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Acquisitions 1982-March 1983English Books 1501-1800

By Jean Archibald and M. J. Jannetta

[BURGESS, Thomas, Bishop of Salisbury.} A newspelling book, for the use of Sunday Schools:with easy extracts and moral examples fromthe New Testament, etc. [Compiled byT. Burgess.] Salisbury: printed and sold byE. Easton, 1785. 12°: TT^ A-l^.

Thomas Burgess was appointed Chaplain toShute Barrington, Bishop of Salisbury in 1785.The Bishop was at this time involved with aproject for extending the recently introducedsystem of Sunday schools throughout hisdiocese, a matter in which Burgess evidentlytook keen and immediate interest. In thepreface to his spelling-book Burgess explainsthe work's origins, and makes due acknow-ledgement to the pioneering work of RobertRaikes of Gloucester as one of the founders ofSunday schools and the author of the 'onlyspelling-book which has been published for theexpress purpose of grounding young children inthe fundamental doctrines of our holy religion'.(Presumably the work referred to is the Sundayscholar''s companion. Guy Kendall, RobertRaikes, a critical study (London, 1939) refers toan edition of 1794, but suggests that earlierprintings must once have existed.) Burgess

New Spelling Book,F O R T H E U S E O F

SUNDAY SCHOOLS:

W J T M

EASY EXTRACTSAND

M O R A L E X A M P L E S

From the NEW T E S T A M E N T ;

P R A Y E R S

Por Children of different Ages at theSunday Schools.

SALISBURY:

ED ANn SOLD BY E. EASTON'.

MDCtLXXXV,

PrKt\ bound. Sixpence.

explains the ways in which he considers his ownbook to be an improvement on Raikes's, butadmits that it too might have been better than itis, being 'drawn up for the particular use of theSunday Schools in Salisbury; and the occasionrequired some dispatch'. A second edition,'corrected and enlarged', was published in1786, once again dedicated to the Bishop ofSalisbury, and with a new preface.

Cup.408.pp.45.

THE CARELESS child's alphabet. Designed to fixthe learner's attention to the shape of theletters, etc. Northampton: printed for WilliamAdam, 1776. 12": A .̂

In this short work the author's aim is to helpremove, in an inexpensive and simple way, whathe sees as a common obstacle in the teaching ofthe alphabet to children: the fact that the childwas taught to remember and identify a letter byits position in a word rather than by the letter'sshape. The author lists all the letters of thealphabet in groups of four, giving each group infour different combinations. The child was tobe taught one letter and then had to identify it ineach combination. Commonly confused letterssuch as b and d are given more detailedtreatment. William Adam is not recorded as abookseller or pubhsher in the files of the ESTCand it may be that he was a local schoolteacher.This copy of the book has obviously never beenused, and is in eighteenth-century Germanfloral wrappers.

Ch.770/54.

D., A., Dancing-master. Country-dancing madeplain and easy to every capacity. Containing afull description of all the figures . . . To whichare added, instructions for taking off country-dances from the printed directions . . . Alsosome rules of good manners to be observedby country-dancers. London: printed for T.

Durham, 1764. 8°: A-D^ E"̂ (E4 blank) (with4 leaves of plates).

Of this work and its anonymous author nothingseems to be on record. Perhaps the best-knownearly work in English on this subject is JohnPlayford's English Dancing Master, the firstedition of which had appeared in 1651. Byi;.i728 it had gone through seventeen moreeditions, and the appearance of a translation ofRameau's Le Maitre a, danser (1728) and KellomTomlinson's Art of Dancing (ij^s) bear witnessto the continued popularity of dancing. If it hadnot done so well before, by the time the presenttreatise was published country dancing hadevidently become a polite as well as popularpastime. Among the rules of good manners it isrecommended 'That no gentlemen should dancein their boots, or without their gloves, norpull the ladies rudely about, which is oftencomplained of.

C.iO7.dg.26.

[DoDSLEY, Robert, ed.] A collection of poems infour (-six) volumes. By several hands. (Thefourth edition.) London: printed by J. Hughes,for R. J. Dodsley, 1755-8. 8": 6 vols. (withplates).

