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— Haddon, Mark, The Porpoise [adaptation of Pericles] (London: Chatto & Windus, 2019). Signed 1st edition. This was given to me by my PhD student Jonathan Gardner in 2019 and I hope he doesn’t mind it ending up in this collection. It’s a brilliantly inventive reworking of the Apollonius of Tyre story from several sources, not just Pericles, though Shakespeare and his collaborator, the brothel owner George Wilkins, do sporadically appear as characters themselves, sailing down the Thames estuary.
— Hall, Joseph, Satires by Joseph Hall. With the Illustrations of the Late Thomas Warton. And additional notes by Samuel Weller Singer (Chiswick: Printed by C. Whittingham for R. Triphook, Old Bond Street, London, 1824). Ownership signature of the Shakespeare scholar T. S. Dorsch (editor of the Arden 2 Julius Caesar) with marginal notes to the text in his hand.
On the Chiswick Press see Lovelace 1818.
Related titles: sPR3506. H35S3 Joseph Hall, Satires (1824) [same edition].
— Harington, Sir John, The Metamorphosis of Ajax. A Cloacinean Satire: With the Anatomy and Apology. To which is added Ulysses upon Ajax (Chiswick: C. Whittingham, 1814). Small 8vo. Contemporary double-gilt, rule-edged half calf with marbled end papers and edging. Portrait frontispiece. Inscription ‘A. Jessopp D. D. Schol. Reg … Mag.’ on title page. 100 copies printed.
The Anatomy and the Apology were originally issued as appendices to the Metamorphosis, but in separate printings. Ulysses upon Ajax is a distinct work. All works were first printed in 1596.
Related titles: Sir John Harington, Nugae Antiquae, 2 vols (1804) s DA331.H2
— [Harvey, Christopher] See Herbert.
— Hayward, Sir John, The Lives of the III Normans, Kings of England (London: [Printed by R. B[arker], 1613), bound with The Life and raigne of King Henrie the IIII. Extending to the end of the first yeare of his raigne (London: John Wolfe, 1599). 4to. STC 13000. Contemporary calf with green panels on spine. Ownership signature of John Cole and other early inscriptions on the ffep.
Title page of Hayward’s Henry IV with false date
The STC number corresponds to the first work. The printing of the second work is more difficult to identify, as there are a number of counterfeit editions, but I think it may be STC 12996, ESTC 103909, printed by John Windet, 1610? On the publication and physical differences between this and other editions see William A. Jackson, ‘Counterfeit Printing in Jacobean times’, The Library, ser. 4, no 15 (1934), pp. 364-76.
Hayward’s historiographical work was influenced by the appearance of Savile’s Tacitus, analysing character and motive rather than merely chronicling events. Henry IIII, his first book, which covers the fall of Richard II and the first year of Henry’s reign, angered Elizabeth and this, along with his association with Essex, landed Hayward in the Tower. A sequel which dealt with Henry’s reign up to the battle of Shrewsbury remained in manuscript until 1991. Rehabilitated under James, Hayward says in the preface to the III Normans that he had been encouraged to write the book by the young prince Henry. Camden supplied him with material for this.
Related titles: TypBL.B99WH, another counterfeit printing of Henrie IIII (1629?)
— Hayward, Sir John, The Life and Raigne of King Edward the Sixt (London; Printed [by Eliot’s Court Press and J. Lichfield at Oxford?] for John Partridge, and are to be sold at the signe of the Sunne in Paules Churchyard, 1630). 4to. Engraved portrait frontispiece of Edward by Robert Vaughan. Further engraved portrait of Hayward with the motto ‘Fly from Evel, Doe Good’ (and two emblematic illustrations) signed ‘Will. Pass.’ before the main text. Woodcut printer’s device on verso of the last leaf. Bound in later full calf, covers ruled gilt, black morocco spine label, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Some manuscript corrections in an early hand. Modern bookplate (George Evans Williamson). STC 12998.
