Old Books.

copy of this first-printed English version is known , hence the high price paid for this so far defective copy ; " Boetius de Philosophico Consolatu , " cuts , in original oak boards , Argentina ? , J . Gruniger , 1501— £ 10 5 s . ; Booke of Common Prayer , b . l ., cuts , R . Graftoni , Mense Junii , 1549 , the first of Ed . VI . — £ 71 ( Quaritch ) ; the Second Prayer Book of Ed . VI ., b . l ., cuts , R . Graftoni , Mense Augusti 1552— £ 66 ( Quaritch ) ; Prayer Bookb . l . cutsR . Jugge and

, , , , J . Cawood , 1561 , Queen Elizabeth ' s Liturgy , belonged to Lord Mayor Alyn , 1571— £ 21 ( Quaritch ) ; Prayer Book , Charles I . ' s copy , 1639— £ 20 10 s . Brant ( S . ) ; Ship of Fooles , b . l ., with Latin text , 1570— £ 19 ( Ellis ) ; Byble in Englyshe , with Cranmer ' s Prologue , b . l ., cuts , title and last leaf mended , E . Whitchurch , 1541— £ 32 10 s . ( Quaritch ) ; The Byble , T . Matthews , emendations of Tyndale ' s version , b . l ., cuts , 1549— £ 41 ; Liturgy of Geneva , the first

edition of Knox ' s Liturgy , with Psalms and Catechism , 1556— £ 41 ; "Moses Pentateuch , " translated by W . Tyndale , a fragment of 147 leaves of Ed . I ., the only perfect copy of which is in the British Museum— £ 40 ( Quaritch ) ; Heywood ( J . ) , " Spider and the Flie , " b . l ., verse , cuts , title reprinted , 1556—£ 10 15 s . ; " Homilies to be Declared and Reclde , " etc ., b . l ., written b y Cranmer 1547— £ 15 15 s . ; "Horse" etc . 1528-48 b . l . with fine woodcut

, , , , , borders and cuts by G . Tori de Bourges , 1527— £ 101 ( Quaritch ); " Liturgie Anglicane , " in French , woodcut title , in original binding , 1553 , perfect copy of Ed . VI . ' s First Prayer Book— £ 45 ; Fewterer ( Johan ) , " Myrrour or Glasse of Christe ' s Passion , " b . l ., title by Holbein , and cuts ( R . Redman ) , 1534—£ 30 ; " Figures du Veil Testament , " etc ., b . l ., G . Couteau , circa 1520— £ 36 ( Ellis ); Glanvillede Proprietatibus Rerumb . l . Wynkyn de Wordeno date

, , , , — £ 25 , sold for £ 70 7 s . in the Roxburghe sale ; " Biblia Sacra Latina ( Testamentum vetus ) e versione and cum prsefatione Sancti Hieronymi ( sine loco aut anno , sed Moguntio ? cura Johannis Gutenburgi , " circa 1452 ) , folio . This was the famous Bible above referred to as not belonging to the library of Lord

Hampton , though added to the sale . It is in the original pigskin binding , on oak boards , as restored by Bedford , and was the object of the greatest interest to the literary virtuosi and the book dealers present , and brought the highest sum in the sale , in which the prices surpassed any hitherto paid at auction for the same editions . In the third and last day ' s sale . —The first Primer of Queen Elizabeth— " Primer and Catechisme set forth at large with many godly prayers" etc .. b . l ., 1559 with the title pagebut wanting first leaf of Kalendar

, , , , containing also the Epistles and gospels , 1563 , in 1 vol . — £ 110 ( Quaritch ) . This copy is so rare that Mr . Maskell ' s , having no title page , sold at Sotheby ' s in 1857 for £ 70 . " Prymer off Salysburye use sett owght along wythowght ony serchyng wyth many prayers , Jesus Psalter and goodly pyctures , " etc . " b . l ., cuts , in original binding , Paris , Thylman Kerver , for John Growte , yn London , 1533— £ 146 ( J . Pearson ) . "Testament ( Ne we ) newlye corrected" Tyndale ' s version b

, , y M . Coverdale , b . l ., cuts , large and fine copy , no date , circa 1534— £ 111 ( Quaritch ) . This was considered to be an unknown and unique edition , and probably prior to 1534 , as Matt , i ., 18 , is rendered " marryed to Joseph , " and not " betrothed , " as in that of 1534 . " Tyndale ' s Testament , wyth translation of D . Erasmus in Latin , " b . l ., 1550— £ 12 ; " Testamente ( Newe ) , with the notes and explanations of the dark places therein" etc . b . l . 155370 cuts ( R .

, , , , Jugge ) ( 1553)— £ 81 . Imperfect copies have sold for £ 27 ; this was perfect . "Testamentum Novum Latine , " etc ., Antverpire , 1544 , in blue morocco , by Padeloupe le Jeune— £ 37 ; "Primer in Englishe and Latyn , set forth by the ; Kinges Majestie ( Henry VIII . ) , and his Clergie , " etc ., 1545-66 , b . l ., the Latin in Roman , R . Grafton , 1545 , contains the Litany of 1544 , perfect copy— £ 111 . " Primer in Englishe and Latine" etc . b . l ., 1567-66 cutswith Exposicyon

, , , , , & c , upon Psalm xxx ., by Hierome or Ferrary" ( Savonarola)— £ 45 10 s . ( Quaritch ) . This was the Primer of Philip and Mary , rarely found with the work of Savonarola . " Prymer in Englysh and Latyn , " after the use of Sarum , etc ., b . l , cuts , T . Petyt , 1543— £ 114 ( Quaritch ) . "Testament , " both Latine