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SPELMAN.

Villare Anglicum . . . Published by the appointment of the Eminent Sir Henry Spelman, Knight . . . The second Edition corrected and amended. . . . London, Printed by T. H. for Robert Pawlett, 1678. 8o, A-Ff in eights, besides title and preface, 3 leaves.

SPELMAN, JOHN.

Alfredi Magni Anglorum Regis Invictissimi Vita Tribus Libris Comprehensa, A Clarissimo Dno Johanne Spelman Henrici F. primum Anglice conscripta, dein Latine reddita, & Annotationibus illustrata ab Ælfredi in Collegio Magnæ Aulæ Universitatis Oxoniensis Alumnis. Oxonii . . . 1678. Folio.

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London, Printed by W. Wilson and J. Streater, for John Spencer, at Sion Colledge. MDCLVIII. Folio. Title and dedication, preceded by two blanks, 4 leaves : Thomas Fuller to the Reader, 1 leaf: B-Qqqq in fours: (a)—(c) in sixes. SPENSER, EDMUND.

The Works of that Famous English Poet, Mr. Edmond Spenser. . . . Whereunto is added, An Account of his Life; With other new Additions, never before in Print. London Printed by Henry Hills for Jonathan Edwin

1679.

Folio. Plate of monument and titlepage, 2 leaves: A-Zzz in fours: Aaa (repeated), 4 leaves: Bbbb-Hhhh 2 in fours: Aaaaa-Ccccc in fours.

This is much more complete than the earlier folio editions, as it includes the tract on Ireland and Bathurst's Calenda

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rium Pastorale, &c. There is also a short Glossary.

The Faerie Queene. Disposed into twelue bookes, Fashioning XII. Morall vertues. London Printed for William Ponsonbie. 1596. 4o, A-Oo in eights.

The dedication to the Queen is on the back of the title, as in the first 40. On Oo 8 recto occurs: "A Vision vpon the conceipt of the Faery Queene," and "Another of the same," the latter signed with Raleigh's initials, but both by him; and these are followed by six 6-line stanzas subscribed Hobynoll, and addressed To the learned Shepheard, which conclude the volume.

(ii.) The Second Part of the Faerie Queene. Containing the Fovrth, Fifth, and Sixth Bookes. By Ed. Spenser. Imprinted at London for William Ponsonby. 1596. 4o, A-Kk 4 in eights.

Spencer Redivivus Containing the First Book of the Fairy Queen, His Essential Design preserv'd, but his obsolete Language and maner of Verse totally laid aside. Deliver'd in Heroic Numbers. By a Person of Quality. . . . London, Printed for Thomas Chapman, ... 1687. 8°, A—Q 4 in eights, Q 4 blank.

An Original Canto of Spencer: Design'd
as Part of his Fairy Queen, but never
Printed. Now made Publick, by Nestor
Ironside, Esq;

Ficta voluptatis causa sint proxima Veris.
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The Third Edition, London, Printed for
James Roberts
M.DCC.XIV. (Price
6d.) 4o, A-D in fours, D 4 blank.
By S. Croxall.

Another Original Canto of Spencer: Design'd..

Quanto rectius hoc . . . Hor. London; Printed for James Roberts... M. DCC. XIV. 4o, A-D in fours."

This second hoax, it is likely, did not prove so successful as the first. Spenser's imitator seems to have been equally ignorant of his style and his versification, or at least incapable of following either. SPICER, ALEXANDER.

An Elegie on the Mvch Lamented Death of the Right Honorable Sir Arthur Chichester Knight, Lo. Baron of Belfast, Lo. high Treasurer of Ireland, one of the Lords of his Maiesties most Honorable Priuie Counsell, and of the Counsell of Warre. Honor sequitur fugientem. By Alex. Spicer. Printed at London by M. F. for Robert Bird, . . . 1625. 4o, A-D in fours, first and last leaves blank. In

verse.

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The whole of the tract, except the leaf of dedication to the Duke of Buckingham, is within mourning borders.

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SPICER.

An Elegie on the Mvch Lamented Death of the Right Honovrable Sir Arthur Chichester... By Alex. Spicer. Aprill 12. Printed in the yeare of mourning. 1643. 4°, A-D in fours, title on A 3, A 2 and D 4 blank. B. M.

A reissue of the unsold copies of 1625. SPICER, JOHN.

