Sales catalogue: Quaritch

Date:
April 1872
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/17/5
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue: Quaritch. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Percy Society. 4940 Puzxicattions of the Percy Socrery: Reprints of Early English Poetry, Ballads, and Popular Literature of| the Middle Ages, edited from original Manuscripts and scarce Publications, 94 parts, complete, forming 30 vols. with the SUPPRESSED TRACT ‘‘ Quippes for a new- fangled Gentlewoman,” and Bansley’s “ Pride and Abuse of Women,” uncastrated copies—together 96 parts, small 8vo. thirty-two bound in half morocco, the rest uncut, £24. 1840-52 Only 250 copies of these Publications were issued for subscribers, and as the Society has broken up, COMPLETE copies have become scarce. 4941 PuBLICATIONS OF THE Percy Soctety: A Selection forming about two- thirds of a set, bound in 16 vols. hf. green morocco gilt, gilt tops, uncut, contents of each volume lettered, £12. 12s 1842-51 The following is a ‘brief summary of the contents of these 16 volumes : sold separately at the prices marked: — I. Popular Songs of Ireland; the Keen Dixon, a thick volume, 30s of the South of Ireland ; ed. Croker,| IX. History of Reynard the Fox, edited 21s by Thoms, 25s If. Ancient Poetical Tracts, ed. Rimbault,} X. Witches and Witchcraft ; Fortune 21s Telling ; Friar Bakon’s Prophesie, III. Shoreham’s Religious Poems ; Life etc. ed. Halliwell, 25s of Thomas Beket ; Passion of St.) XI. Fugitive Tracts and Chap-books, Po- George, 20s pular histories, etc. ed. Halliwell, 20s IV. Satyricall Epigrams, Proverbs, Con-| XII. Festive Songs and Carols, ed. San- ceits, Dice-Play, ctc. 20s dys, Wright, ‘and Halliwell, 25s V. Satirical Songs and Poems on Cos-| XIII. Hawes’s Pastime of Pleasure, ed. tume, ed. Fairholt, 20s Wright, 20s VI. Romances and Legends, ed. Halli-; XIV. Selection of Latin Stories, ed. well 24s Wright, 20s VII. Interludes: Triall of Treasure ; The} XV. Ancient Ballads and Songs of the Four Elements ; Disobedient Child, Peasantry, also of Frost Fair, etc. ed. 20s Dixon, Goodwin, and Rimbault, 20s VIII. Garlands of the Sixteenth century,; XVI. Lord Mayor’s Pageants, ed. Fair- ed. Chappell, Fairholt, Halliwell, and holt, a thick volume, 30s 4942 Percy Socotery: Gosson’s Pleasant Quippes for upstart New-fangled Gentlewomen, and Bansley’s Treatise on the Pride and Abuse of Women, VERY RARE, having been suppressed, and not issued with the Society’s publications, in 1 vol. hf. morocco, uncut, £2. 12s 6d 1841 Autograph note on fly-leaf, “Sir Henry Ellis. First castrated and afterwards suppressed by the Percy Society. This is one of twenty uncastrated copies,” J. Payne Collier. Prrrz—see Historica COoLLEctTIoNs. PETERMANN—sce GEOGRAPHICAL. Pharmaceutical Society. 4943 Journat and Transactions of the Pharmaceutical Socicty, a complete set from the beginning in 1841 to June 1870: First Series, edited by Jacob Bell, 18 vols. Af. calf neat, and InvrEx to the first fifteen, 1 vol. cloth, 1841-59 ;-Second Series, Vols. I-XI, éwo vols. hf. calf neat, and nine in parts, 1859-70 ;—together 890 vols. 8vo. numerous portraits and woodcuts (pub. at £19. in parts) twenty vols. uniformly bound in hf. calf neat, one in cloth, and nine in parts, £5. 5s 1842-70 4944, —— another set, complete trom the beginning in 1841 to June 1865, Series I, 18 vols. twelve in hf. calf, and six in parts, with Index to the first fifteen ;—Series 1], Vols. I-VI, in parts ;—together 25 vols. Svo. twelve in half calf, one in cloth, the rest in parts, £4, 4s 1842-65