The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-04-21

are the .Boke of the Fayt Of Armes and
Of Chyvalrie,' Caxton, 1889, a good copy
OF one of the first books printed in Eng
lish; Bartholomew de Glauvilles DE Pro-
prietoribus Rerum,' translated into Eng
lish by John Trevisa. and embellished
with curious woodcuts. published in Lon
don in 1885. by Englands second printer,
Wynkyn de worde. whose earlist book IS
dated 1883; a treatise on irregular and de-
fective Latin verbs. also printed by De
Worde. London in 1895, by Engiand's secon
Worde, London about 1900; a copy, 152S. Of
the tract of Henry VIII. against Martin
Luther, the first edition Of whica was is
sued in 1921; and the first edition OF Milton s
Paradise Lost London, 1859.
In case by them selves are an excellent,
tall copy of the SHAKESPEARE first folio. 1923
and the flflrst five editions of Wahon's
Compleat Angler 1858. 1855. 1861, 1868, and
1876, whic are elegantly and uniformly
bound In green levant morocco and gold
The fifth edition comprises not only the
second part of the Angler by Cotton, but
the third by Col Robert Venabies, all I'M
der the title OF the Universal Angler.
Among the latter copies OF Walton in the
ton of 1886, enularged to four volumes by
the addition of hundreds of plates. Other
extended" books are the catalogue of ].
Wilson's select collection Of engravings,
London, 1928, extra illustrated with 100 en-
cravings, including many of the rarity and
value; J. Maberly's The Print-Colleetor,
London, 1874, with fifty-two extra engrav-
ings, many OF which are extremely valu-
able and of much beauty: the catalogue
of Horace Walpole's collections at Straw
berry Hill. London. 1912. extra Illustrated
with ninety plates; Buckinghams Mem
oirs of Mary Sturat,' London, 1874, ex-
ira illustrated. with 159 portraits and
plates; w. II. Irelands 'Scribbleomania.'
London, 1915 extra illustrated. with 127 por-
traits; James Hogg's Queens Wake,
London, 1S1S fifty extra portraits and
plates; copy Of Burns poems. and one
of Jesses Memoirs of the Reign OF George
I'll
A little volume Of special interest is an
edition of Sallust, issued by William Ged,
practically the first book successfully
stereotyped. While Ged is generally credi
ted with the invention of stereotyping,
the date of this work is commonly given
as 1879. AS all of the three copies in the
British Museum were published in 1744, it
is believed that the assignment of the
earlier date is due to the repeated copying
Of an arly writer's mistake.
Noteworthy bindings are shown in Jean
Grolier's copy of Jamblichus de Mys-
teriis Egyptiorum.' printed by Aldus, 1915;
Samuel Hernes Account of the Charter
7 An
Paris 1910. a beautiful specimen of painted
decorations; and John Pines Horace, Lon
don, 1888, the text and illustrations all ell
graved on copper, with an elaborate bind
ing of red and gold. Other books locked
under glass are Ciceros Tusculan Dspu-
tations,' the first English translation, by
John Belman, London, 1851 volume or
st. Chrysostom. printed at Cologne by
Ulrich Zell in 1867; and copy of Euri-
pides. Strasburg, 1850, which belonged TO
the celebrated Greek scholar Richard Por-
son. and is enriched with notes in his
handwriting.
A striking feature of the library is the
collection of the editions of Herodotus pro-
bably including every one of importance
up to the death Of Mr.. Phoenix, whose
special interest in the historian was sumu-
lated by travel in Egypt. In all there
about 600 volumes of Herodotus, and works
relating to him. Among the most valuable
editions are the first Aldine, Venice, 1902,
French edition of the Greek text, elegantly
printed by Henricus Stephanus, 1870;
French translation, Du Ryer, Paris, 1913;
the first English version, containing only
the two books Clio and Euterpe,' printed
Inv Thomas Marshe, London, 1854, and
veIIum edition, Leipsic. 1901.
OF particular interest are copy OF a
sermon preached in Trinity Church in l7oo
by the Rev. John Sharpe, at the funeral
of Lard Cornbury, wife Of Lord Cornbury
(then Governor Of New York and New
Jersey), New York, Bradford, 1706; Anna
Stewards 'Monody on Major Andre, New
York. Rivington, 1871: and the first d.
rectorv Of New York city. published by
David Franks in 1885,
The autographs exhibited have been
chosen from the most valuable and gener
allv interesting in a collection Of LOO or
l 200. There are original autograph letters
of all the Presidents of the United States
from Washington to Lincoln, being the
series sold in Philadelphia at the Sanitary
Fair of 1854 Original manuscripts by au-
thors comprise the whole of Southey"s
poem 'Modoc, which was published in 1905
Emerson's essay on old age, Howthorn's
Pilgrimage to Old Boston, DR.. Holmes
essay on sun-painting and sunsculpture,
and chapter of Bancroft's History of
the United states