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DEPARTMENT OF PRINTED BOOKS. [GROUND 
the Printing Press in Italy. The following are of remarkable 
interest : — 
If Lactantius Opera. — Printed in the Monastery of Subiaco, near 
Rome, by Sweynheym and Pannartz, in 1465. The first book 
printed in Italy with a date. Bequeathed by the Rev. 0. M. 
Cracherode. 
2. Livy. — Printed at Rome, by Sweynheym and Pannartz, about 
1469. The only copy known to exist on vellum. Printed for 
Pope Alexander VI., when Vice-Chancellor of the Roman See 
and Abbot df the Monastery of Subiaco, where the above-named 
printers took up their abode, and introduced the art of printing 
into Italy. In 1815, the present volume was sold for £903. 
Bequeathed by the Right Hon. Thomas Grenville. 
5. Dante. Divina Comedia. — Printed at Foligno, by Joannes 
Numeister, in 1472. The first edition of this work. From the 
library of King George III. 
7. Lascaris. Greek Grammar. — Printed at Milan by Dionysius 
Paravisini, in 1476. First edition of the first book printed in 
Greek characters. Bequeathed by the Rev. C. M. Cracherode. 
13. Virgil. — Printed at Venice by Aldus, in April, 1501. The 
first book printed in Italic types, and the earliest attempt to 
produce cheap books by compressing the matter into a small 
space, and reducing the size of the page. Bequeathed by the 
Right Hon. Thomas Grenville. 
In Case VII. this series is continued, with the addition of 
specimens of early printing in France ; for example : — 
7. Gasparinus Barzizius. Liber epistolarum. — Printed at the 
Sorbonne in Paris, by Ulrich Gering, Michael Friburger, and 
Martin Crantz, in 1470. The first book printed in France. 
Purchased in 1848. 
8. L'Art et Science de Rhetorique. — Printed at Paris by Antoine 
Verard, in 1493. On Vellum. Henry VII.'s copy. From the 
old royal collection. 
11. Les Quatre Filz Aymon. — Printed about 1480 at Lyons. From 
the old royal collection. 
15. Missale secundum usum Ecclesie Sarisburiensis. — Printed at 
Rouen by Martin Morin, in 1492. Purchased in 1848. 
16. Missale secundum usum Ecclesie Sarisburiensis. — On vellum. 
Printed at Rouen, by Martin Morin, in 1497. This copy be- 
longed to Cardinal Pole. Purchased in 1852. 
In Case VIII. are shown specimens of the earliest pro- 
ductions of the Printing Press in England ; together with 
