press, I am unable at the present moment to mention any thing which approaches it.  I must also notice a copy of the Speculum Humanae Salvationis, printed at Basle, by Richel, in 1476, folio.  It is a prodigious volume, full of wood cuts, and printed in double columns in a handsome gothic type.  This work seems to be rather a History of the Bible; having ten times the matter of that which belongs to the work with this title usually prefixed.  The copy is in its original wooden binding.

JUNIANUS MAIUS. De Propriet.  Priscor.  Verborum, printed at Treviso by Bernard de Colonia, 1477, folio.  I do not remember to have before seen any specimen of this printer’s type:  but what he has done here, is sufficient to secure for him typographical immortality.  This is indeed a glorious copy—­perfectly large paper—­of an elegantly printed book, in a neat gothic type, in double columns.  The first letter of the text is charmingly illuminated.  I shall conclude these miscellaneous articles by the notice of two volumes, in the list of ROMANCES, of exceedingly rare occurrence.  These romances are called Tyturell and Partzifal.  The author of them was Wolfram von Escenbach.  They are each of the date of 1477, in folio.  The Tyturell is printed prose-wise, and the Partzifal in a metrical form.

We now come to the Roman CLASSICS, (for of the Greek there are few or none)—­before the year 1500.  Let me begin with Virgil.  Here is Mentelin’s very rare edition; but cropt, scribbled upon, and wanting several leaves.  However, there is a most noble and perfect copy of Servius’s Commentary upon the same poet, printed by Valdarfer in 1471, folio, and bound in primitive boards.  There are two perfect copies of Mentelin’s edition (which is the first) of VALERIUS MAXIMUS, of which one is wormed and cropt.  The other Mentelin copy of the Valerius Maximus, without the Commentary, is perhaps the largest I ever saw—­with the ancient ms. signatures at the bottom-corners of the leaves.  Unluckily, the margins are rather plentifully charged with ms. memoranda.

Of CICERO, there are of course numerous early editions.  I did not see the De Officiis of 1465, or of 1466, of which Hermann speaks, and to which he affixes the novel date of 1462:—­but I did see the De Oratore, printed by Vindelin de Spira without date; and such a copy I shall probably never see again!  The colour and substance of the paper are yet more surprising than the size.

It is hardly possible to see a finer copy of the Scriptores Hist.  Augustae, printed by P. de Lavagna in 1475, folio.  It possesses all the legitimate evidences of pristine condition, and is bound in its first coat of oak.  Here is a very fine copy of the Plutarchi Vitae Paralellae, printed in the letter R, in two large folio volumes, bound in wood, covered by vellum of the sixteenth century.  But,