Portrait Frontispiece to Hayward’s Edward VI (1630)
1st edition of the first biography of Edward, which circulated in manuscript in the 1620s before its posthumous publication in 1630; reprinted in 1636, with the addition of the first part of Elizabeth’s reign, and again in White Kennett’s Complete History of England in 1706. Hayward was deeply read in Tacitus and was imprisoned under Elizabeth for his controversial book on Henry IV and his involvement in Essex’s rebellion. (There are some good pages in James Shapiro’s 1599 on Hayward and ‘popularity’.)
— Hayward, Sir John, The Life and Raigne of King Edward the Sixt. With the beginning of the Raigne of Queene Elizabeth (London: Printed [by Robert Young] for John Partridge, 1636). 2nd edn, corrected and amended. STC 12999. Additional engraved title page signed by William Marshall. Rebound in brown leather with red title labels; blind stamped rule on front and rear boards with small motifs at the meets.
As with the III Normans, Hayward may have been prompted to write about the beginning of Elizabeth’s reign by the young prince Henry.
Engraved title page to the second edition of Hayward’s Edward VI with the addition of Elizabeth
Related titles: Annals of the First Four Years of Queen Elizabeth, edited from a ms in the Harleian collection by John Bruce (Camden Society, 1840), rper DA20.C17;7
— Hayward, Thomas, The British Muse, or, A Collection of Thoughts Moral, Natural, and Sublime, of our English Poets: who flourished in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries, 3 vols. (London: Printed for F. Cogan, at the Middle Temple Gate in Fleetstreet, and J. Nourse, at the Lamb without Temple-Bar, 1738). Title pages in red and black. Rebound in quarter leather with marbled boards in 2020 by Baz Mullin, The Gently Mad, Edinburgh. 12mo. ESTC 131617.
Binding by The Gently Mad, Edinburgh
Prefatory material: Dedication to Lady Mary Wortley Montagu; Preface, Containing an Historical and Critical Review of all the Collections of this Kind that were ever published [by William Oldys]; A List of the Authors, Poems and Plays Cited in this Collection.
See also: Poole 1657; Gildon 1718.
Related titles: Edward Bysshe, The Art of English Poetry, 3rd edn (1708), s PN1041.B8; Edward Bysshe, The British Parnassus: or, a compleat common-place-book of English poetry (1714), s PR1175.B9D14.
— Hazlitt, W. Carew, ed. A Manual for the Collector and Amateur of Old English Plays
(London: Pickering and Chatto, 1892). ‘Edited from the material formed by Kirkman,
Langbaine, Downes, Oldys, and Halliwell-Phillipps, with extensive additions and
corrections’. Number 135 of 250 copies.
— Herbert, George, The Temple. Sacred Poems, and private ejaculations. By Mr. George Herbert, late Oratour of the Universitie of Cambridge. The sixth edition (Cambridge: Roger Daniel, 1641). Bound with [Christopher Harvey], The Synagogue, or, The Shadow of The Temple. Sacred Poems, and private ejaculations. In imitation of Mr. George Herbert. The second edition, corrected and enlarged (London: Philemon Stevens, 1647). Engraved angel-head and border to title page. Engraved tailpiece and occasional decorative borders. Bound in plain 18th century roan with gilt flowers to spine. ESTC R37414 and R32964; Wing H1516 and H1045.
Damp-stained and with rubbed corners, this little volume shows every sign of having been used in the way for which it was designed, i.e. to be carried in the pocket. It is the last edition to be printed in Cambridge, but also the first not to be printed by the university printer Thomas Buck. Roger Daniel, Buck’s partner in the printing of the earlier editions, had sole responsibility for this volume. Subsequent editions were printed in London. The 1641 edition is also the first to be paired with Christopher Harvey’s The Synagogue, which had appeared anonymously in 1640 and then in an expanded version (as in the present copy) in 1647. Harvey’s printer Philemon Stephens carefully presented a typographic imitation of The Temple, to match Harvey’s poetic imitation of Herbert, so that the two works would harmonise when bound together in a single volume. The Temple and The Synagogue continued to be published together until 1709. Harvey was a Warwickshire clergyman who favoured the traditional ceremonies and ‘utensils’ of the Anglican church.
from George Herbert, The Temple (1641)
See also Kathleen Lynch, ‘Devotion bound: a social history of The Temple’ in Books and Readers in Early Modern England: Material Studies, eds. J. Anderson and E. Sauder (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002), pp. 177-98.*
Related titles: The Temple, 1st edn (1633), TypBC.C33BH; The Temple, 3rd edn (1634), TypBC.C34BH.
