considering the owner of them, of still greater interest: for the circumstances by

the Booke of Common Pray

er and Ceremonies, black

letter, 1575

No. 545. Austin (Wm.) HÆC HOMO,

wherein the Excellency of

£. s. d

0 13 0

Woman is described; with

Portraits of Mrs. Griffiths

and the Author, by Glover.

Lond. 1639.

0 16 O

No. 733. Buchannon (Geo.) Detection of the Duinges of Marie Queene of Scottes, touchand the Murder of her Husband, and her Conspiracie, Adulterie, and pretended Marriage with the Earl

Bothwell, 1598, &c. &c.

No. 802. Barbiere (John) the famous Game of Chesse Play, cuts, 1673. The most ancient and learned Play, called, The Philosopher's Game, invented for the honourable Recreation of the Studious, by W. F. black letter, 1563

No. 1300. A PLAISTER FOR A GALLED

HORSE, very rare, 1548.
See Herbert's Ames, vol. 1.

581

0 14 6

240

3 17 6

which they were collected, were of no ordinary occurrence. I allude to the

No. 1312. A Counter Blaste to Tobacco.

Ib. 1604.

No. 1326. Bentley's (Thos.) Monument of Matrons, containing seven severall Lamps of Virginitie, or Distinct Treaties, black letter, collated and perfect, a very fine copy, extremely rare and curious, imprinted at London, by Thomas Dawson, for Wil

liam Seres, extremely rare

No. 1334. Bert (Edmund) an approved

Treatise of Hawkes and
Hunting. Lond. 1619

No. 1598. Coverdale's (Myles) Chris-
tian's State of Matrimony,
wherein Husbandes and
Wyves may learne to keepe

£. s. d.

0 17 0

8 18 6

1 10 0

No. 1405. Cokain's (Sir Aston) Poems of

Divers Sorts, rare, (for an

account of the Author see

Mr. Brand's MS. Note)

Lond. 1658.

No. 1540. Burton (Wm.) Seven Dia

1 1 0

200

BIBLIOTHECA RATCLIFFIANA; or, 'A Catalogue of the elegant and truly

logues, black letter, Lond.
1606. George Whetstone's
a Mirour for Magistrates of
Cities. b. 1. printed by Rich-

ard Jones, 1584.

No. 1542. BYSHOP's (John) beautifull

Blossomes, black letter, im

printed by Henrie Cockyn,

1577

No. 1754, Characters (viz.) The Surfeit to A. B. C. Lond. 1656. Dr. Lupton's London and Country carbonadoed, and quartered in severall Characters, 1632. Essayes and Characters, by L. G. 1661

f. s. d.

3 13

4 10 0

4 7 0

valuable Library of JOHN RATCLIFFE, Esq. late of Bermondsey, deceased. The

tle for Nice Noses, by L. F.

black letter, 1591.

No. 3523. FAGES (Mrs.) Poems, Fames
Roule, &c. rare, 1651

No. 3527. Fisher (Bishop) of Rochester.
This Sermon followynge was
complyed and sayd in the
Cathedrall Churche of St.
Paule, the body being pre-
sent, of the most famous
PRYNCE KYNGE HENRY
7, the 10th Day of May,
1509, which sermon, with
the wood cut, was imprinted
by Wynkin de Worde,
MCCCCCIX. Thereafter
followeth a Mornynge Re-
membrancer at the Moneth
Minde of the Noble Prynces
Margarete, Countesse of
Richmond and Darbye, Mo-
der unto Kynge Henry 7,
and Grandame to oure Soue-
rayne Lord that nowe is, up-
pon whose Soule Almighty
God have Mercy. Wood
cut. Emprinted at London,
by Wynke de Worde, black
letter, both extra rare

£. s. d.

2.10 0

515 6

370

whole collected with great judgment and expense, during the last thirty years of his life comprehending a large and most choice collection of the rare old English black letter, in fine preservation, and in elegant bindings, printed by CAXTON, LETTOU, MACHLINIA, the anonymous St. Albans Schoolmaster, Wynkyn de Worde, Pynson, Berthelet, Grafton, Day, Newberie, Marshe, Jugge, Whytchurch, Wyer, Rastell, Coplande, and the rest of the Old English Typographers: several missals and MSS. and two Pedigrees on vellum, finely illuminated.'

THE title page then sets forth a specimen of these black-lettered gems; among which our eyes are dazzled with a galaxy of Caxtons, Wynkyn de Wordes, Pynsons, &c. &c. The sale took place on March 27, 1776; although the year is unaccountably omitted, by that renowned Auctioneer, the late Mr. Christie, who disposed of them.