24 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



Perfection." Robert Redman, London, 1532. In a contemp- 

 orary English binding bearing the arms of Henry VIII. on the 

 upper cover and of Catharine of Aragon on the under cover, j 



" A boke newely translated out of Latyn called the folowig 

 of Christe." William Middleton, London, about 1540. The 

 only copy known of the first edition of Whitford's translation 

 of the " Imitatio Christi." 



"The last Wil and last Confession of Martyn Luther's 

 faith," printed abroad, probably at Geneva, about 1543. A 

 translation from the " Hauptartikel " of Martin Luther. The 

 only other known copy is in the Bodleian Library. 



The Book of Common Prayer. Richard Grafton, London, 

 1553, The only issue of the year 1553 in the British Museum. 



Heliodorus, Bishop of Tricca ; " An Aethiopian Historie,"^ 

 Englished by Thomas Underdowne. Henry Wykes, London, 

 about 1569. The first edition. 



Edwards, Richard : " The Paradyse of daynty deuises. 

 Deuised and written for the most part, by Mr. Edwardes ; the 

 rest by sundry learned gentlemen, both of honor and worship '" 

 (Lord Vaux, Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford, Jasper Heywood, 

 and other Elizabethan poets): Henry Disle, London, 1578. The 

 third edition. No other copy has been described. 



" The Queenes Majesties Entertainment at Woodstock," 

 Thomas Cadman, London, 1585. The " Comedy " with which 

 this book ends is probably the work of George Gascoigne. 

 Imperfect at the beginning. No other copy is known. 



Mascall, Leonard : "First booke of Cattell." John Wolfe- 

 London, 1591. 



Greene Robert : " Greenes Groats-worth of Witte bought 

 with a Million of Repentance." William Wright, London, 1592, ^M 

 First edition of the book containing the earliest allusion to ^M 

 Shakespeare. No other copy is recorded. ^1 



Drayton, Michael: "Piers Gaveston," 1595? The first 

 edition of this poem was published in 1594. In a preface to the 

 second authorised edition, 1596, Drayton alludes to a surrep- 

 titious issue recently published. The present is the only known 

 copy of this surreptitious edition. 



Daniel, Samuel : " The Queen's Arcadia. A pastoral! ti-ago- 

 comedie presented to her Majestic and her Ladies by the 

 Universitie of Oxford in Christs Church, in August last, 1605." 

 G. Eld for Simon Waterson, 1606. 



Butler, Charles: "The Feminine Monarchic, or a Treatise 

 concerning bees and the due ordering of them." Joseph Barnes, 

 Oxford, 1609. 



Cruso, John : " Militarie Instructions for the Cavallerie." 

 Cambridge, 1632. With plates. 



Milton, John : " Paradise Lost." London, 1667. Six issues 

 of the first edition of " Paradise Lost," each with slight 

 variations, are known. The present copy is of the second of 



