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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2°d S. NO 73., May 23. '57. 



that ever was published, has a suggestive meaning, 

 while " wondering " would be a very commonplace 

 surplusage. And I cannot but think, pace edito- 

 ris nostri ! that one may be forgiven for wondering 

 that " N. & Q." should be made the receptacle for 

 the stray wanderings of an individual gentleman's 

 bad memory. C. 



Pope^s '■'■Moral Essays." — In the Catalogue 

 Haisonne which our Editor has given of the 

 different editions of the Dunciad, he mentions one, 

 which he marks K,., a quarto-printed for M. 

 Cooper, 1743, and edited by Warburton. It is 

 certain that similar editions of the Essay on Man 

 and the Essay on Criticism were also published, 

 separately paged, but intended to be bound in the 

 same volume, and they are to be met with (though 

 rarely) so bound. There can be no doubt (indeed 

 Bolingbroke positively asserts it) that the four 

 Epistles, sometimes called Moral Essays and 

 sometimes Ethick Epistles, were similarly pub- 

 lished. I have never seen a copy; and it is a 

 point of considerable importance in the biblio- 

 graphy of Pope's Works to ascertain whether any 

 exists. I would therefore hope that some of our 

 fellow contributors to "N. & Q." who can throw 

 any light on the subject, would be pleased to do 

 so : nay, I should think it desirable to obtain 

 even a negative answer, — viz. that no such copy is 

 known, — from any of those many gentlemen who 

 have contributed to your Popiana. It is in that 

 edition that, according to Bolingbroke, the Atossa 

 was first printed ; and he talks of the edition 

 being, for that reason, suppressed. The question 

 is, Was it so ? C. 



THE WICCAMICAX CHAPLET. 



In a copy which I have seen of this volume of 

 verses, the names of some of the gentlemen who 

 composed them are inserted in MS. ; and I now 

 send you the names as they are written down. 

 Perhaps your correspondents will complete the 

 list ? 



In Obitum - . - . - 



Alumni, p. 91. 



To an Ass, p. 93. - 



Epitaph, p. 94. 



Epitaph, p. 95., probably 



Epitaphs, pp. 96-7., probably - 



Inscription, p. 102. ... 



Carmen, p. 115. - 



Ballad, p. 120. - . - . 



Cricket-Song, p. 131. 



Conquest of Quebec, p. 147. 



On the New Gibbet on Hounslow 

 Heath, p. 153. - . - - 



Rondeau, p. 163. - 



Parody, p. 169., probably 



On the Funeral of Mr. Elwes, p. 177. 



Sample, &c., p. 180. 



The British Theatre, p. 185. - 



On Two Publications, &c., p. 192. - 



To a Lady, p. 195. 



Lines, p. 214. ..... 



On the Amphibious N. Elliot of Ox- 

 ford, Shoemaker and Poet, p. 219. 

 probably . . - - - 



Imitation from the Medea of Euripi- 

 des, p. 221. . . . - 



The Spleen, p. 222. . - - 



Oxford. 



Scholae Winton. 



T. Warton. 



Crowe. 



Caldecot. 



Huddesford. 



Caldecot. 



Crowe. 



Crowe. 



Crowe. 



Cotton. 



Crowe. 



Crowe. 



Crowe. 



Huddesford. 



Crowe. 



Huddesford. 



Crowe. 



Crowe. 



Crowe. 



Crowe. 



T. Warton. 



Jo. \Varton. 

 Crowe. 



J. M. 



BIBLIOGEAPHIC CUEIOSITIES. 



Having just obtained two great bibliographic 

 curiosities, we request permission to notice them, 

 as we shall feel much pleasure in submitting them 

 to the inspection of any of your readers who may 

 feel an interest in such pursuits, as we consider 

 such an opportunity is not likely to occur again. 



The principal are two of the rarest specimens 

 of the Xylographic Art in the finest possible con- 

 dition. Xylographic, or Block Books, were en- 

 tirely cut on wood, and were the precursors of 

 printing by means of moveable types. 



Of these the first in point of rarity is the " Liber 

 Regum," or Life of David, pictorially illustrated 

 with two woodcuts on a page, with descriptive 

 text beneath, and extending to twenty leaves. 



So little is known of this work, printed about 

 the year 1450, that it escaped Heinecken, who spe- 

 cially devoted his researches to the early history 

 of printing. Brunet and Dibdin are alike meagre 

 in details — ■ in fact, only one other copy is known 

 to exist — that in the Imperial Library at Vienna. 



The other book is known as the " Biblia Pau- 

 PEEUM," of which . facsimiles have been given. 

 The copy in our possession corresponds with the 

 description given by Heinecken as being oi the. first 

 impression — a copy of which sold in Willett's 

 sale for 245 guineas. 



Both these volumes are in matchless state, 

 being wncoloured, not pasted back to back, as is 

 generally the case with similar works, as the Ars 

 Moriendi, Apocalypsis S. Johanni, &c., but the 

 leaves set as in books of ordinary printing, with 



