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[Devereux, Robert, second Earl of Essex, 1566-1601]. A bound collection of heraldic tracts including pedigrees showing the relationship between the Earl of Essex, Queen Elizabeth and other Knights of the Garter, late 16th Century, 250 leaves manuscript on paper, with 17th-century additions, some pages blank, early pagination with pages numbered 109-616, some other foliation and partial renumbering in modern pencil, some dust-soiling, late 18th-century armorial bookplate of (?)’T.S.M.’ by J[ames] Kirk to front pastedown, burgundy morocco gilt bookplate of W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey, beneath and William H. Robinson’s Bibliotheca Phillippica bookseller’s ticket below that, old pencil inscription at head of pastedown indicating the volume was ex Bibliotheca Heberiana and Phillippica, uncut, 18th-century vellum-backed marbled boards, gilt-titled leather spine label, ‘MS. Heraldic Pedigrees of Earl of Essex & C.’, inscribed beneath in old ink, ‘olim Ld Somers nup Sir Jos. Jekyll’, small paper shelf-mark numbers at foot, [Phillipps MS] ‘8196’ and ‘228’, slightly soiled, some edge wear to boards, folio (305 x 210 mm)QTY: (1)NOTE:Provenance: Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex (1566-1601); Edward Dyer (1543-1607) and family; John Somers (1651-1716); Joseph Jekyll (1663-1738); (?)T.S.M. (bookplate); Richard Heber (1773-1833); Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872), (Phillipps MS 8196 spine label); William H. Robinson, booksellers; W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey (bookplate).An old brief 4-page manuscript index is loosely inserted, evidently written before pp. 1-108 were separated and ‘lost’. These missing leaves are identified as ‘Calendar of the Dorse of the Close Rolls 1 H. A.; Fines 1 H. A.; Table to these after many blank leaves’.There can be little doubt that this set of pedigrees was executed for the Earl of Essex for some special purpose. Folio 244r (p. 603 of original pagination) bears the signature of ‘Edward Dyer’ in a 17th-century hand. Sir Edward Dyer (1543-1607), the poet, had as a patron Walter Devereux, first Earl of Essex, father of Robert, the second Earl. Thus Robert and Dyer must have been on intimate terms, which would account for the manuscript being in the possession of the Dyer family in the seventeenth century.

* The Essex Rebellion. 'Speeches Delivered in the Starrchamber, the xxixth of November, 1599: the Lord Keeper: the Lord Treasurer: The Earle of Nottingham, the Lord Chamberleyne, the Lord North: Mr. Comptroller, and Mr. Secretarye Cecill' [and] 'A Collection off Speeches in the Starrchamber touchinge the Trayterous Conspiracyes, of the Earle of Essex, and other his Complices, delyvered on ffridaye the xiith of ffebruary Anno 1600: in open Corte: By the Lord Keeper, The Lord Admyrall Sr Willm Knowles and Sr Robte Civill' [and] ‘A Speech Deliered by Sir Robte Civill, Secretarye, in the Starrchamber the [blank] ffebruary Anno 1600’, manuscript copy, c. 1620, [32] pages including cover title (‘A Collection of Divers Speeches in the Starrchamber’) and final blank leaf, written in a very neat secretarial hand without page breaks or pagination, some light soiling throughout, extracted from a larger work with evidence of original spine stitching, disbound, folio (265 x 190 mm), preserved in an early 20th-century gilt-titled red quarter morocco over cloth chemise, burgundy morocco gilt bookplate of W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey to front pastedownQTY: (1)NOTE:Provenance: W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey (bookplate).Nearly all the speeches reported in this manuscript relate to the Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex (1565-1601). Those of 1599 were made to counteract the popular manifestations of sympathy for the Earl, then a prisoner: a detailed account of his offences was set forth. The speeches of 1600-1601 are of the same propagandist nature. They relate to the Essex rebellion which occurred a week before.

Belchamp St Paul, Essex. A volume of manuscript copies of Latin (and some English) deeds running from 1297 to 1586, titled ‘A booke wherin is entred and Written divers Dedes of feoffment, Releases, Indentures of sale of lande, and other evidences, wylles, wrightine and notes concernyng chiefly the messuages landes tenements and hereditaments situate lying and being in Paules Belchamp in the countie of Essex. Trulye copied out and agreing verbatim with the originalls. Collected in maner of a Register by the procurement of William Golding Esquier the third day of Januari Anno d[o]m[in]i 1584’, title and 58 leaves manuscript on paper, final folio [59] largely torn away and missing along with following two blanks, 21 blank leaves including 9 with foliation only, title on folio 13r, written in a neat secretary hand and the entries from folio 49v in the same hand at a slightly later date, a few scattered spots and some old dampstaining to lower margins of final few leaves, burgundy morocco gilt bookplate of W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey to front pastedown, contemporary limp vellum with remains of tie and ‘Essex’ written in manuscript to upper cover, some soiling, wear and partial loss of vellum along upper margin of lower cover and spine, folio (300 x 200 mm), contained in a modern black morocco gilt folder with additional Foyle bookplate to inside coverQTY: (1)NOTE:Provenance: W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey (bookplates).Belchamp St Paul is a village and civil parish in the Braintree district of Essex. It is 5 miles west of Sudbury, Suffolk, and 23 miles north-east of the county town, Chelmsford.William Golding would appear to be the son of John Golding and Elizabeth (Towe), of Belchamp St Paul, Essex. His father John married twice, having eleven children in total. One of the sons from the second marriage to Ursula (Merston) was Arthur Golding (1536-1606), the Elizabethan author and translator. Arthur (William’s younger half brother) is most well-known for his witty and beautiful translation of Ovid's Metamorphoses, first published in 1567, which went through eight editions and had an enormous influence on English literature and poetry. This is the translation that William Shakespeare read and borrowed from, and which Ezra Pound called ‘the most beautiful book in the English language’. Arthur is buried in the village churchyard of St Andrew’s and a memorial to him is within the church. William was born before 1528 and died in London in 1588.

Percyvall (Richard). A Dictionarie in Spanish and English, first published into the English tongue by Ric. Percivale Gent. Now enlarged and amplified with many thousand words, as by this mark * to each of them prefixed may appeere; together with the accenting of every word throughout the whole Dictionarie, for the true pronunciation of the language and also for the divers signification of one and the self same word: and for the learners ease and furtherance, the declining of all hard and irregular verbs; and for the same cause the former order of the Alphabet is altered, divers hard and uncouth phrases and speeches out of sundry of the best Authors explaned, with divers necessarie notes and especiall directions for all such as shall be desirest to attaine the perfection of the Spanish tongue.... , 1st edition, London: Imprinted at London by Edm. Bollifant, 1599, 4 preliminary leaves, 391pp. (1-391), bookplate of Algernon Capell, Earl of Essex, dated 1701 pasted to title verso, blank fore-margin of title a little trimmed, bound with A Spanish Grammar, firts collected and published by Richard Percivale Gent. Now augmented and increased with the declining of all the Irregular and hard verbes in that toong, with divers other especiall Rules and necessarie Notes for all such as shall be desirous to attain the perfection of the Spanish tongue. Done by John Minshue Professor of Languages in London. Hereunto for the yoong beginners learning and ease, are annexed Speeches, Phrases, and Proverbes, expounded out of divers Authors, setting downe the line and the leafe wherein the same bookes they shall find them..., London: Imprinted at London by Edm. Bollifant, 1599, two parts in one, 4 preliminary leaves, 84pp.; 2 preliminary leaves, 68pp., printer's woodcut devise to each title, red morocco gilt bookplate of W. A. Foyle to front pastedown, late 17th-century English panelled calf, spine gilt in compartments, gilt arms on sides of Algernon Capell, Earl of Essex, rebacked with original spine preserved, and label renewed, head and foot of spine a trifle worn, corners repaired, folioQTY: (1)NOTE:Provenance: Algernon Capell, Earl of Essex (binding and armorial bookplate, dated 1701); Christie's London, The Library of William Foyle, Wednesday 12 July 2000, lot 383 (part).STC 19620 & 19622.First edition of one of the earliest Spanish-English dictionaries and grammars, which Minsheu based on Richard Percival's Bibliotheca Hispanica of 1591. The two works were issued together; within the Spanish Grammar is a section of Pleasant and Delightfull Dialogues with a separate title page.

Rushworth (John). Historical Collections Private Passages of State. Of Weighty Matters in Law. Remarkable Proceedings in Five Parliaments. Beginning the Sixteenth Year of King James, Anno 1618. And ending the Fifth Year of King Charls, Anno 1629. Digested in Order of Time, 1st edition, London: Printed by Tho. Newcomb for George Thomason, 1659, linen-backed double-page engraved historical map frontispiece depicting scenes from the Civil War (slightly cropped to margins and repair to central fold), 2 engraved portrait plates (plate of James I torn to lower outer blank corner), with two-eaf dedication to Richard Lord Protector at front (sometimes lacking) and advert leaf at rear, leaf 4N1 torn to fore-margin slightly affecting marginal note to p. 654, endpapers renewed retaining 18th-century armorial bookplate of Thomas Fountayne (1713-1739) with elephant crest, and late 19th/early 20th-century bookplate of Frederick J[ames] O[sbaldeston] Montagu, (1878-1957), contemporary calf, neatly rebacked in light brown morocco with gilt decoration to spine and red morocco title label, corners refurbished, folio, together with:Wilson (Arthur). The History of Great Britain, being The Life and Reign of King James the First relating to what passed from his first access to the Crown, till his Death, London: Richard Lownds, 1653, lacking portrait frontispiece, short worm trail to initial leaves, some light dust-soiling, top edge gilt, red morocco bookplate of W. A. Foyle, of Beeleigh Abbey to upper pastedown, 20th-century red half morocco gilt by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, lightly faded to spine, small folioQTY: (2)NOTE:Provenance: 1. Thomas Fountayne (bookplate); Frederick J. O. Montagu (bookplate); 2. W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey (bookplate).1. STC R2316; Lowndes vol. IV p.2153; Abbot 1023.2. ESTC R38664; Wing W2888; Gibson, 651b. With a different setting from the edition with 'Iames' and 'accesse' in title and 'dore' in imprint (see ESTC R200950; Gibson, 651a).Rushworth’s Historical Collections narrates a turbulent period: the years leading up to the English Civil War. Throughout his narrative, Rushworth shows a partiality towards the side of Parliament. His narrative also issues a warning of the potential chaos and destruction that these might lead to. The important folding map, untitled but attributed to Wenceslas Hollar (Baynton-Williams, New Worlds, 83), juxtaposes a map of the British Isles with a view of the Battle of Prague – thus comparing the Thirty Years’ War that was devastating Europe with the Civil War that was engulfing England, and providing a warning to the English of the consequences of civil disorder.

Digges (Sir Dudley). The Compleat Ambassador: or two treaties of the intended marriage of Qu: Elizabeth of Glorious Memory; comprised in letters of negotation of Sir Francis Walsingham, her Resident in France. Together with the Answers of the Lord Burleigh, the Earl of Leicester, Sir Tho: Smith, and others. Wherein as in a clear Mirror, maybe seeing the Faces of the two Courts of England and France, as they then stood; with many remarkable passages of State, not at all mentioned in any history, 1st edition, London: Printed by Tho[mas] Newcomb for Gabriel Bedell and Thomas Collins, and are to be sold at their Shop at the Middle-Temple Gate in Fleetstreet, 1655, [16], 232, 231-414, 419-434, 439-441, [7] pp., ([pi]4, a4, B-Iii4, Kkk2, c3, with signature Ggg1 missigned Hhh1), engraved frontispiece by William Faithorne ([pi]1), somewhat close-trimmed to lower margin (just touching platemark to the left), title-page printed in red and black, Yy3 repaired to lower outer corner, without loss, burgundy morocco gilt plate of W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey to front pastedown, contemporary blind-ruled full calf, with modern blind-ruled reback to match, folioQTY: (1)NOTE:Provenance: W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey (bookplate).ESTC R22010; Wing D1453.