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The sale of Salt. Or The seasoning of Soules. Namely such, as for whom the chapmen here doe come, and whom the Author, which taketh the name of a Salter, is willing, what in him lieth, to season with the Salt of the Word, written by Iohn Spicer, Minister of the word of God at Leckhamstead in the County of Buckingham. . . . London, Printed by Nicholas Okes, and are to be sold at the signe of the Crowne in Paules Churchyard, 1611. 8°, black and white letter. A, 4 leaves: B-Cc in eights. Interspersed with verse. Dedicated to Sir Anthony Greeneway, Sir Francis Cheyney, and Sir Richard Ingoldsby, three of the Justices of the peace for Buckinghamshire. Br. Museum.

SPON, ISAAC, M.D., Fellow of the College of Lyons.

and

575

The History of the City and State of Geneva, From its First Foundation to this present Time. Faithfully Collected from several Manuscripts of Jacobus Gottofredus, Monsieur Chorier, Others... London, Printed for Bernard White. MDCLXXXVII. Folio, A-Kk in fours, besides the title-page, except that A has only 2 leaves. With a frontispiece, two views of Geneva, and a map of the country adjacent.

SPRAT, THOMAS.

The Plague of Athens, which hapned in the Second Year of the Peloponesian Warr. First described in Greek by Thucydides; Then in Latin by Lucretius. Now attempted in English, By Tho. Sprat. London, Printed by E. C. for Henry Brome . . . 1667. 4o, A-E in fours, A 1 with imprimatur and E 4 with Advertisements.

The Second Part of the Relation of the late Wicked Contrivance against the Lives of several Persons, by forging an Association under their Hands: Being a farther Account of the said Forgery, and of the Two Authors of it, Stephen Blackhead, and Robert Young, . Written by the Bishop of Rochester. . . . In the Savoy: Printed by Edward Jones. 1693. 4o.

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The copy used ended imperfectly on X 4.

STAFFORDSHIRE.

STAFFORD, ROBERT.

A Geographicall and Anthologicall description... London, Printed by N. O. for Iohn Parker, . . . 1618. 4o, A—K in fours.

STAFFORD THOMAS.
Pacata Hibernia . . . 1633.

In a copy of this volume on sale by Sotheran & Co. in 1879, the imprint presented this curious variation: London, Printed by A. M. and part of the impression made over to be vented for the benefit of the children of John Mynshew, deceased."

STAFFORD, WILLIAM, Viscount. The Speech of the Lord High Steward, in Westminster Hall, at the time of his pronouncing the Judgment of the House of Peers, against the Lord Viscount Stafford, The seventh of December, 1680. London, Printed by the Assigns of John Bill, 1680. Folio, A-C, 2 leaves each, including a printed leaf before the

title.

The Speech of William Late Lord Viscount Stafford, on the Scaffold on TowerWednesday, Decemb. 29, 1680. Printed Hill, Immediately before his Execution, by the Original Copy. London: Printed for W. Bailey, in the year 1680. Folio, A-B, 2 leaves each.

Animadversions on the Last Speech of William Viscount Stafford who was beheaded on Tower-Hill for High-Treason in conspiring the Death of the King, &c. on Wednesday, December 29th. 1680. [Col.] London, Printed for R. Baldwin, 1680. Folio, 4 leaves.

The Tryal of William Viscount Stafford for High Treason, In Conspiring the Death of the King, The Extirpation of the Protestant Religion, . . . Upon an Impeachment by the Knights, Citizens, and Burgesses in Parliament . . . In the Name of Themselves and of all the Commons of England: Begun in WestminsterHall the 30th day of November 1680, and continued until the 7th of December following, . . . Also the manner of his Execution on the 29th of the same Month. London: Printed by the Assigns of John Bill... 168. Folio, A-3 K in twos, first and last leaves blank.

Strange and Wonderful News, from the Lords in the Tower, Or a Dialogue between them and my Lord Staffords Ghost. London, Printed for T. B. 1681. A folio leaf.

STAFFORDSHIRE.

Stafford-Shires Misery, Set Forth in A

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true Relation of the Barbarous Cruelty of the Forces Raised against the Parliament. Sent in a Letter from Stafford, by Captaine William Robinson, to a Gentleman in London, and to be presented to Mr. Speaker. Published according to Order. London, Iuly 20. Printed by G. Dexter, 1643. 4o, 4 leaves. The Battaile on Hopton-Heath in Staffordshire, Betweene His Majesties Forces under the Right Honourable the Earle of Northampton, and those of the Rebels, March 19. Together with A Letter from the Lord Compton now Earle of Northampton. Printed by H. Hall. M.DCXLIII. 4o, A-B 2 in fours, B 2 blank,

The Staffordshire Maid. Printed and sold in Aldermary Church Yard London. A ballad, with cuts. Ouvry Cat. No. 92. STAGE.

