101 many small woodcuts; very large and fine copy in russia £ 8. d. 1527 150 00 another copy, equally fine but not so large; brown morocco extra, gilt edges See ante RIVERS, No. 92 1527 110 00 102 CAXTON. RECUYELL. Fol. 1 title, under a woodcut: THE recuyles or gaderi | ge to gyder of ŷ hysto- | ryes of Troye how it was destroyed z brent | twyes by ŷ puyssaunt Hercules z ý thyrdez generall by grekes. On the reverse: Here foloweth the table This table ends on fol. 4b, column 2. Fol. 5a, column 1: Here foloweth the recuyell or hysto- rye of Troye This heading occupies twelve lines. Beneath it: HEre begynneth the volume entytled and named & recuyell of the hystoryes of Troye, | composed. . | .. by the ryght venerable Raoul le Feure preest z chapellayne | Phylyppe duke of Bourgoyne . In the a thousande. CCCC.lxiiij. And translated .. by Wyllyam Caxton. Fol. 202b, column 2 : Thus endeth the boke of the recu- | les or syege of Troye' Enprynted in.| London in Flete strete at the sygne of the sonne by Wyuken de Worde. The yere of our lorde god. M.CCCCC. | and. iij. Under this Caxton's small device as used by Wynkyn de Worde with his own name. 102* vnto Smallest folio, 202 leaves, double columns, 42 lines to the column; unfoliated but having signatures (A-Z and Aa-Kk in sixes, which do not include the four preliminary leaves); with numerous very rude woodcuts; olive morocco extra, by Lewis, with the book-label of the Duke of Buckingham and Chandos (about 1827) 1503 135 00 Second edition of the famous Recuyell.-There is an inscription on the title-page, written about 1570: "Maria Herona est verus possessor huius libri Mrs. Mary Heron oweth this booke." This volume is excessively rare. There exist only about three or four other perfect copies; even imperfect copies are as few. THE RECUYELL of the Histories of Troye . . a new edition of the first book printed in English, 2 vols. 4to. in vellum wrappers 1892 Printed by William Morris at the Kelmscott Press, from the Caxton volume of 1474. 103 FABIAN (Robert) (1450-1512). The Chronicle of Fabian, whiche he nameth the concordaunce of histories, newly perused. And continued from the beginnyng of Kyng Henry the seuenth, to thende of Queene Mary, 1559. Mense Aprilis. Imprinted at London, by Jhon Kyngston. 2 vols. in 1, small folio, black letter, BEST EDITION, brown morocco, by Bedford 1559 The continuation ends with the coronation and first Parliament of Elizabeth. 990 615 0 104 ANONYMOUS, about 1490-1500. ASTROLOGICAL AND OTHER MISCELLANIES, MSS. in 1 vol. small 4to. stamped calf, from the Ashburnham Library 1490-1615 1. Pages 1-12. An acephalous Astrological treatise, beginning "thou doth with the 10, so do with the 5. Howe to knaw of wat schal hape to the at the place qwer thou intendith to go to.. Apparently in Scottish orthography About 1490 2. Pp. 13-20. Esop's Fables in Meter. Anth. Rous. These pages contain the first thirteen Fables. The continuation is added here and there throughout the volume upon. blank spaces About 1615 3. Pp. 21-56. Another Astrological treatise in the same handwriting and orthography as the first one. Beginning "Qwho so intendis to knaw the effects of the planets that sall fall . About 1490 4. Pp. 53-66. Continuation of Rous's translation of Esop 5. Pp. 67-110. Astrological Fables in red and black, apparently a continuation of No. 3 6. Pp. 70-105. On the blank spaces Rous's Esop is continued 7. Pp. 111-117. Continuation of the early Astrological Fables. The heading of p. 111 is "Tabula met arcus diurni ad latitudinem Cantabrig. p. signis septentrionalibus. The heading p. 117 is "Radices planetarum secundum tabulas Mgri Iohis Holbruke pro anno xpi 1476 .. 8. Pp. 118-120 and 133. The Farcical Dialogue of Cuffe, Ruffe and Bande performed at Cambridge. In Rous's handwriting About 1615 9. Pp. 121-132. Continuation of the Astrological Fables, ending "Finit feliciter 10. Pp. 134-136. Continuation of the Astrological treatise with "Ascensiones signorum," etc. 11. P. 136. Sixteen lines of verse, beginning "Hence all ye vaine delightes.. including the line "places which pale passion loves and ending with "For nothing is so sweet as Melancholy." This is in Rous's handwriting 12. Pp. 137-150. Husbandry (Monthly). In Rous's hand. 13. Pp. 151-164. Secretes for Gardening, Arte of Grafting. In Rous's hand 14. Pp. 166-180. Booke of Laces (Fringe Lace, etc.). In Rous's hand. 105 THE AUTHOR OF THE NUTBROWN MAID, First