Charles (King) the First's Works Chine; Grandes Batailles de la, (par Cochin). Ciceronis Opera Philosophica, Delphini. Means of Clarendon's (Lord) History of Charles II. Fenelon, Directions pour la Conscience d'un Roi............................... Telemachus, 4to. 1734........ Foxe's (John) Actes and Monuments Googe's (B.) Eglogs, Epytaphes, and Sonnets Hackluyt's Voyages-Means of Detecting the Reprint Hawkesworth's Account of Captain Cook's First Voyage 81 Heath's (James) Chronicle of the Civil War, (List of Plates contained in) 46 Holland (H.) Herwologia; - (List of Portraits in) 36 and 37 Homeri Batrachomyomachia, 4to, 1486, and Maittaire's 8 and 9 Marlowe and Nash's Tragedie of Dido.......... Nash's (T.) Have with you to Saffron Walden....... Neale's (Sir T.) Directions how to Travel Sandys's (G.) Travels through Turkey, &c. Sedan Virgil, Horace, and New Testament Shakspeare's Venus and Adonis, a Poem - Terry's (E.) Voyage to East India (List of Plates in)...... 44 18 JOURNEY ROUND A Bibliomaniac's Library. Ars Memorandi, Notabilis per Figuras Evangelistarum, vel Memoriale Quatuor Evangelistarum.-Small Folio.Method of Learning by heart the Four Evangelists. The earliest Memoria Technica extant, and among the first Books of Images with the text,* as well as one of the earliest specimens of wooden block printing. At Talleyrand's Sale in 1816, a copy sold for 36l. 15s. Described by Heinekin, "Idée des Estampes," p. 394. &c. and in "Bibliotheca Spenceriana," by Dibdin. Heinekin has not ventured to assign its date. Mr. Dibdin thinks 1430; and Horne, in his " Bibliography," seems to coincide with this date being given it. * Being only preceded by Der Entkrist-Of Antichrist, small folio; and "The Fifteen Signs which Precede the Last Judgment"both in German. B Speculum Humane Salvationis. Small Folio. Editio Primæ vetustatis, tentamen artis impressoria.— Without place or date. Supposed to have been printed between the years 1440 and 1457. This first edition of the Speculum must be considered as the most interesting and curious of books. Guttenburg, the printer, evidently became acquainted with moveable types during its progress, as about one third of the Book is printed in characters cut on wooden blocks, and the remainder with rude moveable types. This work consists of sixty-three leaves, printed only on one side. The five first contain a Latin Preface, and the others each represent a wood engraving in vignette form, with historical events, taken from the Bible, and enclosed between architectural gothic borders, with explanatory inscriptions. Heinekin, p. 134, gives a detailed list of these vignettes, There are two editions of this Latin Speculum, which are nearly of equal rarity and value. The first is the one, where the text of the Cuts 1, 2, 4, 11, 13, 14, 16, 17, 21, 22, 26, 27, 46, and 55, is printed on wooden blocks, whilst the text of the Preface and of the remainder of the Cuts, is printed with moveable types. In the second edition, the whole of the text is executed with moveable types. A fac simile of the last plate of the 2nd. edition, will be found in Heinekin, p. 443. At the Sale of the Merly Library, 1813, a copy of the first edition sold for 3157. and also a copy of the Flemish edition for 2521. which latter is now in Earl Spencer's collection. |