1S2 CATALOGUE OF A LOAN COLLECTION OF BOOKS. 171. To the notice of the " .Sermo pro Episcopo Pvicrorum," add — Mr. John Gough Nichols writes to me, in reference to this sermon : " The only ct.>py I have seen or heard of is one in the British Museum. On commencing the collation of it I find the variations of spelHng [in your copy] from the Museinn copy so numerous, amounting to four or five in nearly every line, that it incui-s a much more ti-oublesome task than I anticipated. I cannot but think Wynkyn de Worde's the earlier edition." Before 17G, itu<er( — 1 70.* Legenda aurea. The recto and reverse of the first leaf of this volimie contain full-page engravings, representing the most holy Trinity, and the Saints in Heaven. " Kmprynted at London, in Fletestrete, at the sygne of the Sonne." 'Woodcuts. FoUo. L") 12— The llev. J. Fuller Kussell. 19S. For "Folio," read "4to." Before 213, insej-t — 212.* "Petronylla." 4to. No date, A metrical legend of the greatest rarity — The Rev. J. Fuller Russell. 212.** "Stella clericorum." This title is over a woodcut of a priest reading at a lectern. 4to. No date. 212.*** "De .sanctu Marcho." Opuscuhun de universali muudi machina ac de metheoricis impressionibus a Fratre Jeronimo de scto Marcho ordinis minorum," etc Woodcuts of the signs of the zodiac, «kc. 4to. No date. 212.**** "Sermo Fnitris Hieronymi de Fcrraria In vigilia Natiui- tatis domini cora Fratril)us snis recitatus." This tract contains a specimen of the Roman letter, probal)ly the first used in England. 4to. ')0[). The tliree foregoing tracts are bound uj) with 198 — The Rev. J. Fuller Kussell. Before Richard Fakes, insert — Peteu Theveris,. styled by Dibdin "our first }»rinter in the borough of Southwark." 213.* Higden's Polychronicon. Folio. ir)27 — The Rev. J. Fuller Rus.sell. Henrt Pepwell, a citizen, printtr, and stationer of London, d. cir. 1,039. 2 1 3.** " 1 Fere foloweth a deuoute treatyse, com])yled by mayster Walter Ilylton, of the songe of aungelles." Beneath this title is a woodcut of the 1'lcs.sed Virgin and Child, with SS. Joachim, Anna, and two angels. 'I"o the nltovc " 'J'reatyse " Kuccceds another, with the title — "Here folfjweth also a veray necesKiiry Kpystle of dyscrec3'on in styryngcs of the soule." Below this title is a woodcut of a penitent kneeling before our Bics-sed liord ; exactly like, and evidently from the same block OH the one on the last page of the nni(|ue eoj>y (172) of "Communyca- cyon betwono (iod and man." On the revei'se of the last leaf is a woodcut of tl)C Almigiity Father cntltroned, ami holding our Saviour on the cross. 4to. l.')2l Tlic Itev. J. Fuller Russell. 227. After ir>31, add - This copy belonged to Thomas Whartob, iiud, wlicn in Hclxr's lilirjii'v, was described by Dibdin in " 'I'ypographical Anticpiities," vol. iii. p. 221. Before .Imiin O.swkn, iii»n-t-- JiiMN (JvKUTON, printed ut Ipswich.
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