1592.
1. Barlaamus. ΤΟΥ῀ ΣΟΦΩΤΑ´ΤΟΥ ΒΑΡΛΑΑ`Μ ΛΟ´ΓΟΣ ΠΕΡΙ` | ΤΗ῀Σ ΤΟΥ῀ ΠΑ´ΠΑ ἈΡΧΗ῀Σ. | BARLAAMI DE PAPAE PRINCI-|PATV LIBELLVS. | Nunc primùm Græcé & Latiné editus opera Ioannis | Lvidi Procuratoris Academiæ Oxoniensis. | Ad | Illustrissimum Dominum Bucchurstium | eiusdem Academiæ Cancellarium | Amplissimum. | [device.]
Impr. 11: 1592: sm. 4o: pp. [40], signn. ¶, A-D4: sign. B 1r beg. ἀξιοῦσθαι χειροτονίας: Pica Greek and Roman. Contents:—¶ 1r, “¶ j”: ¶ 2r, title: ¶ 2v, arms of Buckhurst engraved on metal: ¶ 3r-¶ 4r, epistle dedicatory to Thomas Sackville lord Buckhurst, afterwards earl of Dorset, 1 Jan. “1592,” i. e. 1591
2: A 1r-B 3r, the Greek text: B 4r-D 3v, the Latin text.
See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., i. 739. This is the editio princeps of the work of bp. Barlaamus. A copy presented by the author to John Selden, now in the Bodleian, is without the device on the titlepage.
2. Brasbridge, Thomas. Quæstiones in Officia M. T. Ciceronis, compendiariam totius Opusculi Epitomen continentes. 16o: (Impr. 5).
From notes of a copy belonging to lord Robartes, seen by me in Dec. 1879. The dedication is dated 1586, of which date there is a copy of the book in Christ Church Library, Oxford: see 1615. B, an edition noticed in Wood’s Ath. Oxon., i. 526.
3. Breton, Nicholas. THE PILGRIMAGE TO PARA-|DISE, IOYNED WITH THE | Countesse of Pembrookes loue, compiled | in verse by Nicholas Breton | Gentleman. | [motto, then device.]
Impr. 6: 1592: sm. 4o: pp. [8] + 102 + [2]: p. 11 beg. But, waking: Primer (Great Primer?) Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title: (3–4), epistle dedicatory to Mary Countess of Pembroke: (5) “To the Gentlemen studients and Scholers of Oxforde,” 12 Apr. 1592, with a note disclaiming an edition “of late printed in london by one Richarde Ioanes ... entituled Bretons bower of delight,” as unauthorized and to a large extent not his own poems: (6) “To my honest true friende Master Nicholas Breton,” signed “Iohn Case”: (7–8) poems by Will. Gager and Henry Price to Breton: 1–65, the pilgrimage: 66–102, the countess of Pembroke’s love, both poems in 6-line stanzas: (1) 7 “Errata.”
Very rare. See Hazlitt’s Handbook, p. 56.
4. Case, John. SVMMA | VETERVM INTER-|PRETVM IN VNIVER-|SAM DIALECTICAM ARISTO-|TELIS; QVAM VERE FALSO-|ue Ramus in Aristotelem inueha-|tur, ostendens. | Auctore. | IOANNE CASE OXONIENSI, | olim Collegii D. Ioannis Præcurso-|ris socio. | Omnibus Socraticæ Peripateticæque philosophiæ studiosis in | primis vtilis ac necessaria. | Recognita & emendata. | Cum Indice rerum & verborum locupletiss. | [device.]