbert Wats”: (9–16) preface to the reader, by Wats: (17–22) “Testimonies consecrate to ... S^r Francis Bacon ...”: (23–24) Latin poem on the Instauratio Magna by George Herbert: (25–33) “Manes Verulamiani sive in obitum incomparabilis Francisci de Verulamio, &c. epicedia,” 6 Latin poems, one by Thomas Randolph, &c.: (35–36) address by Bacon to each university, in parallel columns: 1–39, the author’s preface: (41–42) “The generall argument of the IX. books”: (43–60) “The argument of the chapters ...”: (1–11) the general design of the Instauratio Magna: (13) a table of “the Emanation of sciences ...”: 1-“477”, the work in 9 books: (2–5) “A new world of sciences, or the Deficients”, headings: (6–8) “The Index of Sacred Scriptures ...”: (10–11) “The index of humane authors”: (12) “Errata”, marginal corrections only: (13) “Lectori Academico ...”, introducing what follows: (14–18) “Catalogus historiarum particularum . secundùm capita”: (19) Typographus Lectori” about what follows: (20) a Latin letter from the author to Trinity college Cambridge, beg. “Res omnes”: (21) impr. 195, as a colophon.

See 1633 B. This is part 1 of the Instauratio Magna, and is an expansion of the two books of the Advancement of Learning first printed in 1605, which were enlarged in Latin to nine books, and published in 1623 (and 1635) by W. Rawley: here they are translated by G. Wats. Some copies have 1639 in the colophon. At pp. 266–69 are some woodcut facsimiles of cipher-alphabets, &c. The engraved titlepage by W. Marshall (9⅝ × 5¾ in.) bears the title on a sheet suspended between two obelisks representing Oxford and Cambridge: above it are two globes and “INSTAVR.MAG.P.I.”: below, a ship in full sail and the imprint: the whole is fully described in the British Museum Catalogue of Prints and Drawings, Div. 1, vol. 1 (1870), p. 116 (no. 153). Three out of the four British Museum copies have a portrait of Bacon, but the translator’s own copy in the Bodleian has not. The collation, being elaborate, is here appended:—( )¹, ¶⁴, ¶¶², ¶¶¶¹, A²B-C⁴: aa-gg⁴ hh²: †⁴, ††², †¹: A-Z, Aa-Zz, Aaa-Qqq⁴ Rrr²: pp. 351–2 are repeated in the numeration.

Impr. 200: 1640: sm. 4^o: pp. [16] + 245 + [3]: p. 11 beg. De modo Doctrinæ, 201 tasia aliquando: Long Primer Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title within double lines: (3–11) Epistola dedicatoria to James lord Strange, dated “Oxonii è Musæo meo in Collegio Ænea-nasensi, Nono Cal. Januarii 1639.”, and signed “Thomas Sixesmith”: (13–16) “Index tractatuum, capitum, et quæstionum ...”: 1–245, the four treatises, on the first four books of the Ethics.

See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ed. Bliss, ii. 141. The original MS. (finished 27 Oct. 1586) is now part of MS. (Queen’s coll. Oxford no. 218). The method of this commentary or rather analysis is scholastic and formal. The editor says that he rescued the original MS. from a “rurale musæum,” when it was “pulvere situque squalidum, & tantum non sepultum.” The author died in 1613. It is curious that in Moss’s Manual of classical bibliography (Lond., 1825, vol. i, p. 157) this book is called “Westerman, Commentaria in Ethica Aristotelis. Oxon. 4to. 1640,” with a reference to Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ed. Bliss, ii. 141. The explanation is that Westerman heads the column in Wood’s work, because the account of William Westerman follows Brerewood on that column: but the ascription deceived even so acute a bibliographer as the late professor Chandler in his List of editions of the Nicomachean Ethics (Oxf. 1878).

Impr. 69: 1640: sm. 4^o: pp. [4] + 431 + [16]: p. 11 beg. quia unus homo, 401 crimini vitæ: Long Primer Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title, within double lines: two epigrams, one by, and one to, Guillermus Baterel, the original editor: 1–431, the work: (1–15) index.

Baterel’s annotated edition of Buridanus on the Politics was printed at least twice in the sixteenth century (1506 and 1526).

