EL CAVALLERO CID.  “El Cid rvy Diez de Viuar.”

The preceding title is over a wood-cut of a man on horseback, trampling upon four human bodies.  At bottom:  Impresso con licencia en Salamanca, Ano de 1627.” 4to.:  103 pages.  At the end are, the “Seys Romances del Cid Ruy Diaz de Biuar.”  The preceding is on A (i).  Only four leaves in the whole; quite perfect, and, as I should apprehend, of considerable rarity.  This slender tract appears to have been printed at Valladolid por la viuda de Francisco de Cordoua, Ano de 1627.” 4to.

FIORIO E BIANCIFIORE. “Impressa, &c. ne bologna, Delanno del nostro signore m.cccclxxx. adi. xxiii. di decembre.  Laus deo." Folio.  Doubtless this must be the Prima Edizione of this long popular romance; and perhaps the present may be a unique copy of it.  Caxton, as you may remember, published an English prosaic version of it in the year 1485; and no copy of that version is known, save the one in the cabinet at St. James’s Place.  This edition has only eight leaves, and this copy happens unluckily to be in a dreadfully shattered and tender state.  At the end: 

  Finito e il libra del fidelissimo Amore
  Che portorno insieme Fiorio e Biancifiore

Subjoined to the copy just described is another work, thus entitled: 

  SECRETO SOLO e in arma ben amaistrato
  Sia qualunqua nole essere inamorato. 
  Got gebe ir eynen guten seligen mogen.

The preceding, line for line, is printed in a large gothic type:  the rest of the work in a small close gothic letter.  Both pieces, together, contain sixty-three leaves.

COMMEDIA DE CELESTINA. “Vendese la presente obra en la ciudad de Anuers,” &c. 18mo. Without Date.  I suspect however that this scarce little volume was printed as well as “sold” at Paris.

MILLES ET AMYS. “A Rouen chez la Veufue de Louys Coste.” 4to.  Without Date.  The frontispiece has a wood-cut of no very extraordinary beauty, and the whole book exhibits a sort of ballad-style of printing.  It is executed in a roman letter, in double columns.

OGIER LE DANOIS. “On les vend a Lyon, &c.”  Folio.  At the end is the date of 1525, over the printer’s device of a lion couchant, and a heart and crown upon a shield.  It is a small folio, printed in a neat and rather brilliant gothic type, with several wood-cuts.

GALIEN ET JAQUELINE. “Les nobles prouesses et vaillances de Galien restaure,” &c. 1525, Folio.  The preceding is over a large wood-cut of a man on horseback; and this romance is printed by the same printer, in the same place, and, as you observe, in the same year—­as is that just before described.