is evidently a different figure from the shield of France which appears in some of Caxton's paper.

It is interesting from the Shakespearian collector's point of view that we find in the Book of St. Albans a representation of the Lucy Coat of Arms, as borne by Geoffrey or Galfrid de Lucy (in Henry III's time).

21858*THE BOKE OF SAINT ALBANS by Dame Juliana Berners, containing treatises on Hawking, Hunting and Cote Armour, printed at Saint Albans by the Schoolmaster-Printer in 1486, reproduced in facsimile with introduction by W. BLADES, 4to. (subscription price, £2. 2s), vellum, antique style, 30s 1881 BOOK OF ST. ALBANS, Wynkyn de Worde, 1496, HASEWOOD's reprint-see Natural History Catalogue, page 367.

William of Mecheln (1482-86).

21859 [CAXTON (W.) CHRONICLES OF ENGLOND], small folio, deficient of several leaves (see MS. collation prefixed), morocco extra, gilt edges, by Bedford, in the old style, EXTREMELY RARE, £135.

s. n. (W. de Machlinia, circa 1484) This is the epitome of the Brut Chronicle and contains the story of King Arthur and Merlin.

Only one perfect copy is known, that at Althorp, and of imperfect copies only four.

Specimens of the press of William of Mechelen, and of Julian Notary, are amongst the very rarest products of the early English press.

Wynken of Woerden (1492-1535).

21860 HILTON. SCala perfeccõis. (On second leaf:) Capla prime partis. Here begynnen the chapytours of this present volume of Waltere Hylton, namyd in laten Scala perfeccōnis englisshed the ladder of perfeccon, which volume is deuided in two partyes

2 parts, a xylographic frontispiece above the words of intitulation on the first leaf, and the device of Caxton on the last leaf beneath Wynkin de Worde's metrical envoye, 1494;-Here begynneth the table of the thyrde booke of water hylton named Vita mixta or scala perfeccionis. (On second leaf:)... Here foloweth . . . a prologue of a lytyl boke that was wryten to a seculer or temporall worldly lord to teche hym how he sholde haue in his astate ordynate

loue to god and charyte to his euen crysten. (At end :) Here endeth the thyrde boke of mayster walter hylton called Vita mixta or scala perfeccionis; 3 parts in 1 vol. folio, LARGE PAPER, beautiful copy in the original boards covered with leather, to be sold by private contract Wynkyn de Worde, 1494

The second book printed by Wynkyn de Worde, and even under ordinary circumstances very rare. But this copy-which bears on the first page the inscription, "Thys boke belongeth vnto syster dorothe clement "-is of special interest as having the THIRD PART, which is thus found in only two other copies, one of them in the University Library of Cambridge, and the other in the possession of Mr. H. H. Gibbs.—The fine library of Mr. Huth contains only the two parts.-The singularly fine original condition of this volume, unchanged from the time. when it first issued from the printer's binding-shop, with numerous uncut leaves, is a fact of no small importance in determining its value.

21861 GLANVILE. Bartholomeus de proprietatibz rer’ [translated into English by John de Trevisa, at the request of Syre Thomas Lord of Berkely], folio, numerous large and striking woodcuts, the first page (title) repaired, and the last leaf containing Caxton's device (the same as appears at the end of the 11th book) wanting, a few leaves slightly wormed at beginning and end, otherwise a remarkably large and fine copy (almost uncut), old russia, gilt edges, £85.

Wynken de Worde, circa 1494

First edition in English of Bartholomew de Glanvile's celebrated work, which may be regarded as a Herbal, as a book of Domestic Medicine, as a Geographical Gazetteer, or as a work on Anatomy and Natural History. It contains likewise essays on the production of colours (Dyeing), on the making of cheese and butter, on the practice and theory of Music, on Mathematics, Arithmetic, etc., and is in fact an Encyclopædia of the then prevalent knowledge. It was one of the most popular books of the XIVth, XVth, and XVIth Centuries; and was translated into most of the European languages. "It is," says Dibdin, “perhaps the most magnificent publication which ever issued from De Worde's press. The paper, press-work, and embellishments are perhaps unrivalled by the efforts of any other artist in our country within the fifteenth century." It was printed on some of the earliest paper made in England (see the verses at the end of the vol.), an interesting fact, as showing that splendid paper was manufactured here nearly a century before the time usually assigned for its first production

