Dix — The Earliest Printing in Dublin. 153 



Advertisement" (1622-1623), i.e., two words on the verso of signature A 5 

 and one word on p. .349. 



The next occurrence of Hebrew type is to lie found in another volume 

 ah-eady mentioned, viz., " Musarum Lachiymae," etc. (1630), in which are to 

 lie found three poems in Hebrew and printed in that character. 



In Provost Winter's " Two Sermons on Baptism," printed here in 1650, 

 occurred occasionally Hebrew words in a fount of small type. 



I do not know of any work entirely or largely of Hebrew characters 

 printed in Dublin prior to 1700 at all events. 



Hebrew type was first used- in England in 1592, and at Oxford in 1596, 

 four years later. 



Welsh. 



In the "Epistle concerning the Eeligion of the Ancient Irish" (1622), 

 already referred to, at p. 80, occius a stanza in the Welsh language of nine 

 lines, with a translation. Printing in Welsh involved no special type, and 

 in that respect presented no difficulty to the compositor or printer. 



Saxon. 



In the same work, just mentioned, at p. 35 (margin), occur foiu- words 

 said to be Saxon ; but the letters are, I think, taken from the Elizabethan 

 fount of Irish type, or one of very similar character. 



Feench. 



The earliest work entirely printed in literary French is " La Litiu'gie," 

 etc., prmted in Dublin in 1666, no doubt for some of the French refugees. 

 It is a version of the Book of Common Prayer. 



Sir John Davies' " Les Cases en Ley " (Dublin, 1615) is in Norman or 

 law- French. 



Italian. 



The earliest work printed in Dublin in Italian is entitled " L'Oratione," 

 etc. It is a translation by the learned Dudley Loftus of a speech of the 

 Duke of Ormond, and was printed in 1664 in Dublin. Why this Italian 

 version was printed I do not know. 



