SYPPERTS DE VINEUAULX.  “Lhystoire plaisante et recreative faisant metion des prouesses et vaillaces du noble Sypperts de Vineuaulx Et de ses dix septs filz Nouuellement imprime.”  At the end:  printed for “Claude veufue de feu Iehan sainct denys,” 4to. Without Date.  On the reverse of this leaf there is a huge figure of a man straddling, holding a spear and shield, and looking over his left shoulder.  I think I have seen this figure before.  This impression is executed in long lines, in a small gothic letter.  A sound copy of a very rare book.[89]

GUY DE VVARWICH.  “Lhystoire de Guy de vvarwich Cheualier dagleterre &c. 4to. No Date.  The preceding is over a wood-cut of the famous Guy and his fair Felixe.  At bottom, we learn that it is executed in a small gothic type, in double columns.  The colophon is on the reverse of V. six.

MESSER NOBILE SOCIO.  “Le Miserie de li Amanti di Messer Mobile Socio.”  Colophon:  “Stampata in Vinegia per Maestro Bernardino de Vitali Veneciano MDXXXIII.” 4to.  This impression is executed in long lines, in a fair, good, italic letter.  The signatures, from a to y inclusively, run in fours.  The colophon, just given, is on the reverse of z i.  Of this romance I freely avow my total ignorance.

CASTILLE ET ARTUS D’ALGARBE. 4to.  This title is over what may be called rather a spirited wood-cut.  The date below is 1587.  It is printed in double columns, in a small roman type.  In the whole, forty-eight leaves.  A desirable copy.

LA NEF DES DAMES. 4to, Without Date.  This title is composed of one line, in large lower-case gothic, in black, (just as we see in some of the title pages of Gerard de Leeu) with the rest in four lines, in a smaller gothic letter, printed in red.  In this title page is also seen a wood-cut of a ship, with the virgin and child beneath.

This book exhibits a fine specimen of rich gothic type, especially in the larger fount—­with which the poetry is printed.  There is rather an abundant sprinkling of wood cuts, with marginal annotations.  The greater part of the work is in prose, in a grave moral strain.  The colophon is a recapitulation of the title, ending thus:  “Imprime a Lyon sur le rosne par Iaques arnollet.”  This is a sound but somewhat soiled copy.  In torn parchment binding.

NOVELAS FOR MARIA DE ZAYAS, &c. En Zaragoca, en el Hospital Real, &c. Ano 1637.” 4to.  These novels are ten in number; some of them containing Spanish poetry.  An apparently much enlarged edition appeared in 1729. 4to. “Corregidas y enmendadas en esta ultima impression.”

NOVELAS AMOROSAS. Madrid, 1624. 4to.  Twelve novels, in prose:  192 leaves.  Subjoined in this copy, are the “Heroydas Belicas, y Amoras, &c.” En Barcelona, &c. 1622. 4to.  The whole of these latter are in three-line stanzas:  109 leaves.

SVCESSOS Y PRODIGOS DE AMOR. En Madrid. 1626. 4to. 166 leaves.  At the end:  “Orfeo, en lengva Castellana.  A la decima Mvsa.”  By the same author:  in four cantos:  thirty-one leaves.