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70. Maundrel's Journey from Aleppo to Jerusalem, _L.P. Oxf._
1714, 8vo. First edition of the entire work 3 18 0
101. The Psalter of David, large B.L. C.T. nigro F.D.
_Cantorbury, in St. Paule's Parysh, by John Mychell_, 1549,
4to. 4 4 0
102. The Gospels in Saxon and English, dedicated to Queen
Elizabeth, by John Foxe, C.T. nigro, F.D. _Lond. by Daye_,
1571, 4to. 4 5 0
103. The new Testament, by Thomas Matthew, 1538, 4to. 3 4 0
["There are cuts to the Revelations, different from any Mr.
Herbert had seen; nor had he seen the book itself, till he
was writing his 'Corrections and additions,' where, at p.
1833, he describes it."]
105. Nychodemus' Gospell, C.T. F.D. _wood prints. Wynkyn de
Worde_, 1511, 4to. 1 5 0
107. English Prymer, in red and black types: _with
emblematic frontispiece from a wood-cut_. C.T. cæruleo F.D.
_Byddell_, 1535, 4to. PRINTED ON VELLUM 8 18 6
110. Speculum Christiani (in Latin prose and English verse)
C.T. nigro. _In civitate Londoniarum, per Wilhelmum de
Machlinia. Supposed to be the first book printed in London,
and about_ 1480, 4to. 4 4 0
111. Contemplation of Synners, (Latin prose and English
verse) with double frontispiece, and other wood-cuts.
_Westminster, by Wynkyn de Worde_, 1499, 4to. 2 3 0
112. (Walter Hylton's) Scala Perfectionis, London, _without
Temple-Barre_, by Julyan Notary, 1507, 4to. 1 11 6
151. Dives and Pauper, C.R. _first dated impression by
Pynson_, 1493, folio 2 5 0
164. Hackluyt's Collection of Voyages, B.L. 3 vols. in 2.
Lond. 1599. "This work contains in vol. I. (beginning at p.
187) a political tract in verse (of the time of Henry VI.)
exhorting England to keep the sea." 4 10 0
178. Arnold's Chronicle, or Customs of London, B.L.
C.T.--F.D. (1521) folio 15 15 6
180. Chaucer's Hertfordshire; _with all the plates_, C.R.
_Once the book of White Kennet, Bishop of Peterborough;
whose marginal notes in are pp._ 64, 359, 523, folio 21 0 0
338. Froissart's Chronycles, 2 vols. C.R. F.D. _Printed by
Pynson_, 1523-5, _folio_, 2 vols.
341. Rastell's Pastyme of People, C.T.--F.D. Johannes
Rastell, (1529) _One page and part of a pieced leaf
written._
349. Monasticon Anglicanum, 3 vols. ligat. in 4, C.R. all
the plates, Lond. 1651, 61, 73. "This copy contains that
very scarce leaf, which sometimes follows the title-page of
the first volume: an account of which leaf (by Tanner and
Hearne) may be seen from p. 45 to p. 50 of the sixth volume
of Leland's Collectanea, and their account rectified by
Bridges, at the conclusion of Hearne's preface to Titus
Livius Foro-Juliensis." Folio.
466. Hardyng's Chronicle (in verse) C.R.--F.D. _With an
original grant (on vellum) from Henry VI. to Hardyng,
Londoni._ Grafton, 1543, 4to.
[This beautiful copy, formerly West's, is now in the
collection of George Hibbert, Esq.]
518. Fabian's Chronicle, C.T. cærulo F.D. 2 vols. in 1. B.L.
Lond. W. Rastell, 1533. "This edition (as well as Pynson's)
has the hymns to the Virgin, though Mr. T. Warton thought
otherwise." folio.
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