10. Paris, Denis Janot, 1543.-Gilles Corrozet. Hecatongraphie. C'est à dire les descriptions de cent figures & hystoires, contenant plusieurs apophthegmes, etc. One of the earlier books decorated in this style, which was afterwards popular at Lyons. II. Paris, Vincent Sertenas, 1545.-Homer, Les dix premiers livres de l'Iliade traduicts par M. Hugues Salel. One of the few larger books illustrated in this style. Case XXII. ENGLISH BOOK-ILLUSTRATIONS 1. Westminster, William Caxton, 1481.The Mirror of the World. These are generally accepted as the earliest illustrations in any English book. 2. London, Richard Pynson, about 1508.Petrus Carmelianus. A Latin description of the reception of the Ambassadors of Maximilian who came to England in 1508 to arrange a marriage between Charles, Prince of Castile, afterwards the Emperor Charles v., and the Princess Mary. With two woodcuts very superior to the usual English work of this period. Printed on vellum. (Grenville Library.) 3. London, N. Hyll for G. Walter Lynne, 1548. - Archbishop Cranmer. chismus. Cate With numerous small woodcuts, some of them after Holbein. 4. London, T. Powell, 1556. — John Heywood. The Spider and the Flie. With a portrait of the author and illustrations of the allegory. 5. London, John Day, 1563. — John Fox. 'Actes and Monuments of these latter and perillous dayes,' generally known as Fox's Book of Martyrs. With numerous woodcuts, probably by English artists. 6. London, George Christopher Barker,_1575. Faulconrie. The figures of birds are taken from French works, but those of Queen Elizabeth hawking, etc., are English. 7. London, for J. Harrison, 1577.-Raphael Holinshed. The Chronicles of Englande, Scotland, and Irelande. With numerous woodcuts, probably by English artists. 8. London, John Daye, 1581.-Richard Daye. A Book of Christian Prayers. Commonly known as Queen Elizabeth's Prayer-book. The first edition was printed in 1568. In its arrangement and decoration an English imitation of the French Horae. Cases XXIII.-XXVI. TEMPORARY EXHIBITIONS Cases XXVII.-XXXII. BOOKBINDINGS THE last six Show-cases in the Gallery contain examples of bindings of printed books, in continuation of the exhibition of bindings of manuscripts in the Grenville Room. The Library of the British Museum is particularly rich in fine bindings, both English and foreign-the English consisting principally of the books belonging to the old Royal Library, given by King George II. to the nation in 1757-while many of the foreign are found in the magnificent collection bequeathed to the Museum in 1799 by the Rev. C. M. Cracherode, who had been able to take full advantage of the great dispersion of valuable books consequent upon the French Revolution. In Cases XXVII. and XXVIII. are exhibited books which have been bound for English Kings and Queens from Henry VIII. to George IV., mostly by English binders. The specimens exhibited in Cases XXIX. to XXXII. are arranged, as far as the difference in their sizes will permit, in chronological order, so as to illustrate the history of bookbinding in Germany, Italy, France, and England. Cases XXVII., XXVIII. ENGLISH ROYAL BINDINGS THE Kings and Queens of England were great admirers of fine bindings, and many handsome examples which |