182 FROISSART (Jean), Le pre
quart] volume de froissart Des croniqu
terre, Descoce, Despaigne, De breta
flandres, Et lieux circunuoisins. [A la
pour anthoine verard marchat libraire De
la rue neufue nostre dame pres lhostel 1
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presidens. [A la fin des t. II. III. IV.]
pour Anthoine Verard .. Demourant a
nostre dame a lymage Saint Jehan leuangelis
1500.] 4 vols. in 3, folio, Gothic Letter, pre
columns, A FINE AND LARGE COPY, HANDSOMEL.
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in gold, gilt edges, by Chambolle-Duru, £150.

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noble edition of this famous French classic, of
Iwith the first. Each of the titles commences wi
initial L formed of two grotesque heads, and the four
words are xylographic. The first three volumes each
Verard's handsome woodcut device at the end.-1
4932; Macfarlane, 112.

See Douce, II. p. 178.

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UYT (Richard), The Principal Navigations,
Traffiques, and discoveries of the English Nation, made
cr overland, to the remote and farthest distant
of the Earth at any time within the compasse of
10 yeres. Imprinted at London by George Bishop,
1599-1600.
berie, and Robert Barker.
3 vols.
-A Selection of Curious, Rare, and Early
Histories of interesting Discoveries, chiefly
Hakluyt, or at his suggestion, but not included
a compilation, to which this is intended as
London, 1812. 1 vol. Together 4 vols.
set, uniformly bound in red morocco gilt,
£85.

y tall copy (measuring 11 × 7 inches)
collection of Elizabethan Voyages in
and Africa. It contains the original
o Cadiz " (inlaid), which was sup-
Elizabeth.-See Douce, I. p. 251,
d his Times," I. p. 477.

179 FABYAN (Robert), The Chronicle of Fabian, whiche he nameth the concordaunce of histories, newly perused. And continued, from the beginnyng of Kyng Henry the seuenth to thende of Queene Mary. Imprinted at London, by Jhon Kyngston, 1559. Folio, BEST EDITION, Black Letter, woodcut title and initial letters, old calf, £10 10s. See Douce, I. p. 140.

180 FIELDING (Henry), Miscellanies [in verse and prose]. London, Printed for the Author, 1743. 3 vols. 8vo, FIRST EDITION, LARGE PAPER, original calf, £25.

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The Life of Mr. Jonathan Wild the Great," which was not published in a separate form until 1754, is in vol. 3. The other volumes contain his early Poems, Essays, and the Plays Eurydice" and The Wedding-Day," as well as A Journey from this world to the next," in which Shakespeare is represented in Elysium, giving his opinion regarding ambiguous passages in his works.

181 FOSTER (John), A Shakespeare Word-book. Being a Glossary of Archaic Forms and Varied Usages of Words Employed by Shakespeare. London, [1908]. 8vo, cloth, top edges gilt, 78. 6d.

182 FROISSART (Jean), Le premier [second, tiers et quart] volume de froissart Des croniques De France, Dangleterre, Descoce, Despaigne, De bretaigne, De gascōgne, De flandres, Et lieux circunuoisins. [A la fin du t. I.] Imprime pour anthoine verard marchāt libraire Demourant a paris deuant la rue neufue nostre dame pres lhostel Dieu A lymaige saint iehan leuangeliste ou en la salle Du palays au premier pillier Deuant la chappelle ou lon chante la messe de messeigneurs les presidens. [A la fin des t. II. III. IV.] Imprime a Paris pour Anthoine Verard Demourant a Paris sur le pont nostre dame a lymage Saint Jehan leuangeliste. [S. d., vers 1500.] 4 vols. in 3, folio, Gothic Letter, printed in double columns, A FINE AND LARGE COPY, HANDSOMELY BOUND in red morocco super extra, the sides and backs covered with fleurs-de-lis in gold, gilt edges, by Chambolle-Duru, £150.

An extraordinarily fine copy of the second issue of Verard's noble edition of this famous French classic, of equal rarity with the first. Each of the titles commences with a large initial L formed of two grotesque heads, and the four following words are xylographic. The first three volumes each contain Verard's handsome woodcut device at the end.-Pellechet 4932; Macfarlane, 112.

See Douce, II. p. 178.

183 FISHER (Dr. John A.), Harlequin Jubilee, as perform'd at the Theatre Royal in Covent Garden. Welcker, [1770.] Folio, music and words engraved, 7s. 6d.

A skit upon the Shakespeare Jubilee of 1769 at Stratfordon-Avon.

