SIBBES (RICHARD, D.D.). 4066 The Souls Conflict WITH IT SELFE AND VICTORIE OVER IT SELFE BY FAITH. A Treatise of the inward disquietments of distressed spirits, with comfortable remedies to establish them. By R. SIBBS, D.D., Master of Katherine Hall in Cambridge. M. Flesher for R. Dawlman. 1635. FIRST EDITION. Border around title-page, title mounted. 8vo, calf, blind tooled. £3 3s Dedication to Sir John Bankes, Kt., To the Christian Reader (24 pp.). TAYLOR (JOHN, The Water Poet). 4067 The Old, Old Very Old Man; or, THE AGE AND LONG LIFE OF THOMAS PAR, and Son of John Parr of Winnington in the Parish of Alberbury; in the County of Salopp (or Shropshire) who was Borne in the Raigne of King Edward the 4th being aged 152 yeares and odd monethes. His Manner of Life and Conversation in so long a Pilgrimage; his Marriages, and his bringing up to London about the end of September last 1635. Whereunto is added a Postscript shewing the many remarkable Accidents that happened in the life of this Old Man written by JOHN TAYLOR. Henry Gosson. 1635. Woodcut portrait of Parr (see Reproduction). FIRST ISSUE. FIRST EDITION. Sm. 4to, sewn, TOTALLY UNCUT, preserved in cloth case, EXTREMELY RARE IN THIS STATE. £25 There were two other issues of this book in the same year, both these contained a copper-plate portrait by Delarum. The above is the earliest form of Parr's portrait. CHAPMAN (GEORGE). 4068 Sir Glyes Goose-Cappe Knight. A COMEDY lately Acted with great applause at the private House in Salisbury Court. Printed for Hugh Perry. 1636. Sm. 4to, half morocco, RARE. Dramatis Personæ, Dedication to Richard Young (3 pp.). HEYWOOD (THOMAS). £15 15s 4069 A Challenge for Beavtie. As it hath beene Svndry times Acted, by the Kings Majesties Servants: At the Blacke friers, and at the Globe on the Banke-side. Written by THOMAS HEYWOOD. R. Raworth, 1636. FIRST EDITION, sm. 4to, calf gilt, gilt edges. £16 16s Prologue, Dramatis Personæ, Epilogue (3 pp.). BOLTON (ROBERT). 4070 A Short and Private Discourse betweene Mr. Bolton and an MS. concerning Usury. PUBLISHED BY E. B. BY MR. BOLTON'S OWNE COPPY. George Miller. 1637. FIRST EDITION. Sm. 4to, vellum. £4 4s The Old, Old, very Old Man, or Thomas Parr, the in this yeare, 1635. TAYLOR (JOHN, The Water Poet). THE OLD, OLD, VERY OLD MAN. 1635. (See No. 4067.) W Iacobus Shirlæus: ·G Phenik pmx: R. Gaywood fecit 168s SHIRLEY (JAMES). HONORIA AND MAMMON. 1658. (See No. 4140.) FLETCHER (JOHN). 4071 The Elder Brother. A COMEDIE. Acted at the Blacke Friers, by his Maiesties Servants. Printed according to the true Copie. Written by JOHN FLETCHER, Gent. F. K. for J. W. and J. B., 1637. FIRST EDITION, sm. 4to, morocco, some headlines cut into, but a perfect copy. This Play was really written by Fletcher and finished by Massinger. HEYWOOD (THOMAS). £6 6s been Acted Written by FIRST EDI£15 15s 4072 The Royall King, and The Loyall Subject. As it hath with great Applause by the Queenes Maiesties Servants. THOMAS HEYWOOD. Nich. and John Okes, 1637. TION, sm. 4to, half morocco., This is Heywood's best known Romantic drama; the hero is a kind of Patient Grissel of chivalrous loyalty. CHILLINGWORTH (WILLIAM). 4074 The Religion of Protestants, a Safe Way to Salvation, or An Answer to a Booke entitled, MERCY AND TRVTH, or Charity maintain'd by Catholiques, Which pretends to prove the Contrary, by WILLIAM CHILLINGWORTH, Master of Arts of the University of Oxford. Oxford: Leonard Lichfield. 1638. FIRST EDITION, folio, old calf. £3 3s Dedication to Prince Charles, The Preface to the Author of Charity maintained, Preface to the Reader, The Answer to the Preface (56 pp.). At p. 33 there is an allusion to Shakespeare's Henry IV., pt. 2, see Ingleby's Prayse of Shakespeare, p. 223. HEYWOOD (THOMAS). 4075 The Wise-Woman of Hogsdon. A COMEDIE. As it hath been sundry times Acted with great Applause. Written by THO. HEYWOOD. Printed by M. P. for Henry Shephard. 1638. FIRST EDITION. Sm. 4to, half russia, RARE. Dramatis Personæ, Verses by Samuel King (2 pp.). £18 18s This play was acted about the year 1604. Many plays of the period are alluded to. KIRKE (JOHN). 4076 The Seven Champions of Christendome. ACTED AT THE COCKEPIT, and at the Red-Bull in St. Johns Streete, with a generall liking. And never printed till this Yeare, 1638. Written by J. K. London, Printed by J. Okes, and are to be sold by James Becket at his Shop in the Inner Temple Gate, 1638. FIRST ÉDITION, sm. 4to, sprinkled calf gilt. £18 18s with a few songs This very uncommon play is written both in prose and verse, interspersed. |