Chapter VIII

Messrs Reeves & Turner--My Literary Work for the Firm--My
Advantageous Acquisitions Here--Cheap Rates at which Rare
Books were Formerly Obtainable--The Large Turn-over of the
Business--Wake of Cockermouth--An Unique Wynkyn de Worde--A
Supposed Undescribed Shakespear in a House-Sale at Bognor--
Tom Arthur--The Wynkyn de Worde, which I secured for
Another Shilling--Arthur and Sir Thomas Phillipps of Middle
Hill--The Bristol Book Shops--Lodge's _Rosalynd_, 1592--Mr
Elliot Stock--My Literary Work for Him--One Volume
Unexpectedly Productive--Mr Henry Stopes--My Recovery for
Him of a Sarum Breviary, which belonged to an Ancestor in
Queen Mary's Days--His Wife's Family and Sir Walter Scott--
A Canterbury Correspondent and His Benefits--Two More
Uniques--A Singular Recovery from New York--Casual Strokes
of Good Luck in the Provinces--The Wynkyn de Worde at
Wrexham--A _Trouvaille_ in the Haymarket--Books with
Autographs and Inscriptions--A Few Words about Booksellers
and Publishers, 128