DEPARTMENT OF PRINTED BOOKS. 25 



A collection of sixty-nine Quaker Tracts printed for the 

 most part b^tv/een the years 16o3 and 1G90, containing works 

 by George and Margaret Fox, their son George Fox, William 

 Penn, Whitehead, Naylor, and other celebrated members of 

 the Society of Friends. 



" The North Briton," Nos. 1-78, 5 June 1762 to 31 Decem- 

 ber 1763. xSos. 1-46 are already in the Library. Nos. 1-45 

 were printed by G. Kearsley, the remaining numbers, 46-78, 

 bear the imprint, " Printed now by special appointment for 

 E. Sumpter, Fleet Street." 



" The Ayrshire Garland. An excellent new song." A 

 single sheet containing the original version of " The Kirk's 

 Alarm," by Robert Burns. It is believed to have been printed 

 at Dumfries at Burns' expense in 1789. 



" First Fruits of Australian Poetry," privately printed, 

 Sydney, New South Wales, by George Howe, 1819. The 

 earliest Australasian book in the Library and one of the earliest 

 books printed at Sydney. The poems are by Barron Field, 

 Judge of the Supreme Court of New South Wales, 1817-1824. 

 The author was a personal friend of Charles Lamb, who 

 reviewed this book in the "Examiner," 16th January, 1820. 



" Tu-kaio-li, or the two Fair Cousins. A Chinese novel 

 from the French versions of M. Abel Remusat." 2 voL 

 London, 1827. Containing MS. notes by Leigh Hunt and a 

 few by Thomas Carlyle. The most interesting of Leigh Hunt's 

 notes read : " Finished the third regular reading of this 

 curious and delightful book, September 18th, 1837. L. H." 

 '• Finished my fourth reading with increased admiration and 

 with gratitude for comfort in great distress, February 21st, 

 1853. L.H." 



The most interesting foreign books of the fifteenth and 

 sixteenth centuries purchased during the year 1903 are : — 



A " Directorium " of the Praemonstratensian Use, printed 

 at Lubeck about 1480 with spaces for musical notes which 

 have not been filled in. 



" Regimen Sanitatis Salernitanum," printed by Conrad 

 Winters at Cologne, about 1480. 



Turrecremata, Cardinal Joannes de, " Qusestiones Evan- 

 geliorum," probably printed at Toulouse about 1480. The 

 type closely resembles the first type used in Toulouse, but is 

 not absolutely identical with it. The present is the only 

 copy of this work known to exist. 



Paulus Florentinus, " Breviarium Decreti," printed by^ 

 M. Hus and J. Schabler at Lyons, 1484. 



Turrecremata, Cardinal Joannes de, " Expositio Psalterii." 

 printed by Nicolas Philippi at Lyons, about 1485. 



■ " Coutumes de Bretagne," printed at Treguier in 1485 by 

 a printer signing his name as "Ja. P." Two books only 