Impr. 193 a: 1640: (twelves) 24^o: pp. [8] + 177 + [3]: p. 11 beg. common equity, 101 next place: Pica Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title, within a line: (3–8) dedication to archbp. Ussher: 1–60, 61–125, 127–177, the three sermons, on 2 Sam. xvii. 23.

For an account of the earlier editions, see Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ii. 422, and 1628 C. The present edition closely resembles the London ones of 1633 and 1638. Probably the “N. H.” who edited the next article below, edited this also, Carpenter having died in 1628. The work is evidently intended to be read with a view to the political circumstances of the time, under the disguise of dealing with “a sacred tragedy” from Old Testament history.

Impr. 193 b: 1640: (twelves) 24^o: pp. [8] + 95 + [1]: p. 11 beg. were the Secretaries: Pica Roman. Contents:—(1) title: (3–8) Epistle dedicatory to dr. Thomas Winniffe, dean of St. Paul’s, by “N.H.” the editor: 1–95, the sermon.

See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ed. Bliss, ii. 422. This is a reprint of the Lond. 1633 edition. The preface gives some valuable biographical notes about Carpenter, who died in 1628, and was the editor’s tutor and “neere Affine” at Exeter college. It states with reference to the present book that “had not a kinsman’s (Io. Ca.) friendly hand given it safe conduct over the Surges of the Ocean, in all likelyhood it had perished on the Netherland shores.”

6. [Cartwright, William]. THE | ROYALL | SLAVE. | [&c., exactly as 1639 C, except that the hyphen in l. 7 is horizontal, that “The second Edition” is inserted between the two lines, and that after them is a woodcut.]

Impr. 189: 1640: sm. 4^o: pp. [64], signn. A-H⁴: sign. C1^r beg. Atos. I hope: Pica Roman. Contents:—exactly as in 1639 C, except that the play only extends to H3^r, the three epilogues occupying H3^v-H4^r.

See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ed. Bliss, iii. 69, and 1639 C, of which this is a reprint.

Impr. 197: 1640: (twelves) 16^o: pp. [12] + 220 + [44]: p. 11 beg. fuisset. Brutus, 201 quam cogitatione: Pica Roman. Contents:—p. (1) “A” between woodcuts: (5) title, within a line: (7–12) “Lectori ...”, signed “M.H.”: 1–7 “Angliæ descriptio generalis, ex Geographico Opusculo Johan. Büssenmecheri”: 9–61, 62–81, 82–220, the commentarioli: (1–44) “Index rerum et nominum memorabilium.”

This is an anonymous history of Britain from the earliest times. The editor, M(atthew) H(unt), does not mention the fact, that an undated edition was printed at London by Henry Bynneman (who published from 1566 to 1587), with the title “De rebus gestis Britanniæ commentarioli tres. Ad Ornatissimum Virum M. Henricum Broncarem Armigerum E.S.”, from which it has been conjectured that the author’s initials were “E.S.” The first words of the text are “Britannia est Insula natura triquetra.” The name of Clain is given in the British Museum catalogue as the author of an Amberg edition of 1603, and in Thomas Thorpe’s Catalogue of books (1851) p. 51 an edition printed at Hamburg in 1598 is mentioned under the same name, but I can find no account of the author, who probably lived at Amberg. Some have ascribed the book to John Clapham, who published an English History of England till the coming of the Saxons, in 1602 and 1606.

Impr. 160 b: 1640: (eights) 16^o: pp. [40] + 363 + [5]: p. 11 beg. Poetesse was, 301 purpose, and: Pica Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title, within a border between lines: (3–7) “The Author to the Reader”: (9–34) 8 English poems to the author and book by Oxford men, one by Martin Llewellin: (35–39) “A table of the chapters”: (39) “Errata”: 1–363, the work, in 39 chapters.

See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ed. Bliss, iii. 350, where the translator from the French into English is stated to be Edmund Chilmead. The original French edition was published at Toulouse in 1612, under the title Traité de l’essence et guérison de l’amour, and at Paris in 1623 as De la maladie d’amour, ou melancholie erotique. If Robert Burton was acquainted with the first edition of this book, as he well may have been, there can be little doubt that he has taken or imitated the general method and treatment of the subject, in his Anatomy of Melancholy: but the French author is surpassed on his own ground. The research is greater and the felicities of language more numerous and striking in Burton, while the plan is also further and distinctively elaborated. There is no mention of Burton’s book in the poems prefixed to this translation. The words underlined in the above title are printed in red, as well as “Oxford,” and “sold by Edward Forrest . 1640.” in the imprint.