Walsingham (Francis, c. 1532-1590). Copy Letterbook from his Embassy to France, August 1570 to November 1572, late 16th-century manuscript, beginning with his instructions and comprising copies of letters received from the English court and letters sent by Walsingham, with principal correspondents including Queen Elizabeth, Lord Burghley and the Earl of Leicester, 155 leaves manuscript on paper, apparently in one late 16th-century scribal secretary hand, contemporary foliation (1-160 but wanting five folios, 148-152), some dust-soiling and old dampstaining, mostly towards rear, final 8 leaves on slightly larger partly uncut sheets, Ralph Thoresby ownership inscription at head of folios 1 and 153, burgundy morocco gilt bookplate of W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey to front pastedown, all edges gilt (except fore-edges of final 8 uncut folios), 19th-century red morocco gilt with arms of the 4th Duke of Newcastle-under-Lyne to both covers, slightly rubbed and soiled, folio (295 x 187 mm)QTY: (1)NOTE:Provenance: This copy was formerly in the possession of the antiquarian Ralph Thoresby (1658-1725), and described by him on page 519 of his Ducatus Leodiensis (1715). It was lot 23 in the Thoresby sale (London, 5 March 1764); Henry Pelham Fiennes Pelham-Clinton, 4th Duke of Newcastle-under-Lynes (gilt arms), and then sold as lot 1337 in the 7th Duke’s Clumber Library sale by Sotheby’s, 14-16 February 1938 (lot description and pencil note tipped in); W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey (bookplate).An early copy of important ambassadorial correspondence. Sir Francis Walsingham's first embassy to Paris was dominated by the proposed marriage of the Queen to the Duc d'Anjou, and by increasing English entanglement in the revolt against the Spanish in the Low Countries. These policies depended upon fostering a close alliance with France, but the relationship was abruptly sundered by the St Bartholomew Day Massacre in August 1572, when thousands of Protestants were murdered on the streets of Paris and across France. Walsingham was recalled the following May having proved his worth to his Queen and was to remain a pillar of Elizabeth's government until his death in 1590.Walsingham was one of the most acute politicians of his generation and his correspondence provides a remarkable and full insight into the French court and Anglo-French relations at this dangerous moment. Walsingham's original correspondence during this embassy was somehow obtained by Sir Robert Cotton, who recognised its importance. This manuscript is one of a number of copies of the letters that were made, presumably after the letters reached Cotton's library. The bulk of the correspondence was published in 1655 (from another manuscript belonging to Sir Dudley Digges) under the title The Compleat Ambassador, the first printed collection of diplomatic papers in English.

* Sidney (Philip, 1554-1586). English poet, courtier, scholar and soldier. 'The Coppye of a Letter wrytten by Sr: Phillipp Sidnye to Queene Elizabeth, Touchinge hir Marryage wth Mounsieur’, [c. 1580], manuscript copy, c. 1620, [28] pages including final blank leaf, written in a very neat secretarial hand, some light soiling throughout, extracted from a larger work with evidence of original spine stitching, disbound, folio (265 x 190 mm), preserved in an early 20th-century gilt-titled red quarter morocco over cloth chemise, burgundy morocco gilt bookplate of W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey to front pastedownQTY: (1)NOTE:Provenance: W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey (bookplate). This letter was written by Sir Philip Sidney to Queen Elizabeth just before or just after the beginning of the year 1580. In it he states his reasons for opposing her proposed marriage with the Duke of Anjou. This manuscript, (written in the same hand as the following two lots), differs from the partial transcript given by H. R. Fox Bourne, A Memoir of Sir Philip Sidney, 1862, pp. 253-9. The following is a transcript of the first paragraph of this manuscript, indicating where it differs from Fox Bourne's text:- ‘Most ffeared and Beloved, most sweete and gratious Soveraigne; to seeke out excuses of this my bouldnesse, and to arme the acknoweledginge of a ffaulte, wth Reasons ffor it, might better shewe I knowe I did amysse then any whitt (F.B.'way') dminishe the attempte, especiallye in yor Judgmte whoe is (F.B. 'being') able lyvelie to discerne (F.B. 'to discern lively) into the nature of the thinge done, Itt were ffollye to hope with (F.B.'by') layenge on better Coullors to make it more acceptable Thereffore, carryenge none (F.B.‘no') other Olyve Braunche of Intercession, then the layenge my selfe att yor ffeete, nor, noe other insinu- acon, eyther ffor attencon, or Pardon, Butt the true vowed sacriffyce of unffaigned Love I will in simple and (F.B. omits 'and') dyrecte tearmes (as hopeinge they shall come (F.B.'they shall only come') to your mercyffull eyes) sett downe the over-ffloweinge of my mynde in this most (F.B. omits 'most') important matter, importinge (as I thinck) the Contynuance of your saffetye and as I knowe, the Joyes of my lyfe.' See Arthur Collins, Letters and Memorials of State ('Sydney Papers'), 1746, volume I, pp. 287-92.

Gell (Sir William). The Topography of Troy, and its Vicinity; Illustrated and Explained by Drawings and Descriptions, 1st edition, London: printed by C. Whittingham for T. N. Longman and O. Rees, 1804, title with hand-coloured engraved vignette, 2 hand-coloured engraved maps, 28 fine hand-coloured etched and aquatint plates by Thomas Medland after William Gell, including 3 folding (a couple of short closed tears to two folding plates), 13 illustrations of which 11 hand-coloured, occasional light offsetting, burgundy morocco gilt bookplate of W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey, top edge gilt, finely bound in later navy full morocco by Bayntun Riviere, Bath, covers with triple fillet borders in gilt with anthemion decorations to corners and innermost fillet, spine with raised bands, lettered in the second compartment, the others tooled with elaborate repeat decorations, folio, 42.5 x 27 cm QTY: (1)NOTE:Provenance: The Library of William Foyle, Part III, Christie's, 13 July 2000, lot 815.Abbey Travel 399; Blackmer 660.'Gell visited the Troad in December 1801 in company with Dodwell. He used the camera lucida to produce very accurate sketches. Gell fixed the site of Troy at Bounarbashi, in agreement with le Chevalier's theories.' (Blackmer). 'Certainly the most beautiful book on Troy ever published.' (A. K. Lascarides).

* Cromwell (Oliver, 1599-1658). Lord Protector of England. Great Seal of the Commonwealth, attached to a vellum document, Westminster, 24 May 1658, the document handwritten in brown ink and concerning a dispute between John Thornicroft and Jeffrey Hetherington over land and property in Charterhouse Lane in the parish of St Sepulchre's, to be tried before the Chief Justice, Oliver St John, calligraphic first line with large decorative initial 'O' and decorative initials 'L' and 'P' for the words 'Lord Protector', the borders decorated with pen and pencil floral motifs, some rubbing, spotting and uneven ink tones, skilful repair and pen work to small centre portion of upper border, 605 x 675 mm, a complete Great Seal of the Commonwealth appended (45 mm diameter), slightly rubbed, the whole folded into a bespoke plush-lined velvet document box to display the seal showing Parliament, burgundy morocco gilt bookplate of W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey to moire silk cover on inside of lid, 20th-century red straight-grained morocco lettered in gilt to upper cover and spine, oblong small folio (20 x 26 cm)QTY: (1)NOTE:Provenance: W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey (bookplate). A six-page typed transcription with silk spine tie is included in the box along with an old Maggs Bros catalogue description of the item, c. 1950's.Although both sides of the seal are somewhat rubbed some details of the impressions are still clearly visible. This is the second Great Seal of the Commonwealth (1651), the obverse showing a map of England, Wales and Ireland, the reverse the House of Commons in session.A rare and good survival.

* Bacon (Francis, 1561-1626). Lord Verulam, English philosopher and statesman. Grant to Sir Francis Bacon from his mother, Lady Ann Bacon, of the farm in Arneways in the parish of Barking, Essex, 10 December 1595, vellum document, calligraphic initial letter, signed by Lady Ann Bacon with wax seal appended, 190 x 400 mm, folded and displayed with centre portion of the document, signature and seal showing in a plush-lined red straight-grained morocco book box, burgundy morocco gilt bookplate of W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey to inner lid, slightly rubbed, folio (32 x 21.5 cm)QTY: (1)NOTE:Provenance: Maggs Bros., Catalogue 737, 1944, item 841. The entry notes: ‘Some writers state that Francis Bacon was the son of Queen Elizabeth, but this document rather disproves this fact.’ W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey (bookplate). Under the will of her father, Sir Anthony Cooke, of Romford, Essex, Lady Ann Bacon undoubtedly received property in Essex of which the farm of Arneways was a part. This property being in her own right, she was free to dispose of it to her sons as she wished. ‘I Ladie Anne Bacon widow, late wife to Sir Nicholas Bacon Kinght, Late I Ladie Anne Bacon widow, late wife to Sir Nicholas Bacon Knight, late Lord Keeper of the Greate Seale of England, deceased, doe sende greetinge in or Lord God evr. lastinge. Knowe ye that I the said Ladie Anne Bacon for and in consideration of the naturall and mothclie love favour and affection which I beare unto and towardes my dear and lovinge sonne Francis Bacon of Graves Inne in the Countie of Mid. Esquier, have given granted surrendred and yealded upp, And by theise pntes. doe clearlie and absolutlie give grante surrender release and yeald upp unto the said Francis Bacon and his heirs for evr. all the estate right title interest condicon and demande whatsoevr. which I the said Ladie Anne Bacon now have or at anie time or times hereafter shall or maye, and in or to all that Tente or farme called Arncwayes and the orchard gardinge three pightells with thappurtenances lyeing and beinge in the Pish. of Barkinge in the Countie of Essex in a ccrtaine place there called Padnall Corner containinge in all seaven acres and a halfe more or less and one meadowe called Browfeild meadow contayninge by istemacon thre acres with theire appurtinances in the said Pish. of Barkinge.’ Etc.

Barnes (Joshua). The History of that Most Victorious Monarch Edward IIId. King of England and France, and Lord of Ireland. And First Founder of the Most Noble Order of the Garter: Being a Full and Exact Account of the said King, Together with that of His Mosr Renowned Son Edward, Prince of Wales and of Aquatain Sirnamed the Black-Prince. Faithfully and carefully collected from the best and most antient authors domestick and foreign, printed books, manuscripts and records, 1st edition, Cambridge, 1688, engraved frontispiece, 3 engraved plates, lacking the engraved portrait of the author by R. White, title printed in red and black, 4 pp. dedicatory poem, dated 1690 by Thomas Heyrick bound after contents leaves, a few small burnholes and small marginal wormtracks, a little minor spotting, early ownership signatures of William Tryon and erased signature of Ch. Delafay at head of title, endpapers renewed later panelled calf, rubbed with some worming and losses to lower margins of covers, folio, together with Fuller (Thomas). The History of the Worthies of England, who for parts and learning have been eminent in the several counties. Together with an historical narrative of the native commodities and rarities in each county, 1st edition, London: printed by J. G. W. L. and W. G. for Thomas Williams, 1662, engraved portrait frontispiece by David Loggan, bound with a nineteenth century 'An Alphabetical Index to Fuller's Worthies of England at rear, a little minor spotting at front, early 20th century bookplate of the Earl of Cromer and crimson morocco gilt bookplate W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey, all edges gilt, later dark purple morocco, covers panelled in gilt with volute corner pieces, spine with raised bands, lettered and decorated in gilt, edges slightly rubbed, folioQTY: (2)NOTE:Provenance (second work): Evelyn Baring (1841-1917), Earl of Cromer (bookplate); W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey (bookplate for Fuller)First work ESTC R7544; Wing B871; second work ESTC R37357; Wing F2440

Alken (Henry). The National Sports of Great Britain, with descriptions in English and French, new edition, New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1904, half-title, colour additional title, 50 colour plates, light spotting to letterpress titles and contents leaf, burgundy morocco gilt bookplate of W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey, top edge gilt, later crimson half morocco by Bayntun Riviere, Bath, spine with raised bands lettered with sporting tools in gilt in compartments, folio, 47.5 x 30.5 cm QTY: (1)NOTE:Provenance: W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey (bookplate).

Dugdale (William). Monasticon Anglicanum: or, the History of the Ancient Abbies, Monasteries, Hospitals, Cathedral and Collegiate Churches, with their Dependencies in England and Wales: also of all such Scotch, Irish and French Monasteries, as did in any manner relate to those in England, 3 volumes (including 2 supplement volumes by John Stevens with appendix), London, 1718-23, additional engraved title to first volume, letterpress titles to each volume in red & black, 153 engraved and etched plates (including 13 folding), many after Wenceslaus Hollar, upper pastedowns with the armorial bookplate of Charles Tennant of The Glen, contemporary diced calf, decorative gilt-panelled decoration to boards, each volume neatly rebacked with elaborate gilt decoration, labels to spines in brown morocco (volume number labels to 2nd & 3rd volumes inverted), upper joint of first volume cracked, joints and rubbed, folio (345 x 220 mm)QTY: (3)NOTE:Provenance: Sir Charles Clow Tennant, 1st Baronet (1823-1906), Scottish businessman, industrialist and Liberal politician, who purchased The Glen in 1852, an estate in southern Scotland. He commissioned the architect David Bryce to design a new house on the estate which was completed in 1855.Upcott, pp. xviii & xix.

Normandy Cartulary. Cartulaire de l'Abbaye de St. Georges de Boscherville, [transcribed by De Witt], mid 19th century, 239 leaves, manuscript on paper ruled in pencil, foliated throughout with original foliation marked in the margins, index at rear, some scattered minor spotting, 'Phillipps MS 17354' inscribed at foot of first page, burgundy morocco gilt bookplate of W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey to front pastedown, 20th-century half vellum over buckram, minor soiling, folio (305 x 195 mm)QTY: (1)NOTE:Thomas Phillipps (Phillipps MS 17354 inscription); W.A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey (bookplate).The Abbey of Saint-Georges, Boscherville is a former Benedictine abbey in the Normandy region of northern France. This cartulary contains charters of William the Conqueror, Henry I, Matilda, Henry II, King John, Richard I and numerous other benefactors.

