DEPARTMENT OF PRINTED BOOKS. 25 



Massinger, Philip : " The Bondman," printed by John 

 Raworth for Edward Blackmore, London, 1638. Tv/o 

 editions of this play were printed in the year 1638, one by 

 John Raworth, the other by John Harrison; both arc now in 

 the Library. 



" Thomae Sydenham Opuscula Omnia," Amsterdam, 1683. 

 •The lirst collected edition of the works of Thomas Sydenham. 



" A Hymn to Victory." By the author of the " True-Born 

 Englishman." J. Nutt, London, 1704. The first edition of 

 Defoe's Poem on the Battle of Blenheim. 



'•' A Prospect of Society." Three hundred and ten lines of 

 poetry by Oliver Goldsmith, forming a rough draft of " The 

 Traveller, or a Prospect of Society," which was published by 

 J. Newbery in 1765. Comparing this draft with the first 

 edition of "The Traveller," which contains four hundred and 

 sixteen lines, it will be found that eighty-seven lines of the 

 present poem re-appear in " The Traveller " with alterations, 

 two lines (the fifth and sixth) are omitted, and the remainder 

 are unaltered in their wording though arranged in an entirely 

 difi'erent sequence. 



" Memoires litteraires de la Grande Bretagne pour I'An, 

 1767-1768." A Londres, 1768-1769. These two volumes were 

 written by Edward Gibbon and G. Dej^verdun, and published 

 anonymously. 



The most interesting foreign books of the fifteenth and 

 sixteenth century which have been acquired during the year 

 1902 are :— 



Suetonius " Opera," printed by Sweynheym and Pannartz, 

 Rome, 1472. 



Duns Scotus, Commentary on the third book of the 

 ■" Sententise " of Petrus Lombardus, printed by Joannes de 

 Reno at Santorso, a village near Vicenza, 1473. 



Guarinus Veronensis, " De diff'erentia veri amici et 

 adulatoris," Paris, about 1473. One of the first three books 

 produced by the third press established at Paris, that of the 

 " Soufflet Vert." 



" Regimen Sanitatis zu teutsch," printed by Friedrich 

 Creusner, Nuremberg, about 1473. 



Thomas Aquinas, " De Divinis Moribus,'' printed by 

 Nicolaus Ketelaer and G. de Leempt, Utrecht, about 1473. 



Johann Miiller of Konigsberg, " Disputatio super Theorica 

 Planetarum Gerardi Cremonensis," printed by the author at 

 his own press at Nuremberg, 1474. The only book from this 

 press not already in the Library. 



Petrus Berchorius, " Liber Bibliae Moralis," the work of 

 the printer C. W. Strassburg, 1474. 



