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A SUBSCRIPTION SERVICE is available for Jarndyce Catalogues for those who do not regularly purchase. Please send £20.00 (£30.00 / U.S.$55.00 overseas, airmail) for four issues, specifying the catalogues you would like to receive. BOOKS & PAMPHLETS: 1522 - 1817 ISBN: 978 1 900718 80 6 Price £5.00 Cover illustrations: bindings of items 101 & 116; inside front: item 3; inside back: item 86. _____________________________________________________________ Brian Lake Janet Nassau 2 SEVENTEENTH CENTURY - Anonymous _____________________________________________________________ 1522 - 1700 ROYAL SUCCESSION 1. ANONYMOUS. A Letter on the Subject of the Succession. Printed at London. [2], 9, [1]p. Folio. A few fox marks, sl. dusted, old waterstaining to gutter margin. Disbound. ¶ESTC R40245. The Letter is headed 'D.H.L. Sept 18 1679 ... I intend now to write you some of my sentiments, upon that great subject of discourse here, the succession of the Duke of York, in case our present Sovereign's death is without lawful issue'. This is one of a number of anonymous contributions in 1679 to the debate on the royal succession; others are initialled G.H., and E.F. 1679 £150 SATYR AGAINST WOMEN 2. ANONYMOUS. The Restor'd Maiden-Head. A new satyr against woman: occasion'd by an infant, who was the cause of the death of my friend. Dondon [i.e. London], printed for H. Smith. [4], 19, [1]p. 4to. Sl. browning, first two leaves sl. close cropped along lower edge, affecting ruled titlepage border. Recent quarter dark green crushed morocco, marbled boards, gilt lettered spine. Near contemporary initials at foot of titlepage, number '8' at head. ¶ESTC R11476, BL, John Rylands, and Longleat only in the UK (but also Bodleian); 8 locations in North America. H. Smith also published a companion piece, The Lost Maiden-Head: or, Sylvia's Farewell to Love. A new Satyr against Man. Licensed, March 25, 1691, of which just 2 copies are recorded: Durham, and the Folger. Smith's anonymous satirical works were published as part of the anonymous pamphlet 'war' known as the 'Sylvia series'. Now identified as between Robert Gould and Richard Ames, but at the time of publication partially masquerading as being written by unnamed female authors. This no doubt contributed to the early attribution of The Restor'd Maiden-Head to Aphra Behn in the Wrenn Catalogue (1:81-82). However this work lacks any internal or external evidence to support this attribution. The Bodleian copy has a note on the titlepage "Ye Lady Whart[on?]" and "Sir John John[son?]". Ref: O'Donnell CB23, Aphra Behn, an Annotated Bibliography, 2004. In 1682 Robert Gould published Love Given O'er: or, A Satyr against the Pride, Lust, and Inconstancy, &c. of Woman (1682). The poem was at least partially an imitation of Juvenal, but it pursued its theme of misogyny with a fury and detail even Juvenal would not have dared, containing near pornographic detail in describing the lust of women. The poem sold extremely well and prompted a verse epistle battle from pretended Sylvias ("Sylvia" having spurned the poet) who would offer to defend women from Gould's cruelty, and pretended 'answers' from the author of Love Given O'er. Richard Ames' anonymous publication of 1688, 'Sylvia's Revenge, or, a Satyr against Man; in answer to the Satyr against Woman', led to Gould's 1691 response, A Satyrical Epistle to the Female Author of a Poem, call'd Silvia's Revenge. A second part of Sylvia's Revenge was published in 1692, entitled Sylvia's Complaint, and Richard Ames died the following year. 1691 £1,250 MISCELLANY POEMS 3. ANTHOLOGY. Miscellany Poems. Containing a new Translation of Virgills Eclogues, Ovid's Love Elegies, Odes of Horace, and other authors; with several original poems. By the most eminent hands. Printed for Jacob Tonson at the Judge's- Head in Chancery-lane, near Fleet-street. [8], 328; [2], 92pp. 8vo. Without final ad. leaf. The first in a series of miscellanies published by Tonson, 1684-1709, containing many contributions by Dryden and others. 