Sales catalogue 505: Maggs Bros

Date:
1928
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/13/63
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 505: Maggs Bros. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    WITHER (GEORGE): EMBLEMS—continued. gaine their praise, I never pumpe for those things; and am, otherwhile, contented to seeme Foolish (yea, and perhaps, more foolish than I am) to the Overweening- Wise; that, I may make others wiser than they were: And (as I now doe) am not ashamed to set forth a Game at Lots, or (as it were) a Puppet-Play in Pictures, to allure men to the more serious observation of the profitable Morals, couched in these Emblems, Nevertheless (if some have sayd, and thought truly) my Poems have instructed, and rectified many people in the Course of Honest-living (which is the best Wisdome) much more than the Austerer Volumes of more criticall Authors; who, are by the common-sort, therefore onely, Judged wise, because they composed Books, which few understand, save they who need them not.”’ (Preface to the Reader.) SHAKESPEARE ONE OF THE JURY. 2540 THe Great Assises HoLtpEN IN Parnassus By APOLLO AND HIS AssEssours: at which Sessions are arraigned: Mercurius Britanicus. The writer of Occurrences. Mercurius Aulicus. The writer of Passages. Mercurius Civicus. The Post. The Scout. The Spye. The Writer of Diurnalls. The writer of weekly Accounts. The Intelligencer. The Scottish Dove, etc. First Eprrton. Small ato. Old morocco. London, Printed by Richard Cotes, for Edward H usbands, 1645. (See ILLustRATION, Prate No. CIX.) £52 10s Describing the proceedings of Apollo’s Court at the Trial of the false poets of the day. Tasso is despatched : — ‘¢ With all his Cavalry, to scoure the borders Of high Parnassus, and low Helicon, And to bring in alive, or dead, each one That had discovered been, or to defile The Presse with Pamphlets scurrilous, and vile, Or to have traduc’d with malignant spirits, Persons of honorable worth, and merits.”’