The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-06-01
HUH Library
Sale Is Near
Third Portion, To Be Sold This
Month, Contains Many Rare
Volumes.
Especial Dlspatch)

LONDON, May 81
iH catalogue Of the third portion NJ
'ne ifuth Library. which Is 10 be dis
perscd by Messrs. Sotheby IN min.
DAYS beginning next Monday. was Issued
iast week. Il comprises .sa5 lots undor
letters b to II. inclusive. To mention al,
'he treasures enumerated would no i'm.
possipic' but there is to be noted a sin.l.
oaNton' Covers "confesslo A,nan,is" y,
winch Blades records only five ncrfoc,
copies This copy has 2ls leaves nm,
eighteen leaves are In fac-simile In ron.
efdl condition 1t Is described as clean ana
'"nu' ana free from stains and worm
holes
among the Erasmus entries there is a
Nynkyn de Worde "a i.ytell Booko ~
GOOD Mancrs for Chyldrcn." l53s. and
other works from the same press are
hishop Fishers Treatise Concerninr I'm.
fruiiui sayings OF David" 1895 edition. ,;s
funeral sermon on Henry VII. 1909: Fruit
lof Rc iemption,' an unusual 1880 edition.
Waiter lIiltons Scala Projections" ,,o
1877 edition. the second book printca nv
ne "orde in his own name. and also that
oi i"'5' and stephen Halves Example OF
virtue. lo2o In specially high type an
pears ether. Gallant" possibly by John
Lydsate. The only other copy known Is in
the British Museum: this one is mut,lated
and restored. and several pr yes facsImiled.
having originally been taken from the
covers of another book
OF great names besides Erasmus falling
in this portion of the library. Fielding
Goldsmith and Holbcin head long series
Including first editions OF Tom Jones p.
The Vicar Of Wakefield" and the Ills
ioriarum Veteris Instrument Icones ;.
There are also long series under John
Evelyn, Fisher. Bishop OF Rochester:
Richard Fiecknoe Phineas Fletcher, John
Ford. DR.. Thomas Fuller. Robert Greene
tthe only known first edition OF Second
Part Of Connie Catching" and first editions
OF "Euphues. His Ccnsure to Philautus.
and "Cicerons Amor" Of which the only
Iother known copies are in the British
Auseum) John Haywood. Thomas Hey
wood C'London's Ius Honorarium." the
original edition-possibly Garrick's. and
the only known copy and James Howell.
There are fifteen entries under Homer.
Some quaint lines are quoted from the
first translation OF the Iliad in an English
dress. l5S1:-
Had not Juno spit on her hands and
taken better hold
Under Horace are fifteen entries. The
"ioraes' number more than forty, an,
among the individual treasures noted are
THE Boke of AIayd Emlyn" &c. 1890. a
unique and perfect copy, formerly In the
Caldicott and Daniel libraries and -Four
Leaves OF True Love" (Wynkyn de Wordc).
There are also Stephen Halves "Conyer-
cyon of Swerers" edition about 15tO).
and volume on Hawking" Augsburg.
1897.
An almanac of Thomas Hills for 1871
has blank pages for diary. and these
and all other available spaces are covered
with interesting notes by some former
owner. who used it as a commonplace
book. The. first edition of Eroissar in
English. by Pynson, $3.50. bears the auto
graph of Jane. Countess of Southampton.
Among the collections catalog,Icd are n
scrapbook Of fragments OF early printed
and rare books. two volumes of rare pieces
relating to France during the civil wars
OF the sixteenth century. and 263 OF
prints mounted In three imperial
folfo volumes