[ENGLISH LITERATURE]. -- BONARELLI, Guidubaldo de. Filli di Sciro. or Phillis of Scyros. An Excellent Pastorall. Translated by Jonathan Didnam. London: Printed by J.M. for Andrew Creek, 1655. Small 4o Modern brown morocco, edges gilt, by Riviere. Provenance: Jerome Kern (bookplate; his sale, Anderson Galleries, 2 November 1927, lot 15). FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH. Wing B3554. -- [BRATHWAITE, Richard]. Mercurius Britannicus. [London, 1641]. Small 4o. Modern brown morocco, edges gilt, by Riviere. Provenance: Richard Newdigate (d. 1710), baronet of Harefield and Arbury (armorial bookplate dated 1709; his manuscript identification on the dramatis personae?); Jerome Kern (bookplate; his sale, Anderson Galleries, 2 November 1927, lot 16). Second edition in Latin, following three English editions and one Latin edition of the same year. See Pforzheimer 80. Greg II, L18. -- COKAYNE, Aston. The Tragedy of Ovid. London: Printed for Francis Kirkman, 1669. 8o. Engraved portrait frontispiece of Ovid. (Each leaf inlaid.) Modern russet half morocco. Provenance: John Corkayne (inscription on penultimate leaf: "John Corkayne His Booke Est libormous 1677"); John Philip Kemble, great Shakespearean actor (his characteristic inlaying of leaves; inscription on title: "Collated & Perfect J.P.K. 1800 First Edition [sic]"; his library sold 26 January 1821); William Cavendish, sixth Duke of Devonshire ; Huntington; Jerome Kern (bookplate; his sale, Anderson Galleries, 2 November 1927, lot 42). Second edition, THE KEMBLE-DEVONSHIRE-HUNTINGTON-KERN COPY. The first edition was published in 1662. All of Cokayne's works are scarce: two editions of his Small Poems of Divers Sorts are his only works sold at auction in the last 30 years. Wing C4900. -- CROWNE, John. The Ambitious Statesman, or the Loyal Favourite. As it was Acted at the Theatre Royal, by His Majesties Servants. London: Printed for William Abington, 1679. Small 4o. Modern blue half morocco (lightly rubbed). Provenance: Jerome Kern (bookplate; his sale, Anderson Galleries, 2 November 1927, lot 51). FIRST EDITION. Wing C7374. -- CROWNE, John. Henry the Sixth, The First Part. with the Murder of Humphrey Duke of Glocester. As it was Acted at the Dukes Theatre. -- Henry the Sixth, the Second Part. Or the Misery of Civil War. London: Printed for R. Bentley and M. Magnes, 1681. 2 volumes, small 4o. Modern blue half morocco, top edges gilt (some light wear to joints). Provenance: Jerome Kern (bookplate; his sale, Anderson Galleries, 2 November 1927, lot 48). FIRST EDITION of part one; the second part was published in 1680 under its sub-title "The Misery of Civil War." Wing C7388 and 7389. -- DIGBY, Kenelm, Sir. Of Bodies, and of Mans Soul. To discover the Immortality of Reasonable Souls. With Two Discources Of the Powder of Sympathy, And Of the Vegetation of Plants. London: John Williams, 1669. 4 parts in one volume, 8o. General title and three section titles. Later calf, red morocco spine label. Provenance: Ambrose Holbech, Warwick (armorial bookplate dated 1702 on verso of title); Claudia Q. Murphy (bookplate). FIRST EDITION. Ferguson, p.212; Krivatsky 3259; Wing D1445. (7)