Jan. 8. 1853.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



4!7 



middle picture described (Vol. vi,, p. 458.) to 

 represent St. John Baptist. On examining it 

 again, I have no doubt it is intended to denote the 

 Ascension of our Lord. The right hand is raised 

 as in the act of benediction, and, as far as I can 

 make it out (for the paint is here somewhat 

 rubbed), the fingers are in the position of bene- 

 diction described by your correspondent. I do 

 not, however, concur in his suggestions as to the 

 meaning of the figures on the frame of the picture ; 

 which is not shaped as a vesica piscis, but is (as I 

 described it) a lozenge. The female figure, hold- 

 ing a llaming heart, is, I would say, certainly not 

 the Virgin Mary. 



The appearance of my account of this picture 

 in your pages has been the occasion of a very 

 agreeable correspondence with the Editor of the 

 Navoj-scher (the Dutch daughter of " N. & Q."). 

 That gentleman has taken a great interest in the 

 subject, and has enabled me to decypher the mottoes 

 on the scrolls which run across the three pictures 

 on the right-hand wall of the room, which, in my 

 former communication, I said I was unable to 

 read. 



The scroll on the picture nearest the fireplace 

 contains these words : 



" Trouw moet blycken." 



That on the second picture, noticed by Cuthbert 

 Bjbde, is, 



" Liefde boven al." 



And the scroll on the third bears the inscription, 

 as I stated in my former communication, 



" In Liefd' getrouwe ; " 

 for so it ought to have been printed. 



These, as the editor of the Navorscher informs 

 me, are the mottoes of three Haarlem Societies 

 of Rhetoricians called, 1. " De Pelicaen," whose 

 motto was, " Trouw moet Mj/cken:" 2. " De Wyn- 

 gaertrancken," whose motto was, "Liefde boven 

 al:" and, 3. " Witte Angiren," whose device was, 

 " In Liefde getrouwe." 



I think you are entitled to have whatever in- 

 formation I may glean respecting this picture, as 

 you so kindly inserted my description of it in your 

 columns ; and I have to thank you for procuring 

 me the acquaintance and correspondence of the 

 editor of the Navorscher. J. H. Todd, D.D. 



Trin. Coll. Dublin. 



THE REPKINT, IN 1808, OF THE FIRST FOMO 

 EDITION OF SHAKSPEARE. 



(Vol. vi., p. 579.) 



In reply to the Query of Varro, I beg to state 

 that I possess the late Mr. Upcott's collation of 

 the reprint of the first folio edition of Shakspeare. 

 It consists of twenty-six folio leaves, exclusive of 



the fly-leaves, on the first of which occur the fol- 

 lowing notes in the handwriting of the collator ;« 



" London Institution, 



" Moorfields, Dec. 25, 1821. 

 " Four months and twenty-three days were occupied, 

 during my leisure moments, at the suggestion of our 

 late Librarian, Professor Porson, in reading and com- 

 paring the pretended reprinted fac-simile First Edition 

 of Shakspeare with the original First Edition of 1623. 

 With what accuracy it passed through the Press, the 

 following pages, noticing 368 typographical errors, will 

 sufficiently show. Wm. Upcott." 



" MS. note written in Mr. Dawson Turner's tran- 

 script of these errors in the reprint of Shakspeare, 

 edit. 1623. 



" The contents of the following pages are the result 

 of 145 days' close attention by a very industrious man. 

 The knowledge of such a task having been undertaken 

 and completed, caused some alarm among the book- 

 sellers, who had expended a considerable sum of money 

 upon the reprint of Shakspeare, of which this MS. 

 discloses the numerous errors. Fearful, therefore, lest 

 this should be published, they made many overtures 

 for the purchase of it, and at length Mr. Upcott was 

 induced to part with it to John and Arthur Arch, 

 Cornhill, from whom he expected a handsome remu- 

 neration ; he received a single copy of the reprint, 

 published at five guineas. 



" N. B. This copy, corrected by myself from the above 

 MS., I sold to James Perry, proprietor of the Morning 

 Chronicle, for six guineas : which at his sale (Pari; III.) 

 produced 12/. 1*. 6d. Wm. Upcott." 



At the end of the volume is written : 



" Finished this collation Jan. 28, 1809, at three 

 minutes past 12 o'clock. Wm. Upcorr." 



Upon comparing these remarks of Mr. Upcott 

 with Lowndes' Bibliographer's Manual^ p. 1645., 

 col. 1., it will be seen that the latter was not accu- 

 rately informed as to Perry's copy ; Professor 

 Porson having had no farther share in that labo- 

 rious work than the recommending Mr. Upcott to 

 undertake the collation, from which Perry's copy 

 was subsequently corrected. F. C. B. 



PHOTOGRAPHIC NOTES AND QUERIES. 



Le Grey and the Collodion Process. — As the 

 .claim to the invention of the collodion process is 

 disputed, I think, in justice to Mr. Le Grey, 

 whom all will acknowledge as a talented man, and 

 who has done much for photography, that the 

 claims he puts forth, and which I give, should be 

 known to your readers who have not got his work, 

 as they are in direct contradiction to Mr. Archer's 

 letter in your 165th Xo. In his last published 

 work, page 89., he states : 



" I was the first to apply collodion to photography. 

 My first experiments were made in 1849. I used that 

 substance then principally to give more equality and 



