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books more huddled together and smothered, as it were, than
in this catalogue. Let us now proceed to an analysis of Mr.
West's Collection.

1. _Volumes of Miscellaneous Tracts._

These volumes extend from no. 148 to 200, from 915 to
992, from 1201 to 1330, and from no. 1401 to 1480.--Among
them are some singularly choice and curious articles. The
following is but an imperfect specimen.

NO. 154. Atkyns on Printing, _with the frontispiece_, &c.,
&c., 4to.

164. G. Whetstone's Honorable Profession of a Soldier, 1586,
&c., 4to.

179. Life and death of Wolsey, 1641, &c.

183. Nashe's Lenten Stuffe, with the Praise of the Red
Herring, 1599, &c. 4to. (the three articles together did not
exceed) L0 12_s._ 0_d._

188. A Mornynge Remembrance, had at the Moneth Mynde of the
Noble Prynces Countesse of Rychmonde, &c. Wynkyn de Worde,
&c. 4to. 2 2 0

194. Oh! read over Dr. John Bridges, for it is a worthie
Worke, &c. bl. letter, &c. 4to. Strange and fearful Newes
from Plasto, near Bow, in the house of one Paul Fox, a Silk
Weaver, where is daily to be seene throwing of Stones,
Bricbats, Oyster-shells, Bread, cutting his Work in Pieces,
breaking his Windows, &c. _No date_, 4to. 0 12 6

1477. Leylande's Journey and Serche, given of hym as a Newe
Yeares Gyfte to K. Henry 8th, enlarged by Bale, bl. letter,
1549, 8vo., (with three other curious articles.) 0 17 6

1480. A disclosing of the great Bull and certain Calves that
he hath gotten, and especially the Monster Bull that roared
at my Lord Byshop's gate. Bl. letter, pr. by Daye. No date.
4to.

The preceding affords but a very inadequate idea of the
"pithie, pleasant, and profitable" discourses mid tracts
which abounded among the miscellaneous articles of Mr.
West's library. Whatever be the defects of modern
literature, it must be allowed that we are not _quite so
coarse_ in the _title pages_ of our books.

2. _Divinity._

This comprehended a vast mass of information, under the
following general title. Scarce Tracts: Old and New
Testaments (including almost all the first English editions
of the New Testament, which are now of the rarest
occurrence): Commentators: Ecclesiastical History: Polemics:
Devotions, Catholic and Calvinistical: Enthusi