Torrent of Portugal: An English Metrical Romance. Now First Published from an Unique Manuscript of the Fifteenth Century, Preserved in the Chetham Library at Manchester

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James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps
J.R. Smith, 1842 - 120 Seiten
 

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Seite 115 - The Harrowing of Hell, a Miracle Play, written in the Reign of Edward II., now first published from the Original in the British Museum, with a Modern Reading, Introduction, and Notes, by JAMES ORCHARD HALLIWELL, Esq.
Seite 3 - Crown 4to, printed on tinted paper, with a spirited frontispiece, representing Walton and his adopted Son, Cotton, in the Fishing-house,- and vignette title page.
Seite 119 - Ecclesiastical Documents : viz. — 1. A brief History of the Bishoprick of Somerset from its Foundation to 1174.
Seite 5 - MAYOR ; being an Ancient Ballad full of Mystery and pleasant Conceit, now first collected and printed from the various MS. copies in possession of the inhabitants of the South-east coast of Kent, with Notes, 1 2mo.
Seite 119 - A Chronicle of the First Thirteen Years of the reign of Edward IV., by John Warkworth, DD Edited by JO Halliwell. 11. Kemp's Nine Daies Wonder, performed in a Daunce from London to Norwich.
Seite 3 - Annals of parisian typography, containing an account of the earliest typographical establishments of Paris; and notices and illustrations of the most remarkable productions of the parisian gothic press : compiled principally to shew its general character; and its particular influence upon the early english press.
Seite 115 - Post 8vo, 1». *These tales are supposed to have been composed in the early part of the sixteenth century, by Dr. Andrew Borde, the well-known progenitor of Merry Andrews. •• In the time of Henry the Eighth, and after," says Ant. -a- Wood, "it was accounted a book full of wit and mirth by scholars and gentlemen.
Seite 118 - Popular Errors in English Grammar, particularly in Pronunciation, familiarly pointed out, by GEORGE JACKSON, 12mo. Third Edition, with a coloured frontispiece of the
Seite 120 - POLITICAL BALLADS, published in England during the COMMONWEALTH, edited by THOMAS WRIGHT, pp. 300, 6s Pleasant History of the Two Angry Women of Abingdon, with the Humourous Mirth of Dicke Coomes and Nicholas Proverbs, a Play, by HENRY PORTIR, 1599, edited by the Rev.
Seite 114 - The first time, too, I could scrape a few shillings together, which were not common occurrences with me, I bought unto myself a copy of these beloved volumes, nor do I believe I ever read a book half so frequently, or with half the enthusiasm.

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