Date. 1530. Whytford's Worke for householders (printed by Wynkyn de Worde) 1511. Pylgrymage of Sir Richard Guyldforde, printed by Pynson 1593. Livia, or Poems of Love, in imitation of the best Latin poets (54 1606. Choice, Chance, and Change, or Conceites and their colours 1 11 0 Em "This is the begynnynge, and continuance of the Pylgrymage of Sir Richarde Guylforde Knyght, a controuler vnto our late soueraygne lorde kynge Henry the VII. And how he went with his seruaunts and company towardes Jherusalem. Imprynted by Richard Pynson, 1511." Neither Ames, Herbert, or Dibdin, appear to have seen this interesting volume, which minutely records the adventures of Sir Richard Guilford and his fellow pilgrims in their journey through France and Savoy to Venice, and the voyage thence to Palestine. The account was written by a priest, who was one of the company. At p. 28, it is stated that Sir Richard Guilford died on Sunday the 6th of October, at Jerusalem, and was buried the next day at Mount Sion. The pilgrims were absent from England one year all but twenty-nine days. +"Of the new lades and of ye people found by the messenger of the kyng of portygale named Emanuel. Of the x. dyuers nacyons crystened. Of Pope John and his landes, and of the costely keyes and wonders molodyes that in thate lande is. Written in oure holy pallays in the byrth of my selfe v hōdred and seuen. prenteth by me John of Doesborowe." This tract is mentioned by Herbert, but he does not appear to have seen it. The first two pages are occupied in a description of Armenica (America), and are adorned with a cut representing the natives of Brasil. Then follow the descriptions of various parts of Africa, Asia, and the East Indies. After which Prester John's Letter to the Emperor of Rome, and King of France, to "late you understande and knowe of our lande and the maner of our lyvinge and of our people, beestes, and fowles." This last part is purely apocryphal, made up from the wonders recorded in Mandeville and the old geographers. The piece is decorated throughout with singular wood-cuts, representing the wonders described. It is believed to be the first printed work in the English language which contains any notice of America. The printer, John of Doesborow, of Antwerp, printed the first edition of Arnold's Chronicle, Mary of Nemeguen, and other English books; the present volume has no date, but from mentioning Emanuel king of Portugal, and exclaiming against Luther, it may be about 1521 or 1522, when king Emanuel died, and Luther was burned in effigy. "Here begynneth a lytell new treatyse or mater intytuled & called, The ix. Drunkardes, whyche tratythe of dyuerse and goodly storyes plesaunte and frutefull for all parsones for to pastyme with. Here endeth the story of the ix. drunkardes träslated out of duche into englyshe And Imprynted by me Rycharde banckys dwellynge in the pultery at the longe shoppe be syde seynt myldreds chyrche dore at the stockys, the yere of our lorde god a M.v.L.xxiii. the v. day of october." A very curious book, illustrated with numerous and well-executed wood engravings. It is not mentioned by Herbert or Dibdin in the Typ. Antiquities; and the earliest book named in Herbert, as printed by Richard Banks, bears the date 1525. § Fourteen in number. The author is presumed to have been Richard Brathwait; he signs Musophilus to his Dedication to Sir Francis Duckett, to whom he was allied. Date. 1636. Annalia Dobrensia. Vpon the yearly celebration of Mr. Robert n. d. A short treatyse of certayne thinges abused in the Popysh Church. n. d. Here begyneth ye new Nothorune mayd upō ye passiō of crystē n. d. A treatyse how the hye fader of heven sendeth dethe, &c. n. d. The Complaynt of the Lover of cryst, Saynt Mary Magdalen; a n. d. Finding of a Chayre of golde neare the Isle of Jarsie 8 12 0 SALE OF THE LIBRARY OF JOSEPH HASLEWOOD, ESQ. F.S.A. Since the publication of the Memoir of this gentleman, which appeared in the Gentleman's Magazine for November last, his memory has been assailed by a series of the bitterest and most cruel attacks that ever have been directed against a harmless individual just sunk into his grave. His want of education, his occasional blunders arising therefrom, and his undeniably bad taste, have been blazoned to the world in the form of the severest satire, and with merciless exposure. Yet it would perhaps not be difficult to show that he has been more sinned against than sinning. We knew Bernardo. He was shrewd and prudent, That first was sung to please King Pepin's cradle. That Mr. Haslewood was "shrewd and prudent" in professional matters, is proved by the fact, that he enjoyed, for a long series of years, a large share of business entrusted to him by the booksellers, who are themselves prover * "Here begynneth a treatyse how the hye fader of heuen sendeth dethe to somon every creature to come and give a counte of theyr lyues in this worlde, and is in maner of a morall playe." No colophon, but the printer's device on the last page, with his name, John Scott. It is a different edition to that described by Dr. Dibdin in Typographical Antiquities, vol. iii. p. 79, and Dr. D. does not mention the six Dramatis Personæ represented in woodcuts at the back of the title. The work is reprinted in Hawkins's Origin of the English Drama, under the title of "Every Man." +"Here begynneth the complaynt of a dolorous louer, upon sugred wordes, and fayned countenance, I saye in ryghte is reason, in truste is treason, Imprynted by me Robert wyer, dwellinge at the sygne of