[Bunbury, Henry William]. An Academy for Grown Horsemen; Containing the Completest Instructions for Walking, Trotting, Cantering, Galloping, Stumbling and Tumbling... by Geoffrey Gambado, Esq. Riding Master, Master of the Horse, and Grand Equerry to the Doge of Venice, 3rd edition, London: printed by W. Nicholson for W. Baynes, 1808, 12 hand-coloured stipple-engraved plates by W. Dickinson after Henry Bunbury, plate opposite p. 21 lower corner repaired, bound with Annals of Horsemanship: Containing Accounts of Accidental Experiments and Experimental Accidents, both Successful and Unsuccessful: Communicated by Various Correspondents to Geoffrey Gambado, Esq. Author of the Academy for Grown Horsemen; Together with most instructive remarks thereon, and answers thereto, by that accomplished genius, and now first published by the editor of the Academy for Grown Horsemen, London: W. Nicholson for W. Baynes, 1808, 17 stipple-engraved plates after H. Bunbury, plate opposite p. 67 close-trimmed and laid down on later paper, occasional light offsetting and a few minor spots, faded previous owner inscription of Sir Percival Marling (3rd Baronet, VC, CB, DL, 1861-1936) to first work title, burgundy morocco gilt bookplate of W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey, top edge gilt, later fine crimson full straight-grained morocco by Bayntun Riviere, Bath, covers with border rolls in gilt and blind, spine lettered with horseriding tools in gilt to compartments, folio, 34.5 x 26 cm QTY: (1)NOTE:Provenance: Sir Percival Marling (3rd baronet, VC, CB, DL, 1861-1936), Stanley Park, Gloucestershire (inscription to first title); W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey (bookplate).

[Biondi, Giovanni Francesco]. An History of the Ciuill Warres of England betweene the two howses of Lancaster and Yorke. The originall where of is set downe in the life of Richard ye second; theire proceedings, in ye lives of Henry ye 4th Henry ye 5th and 6th Edward ye 4th and 5th Richard ye 3d. and Henry ye 7th in whose dayes they had a happy period. Englished by the Right Honble. Henry Earle of Monmouth, 2 volumes in one, London: [by T. H. and I. D.] for the use of Capt: John Minshaw and Edward his brother, 1645, engraved title and four engraved portraits, burgundy morocco gilt bookplate of W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey to front pastedown, 20th-century half calf, gilt-decorated spine, small folioQTY: (1)NOTE:Provenance: W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey (bookplate).ESTC R206581.

Scriptores Historiae Augustae. [Part Two only:] Aelii Spartiani. De Vita Hadriani imperatoris ad Dioclitianum Augustum, Venice: Giovanni Rosso da Vercelli, 15 July 1490, 106 leaves (A8, B-Q6, R8) in roman type with blank spaces for capitals, contemporary annotations to margins in brown ink to 22 leaves (noting historical figures, prodigies, filling in several capital letters, and adding several further comments), first leaf with blank margins replaced with later laid paper (minimal loss to extreme upper right corner of the first two lines of title, with loss of two letters), some minor marks elsewhere, single wormhole to lower centre of the text throughout, not affecting legibility (with old repair to the holes in signature A), gilt edges with old manuscript title in brown ink to fore-margin, burgundy morocco gilt bookplate of W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey to front pastedown, gilt inner dentelles, late 19th or early 20th-century brown levant full morocco by David, folioQTY: (1)NOTE:Provenance: W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey (bookplate). Hain-Copinger 14563; Polain 3474. Proctor 5127. BMC V, 417. Goff S 342. Walsh 2214.The second part (of two) of one of the earliest printed editions of the Scriptores Historiae Augustae, the lives of the Roman emperors taken from various authors, including Suetonius, Aelius Spartianus, Julius Capitolinus, Flavius Vopiscus, Paulus Diaconus and others, compiled around the 4th century A.D. The first part, Suetonius' Vitae XII Caesarum, (66 leaves, a-c8, d-k6) not present here, was also published separately. The second part includes Aelius Spartianus, De vita Hadriani; Julius Capitolinus, Vulcatius Gallicanus, Aelius Lampridius, Trabellius Pollio and Flavius Vopiscus: De regum ac imperatorum Romanorum vita; and Eutropius and Paulus Diaconus, Historia Romana. Despite the uncertain authorship of the original text, it is the only continuous account in Latin for much of its period and remains a valuable primary source for historians.

Herbert (Thomas). Some Years Travels into Divers Parts of Africa, and Asia the Great. Describing more particularly the Empires of Persia and Industan: interwoven with such remarkable occurrences as hapned in those parts during these later times. As also, many other rich and famous Kingdoms in the Oriental India, with the Isles adjacent. Severally relating their religion, language, customs and habit: as also proper observations concerning them, 4th edition, London: R. Everingham for R. Scot, T. Basset, J. Wright and R. Chiswell, 1677, 3 engraved plates (including 1 folding), 48 engraved illustrations and 6 engraved maps in text, lacking the vertical half-title and additional engraved title, p. 385 with repaired tear, one or two small holes in text, occasional light toning, hinges reinforced, contemporary calf, modern reback with morocco labels, some wear to upper corners, covers a little rubbed with some scorch marks, folio QTY: (1)NOTE:Provenance: W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey (bookplate).Cox I, p. 248; ESTC R771, Sabin 31471; Wing H1536.'Herbert's narrative "is of considerable importance from an historical point of view, as giving us the only detailed account available of the first English Embassy to Persia, to say nothing of the information afforded concerning the redoubtable Shah Abbas and his chief servants." - from Sir William Foster's Introduction [Thomas Herbert, Travels in Persia, 1627-1629, abridged and edited by Sir William Foster with an introduction and notes (The Broadway Travellers series), London : Routledge, 1928]. He commenced his travels in 1626/7 and returned to England in December 1629. He went out to Persia in the train of Sir Dodmore Cotton, accredited as Ambassador to the Shah of Persia. He also visited the Cape of Good Hope, Madagascar, and Surat, and coasted the eastern shores of North America on his return to England. His account of these travels is written in a lively and agreeable style. To prove that the Welshman Madocap Owen discovered America, he quotes the Welsh bards in evidence. It is amusing that he points to the name Cape Breton as a proof that his countrymen were there in the ninth century.' (Cox).First published in 1634, this fourth edition is the most complete.

Paris (Matthew). Monachi Albanensis Angli, Historia Major. Juxta Exemplar Londinense 1571, Verbatím Recusa. Et cum Rogeri Wendoveri, Willielmi Rishangeri..., Editioni accesserunt, duorum Offarum Merciorum Regum..., Editore Willielmo Wats..., 2 parts in one, London: Richard Hodgkinson, 1640, engraved frontispiece, title printed in red & black, separate title-page to second part dated 1639, light toning and occasional scattered spotting, upper pastedown bearing the signature 'Joh. Mart. Silberrad 1730' and with the armorial bookplate of Edmund George Lamb and his signature written below, contemporary vellum with blind arabesque to centre of each board, neatly rebacked preserving majority of original spine, later brown morocco title label, lacking ties, folio (334 x 225 mm)QTY: (1)NOTE:Provenance: 'Joh. Mart. Silberrad' (inscription, dated 1730); Edmund George Lamb (bookplate and inscription).STC 19210.

Missal (Augsburg Use). Missale secundum ritum Augustensis ecclesie diligenter emendatum & locupletatum: ac in meliorem ordinem q[u]e antehac digestum, [Dillingen: Sebald Mayer], 1555, [28], 471 leaves (of 472), lacking final blank ooo6 (as often), woodcut illustrations throughout by Matthias Gerung, including main title with the arms of Bishop Otto Truchsess von Waldburg, the Bishop’s vestments and Christ holding a chalice to receive his blood, at bottom five patron saints of Augsburg (Afra, Dionysius, Hilaria, Narcissus and Digna), to verso a full-page woodcut of the Virgin and Child with Saints Ulrich and Afra (dated 1555 to upper right corner), full-page woodcut facing the beginning of the main text of the Missal (with artist's monogram at foot), containing a central scene of the Adoration of the Sacrament of the Altar by the Apostles, Evangelists and Doctors, set within an architectural border with the Coronation of the Virgin and Saints at top, and in the bottom socle a small rectangular woodcut of the Last Supper, 10 full-page woodcut decorated part-titles using the same border, each with a different woodcut scene at the foot, numerous woodcut initials throughout, including two large ornate sets (measuring 93 x 75 mm and 63 x 54 mm), smaller initials (33 x 31 mm), and approximately 61 small woodcut illustrations, text printed in red and black in 4 different sizes of gothic type in two columns (except the prologue, calendar, verse to priests and colophon), 34 pages of printed music on red staves within vertical double rules, metal-cut calligraphic initials in red, the canon quire printed on vellum, with full-page crucifixion woodcut, large historiated initial, and paschal lamb roundel, title close-trimmed at head, folios 166-168, 390, 392-394, 460-461, and 463-463 with paper repairs to lower margins (not affecting text), burgundy morocco gilt bookplate of W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey to front pastedown, old printed auction catalogue description tipped in to front endpaper (dated 30/X/1980, Sotheby's), 20th century antique-style blind-ruled full pigskin, with clasps, thick folioQTY: (1)NOTE:Provenance: W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey (bookplate).Brunet III, 1766; Dodgson II, 218.14; Hollstein X, 73-77; VD-16 M-556; Weale-Bohatta 109.A celebrated masterpiece of illustrated liturgical printing, and the greatest technical and artistic production of Sebald Mayer, Dillingen’s first printer, as well as the most significant achievement of the artist Matthias Gerung in the medium of woodcut. This famous Missal according to the Augsburg ritual, whose bishopric was once the richest in Christian Europe, was printed by order of Bishop Otto Truchsess von Waldburg-Trauchburg and completed two months before the Peace of Augsburg on 25 September 1555 between Catholics and Lutherans, signed by Ferdinand I and the Germanic Electors. Otto Truchsess von Waldburg-Trauchburg (1514-1573) founded a university in 1549 in the Bavarian town of Dillingen in order to contribute to the development of the Catholic Counter-Reformation in Germany. At the same time he provided it with the most valuable propaganda tool: in 1550 he brought in from Ingolstadt the printer and typographer Sebald Mayer, who continued to practice his art there until 1576.

Augustine (Saint, Bishop of Hippo, 354-430 A.D.). Soliloquia animae ad deum, Italian, 15th century, manuscript in brown and red ink on vellum, 67 leaves (plus 2 vellum end leaves at both front and rear), COMPLETE, collation, 1–610, 710-3 (last 3 cancelled); written in an Italian rotunda script of the 15th century, single column with 22 lines per page, 36 two-line (the first being four-line) floriated initials in alternate red and blue, and blue and red, a ten-line illuminated letter ‘O’ in gold and colours laid in (from a different manuscript) to first leaf of text, and with illuminated border decoration of foliate motifs, stars and a shield at foot, burgundy morocco gilt bookplate of W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey to recto of first blank vellum leaf, and a folded page of typewritten description of the manuscript in German tipped in, late 19th or early 20th-century Italian full brown morocco with elaborate and rich impressed decoration in green, dark brown and light brown, the upper inside cover with large impressed stamp of Ernesto Pagnoni of Milan, and his initials in shields forming an outer frame, separated from binding along front inner hinge, short splits to head of upper and lower joints, 8vo (178 x 125 mm)QTY: (1)NOTE:Provenance: It may be possible to determine the original patron of the book: above the first rubric is an erasure that appears to begin ‘Iste liber’ and include the name ‘Raimundi’(?); in the lower margin a shield of arms has been overpainted with gesso and gold, but traces of a blue ground survive, and from the back of the leaf a diagonal (bend) can be discerned; Ernesto Pagnoni, Vaprio d’Adda, near Milan. Though his dates of birth and death are unknown, Pagnoni was active as a collector of manuscripts at the beginning of the twentieth century. Part of his collection was sold in Amsterdam by the famous dealer R. W. P. de Vries on the 2nd and 3rd of December 1908. His bookplate was designed by Sigmund Lipinsky in 1912. Other manuscripts once part of Pagnoni’s collection include Yale University, Beinecke Library, Marston MS 235, Lectura super libros sententiarum by Alfonso de Vargas y Toledo, and University of Pennsylvania, MS Codex 717, Ascetic miscellany, 1470-1499. Many manuscripts owned by Pagnoni are housed in modern bindings signed by C. Glingler, bookbinder in Rome; W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey (bookplate). This text contains the Soliloquies of Saint Augustine of Hippo, an inner dialogue on the matter of the soul, thought in the Middle Ages and Renaissance to be by Saint Augustine, but now doubted. Folio 65 verso and folios 66 and 67 at the end of the volume have additional texts added in several different hands, beginning on folio 65 verso with the Hymn to Saint Michael 'Christiane vir fidelis, qui regnare vis in coelis', (Chevalier, Repertorium Hymnologicum III (1904), 24515) and the Hymn to Saint Christopher 'martir Christoforo pro Salvatoris honore' (Chevalier, Repertorium Hymnologicum III (1904), 29471), followed by other various prayers.

