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| Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton 1st Baron (1856-1930) | 5 |
| Howard De Walden, Thomas Evelyn Scott-Ellis Baron (1880-1946) | 5 |
| Riviere & Son | 5 |
| Baron Brotherton | 4 |
| Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton | 4 |
| Colonel Edward Allen Brotherton | 4 |
| Howard De Walden, Thomas Evelyn Scott-Ellis | 4 |
| Lord Brotherton | 4 |
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| Erasmus, Desiderius (1536) | 3 |
Howard de Walden (Brotherton Collection)
Comprises books acquired by Lord Brotherton from the library of Thomas Evelyn Scott-Ellis, 8th Baron Howard de Walden (1880-1946). All items in the collection were bound in Rivière bindings early in ...
Cato, a tragedy : As it is acted at the Theatre Royal in Drury-Lane, by Her Majesty's servants
Addison, Joseph (1672-1719)
1713
Prologue by Pope.
Aesop improved, or, Above three hundred and fifty fables, mostly Aesop's : with their morals paraphrased in English verse : amounting to about one hundred and fifty more than do appear to have been so rendered by any other hand
Aesop
1673
The translator is anonymous. Publisher's booklist [2pp.] at end.
The Fables of Æsop paraphras'd in verse : and adorn'd with sculpture
Ogilby, John (1600-1676); Aesop; Hollar, Wenceslaus (1607-1677)
1651
The engravings are by Wenceslaus Hollar; portrait of John Ogilby as one of the frontispieces.
L'Adamo : sacra rapresentatione
Andreini, Giovanni Battista (1578-); Bassano, Cesare (1584?-1641?)
1617
Illustrated title-page. Reissue of the first edition, 1613, with different engraved title-page. Illustrated with engravings throughout, including a portrait of the author.
Toxophilus : the schoole, or partitions of shooting contayned in two bookes
Ascham, Roger (1515-1568)
Anno 1589
Last leaf bears a printer's mark. Colophon on fol.63b. A variant has the date "1544" after "Ascham" on the title page.
Cataplus: or, Æneas his descent to Hell : a mock poem, in imitation of the sixth book of Virgil's Æneis, in English burlesque
M. A; Atkins, Maurice (fl.1671-1715)
1672
One of two issues in 1672, the other, which is recorded as Wing-2 A17, having 5 preliminary pages including a dedication signed 'M.A.' and an imprint which continues 'and are to be sold by William Hin...
St. Augustine, Of the citie of God
Augustine Saint, Bishop of Hippo; Healey, John (1610); Vives, Juan Luis (1492-1540)
1610
First edition. Some pages misnumbered: pp.245-7 as 243-6, p.352 as 333, p.651 as 639, and p.765 as 762. Also, p.513, line 12, 'true' misprinted as 'two'. Initials - Head-pieces. Title vignette. ...
Baconiana, or, Certain genuine remains of Sir Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, and Viscount of St. Albans : in arguments civil and moral, natural, medical, theological, and bibliographical, now for the first time faithfully published. An account of these remains, and of all his... other works, is given by the publisher, in a discourse by way of introduction
Bacon, Francis (1561-1626); Hove, Frederick Hendrick van (1628?-1698); Chiswell, Richard (1639-1711); Tenison, Thomas Archbishop of Canterbury (1636-1715)
1679
First edition. Each part has its own title page. Engraved portrait of Bacon (signed by F.H. Van Hove) opposite title page. Includes bibliographical references. Contents: A discourse by way of ...
The historie of the raigne of King Henry the Seventh
Bacon, Francis (1561-1626); Calverley, Henry (1604-1661); Akerman, John Yonge (1806-1873); Cobbett, William (1798-1878); Christopher Edwards (Firm)
1622
First edition. Signatures: [A]⁴, B-2I⁴. Seven "faults escaped" are listed on p. 248. Pagination of copy BC Gen quarto BAC is: frontispiece signed Iohn Payne Sculpsit, 4 unnumbered pages, 1-9...
A large declaration concerning the late tumults in Scotland : from their first originalls: together with a particular deduction of the seditious practices of the prime leaders of the Covenanters: collected out of their owne foule acts and writings: by which it doth plainly appeare, that religion was onely pretended by those leaders, but nothing lesse intended by them
Balcanquhall, Walter (1586?-1645); Great Britain. Sovereign (1625-1649 : Charles I)
1639
Firmly ascribed to Balcanquhall in DNB.
A treatise of morall philosophie : wherein is contained the worthy sayings of Philosophers, Emperours, Kings, and Orators
Baldwin, William (1518-1563?); Palfreyman, Thomas
[1635]
Many irregularities in foliation.