Chapter VII

Mr John Pearson--Origin of Our Connection--His Appreciable
Value to Me--He assists, through Me, in Completing the Huth
Library--Lovelace's _Lucasta_--The Turbervile--The
Imperfect Chaucer--The Copy of Ruskin's Poems at Reading--
The Walton's _Angler_--Locker and Pearson--James Toovey--
Curious Incident in Connection with Sir Thomas Phillipps--
Willis & Sotheran--Two Unique Cookery Books--Only Just in
Time--The Caxton's _Game and Play of the Chess_--A Valuable
Haul from the West of England--A Reverend Gentleman's MSS.
_Diaries of Travel_--The Wallers--Lamb's _Tales from
Shakespear_, 1807--The Folio MS. of Edmond Waller's Poems--
An Unique Book of Verse--A Rare American Item--The
Rimells--I take from Them and sell to Them--Some Notable
_Americana_--The Walfords--An Unique Tract by Taylor the
Water Poet--John Russell Smith and His Son--My Numerous
Transactions with the Latter--Another Unknown Taylor--John
Camden Hotten--I sift His Stores in Piccadilly--The Bunyan
Volume from Cornwall--John Salkeld--My Expedition to His
Shop on a Sunday Night, and Its Fruit--A Rather Ticklish
Adventure or Two--Messrs Jarvis & Son--My Finds There--King
James I.'s Copy of Charron, dedicated to Prince Henry--The
Unknown Fishmongers' Pageant for 1590--The Long-Lost
English Version of Henryson's _Æsop_, 1577, 108