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Bennett & Kerr Books Catalogue 216 BENNETT & KERR BOOKS Millhill Warehouse, Church Lane, Steventon, Abingdon OX13 6SW – England www.benkerrbooks.com e-mail: [email protected] tel: 01235 820604 Catalogue 216 MIDDLE AGES & RENASCENCE (items 1-43: books printed before 1850) Including some more from the library of E G Stanley (1923-2018) Rawlinson & Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon at Oxford Unless otherwise stated books are 8vo, published in London, in original binding and in good condition. (bds boards; dw dust-wrapper; wrs wrappers; pb paperback; sp spine; ex-lib library copy, marked; t-p title-page; e-p end-paper; f/p frontispiece; pls plates; sl slightly; t.e.g. top edge gilt). Postage & packing are extra. Payment may be made by VISA, Mastercard or Maestro (please mention, when ordering, card number, expiry date & 3-digit code) or by bank transfer. Any purchase may be returned within 14 days of receipt for a full refund, including the cost of return postage if we are at fault. In normal circumstances all our stock may be seen at our warehouse, but during the pandemic restrictions we request would-be visitors to contact us for current availability. We are usually here 10 am -5.30 pm (or so) Monday - Friday; for less time on Saturday. Our books are listed at www.benkerrbooks.com, searchable by author or title. We regularly issue catalogues of rare and scholarly books on the Middle Ages & Renascence, and we are always interested in buying books in these fields. Edmund Bennett Andrew Kerr Whitsun 2020 Front cover: Sir Robert Cotton (item 6); rear cover: Francis Wise (item 42) 1. ASTLE, Thomas £250.00 The origin and progress of writing, as well hieroglyphic as elementary, illustrated by engravings taken from marbles, manuscripts and charters, ancient and modern. T Payne &c for the author [from the press of J Nichols] 1784. 4to (28cm). vii, xxv, 235pp. 31 engraved pls, 10 folding, 7 partly hand-coloured. Old half-calf, spine gilt, marbled bds; worn & scuffed, joints cracked, front cover detached, label & small section of spine missing. Early ink names: H Wilkinson, Enfield, on title; Henry Wilkinson, Clapham, on e-p, with 19C bookplate of Charles Tabor & recent bookplate of E G Stanley. First edition of a pioneering work on palaeography; a second, enlarged, edition appeared in 1803, the year of Astle's death. 2. BERNERS, John Bourchier, Lord [ed & intr E V Utterson] £400.00 The History of the Valiant Knight Arthur of Little Britain: a romance of chivalry, originally translated from the French. A new edition... White, Cochrane 1814. Sm4to (23cm). [16], [v]-xxvii, [i]-iv, 544pp incl facsimile w/cut title; 25 engraved pls by Charles Heath from 'a valuable MS of the original Romance' then in the possession of Lord Thurlow, 15 of them hand-coloured (a few incompletely). Some staining or spotting to the plates, mostly marginal, & a little offsetting. Contemporary half calf, marbled e-ps, spine dec in blind with gilt titling; rubbed & sl scuffed, rebacked preserving orig backstrip, hinges re-inforced but spine frayed & now re-attached, front joint weak. The most recent edition (limited to 200 copies) of this translation, known otherwise only in two extremely rare 16C editions. 3. BONAPARTE, Lucien; trans S Butler & Francis Hodgson £100.00 Charlemagne; or the church delivered. An epic poem in twenty-four books. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown 1815. 4to (28cm). 2 vols: xl, 388; iv, 419pp; engr portrait (v.1) & map of Rome (v.2). Foxing to prelims & offsetting from the plates; last few leaves of each vol spotted. Contemporary diced calf, covers ruled & cover-edges dec in gilt, spines gilt with morocco labels; sl worn & scuffed, v.1 joint cracked at foot. Napoleon's younger brother began his Christian epic - 'not subservient to chronological order' - in Italy after withdrawing from politics, and completed it while under house-arrest in England from 1809; he published it here (in French) in 1814, by which time he had returned to Rome, dedicating his poem to Pope Pius VII. 4. BOSWORTH, Joseph £50.00 A dictionary of the Anglo-Saxon language... with a preface on the origin and connexion of the German tongues, a map of languages, and the essentials of Anglo-Saxon grammar. Longman 1838. [6], ccviii, 721pp; folding col map, folding table. Without half-title; little spotting. Contemporary half morocco, gilt, t.e.g; sl worn & scuffed, front hinge repaired. Bookplates of T N Brushfield (1828-1910; doctor, antiquarian & reader for the New English Dictionary) and E G Stanley. With a cutting of Bosworth's letter defending his project (Gentleman's Magazine, March 1833). First edition (Kennedy 3287). 5. COTTON LIBRARY £150.00 A report from the Committee appointed to view the Cottonian Library, and such of the Public Records of the Kingdom, as they think proper; and to report to the House the condition threof. 1732. LgeFolio (41.5x27cm). 