184 G[ARRICK] (D[avid]), An Ode upon dedicating a Building and erecting a statue, to Shakespeare, at Stratford upon Avon. London, 1769. FIRST EDITION.-Jago (Richard), Edge-Hill, or, the rural prospect delineated and moralized. A Poem in four books. London, 1767. 5 vignettes engraved by Grignon, etc. 2 vols. in 1, 4to, half bound, £2 10s.

185 GARRICK. Poetical Works, with Explanatory Notes. London, 1785. 2 vols. sm. 8vo, russia gilt, £2 2s.

With a Life of Garrick, List of his Characters, and List of his Dramatic Works prefixed. Among Garrick's verses are Prologues to The Tempest, Much Ado about Nothing, &c.

186 GAY (John), Poems on Several Occasions. London, Printed for Jacob Tonson, at Shakespear's-Head in the Strand, 1720. 2 vols. in 1, 4to, FIRST EDITION, frontispiece, original panelled calf, gilt back, £2 28.

The preface to the Farce The What d'ye call it, has a reference to the Midsummer Night's Dreame.

187 GENT (Thomas), Poems. London, T. Cadell, 1829. 8vo, boards, 5s.

On pp. 33-36 is a poem on Shakespeare.

188 GESTA ROMANORUM. Institutiones Catholicæ (vulgò Gesta Romanorum) ex probatissimis Historiis excerptæ, accurratiùs & elimatiùs, quàm anteà vsquàm castigatæ. Lugduni, Apud Hæredes Iacobi Iuntæ, 1555. 12mo, old calf, stamped sides, £1 15s.

189 GRATIUS FALISCUS. Cynegeticon. Or, a Poem of Hunting by Gratius the Faliscian. Englished and Illustrated [in verse] by Christopher Wase Gent. London, Printed for Charles Adams and are to be sold at his shope at the sign of the Talbot neare St. Dunstans Church in Fleet Street, 1654. 12mo, FIRST EDITION, fresh copy, old calf gilt, £7 10s.

The Latin and English versions are printed on opposite pages. A poem by Edmund Waller "On my worthy Friend the Author" is prefixed.-See Hunter's New Illustrations of Shakespeare, vol. 2, p. 236.

190 Gesta Romanorum cum applicationibus moralisatis et mysticis. [Colophon :] Ex gestis Romanorum cum pluribus applicatis hystoriis de virtutibus et viciis mistice ad intellectum transumptibus recollectorii finis Et peris. [per F. Regnault] Anno nře salutis 1509. Sm. 8vo, Gothic Letter, with Regnault's large device beneath title, cut of French Arms on the verso of last leaf, ornamental woodcut initials, rubricated throughout, the outer margin of title-page repaired, but a good copy, russia gilt, gilt edges, £4 158.

Among the stories in this famous collection are the originals of Pericles, and of the Casket Scene and the Pound of Flesh" in the Merchant of Venice.

191 GREEN (Henry), Shakespeare and the Emblem Writers; an exposition of their similarities of thought and expression. Preceded by a View of Emblem-Literature down to 1616. London, 1870. Roy. 8vo, with frontispiece, 17 plates, and numerous other illustrations, cloth, £1 5s.

192 GREETING (Thomas), The Pleasant Companion : or new Lessons and Instructions for the Flagelet. The Third Edition Enlarged. London, Printed for J. Playford, and are to be Sold at his Shop near the Temple-Church, 1678. Oblong 8vo, with brilliant impression of the engraved frontispiece, representing a player on the flageolet, presumably a portrait of the Author, the Lessons engraved in a peculiar tablature on a 6-line stave, FINE COPY, only one or two headlines shaved, in the original sheep, £31 10s.

This very rare third edition of Greeting's work is not in the British Museum Collection. It consists of Frontispiece, Title-page, 8 printed pages of Instructions, and 64 engraved pages (Sigs. A-H in fours) containing 70 Lessons and Tunes, ending with an additional page of 'Musick Books lately Printed and Sold by John Playford." One of the Tunes is entitled "Mackbeth."

193 HALLIWELL (J. O.), A Catalogue of the Early Editions of Shakespeare's Plays and of the Commentaries and other Publications illustrative of his Works. 1841. 8vo, FIRST EDITION, cloth, 188.

194 HALLIWELL. A Catalogue of the Warehouse Library of J. O. Halliwell-Phillipps. 1876. 8vo, a few copies issued for private circulation only, cloth, uncut, 7s. 6d.

195 HALLIWELL. Which shall it Be? New Lamps or Old? Shaxpere or Shakespeare? Brighton, 1879. 8vo, sewed, 48. 6d.