235 [SAINT GLAS (Le Sieur de)] CONTES NOUVEAUX EN VERS. Dediez a Son Altesse Royale Monsieur, Frere Unique du Roy. II. Edition. A Paris, Chez Pierre Trabouillet, 1678. Narrow sm. 8vo., fine engraved title, VERY FINE TALL COPY, crushed brown levant morocco, triple gold fillet on sides, back richly gilt in compartments, inside dentelles, marbled gilt edges, BY CUZIN, £8 8s * VERY RARE. Not mentioned by Brunet, nor is there a copy in the British Museum. Mentioned by Lacroix. Of the first edition no copy appears to be known. Nothing is known of the author. In the Privilege du Roy he is styled Nostre amé le sieur de Saint Glas." 44 GALLIOT DU PRE'S FINE EDITION. 236 SCRIPTORES REI RUSTICE.-LIBRI DE RE RUSTICA, M. CATONIS, MARCI TERENTII VARRONIS, L. JUNII MODERATI COLUMELLÆ, PALLADII RUTILII, quorum summam pagina sequenti reperies. Parisiis apud Galeotum a prato in aula maiore regii Palatii ad primam culumnam (colophon at end, Impressum Lutetiæ prælo Antonii Augerelli, Impensis autem Joannis Parui, et Galeoti a Prato Mense Februario, 1533). Folio, roman letter, long lines, G. DU PRE'S FINE LARGE PUNNING DEVICE OF A GALLEY ON TITLE, name on title, calf, sides and back elaborately blind tooled to a XVIth century design, with clasps, FINE LARGE COPY, £10 108 * A very rare edition, issued by the celebrated Paris bookseller and publisher, Galliot du Pré, jointly with Jean Petit, their respective devices appearing on the titles of the copies taken by each of them. Mr. A. Tilley, in his exhaustive article on Du Pré and his publications, writing of the three works, including this, with the imprint Jan. or Feb., 1533, says, "In the descriptions of them--for I have never been able to see any of them there is no mention of a privilege." The description, as far as regards the present work, is quite correct, for there is none. These four treatises are among the earliest treating of husbandry. 237 SHAKESPEARE (William) A COLLECTION OF POEMS, in Two Volumes; being all the Miscellanies of Mr. William Shakespeare, which were Publish'd by himself in the Year 1609, and now correctly Printed from those Editions. The First Volume contains: VENUS AND ADONIS, THE RAPE OF LUCRECE, THE PASSIONATE PILGRIM, and SOME SONNETS SET TO SUNDRY NOTES OF MUSICK. The Second Volume contains ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY-FOUR SONNETS, all of them in Praise of his Mistress; II., A LOVER'S COMPLAINT OF HIS ANGRY MISTRESS. London: Printed for Bernard Lintott, at the Cross-Keys, between the Two Temple-Gates in Fleetstreet, N.D. (1709). Two vols. in I, sm. 8vo., separate titles to the four pieces in Vol. I., FINE COPY, crushed red morocco extra, deep inside borders, t. e. g., £12 128 *RARE. THE FIRST COLLECTED EDITION OF SHAKESPEARE'S POEMS, containing all his important pieces. Supposed to have been edited by Charles Gildon. 238 SHAKESPEARE (William) THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR; with the Amours of Sir John Falstaff. A Comedy. Written by Mr. W. Shakespear. London, Printed in the year 1710. Sm. 8vo., pp. 90, fine large copy, contemporary calf, rebacked, £10 10s * UNKNOWN TO JAGGARD. Printed for T. Johnson at the Hague. Entirely different in set-up from the no-date edition Printed for the Company." A 239 SHAKESPEARE (William) OTHELLO, THE MOOR OF VENICE. Tragedy, as it hath been divers times acted at the Globe, and at the Black-Friers. And now at the Theater-Royal, by His Majesty's Servants. Written by W. Shakespear. London, Printed by John Darby... 1724. Sm. 8vo., half morocco, £4 48 240 THE SECOND FOLIO. MR. WILLIAM COMEDIES, HISTORIES, AND TRAGEDIES. PUBLISHED ACCORDING TO THE TRUE ORIGINALL COPIES. The second Impression. 66 London, Printed by Tho. Cotes, for Robert Allot, and are to be sold at the signe of the Blacke Beare in Pauls Church-yard, 1632. Folio, 13 by 9 inches, WITH A GOOD IMPRESSION OF THE PORTRAIT BY DROESHOUT (leaf of Ben Jonson's verses, Upon the Effiges of," and "An Epitaph on W. Shakespeare" (unsigned, but by John Milton), the poem by Hugh Holland (on its verso the Catalogue of all the Comedies, &c.), and the last four leaves in exact facsimile), two small tears repaired, a few tiny rust-holes, and several slight stains, BUT OTHERWISE A FINE AND LARGE COPY, calf, antique style, £400 44 * One of the few copies of the second folio containing the unpaged leaf of "Epilogve," and The Actors Names," before the repeat page 69 in the second pagination, in uncorrected state, namely, with the signature i3 instead of i2, and the word Actors spelt Actosr. Otherwise this copy agrees exactly with Methuen's facsimile of this issue of the second folio, published in 1909, but it varies in several cases from the collation given by Mr. Pollard in his account of the four folios published in 1909. Thus among the misprinted signatures Mr. Pollard's 12 is here 12, 11 to 3 is L1 to 3, with L3 printed correctly instead of h3; m1 to 3 is M1 to 3, with M2 correctly printed, and ul to 3 is V1 to 3. The second pagination runs 1 to 46, not 1 to 45, and 49 to 100, not 48 to 100, and page 164 is correctly printed instead of 194. The errors on the unpaged leaf described above were evidently unknown to Mr. Pollard, as he says nothing about them. [SEE ILLUSTRATION.] 