Impr. 180: 1640: sm. 4^o: pp. [4] + 67 + [1]: p. 11 beg. Only for present use: Pica Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title: (3) “Prologue”: 1–67, the play; (1) “Epilogue.”

This was Fletcher’s unaided composition, before the close of 1624, when it was twice performed at court. The underplot is said to be based on one of Cervantes’ “Novelas Exemplares.” See the Dict. of Nat. Biogr. under Fletcher, p. 307, col. 1. The present is the first edition, and the only quarto one.

Impr. 180: 1640: sm. 4^o: pp. [2] + 73 + [1]: p. 11 beg. But for you: Pica Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title: (2) “The Names of the Actors”: 1–73, the play.

The authorship of this play is doubtful. The first edition (Lond. 1639) was entitled “The Bloody Brother. A Tragedy. By B. J. F.” i. e. Ben Johnson and Fletcher?, and it was entered in the Stationers’ Register on 4 Oct. 1639 as by “J. B.” Massinger is also supposed to have had some share in it. See the Dict. of Nat. Biogr. under Fletcher, p. 308, col. 2.

Impr. 119: 1640: sm. 4^o: pp. [12] + 96: p. 11 beg. Cass. If the varlets: Pica Roman. Contents—p. (1) title: (2) “Dramatis Personæ”: (3) “To the Reader”, signed “P.P.”, the editor: (4–11) seven complimentary poems to the author, alluding to Shakespeare’s, Ben Johnson’s and Randolph’s deaths: (12) Errata: 1–96, the play, with epilogue.

See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ed. Bliss, iii. 31. The author died before 1650, not, as Foster’s Alumni Oxonienses asserts, as late as 1699. The editor, who is known to be Philip Papillon of Exeter college, declares that the play is here printed without the author’s knowledge and against his modesty. The lines relating to Shakespeare, which have perhaps only been reprinted in Pickering and Chatto’s Catalogue of books, nos. 70–72 (June 1893), p. 15, are:—

“But sad Melpomene ...

Hyes to pale Shakespeares urne, and from his tombe

Takes up the bayes, and hither she is come.”

Impr. 94a: 1640: 12^o: pp. [4] + 151 + [1]: p. 11 beg. onely from: Pica Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title, within double lines: (3–4) dedication to Philip earl of Pembroke: 1–145, the discourse on “1 Thess. [v] 22”: 147–151, “The Postscript to the Reader”: (1) “Errata”.

See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., iii. 591. This book appears to be rare, and was reprinted at Oxford in 1660.

13. Oxford, University. HORTI | CAROLINI | ROSA ALTERA. | [device.]

Impr. 151: 1640: sm. 4^o: pp. [108], signn. ( )², *, **, A-E⁴ F², a-c⁴, cc², d-e⁴: sign. B1^r beg. Iam meritò, b1^r Prethee forbeare: English Roman & Italic. Contents:—( )1^r, title, within double lines: ( )2^r, poem dedicatory to the king, signed “Acad. Oxon.”, in Latin: *1^r-F2^v, Latin poems: a1^r-e4^r, English poems: e4^v “The Printer to their Maiesties”, an English poem, signed “Leonard Lichfield.”

These are verses to celebrate the birth of prince Henry, 8 July 1640 (d. 1660). Most are in Latin and English, but three in Greek, two in French, one in Hebrew. The signatures as usual show the difficulty of getting the poems sent in in time and arranged in proper order.

Impr. 198: 1640: (twelves) 16^o: pp. [8] + 200 + [8]: p. 11 beg. factus ita, 101 Laconismum: English Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title, within a line: (3–7) “Lectori benevolo ...”, signed “J. W” (estall): 1–116, 117 (misprinted 711)-195, the two diatribae: 196–200 “Sententiæ aliquot aculeatæ, è Seneca”.