Brooke (Ralph). A Catalogue and Succession of the Kings, Princes, Dukes, Marquesses, Earles, and Viscounts of this Realme of England, since the Norman Conquest, to this present yeere 1622. Together with their Armes, Wiues and Children; the times of their Deaths and Burials, with many of their memorable actions. Collected by Ralph Brooke, Esquire, Yorke-Herauld, and by him inlarged, with amendment of diuers faults, committed by the printer, in the time of its authors sickness, [London: William Stansby], 1622, title within elaborate architectural woodcut border, numerous woodcut coats of arms, woodcut initials, contemporary annotations by Thomas Delay and possibly others, his ownership signature in several places, occasional light toning, further later ownership name of W. Sharpe to lower margin of title, burgundy morocco gilt bookplate of W. A. Foyle Beeleigh Abbey (offset to endpaper), all edges gilt, later calf, covers with centre foliate design in blind, morocco label to spine, edges a little rubbed and scuffed, small folio QTY: (1)NOTE:ESTC S126175; STC (2nd edition) 3833. The first edition was published in 1619 bearing 'to this present yeere 1619' on the title.

* James VI and the Union of the Crowns. 'Kinge James his Speeche in Parliamte concerninge the Unyon Betwixt England, and Scotland’, [31 March 1607], manuscript copy, c. 1620, [24] pages including cover title and final blank leaf, written in a very neat secretarial hand, cover title ‘King James, his Declaracon, concerninge the Unytinge, of England, and, Scotland’, contemporary inverted notes and name of Thomas Blagdon to final leaf blank verso, later manuscript arithmetic notes to final blank verso, some light soiling throughout, marginal tears without text loss to cover title and final text leaf, extracted from a larger work with evidence of original spine stitching, disbound, folio (265 x 190 mm), preserved in an early 20th-century gilt-titled red quarter morocco over cloth chemise, burgundy morocco gilt bookplate of W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey to front pastedownQTY: (1)NOTE:Provenance: W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey (bookplate). This speech was delivered (according to James I's Workes, 1616, p. 509) to both Houses of Parliament 'in the Great Chamber at White-Hall' on 'the last day of March, 1607'. The speech, as printed in the Workes differs materially from this reasonably contemporary manuscript version. Following the death of Queen Elizabeth I who had died unmarried and childless, the English crown passed to the next available heir, her cousin James VI, King of Scotland. England and Scotland now shared the same monarch under what was known as a union of the crowns. A commission of English and Scottish MPs was set up in October 1604 to consider how a perfect union might be created. Modest steps were taken over the next few years. The commissioners' recommendations were debated long and hard at Westminster between November 1606 and July 1607. Although there was agreement on the repeal of hostile laws against the Scots, there was none on union. In 1606 James gave orders for a British flag to be created which bore the combined crosses of St George and of St Andrew. The result was the Union Jack, Jack being a shortening of Jacobus, the Latin version of James.

Capell (Arthur, 1st Earl of Essex, 1631-1683). Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, 1672-77, and 1st Lord of the Treasury, 1679. The severall depositions concerning the death of the late Earle of Essex, Manuscript, c. 1700, 87 pp., drop-head title, written in a neat hand within red-printed ruled borders on laid paper, engraved armorial bookplate dated 1701 of Algernon Capell, Earl of Essex and Viscount Maldon to front pastedown, burgundy morocco gilt bookplate of W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey to facing modern endpaper, contemporary speckled calf, some edge wear, old gilt-titled calf reback, rubbed with a little fraying at foot of spine, folio (290 x 185 mm)QTY: (1)NOTE:Provenance: Algernon Capell (bookplate); W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey (bookplate).Arthur Capell (or Capel), 1st Earl of Essex of the second creation, 1631-83. He died in the Tower of London on 13 July 1683, having been convicted of participation in the Rye House Plot against the King and his brother. He was found with his throat cut while awaiting execution for treason, though whether by suicide or assassination has never been established. Algernon Capell, 2nd Earl of Essex (1670-1710) was an English peer, military officer and courtier. He was the son of Arthur Capell and his wife Elizabeth, becoming the 2nd Earl of Essex after his father's death.

Dürer (Albrecht). Opera Alberti Dureri. Das ist, Alle Bücher des weitberühmbten und künstreichen Mathematici und Mahlers Albrechten Durers von Nürenberg, so viel deren von ihm selbst in An. 1525. und 1528. kurtz vor und gleich nach seinem todt in truck gehen, 3 parts in one, Arnhem: bey Johan Jansen, 1604-03, title to each part, Dürer's woodcut monogram on main title and first two part-titles, woodcut intials and numerous woodcut illustrations to text, many full-page, double-page or folding, first part with two printed woodcut folding overslips on P4 verso and Q1 recto, and complete with final blank Q4, second part complete with final blank Z6, and illustration of the female body on R3 hand-tinted in contemporary light blue wash, third part title with large woodcut coat of arms of Ferdinand I, intermittent light browning, 20th-century circular ink stamp of the Furstlicher Waldburg Kupferstichkabinett to lower inner margin of main title, and two further 20th-century ink stamps to verso, including the Hermann Göring Meisterschule für Malerei Kronenburg, late 17th- or 18th-century engraved armorial bookplate to front pastedown, and red morocco gilt bookplate of W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey, contemporary limp vellum with old calf backstrip, lightly rubbed, folioQTY: (1)NOTE:Bruckner 3, with main title in variant ß; Meder XXVI, XXVIII and XXIX. A good copy.First complete edition of Dürer's collected works in German. It brings together his three major treatises: on measurement, symmetry, perspective and construction of the letters of the alphabet; on the proportions of the human body; and the design of fortification systems. The edition is illustrated with numerous woodcuts by Dürer taken from the original blocks of the editions of 1525-1528, and includes overslips and double-page or folding leaves.

James I. The Declaration of our Soueraigne Lord the King: by the deliberate advise and full assent, as well of all the Lords and others of his Maiesties Priuie Councell, as of the Mr. of the Rolles, and His Highnesse counsell learned in the law, concerning the title of His Maiesties most noble and dearest Sonne Charles, the Prince, and Duke of Yorke, to the Duchy of Cornewall. Published by the Kings Maiesties commandement, 1st edition, London: Robert Barker, 1613, 60 pp. (A-O2), lacks quire P (errata leaf and blank leaf at end), text printed in parallel double columns in French and English, large royal coat-of-arms to verso of the English title-page, woodcut headpieces and initials, light water stain to lower inner margins, final leaf with portion to lower outer corner missing, affecting last six lines of the English text to recto, early library shelfmark in brown ink to verso of front blank 'H.1 No.2', burgundy morocco gilt bookplate of W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey to front pastedown, and old printed bookseller's description tipped-in, stitched in contemporary limp vellum, rubbed and some marks, ties missing, folioQTY: (1)NOTE:Provenance: W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey (bookplate). STC 9235.Prince Henry, eldest son of James I, was Duke of Cornwall for only two years, before his early death at the age of 18 in 1612. James's declaration here sets out the legal entitlement of his second son Charles to the Duchy of Cornwall, despite the fact that he was not the 'filius primogenitus'.

Cellini (Benvenuto). The Life of Benvenuto Cellini, translated and edited by John Addington Symonds with an introduction by Thomas Craven and illustrations by Fritz Kredel, Verona: Officina Bodoni for the Limited Editions Club, 1937, illustrations in text, burgundy morocco gilt bookplate of W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey to front pastedown, top edge gilt, contemporary terracotta full morocco gilt by Elisabeth Ullmann (signed to rear turn-in), small folio (32.5 x 24 cm) QTY: (1)NOTE:1510 of 1550 copies, signed by Fritz Kredel.Provenance: W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey (bookplate).

Stow (John). The Survey of London: Contayning the Original, Increase, Moderne Estate, and Government of that City, Methodically set downe, 4th edition, London: printed by Elizabeth Purslow, and are to be sold by Nicholas Bourne, 1633, woodcut City of London armorial frontispiece with small hole, woodcut armorial illustrations, errors in pagination, repaired closed tears to frontispiece and title, long closed tear to 2F6, some damp staining mostly at rear of volume, endpapers renewed, burgundy morocco bookplate of W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey to upper pastedown, contemporary panelled calf, neatly rebacked with gilt decorated spine, red morocco title label, folioQTY: (1)NOTE:Provenance: W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey (bookplate).ESTC S117597; STC 23345.

Names of Monasteries 1550 [so titled on upper cover]. List of religious houses in England and Wales in the hand of Sir William Petre, circa 1535, a paper book of 7 folios, endorsed 'Catalogus domorum Religiosorum in Anglia', all conserved [at Essex Record Office, Chelmsford], where in 1957 it formed Essex Record Office Temporary Accession 109, conserved in a modern calf gilt binding containing the original binding (a substantial fragment of a grant, on parchment, of property in Axminster and elsewhere in Devon by Robert Cansfield to Sir John Petre, Lord Petre of Writtle and his son Sir William Petre, 1605-1606), heavily rubbed, narrow folio (430 x 160 mm)QTY: (1)NOTE:Provenance: With a letter from Frederick George [Derick] Emmison (1907–1995), county archivist of Essex, returning the document to W.A. Foyle at Beeleigh Abbey and identifying the author as Sir William Petre and the date as 1535 or 1536, 31 December 1957.The information is arranged into 14 groups of counties: Kent, Surrey and Sussex; Oxfordshire, Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Bedfordshire; Devon, Cornwall, Dorset and Somerset; Wiltshire, Hampshire and Somerset; Northamptonshire, Warwickshire, Leicestershire and Rutland; Staffordshire, Shropshire, Worcestershire and Herefordshire; Huntingtonshire and Cambridgeshire; Lincolnshire; Yorkshire; bishopric of Durham; Westmorland, Cumberland and Northumberland; Cheshire, Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire; South Wales; North Wales. Within each of these sections, the houses are grouped by religious order or type – Augustinians, Benedictines, Carthusians, nunneries, Cistercians, Cluniacs, Hospitallers, Gilbertines and Premonstratensians. Each such list is headed with houses identified as ‘above 300 marks per annum’.The list closes with the Bonhommes of Ashridge and Edgington, St John [of] Jerusalem for the Knights of Rhodes, preceptories ‘commonly called the commanderies of the Knights of St John Jerusalem’, ‘all the friar houses in England whereof a great number have fair possession ’, all the colleges in England amounting to [blank], all the chantries in England being in number [blank], the possessions of the bishoprics in the realm abated [blank].The identification of the houses worth over 300 marks (£200) a year places the text between Valor Ecclesiasticus, the valuation of monasteries compiled by the summer of 1535, and February 1536 when parliament passed the Suppression of Religious Houses Act (27 Hen. VIII c. 28), which provided for the dissolution of houses with a net income of less than £200 a year. It also demonstrates that as early as 1535, the dissolution not only of monasteries but of colleges and chantries was contemplated, a process not achieved until 1547, and that even the secular episcopal estate had come under the official eye. The principal official responsible for this process between 1535 and 1540 was Sir William Petre (1505/6–1572).Petre was the son of a prosperous Devon cattle farmer and tanner. He entered Oxford as a law student in 1519 and was admitted fellow of All Souls in 1523, retaining this place until 1535 and serving as law bursar in 1528/9. He graduated bachelor in both laws on 2 July 1526, and during 1527 and 1528 he practised in the Oxford chancellor’s court. He is believed to have been made tutor to Sir Thomas Boleyn’s son George (brother of Anne). Through this connection, supposedly, he came to Henry VIII’s notice, and was one of the junior counsel representing the king in his matrimonial suit before the legatine court at Blackfriars (May–July 1529). In the course of 1533 he began work as a chancery clerk.During the summer of 1535 Petre submitted proposals for the reorganization of ecclesiastical jurisdiction under the crown, and from October he presided over Cromwell’s vice-gerential court. Between 1535 and 1540 Petre was principally occupied with the visitation and dissolution of religious houses, tasks he performed with efficiency and fairness, avoiding the unsavoury reputation of his fellow commissioners. Nevertheless he used his position to amass a substantial landholding, mainly in his native Devon and in Essex. By 1540 he had a rent-roll in excess of £500. On 15 December 1539, following the dissolution of Barking Abbey, he received a grant of the property from the crown. Here he built his seat, Ingatestone Hall. His family’s firm adherence to the Catholic religion largely impeded his heirs from following the path of royal and public service which he had himself so successfully negotiated, which his heirs still occupy.

Bickham (George). The Musical Entertainer, 2 volumes in one, London: Printed for & sold by Charles Corbett, Bookseller and Publisher at Addison's Head Fleet Street, [1740], engraved title to each (lower outer blank corner of second title neatly repaired), 200 leaves of engraved music each with large vignette at head engraved by Bickham, short repaired closed tear at foot of leaf 35 in first volume, leaf 56 in first volume torn to fore-margin slightly affecting vignette image and loss of leaf number (margin repaired), light toning throughout and occasional light dust-soiling mostly to margins, burgundy morocco bookplate of W. A. Foyle, of Beeleigh Abbey to upper pastedown (offset to front free endpaper), all edges gilt, 20th-century crimson morocco, fine elaborate gilt decoration to spine and gilt decorated ornamental roll geometric panels and lozenges to boards, folio (36.5 x 23 cm) QTY: (1)NOTE:Provenance: W. A. Foyle, of Beeleigh Abbey. BUC page 107; Cohen-de Ricci 145-146: Lipperheide 560; RISM Recueils, page 245; Smith (Handel) page 183.The second issue according to BUC with the composer on plate 14 in volume 2, named as Porpora and not Handel.This work comprises a collection of 18th-century musical entertainments (including works by or adapted from Purcell, Handel, Corelli, and others), the text and music being entirely copper-engraved throughout, with the accompaniment of fine rococo illustrations by George Bickham to each piece.

