Eliz 207: Bound in straight-grain green goatskin, gold tooling with acorns on the cover. This is a type of binding made for J.B. Inglis about 1825 (Seymour de Ricci, English Collectors of Books and Manuscripts, pp. 97-98). This copy was sold as lot 100 in the Inglis sale by Sotheby's, 12 April 1826. The Huth copy (with bookplate) acquired by Mr. Cochran in November 1911 prior to the public sale. Gift of Alexander S. Cochran, December 1911. and Printed by William Jaggard for Thomas Pavier. The second edition (first, 1608). The title was printed on D₄, and the leaf was transferred to the beginning. This is one of ten plays reprinted by Jaggard in 1619, possibly as a part of a collection for which a general title page was never printed. The attribution to Shakespeare occurs both in the Stationer's Register entry and on the title page to the first edition.
Manuscript, in a single hand, of a diary of a journey from Dublin to England and then to Cork, written in a lighthearted and sometimes satirical manner. Traveling with his father, his friend Valerius, and a servant, the Irish author records his impressions in England of churches he visits; where he takes his meals; and the inhabitants he meets. After describing several churches in Liverpool, he writes, "I am broke of in this Part of my Description, as I think by some simpering or laughing; but on Enquiry I am supris'd to find it's some of my Female Acquaintance," which causes him, he writes, to lose the spirit to continue with his description. Elsewhere, he visits silk mills and describes the cost and workings of the machinery. At Nottingham, he notes that "most of the Inhabitants here are Presbyterians and I really believe I was in five different Meetings which I mistook for Churches, and at Length was so much vexed at being so often disappointed that I protested against looking further for one." Throughout, he records numerous encounters with women, including a landlord's daughter with whom he carries on a flirtation. The narrative is prefaced by an introduction addressed to "Madam," in which he speaks disapprovingly of women's coquetry, and mocks "our country-women who have been abroad," who "commonly return Home with Variety of odd Pronunciations, particular Gestures, & new Fashions, perhaps never known in any Part of the World, but the Production of their own fertile Brain."
Description:
Author of the manuscript is an unknown Irishman., In English., Index at end of manuscript., Leather oval bookplate inside front cover: Ex Musaeo Huthii., and Binding: full morocco; gilt decoration. Printed on spine: Narrative of a journey through England. MS. 1752.
Subject (Geographic):
England, Liverpool (England), London (England), and Nottingham (England)
Subject (Topic):
English wit and humor, Travelers' writings, English, Women, Conduct of life, Description and travel, and Buildings, structures, etc
Eliz 183: Bound in marbled-paper wrappers. Bibliotheca Heberiana stamp on endpaper, lot 5442 in the Heber sale, Sotheby's, 28 June 1834; on the endpaper is a note, probably by Heber, stating that this copy had come from "Bindleys Sale Pt. III 2040--Feb. 1819.", Eliz 183: This copy was also owned by George Daniel, and it was sold with his books, by Sotheby's, on 26 July 1864, lot 1425. The Huth copy (with bookplate) acquired by Mr. Cochran in November 1911 prior to the public sale. Gift of Alexander S. Cochran, December 1911., SML Microtext Room: Negative film available for reproduction., and The first edition.
Publisher:
for Thomas Fisher, and are to be soulde at his shoppe, at the signe of the White Hart, in Fleetestreete
Eliz 171: Bound by F. Bedford in red goatskin, gold tooling on cover and spine, gilt edges. The Huth copy (with bookplate) acquired by Mr. Cochran in November 1911 prior to the public sale. Gift of Alexander S. Cochran, December 1911. and Printed by Henry Hills, Jr. The third quarto edition (first, 1684).
Publisher:
printed by H.H. Jun. for Hen Herringman and R. Bentley in Russel-street in Covent Garden, and sold by Joseph Knight and Francis Saunders at the Blew Anchor in the lower walk of the New-exchange in the Strand
Eliz 179: Bound in brown goatskin, gilt edges. George Daniel's copy, with a manuscript note, signed, on a front flyleaf; sold as lot 1451 in the Daniel sale, Sotheby's, 26 July 1864. The Huth copy (with bookplate) acquired by Mr. Cochran in November 1911 prior to the public sale. Gift of Alexander S. Cochran, December 1911. and The first edition.
Publisher:
Printed by Richard Field, for Iohn Harrison, and are to be sold at the signe of the White Greyhound in Paules Church-yard
King Lear and M. VVilliam Shake-speare, his true chronicle history of the life and death of King Lear, and his three daughters
Description:
Eliz 177: Bound by Lewis in blue goatskin, gold tooling on cover and spine, gilt edges. The Huth copy (with bookplate) acquired by Mr. Cochran in November 1911 prior to the public sale. Gift of Alexander S. Cochran, December 1911., Eliz 177: The James Orchard Halliwell copy, sold by Sotheby's, 23 May 1856, lot 344; the catalog note states that "This volume was bought for the low price of [pound sign] 12 12s. many years ago, of the late Mr. Thorpe, whose taste and judgment are only now beginning to be fully appreciated, nearly all the rarities collected by him realizing far beyond his price." The Halliwell copy brought [pound sign] 22.10s., Second edition (first, 1608.), and This is one of the ten plays reprinted by William Jaggard in 1619, possibly as part of a collection for which a general title page was never printed.
