In Charles W. Frederickson's collection are to be found Lamb's copy of Chaucer, black letter; Lamb's copy of Drayton, folio, containing a dozen pages of MS. notes in Lamb's handwriting; and Byron's copy of Peter Pindar, containing his autograph, dated Newstead Abbey, 1811, with an unpublished poem, in the poet's handwriting. This collection is mostly valuable for its works on the Drama and Bibliography. It also contains a large collection of Chiswick editions.

James L. Graham, Jr., has a collection of five thousand volumes, which is rich in English poetry (early editions), and contains some rare and curious works from private printing-presses, as well as many books from the libraries of celebrated men-as Walpole, Coleridge, Roscoe, Lamb, Dawson, Turner and others, together with a large collection of numismatic works. It has a collection of about ten thousand coins and medals, and a series of decorations of the legion of honor and orders of military merit. There is also a large collection of autographs and original documents, in which may be found a number of unpublished letters of Benjamin Franklin and Robert Fulton, a manuscript of Thomas Moore, and letters from eminent men of the XVIIIth and XIXth centuries, in all numbering about 2,000.

Campbell Morfit has a small but well selected

library, almost exclusively devoted to Chemistry, and especially Technological Chemistry.

J. B. Moreau has a small collection, containing many excellent illustrated works, and some good authors in the department of Belles-Lettres.

A. J. Odell has a collection of twenty-five hundred volumes, which deserves special notice on account of its Bibliography. This department is represented by upward of twelve hundred volumes, including a large number of the rarest works on the knowledge of books and the history of printing, comprising treatises in Greek, Latin, English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, German and Dutch. Among others, Peignot in 35 vols.-an unusual collection, inasmuch as the impression of nearly all of his works was limited to a small number. The set of Dibdin is complete, and of more than ordinary beauty. There is a fine copy of Sotheby's Principia Typographica; and the bibliographical labors of Sir Egerton Brydges, are well represented by twentyfive volumes. Some of the latter are extremely scarce in this country, having been issued to the extent of only seventy-five copies, privately printed at Geneva, Rome, and the Lee Priory press; also the works of Panzer, Clement, Fabricius, Jocher, Adelung, Falkenstein, Santander, Orlandi, Lowndes, Horne, Watt, De Bure, Brunet, Ebert, Gesner, and

many of their equally laborious and interesting co-laborers, the whole constituting one of the most extensive assemblages in this department, ever made by a private collector in this country. Not a few of these works are on large paper, while the privately printed volumes may be regarded as among the rarities. The number of scarce and valuable catalogues is a noticeable feature, many of them furnishing some singular illustrations of ancient art.

Besides the specialty of Literary History and Bibliography, this library contains about fifty incunabula, or “fifteeners," some of them of great rarity even in Europe, and much less frequently met with here. Such are the first and second editions of Breydenbach's Peregrinationes in montem Syon, of 1486 and 1490; the splendid editio princeps of Politian's Miscellanea, 1489; the small folio Problemata Aristotelis, Rome, 1475; the exquisite Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, printed by Aldus, in 1499; several of Cicero's works, by Bazalerius in 1498-9, &c. The latter derive not a little interest from the profuse autograph annotations of Philip Melancthon, to whom it formerly belonged. At the close of Liber I., De Divinatione, a subsequent reader has made this curious entry: "Die 19 Januarii, 1564, ad finem libri hujus preventum, tumultuaria lectione." There is a beautiful copy of Virgil, printed by Robert

Stephens at Paris, in 1532, with types cut for that purpose, which also was owned by Melancthon, and bears on its margins numerous observations in the neat chirography of "that bundle of distinctions," as Eckius termed him. The presses of such printers as Zell, Coburger, Koelhoff, John of Westphalia, Aldus, the Giunti, Oporinus, Froben, Plantin, the Stephenses, the Elzevirs, and others of equal celebrity, have furnished some beautiful specimens of typog raphy, which have not been overlooked in the selections of early editions.

In addition to these are numerous curious reprints; volumes on colored paper; several printed with colored inks; a number of manuscripts in Latin, French, Flemish, and Arabic, &c., including a very peculiar folding series of East Indian paintings, representing a strife between a good and a bad genius, with inscriptions in characters different from those of any language of which the alphabet is known. Among the curiosities may be mentioned an original imprint of the bull of Pope Leo X., "Contra Errores Martini Lutheri et sequacium," issued in 1517, to which is affixed the papal seal, attested by the autograph signature of the papal nuncio; a printed declaration of war by the king of Norway, with the state seal, and signed by the minister of state, in 1523; another declaration of war by the king of Denmark, with the

state seal, also of 1523; a couple of German newspapers (Newe Zeytung), containing news from Rome, Naples, the Netherlands, Vienna and elsewhere; one printed at Nuremberg in 1510, the other at Newenstadt in 1523.

Dr. Purple's collection, which contains about five thousand volumes, is chiefly remarkable for its complete series of medical periodical literature, from its commencement in America to the present time.

Dr. Martyn Paine has a collection of about five thousand volumes, principally devoted to medicine.

Anson G. Phelps, Jr., left a small but well selected library of near two thousand volumes, collected for the most part before he was twenty-one years of age. His sudden decease alone prevented his expanding this into one of noble proportions.

John Austin Stevens, Jr., has a collection of about four thousand volumes, which is particularly rich in the literature of the middle ages, and especially the romances of that period, many of the more remarkable of which are to be found in various, and, where possible, in the earliest editions.

Benj. M. Stilwell's library, which numbers upward of eight thousand volumes, is for the most part in the English language, and embraces an extensive collection of the best authors in Church History, systems of Philosophy, General History, Universal