Dumas (Alexandre). The Three Musketeers, Translated by William Robson, 2 volumes, London: George Routledge & Sons, 1894, 250 wood-engraved illustrations by J. Huyot after Maurice Leloir, scattered minor spotting, bookplates of H.V. Morton and burgundy morocco gilt bookplates of W.A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey to front pastedowns, top edges gilt, original printed wrappers in red and black retained and bound in later red crushed half morocco gilt over marbled boards by Bickers & Son, Leicester, spines gilt-ornamented with crossed muskets and heraldic motifs, a little rubbed, small folio (302 x 202 mm)QTY: (2)NOTE:Edition De Luxe, 157/750 numbered copies, from the total edition of 775 copies.Provenance: H.V. Morton (1892-1979), travel writer and journalist (bookplates); W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey (bookplate).

Xenophon. The Historie of Xenophon containing The Ascent of Cyrus into the Higher Countries. Wherein is described the admiral journey of ten thousand Grecians from Asia the lesse into the territories of Babylon and their retrait from thence into Greece, not withstanding the opposition of all their enemies. Whereunto is added a comparison of the Roman manner of warres with this of our time, out of Justus Lipsius. Translated by Joh. Bingham, 1st edition, London: Printed by John Haviland for Raphe Mabb, 1623, verso of title with engraved bookplate of Rt. Hon. Algernon Capell, 2nd Earl of Essex, Viscount Maldon and Baron Capell of Hadham (1670-1710), with engraved date 1701, woodcut initials, head-and tail-pieces, without initial and final blank leaves ([A]1 and X4), burgundy morocco bookplate of W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey to upper pastedown, pastedown also bearing earlier manuscript shelf number 'C:5: 12', contemporary gilt panelled calf, gilt-decorated spine, morocco title label and crest label of George Capell-Coningsby, 5th Earl of Essex (1757-1839), folio (267 x 176 mm)QTY: (1)NOTE:Provenance: Algernon Capell, 2nd Earl of Essex (1670-1710); George Capell-Coningsby, 5th Earl of Essex (1757-1839); W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey (bookplate).ESTC S118779; STC 26064.Fine copy with early provenance. A translation by John Bingham of Xenophon's Anabasis, an account of the march of the mercenary army of 10,000 Greeks led by Cyrus, prince of Persia, to attack his brother Artaxerxes II and seize the Persian throne.

Weever (John). Ancient Funerall Monuments within the united Monarchie of Great Britaine, Ireland, and the Islands adiacent, with the dissolued Monasteries therein contained; their founders, and what eminent persons have beene in the same interred, 1st edition, London: Thomas Harper, 1631, engraved portrait frontispiece, engraved additional title with architectural border, 6 full-page woodcut plates, further woodcut illustrations in text, errata leaf, index at end, 20th century armorial bookplate of W. Rolleston Saunders to rear pastedown, bookplate of 'W. R'. to front pastedown, 20th-century calf gilt (endpapers and blanks renewed), folio (285 x 185 mm)QTY: (1)NOTE:Cox III, p. 463; STC 25223; Upcott p. 20.

Solis (Antonio de). The History of the Conquest of Mexico by the Spaniards, 1st edition in English, London: T. Woodward, 1724, engraved portrait frontispiece, 6 folding engraved plates, 2 engraved maps (1 folding), woodcut initials and headpieces, armorial bookplate of Marquis of Devonshire to front pastedown (name excised), frontispiece spotted, contemporary Cambridge panelled calf gilt, some wear, folio (350 x 220 mm)QTY: (1)NOTE:Hill 1601; Palau 318693; Sabin 86487.'The Historia, covering the years between the appointment of Cortes to command the invading force and the fall of the city of Mexico, deservedly ranks as a Spanish prose classic' (Hill).

Stow (John). The Annales, or Generall Chronicle of England... and after him continued and augmented with matters forreyne and domestique, auncient and moderne unto the ende of this present yeere 1614, by Edmond Howes, London: for Thomas Adams, 1615, title within elaborate woodcut border, soiled and sometime reattached, few edge tears and small chips (some tears neatly repaired), small early ink annotation to imprint, and another to lower margin, woodcut initials and head-pieces, main text in black letter in double column, with colophon leaf, early ink manuscript annotations, underlining and marginalia throughout, some toning and spotting (mainly towards front and rear), occasional marks, stains and finger-soiling, few leaves with losses to blank margins sometime infilled (slightly cropping headline on one page), final leaf of preface with crude watercolour image to blank portion of verso, but striking through to recto, bound with [Godwin, Francis], Rerum Anglicarum Henrico VIII, Edwardo VI, et Maria regnantibus annales, 1st edition, London?: Ioan. Bill, 1616, title with woodcut vignette and early ink manuscript annotation, toned and spotted, woodcut head- and tail-pieces, final leaf edge frayed and sometime reattached with infills, crude early ink sketch to blank verso, endpapers renewed, front pastedown with armorial bookplate of Robert Masters (1713-1798), contemporary calf, lightly scuffed, rebacked and edges refurbished, spine with raised bands and red morocco gilt lettering piece, folioQTY: (1)NOTE:Provenance (Godwin): Robert Masters (1713-1798), clergyman and academic, author of The History of the College of Corpus Christi, Cambridge (1753-55).ESTC S117596 & S121233.

Charles III of Spain (1716-1788). A decree of Charles III, king of Spain, accepting the resignation of the title of Grandeza (grandee) of Spain, first class, granted in 1730 to the Marquis de Brancas, French ambassador in Spain, by his son Don Luis Pablo de Brancas (1718-1802), Duque de Cereste Brancas, and its re-settlement on Don Luis Maria Buffile, Vizconde de Brancas, great-grandson of the Marquis de Brancas, with provision for the further descent of the grandeza should he succeed to a French peerage, 14 August 1785, 8 vellum leaves, interleaved with tissue, double endpapers of plain and floral paper, the text within a double border of liquid gold and red, the intervening space decorated with floral designs in green, rose, yellow and blue, burgundy morocco gilt bookplate of W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey to front pastedown, double endpapers of plain and floral paper, all edges gilt, modern purple morocco gilt, rubbed, joints cracked and upper cover near detached, folio (305 x 212 mm)QTY: (1)NOTE:Provenance: W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey (bookplate).Illuminations:Folio 1 Arms of the House of Brancas de Forcalquier (azure a pale argent, three towers gules supported by four lions’ arms or (Brancas); gules a cross of Toulouse or (Forcalquier)) all in a baroque escutcheon headed by coupled dragons, surmounted by a coronet, all on a pale blue field supported by lionsFolio 2 seal of Charles III with the royal arms surrounded by tied bays with figures of justice and religion, all in clouds; military emblems surmounted by a lion, his forepaws resting on two spheres; gilt-fringed banner with the words Don Carlos por le Gracia de DiosFolio 2v Roman letter P in gold with foliate decoration in red, green, rose and blueFolio 3v Roman letter P in gold with a walled city, two figures and an entwined treeFolio 4 Baroque letter P with a river scene with two boats, a tower and chapel and two figures approaching a walled cityFolio 5 Letter Y in the form of a dragon, a walled city, castle and two figuresFolio 5v Roman letter Y in gold with foliate decoration in red, green, rose and blueFolio 6 Letter Y in the form of an entwined tree, one branch flourishing the other dead, a river with two boats, three figures, two towers and other buildingsFolio 6v Baroque letter Y with a pond, a boat, a tower with flags and a walled cityFolio 7 Roman letter Y in gold with a bridge, river, boat, tower, four figures and a walled cityRecites: decree of [Philip V], king of Spain, father of the present king, granting to [Louis-Henri de Brancas-Forcalquier], Marquis de Brancas, French ambassador in Spain, the Grandeza of Spain, first class, for himself, his children and successors, 5 March 1730, and its further descent.The original grantee, Louis-Henri de Brancas-Forcalquier (1672-1750) was second marquis of Céreste, but was better known as Le Marquis de Brancas. He was also (nominal) prince souverain of Nisyros, an island in the Dodecanes controlled by the Genoese. This principality had been created for Bufille Brancaccio, count of Agnano, Sicily, by the Genoese Pope Boniface IX in the last decade of the 14th century. Louis-Henry served Louis XV of France on land and sea, was made a Marshal of France in 1740 and in at the time of the grant to him of the grandeza of Spain was the French ambassador at Madrid.His son Louis-Paul de Brancas (1718-1802), Marquis de Brancas, was also distinguished military officer. He was lieutenant general of Provence, a lieutenant general in the French army and chevalier de l’Ordre du Saint-Esprit. In 1785 he was named duc de Céreste and he retired to Provence: DBF; Dictionnaire de la noblesse, iii, 982–3; Almanach royal for 1783, pp. 152, 186, 195, 202.The descent of the grandeza attached to the Marquessate was at issue in the Spanish and French courts as late as 1866, when it was established that women would succeed to Spanish titles unless expressly excluded: Sentencias del Tribunal Supremo en material civil, Part 1, pp. 42-46.

* Barkstead (John, died 1662). Major-General and regicide. Document Signed, 'Jo Barkstead', 25 May 1653, being a manuscript receipt, 'Recd. by mee Collonell John Barkstead Lieut. of the Tower of London of Thomas Fauconberg Esqre. Rec[eiv]er Generall of the publique Revenue' the sum of £410.2s.4d., for himself and the gentlemen porters, the yeoman warders, the gentleman gaoler, physician, etc., written in brown ink on laid paper, heavy spotting and some dust-soiling and light creasing, 1 page, folio, tipped along fore-edge on to a blank sheet of paper in a 20th-century calf gilt document folder with burgundy morocco gilt bookplate of W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey to front pastedown, rubbed, limp leather spine partly perished and upper cover detached, folioQTY: (1)NOTE:Provenance: W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey (bookplate).Barkstead was appointed to be governor of the Tower of London in 1652, gaining praise by Cromwell for his vigilance. At the Restoration he was outlawed and fled to Germany. He was later arrested in Holland and brought to England for trial, and executed on 19 April 1662. Barkstead was one of the 59 commissioners who signed the death warrant for King Charles I, being the 36th to sign. Rare.

Parkinson (John). Paradisi in sole Paradisus Terrestris. Or a garden of all sorts of pleasant flowers which our English ayre will permitt to be noursed up: with a kitchen garden of all manner of herbes, rootes, & fruites, for meate or sause used with us, and an orchard of all sorte of fruitbearing trees and shrubbes fit for our land together with the right orderinge planting & preserving of them and their uses & vertues, collected by John Parkinson Apothecary of London, 1st edition, London: Humfrey Lownes and Robert Young, 1629, [12], 612, [16] pp., woodcut title (relaid), woodcut portrait of Parkinson to **6 verso, full-page woodcut of garden design, 109 full-page botanical woodcuts, a few smaller woodcut illustrations to text, burgundy morocco gilt bookplate of W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey to front pastedown a few preliminary leaves damp-mottled, final text leaf with lower and outer margin reinforced to verso, occasional light scattered spotting, 19th-century tree calf gilt, red morocco title label, covers with gilt foliate roll border, rubbed, folio (320 x 205 mm)QTY: (1)NOTE:Provenance: W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey (bookplate).Henrey 282; Hunt 215; Nissen 1489; STC 19300.First edition of 'the earliest important treatise on horticulture published in England' (Henrey).

[Mason, George Henry, attributed]. The Punishments of China, Illustrated by Twenty-Two Engravings: with explanations in English and French, London: printed for William Miller by W. Bulmer, 1801 [but 1822], 22 hand-coloured stipple-engraved plates, one or two short closed marginal tears to plates, some offsetting to letterpress (and partially on to frontispiece), previous owner inscription to front endpaper, all edges gilt, contemporary crimson straight-grained full morocco, covers with anthemion and acanthus gilt and blind roll borders, spine lettered and decorated in gilt, a little faded and rubbed at ends and corners, folio, 35.5 x 25.5 cm QTY: (1)NOTE:Provenance: W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh House.Abbey Travel 532.Reprint edition by Thomas M'Lean, with the plates watermarked 'J. Whatman 1822'. Bound at the rear is a statement leaf from M'Lean, dated 1821 stating that the Costumes series originally published by William Miller had become his property, and unsubscribed copies of this work could be bought for three and a half Guineas.

