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lychronycon; _printed by Caxton_, 1482, 4to. 4 12 0 480. Pfintzing (Melchoir [Transcriber's Note: Melchior]) His German Poem of the Adventures of the Emperor Maximilian, under the name of Tewrdanckh's. Nuremb., 1517, folio 5 7 6 481. Initial Letters, Vignettes, Cul de Lampes, &c., 2 vols., _elegantly bound in russia_. [These beautiful books are now in the possession of Mr. Douce] 4 6 0 483. Bouteroue, Recherches curieuses des Monnoyes de France: _in morocco, gilt, Paris_, 1666, folio 5 0 0 486. Froissart's Chronicles; printed by Pynson, 1523, folio, 2 vols. _A beautiful copy elegantly bound._ 16 0 0 487. Recule of the Hystoryes of Troye; _printed by Caxton_, (1471) Folio. _A very fine copy, and quite complete._ 21 0 0 490. Ciceronis Officia, 1466, 4to. _On paper._ 25 10 0 And thus we take leave of that judicious and tasteful bibliomaniac, MARK CEPHAS TUTET! Three months after the sale of the preceding library, appeared the _Bibliotheca Universalis Selecta_ of SAMUEL PATERSON; containing a collection to be sold by auction in May, 1786. To this catalogue of 8001 articles, there is a short (I wish I could add "sweet") preface, which has been extracted in the _Gentleman's Magazine_, vol. lvi., p. 334; and in the _Censura Literaria_, vol. ii., p. 252--but, whatever accidental reputation the volume may have received from the notice of it in these periodical works, I deem both the preface and the work itself quite unworthy of Paterson's credit. There is an alphabetical index (not always very correct); and a few bibliographical notes are subjoined to the specification of the titles; and these considerations alone will give the book a place in the library of the bibliomaniac. The collection is, in fact, neither universal nor select: and the preface is written in the worst of all styles, containing the most commonplace observations.] The following year, was sold, in a similar way, the select and very curious collection of RICHARD WRIGHT, M.D.;[396] the strength of which lay chiefly in publications relating to the _Drama_ and _Romances_. It is, in my humble opinion, a most judicious, as well as neatly printed, little catalogue; and not more than a dozen copies of it, I think, were printed upon _large paper_. Secure this volume, Lisardo, if you wish to ad
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