saynt John Evangelyst, in saynt Martyn's paryshe, besyde cherying crosse, in norwytch rent." It is a poem written in nineteen seven-line stanzas, and printed in black letter on four leaves. It was not known to Herbert, or his editor Dr. Dibdin. bially "shrewd and prudent" men; although it is true that, like many other more eminent lawyers, he failed (as it is generally thought) in framing his own Will so to convey precisely the import of his wishes. As a collector, also, we may term him shrewd and prudent; for by great industry in collation and careful transcription, and by the aid of his favourite binder Lewis, he converted many a fragment of little value into a book of considerable price, to the material advantage of his representatives, as the results of the recent sale have amply demonstrated. With respect to his personal manners, he was perfectly quiet and unobtrusive in society; and therefore the gentlemen of rank and education who have composed the Roxburghe Club had no cogent reason (as his slanderer has pretended) to dismiss from their society a man possessed of very extensive information on subjects connected with their favourite pursuits. That the light in which he has placed, in his "Roxburghe Revels," the objects for which that association met at their anniversaries, is conceived in the very worst taste, we are willing to allow; but we are inclined to attribute this circumstance rather to his erroneous conception of what was humourous and witty in description, than to any actual excess in conduct. The alleged extravagance of the Roxburghe Club Dinners would equally apply, we conceive, to every party patronizing the same expensive houses; and should rather be regarded as the tax paid for the fancied advantage of being entertained at an aristocratic tavern, with foreign cookery, and rare foreign wines (though perhaps scarcely tasted), than as the particular profusion of the Roxburghe Club. A retired literary student might say, and we should agree with him, that the cost would have been far more profitably spent on intellectual instead of sensual gratifications; but does not this argument apply to every tavern dinner, so many of which divide the money expended, not on the mere researches of a private literary club, but on the objects of public charitable institutions? And yet such dinners are considered advantageous to those institutions, and promoted with that view. But we will leave this lamentable exposure of the frailties of the dead, with stating two or three facts, which will, we think, be taken in extenuation of the reproaches cast on the reputation of our industrious and well-intentioned friend; and which will tend to show that, as we before hinted, his memory has not been protected by that shield which pious relatives are ever anxious to supply. We find that the deceased directed in his Will that his literary property should be sold at one particular auctioneer's, but another was selected; he desired it to be sold" about Easter following his death," this wish was disregarded; above all, and this is very important, he required only such manuscripts should be sold as were PROPERLY SALEABLE," and such cautious discrimination certainly was not exercised. There was a general outcry at the "Roxburghe Revels" being brought to sale, and if only forty shillings had been bidden for the book, it might have been bought in; but as it was run up to forty pounds, that sum so far outweighed any scruples of respect which might have been entertained for the character of the deceased, that the temptation could no longer be resisted. This is the palpable and barely disguised truth. Having made these few remarks, in justice to the memory of a very old Correspondent of the Gentleman's Magazine, we proceed to give some account of the Sale. It is probably not generally known, that a large number of Mr. Haslewood's early printed books were sold by Messrs. King and Lochée in three days' sale in May 1809. The late sale, by Mr. Evans, occupied eight days in December last. Among its most prominent features was a very com "— at the rooms of Mr. Sotheby, Wellington-street, Strand, being an old, eligible, fairly conducted establishment, and certainly for many years past, and at the present period, the best Public Mart for the sale of such kind of property." This was dated Feb. 24, 1827; afterwards, from a misapprehension that he had thus bequeathed a beneficiary bequest to Mr. Sotheby, which would be liable to the legacy duty (see the whole circumstances stated at length at the close of Messrs. Sotheby's Catalogue of Mr. Caldecott's Library), Mr. Haslewood revoked this direction by a codicil dated June 3, 1828, and desired a "friend" to be consulted, "who will probably adopt my original wish." In this expectation he was deceived. plete assemblage of the publications of his friend Sir Egerton Brydges; and also all the highly embellished works of Dr. Dibdin, which were sold at prices which must be very gratifying to their author. They produced, although upon small paper, upwards of 651. The set, however, included a great many extraneous ornaments in the form of plates and privately printed tracts, among which latter the tale of "La Belle Marianne" was sold for 11. 178. and the "Lincoln Nosegay” for 21. 78. The whole series of the Roxburghe reprints, forty-four in number, was sold for 1151.; a collection of Autographs, bound in three volumes, for 611. 19s.; and a series of more than 700 Royal Proclamations, from 1590 to 1710, in two volumes, for 721. 