Edition, about 1490-1500. ARNOLD'S LONDON CHRONICLE, First Edition. Foll. 1-4 (a blank leaf and three leaves of Table) wanting. Fol. 5a: THe names of ye balyfs. Custos Mayers. and sherefs of ye Citefo (sic) London from the tyme of kynge Richard the first called cure de lyon.. Small folio, not quite perfect, dampstained and flabby, some leaves defective and mended; vellum cover, with morocco back, from the libraries successively of the Rev. Edward Betham (King's College, Cambridge), about 1750; of William Cole, of Milton, Cambridgeshire, in 1769; of the Shakespearean scholar, Dr. Richard Farmer, about 1780; of John Towneley, about 1800; and of Thomas Jolley in 1815 S. n. (printed at Antwerp by Jan van Doesborch, 1503) 14 0 0 Four printed leaves are wanting; the first ten and the last two leaves are defective. A complete copy should consist of 130 printed leaves. Here we have 126 printed leaves. The full set of signatures should be A one blank and three printed leaves, A eight leaves, B four; C, D, E, in eights; F-Q in sixes; R eight leaves; S and T in sixes; V five leaves. The missing leaves are the first sheet A, and the first leaf of signature V. The famous ballad of the Nutbrowne Maide appeared here for the first time. It occupies leaf N6, Oi and Oii. 106 ARNOLD'S Chronicle, A SOUND, LARGE AND PERFECT COPY, 131 leaves including the rare blank leaf at the beginning; in old russia, from the Wilbraham collection (1503) 95 00 A wholly perfect copy of this book, such as here described, is one of the rarest things in English literature. From some scribbling on the first front leaf, it appears to have belonged about 1610 to the first and only Lord Knollys. This 107 ARNOLD'S CHRONICLE, Second Edition. Fol. 1 a blank cut away. 4to. 135 leaves chiefly in double columns, with 42 lines to the column; £ 8. d. S. n. (Peter Treveris, 1521) 21 0 0 The peculiar sh of Peter of Treves shows that this volume is from his press. Ít is more correctly printed than the Antwerp edition of 1503. The signatures are A four leaves, B eight, C four, B four, C-E in eights, F-Q in sixes, R eight, S and T in sixes, V five leaves 135 leaves. The reason why it has four leaves more than its original is that the Annals at the beginning are continued down to 1520. II. THE CHURCH IN ENGLAND 1300-1600 1. The Bible John Wickliffe, 13..-1384. (See ante Nos. 17-20) 108 WYKLYFFITE BIBLE, the second issue, PERFECT. Fol. 1: The ploge on 109 : The Genesis. Brop' Ambrose bryngynge fulli þi little giftis to me. Folio, in a red morocco binding of the beginning of this century About 1425 THE HOLY BIBLE, contained in the Old and New Testaments, with The only complete edition of the Wycliffite Bible in its various issues, based on the collation of about 120 MSS. made during a period of twenty-two years. The two texts are given in parallel columns; that is, the one ascribed to Wyckliffe and his own immediate circle, and the one of some twenty years later of which the chief editor was John Purvey. William Tyndale, 1484-1536 110 TESTAMENT. Facsimile Texts: the first printed English New Testament translated by William Tyndale, photolithographed from the unique fragment in the Grenville Collection, edited by Arber. Small 4to. bds. 1871 The original is a fragment consisting of 31 leaves, the only survival of an edition printed at Cologne in 1526. 000 500 0 12 6 111 NEW TESTAMENT. Title: THE NEWE | TESTA- | MENT | in Englyshe [by Tyndale] and in | Latin of Erasmus | Transla- | tion. | NOVVM TESTAMEN- TVM ANGLICE ET LATINE. Anno dni. 1549. This intitulation printed within a woodcut border. On the reverse: The bokes contay- ned in the newe Testamente. . . Fol. 292 (marked CC.lxxxxi): . . The ende of the newe | Testamente. | Here folowe the Epistles taken out of the olde Testamente, whiche are red in the churche after the vse of Salysbury | vpon certayne dayes of the yeare. Fol. 300b: . . Here endethe the Epystles of the olde testament. Foll. 301-304 contain the Table of the Pystles and Gospels, at the end of which on 304b is the colophon: Thus endeth the newe Testa- | ment both in Englyshe z in Laten, of mayster Eras- | mus translacyō, with the Pystles take out of ŷ Olde testamēt. Set forth with | the Kynges moste gracyous lycence, and Imprynted by Wyllyam Powell | dwellynge in Fletestrete at the sygne of the George nexte to saynt Dun- stons Churche. The yere of our Lorde . M.CCCCC. | xlix . . . . . | GOD SAVE THE KYNGE. Small 