Sales catalogue 422: Maggs Bros

Date:
1922
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/13/13
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 422: Maggs Bros. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    1021 L°ESTRANGE (Sir Roger). The Observator; or, Question and Answer. The Complete Set-of the 931 Original Numbers of this famous periodical, together with the title-pages, prefaces and contents. 3 vols. in 2, thick folio, ovzgznal calf. 1681-6-7. £10 10s ** * This periodical was commenced by Sir Roger L’Estrange for the purpose of defending King James II. and his Court against the charge of Popery. The first number appeared on Wednesday, 13 April, 1681, and it was originally designed to appear twice a week, on Wednesdays and Saturdays. But after No. 30 (6 July, 1681), when the title was changed to ‘‘ The Observator in Dialogue,’’ and the interlocutors were named Whig and Tory, three or four numbers usually appeared each week. No. 113, on 18 March, 1683, bore as its sole heading ‘‘ The Observator,’’? together with a list in small type of the subjects treated in the sheet. The first series ended on Wednesday, 9 Jan., 1683, with No. 470. In the second series, begun on Thursday, 10 Jan. 1683, the interlocutors were re-named Observator and Trimmer. This series ended on Saturday, 7 Feb., 1683, with No. 215. The third and last series, beginning on Wednesday, 11 Feb. 168%, ended with No. 246 on Wednesday, 9 March, 1682. Each series on its completion was issued separately in volume form with indexes, and to the third volume (London, 1687) was prefixed ‘‘A Brief History of the Times,’ dedicated to posterity, in which Oates and his plot were finally exposed. In this periodical L’Estrange dealt unsparingly with dissenters and whigs. In Nahum Tate’s contribution to ‘‘ Absalom and Achitophel,’’ pt. 11. (published in November, 1682), L’Estrange, under the name of Sheva, was extravagantly praised for his loyal zeal in meeting in his paper the attacks on the government of ‘‘ factious priests and seditious scribes.”’ ‘‘ He with watchful eye Observes and shoots their treasons as they fly, Their weekly frauds his keen replies detect, He undeceives more fast than they infect.”’ 1022 ————— A Very Remarkable Collection of 32 Pamphlets by Roger L’Estrange (as listed under), all small ato, with the exception of the first, which is a large folded Broadside. Very thick small 4to, ovzgznal calf. 1679-1683. £18 18s Comprises : — The Committee or Popery in Masquerade. A large folio broadside—the upper part occupied with a caricature Engraving, introducing Presbyterians, Quaker, Ranter, Mugleton, Independent, etc., with poetical explanation below. London, 1681. A Seasonable Memorial in some Historical Notes upon the Liberties of the Presse and Pulpit. London, 1681. Narrative of the Plot set forth for the Edification of His Majesties Liege-People. 1680. Discovery upon Discovery. 1680. A Further Discovery of the Plot. Dedicated to Dr. Titus Oates. 1681. Tyranny and Popery Lording it over the Consciences, Lives, Liberties, and Estates both of King and People. 1681. The Free-born Subject: or, the Englshman’s Birthright. 1681. An Apology for the Protestants. 1681. The Relaps’d Apostate. 1681. (Continued over)