This set of Dodsley's popular collection wasformerly in the library of Joseph Smith, BritishConsul at Venice. Three of the volumes containannotations and emendations by Lady MaryWortiey Montagu, which shed interesting lighton the texts of some of her poems, and some ofher contemporaries. The set has been thesubject of a full descriptive article by Dr IsohelGrundy (the Book Collector, xxxi (1982), pp.

C.i07.dg.28.

THE FATHERS blessing, or Counsell to his sonne.Appropriated to the generall, from thatparticular example of learning and pietie, his

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Maiestie composed for the prince his sonne...The fourth edition, London: printed by Ber.Alsop for Thomas Iones, 1621. 12*̂ : A-G^^H^(wanting A i, presumably blank). Boundwith:

LEIGH, Dorothy. The mothers blessing: or,the godly counsaile of a gentle-woman, notlong since deceased, left behind her forher children .. .The eighth edition. London:printed for Iohn Budge, 1622. 12^: A-M^^(wanting sigs. D, H, I, K, L). Bound with:

M[ARK:HAM], G[ervase]. A second part to themothers blessing: or a cure against mis-fortunes... By G. M. London: printed byC. P. for Thomas Dewe, 1622. 12°: A'^B-G^^H8 (wanting H8 blank).

These three small books are examples of thetype of moral work inspired by the enormouscontemporary popularity of, and interest in,James I's BaotXiKov Scopov, his advice on kinglybehaviour written for his young son PrinceHenry. The first work was first published in1616, and although implying a connection withJames's work, is in fact a handbook of conductand practical morality with much additionaldevotional material, and owes next to nothing tothe original. Mrs Leigh's work was also firstpublished in i6i6and isapious work, dedicatedto the Princess Elizabeth. The third work wouldappear to be a blatant attempt to get moremileage out of a good title. Extant copies ofeditions of these works are exceedingly rare.These editions of the first two works areunknown to the revised STC, and the thirdwork is known in only this edition and in onlyone other copy.

Designated STC^ [i4358.7> i54O4-3], I7387-3-C.iO7.dg.25(i-3).

LILLY, William. Doctor Lilly's last legacy:being the poor mans physitian & the country-mans doctor... The third edition enlarged

with above 20 new receipts. [London:] printedforj. Conyers and W.P., 1681. 4°: A\

After a successful career as an astrologer, Lillyobtained in 1670 a licence to practise medicine.As an astrological physician his cures weremostly crude but harmless herbal remediesaimed at the poor and disadvantaged. Therewas obviously a great demand for such medicineand this poorly printed two-pence pamphletcovers the usual motley ailments from looseteeth to worms, and gives prophylactics againstthe plague, consumption, and witchcraft.Whether Mr Lilly was in fact involved with theproduction or whether his famous name wasonly used to infiuence potential customers isuncertain. One other edition of the work isknown (the seventh, 1683), and that by only onecopy.

Not in Wing. C.ioy.df 27.

NEWTON, Sir Isaac. Optice... libri tres...Latine reddidit Samuel Clarke, etc. Londini:impensis Sam. Smith ^ Benji. Walford, 1706.4°: A'̂ b^ ( - b 4 , blank) A-2O'^ 2PI 2Q

(with 19 leaves of plates).

In most copies of this translation of Newton'sOpticks (including the one already in the BritishLibrary at 537.k.20) leaf 2S1 is a cancel. In thiscopy, which is in an eighteenth-century browncalf binding with the book-plate of P. Bourgeois,sig. 2S1 is in the uncancelled state. Thesignificance of this leaf was first noted byAlexander Koyre and Bernard Cohen in anarticle published in 1961 ('The Case of theMissing tanquam", Isis, Hi (1961), pp. 555-66).Koyre and Cohen suggested that the uncancelledleaf may help to explain the origins of Leibnitz'sobjections to Newton's philosophy, and thesubsequent Clarke-Leibnitz controversy. Thisdebate was conducted in an exchange of corres-pondence, in which Clarke, as Newton's spokes-man, sought to answer Leibnitz's charges, inparticular with regard to the meaning of

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'sensorium'. The interpretation placed byLeibnitz on Newton's meaning was rejected byClarke as a misunderstanding; and Koyre andCohen have argued that since the revised text onthe cancel 2S1 tends to bear out Clarke'sreasoning, Leibnitz had probably had accessonly to the uncancelled version. Of the copiesrecorded with the uncancelled leaf 2S1, thisis the first to come to light with an earlyContinental provenance, a factor which maylend some support to the Koyre-Cohen theory{Robert E. Butts and John W. Davis in TheMethodological Heritage of Newton (Oxford,1970) pp. 34 ff. have outlined the reasons forrejecting it).

