16
Capell’s Prolusions.
12
mo.
1815 Catalogue, page 151, no. 6, as above.
[CAPELL,
Edward.]
Prolusions; or select Pieces of antient Poetry,--compil’d with great Care from their several Originals, and offer’d to the
Publick as Specimens of the Integrity that should be found in the Editions of worthy Authors,--in three Parts; containing,
I. The notbrowne Mayde; Master Sackvile’s Induction; and, Overbury’s Wife: II. Edward the third, a Play, thought to be writ
by Shakespeare: III. Those excellent didactic Poems, intitul’d--Nosce teipsum, written by Sir John Davis: with a Preface .
. .
London: Printed for
J. and R. Tonson in the Strand. [From the Press of
Dryden Leach, in Crane-court, Fleet-street.
Oct. 6
th. 1759
.]
1760.
PR1204 .C3
First Edition. 8vo. 140 leaves including four blanks; continuous signatures but separate pagination for the three parts, printer’s
imprint at the end.
Halkett and Laing IV, 441.
Lowndes I, 368.
Cambridge Bibl. of Eng. Lit. II, 898.
This work is dedicated to the right honourable the Lord Willoughby of Parham, a Trustee of the British Museum, Vice-president
of the Royal Society, and President of the Society of Antiquaries. The preface, unsigned, is dated Jul. 20th, 1759. For another
work by Capell, see no. 4541, above.
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17
Farquhar’s plays.
2. v.
12
mo.
1815 Catalogue, page 151, no. 8, as above.
FARQUHAR,
George.
The Works of the late Ingenious Mr. George Farquhar: Containing all his Poems, Letters, Essays and Comedies, Publish’d in his Life-time. In
Two Volumes. The
Ninth Edition. Corrected from the Errors of former Impressions. To which are added some Memoirs of the Author, never before Publish’d.
London: Printed for
J. Clarke,
John Rivington,
James Rivington and
James Fletcher,
S. Crowder and Co.
T. Caslon,
T. Lownds,
H. Woodgate and
S. Brookes.
mdcclx
. [1760.]
PR3435 .A1 1760
2 vol. 12mo. 186 and 186 leaves; general title as above, special title for each volume with a list of the works contained
in the volume, separate title and pagination to each play. Volume I contains at the beginning Some Memoirs of Mr. George Farquhar, Poems and Letters, and a Discourse upon Comedy.
Lowndes II, 781.
Cambridge Bibl. of Eng. Lit. II, 416.
George Farquhar, 1678-1707, Irish dramatist. The first collected edition of his works was published in 1714.
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18
Vanbrugh’s plays.
2. v.
12
mo.
1815 Catalogue, page 152, no. 9, as above.
VANBRUGH,
Sir John.
Plays, written by Sir John Vanbrugh. In
Two Volumes. Volume the First. Containing, The Relapse; or, Virtue in Danger. The Provok’d Wife, with a new Scene. Aesop, in Two Parts. The False Friend.
[-Volume the Second. Containing,
