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BLOCK-BOOKS.

1. Holland? 1455? APOCALYPSIS S. JOHANNIS (fourth edition of Sotheby, second of Heinecken).

A very fine coloured copy from the Earl of Crawford's collection, quite perfect in 48 leaves, bound with nos. 47, 58 and 59, and some Ms. matter, in the original monastic binding, about 1475. The exceptional preservation of this copy is due to its early insertion in this volume.

2. Five leaves, two of them being partly coloured (possibly at a more recent date), of Sotheby's third (Heinecken's fifth) edition of the xylographic Apocalypse. Very clean impressions but without margins. The leaves are 14, 15, 18, 19, 20 of a complete copy. They are probably from the same copy as the eleven leaves presented by Uffenbach to the Francfort library in the XVIIIth century and are apparently the five leaves bought by Griffiths (of Wadham College, Oxford) at B. Delessert's sale in 1852. Of this edition only two perfect and six imperfect copies or fragments are known.

3. Holland? 1455? BIBLIA PAUPERUM.

A single leaf, of the same edition as the Sykes and second Spencer copies. From the Bateman collection.

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