TULLY OF OLD AGE, &C. Printed by Caxton, 1481.  A cropt and soiled copy; whereas copies of this Caxtonian production are usually in a clean and sound condition.  The binding is infinitely too gaudy for the state of the interior.  It appears to want the treatise upon Friendship.  This book once belonged to William Burton the Leicestershire historian; as we learn from this inscription below the colophon:  “Liber Willmi Burton Lindliaci Leicestrensis socij inter.  Templi, ex dono amici mei singularis M^{ri}.  Iohanis Price, socij Interioris.  Templi, 28.  Jan. 1606.  Anno regni regis Iacobi quarto.”  On the reverse is a fac-simile of the same subscription, beneath an exceedingly well executed head of Burton, in pen and ink.

ART AND CRAFTE TO KNOW WELL TO DYE. Printed by Caxton. 1490.  Folio.  This book was sold to the Royal Library of France, many years ago, by Mr. Payne, for the moderate sum of L10. 10s.  It is among the rarest of the volumes from the press of Caxton.  Every leaf of this copy exhibits proof of the skill and care of Roger Payne; for every leaf is inlaid and mounted, with four lines of red ink round each page—­not perhaps in the very best taste.  The copy is also cramped or choked in the back.

STATUTES OF RICHARD III. Printed by Machlinia.  Folio. Without Date.  A perfect copy for size and condition; but the binding is much too gay.  I refer you to the Typographical Antiquities[66] for an account of this edition: 

NOVA STATUTA. Printed by the Same.  Folio.  You must examine the pages last referred to, for a description of this elaborately executed volume; printed upon paper of an admirable quality.  The present is a sound, clean, and desirable copy:  but why in such gay, red morocco, binding?

LIBER MODORUM SIGNIFICANDI. Printed at St. Alban’s; 1480.  Quarto.  The only copy of this rare volume I have ever seen.  It appears to be bound in what is called the old Oxford binding, and the text is preceded by a considerable quantity of old coeval ms. relating to the science of arithmetic.  A full page has thirty-two lines.

The signatures a, b, c, d, e, run in eights:  f has six leaves.  On the recto of f vj is the colophon: 

This copy had belonged successively to Tutet and Wodhull.  A ms. treatise, in a later hand, concludes the volume.  The present is a sound and desirable copy.

BOCCACCIO.  IL DECAMERONE. Printed by Valdarfer. 1471.  Folio.  This is the famous edition about which all the Journals of Europe have recently “rung from side to side.”  But it wants much in value of THE yet more famous COPY[67] which was sold at the sale of the Duke of Roxburghe’s library; inasmuch as it is defective in the first leaf of the text, and three leaves of the table.  In the whole, according to the comparatively recent numerals, there are 265 leaves.  This copy measures eleven inches and a half, by seven inches and seven eighths.  It is bound in red morocco, with inside marble leaves.