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CATALOGUE OF A LOAN COLLECTION OF BOOKS. 1S3 233.* " Illustrium Maioris BritannifB Scriptorum . . . autoro luanne Balaeo sudovolca." 4to. 1548. On the title-page is a represeutatiun of John Bale jtresenting his book to Edwaid VJ. It is engraved in Dibdin's " Bibliographical Decameron," vol. ii. p. 30'J — 'J'he Bev. J. Fuller Kussell. Joii.v Day. To the volumes assigned to this printer, wld — 240.* De "Anticjuitate Britannicte Kcclesiiu it Priuilegiis Ecclesite Can- tuariensis, cum Archiepiscopis ciusdem, 70." Folio. 1572. The above volume, the work of Archbishop Parker, is, according to Dibilin, "without doubt, one of the scarcest books in existence." Only twenty-one copies (sixteen of which are in public libraries) have been discovered, and no two accord with each other. Some account of them is given in Martin's " Bibliographical Catalogue of Privately-printed Books," 8vo, 1854. This cojty contains a fine impression, in its genuine state, of the rare portrait of the Ai-chbishoj), by Berg ; and, when in Mr. Bindley's library, was described by Dibdin, "Typographical Anti- quities," vol. iv. p. 127. There is a copy of this book in the lil^rary of the Dean and Ciiapter of Westminster — The Bev. J. Fuller Russell. 247. For "Catechisms," read " Cathcchismus." I'nder Bibles and Parts of the Bible, for " Missale, 1537," read " Prymcr, 1537. vol.. xxix. c c