(inner margin mended), morocco, line tooled, g. e., the third edition of "Queen Elizabeth's" Prayer Book, John Day, 1581, small 4to. (1766) Maxim, £30

4369 Prayer. A Booke of Christian Prayers, black and roman letter (the fourth edition of Queen Elizabeth's Prayer Book), printed within woodcut borders after Dürer and Holbein of Biblical subjects, Dance of Death, etc., portrait of Queen Elizabeth on reverse of title, some lower borders shaved, otherwise perfect, morocco, antique gilt ornaments, inside dentelles, g.e., by L. Broca, R. Yardley and P. Short for assignes of R. Day, 1590, small 4to. (1767) Edwards, £12 4370 Prayer. A Booke of Christian Praiers, collected out of the Ancient Writers, etc., black and roman letter, within woodcut borders of Biblical subjects, the Dance of Death, etc., after A. Dürer and H. Holbein, portrait of Queen Elizabeth on reverse of title, a good and generally sound copy, with wide margins, but the title inlaid and 2 plain margins mended, morocco extra, inside dentelles, g.e., by F. Bedford, R. Yardley and P. Short for the assigns of R. Day, 1590 [title, Printed for the Company of Stationers, 1608], small 4to. (1768) Leighton, £6 6s.

[The fourth edition of "Queen Elizabeth's Prayer Book," with the title to fifth and last of the old editions.-Catalogue.] 4371 Prayer. The Booke of Common Prayer, black letter, ruled in red, woodcut titles, ornamental initials and ornaments, contemporary English morocco, covered with rich ornamental gilt tooling in frame and diagonal compartments, with the arms of King Charles I. in centres, g. e. (S. Mearnes), slightly rubbed in places, but generally well preserved, R. Barker and Assigns of John Bill, 1636, folio (1772) Everett, £61 4372 Prayer. The Book of Common Prayer . . . and other parts of Divine Service for the use of the Church of Scotland, with the Psalter according to the last Translation, black letter, first edition of Archbishop Laud's Scottish Prayer Book, ends with the catchword "certaine," title within woodcut border, and numerous woodcut initials, calf gilt, r. e., exlibris of J. Douglas, A.M. in cover, Edinburgh, R. Young, 1637 (Psalter, 1636), folio (1773) Maggs, £5 4373 Psalterium Hebræum, Græcum, Arabicum, et Chaldæum, cum tribus latinis interpretationibus et glossis, edidit A. Justinianus, title in red and black within woodcut border, morocco gilt, Genuæ (Genoa), P. P. Porrus (with device), 1516, small folio (1789) Stechert, £5 5s.

[The first Polyglott Psalter, containing in the Gloss on Psalm xix. the earliest life of Christopher Columbus.Catalogue.]

4374 Psalterium Davidis Græcum et Latinum (ex recensione Joannis Crastoni), (some plain margins repaired), morocco super extra, with antique gilt ornaments by R. De Coverly,

Impressum Mediolani anno mcccclxxxi. die xx. Septembris, small folio (1790) Bull, £3 145. 4375 Psalterium. The Latin Psalter in the University Library of Utrecht (formerly Cotton MS. Claudius c. viii.), photographed and produced in facsimile by the Permanent Autotype Process of Spencer, Sawyer, Bird and Co., morocco joints, r. e., n. d., folio (1796) Quaritch, £5 10S. 4376 Psalterium, cum Hymnis, lit. goth. magna, red and black, with musical notes, long lines, 22 to a full page, with signatures, contains title, clvi. folioed leaves and 4 leaves of register, many of the staves for music are left blank, contemporary Netherlands binding, in oaken boards, leather, with small stamped ornaments in diagonal and frame compartments, well preserved, "Liber Conventus Sanctæ Cecilia in Hanau" (?), s. 1. et nom. imp. [last line of Hymnarius, แ "Amen mcccclxxxi.”], small 4to. (1797) Leighton, £24 10s. 4377 Psalterium et Cantica Canticorum et alia Cantica Biblica, Æthiopicè, et Syllabarium seu de legenda oratione (in fine Cantica Simeonis), [Edente Joanne Potken], printed in Coptic or Ethiopic characters in red and black, the first book printed in these characters, full-page woodcut in red of David playing on the harp, morocco extra, y. e., by H. Stamper, Romæ, impensis Jo. Potken Præpositi Ecclesiæ Sancti Georgii Coloniensis per Marcellum Silber al's Franck die ultima Junii [et die x. Septembris], 1513, small 4to. (1799) Maggs, £3 15s.