'Absalom and Achitophel' and 'The Medall' each have separate titlepage dated 1683. 'Virgil's Eclogues' has separate titlepage, SEVENTEENTH CENTURY - Anthology _____________________________________________________________ pagination & register. The 5 later vols were published separately under various titles (see below). 1684. ESTC R297. WITH: Sylvæ: or, The second part of Poetical Miscellanies. Printed for Jacob Tonson at the Judges Head in Chancery-Lane near Fleetstreet. [40], errata leaf, 128, p141, pp126-127, pp144-145, pp130-131, pp148-149, pp134-135, pp152-155, pp138-139, 145- 168, 353-494pp. 8vo. Some faint old waterstaining towards end, minor rust holes. Text is continuous despite erratic pagination. 1685. ESTC R1682. WITH: Examen Poeticum: being the third part of Miscellany poems, containing variety of new translations of the ancient poets. Together with many original copies, by the most eminent hands. Printed by R(obert). E(veringham). for Jacob Tonson, at the Judges Head in Chancery-Lane, near Fleetstreet. [42], 468, [16], 78pp, half title. 8vo. Some browning & foxing. This copy appears to lack final 3 leaves as ESTC notes final section paginated to p84. Text however ends 'finis'. 1693. ESTC R122. The issue with the date misprinted MDCXCIIL. Leaf X2 (pp. 305-306) is in uncancelled state, and here has been cleanly torn without loss to indicate this. WITH: The Annual Miscellany: for the Year 1694. Being the fourth part of Miscellany poems. Containing great variety of new translations and original copies, by the most eminent hands. Printed by R. E(veringham) for Jacob Tonson, at the Judges Head near the Inner Temple-Gate, in Fleetstreet. [6], 327, [11]pp, engraved frontispiece. 8vo. Clean tear to C2 without loss. 1694. ESTC R22916. WITH: Poetical Miscellanies: the fifth part. Containing a collection of Original Poems, With Several New Translations. By the most Eminent Hands. Printed for Jacob Tonson within Gray's-Inn-Gate, next Gray's-Inn-Lane. [6], 556, 577-616, [8]pp, engraved frontispiece. Sl. nibble to blank margin of first few leaves. Text & register continuous despite pagination. 1704. ESTC T161282. WITH: Poetical Miscellanies: the sixth part. Containing a collection of original poems, with several new translations. By the most eminent hands. Printed for Jacob Tonson within Gray's-Inn-Gate, next Gray's-Inn-Lane. [12], 172, 177-224, 221-298, 301-632, [2], 723-751, [1]p, engraved frontispiece. 8vo. Irregular pagination is called for in the table of contents, but a duplicate of pp327-328 has been misbound after p298. 1709. ESTC T142876. Six volumes bound in five, in full contemporary sprinkled calf, gilt panelled spines, original labels each reading 'Miscellany Poems' but with slightly variant gilt tooling within compartments, recent endpapers & pastedowns to first vol., reinserting bookplate; some wear to joints & head & tails, but a sound complete run of the first edition of this important anthology. Provenance: Contemporary signature of Elijah Fenton at head of titlepage to vol. I, a number of early handwritten notes in this volume, including a key to the concealed names in Absolom and Achitophel. Armorial Mountstuart bookplate of the Marquess of Bute, later ownership label & inscription of Douglas Grant. ¶D.G.D.G.D.G. "Dryden himself credited his publisher Jacob Tonson (the Elder) with the idea of a new verse translation of Virgil and it was [their] partnership that established the direction of English literary translation in the later 17th century. (Tonson's) role in the publication of translations - which went hand in hand with a series of monumental editions of the 'classics' of English literature and fine editions of Greek and Latin texts in the original languages - is an outstanding example of the conflation of astute commercialism with a sense of a national literary mission. The Poetical Miscellanies of 1684-1709 (were) an occasional series of fat volumes of new, mainly short poems by a wide range of hands, each containing a substantial proportion of translations principally from the classics, to which Dryden became the leading contributor and sometimes effectively editor.