The Antient and Modern Stages survey'd. Or, Mr. Collier's View of the Immorality and Profaness of the English Stage set in a True Light. . . . London, Printed for Abel Roper, 1699. 8°. A, 8 leaves: a, 8 leaves: B-Aa in eights. Dedicated to the Earl of Dorset and Middlesex.

STALBRIDGE, HENRY.

The Epistel Exhortatorye of an Inglyshe Chrystian vnto his derely beloved countrey of Ingland, agaynst the pompouse popysh Bishops therof, as yet the true membres of theyre fylthye Father the great Antychryst of Rome. Made by Henry Stalbrydge. [Quot. from Jer. L.] No place, printer's name, or date. 8°, 36 leaves. Collier's B. C. ii, 384.

STAMPE, WILLIAM.

A Treatise of Spiritval Infatvation, Being the present visible Disease of the English Nation. Delivered in severall Sermons at the Hagve in Holland in the Yeare 1650. By William Stampe, D.D. the imprisoned, plundered, exilde Minister of Gods word at Stepney nere London.. Hagve. Printed by Samuel Broun English Bookeseller. 1650. 12°, A-N in twelves.

There were two editions printed at the Hague, the other undated.

STANBRIDGE, JOHN.

The longe accydence newly correcte. [This title is on a ribbon over a page-cut. The colophon is:] Thus endeth the accydence Enprynted at London By Wynkyn de Worde. 4°. A, 8: B, 4. With the printer's large device on B 4 Grenv. Coll.

verso.

STANBRIDGE.

[The Accidence. At the end occurs:] Enprynted at London in Fletestrete at the sygne of the George by Rycharde Pynson prynter vnto the kynges noble grace. 4°. A, B, C. Grenv. Coll.

Wanting the titlepage on A 1. The Heber copy also wanted it. In the lower left-hand corner of several of the pages is the catchword Stam. accidence.

Here begynneth the Accedence diligently correcte and poynted. [This is over a cut of a schoolmaster and nine pupils.] 4°. Lambeth (a fragment).

Accidentia ex Stanbrigiana editione nuper recognita & castigata lima Roberti Whitintoni Lichfeldiensis... [Col.] Imprynted at Londo by me Wynkyn de Worde in Flete strete at the sygne of the Sonne. 4°. A, B, C. Grenv. Coll. Paruulorum institutio ex Stambrigiana colectione. [Col.] Explicit. Impress. per me Richardum Pynson regium Impressorem. 4o, A-B in sixes. With the greater part of the title occupied by a large common cut, which recurs on the back. Grenv. Coll.

Paruulorum institutio ex Stabrigiana collectione. [This is on a ribbon over the common page-cut. At the end occurs ] Imprynted at London in Flete strete at the sygne of the Sone by Wynkyn de Worde. The yere of our lorde. M.CCCCC.xxi. 4°. A8, B1. Grenv. Coll.

Uocabula magistri Stabrigi primă iam edita sua saltē editione. [This is on a ribbon over a common page-cut. At the end we have] Enprynted by Wynkyn de Worde/dwellynge at London in the Flete strete at the sygne of the sonne. The yere of our lorde god. M.ccccc. &. x. 4o. A, B, C, D. With the last leaf occupied by the large device. Grenv. Coll.

Vocabula Magistri, Stabrigii, nuper emendata ac edita. Cum priuilegio ad imprimendum solum. [Col.] Imprinted at London in Poules churchyarde at the signe of the Lambe, by Abraham Vele. 4o, A-E in fours. Grenv. Coll.

With a preface to the reader by Thomas Paynell.

Vocabula Magistri Stanbrigii nuper emendata ac edita. Licensed to Thomas East, 20 March, 1586-7.

Stanbrigii Embryon Relimatvm
London, Sumptibus Clement Knight.
An. Dom. 1629. 4°. Harl. MS. 5927
(the orig. title).

STANDFAST.

Stanbrigii Embrion Relimatvm, sev vocabularium metricum olim à Johanne Stanbrigio digestum, Nunc vero locupletatum, defæcatum, legitimo nec non rotundo plerumque carmine exultans, & in majorem Pueritia balbutientis usum undequaque accommodatum, extrema opera & industria Ioh. Brinslæi. London, Printed by T. W. for Tho: Knight and are to be sold by Humphery Blunden . . . 1647. 4o, partly black letter, A-H in fours. Lat. and Engl.

STANDFAST, RICHARD.