Wallis 179, 179.1. C.iO7.k.i8

PETTIE, George. A petite palace. Of Pettie hispleasure. Containing manie pretie histories,by him set forth in comely colors, and mostdelightly discoursed. London: imprinted by G.Eld, 1613. 4°: A-Z"^ Aa'̂ (Aa4 blank).

With the acquisition of this edition, the BritishLibrary now has a copy of all six known earlyeditions of this work. A note on the text wasgiven in the British Library Journal, vii (1981),pp. 198-9, where an edition of [before 1579.̂ ]was described. This new accession is a veryfine copy in contemporary limp vellum withthe manuscript ownership note 'FrancesWolfreston her bouk' on sig. A3. De Ricci,English Collectors of Books and Manuscripts(Cambridge, 1930) describes books with this'romantic' provenance being sold in a sale atSotheby's on 24 May 1856 under the heading'remains of a library partly collected during thereign of King James the First', but the Pettievolume does not appear in that sale catalogue.

19823. C.iO7.df.i3.

players and playhouses. London: printed forthe author^ and sold by the booksellers ofLondon and Westminster., [i73S]- 2": 77̂ A^.

The theatre in Goodman's Fields had arousedenergetic protest when it was first erected byThomas Odell in 1729, but survived attempts toclose it down, and was taken over and rebuilt byHenry Giffard. In 1735, however, it was againunder attack. Sir John Barnard, M.P. forLondon and subsequently also Lord Mayor,introduced into the House of Commons in thatyear a bill for limiting the number of playhousesand 'regulating the common players of inter-ludes'. Giffard and his company saw this as anovert attempt to suppress their theatre, butfrom the surviving literature it is clear that thewhole theatrical world felt sufficiendy underthreat to publish statements in their defence.

S O N GON T II 1;

B I L L *P R E F E R R D I N '

PARLIAMENT,Fur S u P r R t ! 4 J M! uf

P L A Y E R S,\ N D

P L A Y H O U S E S .

By J O H N I' II ,; N: I X, C o m a i i a n .

LONDON:Piiiiml U ihe ( \ , . i u t . . , 3aC. iM by ilic BookftUets of L I - N B U N

and W E I T M l KIT ER.

PHAENIX, John, Comedian. A song on the billprcferr'd in Parliament, for suppressing of

2 0 0

One contribution, John Phaenix's Song, waspreviously known only from an advertisementin the Gentleman's Magazine for May 1735.Barnard's bill was thrown out on 30 April 1735,apparently because Walpole had tried to enlargeits provisions, and it could reasonably beinferred therefore that Phaenix's poem was acelebration of this victory. This may now beconfirmed: although the tone of its elevenstanzas plus chorus is properly not over-exultant, the underlying self-satisfied glowbreaks through occasionally:

And who that's a Patriot noted,Would have it repeated hereafter.That he against Players had voted.To create epedemical Laughter.

Foxon P 594 (advertisement only).Lowe I Arnott I Robinson 169 (advertisement only).

C.iO7.h.26.

READ, John, of Boston, N.E. A Latin grammar.Boston: printed by S. Kneeland ^ T. Green,1736. 12°: A-E^(E5, 6 blank).

John Read, born in Connecticut in 1680,graduated at Harvard and settled first of all inthe ministry. Later, however, he studied law,was qualified as an attorney in 1708, and becamea distinguished lawyer, resident in Boston from1722 until his death in 1749. Written memorialsof him are evidently scarce, but some insight atleast is given into his character by his elementaryLatin grammar, the second part of whichcontains an appendix 'Of anomalous words'.

The present copy is in very good condition,stitched in the original grey wrappers, andpreserving the two final blank leaves.

Evans 4071 Ch.730/5.

REMMELIN, Johann. A survey of the micro-cosme: or. The anatomy of the bodies of manand woman . . . By Michael Spaher of Tyrol,and Remilinus. Corrected by Clopton Havers.London: printed and sold by James Moxon,

1695. fol. (5 leaves of letterpress, includingthe title-page, with 4 plates).