4378 Quaritch (B.) Facsimiles of Choice Examples selected from Illuminated Manuscripts, Unpublished Drawings and Illustrated Books of early date, numerous chromos, 1889, etc., imperial 8vo. (1814) Maggs, £5 55. 4379 Rabelais (Fr.) Euvres, nouvelle édition ornée de figures de B. Picart, etc., portrait, ornamental frontispieces, views, map and plates, 3 vol., morocco, plain, inside dentelles, g. e., by Capé, Amst., J. F. Bernard, 1741, 4to. (1822)

James, £9

[Seventeen copies on large paper are known.-ED.] 4380 Rapin and Tindal. History of England, printed upon writing paper, portraits by Houbraken and Vertue, plates of coins, seals, monuments, maps, etc., brilliant picked impressions, said to be the publisher's own copy, 5 vol., morocco, line tooled, marbled end leaves, g. e. (Roger Payne), (Syston Park), Knapton, 1732-47, folio (1832) Sotheran, £16 10S. 4381 Recueil de quelques Pièces Nouvelles et Galantes tant en Prose qu'en Vers, 2 parts in 1 vol., old French morocco, with elaborate gilt ornaments and crowned R and double A, the marks of Louis XIII. and Anne of Austria (the book not originally in this binding), Cologne, P. du Marteau (à la Sphère), 1667, 12mo. (1837) Maggs, £4 12s. 4382 Retza (Franciscus de). Comestorium Vitiorum, editio princeps, lit. semi-goth., double columns, 49 lines, without marks, rubricated, capitals painted in red and blue, morocco super extra, with the Seillière arms, g.e., Noremberga,

At

[Printed upon vellum, of which one other copy is recorded by Brunet as being in the Royal Library of Munich. the end is bound a document on vellum in German by Albert Pfalzgrave, of the Rhine, appointing one Cristoff Smid, of Aschaffenbach, to the post of choirmaster, dated 1470, a single sheet measuring 1634 by 21 inches.- Catalogue.] 4391 Schatzbehalter (Das Buch der) oder schrein der waren Reichtümer des heils und ewygter Seligkeit genant, lit. goth., double columns, rubricated capitals in blue and red, fullpage woodcuts by M. Wolgemuth, master of Albert Dürer, coloured by a contemporary hand, contemporary oaken boards, leather, with blind stamped ornaments, title of book on upper cover (worn), Nuremberg, A. Koberger, 1491, folio (1935) Quaritch, £70

[This has early German woodcuts, some of which were afterwards used for the Nuremberg Chronicle.-Catalogue.] 4392 Scott (Sir Walter). Waverley Novels, Prose Works, Poetical Works, and Life by Lockhart, portraits, views, vignettes, etc., 98 vol., morocco gilt, g. e., uniform set, 1830-40, small 8vo. (1943) Sotheran, £15 10S. 4393 Scott (Sir Walter). Waverley Novels, the Abbotsford edition, with numerous steel engravings and woodcuts by and after the best artists, 12 vol., morocco extra, g. e., Edinburgh, Cadell, 1842-47, imperial 8vo. (1944) Maxim, £7 5s. 4394 Seneca (L. A.) Epistolæ, editio princeps with a date, printed in small semi-gothic type, long lines, 36 to a page, without marks, a few leaves wormed at end, russia gilt, plain edges, with Wodhull arms on upper cover, good copy, Romæ, in domo Petri de Maximis per Arnoldum Pannartz, 1475, small folio (1967) Leighton, £7 10s.

