1820, 1821. Before finally quitting Scottish literature three works of a miscellaneous description require mention-Lawes and Acts of Scotland, printed by Waldgrave, Edinburgh, 1597; 1597; Jamieson's Scottish Dictionary, first edition, 4 volumes; and a large paper uncut copy of Henderson's Scottish Proverbs, with addenda, in the original paper boards. Ritson's Spartan Manual, Glasgow, 1873, deserves mention as a fine piece of printing, and also because this copy is on vellum, the only one so printed.

Of

A fine copy of the "Chronicle of England," printed in 1528 by Wynken de Worde, is our first work in General History. Caxton was the printer of the first and De Worde of the second edition of Raunulph Higden's "Polychronycon; conteynyng the Berynges and Dedes of many Tymes," translated into English by John de Trevisa, a Benedictine monk, of which the third edition is in this collection. It issued from the press of Peter Treueris, Southwerke, 1527, folio, black letter, and is a reprint page for page of De Worde's edition, but with the edition of some woodcuts. Hakluyt's "Account of the Principal Navigations, Voyages, and Discoveries made by the English Nation," we note the first edition, London, 1589, folio, a very rare book; also the first edition of Grafton's "Chronicle at Large, and meere History of the Affayres of Englande and Kinges of the same," London, 2 volumes bound in one, 1568, 1569, folio; first and only edition of Reynold's "Chronicle of all the noble Emperours of the Romaines from Iulius Caesar to Maximilian, with the great Warres of Iulius Caesar and Pompeius Magnus," London, 1571; Fynes Moryson's " Itinerary, containing his Ten Yeeres' Travel through Germany, Bohmerland, Switzerland, Netherland, Denmark, Poland, Italy, Turkey, France, England, Scotland, and Ireland," London, 1617, folio. Sir William Dugdale's "History of St. Paul's Cathedral," London, 1658, folio, first edition, "valued on account of contain

ing better impressions of the plates, several of which (Nos. 5, 6, 9, 11) were lost and re-executed for the later edition by an inferior artist. Nos. 7 and 10 are omitted in the second edition."—(Lowndes' Bib. Man., Bohn's Ed.). A very curious and interesting work is John. Weever's "Ancient Fvneral Monvments within the Vnited Monarchie of Great Britaine, Ireland, and the Islands adiacent, etc.," London, 1631. A manuscript of the work containing matter not printed in the book is in Somerset House. The index is often wanting, but this copy has it. A second edition was published in 1661, and a third in 1767. A book of a similar kind is Robert Monteith's "Theater of Mortality; or, the Illustrious Inscriptions extant upon the Monuments in the Gray Friars Church Yard, etc., in Edinburgh and its suburbs," Edinburgh, 1704. A further "Collection of Funeral Inscriptions over Scotland," Edinburgh, 1713, 2 volumes in one. The next book is "The Most Notable Antiquity of Great Britain, vulgarly called Stone-Heng, on Salisbury Plain, restored by Inigo Jones, etc.," London, 1725, folio. Fine copies are in this collection of Nisbet's "Heraldry," 2 volumes, 1816; "Life and Typography of Caxton," by Blades, 2 volumes, 1861; Strutt's "Dresses and Habits of the People of England," 2 volumes, large paper, with illuminated edges; Hazlewood's reprint of "Painter's Palace of Pleasure"; Lacroix's beautiful works on French Costume and Customs; Stirling's "Artists of Spain"; uncut copy of "Punch and Judy," illustrated by Cruikshank, first impressions of the plates; Pickering's fine edition of Walton's "Angler " Phaer's "Regiment of Life," 1553, and Dr. Peter Lowe's "Chirurgerie," London, 1612. A very early work of a semi-medical nature is the "Judycyall of Uryns," supposed to be printed by Wynken de Worde about 1512-there are few copies of it extant. The department of Law includes the following early works :—“Boke of the Justyces of Peas," printed by

Wynken de Worde in 1506; "Natura Brevium,” printed by Pynson; Abraham Fraunce's "Lawiers Logicke," London, 1588; "The Mirrour of Policie: a Worke no lesse profitable than necessary for all Magistrates and Governors of Estates and Commonweals," London, 1594; and a fine copy of the "Letters of Junius," printed by Bensley, with portraits and engraved title-pages. Charles Johnson's Charles Johnson's "History of the Lives and Actions of the most famous Highwaymen, Murderers, Street-Robbers, etc.," London, 1734, folio, may also be included in this class.

In Fiction we have Skelton's "The First English Translation of Don Quixote," London, 1612-20, 2 volumes; the first edition of "Robinson Crusoe," London, 1719-20, 3 volumes, also an edition published in 1820, with plates by Stothard, 2 volumes, large 8vo; the first edition of " Gulliver's Travels," London, 3 volumes, 1726-7; the first edition of Lane's "Thousand and One Nights' Entertainment," 1839; and the Villon Society's edition of the same.

Of the works of Classical writers in this library the following are the most notable :-"Quintillan, printed by Aldus in 1514; "Thucydides," translated by Niccols, London, 1550; Gawin Douglas's translation into Scottish metre of Virgil's "Eneid," London, 1553; Phaer's translation of the "Æneid," the first edition, London, 1558, and another edition dated London, 1607; Nicholas Hawarde's "Translation of the Roman Chronicle of Eutropius," London, 1664; "Seneca: his Tenne Tragedies, translated into Engylsh," London, 1581, black letter-the editor of this volume was Thomas Newton; "The Whole Works of Homer," translated by Chapman, London, printed by Nathaniel Butter about 1616, folio; "The Three Orations of Demosthenes, chief orator among the Grecians, in fauour of the Olynthians, with those his fower Orations against King Philip of Macedonie, Englished out of Greeke by Thomas Wylson," London, 1570; and the

"Electra of Sophocles," translated by Charles Wace, printed at the Hague, 1649-this copy contains the portraits of Charles II. and the Princess Elizabeth, which are only in a few copies.

One last paragraph dealing with some works of a miscellaneous kind and we will have done. "Praise of Folie," by Erasmus, London, 1549; Bishop's "Beautiful Blossoms," London, 1577; the first English edition of Montaigne's "Essays," London, 1603, folio; a fine set of the works of Joseph Ritson; first editions of Hood's "Up the Rhine"; "Whims and Oddities, and Whimsicalities ;" "The Retrospective Review," 18 volumes; Dibdin's "Bibliomania"; "Bibliographical Decameron"; "Bibliotheca Spenceriana"; "Aedes Althorpianae"; the "Cassano Catalogue"; "Bibliographical, Antiquarian, and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany"; "Bibliographical, Antiquarian, and Picturesque Tour in the Northern Counties of England and of Scotland" "The Library Companion," second edition, large paper; "Reminiscences of a Literary Life"; and his edition of "The Typographical Antiquities of Ames and Herbert" form a fitting conclusion to this account of a remarkably well-selected, valuable, and handsome library.

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