Occasional Issues of Unique or Very Rare Books. Edited, with introduction and notes and illustrations by Rev. Alexander B. Grosart.

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1. *Vol. I. Lacking… The Poems of Barnabe Barnes. 2. The Complete Poems and Translations in Prose of Henry Gifford, Gentleman. (1580) pp. xxiii, 171. 40 copies. 3. *Vol. II. Poems of Giles Fletcher, LL.D. (1593) pp. xliii, 103. 50 copies. 4. Poems of Bartholomew Griffin, Gentleman. (1569) pp. xiv, [8], 84. 5. Acolastus His After-Witte (1600) A Poem by Samuel Nicholson, containing quotations and adaptations from Shakespeare and Barnfield, etc. pp. xxv, 75. 50 copies. 6. *Vol. III. Poems of William Barksted, One of the Servants of His Majesty's Revels: I. Mirrha the Mother of Adonis: or Lustes Prodegies: 1607. II Hiren: or the Faire Greeke: 1611. pp. xxiv, 121. 50 copies. 7. The Curtaine-Drawer of the World Etc. (1612) by W. Parkes. pp. vii, 75. 50 copies. 8. The Scourge of Venus. (1614) pp. viii, 50. 50 copies. 9. The Picture of Incest by James Gresham. (1626) pp. vii, 31. 50 copies. 10. *Vol. IV. The Sonnets of William Percy. (1594) pp. viii, 29. 50 copies. 11. Poems by Richard Linche, Gentleman. (1596) pp. xiii, 89. 50 copies. 12. Chloris, by William Smith. (1596) pp. x, 33. 50 copies. 13. Democritus his Dreame. Or, The Contention between the Elephant and the Flea. Of Peter Woodhouse. (1605) pp. viii, 39. 50 copies. 14. Barley-Breake, or a Warning for Wantons, of W.N. Gentleman. (1607) pp. x, 39. 50 copies. 15. *Vol. V. Cornucopiae, Pasquil's Night-cap, or Anti-dot for ther Head-ache. (1612) [with] Pasquil's Palinodia, and His Progresse to the Tavern, Where after the Survey of the Sellar, You are presented with a pleasant Pynte of Political Sherry. (1619) pp. vii, 168. 50 copies. 16. Annalia Dubrensia or Celebration of Captain Robert Dover's Cotswold Games. (1636) pp. xxi, 79. 52 copies. 17. * Vol. VI. The Poems of Matthew Grove. (1587) pp. x, 149. 50 copies. 18. Prose and Verse of John Dickenson, viz. I. The Shepheardes Complaint. (nd) II. Arisbas, Euphues Amidst His Slumbers; or Cupid's Journey to Hell. (1594) III. Greene in Conceipt. New Raised From His Grave to Write the Tragique Historie of Valeria of London. (1598). Pp. xix, 170. 50 copies. 19. Skialetheia of Edward Guilpin. (1598) pp. x, 78. 50 copies. 20. *VII. The poems of Robert Chester. (1601 — 1611) with Verse Contributions by Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, George Chapman, John Marston, etc. pp. lxxxiv, 245, 59-64, [2, fly-leaf addition]. 50 copies. 21. Vertue's Commonwealth by Henry Crosse. (1603) pp. vi, 165. 50 copies. 22. *VIII. The Poems of Thomas Howell. (1568 — 1581) pp. 106, xv, 107 - 273. 50 copies. 23. Alcilia, Philoparthen's Loving Folloe. (1595) pp. xxxi, 67. 51 copies. 24. *IX. Complete Poems of Joseph Hall. Virgidemiarum Sixe Bookes. (1602 and 1599) and poems from Various Sources. pp. 104, xxxiv, 105 — 282. 50 copies. 25. *Vol. X. The Poems of Mildmay, 2nd Earl of Westmoreland. (1648) pp. xv, 183. 50 copies. 26. *Vol. XI. The Poems of John Marston. (1598 — 1601) pp. 260. 51 copies. 27. *Vol. XII. Willobie's Avisa, 1594. Apologie, 1596. The Victorie of English Chastitie, 1596. Penelope's Complaint, by Peter Colse, 1596. Pp. xxxii, 201. 62 copies. 28. Alba. The Month's Minde of a Melancholy Lover, by Richard Tofte, Gentleman. (1598) pp. 132, lxix, 133 — 155. 62 copies. 29. *Vol. XIII. The Daiphantus, or The Passions of Love, etc. (1604) by Anthony Scoloker, Gentleman. Dolarnys Primerose, etc. (1606) by John Reynolds. pp. xxxviii, 134. 62 copies. 30. The Poems English and Latin of the Rev. Thomas Bastard. (1566 — 1618) pp. xlii, 140. 52 copies. 31. *Vol. XIV. The Works of Robert Armin, Actor. (1605 — 1609) Foole upon Foole, The History of Two Maids or More-clacke, The Italian Tailor and his Boy. pp. 228. 62 copies. 32. Swetnam the Woman hater Arraigned by Women. (1620) pp. lii, 95. 62 copies. 33. Vol. XV. Elizabethan England in Gentle and Simple Life being I. England's address to her Three Daughters, the Universities of Cambridge and Oxford, and Lincoln's Inn: from Polimanteia, 1595. II. A Quest of Enquirie by Women to know whether the Tripe-w. …

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Occasional Issues of Unique or Very Rare Books. Edited, with introduction and notes and illustrations by Rev. Alexander B. Grosart.
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REV. ALEXANDER B. GROSART [editor]
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Privately printed for subscribers only, 1875 - 1881.
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