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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2'"i S. N« 52., Dec. 27. '56. 



little literary information through its able corre- 

 spondents ; which has been so far obtained, and 

 for which I feel obliged. G. K". 



Your correspondent G.N. has set us all an 

 example of plain dealing, for which I personally 

 thank him. I have examined the volume he has 

 so obligingly forwarded, and acknowledge at once 

 that my conjectures were erroneous : that his 

 copy is 7(0^, as I presumed, a mutilated copy of 

 the 4th vol. of the 8vo. edit, of 1735, and that the 

 plate has not "Vert" engraved on it. It is, in 

 fact, an edit, in 12mo., with the plate re-engraved, 

 and better engraved. 



Now comes the only question of interest : did the 

 publication precede or follow the edit, of 1735 ? 



I think it was published after, and for these 

 reasons : — 



It is, with one trifling exception, which I shall 

 presently notice, an exact reprint of the 4th vol. 

 of the edit, of 1735. And an edition in 12mo. is 

 usually cheaper, and therefore usually follows an 

 edition in 8vo. In this instance it must have been 

 very much cheaper ; for the 8vo. edition is a re- 

 markably handsome library edition, whereas the 

 12mo. is on inferior paper, and so compressed 

 that, while the 8vo. extends to 388 pages, the 

 12mo. contains the same matter in 318. 



Again: — The title-pages of the several tracts 

 in the 12mo. edition are, without exception I be- 

 lieve, set forth as "printed in the year 1734;" 

 whereas in the 8vo. they are, with one exception, 

 stated to have been "printed in the year 1733." 



There is one other point of difference on which 

 we can only speculate, until we have an oppor- 

 tunity of examining the 2nd vol. of the 12mo., 

 which, no doubt, contained the Poems. Both 

 volumes end with "Verses written by Dr. Swift ;" 

 but the Bvo. is followed by " Prometheus," thus 

 introduced : 



" After these works were printed off, upon examining 

 the poetical "Volume, we found the following Poem omitted, 

 which we have thought proper to insert here." 



There is no such insertion in the 12mo. copy, 

 and I, conjecturally, assume that, the omission 

 having been discovered, it was, on republication, 

 inserted in its proper place, " the poetical Volume." 



With these facts for guidance, no doubt some 

 of your readers will be able to refer to a perfect 

 copy of the edit, in 12mo. ; and thus, perhaps, 

 determine the question. P. O. S. 



and its Palaces, by Bonomi (London, Ingram, 

 1853.) At p. 138., the head-dress of the divinity 

 Ilus is an egg-shaped cap, terminating at the top 

 in a fleur-de-lis. At p. 149. (fig. 54.), the Dagon 

 of Scripture has the same. At p. 201. (fig. 98.), 

 the same ornament appears. At p. 202. (fig. 99.), 

 a bearded figure has " the usual fleur-de-lis." In 

 the same page, the tiaras of two bearded figures 

 are surmounted with fleurs-de-lis. At p. 332. 

 (fig. 211.), the Assyrian helmet is surmounted 

 with a fleur-de-lis. At p. 334. (fig. 217.), the 

 head-dress of the figure on the Assyrian standard 

 has a fleur-de-lis. At p. 340. (fig. 245.), the 

 bronze resembles a fleur-de-lis. At p. 350. (fig. 

 254.), an Egyptian example of the god Nilus, as on 

 the thrones of Pharaoh Necho, exhibits the fleur- 

 de-lis. 



Bernard Quaritch's Catalogue (No. 109.) for 

 May, 1856, at No. 5. " Manuscripts Armorials," 

 notices a work, Itecherches sur les Fleurs-de-Lis, 

 &c., which should supply all our requirements on 

 this disputed subject. C. H. P. 



NOTES ON THE rtEUK-DB-US. 



(2"'' S. i. passim; ii. 41.) 

 P. S. — Since these Notes were written, some 

 very interesting facts relating to the fleur-de-lis 

 have been discovered : see the 2nd edit, of Nineveh 



In reply to C. H. P.'s inquiry after the special 

 causes for which this cognizance may have been 

 granted (2°'' S. ii. 42.), and with reference to a 

 former Note of his own (2"'' S. i. 388.), in which 

 he states that the " 3 fleurs-de-lis" in a drinking- 

 cup are the crest of " Croker of Ballinagard" 

 I would observe to him that it was, properly 

 speaking, the crest of "Croker of Lineham" in 

 Devonshire ; and was granted to Sir John Croker 

 of Lineham, who accompanied Edward IV. as 

 cup-bearer in his ostentatious expedition into 

 France in 1475 ; and amongst the flatteries be- 

 stowed by the politic Louis XI. on several of the 

 English courtiers were the 3 fleurs-de-lis sur- 

 mounting the implement of Sir John's office. The 

 Crokers of BaUinagard, in Ireland, are a junior 

 branch of the Lineham, settled there a couple of 

 centuries later than the grant of the crest to the 

 original family. There are several other families 

 of Croker in Ireland, all of which bear the drink- 

 ing-cup ; but, through the mistake of engravers, 

 it has with some degenerated into & flower-pot. 



c. 



I enclose impression of a seal — • 



« * S Thome le Gallendier," 

 showing a fleur-de-lis, with two birds perched on 

 the side leaves, and pecking the central division 

 of the flower. The date any real studier, I think, 

 will unhesitatingly pronounce the middle of the 

 twelfth century, certainly not later._ This is con- 

 temporary with the signet of Louis VII., which 

 Montagu (Heraldry, p. 18.) cites as perhaps the 

 earliest example of a fleur-de-lis, and my seal is an 

 additional argument in favour of the flower ori- 