241 SHAKESPEARE (William) K. HENRY IV. With the Humours of Sir John Falstaff. A Tragi-Comedy. Written by Mr. W. Shakespear. London, Printed the in (sic) year 1710. Sm. 8vo., pp. 100, FINE TALL COPY, contemporary calf, rebacked, £10 10s * Jaggard locates only two copies, one in the British Museum, the other in the Birmingham Public Library. It was printed for T. Johnson at the Hague, and the London imprint is said to be fictitious. 242 SHAKESPEARE (William) THE JEW OF VENICE. A Comedy. Written Originaly by Mr. Wm. Shakespear. Now altered & very much improved, by the Hon. M. (should be G.) Granville. Printed for T. Johnson, Bookseller at the Hague, 1711. Sm. 8vo., fine large copy, old calf, rebacked, £6 6s *Jaggard locates only two copies, one in the Birmingham Public Library, the other formerly in the possession of Lord Warwick. 243 SHAKESPEARE (William) THE TEMPEST: or, the Enchanted Island. A Comedy. First written by Mr. William Shakespear, & since altered by Sr. William Davenant, and Mr. John Dryden. London, Printed in the Year 1710. Sm. 8vo., pp. 112, FINE TALL COPY, contemporary calf, rebacked, £10 10s * Jaggard locates only two copies, one in the Birmingham Public Library, the other formerly belonging to the Earl of Warwick. It was printed for T. Johnson at the Hague. MR WILLIAM SHAKESPEARES COMEDIES, Published according to the true Originall Copies. LONDON, Printed by Tho.Cotes, for Robert Allot,and are to be fold at his shop at the figne of the Blacke Beare in Pauls Church-yard. 1 6 3 2, UNIV. OF No. 240. SHAKESPEARE, SECOND FOLIO. CALIFORNIA 244 SHAKESPEARE'S NEIGHBOURS. THE CLOPTONS OF CLOPTON AND NEW PLACE, STRATFORD-ON-AVON, &C. THREE ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DOCUMENTS ON PAPER, ONE CONTEMPORARY WITH SHAKESPEARE, as follows: (1) A CONTEMPORARY MEMORANDUM, I page, folio, relating to three legal documents, the first an indenture, dated 17 Dec. 13 Elizabeth (1570), whereby William Clopton of Clopton, co. Warwick, sells to Richard Griffin (or Griffiths), Esq., amongst other things, all his lands lying in Ingon alias Ington, co. Warwick, the condition of this deed was £1,550; THE SECOND A RECOGNISANCE FOR £3,000 FROM THE SAID WILLIAM CLOPTON OF CLOPTON TO THE SAID RICHARD GRIFFIN, dated 17 Dec. 13 Elizabeth (1570); THE THIRD ANOTHER RECOGNISANCE, dated 15 Feb. 13 Elizabeth (1570-71), wherein Ralph Sheldon standeth bound in £1,600 to the said Richard Griffin, with the condition to perform the covenant of an indenture made between the said Ralph Sheldon on the first part, the said Richard Griffin on the second part, and Edward Griffin, Esq., on the third part. (2) A LIST OF FEES, &c., due at Michælmas, 1623, to William Clopton, arising from property in co. Durham, Northumberland, and Richmondshire, Yorks., I page, 4to., dated 12 March, 1623, and signed by W. Clopton's auditor, "Tho: Hutton." (3) AN AUTOGRAPH LETTER UNSIGNED, I page, 4to., dated "From Stamford in Lyncolnshyre Saterday this 6th of November, 1633. Loving Coxin I rest myselfe ever ingagd unto you for your curtesie yet I hope you desire noe satisfaction but onely a widdowes prayers for your prosperity. I have here sent you a note of those parcells of Lands which were betweene Mr. Darrell & my husband, which my Cozin your sonne did desire, as well those that are sold as those that are unsold, bycause that he did hope for my good to fynde out those parcells which I knowe not of. Thus desiring your assistance in these affaires . . . with my love to you, your wife & your Children I cease yours to hir ability." Endorsed" To my Loving Kinsman Mr. William Clopton Esq. in grays End Lane nigh to ye Signe of ye Blacke baire," £50 *So few particulars have been discovered respecting the persons who resided in Shakespeare's neighbourhood, that all contemporary documents relating to families connected with Stratford-on-Avon in Shakespeare's time are of great value and importance. The William Clopton mentioned in the first document was the owner of NBW PLACE, formerly the property of his great-great-uncle, Sir Hugh Clopton, Lord Mayor of London, who died in 1496. He sold it in 1563 to William Bott, who in turn sold it to William Underhill, whose family held it until 1597, when it was purchased by Shakespeare. Curiously enough, New Place returned into the possession of the Clopton family after many years through the marriage of Sir John Clopton, in 1662, with the heiress of Sir Edward Walker, Garter King-at-Arms. This Sir John was the direct descendant of John Clopton, a younger brother of the Lord Mayor, whose great grandson William, by marriage with the co-heiress of W. Clopton of Clopton, added that place (Clopton) to his own north country possessions. The Cloptons, Sheldons (through the Combe family), and Griffins were all linked together by family ties and social bonds, and it is certain that Shakespeare must have come into close contact with all of them. F |