June 17. 1854.] 



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Minor litems! toft!) 3Ut£to«£. 



CromwelVs Bible. — I have seen it stated that 

 an edition of the Bible, " printed by John Field, 

 one of his Highness's Printers, 1658," in 12mo., 

 London, was printed by order of Cromwell for 

 distribution to his soldiers. Can any of your 

 correspondents furnish authority for such tra- 

 dition ? It is one of the most incorrectly printed 

 books which I ever met with. In Cotton's list I 

 do not find this edition : he has one in 8vo., 1657, 

 Cambridge, J. Field. W. C. Trevelyan. 



[George Offbr, Esq., of Hackney, has kindly fa- 

 voured us with a reply to this and the following 

 Query : " Eighteen different editions of the Bible, 

 printed by John Field, are in my collection, published 

 between the years 1648 and 1666. In some of these 

 he is described as printer to the University of Cam- 

 bridge, in others as ' One of His Highness's Printers ; ' 

 but in those which tradition says were published for 

 the army, he is called ■ Printer to the Parliament.' 

 They are all as correctly printed as Bibles were gene- 

 rally published during that time, excepting that by 

 Giles Calvert the Quaker, published in 1653, which 

 is singularly correct and beautiful. Field's editions 

 being remarkable for beauty of typography and small- 

 ness, have been much examined, and many errors de- 

 tected. That of 165S is the most beautiful and called 

 genuine, and is the copy said to have been printed for 

 the use of the army and navy. Of this I have five 

 different editions, all agreeing in the error in Matthew, 

 ch. vi. v. 24., ' Ye cannot serve and mammon ; ' and in 

 having the first four psalms on one page. But in some 

 the following errors are corrected, 1 Cor. vi. v. 9., 

 • The unrighteous shall inherit the kingdom of God ; ' 

 Rom. ch. vi. v. 13., ' Neither yield ye your members 

 as instruments of righteousness unto sin.' The copy of 

 1658, which Sir W. C. Trevelyan describes, is a coun- 

 terfeit of the genuine edition of 1653, vulgarly called 

 ' The Bastard Field's Bible.' These were reprinted 

 many times. I possess four different editions of it, so 

 exactly alike in form and appearance, that the variations 

 throughout can only be detected by placing them in 

 juxtaposition. They are all neatly printed, without 

 a black line between the columns, and make thicker 

 volumes than the genuine edition. I have never been 

 able to verify the tradition that the Field's Bible, 

 1653, was printed for the army by order of Cromwell. 

 It is the only one, as far as I can discover, • Printed by 

 John Field, Printer to the Parliament' I received 

 the tradition from my father nearly sixty years ago, 

 and have no doubt but that it is founded in fact. It is 

 an inquiry well worthy of investigation. — G. Offor."] 



Canne's Bible. — What is the value of a good 

 copy of Canne's Bible, printed at Edinburgh by 

 John Kincaid, 1756 ? Sigma. 



[" Canne's Bibles were first printed at Amsterdam, 

 1647, 1662, and 1664; in London, 1682, 1684, 1698 : 

 these are all pocket volumes. Then again in Amster- 

 dam, 4to., 1700. At Edinburgh by Watkins in 1747, 

 and by Kincaid in 1766; after which there followed 



editions very coarsely and incorrectly printed. They 

 are all, excepting that of 1647, in my collection. Kin- 

 caid's, 1766, 2 vols, nonpareil, in beautiful condition, 

 bound in green morocco, cost me five shillings. That 

 of 1747, by Watkins, not in such fine condition, two 

 shillings. Sigma can readily imagine the value of 

 Kincaid's edition 1756, by comparison with those of 

 1747 and 1766. If any of your readers could assist 

 me to procure the first edition, 1647, I should be 

 greatly obliged. — G. Offor."] 



Dryden and Luke Milbourne. — Among the 

 " Quarrels of Authors," I do not find that between 

 glorious John and this reverend gentleman. In a 

 poetical paraphrase of The Christians Pattern, by 

 the latter (8vo., 1697), he shows unmistakeable evi- 

 dence of having been lately skinned by the witty 

 tribe, which I take to mean Dryden and his 

 atheistical crew. I am aware that Milbourne in- 

 vited the attack by his flippant remarks upon the 

 English Virgil, but I know not in which piece of 

 Dryden's to look for it. J. O. 



[Dryden's attack on Milbourne occurs in his preface 

 to the Fables (Scott's edition of his Works, vol. xi. 

 p. 235. ). "As a corollary to this preface," says Dry- 

 den, "in which I have done justice to others, I owe 

 somewhat to myself; not that I think it worth my 

 time to enter the lists with one Milbourne and one 

 Blackmore, but barely to take notice that such men 

 there are, who have written scurrilously against me 

 without any provocation. Milbourne, who is in orders, 

 pretends, amongst the rest, this quarrel to me, that I 

 have fallen foul on priesthood ; if I have, I am only to 

 ask pardon of good priests, and am afraid his part of 

 the reparation will come to little. Let him be satisfied 

 that he shall not be able to force himself upon me for 

 an adversary. I contemn him too much to enter into 

 competition with him." A little lower down Dryden 

 hints that Milbourne lost his living for writing a libel 

 upon his parishioners.] 



Portrait Painters of the last Century. — I am. 

 anxious to obtain some information respecting the 

 portrait painters of the last century. I have in 

 my collection a picture by H. Smith, 1736. Can 

 any of your readers give me an account of him ? 



DuRANDUS. 



[A biographical list, alphabetically arranged, of 

 portrait painters, is given in Hobbes's Picture Col- 

 lector's Manual; being a Dictionary of Painters, vol. ii. 

 pp.467 — 515., edit. 1849 ; a useful work of the kind. 

 The name of H. Smith is not noticed. ] 



JEtna. — To whom can the following passage 

 refer ? 



" We found a good inn here (Catania), kept by one 

 Caca Sangue, a name that sounds better in Italian than 

 it would in English. This fellow is extremely plea- 

 sant and communicative, and among other things he 



told us that Mr. , who has published such a 



minute description of his journey to the crater of 

 JEtna, was never there, but sick in Catania when his 