These are reprints of Diatribae 7 and 8 out of the entire set of twelve which form the Amœnitates. The Thyrsi are short essays on aculei, which are pointed sentences on friendship and love. The editor (and printer) mentions the Suada Attica as “nuper excusa”: see below.

Impr. 205: 1640: (eights) 16^o: pp. [16] + 534 + [2 + ?]: p. 11 beg. ego didicerim, 501 munerúmque: Pica Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title: 3–10, dedication “Tribus ordinibus Brabantiæ”, dated “Lovanii, in Arce, Kalendis Martiis M.DC.XV”: 11–12, two quotations: 13 “Syllabus Orationum”: (14) “Character harum orationum”: (15) a quotation: 1–419, the 22 orations: 419–421, two passages from Aulus Gellius: 421 “Typographo lectori”: 422–424, “ErycI Puteani paucula de morte”: 425, a bastard title to the Palæstra: 427–429, “Ad lectorem”, dated “Lovanii”, XI. Kalend. Octobr. M.DC.XI.”: 430–512, the Palæstra, 20 exercitationes &c.: 513–534, “Syllabus exercitationum” and short pieces, ending with “... Puteanus Lectori ...”: (1–2) blank, the rest (if any) not seen.

There is no bibliography of the numerous works of Erycius Puteanus, but the Suada Attica was first published at Louvain in 1615, and the Palæstra in 1611. They contain orations and exercises delivered at Milan and Louvain. The Palæstra Bonæ Mentis is properly a hall at Louvain, where some of these were delivered, and in another sense a literary club which met there for debate, recitations and the like. See preceding article.

Impr. 174: 1640: (eights) 16^o: pp. [28] + 134 + [2] + 87 + [7] + 101 + [1]: pp. 11 beg. Africk he loaths, High as the men, and For Mopsus: Long Primer Roman. Contents:—p. (1) an engraved title, see below: (3) title, as above, within double lines: (5–26) twelve poems on the author and book: 1–134, the poems: (1) title of the Muses Looking-glass, almost as in 1638 R, with impr. 174: 1–87, (1), the play: (2) title of Amyntas, nearly as in 1638 R, but “By T.R.”, with impr. 174: (4) “Dramatis Personæ”: (6–7), 1–101, the play.

See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ed. Bliss, i. 565, and 1638 R. The “enlargement” in this edition is not evident. The engraved title bears a bust of Randolph on a pedestal, with Philosophia and Poesis doing him honour, and a celestial sphere and Pegasus above. On the pedestal are the words “Poems by Tho : Randolph. The 2^d Edition much Enlarged.”, and below is impr. 196. Each of the three parts is separately paged, but the two plays are linked by the signatures, while the title alone connects the plays with the poems. The Cambridge 1640 edition of “The Jealous Lovers”, a comedy by Randolph, is not infrequently found bound with this volume, but has no necessary connexion with it.

Impr. 202: 1640: sm. 4^o: pp. [2] + 43 + [1]: p. 11 beg. What beauty on: Great Primer Italic and Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title, within double bounding lines except at foot (single line): 1–43, 19 poems, of which four are in Latin.

Very rare. The only copy I have seen of this privately printed book is in the British Museum. The marriage (in 1640) was between Anne daughter of sir Edward Baynton, of Bromham (d. 1657), and Hugh Rogers esq. of Cannington. The poems are clearly by friends and relations of both parties, but are signed only with initials. A copy of the book was in the Heber sale (pt. viii, p. 49).

Impr. 203: 1640: (twelves) 16^o: pp. [36] + 157 + [5] + 31 + [23]: pp. 11 begg. Though your, and soule, that: English Roman. Contents:—pp. (1–4) not seen: (5) title, with border within lines: (7–24) dedication to all true Believers, by the editor: (25–32) “To the Reader”: (33–35) “Rules to be observed in reading of promises”: 1–157, the 105 legacies: (1–2) “A postscript sent from the Authour”: (4) a title within a line:—“AN | EPITOME OF | PROMISES | FOR THE | SAINTS SUPPORT | IN TIME OF | TROVBLE. | [line] | The sixth Edition. | [line, motto, line]”. with impr. 204: 1–31, 31 promises: (1–4) texts: (6–9) “A Postscript, to all true Beleevers”: (10–18, 20–22) “Five Tables ...” or indexes.