at Dartford in Kent. The John Tate mentioned in the verses at the end of the vol. as the maker of this paper, was probably the Lord Mayor of London in 1496, and knighted for his services against the rebels at Blackheath. The rarity of this book in fair condition is extreme. It is missing in some of the most celebrated collections of early printed English books. The Roxburghe copy, wanting two leaves, sold for £70. 7s; and Geo. Smith's in 1867 for £116.

21862 [HIERONYMUS.] Title: VITAS PATRUM. On second leaf: Here foloweth the right deuoute, moche lowable, & recomendable LYFF OF THE OLDE AUNCYENT At end: Thus endyth

HOLY FADERS HERMYTES.

the moost vertuous hystorye. translated out of Frensshe in to Englysshe by Wyllyam Caxton of Westmynstre, late deed, and fynysshed it at the laste daye of his lyff. folio, numerous curious woodcuts by an English Artist, morocco extra, blind tooled, doubled with morocco linings, and leather fly-leaves, very fine copy, £230.

Enprynted in the sayd towne of Westminster be my Wynkyn de Worde... M.CCCC.LXXXXV (1495) "This extraordinarily Fine Copy has rough leaves both on fore edge and at bottom, and is complete with the title and last leaf, containing Caxton's device, and large cut on reverse.

"It is one of Wynkin de Worde's most magnificent typographical productions, and probably the finest copy in existence."

21863 HIGDEN (RANULPH). (On title:) POLICHRONICON. (In the text of third leaf:) Polycronycon, in whiche booke ben comprysed bryefly many wonderfull hystoryes. Englysshed by one Treuisa vycarye of Barkley, sm. folio, A FINE AND PERFECT copy in brown morocco super extra, blind tooling, gilt edges, by F. BEDFORD, £115. Ended the thyrtenth daye of Apryll the tenth yere of the regne of kyng Harry the seventh, And of the Incarnacyon of our lord, M.CCCC.LXXXXV. (1495) Enprynted at Westmestre by Wynkyn Theworde This copy cost the late Mr. Craufurd £125. Lowndes was unable to cite any copy sold as complete, and Dr. Dibdin says, "The only perfect copy which I remember to have seen is that in the collection of J. D. Phelps."

21864 [VORAGINE (Jac. de) LEGENDA AUREA, that

is to saye in Englysshe THE GOLDEN LEGENDE, for lyke as passeth Golde in valewe all other metals, so this Legende excelleth all other bookes], folio, very .spirited woodcuts, wanting title and sixteen leaves, and several others supplied from another copy, calf, £42. Wynkyn de Worde, 1498

This rare volume is in general fine condition : the woodcuts differ from those in the editions of 1512 and 1527.

21865 TORTUS VOCABULORÜ, Alphabetico ordine fere omnia que in Catholicon, Breviloquio. Cornucopia, Gemma vocabulor atq' Medulla grammatica ponutur cum vernacule lingue Anglicane expositione continens, sm. 4to. black letter, with Wynkyn de Worde's large device on the title, title and last leaf slightly restored, brown morocco extra, gilt edges, by Bedford, £16,

Impressu Londiniis per Wynandum de Worde, 1511

21866 WHITINTON1 (Roberti, Lichfeldiensis) Lucubrationes (de Synonimis, de epithetis, de variandi formulis, etc.) London, Wynkyn de Worde (with Caxton's mark), s. a. (1517?)-Cleophili (Oct.) Libellus de coetu Poetarum, cum J. Badii commentario, Parisiis, 1509-Persii Satyræ cum J. Britannici interpretatione, Lugduni, 1510-Gaudensis (Fratris J.) Aerarium aureum Poetarum omnibus latine lingue professoribus accommodatum, etc. Parisiis, in edibus Radulphi Jaliseau, calf, 1511-in 1 vol. sm. 4to. woodcut on title, £4. 10s

21867 TORTUS VOCABULORU Alphabetico ordine fere omnia ૧ in Catholicon. Breviloquio. Cornucopia. Gemma vocabulor' atq' Medulla gramatice ponütur, cum vernacule lingue Anglicane expositione continens, small 4to. last leaf in facsimile, fine copy in brown morocco extra, gilt edges, by Bedford, £15.

