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"The Muses' Mourning" had previously been known, and 

 the copies are at present unique. Other important purchases 

 in this department are : Winzett's translation of Vincentius 

 Lirinensis, Against Heresies, dedicated to Mary, Queen of 

 Scots, Antwerp, 1563, of which only two other copies are 

 known ; Ramsay, A corrosyfe to be layed hard into the hartes 

 of all faythfull Professours of Christe's Gospell, [1550 ?] ; 

 Dekker, Foure Birds of Noah's Arke, 1609 ; Speidell, Arith- 

 metical! Extractions, 1628 ; and the first English edition of 

 Caesar, 1585. Two very rare Edinburgh books have also been 

 purchased : Cato's Maxims, and Lady Melville of Culross, A 

 godlie Dreame, both printed in 1620. 



The purchases in modern English belles lettres include two 

 of the rarest works in this department, Landor's Simonidea, 

 Bath, 1806, of which only two other copies are known ; and 

 " Fanshawe," the first work by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Boston, 

 1828, exceedingly scarce in the.United States, and of which 

 there is, perhaps, no other copy in Great Britain. The first 

 editions of Hawthorne's " Twice Told Tales " and of Emerson's 

 Essays, first series, have also been acquired. 



A number of collections of books and pamphlets on special 

 subjects have been purchased. Among these may be enume- 

 rated upwards of a thousand Spanish and Catalan fly-sheets; 

 a large number of books printed by Bodoni, rendering the 

 Museum collection of this eminent typographer's productions 

 nearly perfect ; a complete collection of the very numerous 

 works of Mdlle. Bekker, a Dutch writer of the eighteenth 

 century ; 382 Irish Bibles, liturgies, hymn-books,, &c., pur- 

 chased from the Rev. T. W. Carson, of Dublin ; 125 privately 

 printed English books and pamphlets ; a set of rare tracts on 

 the prosecution of Louis the Fourteenth's minister, Fouquet, 

 1660-1667 ; many volumes of Italian provincial Statutes, 

 mostly of the sixteenth century, bought at the Manzoni and 

 Borghese sales ; Frisian books ; tracts relating to Napoleon ; 

 modern French political tracts ; books relating to Africa, to 

 Cuba and Porto Rico, and to the Dutch East Indies ; hand- 

 bills relating to Manchester, 1780 to 1800 ; newspaper cuttings 

 illustrative of dramatic performances extending over thirty- 

 seven years ; and playbills of the Standard and Efiingham 

 Theatres. 



Among numerous purchases of books enriched with manu- 

 script notes, by far the most important, and one of the 

 most remarkable of the year, is that of two copies of 

 Dr. Daniel Sanders' standard German Dictionary, with the 

 supplement, containing probably not less than forty thou- 

 sand additions and corrections by the author, either in 

 manuscript or cuttings from books and newspapers. A more 

 remarkable example of learned industry will hardly be 

 found, and, as these accessions have never been published, 



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