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who should build in the Borgo Pio, probably unique as an 

 original copy, and only published with omissions in the 

 Bullarium. A collection of 195 original editions of Papal 

 Bulls, mostly of Pius IV. and Pius V., has also been pur- 

 chased ; besides ten Papal indulgences printed in England in 

 the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. 



The principal additions in early English literature have 

 been Sir Anthony Sherley, Wit's New Dyall, 1604, only 

 one other copy of which is known ; Richard Nugent, Cynthia, 

 1G04, only two or three other copies known ; Robert Greene, 

 The Royal Exchange, 1590, and Morando, the Tritameron of 

 Love, by the same author, both of extreme rarity ; Turberville, 

 Epitaphs, Epigrams, Songs and Sonnets, 1570 ; Palingenius, 

 Zodiacus Vitse, translated by Googe, 1560 ; Guevara, Dispraise 

 of the Life of a Courtier, 1548 ; Richard Bonner, Treatise of 

 the Sacrament, 1548 ; Brentius, Exposition upon the Sixth 

 Chapter of Saynte John, 1551 ; Summe of Christianitie [1560 ?] ; 

 Rastell, A Replie against an Answer falsely entitled a Defence 

 of the Truth, Antwerp, 1565; Veron, A Strong Defence of the 

 Maryinge of Prestes [1565?] ; Batman, Three Graces [1580?] ; 

 Palmerin of England, two parts, 1603 — 1609. 



To these may be added two early Latin productions of the 

 English press, Grammatice Sulpitiana, Pynson, 1505 ; and 

 Dedicus, Qusestiones moralissimtB super libros Ethicorum, 

 Oxford, 1518, of which only three other copies are known, 

 all in university or college libraries. Other acquisitions of 

 special interest are Cipriano Valera, Dos Tratados, Arnold 

 Hatfield, London, 1588, first edition ; and the first, though 

 surreptitious, edition of Sir Thomas Browne's Religio Medici, 

 1642. The only other copy known is in the Bodleian Library, 

 and from it the deficiencies of the Museum copy have been 

 supplied in photographic facsimile. 



Among interesting purchases of modern English books 

 may be mentioned the first edition of Shelley's Hellas ; 

 Cardinal Newman's juvenile poem, St. BartholomeM^'s Eve, 

 Oxford, 1821, withdrawn from circulation and extremely 

 scarce ; Beddoes's Improvisatore, Oxford, 1822, suppressed 

 and destroyed by the author ; George Darley's Nepenthe, 

 privately printed, and so rare that the only account to be 

 found of it is that in Miss Mitford's Recollections of a 

 Literary Life ; the prospectus of Blake's engraving of his 

 picture of the Canterbury Pilgrims, sold at the exhibition 

 of this work in 1809, and now of the greatest rarity ; 

 privately-printed adaptations of Wilkie Collins's novels for 

 dramatic representation, made by the author himself. 



The literary curiosities purchased during the year include 

 an unusual number of books enriched with valuable auto- 

 graph notes. The most remarkable is a French translation 

 of the Prussian General Billow's military criticism on the 

 campaigns of 1800, copiously annotated by Napoleon, to 

 whom, during his captivity at St. Helena, it was lent by 



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