Howell (James). Londinopolis: An Historicall Discourse or Perlustration of the City of London, the Imperial Chamber, and chief Emporium of Great Britain: whereunto is added another of the City of Westminster, with the Courts of Justice, Antiquities, and new Buildings thereunto belonging, 1st edition, London: Printed by J. Streater, for Henry Twiford, George Sawbridge, Thomas Dring and John Place, 1657, etched portrait frontispiece by Abraham Bosse after Claude Melan (5th state, with added coat of arms), title printed in red and black, double-page etched panorama of London by Wenceslaus Hollar, near-contemporary ownership inscription in brown ink to head of dedication leaf 'Henry Bishop November ye 20th 1682', and similar marginal annotations to the 'Parallel of London with other great Cities of the World', erratic pagination and signatures, some browning, burgundy morocco gilt bookplate of W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey to front pastedown, early 20th-century brown half calf gilt (endpapers renewed), lightly rubbed with minor fading to upper portion of upper cover, folioQTY: (1)NOTE:Provenance: Probably Henry Bishopp (1605–1691), also spelt Bishop and Bisshopp, of Henfield, West Sussex, Postmaster General of England and inventor of the first postmark used on mail (inscription); W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey (bookplate).ESTC R13420; Grolier, Wither to Prior, 487; Pforzheimer 515; Wing H3091.James Howell (c. 1594-1666), historian and writer, gained a secretaryship of the Privy Council on the eve of the English Civil War (according to one eminent critic 'very close to the type of appointment that he had sought for 20 years'), though due to the change in political circumstances he never took up the position. Instead he became the first writer to earn his living solely from writing in the English language. He was the first English writer of an epistolary novel (Familiar Letters). His Lexicon Tetragloton was a dictionary not in four languages, but in six; a dictionary of Latin vernacular (Romance language) proverbs. His New English Grammar is also considered the first work of foreign language teaching in English.

Drayton (Michael). Poly Olbion. or A Chorographical Description of the Tracts, Rivers, Mountaines, Forests and other Parts of this renowned Isle of Great Britaine, With intermixture of the most Remarquable Stories, Antiquities, Wonders, Rarityes, Pleasures and Commodities of the Same; Digested in a poem, London: Printed by H. L. for Mathew Lownes, J. Browne, J. Hulme and J. Busbie, 1613, title-page with a near contemporary manuscript signature crossed through, woodcut printer's device, one short closed tear affecting the printed image, additional decorative allegorical half-title engraved by W. Hole, facing a page of descriptive text 'Upon the Frontispice', dedication to and portrait of Prince Henry, four leaves of 'The Table', fourth leaf repaired to upper margin, 18 double-page engraved allegorical maps (complete), occasional contemporary ink marginalia, burgundy morocco gilt bookplate of W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey to front blank, additional bookplate of Earl Manvers, Thoresby Park Notts to front pastedown, hinges cracked, contemporary full calf with 19th century reback, gilt morocco label to spine, bumped and slight wear to extremities, folio QTY: (1)NOTE:Provenance: Charles Philip Medows (1737-1816), created Earl Manvers in 1806, Thoresby Park, Nottinghamshire (bookplate); W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey (bookplate).Chubb XXXIV; STC 7226; ESTC S121632. A reissue of the 1612 edition, with added letterpress, title page and index. In this issue, the plates have page numbers and the portrait of Henry Frederick has his name. Large Paper copy.

Jonson (Ben). Works, 1st collected edition, 3 volumes: The Workes of Beniamin Jonson, London: Imprinted at London by Will Stansby, 1616, The Workes of Benjamin Jonson, London: Printed by Richard Bishop, and are to be sold by Andrew Crooke in St. Paules Church-yard, 1640, & The Workes of Benjamin Johnson, The second Volume. Containing these playes, viz. 1 Bartholomew Fayre. 2 The Staple of Newes. 3 The Divell is an Asse. London: Printed for Richard Meighen, 1631– 1640 [i.e., 1641], The Workes of Benjamin Jonson, London: Printed by Richard Bishop, and are to be sold by Andrew Crooke in St. Paules Church-yard, 1640, volume 1: [12], 1015 pp. (¶6, A-Pppp6, Qqqq4), engraved allegorical title by William Hole (a good strong impression), with engraved armorial bookplate of Sir Richard Newdigate of Arbery in the County of Warwick Baronet (dated 1709) pasted to verso, woodcut title for Every Man out of his Humour at page 73 in first state, woodcut initials, E6 (page 59-60) thinned with small vertical hairline tears without loss, Xx6 (page 527-528) with minor loss to lower outer blank corner, not affecting text, Yy2 (page 531-532) with loss to lower outer blank corner, not affecting text, contemporary marginal annotation in brown ink to Mmm4 (page 692) and numerous early marginal marks in brown ink (some in pencil) between pages 683 and 760 (the text of Catiline), front and rear pastedowns from an Latin incunable text, contemporary ink ownership signature of John Newdigate to front endpaper, with annotation adjacent 'Trin Coll' and numeral '359,6', engraved armorial bokplate of Sr Roger Newdigate Bart to front pastedown, and adjacent later printed bookplate of Lillian Barbour Bennett, all edges red with manuscript library shelfmark to fore-edge 'B : I : PL : 359', contemporary blind-panelled and blind-decorated full calf, with remains of original ties, rubbed and some wear to edges, volume 2: general printed title with woodcut printer's device (McKerrow 339), the individual plays each with separate printed title, except Christmas His Masque with drop-title, the printed titles to three plays listed on the main title (Bartholomew Fayre, The Staple of Newes, The Divell is an Asse) with woodcut printer's device (McKerrow 374), woodcut initials and headpieces, a few minor marks, front endpaper loose, early (late 17th or early 18th century) ownership signature to front pastedown 'J Perfect's Book', volume 3: engraved portrait of the author [A1], engraved titlepage bearing the imprint of Richard Bishop and Andrew Crooke, a few marks and minor dampstains, volumes 2 and 3 bound in matching late 17th or early 18th century blind-panelled full calf, rubbed and some wear to edges, outer corners renewed, all three volumes with later (20th century) antique-style uniform calf gilt reback, folio QTY: (3)NOTE:Provenance (volume one): John Newdigate (1600 – 29 November 1642), English politician and poet, second child and eldest son of Sir John Newdigate of Arbury Hall, Chilvers Coton, Warwickshire and his wife Anne. He matriculated at Trinity College, Oxford on 6 November 1618, aged 18 and was a student of Gray's Inn and of the Inner Temple in 1620 (ownership signature to first volume); Sir Richard Newdigate (1644-1710), of Arbery in the county of Warwick, 2nd Baronet (engraved bookplate dated 1709 to verso of title to first volume); Sir Roger Newdigate (1719-1806), 5th baronet of Harefield (in Middlesex) and Arbury (in Warwickshire), English antiquary, and founder of the Newdigate Prize at Oxford University (bookplate to front pastedown of first volume).STC 14751 & 14754; ESTC S126501 & S111824; Greg III, pp. 1070 & 1076; Grolier/English 35; Pforzheimer 559 & 560.The first collected edition of Jonson's plays, masques, entertainments and non-dramatic poetry, second in importance only to Shakespeare’s folios in 17th century English drama. The publication of a collected "Workes" in folio, its title-page adorned with classical motifs, was a typically audacious move by Jonson, especially because he included in it nine plays written for the commercial theatre. In his first folio Jonson presents his stage plays as serious works of literature, a crucial step in establishing the literary credentials of the public theatre, often dismissed as ephemeral at the time; one contemporary responded to the publication with a distich: "Pray tell me Ben, where does the mystery lurk/What others call a play, you call a work?" Jonson's 1616 folio stood as a precedent for other play collections that followed—notably the First Folio of Shakespeare's plays in 1623, and the first Beaumont and Fletcher folio in 1647. When Heminges and Condell came to prepare the Shakespeare First Folio, Jonson himself provided commendatory verses. Shakespeare's name appears twice in Jonson's folio, listed among the principal players for Every Man in his Humour and Sejanus.Two further folio collections of Jonson's works were issued in 1640-41. The first, printed by Richard Bishop for Andrew Crooke, was a 1640 reprint of the 1616 folio with corrections and emendations; it has thus sometimes been termed the second edition of the first folio. The second volume was edited by Jonson's literary executor Sir Kenelm Digby, and published by Richard Meighen, in co-operation with Chetwinde. That volume contained later works, most of them unpublished or uncollected previously—seven plays (including the three printed in 1631), two of them incomplete, and fifteen masques, plus miscellaneous pieces. In the Digby/Meighen volume—identified on its title page as the 'Second Volume' of Jonson's works—the varying dates (1631, 1640, 1641) in some of the texts, and what has been called "irregularity in contents and arrangement in different copies," have caused significant confusion.

Tacitus (Gaius Cornelius). Opera quae exstant. Justus Lipsius postremum recensuit. Adddit, commentarii aucti emendatique ad ultima manu. Accessit C. Velleius Paterculus cum euisdem lipsi auctioribus Notis, 3 parts in one volume, Antwerp: Officina Plantiniana, apud Balthasarem Moretum & Viduam Joannis Moreti, & Jo. Meursium, 1627, engraved Plantin device to general title, woodcut device on titles of parts 1 and 2, repeated at end of parts 1 and 3, small rust-hole at foot of A2 with very slight damage to text, occasional browning, contemporary gold-tooled tan full morocco, sides with a semé of fleur-de-lys within a roll-tooled border, unidentified gilt coat-of-arms at centre, spine similarly tooled with a semé, gilt edges, remains of two fore-edge ties, minor repairs at spine ends and corners, folio (380 x 240 mm)QTY: (1)NOTE:Provenance: unidentified arms, possibly Netherlandish (binding, not in Renesse or Olivier); Murat de Lestang or Murat de St.-Genest (18th-century armorial bookplate). Brunet V, 634.

Leonardus de Utino. Sermones quadragesimales de legibus fratris Leonardi de Utino sacre theologie doctoris ordinis predicatorum, Vicenza: Impensa [et] diligentia maxima Stephani koblinger de Vienna impressum hoc op[us] p[re]clarissimu[m] Vince[n]tie octauo cale[n]d[as] decembris. MCCCCLXXViiii [24 November 1479], 403 (of 404) leaves, a2-10, b-s10, t8, v-y10, 1-2 8, 3-19 10, lacking the first leaf (a1), which is blank to recto but has a Table to verso, text printed in Koblinger's types 2:150G and 3:74G, in double column, 52 lines per column, capital spaces, rubricated throughout, larger red initials and numerous small initials in red, primary initial on a2 recto unrealised, burgundy morocco gilt book plate of W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey to front pastedown, scattered contemporary marginal annotations in brown ink, light soiling to recto of first leaf, a5 with some creasing to blank fore-margin, a few minor marginal stains and small repairs (small repairs, not affecting text, minor paper repair to head of inner margin of a5-6, s8-10 with stain to lower outer blank margin, z4 with small paper repairs to lower blank margin, 7 9-10, and 8 1-2 with small paper repairs and associated stain to lower outer margins, light water stain to lower outer corners at rear of volume), early 20th-century Italian limp full vellum, lettered by hand to spine (endpapers renewed), thick Chancery folio (290 x 195 mm)QTY: (1)NOTE:Provenance: W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey (bookplate).GW M17926; Goff L148; BN 15th century VII 1043 (IB.31825); BSB-INK L124; Bod-inc L077.Rare: only two auction records of this edition located (Catawiki, 2021 and Christies New York, The Knakles Collection of Incunabula, 17 April 2000, lot 151.The collected sermons of the famous Dominican Friar Leonardo Mateo da Udine (died 1469). Leonardo delivered sermons across Italy, including Rome, Florence, Venice and Milan, and served as professor of Theology and rector of the Dominican school at Bologna before he became prior of the Convent of St Dominic, also in Bologna.The second of four books printed at Vicenza by the prototypographer of Vienna. This edition of the Udine Dominican Leonardo's popular sermons is a page-for-page reprint of the first edition, printed in 1473 at Venice by Franciscus Renner and Nicolaus de Frankfordia. Koblinger probably trained in Renner's office, since the material and texts of all three of Koblinger's signed Vicenza editions show connections with Renner, including the unusual method of signing using the alphabet (a-y) followed by arabic numerals. The two gothic founts used in both this and Koblinger's 1480 edition of Utino's Sermones de sanctis vary only slightly from types of the same size used by Renner up until 1477-1478. Koblinger presumably acquired the punches and/or types after the dissolution of the Renner-Frankfordia partnership in 1477. By 1481 Koblinger had returned to his native Vienna, where he was almost certainly responsible for the production of a German-Italian vocabulary and 7 or 8 other unsigned tracts, printed in 1482 and 1485.Koblinger printed only a handful of books including the first ever issued in Vienna. The sermones is the second of just four known works printed by Koblinger in Vicenza, before he returned to Vienna in 1481. There he published the Vocabolista Italico-Tedesco, the first book to be published in Vienna.

