194 AESOP, FABLES, TRANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH
        WILLIAM CAXTON, curious wood engravings
        BLACK LETTER, VERY RARE, imperfect, old russia
        EMPRYNTED BY RICHARD PYNSON (NO DATE)

  *** This edition is altogether unknown and undescribed. 
        The present copy commences with signature C1, and
        extends to sig.  S(v) in sixes, on the reverse of
        which is the colophon, with Pynson’s device
        underneath. It wants sheets A and B, and E (iiii).

  380 Cellii (E.) Eques Auratus Anglo-Wirtembergieus;
        id est, actus admodum Solennis; quo
        Jacobus Rex Angliae, &c.  Regii Garteriorum
        supremus ac Frid.  Ducem Wirtembergicum,
        per Rob.  Spencer Barnoem declaravit,
        portrait woodcut Tubing. 1605

  *** This was Sir Wm. Dethick’s copy, Garter King at
        Arms, who accompanied Lord Spencer in his
        journey; in it he has written some very curious
        circumstances respecting the journey, and of
        the ill-treatment he experienced from Sir Rob. 
        Spencer and Wm. Seager, “a poore paynter,
        sonne of a base fleminge and spawne of a Jew,”
        with an account of the family of Dethick, or De
        Dyk, of Derbyshire and Staffordshire.

  475 CHRISTINE OF PISA.  THE FAYT OF ARMES AND OF CHYVALRYE
        BLACK LETTER, one leaf inlaid and three or four
        beautifully fac-similed, otherwise a fine and
        perfect copy, russia extra, gilt leaves, by C.
        Lewis WESTMESTRE, PER CAXTON, MCCCCLXXXIX

  *** This work consists of 139 leaves, exclusive of
      the table, occupying two leaves.  The Colophon of
      the Printer is one of great interest, filling
      the two last pages.  It thus commences:—­“Thur
      endeth this boke, whiche xpyne of pyse made
      drewe out of the boke named Vegecius de re
      militari and out of tharbre of bataylles
      wyth many other thynges sett in to the same
      requisite to werre and batailles, which boke
      beyng in Frenshe was delyvered to me Willm
      Caxton by the most crysten kinge and sedoubted
      prynce, my naturel and souvrayn {45}
      Lord Kyng Henry the VII, Kyng of England
      and of France, in his Palais of Westmestre,
      the 23 day of Janyuere, the III of his regne,
      and desire and wylsed me to translate this
      said boke and reduce it into our enlish natural
      tonge and to put it in enprynte, &c.”

  522 ENGLAND:—­Copy of a Letter written by a Spanish
      Gentleman to his Friend in England in refutation
      of sundry Calumnies there falsely bruited among
      the People, 1589—­An Advertisement written to a
      Secretarie of my Lord Treasurer of Ingland by an
      Inglish Intelligencer as he passed through Germanie
      towards Italie; also a Letter written by the
      Lord Treasurer, 1592.