DEPARTMENT OF PRINTED BOOKS. 2o 



Purchases of curiosities include several books with MS. 

 notes, among the most remarkable of which are Edward 

 Irving's Missionaries after the Apostolical Church, 1826, and 

 Bishop Blomfield's Charge, 1830, both annotated by Coleridge ; 

 the first volume of Allan Cunningham's Lives of the British 

 Painters, with copious MS. notes by Hartley Coleridge ; 

 Martial, with numerous MS. notes by John Owen the epi- 

 grammatist : Bishop Gibson's Chronicon Saxonicum, and 

 Godwin's De Praesulibus Angliae, both with extensive MS. 

 additions by the antiquary Wanley ; Shelley's Posthumous 

 Poems, with MS. corrections by his friend Gisborne ; Victor 

 Hugo's Notre Dame, 1836, with his autograph and four lines 

 of verse in his handwriting; The Pickwick Papers in the 

 original edition, with MS. notes by " The George and Vulture 

 Club;" and Carlyle's "Past and Present," second edition, 

 abundantly scored by Ruskin. Among other curiosities may 

 be named, a prospectus of Coleridge's lectures on Shakespeare 

 in 1818, bound up with a copy of his " Zapolya ; " newspaper 

 cuttings and separate impressions of single poems by Lord 

 Tennyson, and his Chancery affidavit in his application for an 

 injunction against J. Camden Hotten ; Goethe's copy of Sal- 

 vandy's " Histoire de la Revolution de 1830," which he was 

 reading on the morning of his death ; proof sheets of De 

 Quincey's " Essay on War," copiously corrected ; and a pro- 

 clamation of the La Vendee Royalists issued in the name of 

 Louis XVII. 



Special collections have been obtained of numerous editions 

 of the Canons and Decrees of the Council of Trent, and of 

 the Index Librorum Prohibitorum : of several sets of Papal 

 bulls on particular subjects ; of tracts relating to Dantzic in 

 the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries ; of the works of the 

 Dutch satirist Fokke ; of Dutch academical theses ; of works 

 on the Dutch and Spanish possessions in the Eastern Archi- 

 pelago ; of Tahitian official documents ; of French tracts on 

 political economy, finance, and socialism ; of children's books, 

 including several of Newbery's early publications, and in 

 particular the third, which is the earliest extant, edition of 

 Goody Two Shoes ; and an extensive and curious collection 

 of placards of Spanish bull-fights. 



Donations. — These include two of unusual literary interest. 

 From Lady Shelley, widow of the late Sir Percy Florence 

 Shelley, Bart., the Museum has received one of the only three 

 known copies of Shelley's "QEdipus Tyrannus, or Swellfoot 

 the Tyrant," the entire impression of which was destroyed, 

 with the exception of seven copies. By this most generous 

 donation the set of original editions of Shelley's works in the 

 Museum has been rendered all but complete. With equal 

 liberality, Mr. Francis Turner Palgrave has presented what 

 is probably the only copy extant of the first two of Tenny- 

 son's Idyls of the King in their original form of " Enid 



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