This is a rare and curious book: rare, inasmuch as no ordinary library catalogue or bibliography contains any mention of any edition or copy of it; and curious, as having its two parts—which are indissolubly joined by the signatures and sections—printed by the same printer for two different London publishers, R. Royston and S. Enderby. We must suppose these two to have ventured proportionate parts in the book.

Impr. 201: 1640: (eights) 16^o: pp. [8] + 239 + [1] + ...: p. 11 beg. possint esse, 201 Cap. 21.: Pica Roman. Contents:—pp. (1–2) not seen: (3) title, within a line: (5–8) “Elenchus capitum”: 1–239 the work, in three books: (the two Appendixes contain over 120 pages.)

Rare. See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ed. Bliss, iii. 626, and 1615 S. The only copy I have seen, in Queen’s College (Oxford) Library, is interleaved, and wants the two appendixes, which probably occupied the same number of pages as in the 1631 edition.

Impr. 157: 1640: (eights) 16^o: pp. [24] + 80: p. 11 beg. Pro morte: Pica Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title, with border between lines: (3–4) “Lectori”: (5–16) six complimentary Latin poems by St. John’s College men: (17) “Dramatis Personæ”: (119–21) “Argumentum”: (23) “Errata ...”: 1–80, the play.

For the author, see Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ed. Bliss, iii. 275. The sheets of this work were reissued in 1650 at London, with a new title Pharamus, sive Libido vindex, Hispanica tragædia, but neither Wood nor his editors have been aware of this earlier edition. Both were anonymous, and the direct evidence for the authorship (which need not be doubted) is difficult to find. Bp. Barlow wrote the author’s name on the title of his copy of Pharamus. The poems imply that the play had been written some years before 1640: the author matriculated at St John’s College, Oxford, in June 1634.

21. Tipping, William. “A Return of Thankfulness for the unexpected Recovery out of a dangerous Sickness. Oxon. 1640. Oct.”

So in Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ed. Bliss, iii. 244.

Impr. 199: (twelves) 16^o: pp. [10] + 195 + [11]: p. 11 beg. Minister. 2, 101 was due: Pica Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title, within line and border: (3–9) Epistle dedicatory, as in 1628 T: 1–195, the directions: (2–4) “The contents of each Chapter”.

For the author and book, but not this edition, see Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ed. Bliss, iii. 274 (and 1628 T). Each page is within a line, doubled at upper and outer margins.

23. ——. “Sermon on Joh. 18. 3. Ox. 1640.”

So in Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ed. Bliss, iii. 274.

Impr. 157: 1640: sm. 4^o: pp. [4] + 24: p. 11 beg. men hî verè: Great Primer Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title, within double lines: (3) dedication to dr. John Tolson provost of Oriel: 1–24, the sermon, on 1 Pet. iii. 8.

See Wood’s Fasti Oxon., ed. Bliss, i. 469. The dedication is of the modern kind, not an epistle dedicatory, and the printing is unusual, the first words of a paragraph being generally projections to the left, instead of indented.

Impr. 157: 1640: sm. 4^o: pp. [8] + 36 + [4] + 40 + [4]: pp. 11 beg. meris sunt, and quæsitum est: Pica Roman. Contents:—p. (3) title, within double lines: (5–6) “Ad Lectorem”, unsigned, but “Datum ex Aula Alb. Prid. Calend. April. 1640”: (7–8) heads of chapters in division 1: 1–36, the military division, in two parts: (1) a title, within double lines: “DESCRIPTIO | JuRIS & JuDICII | MARITIMI | [&c., exactly as the main title, to its end, with woodcut and impr. 157: (3–4) heads of chapters in division 2: 1–40, “De jure maritimo & de jure nautico” in two parts: (1) “Errata”.

See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ed. Bliss, iii. 511. The signatures establish a connexion between the two divisions.

26. ——. “Descr. Juris & Judicii sacri; ad quam Leges, quæ ad Religionem & piam Causam respiciunt, referuntur. Oxon. 1640. qu.”

So in Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ed. Bliss, iii. 511, where it is stated that the De Jure Sacro, Militari and Maritimo, were issued together. In the Leyden reprint of 1652 the De jure sacro is rather shorter than the other two. It does not seem to have found its way into the Oxford or London libraries which have published their catalogues.