Catalogue of the Books Presented by Edward Capell to the Library of Trinity College in Cambridge

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F^o. (11⁵⁄₈ × 7⁵⁄₈). E. 3.

Titlepage engraved. ('Calcographus' altered to 'Calcographi,' in ink.) Collation: )(¹⁰A-V⁶, one leaf unsigned; paged. Wanting )( 5 and 6 containing Post-præfatio and first copy of verses. Most of the engravings are included in the collation and have printing on the back, the following only are inserted: tomb of Queen Elizabeth, after D 2; Martin Frobisher, after H 6; John, Lord Harington of Exton (second portrait), after M 1; John Bale, after O 4. Dedication to King James. Præfatio. Post-Præfatio. Commendatory verses by T. D. (two copies), S. R. V. M. Eccl: Belg: Lond:, I. D. Scoto-Britannus (2 copies), A. B. (2 copies). Verses by A. G. Xylandrus. 'Tomus Secundus' begins with half-title at sig. M 5. On D 6^v is a portrait of Prince Henry which is a smaller copy with verses subscribed of the Hole engraving in Drayton's 'Poly-olbion' of 1613. The unsigned leaf at the end is occupied by a table of contents.

BM 824.

HOLLAND, Philemon.

The Philosophie ... written by ... Plutarch of Chæronea.... 1603. See Plutarch.

HOMER.

The Whole Works of Homer; Prince of Poetts. In his Iliads, and Odysses. Translated according to the Greeke, By Geo: Chapman. De Ili: et Odiss:

Omnia ab his; et in his sunt omnia: siue beati
Te decor eloquij, seu rerũ pondera tangunt. Angel: Pol:

At London Printed for Nathaniell Butter.

F^o. (11³⁄₈ × 7¹⁄₄). F. 4.

Engraved titlepage signed William Hole. Collation: 2 leaves unsigned, replacing original engraved titlepage. * 2-6, with two leaves inserted after * 5 (* 4 misprinted A 4), A-2F⁶2G⁸; A3-6B-Q⁶R⁸ S-2H⁶2I⁸; paged. R 8 and 2I 8 in second alphabet blank. Wanting the two leaves inserted in sig. *, and * 6, also 2G 8 (? blank). This edition is made up of earlier editions of both parts; the 'Odessey' is also inserted between the new title-sheet and the 'Iliad' instead of following the latter. The title-sheet contains, engraved titlepage, with engraved portrait of the translator on the verso; engraved memorial to Prince Henry on second leaf. (In some copies the engraved titlepage is found without the portrait on verso, and these seem to be the earlier impressions.) This sheet takes the place of the original titlepage (c. 1612-13) and the dedicatory verses to Sir Edward Philips found in some copies of the original issue. Dedicatory verses to Prince Henry, signed by the translator. Anagram on Prince Henry. Verses to Queen Anne, signed. Verses to Viscounts Cranborne and Rochester and Sir Edward Philips, occupying the two inserted leaves (wanting in the present copy). Verses to the reader (first leaf wanting). Preface. Errata. Twenty-four books of the 'Iliad'. Verses to the Duke of Lenox, the Lord Chancellor, Earl of Salisbury, Earl of Suffolk, Earl of Northampton, Earl of Arundell, Earl of Pembroke, Earl of Montgomerie, Lord Lisle, Countess of Montgomerie, Lady Wrothe, Countess of Bedford, Earl of Southampton, Earl of Sussex, the Lord Warden, and Sir Thomas Howard, signed at the end. The edition of the 'Odessey' had appeared in 1614, with an engraved title 'Homer's Odysses. Translated according to y^e Greeke. By Geo: Chapman. Imprinted at London by Rich: Field, for Nathaniell Butter'. This and the blank leaf preceding it have been cancelled in the present as in most other copies of the collected edition. In some copies, e.g. in that in the Cambridge University Library, is found a printed titlepage: 'Homers Odesses. Translated According to the Greeke. By George Chapman. [Motto.] London, Printed for Nathaniel Butter'. Epistle dedicatory in verse and prose to Robert, Earl of Somerset. Translations of Greek epigrams. Twenty-four books of the 'Odessey' with a few verses at the end. The present which was the first collected edition appeared about 1616. It seems to be generally assumed that the collected edition of 1616 contained, not the 1612-13 'Iliad', but a reprint. Copies in this state are found in the Cambridge University Library and the British Museum (G. 8837). The reprint, however, which appears in these copies must be of considerably later date, as is evident from the constant use of 'v' medially. It was probably printed about 1640. Two of the woodcut figures used as head-pieces were so used (with the same break in the St Francis) in a book printed, probably by T. Harper, in 1641 (namely the reprint of 'The Devil is an Ass' found in some copies of the second volume of Ben Jonson's works, q.v.). Evidently the stock of the 'Iliad' gave out before the 'Odessey' and the first part of the volume had in consequence to be reprinted. Probably therefore the majority of copies of Chapman's 'Homer' described as being of the edition of 1616 were not in reality issued till some twenty years later.

BM 828.