Sales catalogue 536: Maggs Bros

Date:
1930
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/13/91
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 536: Maggs Bros. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    1351 1352 1393 Tue REHEARSAL TRANSPOS’D, or Animadversions upon the late book, intituled, A Preface shewing what grounds there are of Fears and Jealousies of Popery. Both Parts. First Epirion. 2 vols.in 1, 12mo. Original calf. London, 1672-3. . £5 5s Shakespeare allusions. ‘And then as for extortion: who but such an Hebrew Jew as you, would, after an honest man had made so full and voluntary restitution, not yet have been satisfied without so many pounds of his flesh over into the bargain? ‘Though J.O. be in a desperate condition, yet methinks Mr. B. not ‘ being past grace,’ should not neither ‘ have been past mercy.’ ”’ ‘‘T cannot but observe, Mr. Bayes, this admirable way (like fat Sir John Falstaffe’s singular dexterity in sinking) that you have of answering whole Books or Reese how pithy and knotty soever, in a line or two, nay, sometimes with a word.’’ ‘¢T remember within our time one Simmons, who rob’d alwayes upon the Bricolle, that is to say, never interrupted the Passengers, but still set upon the Thieves themselves, after, like Sir John Falstaff, they were gorged with a booty ; and by this way, so ingenious, that it was scarce criminal, he lived secure and unmolested all his dayes, with the reputation of a Judge rather than an High-way man. THe REHEARSAL TRANsPos’D, or Animadversions upon the late book, intituled, A Preface shewing what grounds there are of Fears and Jealousies of Popery. Both Parts. 2 vols., 12mo. Old calf. London, 1672-4. Bees UNCUT COPY. SATIRICAL AND PaNEGyRICAL INsTRUCTIONS TO Mr. WILLIAM Hocartu, Painter, on Admiral Vernon’s taking Porto Bello with Six Ships of War Only. Folio. Half morocco, uncut. London, Printed for H. Goreham at the King’s-Arms, next the Leg-Tavern in Fleet-street, 1740. 2: 28 With reference to Shakespeare: ‘OQ! for a Muse of Fire! for Shakespear’s Rage, When his Fifth Henry’s Actions fir’d his Page! Worthy the Theme, my Numbers should relate, How wisely bold, and how serenely great.’’ Ete.