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BOOKSELLERS' CATALOGUES. MAY.
MR. FRANCIS EDWARDS'S Catalogue .No. 314 has, tirst of all, a Juliana Berners, ' The Book of St. Albans ' : the second edition, in a good state, with but a few leaves slightly soiled, and folios 66 and last in facsimile. The second edition as collectors know differs from the first by the addition of two woodcuts arid of the ' Treatise of Fysshynge with an Angle,' and the substitution of the arms of England for those of St. Albans on the last leaf. It is perhaps hardly necessary to mention that this was " emprynted at Westmestre iby Wynkyn the Worde the yere of thycarnacon of our lorde, M.CCCC.LXXXXVI.," 330/. There are three Shakespeares : a Second Folio, 150Z., a Third Folio, 18(M., and a Fourth Folio, 10W.; and a ' Faerie Queene' the first issue of the first edition, as is proved by the fact that the Welsh words in vol. i. are not printed 150. We noticed several good Milton items; a copy of Harvey's ' Anatomical Exercitations,' first English edition, with the por- trait, 1653, 9/.; a copy of the sixth edition of Stow's
- London,' " Corrected and Improved by John
Strype," 1754-5, 81. 15s.; the First and Second Folios of the Workes of Ben Jonson, 501.; a first edition of Johnson's ' Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland,' containing two autograph letters, one from Johnson to the Quaker Thomas Cumming. and the other from James Macpherson to John Blackburn, 26Z.; and a first edition of Mrs. "Glasse, the famous " Art of Cookery made Plain and Easy; which far exceeds anything of the kind ever yet Published, by A Lady," 1747, 14. About a dozen herbals are offered Gerard's and Par- 'kinson's among them; the two niost interesting are Leonardus Fuchsius, ' De Historia Stirpium iCommentarii Insignes, maximis impensis et Vigiliis
elaborati ,' with 500 woodcuts of plants, 1542,
4(W., and the 'Herbarius zu Teutsch' known in Latin as ' Hortus Sanitatis ' in Gothic letter, the text rubricated, and having several hundred wood- cuts, printed by Jo. Schoeffer, 1485, 45. Out of a number of very attractiye early printed books we can mention only a first edition of Pinder's ' Speculum Passionis' in Roman letter, rubricated, having painted capitals, 40 full-page woodcuts, and 37 smaller woodcuts, printed by Hans Schaufelein of Nuremberg, 1507, 24.; and a copy of the ' Chronicle of St. Albans 'a first edition of the second book printed at St. Albans. No perfect copy is known; in this, out of 288 leaves, 15 are wanting, but have been supplied in facsimile. It was sold at the Ashburnham sale, and is now offered for 20W. There are seven copies of early editions of the Bible, including a "Great" Bible, 54., and a "Bishops" Bible, 35.; and a number of rare MSS. Of these latter we must briefly mention a French fifteenth- century breviary, in Gothic letter, richly illumi- nated and decorated (executed for Henri de Lor- raine), 350/. : another breviary of the early sixteenth century, written also in Gothic letter, decorated in green, blue, and red, and bearing the name of the
scribe ("Completum per me Jo.de lacu anno
1516"), 130Z.; and an English MS. offered for 200^. of St. Bonaventura : ' The Proheme of the Booke that is eleped the Mirour of the Blessede Lyf of Jhesu Cryst,' written on vellum in Gothic letter in 1410. Yet another MS. is of special interest : a fifteenth-century ' Le Liure appelle les Regnars trauersans les perilleuses voyes des folles fiances du
monde,' i.e., Reynard the Fox, by Jean Bouehet,
written on vellum, and adorned with 9 miniatures
depicting scenes with figures of animals, 3501.
Mr. Francis Edwards has also sent us a catalogue of Books on Central and South Africa. These in- clude several seventeenth-century works, such as the ' Africse Descriptio,' by Leo African us, Elzevir, 1632. 61. 10.*., and Richard Jobson's 'The Golden Trade, or a Discovery of the River Gambia, and the Golden Trade of the Aethiopians,' 1623, 8/. 10s.; a copy of Alberti's ' Vues d'Afrique meridionale,' 1811, 12/.; Sir Andrew Smith's ' Illustrations of the Zoology of South Africa,' 5 vols., 1849, 35K.; and The South African Commercial Advertiser, 1837-49, in 12 vols., 15/. There is an appendix of books on Egypt, among which is Lepsius's ' Denkmajer aus Aegypten und Aethiopien,' from the Prussian ex- pedition of 1842-5, 60/.
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ATHOR. The Marquis de Ruvigny gives the available information iu the volumes of his 'Plan- tagenet Roll.'
A. J. PEATLINO ("Pimps"). These are little faggots of firewood, so called in London and the South. Vide 'N.E.D.'
RUNIC CALENDAR. If MR. CHAPPELL would like to see an old runic stave fixed as haft to an adze, date cut into the iron, 1642, G. E. would be glad to show it to him.
F. J. M. ("Old Lady of Threadneedle Street"),- See 5 S. ii. 229, 291, where the name is said to have been given to the Directors of the Bank by Cobbett, because, like Mrs. Partington, they tried to stem the waves of national progress with their broom. It has also been ascribed to a caricature of Gill- ray's, 22 May, 1797, referring to the stoppage of cash payments by the Bank.