Londoniis per Wynandum de Worde, 1518

A very scarce specimen of Wynkyn de Worde's Press, with his device on title-page.

21868 STANBRIDGE. VOCABULA MAGISTRI STABRIGI primū iam edita sua saltem editiõe, small 4to. 20 leaves, woodcut of a schoolmaster and three scholars on title, brown morocco, gilt edges, £8. 10s

Emprynted by Wynkyn de Worde at London in the flete strete at ye sygne of the sonne, n. d.

21869 STANBRIDGE. VOCABULA MGRI STANBRIGI sua saltem editione edita, Latin and English, woodcut on title-page, AN EDITION UNKNOWN TO BIBLIOGRAPHERS, imprynted at London by Wynkyn de Worde in Flete Strete at ye sygne of the Sonne, 1529-[Sum es fui], Gradus comparationum cum verbis anomalis simul et eorum compositis, Latin and English, WYNKYN DE WORDE, 1527-Ars epistolandi Francisci Nigri, Daventriæ, 1501-3 vols. in 1, sm. 4to. fine copies, blue morocco extra, gilt edges, by Faulkner, £22. 10s

Lond. WYNKYN de Worde, 1527-29

21870 HORMANNI CÆSARISBURGENSIS (G.) VULGARIA, Sm. 4to. fine copy, except that portions of hh ii, and of imprint and printer's device are beautifully facsimiled, so as almost to defy detection, morocco super extra, covered with blind tooling, gilt edges, in the old style, £20. Wynkyn de Worde, 1530

The book itself is a curious one, deserving of study and consideration for the specimens of old English familiar and conversational language, containing remarks upon almost every subject. We have ceased to admire it for its correct Latinity so highly thought of in the author's time. He was a native of Salisbury, a Fellow of New College, Oxford, and Master of Eton in the year 1485. After he had resigned this post and retired into private life, being then an old man, his friend William Attwater, Bishop of Lincoln, persuaded him to publish the lessons he had used during his mastership. The sentences of which the book consists are given in both Latin and English, the latter being the original, and frequently alluding to events of his own time. As a couple of examples-" It is an almesdede to help the chevalry of Rhodes agaynst the Turkes."-" They of Turnay have yielde them up to the kynge.'

Richard Pinson (1493-1531).

21871 BOOKE OF GOOD MANNERS, sm. folio, blue morocco, gilt edges, by C. Lewis; from Heber's and Dr. Bliss's Collections, £28.

(Colophon) Finysshed and translated out of freshe into English the viii day of June in the yere of our Lorde MCCC Clxxxvi and the first yere of the regne of Kynge henry the vii and emprynted the last day of septembre in the yere of our Lorde MCCC Clxxxxviii by RICHARD PYNSON. (1498)

An exceedingly rare edition not mentioned by Ames or Lowndes. This is the only copy of which I can trace the sale ; leaves A 1 and 2, G 1 and 4, H 2 and 3, are wanting.

21872 CHAUCER (G.) CANTERBURY TALES, sm. folio, BLACK LETTER, Woodcuts, wanting signature a and four other leaves (q4, hh7, D7, G1), some leaves mended, very large copy, with Pynson's device on last leaf, oak boards, covered with stamped leather, rebacked, £72. R. Pynson, n. d. circa 1492

A very fine specimen of typography and paper manufacture. It is interesting as the first production of Pynson's Press, and for its rarity, only one perfect copy being known, namely, that at Althorp. Heber's copy sold for £60. 18s, and Stevens's for £51, both imperfect.

21873 DIVES AND PAUPER. Here endith a compendiouse treetise dyalogue of Diues & paup. that is to say, the riche and the pore fructuously tretying upon the X cōmaudmentes, small folio, the work