Johann Remmelin, born in 1583, was a physicianin Ulm, who produced his drawings of thehuman body in the early seventeenth century.An unauthorized edition was printed in 1613entitled Catoptrum mtcrocosmicum, which iswrongly ascribed to Stephen Michael Spacher.His name is still associated with the authorized,corrected edition of 1619, and achieves real andprobably undeserved prominence in the laterEnglish editions. Spacher's involvement withthe work was most likely as publisher ratherthan author, artist, or anatomist.

The plates employ an ingenious system ofoverlays to reveal the successive anatomicalfeatures of the human body. They representonly tbe clumsiest study of anatomy, but theEnglish editions appear to have been verypopular.

The first, 'Enghshed by John Ireton', wasprinted by Joseph Moxon in 1675. The plateswere careful copies of the Latin originals; andfollowing the Dutch edition of 1667 a fourthplate of the superficial veins, after Valverde, wasadded. The contents are similar in the editionsof 1691, 1695, 1702, and 1738.

In the edition of 1695 the reference to Iretonis dropped, but the work is said to be 'corrected'by the celebrated physician and anatomistClopton Havers. His name is also appended tothe dedication to Sir Robert Southwell, thenpresident of the Royal Society.

Like the copy in the library of the MedicalSociety, London, the present copy has beencoloured, probably by a contemporary hand.

Choulant, pp. 232-4. C.iO7.k.i3.Russell 696.Wing S4794.

THE SAINTS duty discoursed, from 2 Pet. 3. T8.

And the saints dignity bandied, from Eph.chap. I. V. 7. With directions to both, etc.

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London: printed for William Franckling.. .inNorwich, 1649. 8": A-E^ (E8 blank). Boundwith:

A PLAINE and easie catechisme: wherein thegrounds and principles of Christian religionare briefly taught... Published... by R: A.London: printed for William Franckling.. .inNorwich, 1649. 8°: A .̂

The dedication in the first work is to Mrs PhilipHobart, daughter of Lady Frances Hobart, andis signed: R.A. Lady Frances, a saintly lady ofPresbyterian persuasion, had converted somerooms of her house in Norwich into a privatechapel after the death of her husband in 1647,and from then till her death in 1664 lectures andsermons were delivered regularly, mainly byJohn Collinges, for the benefit of her familyand staff. It has not been possible to identify'R.A.' but he may have been a local ministerinvited to speak in the chapel. In the dedicationhe describes the sermons as 'the two firstdiscoursed in your Chapley-field oratory, thelast to my dearely beloved parish'. Neither workappears in NUC and it may be supposed thatthe circulation was very small and confined toNorwich.

Not in Wing. C.io6.df.26(i-2).

STUBBES, Philip. The theater of the Popesmonarchie: wherein is described as well thevncleane hues of that wicked generation,as also their Antichristian gouernment...Togeather with their horrible superstition,and blasphemous religion, etc. London:imprinted by Thomas dawson for Henrie Carre,1584. 8°: 1« ^ 1 ^ ( I I 4 blank) A-H^ V(wanting 11 and I4 presumably blank).

This virulent diatribe by the puritan Stubbesagainst the Pope and all his works was previouslyknown only by an imperfect copy of an editionof 1585 (STC^ 23399.3). The date on thetitle-page and in the colophon of the BritishLibrary copy has been erased but can beread as 1584. The work contains a fulsomededication to Philip Howard, Earl of Arundel,and his brothers, but as Howard was in 1584under suspicion of complicity in the Throgmor-ton plot, and was in fact received into theChurch of Rome later that same year, Stubbeshad made an unfortunate choice of dedicatee.The work was reissued therefore in 1585 withthe preliminaries cancelled and replaced with adedication to Robert Rich, the husband ofSidney's Stella.

Not in STC^ but designated 23399.2.

C.i07.dg.27(3).

NOTES ON OUTSIDE CONTRIBUTORS

SANDRA HINDMAN: Associate Professor in the Department of the History of Art, TheJohns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland.

F R A N C I S A . J O H N S : Member of staff of the Library of Rutgers University, New Jersey.Author of A Bibliography of Arthur Waley (1968).

NoRAH M. T I T L E Y : Recently retired Assistant Keeper in the Department of OrientalPrinted Books and Manuscripts, British Library.

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