John Boyle, 5th Earl of Orrery (1707–1762)

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Bound in vel­lum stained green

A Col­lec­tion of the State Let­ters of the Rt. Hon. Roger Boyle, the first earl of Orrery (Dublin, Printed by and for G. Faulkner, 1743). Call num­ber (Ex) 1473.16.691.
❧ With his badge: “O” sur­mounted by an earl’s coro­net stamped on spine:

For fur­ther details, see British Armo­r­ial Bind­ings, http://armorial.library.utoronto.ca/stamp-owners/BOY003

❧ Inscribed on front free end­pa­per: “Orrery. Leices­ter Fields. Feb: 8th 1750–51″

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Horace
Call num­ber (PTT) 2865.321.241.
A nonce vol­ume bound for John Boyle, Earl of Orrery, for his lit­er­ary endeav­ors.
Bound in calf with spine title “Orrery’s Odes of Horace & Co.” Signed on front free end­pa­per “Orrery. Cale­don: Octo­ber 17th, 1746.“
❧ Bound together in this vol­ume are inter­leaved copies of his First Ode (ESTC T35560), Pyrrah (ESTC T46133), and Poem to the Mem­ory of Edward Sheffield (ESTC T42559) as well as 23 blank leaves at front and 23 blank leaves at back. Some of the inter­leaves have his auto­graph com­ments on the fac­ing text. More­over, on pp. 2–8 of front blanks: his two auto­graph poems: 1) “Trans­la­tion of a Copy of Verses in Mr Waller’s Poems, enti­tled On my Lady Isabella play­ing on the Lute” (in Latin with Waller’s poem in Eng­lish on the fac­ing page) and 2) “Lusus Pilae ama­to­rius. Petronii Afranii” with “Imi­tated. 1727″ on the fac­ing page. On p. 1 of back blanks: his auto­graph poem (Eng­lish): “To Mr Rys­brack. On his Buste of **********”.
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Book­plates ❧ In A Col­lec­tion of the State Let­ters

His book­plate dat­ing to 1751 or later;
John suc­ceeded his father as fifth earl of Orrery in 1731 and his kins­man as fifth earl of Cork in 1751.

❧ ❧ In The Workes of Ben­jamin Jon­son. (Lon­don, 1616) Call num­ber (EX) 3806.1616q

His book­plate with arms of Boyle impal­ing Hamil­ton to com­mem­o­rate his mar­riage in 1738 to Mar­garet, the only daugh­ter of John Hamil­ton, Esq., of Cale­don, co. Tyrone. and his ini­tials “I.O.” to left of coro­net. ❧ For fur­ther details about his book­plates see: Jour­nal of the Ex Lib­ris Soci­ety vol. 7 p.57 for “Notes on some Boyle book­plates” at
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❧ His sale: Cat­a­logue of the valu­able and exten­sive library and col­lec­tion of auto­graph let­ters of the Rt. Hon. The Earl of Cork and Orrery removed from Marston, Frome which will be sold by auc­tion by Messrs. Christie, Man­son & Woods at their great rooms 8 King Street, St. James’s Square on Tues­day, Novem­ber 21, 1905 and two fol­low­ing days at one o’clock pre­cisely. Lon­don: Printed by William Clowes and Sons. [1905]. 736 lots, mostly itemized.