ITALIAN-continued. 21815 HOLLYBAND (Claudius) the Italian Schoole-maister: with familiar speeches: and certaine Phrases taken out of the best Italian Authors. With a historie called Arnalt and Lucenda [Italian and English], 16mo. one wormhole through a few leaves, calf, £2. 10s Thomas Purfoot, 1608 Hollyband was a refugee Huguenot whose real name was Desainsliens, but he was now a naturalized Englishman, and his adopted (or translated) name of Hollyband is better known than the French one.

Latin:

BARET'S Alvearie -see No. 21702.

21816 BLAU (W.) Accidences of the Parts of Speech, or the Rudiments of Etymology, with MS. additions by M. Blau"-Etymology of the Latin Tongue, and other Grammatical Tracts, in 1 vol. 12mo. calf, 12s Edin. 1710 21817 CATHOLICON ANGLICUM, an English-Latin Wordbook A.D. 1483, edited from the MS. in the Library of Lord Monson, with introduction and notes by S. J. H. Herrtage, with a preface by H. B. Wheatley, 8vo. (pub. £1.), sd. 18s

Early English Text Society, 1881 21818 COLES (Elisha) English-Latin and Latin-English Dictionary, first edition, sm. 4to. calf, 35s

1677 21819 ELYOT (Sir Thomas) Thesaurus Linguæ Romanæ et Britannicæ, opera Thomæ Cooper, accessit Dictionarium historicum et poëticum, stout folio, calf, 18s Londini, 1573 the same, stout folio, a few leaves stained, wooden boards, covered with leather and brass bosses, 24s Londini, 1578 another edition, thick folio, rough calf, from the Sunderland library, 10s

21820

21821

A very complete Latin-English Dictionary.

1584

21822 HULOET. Abecedarium Anglico-Latinum pro Tyrunculis, Ricardo Huloeto exscriptore, small folio, FIRST EDITION, autograph of Dr. J. Jamieson, in the original stamped calf, £7. 5s G. Riddle, 1552

21823 the same, folio, fine copy in old stamped calf, with clasps, £8. 88 1552 21824 LILLY (W.) Introduction to Latin Grammar, black letter, no title -Lilly, Brevissima Institutio, seu ratio grammatices cognoscendæ ad omnium puerorum utilitatem præscripta, 2 parts in one vol. 18mo. calf gilt, 20s R. Norton, 1637

21825 PELEGROMII (Simonis) Synonymorum Sylva, e Belgarum sermone in Anglicanum transfusa per H. F. 12mo. olive morocco extra, gilt edges, with Dr. Bliss's book-plate, RARE, £2. 10s

Londini, 1580

First edition. It is a Dictionary of English words and phrases with the Latin synonyms. The original work was Flemish-Latin. 21825*PENN (James) Latin Grammar for the use of Christ's Hospital, 12mo. frontispiece, calf, 5s

1761

21826 POSSELIUS, Dialogues containing all the most useful Works of the Latin Tongue, smallest 4to. hf. morocco, 12s E. Allde, 1623

1660

LATIN-continued. 21827 PRISCIANUS Nascens, or a Key to the Grammar School, serving much to the exposition of the Grammatical Rules of Lilly, 2 parts in one vol. 18mo. calf, 16s 21828 PROMPTORIUM Parvulorum sive Clericorum, Lexicon AngloLatinum princeps auctore Fratre Galfrido grammatico dicto, A.D. circa 1440; olim e prelis Pynsonianis editum, recensuit A. Way, 3 parts forming 1 vol. sm. 4to. cloth, 20s Camden Society, 1843-65 21829 STANBRIGII Embryon Relimatum, seu Vocabularium Metricum olim a Johanne Stanbrigio digestum, dein a Thoma Newtono repurgatum, nunc vero locupletatum opera Jo. Brinslæi, the English in black letter, sm. 4to. half calf, scarce, £2. 5s

Londini, C. Knight, 1624 21830 THOMASII (T.) Dictionarium Linguæ Latinæ et Anglicanæ, stout 12mo. FIRST EDITION, in the original calf, £7. Cantab. 1587 21831 UDALL (N.) Flowres for latine speaking, selected out of Terence, and the same translated into Englishe, with the exposition of latine words, with grammatical Rules for Knowledge in the latin tongue, 18mo. red morocco, £3. T. Marshe, 1586 21832 WHITE (J. T.) and RIDDLE (J. E.) Latin-English Dictionary, stout roy. 8vo. xvi and 2103, treble columns, hf. morocco, 15s

pp.