445-535pp, double column. Some spotting & light marking; small hole in pp 449-52, with loss to a few words. Recent cloth; E G Stanley bookplate. The important report on the disastrous fire at Ashburnham House on 23rd Oct, 1731 in which up to a quarter of the manuscripts in the Cottonian Library were affected. It includes an account of the fire and a detailed catalogue of 'such Manuscripts and other Curiosities...as were destroyed or injured'. Ours is an extract from a larger work; it was also published separately, in smaller format, with its own pagination and imprint. 6. (COTTON, Sir Robert) SMITH, Thomas £500.00 Catalogus librorum manuscriptorum Bibliothecae Cottonianae. Cui praemittuntur... Roberti Cottoni... vita: et Bibliothecae Cottonianae historia & synopsis. Oxford, e Theatro Sheldoniano 1696. Folio (416x240mm). [12], L, [2], 159, [blank], [24]pp; engr title vignette & 3 head-pieces by M Burghers; with engraved portrait of Cotton by R White after C Johnson. Waterstain to lower & fore margins throughout, affecting bottom outer corner of text, with some spotting to prelims (incl foot of portrait & title) & minor wormholes, one just reaching the portrait. Contemporary speckled calf, blind rules & dec panel, gilt rules to spine-title; sl worn & scuffed, joints partly cracked. Bookplates of Watkins Williams (1742-1806, MP for Flint) & of E G Stanley. Despite the staining, a good tall copy in its original binding and with the fine portrait (often missing; see cover illus). The first catalogue of the collection, an important record of its contents before the disastrous fire of 1731. 7. CRABB, George £75.00 English synonymes explained, in alphabetical order; with copious illustrations and examples drawn from the best writers. Baldwin, Craddock & Joy and T Boosey, 1816. 23x14 cm. [iv], 772pp. Some spotting; uncut in original boards, paper spine-label; worn, covers stained & loose, spine split in several places, crudely repaired with a strip of leather across the head. First edition, 'the most notable' (ODNB) of Crabb's many dictionaries & other linguistic and legal writings, frequently revised & reprinted through the 19th century and beyond. - 3 - 8. FELIX of Crowland; ed & trans Charles Wycliffe Goodwin £50.00 The Anglo-Saxon version of the Life of St Guthlac, hermit of Crowland. J R Smith 1848. Sm8vo (19x11cm). vi, 125; [12 advts] pp. Original blind-stamped cloth, faded & rubbed, sp damaged; prelims spotted. Bookplates of G E Selby & E G Stanley. 9. (FRANCE Coll de Documents Inédits sur l'Histoire de) BERNIER, Adhelm (ed) £25.00 Procès-verbale des séances du Conseil de Régence du roi Charles VIII...d'août 1484 à janvier 1485. Paris, Impr Royale 1836. 4to. iv, 244pp. Green cloth, morocco label; ex-Athenaeum Lib. 10. FROISSART, Jean; trans John Bourchier, Lord BERNERS £200.00 Sir John Froissart's Chronicles of England, France, Spain, Portugal, Scotland, Brittany, Flanders, and the adjoining countries... reprinted from Pynson's edition of 1523, & 1525. Rivington &c 1812. 4to (29x24cm). 2 vols: (4), 25, (3), 797; (2), xix, 765, 53pp. Foxing to first & last leaves & occasionally elsewhere. Recent morocco-backed cloth, spines gilt-lettered; old marbled edges. E G Stanley bookplates. The first 'modern' printing of Berners' translation. 11. FROISSART, Sir John; trans Thomas Johnes £45.00 Chronicles of England, France, Spain, and the adjoining countries... William Smith [1839, repr] 1848. 4to. 2 vols: xlvii, 768; xiv, 733pp; chromolithograph extra title; text-illus. Blue half-morocco, marbled bds, spines gilt, t.e.g; sl worn & scuffed. Armorial bookplates of Thomas Sanderson. 12. GOODWIN, James £150.00 Evangelia Augustini Gregoriana: an historical and illustrative description of the MSS Nos. CCLXXXVI and CXCVII in the Parker Library of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge...to which is added the capitulatio of the four gospels, from No CCLXXXVI; the text of the fragments of St John's Gospel, from No. CXCVII... Cambridge, Deighton &c 1847. 4to. ii, 42pp; 11 lithograph facsimile pls by J Netherclift, some hand-coloured, 4 with facing text-leaves. Old half-cloth bds, worn & marked; fly-leaf creased; some spotting; tear to lower margin of pl.7 repaired. [Cambridge Antiquarian Society Publications, Quarto Series (v.II):xiii]. 13. GRAFTON, Richard [ed Henry Ellis] £175.00 Grafton's Chronicle; or, history of England; to which is added his table of the bailiffs, sheriffs, and mayors, of the City of London. From the year 1189, to 1558. Johnson, Rivington &c 1809. 4to (29x24cm). 2 vols: xvi, 677; 568, [52]pp. Modern cloth, spines blind-ruled & gilt-lettered, marbled edges; sl bumped, covers little soiled. Oxford & Cambridge University Club Library bookplated. John Gillingham's set. 14. GUILLAUME GUIART, ed J A Buchon £75.00 Branche des royaux lignages, chronique metrique. Paris, Verdiere 1828. 2 vols: 350; 482pp. Contemporary calf, covers with gilt rules, gilt-dec edges & crest (R H Fitzgibbon, Earl of Clare 1793-1864); sl stained & scuffed.