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CONTENTS.- N° 103. NOTES:-The Library of Trinity College, Cambridge, 481- whose names most frequently occur are Beaupré Bell (B.A. 1725), Sylvius Elwis (B.A. circa 1600), John Laughton (Librarian 1669-73), Sir Henry Newton or Puckering, Thos. Skeffington (Fellow 1571), and Thos. Whalley (Fellow 1591). These were all spoken of in my first paper, and I merely Shenstone-Chinese Folk-medicine, 485-A "tender" CatOld Times in Massachusetts-Literary Coincidence-A Rail-repeat the names here. Of living donors should way in the Tree Tops-Dated Book-plates, 486. QUERIES:-Cheney of Grantham, 486-St. Paul's Cathedral, A.D. 2199, 457-Author of Sonnet Wanted-"Roarer " yellow sands"-Authors Wanted, 489. Irving. 490-The Bonython Flagon, &c., 491-Tallies, 492 " The Episcopal Wig-"The vale discovereth the hill ". of Colours- "Manchet Loaf "- Rice: Rise, 496-Book- Magdalen College, Oxford "-"The Bibliographer," &c. Notices to Correspondents, &c. Notes. THE LIBRARY OF TRINITY COLLEGE, (Continued from p. 383.) I propose now to resume the thread of my narrative, and speak of some of the more interesting of the early printed books. It is by no means easy, in thus sketching the salient points of a great collection, to determine which method of treatment shall be followed, whether by subject, or by country and town of printing, or by date. In any case, the interest must necessarily be unequally sustained, and it is hard to avoid a certain amount of repetition. Everything considered, however, it seems best in the first instance to follow the method of date, and I shall, therefore, for the present confine myself to the incunabula (sweet sound in the ear of a bibliographer), or books printed before the close of the fifteenth century. Of these the library possesses rather more than 500, which have been arranged during the last few years, and described in a printed catalogue. About three hundred of these are in the collection bequeathed by Mr. Grylls, spoken of in my first paper, and most of the early printed Greek books in that of Dr. Matthew Raine. Of other donors, those be mentioned Mr. A. A. Vansittart, Auditor of the College; and Mr. S. Sandars. The Of the early printed English books, the number is inconsiderable, but what there is is valuable. Of Caxtons there are the following: (1) The Recuyell of the historyes of Troye, translated into English by Caxton, from the French of Raoul le Fevre. This book, of which altogether twenty copies, most of which are more or less imperfect, are known to exist, has the proud distinction of being the first book ever printed in the English language. It has been almost certainly shown by Mr. Blades (Life and Typography of William Caxton, i. 45, seqq.; see also ii. 3) that this work was printed at Bruges, where Caxton learnt the art of printing from Colard Mansion. college copy, which is not quite perfect, wanting a few leaves at both beginning and end, was given in 1673, by Valentine Pettit (Fellow 1668), together with the next but one of the remaining Caxtons. (2) The Dictes of the Philosophres (first edition) doubtless the first book printed in England, for I suppose no one will now maintain the date 1468 to be other than an error for 1478, in the Exposicio Hieronymi, printed at Oxford. The present work, a translation by Earl Rivers from the French, was printed at "Westmestre," under the shade of the Abbey, in 1477, the year which saw the overthrow and death of Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy, at Nancy. (3) The Game of the Chess (second edition), translated from the French version of the Latin work of Jac. de Cessolis. This work is undated, but it was probably printed in 1483. The quaint woodcuts, sixteen in number, of this book are well known; the one which is reproduced by Mr. Blades (ii. 96) is, perhaps, the strangest, showing how EvilMerodach, the son of Nebuchadnezzar, "a jolly man without justice," did have his father's body "hewn into three hundred pieces." (4) The Eneydos, Caxton's paraphrase of parts of the Eneid ("the boke of Eneydos, compyled by Vyrgyle, which hath be translated oute of latyne in to frenshe, and oute of frenshe reduced in to Englysshe by me Wyllm Caxton"), finished in 1490, in the last year of the great printer's life; for Caxton died in 1491, and Wynkyn de Worde, his assistant, succeeded to the business. The three last-mentioned works are perfect copies, save only a single blank leaf missing in No. 2. To these four volumes, which were the only Caxtons known to exist in the library until recently, another must now be added. During the past |