— Herbert, George, The Temple. Sacred Poems and Private Ejaculations. By Mr. George Herbert, Late Orator of the University of Cambridge(Printed for John Wyat at the Rose in St Pauls Churchyard and Eben. Tracy at the Three Bibles on London-Bridge, 1709). Engraved portrait frontispiece. Two commendatory poems not present in 1641. Bound with [Christopher Harvey], The Synagogue: or, The Shadow of The Temple. Sacred Poems, and Private Ejaculations. In imitation of Mr. George Herbert. The Ninth Edition, Corrected and Enlarged. ([Both books] printed for John Wyat at the Rose in St Pauls Churchyard and Eben. Tracy at the Three Bibles on London-Bridge, 1709). Followed by Isaak Walton, The Life of Mr. George Herbert, which is separately paginated but does not have its own title-page. One leaf of advertisements. Bound in full leather, rebacked, retaining the original backstrip, and with repair to the corners. Owner’s inscription on preliminary blank dated 1767 March 26. ESTC T082912 and T084483.
The lay-out for this, the thirteenth edition of The Temple, still follows that established by the Cambridge printer, Thomas Buck, for the first edition of 1633. This was the last edition of either The Temple or The Synagogue until 1799, when a new edition was printed in Bristol which again paired the two works. They continued to be issued together in the nineteenth century. There is a list comparing the contents of the 1640, 1647 and 1657 editions of The Synagogue in Judith Maltby, ‘From Temple to Synagogue: “Old” Conformity in the 1640s-1650s and the Case of Christopher Harvey’ in Conformity and Orthodoxy in the English Church, c. 1560-1660, ed. Peter Lake and Michael Questier (Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 2000).*
Christopher Harvey, ‘The Loss’ from The Synagogue (1709)
— Herbert, George, Herbert’s Remains. Or, Sundry pieces of that sweet singer of the temple (London: Printed [by Thomas Maxey] for Timothy Garthwait, at the little north door of Saint Paul’s, 1652). 1st edition.Title within woodcut typographic border, woodcut head- and tail-pieces and decorative initials, modern speckled calf, spine in compartments and with double black morocco labels. 12mo.Wing H1515.
Contents: A Priest to the Temple, or The Country Parson, his Character and Rule of Holy Life [separate title page, 1652], including Contents and Errata page followed by [Barnabas Oley] ‘A Prefatory View of the Life and Vertues of the Authour, and Excellencies of this Book’; Jacula Prudentum. Or Outlandish Proverbs, Sentences, etc [separate title page, 1651]; the Authour’s Prayer before Sermon; Mr G. Herbert to Master N. F. upon the Translation of Valdesso; [To Francis Bacon] ‘Quis iste tandem?’; To Doctour Donne upon one of his Seales: the Anchor, and Christ, ‘Quod crux nequibat fixa …’; An Addition of Apothegmes by Severall Authours.
A Priest to the Temple was edited by Barnabas Oley (1602-86), fellow of Clare Hall, Cambridge. A number of mistakes in the printing are corrected in the second edition of 1671, where Oley also corrects Walton’s story of the manuscript in the Lives. This priestly conduct book is the work of Herbert’s last years as vicar of Bemerton, near Salisbury, from 1630. 1032 of the proverbs in Jacula Prudentum were published as ‘Outlandish Proverbs’ in Wits Recreations (1640). Six proverbs are added to these and all the proverbs from ‘Gentility is nothing but Ancient Riches’ are new in the 1651 edition reprinted here. However, the additions are probably not Herbert’s: some of them come from Minsheu’s Spanish Grammar (1599) and others from Bacon’s Apophthegmes (1625). The letter to Valdesso’s translator, Nicholas Ferrar, is dated 29 September 1632 in the original manuscript, and was printed along with Herbert’s ‘Brief Notes’ on Valdesso at Oxford in 1638 and Cambridge in 1646. It was reprinted in Walton 1670 and 1675.