A litle handfull of Cordiall Comfortes, &c. by Richard Standfast. Licensed to P. Stephens and C. Meredith, 26 Oct. 1638. Two Books, Vizt. A Little Handful of Cordial Comforts. And A Caveat against Seducers. Whereunto are Annexed The Blind Mans Meditations. By Richard Standfast,... London, Printed by Thomas Mabb, for Edward Thomas, 1665. 12°, A-D 6 in twelves, and A-D in twelves, besides the general title. STANHOPE, MICHAEL.

Cures without Care: Or A Svmmons to all svch who finde little or no helpe by the use of ordinary physick to repaire to the Northerne Spaw. Wherein by many precidents of a few late yeares, it is evidenced to the world, that infirmities in their owne nature desperate and of long continuance have received perfect recovery, By vertue of Mineral waters neare Knaresborow, in the West-riding of Yorkeshire. . . . Faithfully collected for the publique good by M. St.. London, Printed by William Iones, dwelling in Red-crosse-street. 1632. 4o, A-E in fours. Dedicated to Thomas Lord Wentworth of Wentworth Woodhouse, STANLEY, SIR LEWIS.

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To the Kings most Excellent Majestie. The humble petition and information of Sir Lewis Stanley, Knight, Vice-admirall of Deuon, touching his owne behauiour in the charge committed vnto him, for the bringing vp of Sir Walter Raleigh, and the scandalous aspersions cast vpon him for the same. [Col.] Imprinted at London by Bonham Norton and Iohn Bill . . . Anno 1618. 4o, A—C 2 in

fours, A blank. Without any regular

title.

STANLEY, THOMAS, the Younger.

The History of Philosophy, The First Part, Containing the Italick Sect, London, Printed for Humphrey Moseley and Thomas Dring. Anno Dom. 1660. Folio.

STAR.

With a portrait of the author by Faithorne and prints of the philosophers separate from the letterpress.

In four Parts. Parts 1 and 2, A (not marked)-Yy, 2 leaves each: Part 3, dated 1659, 3 A-3 F, 2 leaves each: Part 4, also dated 1659, 4 A-5 X, 2 leaves each. Part 3 has the Eleatic Sect and Part 4 the Sceptic.

STANYHURST, RICHARD.

Richardi Stanihursti Dubliniensis De Rebvs In Hibernia Gestis, Libri Qvatvor, Ad carissimum suum fratrem, clarissimumque virum, P. Plvnketvm, Dominum Baronem Dunsaniæ. Accessit his libris Hibernicarum rerum Appendix, ex Silvestro Giraldo Cambrensi peruetusto scriptore collecta. Cum eiusdem Stanihvrsti adnotationibus. Omnia nunc primum in lucem edita. Antwerpiæ, Apud Christophorum Plantinum. M.D.LXXXIIII. 4o, A-Z in fours: a-1 in fours. Hebdomada Mariana, Ex Orthodoxis Catholice Romane Ecclesiæ Patribus collecta In memoriam septem festorum Beatissimæ Virginis Mariæ, per singulos hebdomadæ dies distributa. Auctore Richardo Stanihursto Hiberno Serenissimorum Principum Sacello. Antwerpiæ,

...

M.DC.IX. 8°, A-Q in eights. With woodcuts. Dedicated from Brussels to Isabella Clara Eugenia, Infanta of Spain. STAPLETON, THOMAS.

A Fortresse of the Faith First 'planted amonge vs englishmen, and continued hitherto in the vniuersall Church of Christ. The faith of which time Protestants call Papistry. By Thomas Stapleton Student in Diuinite. . . . Imprinted at Antwerpe, by Ihon Laet, with Priuilege. 1565. 40, a-z in fours, and AaSs in fours. Dedicated to the deceived Protestants of England, from Antwerp, 17 Oct. 1565.

Tres Thomae, Sev De S. Thomæ Apostoli rebus gestis. De S. Thoma Archiepiscopo Cantuarensi & Martyre. D. Thomæ Mori Angliæ quondam Cancellarij Vita. . . . Dvaci, Ex officina Ioannis Bogardi. 1588, 89, A-M 4 in eights: a—s 4 in eights: t-v 2 in eights.

The works of Stapleton were published at Paris in a collected form, 1620, folio, 4 vols.

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A small Treatis of the Crinitall Starre which appeareth this present moneth of October. Licensed to R. Watkins, 1 Nov. 1580.

An admonicon to Englande, by the blasinge Starre. A ballad, Licensed to. H. Kyrkham, 7 Dec. 1580.

STARBUCKE, WILLIAM.