98. A copy of the recent edition of Boswell's Johnson, by Croker, illustrated with about 50 prints, and an autograph letter of Johnson to Mr. Elphinston, 67. 158. Of the works of R. Brathwait, the author (as Mr. Haslewood first ascertained) of Drunken Barnaby's Journal, he possessed a numerous list. The first edition of Barnabee's Journal was sold for 17. 138.; Mr. Haslewood's re-print of 1820, for 21. 88.; another copy, with MS. and printed additions, 37. 108.; a large paper copy of his edition of 1818, illustrated with the original drawings, and unpublished prints, ..l...s. Brathwait's Golden Fleece, 1611, 37. 5s.; his English Gentleman and Gentlewoman, 4to. 1630-31, 17. 78., fol. 1641, 17. 8s.; his Honest Ghost, 1658, 21. 158.; Strappado for the Divell, 1615, 17. 3s.; another copy, 17. 10s.; Law of Drinking, and Smoking Age, 1617, 21. 198.; Nature's Embassie, 1621, 17. 28.; Ragland's Niobe, on the death of Eliz. Lady Herbert, 1635 (the only perfect copy known), 21. 198.; Panthalia, or the Royal Romance, 1659, with a MS. key, and a note by Mr. Haslewood ascribing it to Brathwait, 10s. With others of less variety. £. s. d. 1 9 0 1 0 0 7 5 0 T. Brown's Life of Haynes the Comedian, 1701, (Garrick's copy) 8 0 0 0 Sir James Boswell's Re-prints.-Churchyard's Mirror of Man, 10s.; Tractat of an 0 13 0 1 4 0 Best on Hawkes and Hawking, 1619 (see Censura Literaria) Cranmer's Catechismes, the first edition, 1548 (imperfect) Drummond of Hawthornden's Poems, 1656 4 18 0 5 15 2 16 6 0 Caveat for Christmas, or a short discourse of Sport, Play, or Recreation in general, by N. T. C. 1622, a manuscript, and a MS. Sermon at Paul's Cross, Nov. 15, 1629 00 Churchyardes Choise, in Prose and Verse, 1579 1 18 2 2 3 15 660 REVIEW OF NEW PUBLICATIONS. Narrative of a Journey to the Falls of the Cavery, with an historical and descriptive account of the Neilgherry Hills. By Lieut. H. Jervis. CAPTAIN HARKNESS published some little time since a very interesting account of a singular aboriginal race of people, of small stature, inhabiting the summit of the Neilgherry hills in the Mysore; and the late Governor of Madras, Mr. Lushington, interested himself much in the prosperity of the European Establishment established there. Lieut. Jervis has made a pleasant and useful addition to the former work by this account of the course and beauties of the Cavery. This river, as is well known, runs in the mountains which divide the southern Peninsula of India, and, after a course of 300 miles, encircles the Fortress and Island of Seringapatam. Afterwards it receives the tributary waters of the Cubhany, and the Muddoor, and, increased to a mile in breadth, and to a depth of 20 feet, it impetuously hurries on to Sivasamoodrum. Here the river is divided by the rocks which oppose its progress, and descends in two separate falls, not exceeded in magnificence by any known in India. The northern fall is about 300 feet, and the southern about 200; while the falls of Niagara do not exceed 160 feet. The great northern cataract is called Gungan Chuckee, in consequence, (it is said), of a Rajah of the Island, whose name was Gungan, having, about 700 years since, burnt his house down at this place, at the command of the divinity of the Island, in order to cleanse himself from a pollution which he had unknowingly received. Part of the ancient Hindoo City of Gungan Para may still be traced. After leaving the Island of Sivasamoodrum, the Cavery gradually descends, till it reaches Bhavany, by which river it is joined. Then the Noel and the Ambravoutty unite their waters, which wind through the valley of Sankerrydroog; but, like other eastern rivers, it becomes alGENT. MAG. VOL, I. most exhausted before it reaches the sea. "So (as our author observes) of this great stream, there is but an imperfect branch when it reaches Porto Nuovo, after washing the shores of Trichinopoly, and the walls of of the island of Seringham, the rock Chillumbrum-the scene of Clive's early glory." Of the Neilgherry hills, the Cavery, and which are two dewhich may be visited from the falls of grees south of Madras, as we observed, an interesting account has Harkness of the Madras army. The been given to the public by Captain beauty of their scenery, and the sublimity of their climate, has now attracted great attention in India; and by the exertions of Mr. Lushington, in overcoming the difficulties of the approach to them, they have become the refuge of the invalid exhausted by the heat and fever of the plains, and also the spot where the stranger may best be initiated into the climate of India. So much has been done already to facilitate the access to them, that a gentleman has driven his wife in a tandem from Madras to Oata-camund and back, and when the lady was asked how she liked it, she said, 'nothing would give her so much pleasure as to perform the same journey in the same manner again, except going to England." A Parsee merchant from Bombay has established a shop on the hills. The supply of houses is equal to the de mand. The water is unrivalled in purity, the air temperate, the scenery beautiful, and the shooting so good, the author, bagged his six and twenty that an English officer, a friend of elephants one morning, without mentioning tigers, bears, &c. To those who prefer smaller game, there are jungle-sheep, pea-fowl, blackbirds, and hares,-What can an Englishman desire more? the book is written in a plain and We merely add, that unassuming manner, as such a book should be, and that there are a few lithographic plates which illustrate the scenes described. 20 |