Index of Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274). Catena aurea in quatuor Evangelia, in Latin, decorated manuscript on vellum, [France, 14th century], ii + 42 + xi leaves, with original foliation in ink Roman numerals from ‘viiij’ to ‘cc’, collation: 18-6 (the outer bifolium of a quire, ff. 9 and 16), 28 (ff. 25–32), 3–48 (ff. 97–112), 58 (ff. 137–144), 68 (ff. 193–200), ornamented catchwords; ruled in ink for two columns of 44 lines, the ruled space approximately 220 × 120 mm, written in gothic script, with frequent calligraphic flourishes on the top and bottom lines, cadels sometimes enclosing human faces, the first head-word of each letter of the alphabet decorated with a flourished three-line puzzle initial in red and blue (M, f. 104; U, 197), each subsequent head-word with a two-line initial alternately blue or red with flourishing in the other colour, the entries under each headword usually labelled in the margins with consecutive large and calligraphic letters of the alphabet, often ornamented with leaves; some mild water-staining in the upper margin, not affecting legibility, marbled endpapers, burgundy morocco gilt bookplate of W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey on the front pastedown and old (?Sotheby’s) auction catalogue description tipped onto first flyleaf, 19th-century English dark purple half calf over cloth, spine titled in gilt capitals ‘Index Evangelicus M.S. Saec. XIV’, minor rubbing, some edge wear, folio (305 × 205 mm)QTY: (1)NOTE:Provenance: W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey (bookplate). The text opens mid-sentence at ‘aliquis commutare animam vero perdens …’ (Thomas Aquinas, Catena aurea in Marcum); the first full paragraph begins ‘Si de civitate in civitatem transeuntes …’ (Catena aurea in Lucam), and the first head-word is ‘Anima Christi’, which begins ‘Absit a fidelibus ista suspicio …’ (Catena aurea in Mattheum); the following text has many gaps, and ends mid-sentence with a catchword at ‘ … Quia enim falli volunt et fallere’ (Catena aurea in Ioannem). The surviving parts include head-words beginning A–B, C, I–M, P, and T–U. The Catena Aurea (Golden Chain) is a commentary on the four Gospels compiled from the writings of the Church Fathers and other patristic authors, including Origen, Cyril of Alexandria, and Bede. It treats each gospel in turn, in the order of their chapters and verses, so the value of an index combining key concepts and words of all four gospels is plain. We have not been able to identify another such index.

Capgrave (John). [Nova legenda Anglie, 1st edition, London: Wynkyn de Worde, 27 February, 1516], black letter text, 44 lines and headline in double column, without catchwords, full-page woodcut of Saints in Glory [Hodnett 237] on the first page, repeated on the verso and the penultimate page, full-page cut of the royal arms on verso of folio A6 of preliminaries, and Caxton's large device on last page, woodcut criblé initials, upper marginal repairs to first 9 leaves including piece torn from top of Ai affecting the woodcut on both pages, narrow worm-track with careful repairs slightly affecting text through first 29 folios, upper corner of A2 (Prologus) neatly replaced with piece from another copy with the large decorative initial 'S' neatly inked en grisaille, following folios A3 & A4 supplied from a slightly smaller copy (peppered wormholes and old ink underscoring), skilful circular repair (from another copy) to second column of folio 171, a few scattered discrete and mostly marginal repairs including to folios 96, 120, 168, 182 and 269, lacks blank ll6 (between folios 192 and 193), scattered old ink marginal marks, some old mostly marginal dampstaining, heavier browning from damp to upper margins of last few leaves, burgundy morocco gilt bookplate of W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey to front pastedown, all edges gilt, 19th-century diced tan russia, blind-stamped decorated spine with gilt lettering, some edge wear, covers detached, folio (280 x 195 mm)QTY: (1)NOTE:Provenance: W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey (bookplate).Collation: A, A-X, a-z, &, aa-ll [-blank ll6]; 341 leaves, 6 leaves unnumbered; i-cccxxxiiii, last folio unnumbered.STC 4601; Plomer, Wynkyn de Worde, pp. 82-83.This Catalogus of the lives of 168 saints is based on the work of John of Tynemouth (died 1290?). It was attributed in the middle of the 16th century to John Capgrave (1393-1464) by the antiquaries John Leland and John Bale, but that has since proved to be unfounded (cf. P. J. Lucas, 'John Capgrave and the Nova legenda Anglie: A Survey', The Library, 5th series, XXV, 1970, pp.1-10). None of the manuscripts or early printed editions of the work names an author. Its alphabetical, rather than chronological, arrangement made this one of the most useful books printed by Wynkyn de Worde.Rare. Copies are often found lacking the woodcut illustrations, all of which are present in this copy, as well as the life of Thomas à Becket (folios 283-93), which was suppressed.

Boethius. Arithmetica geometria et Musica Boetii, Venice: Joannes and Gregorius de Gregoriis fratres, 18 August 1492, 68 leaves in double column gothic type (aa-kk6, ll8), 283 woodcut illustrations to text, one contemporary marginal annotation in brown ink to aa2, large printer's woodcut device to verso of final leaf, bound with Boethius. De Consolatione, Venice: Joannes de Forlivio et Gregorium fratres, 26 March 1491, 96 leaves in double column gothic type (aa-kk6, ll8), 283 woodcut illustrations to text, wide clean margins, burgundy morocco gilt bookplate of W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey to front pastedown, old bookseller's typewritten description tipped-in to front endpaper, 19th century full vellum, gilt-decorated spine with contrasting red and black morocco labels, lightly rubbed and soiled, folio (293 x 202 mm)QTY: (1)NOTE:Provenance: W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey (bookplate).GKW 4511; Goff B767.Printed, foliated, and signed as part of the first collected edition of Boethius' Opera. The number of copies of this part recorded in Goff suggests, however, that it was sold separately. The first printing of De Musica, one of the earliest printed texts on harmony and proportion. A public servant under Theodoric the Great, Boethius would later be imprisoned and executed for conspiracy. His work as translator and commentator played a vital role in the transmission of classical knowledge in the Middle Ages. The treatise he wrote while awaiting execution, De consolatione philosophiae, has stood as a classic of 'prison literature' for over a thousand years.

Book of Hours, Use of Rouen, in Latin. Illuminated manuscript on vellum, [Northern France: Rouen, c. 1450], 108 leaves, incomplete, written in a gothic textura script, single column, (foliated 1-108 in modern pencil), the majority double-sided and ruled in red for 16 lines per page (c. 100 x 62 mm), initial 12 leaves comprising calendar, folio 13 begins mid-sentence 'mundus perip[u]m factus', numerous one-line initials and line fillers in gilt and colours throughout, three pages with larger initials and foliate decoration to gutter margin and also to upper and lower margins, one other page with foliate decoration to gutter margin, evidence of leaf removal between folios numbered 53 & 54 and folios 55 & 56, few minor worm holes to first and last few leaves, occasional light dust-soiling and minor marks, two blank leaves at front and rear (rear two ruled and one laid down to lower board, initial blank vellum free endpaper with early ownership inscription 'Ces matines appartienent a maistre francois phellippe bourgeois dargen', front pastedown with burgundy morocco gilt bookplate of W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey applied to a piece of vellum overlaying bookplate bearing initials G. R., 17th-century(?) vellum, joints split, 8vo (190 x 135 mm), contained in modern half calf solander box, gilt decorated spine to box and titled 'Horae B. V. M., fifteenth century'QTY: (1)NOTE:Provenance: Francois Phellippe, burgess, either of Strasburg, or of the several Argenteuils (inscription); 'G. R.' (bookplate); W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey (bookplate).

* Mary I (1516-1558). Queen of England, 1553-1558. Letter signed, 'Marye the Quene', Greenwich, 7 January 1558, to Lord North and Sir Giles Alington, written in a secretary hand, signed at the head, 3 pages on a bifolium with address panel, slight discolouration, signature faded, repairs in second leaf, a few tiny holes, strengthened in folds, traces of tape, folio (310 x 210 mm)QTY: (1)NOTE:Provenance: W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey (Christie's London, 13 July 2000, lot 308).A very significant letter, being an appeal for reinforcements to be raised for the defence of Calais, signed on the day on which the city fell to the French.'Letting you wite, that having certaine knowledge that our ennemys of Frannce ar[e] p[rese]ntly w[t]h great puissance and force arryved at our toun of Callays, and do besiege the same whereby it is in gret distress and dannger except succours be most spedely sent, forasmuch as that pece is a principal member and chief jewell of our realme Although we have p[rese]ntly sent such relief as we hope shall suffice for the souders yet for the more surete, and the better to p[er]mit for all events, we have appointed to leavye of our good loving subjets a convenient armye out of hand'.The recipients, both Commissioners for Musters, are required to raise and equip a force of four hundred 'good and able souldyours' in the county of Cambridge (which Lord North represented in Parliament), and 'the sayd numbers [to] be put in redynes thus furnished w[i]th all celerite because it is very like that the imminent dannger will inforce us to call for your service very shortly'. In the execution of this commission no one is to be spared, 'no[t] also sparing any lord gentleman or other man tenante or rules within the same countye'. Among other instructions, the soldiers are to be given conduct money and uniforms of 'white cotes with red crosses after accustomed manner of this our realme'.Besieged by Edward III after the battle of Crecy in 1346, Calais surrendered to the English the following year, and remained in their hands for the next two hundred years. The loss of the city in 1558 was the result of incompetence and a series of misfortunes. It inflicted a deep wound on English honour and self-esteem, which lasted for at least a decade, and in the popular version, retailed by John Foxe, of its effect upon Mary, she is said to have declared Calais to be written on her heart. She died in November of the same year.The bungled events leading to the fall of the town began at the end of the previous campaigning season in October 1557 when the numbers in the English garrison were reduced, since neither the Governor, Lord Wentworth, nor the Council in England expected the enemy to attack in mid-winter. In December the mustering force of 27,000 men in Picardy became known and on 26 December Wentworth sent a desperate appeal for reinforcements, only to withdraw it three days later believing the Duke of Guise's target to be elsewhere. He renewed his appeal on the 31st, as the Council simultaneously rescinded its order for the Channel fleet to proceed to Calais. The Queen's appeal for reinforcements to be sent to the French coast at the beginning of January 1558 was too late and the ill-provided garrison fell to the Duke of Guise on 7 January.

Premonstratensian Order. Annales Canonici et Candidi Ordinis Premonstratensis et Vita Sancti Norberti, cum Calendario continente fundatores, Abbates, et Viri Illustres Ordinis Praemonstratensis, 17th century, 153 leaves, manuscript on paper, written in a small French hand, with some coats of arms in trick, ruled in red throughout, large initial ‘I’ in red on first page, a few other large initial spaces left blank, calendar at rear (largely left blank), pp. 7-8 detached, very occasional browning and old water stains, Phillipps MS 8269 inscribed to first blank page recto, burgundy morocco gilt bookplate of W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey to front pastedown, contemporary doeskin, upper cover stained, some soiling and wear, spine deficient and joints weak, folio (285 x 190 mm), preserved in a 20th-century green pigskin slipcase lettered in gilt and housed in a gilt-titled green morocco-backed cloth book box, rubbed, 32.5 x 23.5 cmQTY: (1)NOTE:Phillipps MS 8269 (inscription); W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey (bookplate).A rare and important manuscript chronicle of the origins of the Premonstratensian Order, covering 1120-155, with the history of the foundation of the different monasteries in England, France, Germany, and a life of Saint Norbert.The Order of Canons Regular of Prémontré, also known as the Premonstratensians, the Norbertines and, in Britain and Ireland, as the White Canons, is a religious order of canons regular of the Catholic Church founded in Prémontré near Laon in 1120 by Saint Norbert of Xanten (c. 1075-1134), who later became Archbishop of Magdeburg. Beeleigh Abbey was constructed for the Order in 1180.

Collier (John Payne). Trilogy. Conversations between Three Friends on the emendations of Shakespeare's text contained in Mr. Collier's Corrected Folio, 1632, and employed by recent editors of the poet's works, printed for private circulation only, London: T. Richards, [1874], three parts in one volume (comedies, histories, and tragedies), top edge gilt, inside gilt dentells, bookplate of W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey to front pastedown, near-contemporary gilt-decorated dark blue crushed full morocco (unsigned), some abrasions to lower board edges (generally in excellent condition), small 4toQTY: (1)NOTE:Limited to 25 copies printed for private circulation. Collier's Trilogy offers further defense of the spurious contemporary annotations to the so-called Perkins 1632 folio edition of Shakespeare, to show how many of its manuscript readings have been adopted by significant editors of Shakespeare such as Dice. Collier's annotated 1632 folio was however unmasked as a fabrication, and his literary pretensions as a consequence, significantly demoted. See Arthur and Janet Freeman, John Payne Collier, Scholarship and Forgery in the Nineteenth Century (Yale University Press, 2004).Rare. No copy at auction since 1964.On 31 January 1852, John Payne Collier announced in the Athenaeum that he had discovered in a copy of the Second Folio of Shakespeare a large number of emendations 17th-century hand. The original is now in the Huntington Library.