A Spirituall Song of Comfort, or Incouragement to the Souldiers that now are gone forth in the Cause of Christ. Printed in the yeere wherein Antichrist is falling. A sheet subscribed William Starbucke. With four cuts. Ouvry Cat. No. 23. STAR-CHAMBER.

Star - Chamber Cases. Shewing what Cavses properly belong to the Cognizance of that Covrt. Collected for the most part out of Mr. Crompton, his Booke, entituled The Iurisdiction of divers Courts. London, Printed for Iohn Grove... 1630. 4o, A-H in fours, first and last leaves blank.

STARKEY, GEORGE..

Royal and other Innocent Bloud crying aloud to Heaven for due vengeance. Humbly represented to the Right Honourable the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament. And with all humble dutifull submission dedicated to the two High and Mighty Princes, James Duke of York and Henry Duke of Gloucester, his Sacred Majestyes Royal Brethren. London, Printed by A. Warren for Daniel White . . . 1660. 4°, A-F in fours.

Starkey, who describes himself as a true honourer and faithful friend of his country, dates from St. Thomas Apostles, June 18, 1660.

STATIONERS' COMPANY.

To the honourable House of Commons in this present Parliament assembled. The humble Petition of the Company of Stationers of the City of London. [January, 1643.] A sheet. B. M.

STATIUS, P. PAPINIUS.

Pvblii Papinii Statii Sylvarum Libri v. Cum Notis ad marginem Commentarii vice. Quas undecunque collegit Thomas Stephens, Scholæ Bvriensis Moderator. Cantabrigiæ, Apud Thomam Buck ... . Anno Dom, MDCLI. 8°, A-P in eights, P 8 with the Errata.

With commendatory verses by J. Duport and others. On the flyleaf of the copy here used occurs, in a small and clear hand: Ex dono Editoris. On sign. M'4, with a new title, comes the Achilleis.

STATUTES.

The great boke of statutes cōteynyng all

STATUTES.

the Statutes made in the parlyamentes from the begynnynge of the fyrst yere of the raigne of kynge Edwarde the thyrde tyll the begynnyng of the xxxiiii. yere of the most gracyous raigne of our soueraigne lorde kyng Henry the .viii. [a large cut representing a king on his throne with sceptre, &c.] Cum priuilegio. [London, William Middleton, 1544?] Folio. Title and table, 6 leaves: A, 6: B, 4: C, 4:

2: A-U in sixes: X-Y, 4 each: A-Y in sixes (Statutes to Henry 6): A-H in sixes, I-K in fours, with the colophon on K 4: Imprynted at London. by Wyllyam Medelton Cum priuilegio Regali (Statutes to Rich, 3): The Statutes of Henry VII., A—L in sixes.

Sotheby's, July 26, 1881, No. 1803, wanting Statutes of Henry VIII.

This rare volume is not noticed by Herbert, unless it is the same as that which he describes as "Year Books 12, 14, 19, Hen. VI." &c. at p. 576, in which case his copy must have been a mere fragment.

A Colleccion of al the statutes (from the begynning of Magna Carta vnto the yere of our Lorde, 1557) which were before that yere imprinted. . . . In ædibus Richardi Tottelli. Cum priuilegio. . . . [Col.] Imprinted at London .. by Richard Tottyll. And finished the .16. day of October. Anno domini. 1557. Cum priuilegio. Folio. T, 8 leaves: A-3 Y in eights: Zzz; 4 leaves, and two leaves more marked t

A Collection of all the statutes (from the begynning of Magna Carta vnto the yere of our Lorde. (1557.) Whiche were before that yere imprinted. . . . In ædibus Richardi Tottelli. 1559 Cum priuilegio. [Col.] Imprinted at London by Richard Tottell . . . 1559. 4°. T, 6 leaves: A-4 D 4 in eights.

A Collection of all the Statutes, from the beginning of Magna charta, vnto this present yere of our Lorde God. 1574. In ædibus Richardi Tottelli. Añ. 1574. vicessimo sexto Iulij. Cum priuilegio. Folio.. T, 8 leaves: A-4 Q in eights. Noua Statuta [from 5. Ed. 3 to 22 Edw. IV. No place, printer's name, or date. Circa 1485-90.] Folio. A-E in eights with Table or Index, but 9 leaves in A: the text, a-z in eights: 3, &c. 16 leaves : aa-qq 5 in eights, kk 3 blank. Br. Museum and Inner Temple.

De termino hillarii anno henrici sexti xxxiii. [W. de Machlinia, circa 1480.] Folio. a, 7 leaves: b-h in eights, but two extra leaves in h. Br. Museum.

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