——­ Germanice. Without Date or Name of Printer.  Folio.  This edition is printed in a fine large open gothic type.  There is the usual whole length cut of AEsop.  The other cuts are spirited, after the fashion of those in Boccacio De Malis Mulier.  Illust.—­printed by John Zeiner at Ulm in 1473.  The present is a fine, sound copy:  in red morocco binding.

AESOPUS.  Germanice. Without Date, &c.  Folio.  This impression, which, like the preceding, is destitute of signatures and catchwords, is printed in a smaller gothic type.  The wood cuts are spirited, with more of shadow.  Some of the initial letters are pretty and curious.  Some of the pages (see the last but fifteen) contain as many as forty-five lines.  The present is a fine, large copy.

——­ Hispanice. Printed at Burgos. 1496.  Folio.  This is a beautiful and interesting volume, full of wood cuts.  The title is within a broad bold border, thus:  “Libro del asopo famoso fabulador historiado en romace.”  On the reverse is the usual large wood cut of AEsop, but his mouth is terribly diminished in size.  The leaves are numbered in large roman numerals.  A fine clean copy, in blue morocco binding.

And now, my dear friend, let us both breathe a little, by way of cessation from labour:  yourself from reading, and your correspondent from the exercise of his pen.  I own that I am fairly tired ... but in a few days I shall resume the BOOK THEME with as much ardour as heretofore.

[43] In his meditated Catalogue raisonne of the books PRINTED UPON VELLUM
    in the Royal Library. [This Catalogue is now printed, in 8vo. 5 vols.
    1822.  There are copies on LARGE PAPER.  It is a work in all respects
    worthy of the high reputation of its author.  A Supplement to it—­of
    books printed UPON VELLUM in other public, and many distinguished
    private libraries, appeared in 1824, 8vo. 3 vols.—­with two
    additional volumes in 1828.  These volumes are the joy of the heart of
    a thorough bred Bibliographer.]

[44] The measurement is necessarily confined to the leaves—­exclusively
    of the binding.

[45] See the Art. “Roman de Jason”

[46] [There are, now, ten known perfect copies of this book, of
    which six are in England.  M. Renouard, in his recent edition of the
    Annals of the Aldine Press, vol. i. p. 36, has been copious and
    exact.]

[47] [Since bound in blue morocco by Thouvenin.]

[48] [This anecdote, in the preceding Edition of the Tour, was told,
    inaccurately, as belonging to the Caxton’s edition of the Recueil
    des Hist. de Troye:  see p. 102 ante.  I thank M. Crapelet for the
    correction.]

[49] Bibl.  Spenceriana, vol. i. p. 107, &c.

[50] [The finest copy in the world of the second edition, as to amplitude,
    is, I believe, that in the Bodleian library at Oxford.  A very singular
    piece of good fortune has now made it PERFECT.  It was procured by
    Messrs. Payne and Foss of M. Artaria at Manheim.]