with a fresh set of numbers and signatures, the Hymns succeed: Dñica. j. £ s. 3 parts in 1 vol. small 4to. in the original stamped calf binding, the back repaired 1524-22 31 10 The Hora has only six preliminary leaves, the other two (which contained a title and an Almanack) being lost. The text is perfect and is numbered from i-clxxxv which ought to be clxxxiv). The Hymns are very rarely found in an edition of the York or Sarum Hours. 171 HORTULUS ANIME. Title: Hortulus | anime denuo dili | Finīt registru. under which is the colophon printed in red: Impressum Argentine per Ioh'em Wehinger vener' post galli. Anno dni M. D. iii. q hortulos aie tam in vulgari theutunico q3 in latino. impmi fecit: doctori Brant: magistro Iacobo Wympfelingo Sletstatino ad corrigendů z emendandů cōmisit. On the reverse : Sequunt additiões . Fol. 244 bears the printer's mark in red and is otherwise blank. Fol. 245: Sequit access us altaris prout ponit magister guilhelmus . . This part ends on 252b. 12mo. PRINTED ON VELLUM, with 69 woodcuts of Saints and three fullpage illustrations ALL FINELY COLOURED AND ILLUMINATED; fine copy in old German black morocco, with clasps and gilt edges, enclosed in an outer Strassburg, 1503 63 0 case Between leaves 20 and 21, a leaf of vellum is inserted, which is painted with a man's figure kneeling before a desk at which St. Luke sits writing. From the kneeling figure's mouth issue the words Adesto nostris propius et propicius. Beneath him is an escutcheon, apparently that of Frauenberg; and the page has a printed border in Flemish style. This book must be extremely rare; since Brunet and Graesse give a description not only scanty but erroneous, assigning to the volume 231 leaves only, when as a matter of fact it has 252, all printed on. 172 ANALECTA HYMNICA Medii Aevi; herausg. von Clemens BLUMER und Guido Maria DREVES. 25 parts or vols., 8vo. (published at £9. 17s 6d), sewed Leipzig, 1886-97 5 0 1853 3 10 173 MONE (F. J.). Lateinische Hymnen des Mittelalters, aus Handschriften 175 2 5 2 16 175 HENRY VIII. Title: A NECESSARY DOCTRINE | AND ERVDITION FOR 1543 1543 18 18 0 14 14 0 "THE KING'S BOOK," .e. the original attempt to frame a liturgy for the renovated Church of England. Just above the colophon is the royal order concerning the sale of the book,—that the price should not be above 16d "in paper boordes or claspes." The two copies, although nearly identical, are not actually so. They were evidently both produced in 1543, but we may suppose that a demand existed for which the first issue was not sufficient. Many points of distinction might be noted, but it is sufficient to say that, in the calf copy, the headlines of the last thirty leaves are nearly all in capitals, while they are in lower-case letters almost throughout the morocco copy. 177 COMMON PRAYER FOR THE CHANNEL ISLANDS. LA LITVRGIE ANGLOISE. OV Le Livre des Prieres Pvbliqves. Nouuellement traduit en Francois par l'Ordonnance de sa Maiesté de la Grande Bretaigne. A Londres, par Iehan Bill. . M.DC.XVI . . 2 vols. in 1, small 4to. title within a woodcut border; slightly waterstained, but an excellent copy in the original calf, stamped with a gilt ornament on the sides 1616 The second volume is the Livre des Pseaumes, which has a separate title, and a distinct set of signatures. 178 CONFESSIONS OF FAITH. Title: An Harmony of the Confessions 400 1 12 6 100 Edinburgh, Printed by Andro Hart, Anno Dom. 1615 12 0 0 180 [CRANMER (Thomas)?] A spiritu- | all purgation sent vnto | al them (1548-49) In 1548 Singleton printed a book at the address given above; in 1553 he was at the Doubled Hood in Thames Street. This book seems to have been a precursor of the elaborate "Defence. . of the Sacrament," which Cranmer published in 1550, and I therefore read in T. C. the initials of the Archbishop's name. The book is dedicated to Sir Thomas Wyat. 181 QUEEN ELIZABETH. VIRET (Pierre). De Origine, Continuatione, vsu, autoritate, atque præstantia Ministerij verbi Dei & Sacramētorum: & de controuersijs ea de re in Christiano orbe . . excitatis . . Oliua Roberti Stephani M.DLIIII Small folio, QUEEN ELIZABETH'S COPY, bound for her in black calf, with her crown, arms, initials, and a quoted passage in gold on the sides 1554 This must have been one of the earliest books bound for the Queen. She had owned it probably since its publication, and in 1559 thought it worthy of binding for the royal library. The style of work is similar to that of the books which had been bound for Edward VI. The citation which the Queen chose as a motto is the following: "Syncervs et genvinvs Verbi Dei intellectvs hominem ad ipsivs Dei ecclesiam et recte docendam et bene regendam aptvm et idonevm facit."