No. 195 The Book-Lover's Leaflet. No. 195 A COLLECTION OF Choice, Old and Rare Books Part IV. (Dav.-Eyre.) Offered for sale, with prices affixed, by PICKERING & CHATTO, 1, King Street, St. James', London, S.W.1. Price 2s. LIBRARY UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA DAVIS Austriaca est virgo Regum Decus. Alma MARIA, DU VAL (MICHAEL) THE SPANISH-ENGLISH ROSE. 1623. Printed for Henry Herringman, and are to be sold at his Shop FIRST EDITION. Small 4to, sewn, brown calf, alms on sides, a few headlines touched but a good copy, from the Huth Collection with bookplate. £30 Scenes had been before used in private theatricals, but Davenant first introduced them on the stage in the above piece. This performance, owing to Cromwell's hatred of the Spaniards, was permitted by him to be acted, though he prohibited all other theatrical performances. Davenant presented some musical pieces before the Restoration, and Pepys, on this account, for some time called Davenant's theatre the Opera. DAVENANT (SIR WILLIAM). 3072b THE IUST Lately presented in the priuate house By his Maiesties Servants. LONDON Printed by Thomas Harper for John Waterson, and Paules Churchyard. 1630. FIRST EDITION. Sm. 4to, sewn, MAGNIFIFENT COPY OF THIS VERY RARE PLAY, LARGE AND CLEAN. £28 10s Dedication to the Earl of Dorset, Commendatory poems by W. Hopkins, T. Carew, Dramatis Personæ (6 pp.). This is an excellent piece but for some reason appears to have been unsuccessful. 3072c Another Copy. 1630. FIRST EDITION. Sm. 4to, calf, two or three headlines just shaved. £15 15s 3074 The Unfortunate Lovers. A TRAGEDIE. As it was lately acted with great applause at the private House in Black-Fryers. By His Majesties Servants. The Author, WILLIAM DAVENANT, Servant to Her Majestie. R. H., by Francis Coles, 1643. FIRST EDITION. Sm. 4to, half calf, shaved at bottom, fair copy only. £3 3s Dedication to Philip, Earl of Pembroke, Prologue, Dramatis Personæ, Epilogue (5 pp.). DAVENANT (SIR WILLIAM). 3073 Two Excellent Plays: THE WITS, a Comedie; THE PLATONICK LOVERS, a Tragi-Comedie, both presented at the Private House in Black-Friers, by His Majesties Servants. The Author, Sir William D'Avenant, Kt. London: G. Bedel and T. Collins, 1665. Sm. 8vo, calf. £6 6s Dedication (To "The Wits") to Endymion Porter, Commendatory verse by T. Carew. The Prologue, Epilogue (6 pp.). The Scene, London. Dedication (To The Platonick Lovers") to Henry Jermyn, Prologue, Epilogue (4 pp.). The Scene, Sicilie. 66 THE WITS was first acted at Blackfriars, and was now revived with alterations, the dialogue considerably improved and two short scenes added to Davenant's comic masterpiece. "THE PLATONICK LOVERS is a very good comedy, with some humorous characters. A very scarce volume. FIRST EDITION. Sm. 4to, sewn, VERY RARE. £16 16s Dedication to Endymion Porter, Poem by T. Carew, Prologue, Dramatis Personæ, Epilogue (5 pp.). 3076 The Dramatic Works OF SIR WILLIAM D'AVENANT. With Prefatory Memoir and Notes. In Four Volumes. Edinburgh, William Paterson : London, Sotheran & Co., 1872. 4 vols., 8vo, stained calf extra, gilt edges. £1 15s Plays contained :-Albovine, The Cruel Brother, The Just Italian, The Temple of Love, The Prince D'Amour, The Platonic Lovers, The Wits, Britannia Triumphans, Salmacida Spolia, The Unfortunate Lovers, Love and Honour, Entertainment at Rutland House, The Siege of Rhodes, The Play House to let, News from Plymouth, The Fair Favourite, The Distress, The Siege. Printed by Ja. Cottrel, for Samuel Speed, at the Signe of the FIRST EDITION. Sm. 4to, sewn, some blank margins mildewed, LARGE COPY, VERY RARE. £10 10s Dramatis Personæ (1 p.). A very good comedy written some years previously but not printed until after the Restoration. The plot is in part taken from Greene's Philomela, Don Quixote, and the Decameron. Dramatis Personæ, To the Knowing Reader, To the Earl of Lindsay. £15 15s This play is under some obligation to Shakespeare, and has a scene of considerable length in which the King resigns his crown to the Pope's Legate. Davenport is said to have assisted Shakespeare in the compilation of a play called The History of Henry I., but this has not come down to us. 3078a Another Copy. 1655. FIRST EDITION. Sm. 4to, AN EXCEPTIONALLY LARGE AND FINE COPY, from Lord Mostyn's Collection, in cloth case. £27 10s |