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SHERRATT & HUGHES . PBOPOSITIO JOHANNIS RUSSELL, printed by William Caxton, circa a.d. 1476. Beproduced from the copy preserved in the John Bylands Library. . . . With an introduction by Henry Guppy. 1909. 8vo, pp. 36, 8. 3s. 6d. net. This "proposition" is an oration, pronomiced by John Bussell, Garter King of Arms, on the investiture of Charles, Duke of Burgundy, with the Order of the Garter, in February, 1469, at Ghent. The tract consists of four printed leaves, without title-page, printer's name, date, or place of printing. It is printed in the type which is known as Caxton's type " No. 2," but whether printed at Bruges or at Westminster has yet to be determined. For many years the copy now in the John Bylands Library was considered to be unique. Indeed, until the year 1807 it lay buried and unnoticed in the heart of a volume of manuscripts, with which it had evidently been bound up by mistake. Since then, another copy has been discovered in the library at Holkham Hall, the seal of the Earl of Leicester. . A BOOKE IN ENGLYSH METBE, of the Great Marohaunt man called "Dives Fragmaticus ". . . . 1563. Beproduced in facsimile from the copy in the John Bylands Library. With an introduction by Percy E. Newbery; and remarks on the vocabulary and dialect, with a glossary by Henry C. Wyld. 1910. 4to, pp. xxxviii. 16. Ss. net. The tract here reproduced is believed to be the sole surviving copy of a quaint little primer which had the laudable object of instructing the yoaig in the names of trades, professions, ranks, and common objects of daily life in their own tongue. The lists are rhymed, and therefore easy to commit to memory, and they are pervaded by a certain vein of humour. . A LITIL BOKE the whiche traytied and reherced many gode thinges necessaries for the . . . Pestilence . . . made by the . . . Bisshop of Arusiens. . . [London], [1485 ?]. Beproduced in facsimile from the copy in the John Bylands Library. With an introduction by Guthrie Vine. 1910. 4to, i)p. xxxvi. 18. 5s. net. Of this little tract, consisting of nine leaves, written by Benedict Kanuti, Bishop of Vasteras, three separate editions are known, but only one copy of each, and an odd leaf are known to have survived. There is no indication in any edition of the ^lace of printing, date, or name of printer, but they are all printed in one of the four type employed by William de Machlinia, who printed first in partnership with John Lettou, and afterwards alone, in the city of London, at the time when William Caxton was at the most active period of his career at Westminster. THE ELLESMERE CHAUCEB : Reproduced in Facsimile. Price £50 net. LE PELERIN DE VIE HUMAINE. (Privately printed for the Roxburghe Club). , Soho Square, London, W. 27