4to. the English and the Latin printed collaterally on each page, the former in Black letter, the latter in Roman; the title in facsimile and the margins of fol. 2 mended; old English black morocco gilt (bound about 1660) 1549 28 0 0 Dunn Gardner's (which had been Lea Wilson's) copy, having a facsimile title like this one, sold for £35. Title: THE NEW 112 TESTAMENT. TESTA- |MENT Diligently | Translated by Myles conferred with the translacion of | Willyam Tyndale, with the necessary Concordances | truly alleged. | AN. M.D.XLIX. 12mo. a portion of the surface of the title-page, and a part of the last leaf, torn away; in the original calf binding, enclosed in a Rein. Wolf, 1549 12 12 0 case This volume, consisting of Gospels and Acts, was issued and bound before the second volume came from the press (Epistles and Revelations). It consists of 256 leaves in signatures (), †, A-—Z, Aa-Gg, all in eights. The book is one of excessive rarity in whatever condition. It is Tyndale's text slightly touched by Coverdale, just as in the preceding and the following article. : .113 TESTAMENT. Title: The newe Testament of our Sauiour Iesu Christe. Faythfully tran- | slated out of the Greke, |..|. . Here a woodcut portrait of Edward VI, and under it a motto from Mathew xiii in Latin and in English. On the reverse: The copy of the byll assigned by the kynges honorable counsell, for the Au- ctorisinge of this Testamente. | . Fol. 2a Jugge's Epistle To the most puysaunt and mightye Prince Edward the syxt. Foll. 3-8 contain the Calendar, 9-14 the Almanack and Table, 15 A perfecte supputation, and 16 An exhortation . . with the life of St. Matthew on the reverse. On leaf 201 end the Acts of the Apostles; leaves 202-204 contain a description of the Lande of promys with a map, etc., and a colophon on leaf 204. Leaf 205 contains the title of the Epistles; on leaf 206 they begin, and end with the Apocalypse on leaf 335a. On 335b begin the Epistles of the old Testament which end on 337b. A table follows, and ends on 339a. On the reverse of 339 is the printer's mark and the colophon: Imprynted at London by Rycharde Iugge, dwel- | lynge in Paules churche yarde at the signe of the byble. With the kynge his mooste gratious lycence, and priuilege, forbyddynge all other men to print or cause to be printed, this, or any other | Testament in Englyshe. 114 Small 4to. Black Letter, 339 leaves, with numerous woodcuts, includ. ing the curious representation of the Devil as a man with a tail and a wooden leg; the title, the seventh leaf from the end, and the last leaf in facsimile, the corner of a leaf mended and made up; blue morocco, gilt edges R. Jugge, 1552 22 0 0 another copy, larger and finer; the title-page in facsimile; other wise perfect, with the margins of some leaves mended; brown morocco, by £ 8. d. 1552 33 0 0 This edition, printed in London by Jugge, contains some of the same large flourished letters as have been remarked in Matthew's Bible of 1537, and in the Lubeck Low German Bible of 1533-4.--The facsimile of the title in the second copy was made from one of the copies which were issued with the reverse blank, Miles Coverdale, 1487-1567 115 BIBLE, COVERDALE, FIRST EDITION. Title, within a woodcut border: BIBLIA The Bible, that is, the holy Scripture Fol. 76: The bokes of the hole Byble, how they are Fol. 272 Fol. 373, title: Fol. 456, 219a (numbered Fo. i): The boke of Job .. Fol. 271, Small folio, having leaf 2 in facsimile by the first Harrisse, This copy, formerly belonging to Lea-Wilson, afterwards to Dunn Gardiner, and lastly to Lord Ashburnham, is superior to any other known copy except the Leicester and the Osterley copies. The titlepage was, when Lea Wilson owned it, supplied for him in facsimile from the Leicester copy, by Harris, and that facsimile leaf is still retained to show the variation between the genuine title now inserted and the Leicester title. In the first place there is a list of contents on the back of the Leicester title, while the page is left absolutely blank in our genuine title. In the second place, among the inscriptions on the woodcuts we find the words Go once and Gospel twice. The three capitals G appear in Harrisse's facsimile of the Leicester title in a peculiar Gothic shape resembling S; while in our genuine first title it is a true G in which the curves are divided by two parallel vertical strokes. Now as the London-printed title retains in its border the |