Sales catalogue 462: Maggs Bros

Date:
1925
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/13/34
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 462: Maggs Bros. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Mary Queen of Scots—conlinued. 1056 Watson (Ri). Historicall Collections of Ecclesiastick Affairs in Scot- land and Politick related to them, including the Murder of the Cardinal of St. Andrews, and the Beheading of their Queen Mary in England. 12mo, orzginal calf. London, 1657. £2 2s *** Slightly wormed. — 1057 MARY TOFT OF CODALMINC, THE ‘“ RABBIT WOMAN.” Ahlers (Cyriacus). Some Observations Concerning the Woman of Godlyman in Surrey, tending to prove her extraordinary Deliveries, to be a Cheat and Imposture. 2 pp., 8vo, zew boards, leather label. London, 1720. £1 1s 1058 MASSINGER (Philip). The Bond-Man: An Ancient Storie. As it hath been often acted with good allowance, at the Cock-pit in Drury-Lane: By the most Excellent Princesse, the Lady Elizabeth Her Servants. Small 4to, Zalf morocco. London, Printed by John Raworth for John Harrison, 1638. 7 £10 10s *** An interesting copy, having in the Seventeenth Century been used as an Actor’s copy, and containing numerous manuscript cancellings and instructions. 1059 — The Emperour of the East: A Tragae-Comoedie: The Scene Constantinople. As it hath bene divers times acted, at the Black friers, and Globe Play-houses, by the Kings Maiesties Servants. FIRST EDITION. Small 4to, morocco gilt, g.e., by Bedjord, London, Printed by Thomas Harper, for John Waterson, 1632. £22 10s ** * Prefixed is a poem by Sir Aston Cokaine, in which Shakespeare is introduced. This contains Massinger’s first Prologue to any play of his writing, forced upon him by ‘‘ imperious custom.”’ Sir Aston Cokaine’s commendatory verse contains the following Shakespeare reference : — ‘* Nor could they doe it, if they ere had seene The matchlesse features of the faerie Queene; Read Johnson, Shakespeare, Beaumont, Fletcher, or Thy neat-limnd peeces, skillfull Massinger.’’