-It gives the book a distinguished place as one of the choice volumes of her library. 600 20 0 0 183 182 BALE (John) A Briefe Chronycle concerning the examination and death EARLY WOODCUTS 1897 1 1 0 187 KÖBEL and MENNEL. Schachtzabel Spiel. Desz Ritterliche, Künstliche Schachtzabel Spiels underweysung, erclärung, vñ verstant. Getruckt zu Oppenheym. Small 4to. three woodcuts of a chess-board, and six woodcuts of the pieces as human figures; leaf XVI wanting; hf. morocco, very rare 1 16 0 1 12 0 Oppenheim about 1516-18 10 0 0 On the back of the title Jacob Köbel dedicates to Chessplayers this little work in Köbel speaks in error of being moved "widerumb inn den Truck zu fertigen" the work of Dr. Mennel; but Mennel himself says in his preface dated Costentz, 1507, that he had decided not to publish it. Consequently it was printed here for the first time. 188 ITINERARIUM BEATÆ VIRGINIS. Fol. la blank. Fol. 1b contains a large woodcut. Fol. 2a: Prefacio in itinerarium seu peregrinatio | nem beate virginis z dei genitricis marie... Fol. 36b: Finis itinerarij seu peregrinatio- nis beate marie virginis. Small 4to. 36 leaves, 32 lines to the page, with ornamental initials, one large and 54 smaller woodcuts S. n. (Ulm, Reger, about 1490) 36 0 0 An excessively rare book, in very fine condition, with woodcuts which enjoy celebrity for their design and character. There is no better proof of the rarity of the book than the circumstance that it is described by Hain and Brunet alike, as consisting of 32 leaves, instead of 36. 189 HOLBEIN'S DANCE OF DEATH. Simolachri, Historie, e Figvre de la Morte. . In Lyone appresso Giovan Frellone, M.D.XLIX. 12mo. with 53 woodcuts; calf Lyons, 1549 10 10 0 This is an edition of no small interest as containing the 41 original impressions, the 8 additional (Soldier, Gamester, Drinker, Idiot, Highwayman, Blindman, Waggoner, Outcast) and the 4 groups of children ;-altogether 53 in number as they had first come out in 1547; in combination with an Italian text which had appeared in a pirate edition of 1545 (Venice) to which the publisher alludes as having been issued with bad copies of the first 41 blocks. 0 KETHAM. Title: Fasciculus medicine in quo | continentur: videlicet. | Primo iudicia vrinarum . . Line 11: Sexto de Anothomia . . On the reverse a full-page woodcut representing Petrvs de Montagnana at his desk, with other figures below. Fol. 2a a full-page woodcut of doctors in consultation, with eight figures. 2b a circular diagram Similitudo complexionum. Fol. 3a, col. 1: Incipit fasciculus medicine compositus per excellentissimum artium ac medicine doctorem: | dominum Ioanem de Ketham Alamanuş: tractas de anothomia. Fol. 40b, colophon.. Impressu3 Venetijs per Io | annez z Gregorius de Gregoriis fratres. Anno dni. M.ccccc.xcv. die. xv. octobris. £ s. d. Small folio, with ten superb outline woodcuts, all full-page size, and fine ornamental initials; bound up with another medical work in wooden boards with a pigskin back Venice, 1495 42 0 0 Most of the woodcuts in this book exhibit a wonderful triumph of design, and must take front rank among the best examples of Venetian wood engraving towards the close of the fifteenth century. Nothing but the Poliphilo can be put in line with it. Copies of the Ketham have now become very rare. The work with which this copy is bound up is the Florida Corona Medicinæ edita per Antonium Gazium, printed by the Gregorii brothers four years before the Ketham. 