CICERO.  RHETORICA VETUS.  Printed by Jenson.  When I had anticipated the beauty of a VELLUM COPY of this book (in the Bibl.  Spencer. vol. i. p. 349—­here close at hand) I had not of course formed the idea of seeing such a one HERE.  This vellum copy is doubtless a lovely book; but the vellum is discoloured in many places, and I suspect the copy has been cut down a little.

——­ ORATIONES. Printed by S. and Pannartz. 1471.  Folio.  A beautifully white and genuine copy; but the first few leaves are rather soiled, and it is slightly wormed towards the end.  A fairer Sweynheym and Pannartz is rarely seen.

——­ OPERA OMNIA. 1498.  Folio. 4 vols.  A truly beautiful copy, bound in red morocco; but it is not free from occasional ms. annotations, in red ink, in the margins.  It measures sixteen inches and three quarters in height, by ten inches and three quarters in width.  A fine and perfect copy of this First Edition of the Entire Works of Cicero, is obtained with great difficulty.  A nobler monument of typographical splendour the early annals of the press cannot boast of.

HOMERI OPERA OMNIA.  Gr. 1488.  Folio.  Editio Princeps.  A sound, clean copy, formerly Prince Eugene’s; but not comparable with many copies which I have seen.

BATRACHOMYOMACHIA.  Gr.  Without date or place.  Quarto.  Edit.  Prin:  executed in red and black lines, alternately.  This is a sound, clean, and beautiful copy; perhaps a little cropt.  In modern russia binding.

JUVENALIS.  Folio. Printed by Ulric Han, in his larger type.  A cruelly cropt copy, with a suspiciously ornamented title page.  This once belonged to Count Delci.

JUVENALIS. Printed by I. de Fivizano . Without date.  Folio.  This is a very rare edition, and has been but recently acquired.  It contains twenty-seven lines in a full page.  There are neither numerals, signatures, nor catchwords.  On the sixty-ninth and last leaf, is the colophon.  A sound and desirable copy; though not free from soil.

LUCIANI OPUSCULA QUAEDAM.  Lat. Printed by S. Bevilaquensis. 1494.  Quarto.  This is really one of the most covetable little volumes in the world.  It is a copy printed UPON VELLUM; with most beautiful illuminations, in the purest Italian taste.  Look—­if ever you visit the Imperial Library—­at the last illumination, at the bottom of o v, recto.  It is indescribably elegant.  But the binder should have been hung in chains.  He has cut the book to the very quick—­so as almost to have entirely sliced away several of the border decorations.

OVIDII FASTI. Printed by Azoguidi. 1471.  Folio.  This is the whole of what they possess of this wonderfully rare EDIT.  PRIN. of Ovid, printed at Bologna by the above printer:—­and of this small portion the first leaf is wanting.

——­, OPERA OMNIA, Printed by Sweynheym and Pannartz. 1471.  Folio. 2 vols.  This is a clean, large copy; supplied from two old libraries.  The volumes are equally large, but the first is in the finer condition.