1862

21833 WITHALS (Iohn) Shorte Dictionarie for yonge Beginners gathered of good authors, specially of Columel, Grapald and Plini (English and Latin), sm. 4to. black letter, calf, from Lord Hampton's library, £7. T. Berthelet, 1562 A scarce edition, unknown to Lowndes. Short Dictionarie for yonge beginners, sm. 4to, black letter, stained and margins wormed, old calf, 36s

21834

21835

21836

Henry Wykes, 1568 A short Dictionarie in Latine and English with Phrases and necessarie additions by Lewis Euans. And now lastly augmented with more than six hundred rythmicall verses, whereof many be prouerbiall . . . by Abr. Fleming, smallest 4to. a few leaves slightly wormed in margin, calf, £3. 16s Thomas Purfoot, 1599

Dictionarie in English and Latine; with phrases both Rythmicall and PROVERBIALL, recognised by Evans, Fleming, and Clerk, last impression enlarged, thick 12mo. black letter, morocco extra, gilt edges, £2. 28 T. Purfoot, 1634

Portuguese : 21837 GRAMMATICA Anglo-Lusitanica: or a short and compendious system of English and Portugueze Grammar, with Dialogues and Vocabulary, 8vo. calf, 58 Lisboa, 1705

Spanish : 21838 PERCYVALL (R.) Bibliotheca Hispanica: containing a Grammar with a Dictionarie in Spanish, English and Latine, gathered out of divers good Authors the Dictionarie inlarged with the Latine by the aduise of Master Thomas Doyley, Doctor in Physicke, smallest 4to. a few corners of leaves torn off, hf. bd. 78 6d J. Jackson for R. Watkins, 1591

II. BOOKS PRINTED BY THE EARLIEST ENGLISH TYPOGRAPHERS.

William Caxton (1472?-1491).

21839 QUATRE DERRENIERES CHOSES. Ce present traictie est diuise en quatre parties principales On the third leaf: Cy commence la premiere partie des quatre derrenieres choses qui sont a aduenir . small folio, printed in red and black, three leaves missing in the last sheet, large copy with rough leaves, in the original binding, with some nearly contemporary notes on the pages, in a red morocco case, £500.

Sine nota [? Brugis, circ. 1472]

(No. 2 type; Blades, No. 6.)

Only one other copy known, which is in the British Museum, and which is described by Mr. Blades as having 72 leaves and as perfect. If it has only 72 leaves it cannot be perfect. The original MS. signatures are still visible in the copy above described, and the collation may be given as follows: a, b, c, d, in sheets of eight leaves each (the first leaf of a was a blank); e in ten leaves; f, g, h, i, in eight leaves each. The leaves deficient are i 2, i 7, i 8,—that is, three leaves out of a complete sequence of 73 (or, counting the first blank, 74).

This book is in the identical type used by Caxton in the first twelve books which he printed in England in 1477-78, but is in irregular lines like the few which were produced by him on the continent between 1471 and 1475, and although not, like these, in the so-called type No. 1, it is, like these, marked with the pin-holes by which the press-man kept the paper straight. None of Caxton's books printed in England show these marks. As the type of the QUATRE DERRENIERES CHOSES does not appear in any book produced on the continent after Caxton left Bruges for England in 1475-76, the book can only have been printed some time before 1475, at the press at which Caxton first learned the art in 1471-72.

The connection which Mr. Blades has established between Caxton and Colard Mansion is plausible, but not wholly satisfactory. After all, it cannot be gainsaid that there is no book certainly known to have been produced by the latter printer which is in the Caxton types, although he used some types of similar style; and it cannot be clearly shown that Colard Mansion printed anything before 1475. The early history of Caxton's typographical labours is still a mystery, of which Mr. Bradshaw might be induced to undertake the solution. The present volume is one of its most precious documents.

