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. 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 No. 1598. Coverdale's (Myles) Chris- £. 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. 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 No. 3527. Fisher (Bishop) of Rochester. £. 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. |