— Heywood, Thomas, GUNAIKEION [Greek characters]. Or Nine Bookes of Various History Concerning Women; Inscribed by the names of the Nine Muses (London: Adam Islip, 1624). 1st edition. Small folio. STC 13326. ESTC S119701.
Ownership signature of Joshua Churchman on sig, A3r recording that the book was bought in London in December 1692 for 6 shillings. A further ownership signature and purchase price on this page is illegible, but it can be seen on the final leaf.
Frontispiece to Heywood’s Gunaikeion
No male writer of the early modern period in England is more focussed on women, both in his plays and in his non-fictional prose, than Heywood. Though he calls this a ‘collection of histories’, that description seems better suited to The Exemplary Lives and Memorable of Acts of Nine the Most Worthy Women in the World, which he published in 1640, shortly before his death, and the Gunaikeion is more a kind of encyclopedia of women. The title is architectural and refers to the apartments reserved for women in a household; and while the material is organised on the principle of the nine muses, each of these is assigned its own room, like a Renaissance memory theatre. This is illustrated by the title page design.
The Gunaikeion was reissued by Edward Phillips as The Generall History of Women in 1657.
There is an intriguing reference in the Shakespeare Allusion Book, which links Heywood’s book to Shakespeare. In 1639 a Mrs Ann Merricke wrote to her friend Mrs Lydall from the country, complaining that without the theatre she had to make do ‘with the studie of Shakespeare and the historie of woemen’.
I collaborated with my PhD student Nonna Crook on a chapter about the Gunaikeion in The Renaissance Computer.
— Homer, Opera Homeri quae extant omnia: Ilias, Odyssea, Batrachomyomachia, Hymni, Poematia aliquot, cum latina versione omnium quae circumferuntur emendatiss. aliquot locis iam castigatiore, perpetuis item justisque in Iliada simul & Odysseam Io. Spondani mauleonensis commentariis (Basel: Eusebius Episcopius, 1583). Folio. USTC 663916. Modern calf in period style, boards panelled in blind, spine blind-tooled in compartments between 6 bands, lettered directly in blind. Seventeenth-century inscription ‘Tho. Pettnig’ on the title page and faint pen-trials (including ‘Libr’, ‘libris’, and ‘Joh’) on the verso; marginal inscription on a4r; early eighteenth-century ink inscriptions ‘R. Palmer’ and pen trials on outer margin of S1v, ‘R. Palmer’ and pen trials; early nineteenth-century inscription ‘Joshua Shooth’ on the verso of the colophon. The description by Quaritch identifies Palmer as one of the three generations of Palmer, all named Ralph, of Little Chelsea.
From Sponde’s Homer (1583)
Double-column parallel text in Greek and Latin with Latin commentary by Jean de Sponde (his Latin translation is based on the work of Andreas Divus). This is the edition that Chapman used for his translations of Homer, and despite his insistence on fidelity to the Greek, his reliance on Sponde’s Latin has been well documented by modern scholarship.
Sponde was raised as a Huguenot, but followed Henri de Navarre (to whom the work is dedicated) in converting to Catholicism. Published when he was a student at Basel, Sponde’s commentary defends Homer from the criticisms of Scaliger (amplified by Chapman in his contrast of Homer and Virgil) and uses Homeric parallels as the basis for counsel to the monarch.
See also Christiane Deloince-Louette, Sponde: Commentateur d’Homère (Paris: Champion, 2001); Marc Bizer, Homer and the Politics of Authority in Renaissance France (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011).
Related titles: Eustathius, In Homeri Iliadis et Odysseae libros parekbolae (Basel: [Froben], 1559-60) [text in Greek]; Specvlvm Heroicvm principis omnium temporum poëtarum Homeri id est argumenta xxiiij librorum Iliados (Utrecht, 1613), TypBL.C16FC (imperfect).
Copies in UK libraries: British Library; Cambridge: Trinity College; Oxford: Bodleian Library, St John’s College, Queen’s College.