* Devis (Arthur, 1712-1787). The Rev. Edward Foyle (1736-1784), oil on canvas, full-length portrait of a bewigged gentleman attired in black coat, waistcoat, breeches, and stockings, with white collar and cuffs, and knee and shoe buckles, standing with one leg crossed over the other, holding a leather-bound book in his right hand and leaning on a large wooden folio stand with a chair to his left, in a classical interior, with a pedimented landscape painting above a marble fireplace seen through an archway, with rows of gilt-tooled books on shelves to the left, partially concealed by a dark green drape hanging halfway down, re-lined with some associated re-touching, verso of stretcher with label of conservator Helen de Borchgrave 'Re-lined, cleaned & restored, summer 2002', and old paper label (laid down and loosely attached) probably in a late 19th century hand 'Rev: Edward Foyle, rector of Kempton, maried Anne Hayter & whose daughter married John Maurice Eyre of Brickworth. He died 1784. By Arthur Devis', 91.7 x 71.4 cm, gilt moulded frame with engraved identification plaque (107 x 87 cm)QTY: (1)NOTE:Provenance: W.A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey.

Gerard (John). The Herball or Generall Historie of Plantes... very much enlarged and amended by Thomas Johnson, London: Adam Islip, Joice Norton, and Richard Whitakers, 1636, engraved title-page, numerous woodcut illustrations, first & last blank leaves present, early signature of Henry Streatfeild (early 18th-century signature?) to upper margin of dedication leaf (with small hole to woodcut headpiece), closed tear to pp. 477/478 (Rr3) without loss and repaired closed tear at foot of pp. 537/538 (Yy3), occasional minor toning and light scattered spotting (generally in good clean condition), 18th-century armorial bookplate bearing of the Streitfield family ('Data Fata Sequutus'), contemporary calf, rebacked and board corners refurbished, few scratches to boards, leather wear to fore-edge of lower board, folio (345 x 235 mm)QTY: (1)NOTE:STC 11752; ESTC S122175; Henrey 156; Hunt I, 230; Nissen BBI 698. The second edition of Thomas Johnson's expanded version of 1633, which corrected many of the errors found in Gerard's original edition of 1597.

Arms of Essex. An incomplete manuscript volume of arms and pedigrees of Essex families from the Visitation of Essex, 1634, [6], 51 leaves, manuscript on paper, numerous coats-of-arms in trick, title and index leaves at front, contemporary foliation, lacking folios 52-65 [as inferred from the Index at front], manuscript heading at top of folio 1, 'These desents following were taken in the last visitacon made for the county of Essex by George Owen als Yorke Herauld and Hen:Lilly Rouge Rose A[nn]o 1634', some soiling and old damp staining, some bluish ink staining to upper margins of folios 35-42, not affecting legibility of text, minor marginal chipping and fraying with a few old discreet repairs, armorial bookplate of Evelyn Philip Shirley (1812-1882) and burgundy morocco gilt bookplate of W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey to front pastedown, the Shirley bookplate with 'no. 127' written at foot, late 19th-century vellum gilt, folio (315 x 212 mm)QTY: (1)NOTE:Evelyn Philip Shirley (bookplate); W.A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey (bookplate).Henry Lilly (died 1638), Rouge-dragon pursuivant was employed with George Owen, York herald, in 1634, to visit Essex and Worcestershire for Sir Richard St. George, Clarenciux, and Sir John Borough, Norroy. The Essex visitation was printed in volume 13 of the 'Publications of the Harleian Society'.Catalogue amendment: Please note that the Index refers to names on folios 52-65. These leaves are not present, the text ending with folio 51v.

Manuscript History of France. Histoire de France [so titled to upper cover], manuscript on vellum, French, circa 1470s, 117 leaves, 238 x 163 mm (9 3/8 x 6 1/2 ins), manuscript text in French in dark brown ink, the first leaf illuminated in gold and colours, with blason of the Comtes de Vermandois held aloft by two monkeys (one on either side), surrounded by elaborate foliate decoration incorporating flowers and strawberries, a bird and snail to right margin, small dragon to lower margin and large decorative initial in red, blue and gold, two further large decorative initials to folio 8 recto and folio 20 verso, numerous small initals in red and gold, and blue and gold throughout, contemporary miniscule annotations to margins in light brown ink, burgundy morocco gilt bookplate of W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey to verso of front cover, and additionally marked in pencil above 'De Froyle' and '6926 Ph' (in two different hands), old limp vellum ((probably 17th century) with yapp fore-edges, decorative gilt lozenge to centre of each cover, upper cover with manuscript title in brown ink 'Histoire de France', modern black morocco labels to spine 'Histoire de France' and '14 Cent.', 4to (245 x 170 mm)QTY: (1)NOTE:Provenance: Comte de Vermandois, ancient noble French family in northern France to the east of Amiens, straddling the present-day départements of the Oise and Aisne; Sir Thomas Philipps (1792-1872), his pencil inscription to inside front cover '6926Ph'; W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey (bookplate).Munby Phillipps Manuscripts 6926: 'Histoire de la Creation du Monde ad an.1314. 1st page illum. with a Coat Chequy O. et Az. the shield held by two monkeys n. fol. V. S. XV'.Rare, possibly unique text. A fine manuscript history of France, written in French, beginning with the foundation of the Roman empire, taken from the text of the 4th century A.D. historian Orosius, and continued up to 1314. The text begins: 'De la creation du monde iusques a la fondacion de romme selon orose eut quatre mille quatre cens quatres vingts et quatre ans...'. The penultimate leaf 116 reads in part (approximate transcription): 'L'an mil iii. viii. le tour saint benoist abbe. led. pape fift publier a carpentras ou la court pour lois estoit lesd. constitucione quil avoit fait faux et avoit ordonne qui sen fust fait ung livre qui voulloit nomer le vii decretalles. Mais il comenca destue ma ladif dont il morut apres qui ceust tem le siege viii. ans v. mois. xv. jos au chasteau de la roche maur a la fine du Rosne de la partie du royaulme et fut son corps porte a carpentras la ou la court estoit. Et apres en gascoigne en ung lieu ma dame de vierte ou il avoit fonde ung collige de chanoines seculiers ou diocesse de busars et y avoit choisie la sepulture lieuasses sterile et vaste. Et ne peut envoyer le livre aux universitee et estudes generaulx aux escolliers come il est de coustume. Mais Jhan xxii. son sucesseur. le fift et la noma clementines au nom de son predecesseur come il est contenu au dit livre. L'an mil. iii. Xiiii veille saint andre morut phe. roy de France a ung chasteau nome defront la ou il estoit ne en cestuy monde et luy succeda au roy de France. Loys son ainsne fils qui aussy estoit roy de navarra. Ladite annemesmee au darnier jour davril qui fut veille de lascencion. En geuraud de marinhe chlr. de normendie a cause de maintes accusations contre luy faictes. fut juge a pendre et executer. qui au temps de Phe. avoit tant de gouvernemant q ceulx qui voulloit estoient princes...'The history ends with the death of Philip IV in 1314, and the accession of Louis X of France 'the Quarrelsome'.

Pettus (Sir John). Fleta Minor. The Laws of Art and Nature, in Knowing, Judging, Assaying, Fining, Refining and Inlarging the Bodies of confin’d Metals. In Two Parts. The first contains Assays of Lazarus Erckern, Chief Prover (or Assay-Master General of the Empire of Germany) in V. Books: originally written by him in the Teutonick Language, and now translated into English. The second contains essays on metallick words, as a dictionary to many pleasing discourses, 1st edition, London: printed for the author by Thomas Dawks, 1683, 43 numbered engraved illustrations, bound without the portrait frontispiece, small repair in text of p. 43 affecting one or two letters, p. 219 lower corner renewed, slight dust-soiling to title, occasional light marginal water stains, burgundy morocco gilt bookplate of W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey, modern brown full crushed morocco, spine gilt lettered and decorated, one or two small marks, folioQTY: (1)NOTE:Provenance: W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey (bookplate).ESTC R5570; Wing P1906.Sir John Pettus (1613-1690) was appointed by Cromwell as deputy-governor of the mines. His Fleta Minor is one of the most important 17th-century works on mining and metals.

Holland (Henry). Her?ologia Anglica, hoc est clarissimorum et doctissimorum aliquot anglorum qui floruerunt ab anno Cristi M.D. usq' ad presentem annum M. D. cxx vivae effigies Vitae et Elogia, duobus tomis, Authore H. H. Anglo Britanno: impensis Crispini Passæi Calcographus, et Jansonij Bibliopolæ Arnhemiensis, 2 parts in one, 1st edition, [Arnhem : printed by Jan Jansson at the expenses of Crispijn van de Passe and Jan Jansson for Henry Holland, London, 1620], )(10, A-V6, plus unnumbered single leaf of index at end (supplied from the reprint by Triphook), elaborate engraved title by Crispijn van de Passe (incorporating a small view of London and a miniature circular map of England, the leaf somewhat close-trimmed to fore-margin), two copper engraved plates (tomb of Elizabeth I and tomb of Prince Henry) and 65 fine full-page engraved portraits, engraved by Willem and Magdalena van de Passe, and 2 suppressed leaves, woodcut tail-pieces and initials, C4 with neat archival paper repair to fore-margin (not affecting text), T6 with minute repair to upper blank margin, and V1 with neat repair to upper portion of the leaf (without loss), one or two leaves with extreme upper outer blank corners carefully restored, marbled endpapers, bookplate of 'D. P.' and burgundy morocco gilt bookplate of W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey to front pastedown, and old bookseller's printed description tipped-in to front endpaper (bearing the catalogue number 787), attractive later 19th-century gilt-decorated full black crushed morocco, spine elaborately gilt, minimally rubbed to extremities, folioQTY: (1)NOTE:Provenance: D. P. (bookplate); W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey (bookplate).Hind Engraving, II, 145-162; Lowndes II, 1089; Graesse III, 322; ESTC S119103; STC 13582. 'The most trustworthy series of English portraits published up to that time' (Hind).A fine copy. The English bookseller and printer Henry Holland (1583–1650?) made his reputation with two fine books of historial portraits, the Bazili?logia, or Booke of Kings (1618), and the Her?ologia Anglica of 1620, which consists of portraits and biographies of Tudor and Jacobean monarchs, noblemen and courtiers including the explorers Frobisher, Hawkins and Drake, and Protestant reformers and martyrs, beginning with Henry VIII and ending with the publisher's namesake Thomas Holland, one of the translators of the King James Bible. Described by Roy Strong as a 'Protestant pantheon' (Henry Prince of Wales and England's Lost Renaissance, 2000, p. 21), Holland assures his readers that all the engraved images derive from a true likeness taken from an original portrait.

Atkyns (Sir Robert). The Ancient and Present State of Glocestershire, 1st edition, London: printed by W. Bowyer for Robert Gosling at the Mitre, near the Inner-Temple Gate, in Fleetstreet, 1712, engraved portrait frontispiece by Van der Gucht, (trimmed to image and relaid), 8 untitled plates of coats of arms of Gloucestershire families, engraved double-page map (restrengthened to inner margin verso), 63 (of 64) double-page 'bird's eye' engraved views by Johannes Kip (including Plan of Glocester City, West Prospect of Glocester and 61 views of the seats of the nobility and gentry, lacking Glocester Cathedral), several plates close-trimmed, some plates and text leaves with fore-margins replaced or restrengthened, 19th-century marbled endpapers with 19th-century bookplate of Barrow Hill to front pastedown, inner dentelles gilt, all edges gilt, handsome 18th-century gilt-decorated red full morocco by J. Wright (signed at foot of front endpaper verso), joints rubbed and some marks, thick folio (40.5 x 25 cm) QTY: (1)NOTE:Provenance: Barrow Hill, bookplate (possibly Barrowhill Hall, Staffordshire).Upcott I 246-250. In this copy the view of the West Prospect of Glocester Cathedral, normally placed at page 82, has been bound in place of the missing North Prospect of Glocester Cathedral, at page 126.Many copies of this edition were lost in a fire at the printer's house in Whitefriars on 30 January 1712. Upcott notes that a similar fate befell copies of the second edition. Sir Robert Atkyns, MP and topographer was somewhat overshadowed by his father, who was chief baron of the exchequer was speaker of the House of Lords between 1689 and 1693. Atkyns refused to take the oath of allegiance to William III and retired to Pinbury Park in Gloucestershire. The first of the three major Gloucestershire antiquaries, the other two being Ralph Bigland (1712-1784) and Samuel Rudder (1726-1801), Atkyns collected material for parish histories in an attempt to record the population of each parish, based on the number of houses therein and the yearly birth and burial numbers.

Moleville (Bertrand de). The Costume of the Hereditary States of the House of Austria, translated by R. C. Dallas, London: printed for William Miller by W. Bulmer, 1804 [but 1822], 50 fine hand-coloured aquatint plates, some offsetting to letterpress and a little minor spotting, tear and repair to upper right corner of Advertisement by the Publisher leaf, previous owner inscription to front pastedown, all edges gilt, contemporary crimson straight-grained full morocco, covers with anthemion and acanthus border rolls in gilt and blind, spine lettered and decorated in gilt, a little faded and rubbed at ends and edges, folio 35.5 x 25.5 cmQTY: (1)NOTE:Provenance: W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey.Abbey Travel 71, Colas 2112; Lipperheide 831; Tooley 333.A 1822 reprint edition by Thomas M'Lean, the plates watermarked 'Whatman/Turkey' 1821 & 1822. The final leaf, dated 1822 states that the Costumes series, originally published by William Miller had become M'Lean's property, and unsubscribed copies of this work could be bought for six Guineas.