191 JUSTINIANO. Title: LAVDE DEVOTISSIME ET SANCTIS- SIME COMPOSTE PER EL NOBILE ET MAGNIFICO MISIER LEONARDO | IVSTINIANO di | VENETIA. On the reverse a large woodcut of the Crucifixion. Colophon on fol. 1206: Stampata in Venetia per Bernadin Venetian di Vidali habita in la co- | tra de San Giulian Del. M. | CCCCC.XVII. | Adi. xvi. septe- | brio. 12mo. with 34 pretty woodcuts (including 11 repetitions), some of them with borders; fine copy in old French red morocco (Padeloup), from the Beckford library 1517 24 0 0 Some of the cuts are of remarkably elegant design; but others are of ruder character. More than one artist apparently worked on the blocks. EARLY PRINTED BOOKS 192 ARTHUR ROMANCE, LANCELOT, Vols. I and III. Colophon to Vol. III: Cy fine le derrenier volume | de la table ronde faisant me- tion des fais proesses de mo seigur lancelot du lac z dau- | tres plusieurs nobles vail- lens hommes ses cōpaignos | Imprime a paris ce derrenier iour dapuril mil quatre cccc quatre vingtz & quatorze, por anthoine verard libraire de- | mourant a paris sur le pont | nostre dame a lymaige sainct | iehan leuangeliste, ou au pa- | lais au premier pillier ou len chante la messe de messeigñrs | les presidens. 2 vols. folio, PRINTED ON VELLUM in double columns in large letters bâtardes, all the initials illuminated and two full-page woodcuts splendidly painted in opaque colours within ornamental borders; wanting 22 leaves, but presenting a magnificent example of Vérard's vellum-printing; hf. calf, from the Ashburnham library Paris, 1494 96 0 0 The colophon of Vol. I is dated 1 July, 1494, of Vol. III 30 April. 1494, and in both volumes the number of lines to the column is 47. This is therefore the first edition printed by Vérard, while the copy which belonged to Firmin-Didot and Lord Crawford was of the second edition (about 1504), and although it wants the whole second volume and twenty-two leaves of the first and third, it must be regarded as a book of the greatest value and rarity.-The deficient leaves are-in Vol. I, seven preliminary leaves and first leaf of text, besides fo. lxvij, leaf m5, fo. cxi, cxlviii, clxxv, leaf B6, D4. In Vol. III, fo. i, xliii, lxxiv, xciv, leaf ppp5, fo. clxv, and leaf AAA8. 193 IMITATION OF CHRIST, FIRST EDITION. Fol. la Incipit libellus consolatorius ad instructo; deuoto | Cuius primu capitulu est de imitacõe xpi zotemptu | damni vanitatum mundi . Et qdam totū libellum sic appellant scilicet libellum de imitatione xpi.. Fol. 16b: . . Sequit seda ps h9 libri q est de amonicõe Fol. 25a . . Incipit tercius liber.. Fol. 6la: Sequit nunc liber quartus de imitacõe cristi |.. Fol. 76a: Viri egregij Thome montis sancte Agnetis in | Traiecto regularis Small folio, 76 leaves, 35 long lines to the page; fine copy in the original binding of stamped pigskin over oaken boards, EXTREMELY RARE Augsburg, about 1670 60 Bound up with this Editio Princeps of a famous book are the following treatises, 194 VALLIBUS (Hieronymus de). Fol. la: Ihesuida Hieronimi de vallibus Small folio, 10 leaves, 24 long lines to the page, without signatures, VERY RARE. It is the first edition of a short sacred epic, written about 1430, 3 books in 1 vol. small 4to. hf. calf 196 PANZER. Annales Typographici ab artis inventae origine ad annvm MD [cum continuatione usque ad MDXXXVI] post Maittairii Denisii aliorvmqve curas emendati et aveti opera Georgii Wolfgangi Panzer 12 vols. 4to. hf. calf gilt Norimberga, 1793-97 This book has become scarce, but is indispensable in a bibliographical library. 197 DUFF (E. Gordon) Early English Printing, a series of Facsimiles . . with an Introduction. Folio, pp. viii and 40, with 40 plates containing 64 facsimiles from books produced by the earliest English printers; in a portfolio 10 10 32 ( 18 18 1896 1 This important work appeared in my November catalogue (175: no. 629) with an error in the price, which I now correct. It was there marked at 78 6d, a figure which, Mr. A. W. Pollard has assured me, was equivalent to a libel upon the author. Moved by his forcible reasoning I hasten to assure the public that the former valuation was accidentally wrong, and I hope they will prove their agreement with Mr. Pollard by paying me the moderate price now asked. G. NORMAN AND SON, PRINTERS, FLORAL STREET, COVENT GARDEN, LONDON |