[One of the few books printed by Pannartz alone, after his separation from Conrad Sweynheym.-Catalogue.] 4395 Seneca, his Tenne Tragedies, translated into Englysh (by Thomas Newton), first edition, black and roman letter, title within woodcut border, ornamental woodcut initials, some leaves washed and repaired, some rough lower edges, morocco, plain, inside dentelles, g. e., Thomas Marsh, 1581, small 4to. (1973) Pickering, £95s. 4396 Shakespeare (William). Comedies, Histories and Tragedies, published according to the true Originall Copies, the second impression, portrait by Droeshout on title, with Ben Jonson's verses opposite, perfect and genuine copy throughout (wormholes in plain margins in first and last leaves filled in, and one or two very small wormholes not filled in the first 6 plain margins), (measures 124 by 81⁄2 inches), russia, plain, inside dentelles, g. e., with ex-libris of John Adam, J. H. R. Chichester and A. Dalrymple, in morocco slip case, T. Cotes for R. Allot, 1632, folio (1977) Pickering, £160 4397 Shakespeare (William). Comedies, Histories and Tragedies, the second impression, title containing portrait by Droeshout inlaid, opposite leaf with verses backed, otherwise a

sound and genuine copy, measuring 1234 by 84 inches, old russia, T. Cotes for R. Allot, 1632, folio (1978) Robson, £140 4398 Shakespeare (William). Comedies, Histories and Tragedies, published according to the true Original Copies, unto which is added Seven Plays, never before printed in folio, the fourth edition, portrait by Droeshout, with verses beneath (inlaid), morocco extra, inside dentelles, g.e., by F. Bedford (Birket Foster's copy, measuring 14 inches by 834 inches), H. Herringman, E. Brewster and R. Bentley, 1685, folio (1979) Sotheran, £80 4399 Shakespeare (William). Comedies, Histories and Tragedies, published according to the true Original Copies, unto which is added Seven Plays, never before printed in folio, the fourth edition, title with portrait by Droeshout, and verses beneath washed and mended and inlaid, reproduction of the portrait inserted, last 2 leaves mended, large copy (141⁄2 by 81⁄2 inches), morocco plain, g. e., by Andrew Grieve, Edinburgh, in morocco slip case, H. Herringman, E. Brewster and R. Bentley, 1685, folio (1980)

Edwards, £70 4400 Shakespeare (William). Plays, with the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators and Notes by Johnson, Steevens and Reed, sixth edition, extra illustrated with above 2,100 old portraits of actors, poets, historical and dramatic characters, etc., views of old London, theatres, scenic plates, maps and plans, etc., a very interesting and valuable collection, 21 vol., russia gilt, g.e., Nichols, etc., 1813, 8vo. (1981) Rimell, £55 4401 Shaw (Rev. Stebbing). History and Antiquities of Staffordshire, county map mounted on linen, 62 copperplate views, pedigrees, etc., 2 vol., morocco, inside dentelles, g. e., by F. Bedford, J. Nichols, 1798-1801, folio (1985) Sotheran, £20 4402 Silvestre (J. B.) Universal Palæography, or Facsimiles of Writing of all Nations, with Descriptive Text and Introduction, translated from the French by Sir F. Madden, facsimiles, 2 vol. imperial folio of plates and text in 2 vol. imperial 8vo., Bohn, 1850 (1992) Bull, £9 10s. 4403 Smith (John). Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the most eminent Dutch, Flemish and French Painters, with a copious Description of their Principal Pictures, etc., portraits, etc., 9 vol., calf gilt, m. e., Smith and Son, 1839-42, royal 8vo. (2005) J. Bumpus, £36

4404 Spenser (Edmund). The Faerie Queene, disposed into Twelve Books, fashioning XII. Morall Vertues, first edition of the first three books, containing the three stanzas at end of Book III., suppressed in other editions, and spaces left blank for Welsh words in Book II., a few leaves repaired, morocco extra, inside dentelles, g. e., by De Coverly, Printed for William Ponsonbie, 1590, small 4to. (2027) Quaritch, £75 4405 Spenser (Edmund). The Faerie Queene, first edition of the