21840 BOECIUS DE CONSOLACIONE PHILOSOPHIE. At end: Thus endeth this boke whiche is named the boke of Consolacion of philosophie...the worshipful fader & first foudeur & enbelissher of ornate eloquence in our englissh, I mene Maister Geffrey Chaucer hath translated this sayd werke oute of latyn in to oure vsual and moder tonge... I William Caxton haue done my debuoir & payne tenprynte it ... sm. folio, perfect, with the rare blank leaf at the beginning, from the Duke of Hamilton's library, bound in red morocco extra, by Bedford, £400. No date, about 1478

(No. 2 and No. 3 type; Blades No. 25.)

Besides this, there are seven perfect copies in existence (British Museum, Grenville Library, Exeter Coll. Oxf., Magdalen Coll. Oxf., St. Albans Gram. School, Duke of Devonshire, Lord Spencer). There are also eight imperfect copies (Brit. Museum, Cambridge Publ. Lib., Bodleian two, Ripon Minster, Wadham Coll. Oxf., Sion College, Lord Ashburnham).

21841 CICERO. THUS ENDETH THE BOKE OF TULLE OF OLDE AGE translated out of latyn in to frenshe by laurence de primo facto...and enprynted by me symple persone William Caxton in to Englysshe... m.cccc.lxxxi.-Here foloweth the said TULLIUS DE AMICICIA. Here foloweth the Argument of THE DECLAMACYON-3 vols. in 1, sm. folio, the first leaf in facsimile, but otherwise a desirable, fine and large copy in red morocco, enclosed in olive morocco case, by Bedford, £160.

(No. 2 type; Blades, No. 33.)

1481

Besides this there are twelve perfect and eight imperfect copies recorded, altogether twenty, of which twelve are in public libraries and eight in private libraries, but only five of the latter are perfect.

21842 GODEFREY OF BOLOYNE. At end: Thns endeth THE LASTE SIEGE AND CONQUEST OF

...

IHERUSALEM... sm. folio, a very fine copy, quite perfect, with all the blank leaves, in the original leather-covered boards, enclosed in a blue morocco case, £1000. Enprynted the xx day of nouembre the yere a forsayd [m.cccc.lxxxi] in thabbay of westmester by the said wylliam Caxton (1481) (No 4 type; Blades, No. 42.)

Only two other perfect copies are known; one in the

British Museum, the other in the Holford library. Of imperfect copies only eight are known; five of them in public libraries, the other three belonging to Lord Spencer, Lord Pembroke, Lord Dysart. The above is the best of the three perfect copies. 21843 HIGDEN'S POLYCHRONICON. (... From the Prohemye): ... POLYCRONICON IN WHICHE BOOK

......

BEN COMPRISED BRIEFLY MANY WONDERFUL HIS-
TORYEES
UNTO THE BEGYNNYNG OF THE REGNE

OF KYNG EDWARD THE FOURTH. after the composynge and gaderynge of Dan Ranulph monke of Chestre fyrste auctour of this book and afterward Englisshed by one Trevisa Vycarye of Barkley . EMPRYNTED AND SETTE IN FORME BY ME WILLIAM CAXTON and a lytel embelysshed fro tholde makyng, and also have added suche storyes as I coude finde fro thende that the said Ranulph fynysshed his book which was the yere of our Lord 1357 unto the year of the same 1460, which ben an honderd and thre yere . . . and where the sayd Auctor hath alle his werke in seven bookes, I have sette that whiche I added to after aparte and have marked it the last booke, folio, A VERY FINE COPY, the best of the six perfect copies known, in morocco extra, gilt edges, with joints, by Lewis, from the Dent and Perkins libraries, £460.

Ended the second day of Juyll,...a thousand four hondred foure score and tweyne (1482) Fynysshed per Caxton

(No. 4 type; Blades, No. 44.)

Altogether about twenty-five or twenty-six copies are known, but only five of them are perfect besides this. Of the five perfect copies, one is in the Grenville library, one in the Pepysian library at Cambridge, one in Lord Spencer's library, one in the Astor library of New York, and the fifth was in the library of the late Beriah Botfield. None of these five copies, except the Grenville, can be compared with the above for excellence of condition. Yet the book is so desirable, even when approximately complete, that Lord Charlemont's copy, wanting two leaves, fetched in 1865, £477. 15s.

21844 GOWER (John) CONFESSIO AMANTIS: that is to say in Englyshe the Confessyon of a Lover, folio, the first leaf of the table in facsimile, otherwise perfect,