Plays, Comedies, histories, and tragedies, and Mr. William Shakespeares comedies, histories, and tragedies
Description:
BEIN Ig 12 +632 copy 1: Variations from the description given in A.W. Pollard's Shakespeare folios and quartos are recorded on slip laid in v. Bookplate of George Wilbraham., BEIN Ig 12 +632 copy 2: Imperfect: leaf of verse, t.p., and p. 405-408 and 415-419 (sig. A1-A2, 3c3-3c4, 3d2-3d4) wanting., BEIN Ig 12 +632 copy 3: Bookplates of Sir Thomas Cave, Sir Charles Cave and Milton of Peterborough., BEIN Ig 12 +632 copy 4: Variant copy: page 164 (r2 verso) is correctly numbered, in contrast to the usual '194' misnumbering. Page 88 (h1 verso) correctly numbered (sometimes misnumbered '87'), i2 is misprinted i3. Bookplate of William Gray and Mary Edgcumbe Blatchford., Bein 1997 +17: Imperfect: A1-A2, A5-A6, *1, 2v2, 2v5, all after 3a6 wanting. Could be STC 22274. With addition of a replacement t.p. Page 205 (S1 recto) misnumbered 208; p. 164 (r2 verso) numbered correctly. Bookplate: Joannis M Berdan., BEIN Speck Z S731 +632: Imperfect: p. 1-35 only; containing The tempest and The two gentlemen of Verona (wanting all after act 5, scene 3, line 1), BEIN Eliz +29 copy 1: Huth copy with bookplate acquired by Mr. Cochran before the Huth sale., BEIN Eliz +29 copy 2: Fragment only, consisting of Troilus and Cressida, Coriolanus, Titus Andronicus, and one page of Romeo and Juliet. With bookplate of Monty Woolley., Colophon: Printed at London by Thomas Cotes, for John Smethwick, William Aspley, Richard Hawkins, Richard Meighen, and Robert Allot, 1632., Signatures: [superscript pi]A⁶ *⁴ A-2B⁶ 2C² a-y⁶ 2a-3c⁶ 3d⁴., Todd's first issue, state 1b (Studies in bibliography, V:81-108-, and Final p. blank.
Publisher:
Printed by Tho. Cotes, for Robert Allot, and are to be fold [sic] at the signe of the Blacke Beare in Pauls Church-yard
BEIN 1978 +82: This copy agrees with the description given by A. W. Pollard's Shakespeare folios and quartos. London, 1909, except that the misprint in the 1st pagination p.33 is correct, and p.67 in the 3d pagination also is correct., BEIN 1978 +82: Bookplate of Thomas Brooke., BEIN Eliz +32 copy 1: Huth copy with bookplate acquired by Alexander Cochran before the Huth sale., and BEIN Eliz +32 copy 2: Bound by Rivière in maroon goatskin, gold tooling on cover and spine, gilt edges. A number of leaves have been skilfully remargined. Provenance not traced.
Publisher:
Printed for H. Herringman, E. Brewster,and R. Bentley, at the Anchor in the New Exchange, and at the Crane in St. Pauls Church-Yard, and in Russel-Street Covent-Garden
BEIN 1978 +83: West 58. Copy as described by A. W. Pollard's Shakespeare folios and quartos. London, 1909, except that signature V is correctly printed, and the order of the preliminary leaves is: 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 5, 8., BEIN 1978 +83: Imperfect: Verses by Ben Jonson inlaid and partially in facsimile, t.-p. in facsimile with portrait from another edition (?), preliminary leaves and final leaf inlaid. Bookplate of John Hall., BEIN Eliz +28: West 232. Purchased about 1790 by Henry Constantine Jennings from bookseller Thomas Payne; acquired about 1820 by George Hibbert, at whose sale it was purchased by John Wilks, M.P.; purchased at Wilks sale by John Dunn Gardner; purchased at Gardner Sale by Henry Huth; acquired before Huth sale by Alexander S. Cochran., Colophon: Printed at the charges of W. Jaggard, Ed. Blount, I. Smithweeke, and W. Aspley, 1623., and Signatures: A⁶+¹ [B]² A-Bb⁶ Cc² a-g⁶ gg⁸ h-v⁶ x⁴ [*]² [par.]-2[par.]⁶ 3[par.]¹ aa-ff⁶ gg² Gg⁶ hh⁶ kk-bbb⁶.
