CATALOGUE OF A COLLECTION OF EARLY NEWSPAPERS AND ESSAYISTS, FORMED BY THE LATE JOHN THOMAS HOPE, ESQ. AND PRESENTED TO THE BODLEIAN LIBRARY BY THE LATE REV. FREDERICK WILLIAM HOPE, M.A. D.C.L. Oxford: AT THE CLARENDON PRESS. M.DCCC.LXV. NOTE. THE curious collection of Ephemerides described in the following Catalogue was formed by the late John Thomas Hope, Esq., the father of the donor, the Rev. Frederick William Hope, M.A., D.C.L., of Ch. Ch., by whose liberality the University of Oxford has been so greatly enriched. To the very valuable collections of Entomology, now under the care of Professor Westwood in the Museum, and that of Prints deposited in the Gallery of the Radcliffe Library, he added the very munificent gift of Newspapers and Essayists described in the following pages. Compared with the lists of works of a similar character given by Nichols*, it shews very favourably-numbering some seven hundred and sixty as against his eleven hundred. Unhappily the deficiencies in Mr. Hope's set occur in a period (the 17th century) which the Bodleian is ill able to fill up; and the Librarian would therefore wish to impress on the attention of all well-wishers to the history of Periodical Literature, that if they find (as frequently happens in the libraries of private families) any odd numbers of publications of this nature, they would kindly contribute their aid towards perfecting the special branch represented by this Collection. The Catalogue has been drawn up with great care by Mr. Jacob Henry Burn, author of " A Descriptive Catalogue of the London Traders, Tavern and Coffee-house Tokens presented to the Corporation of London Library by H. B. H. Beaufoy, Esq." 8vo. London, 1853. An Index has been added, as well of the Titles of the works themselves, as of Persons (including Pseudonyms) and Things incidentally mentioned in the Catalogue. * Lit. Anecdotes, vol. iv. p. 39; viii. 495; ix. 710. BODLEIAN LIBRARY, Oct. 13, 1865. |