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

by Falconer Madan

This is a reissue of the sheets of 1623 F with part of the titlepage altered. There is another issue of this reissue, *undated, with impr. 49a, but no other change from the present edition of any kind.

7. Hayes, William. THE | PARAGON | OF PERSIA; | OR | THE LAVVYERS | LOOKING-GLASSE. | Opened in a sermon at S. MARIES | in Oxford, at the Assises, the | 7 day of Iuly, 1624. | By William Hayes, Master of Arts of Magdalen Hall. | [two mottos, then woodcut.]

Impr. 45: 1624: 16^o.

Only known at present from a titlepage in the Bagford collections in the British Museum (463. h. 3), but it is not likely to be rare.

8. Heylyn, Peter. Microcosmus: the reference in Wood’s Ath. Oxon., iii. 557 to an edition of this year, is probably an error for 1625.

9. Oxford, University. CAMDENI | INSIGNIA· |

Impr. 42: 1624: sm. 4^o: pp. [76], signn. ( )² ¶, ¶¶⁴, ¶¶¶² A-F⁴ G²: sign. B 1^r beg. In Camdenum: Pica Roman. Contents:—( ) 1^r title: 1^v “Donum Camdenianum”, his benefaction to the University: ( ) 2^r-2^v, A 1^r-G 2^v, the poems: ¶ 1^r-4^v “Oratio in memoriam ... Gulielmi Camdeni ... prolata per Zoucheum Townley ex Æde Christi, Oratorem publicum tunc temporis deputatum”: ¶¶ 1^r-¶¶¶ 1^v, “Parentatio historica: sive Commemoratio vitæ et mortis V. C. Gulielmi Camdeni Clarentii, facta Oxoniæ in Scholâ Historicâ per Degoreum Whear Historiarum Prælectorem, ab eodem Camdeno ibidem constitutum”, 2 Dec. 1623: ¶¶¶ 1^v-2^v “Nuncius chronogrammaticus”, 3 Latin poems on Camden by Whear, introducing chronograms: A 1^r-G 2^v, see above.

See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ii. 348, Fasti Oxon., i. 398. Poems by members of the University of Oxford on the death of William Camden, which took place on 9 Nov. 1623. Most are in Latin, but there are 10 Greek, with 5 anagrams, and 2 chronograms. Whear’s Oration contains many biographical details about Camden.

10. ——. SCHOLA | MORALIS | PHILOSOPHIAE | OXON. | In funere Whiti pullata. | [device.]

Impr. 40: 1624: sm. 4^o: pp. [2] + 6 + [8]: p. 3 beg. VVhite dato: Pica & Great Primer Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title: (2) “Annua Whiti munificentia”, his bequests to the University, &c.: 1–6 poems: (1–8) “Oratio funebris habita Oxoniae, Aprilis 22^o, A^o 1624, in laudem Doctoris White ... per Guil. Price ...”.