orks, _1st edition, in folio, wants
title, last leaf written from the_ 4to. 1623. 7 0 0

8062. Metrical Romances, written in the reign of Richard
IId. or rather about the end of the reign of Henry IIId. or
beginning of Edward I. (See note,) _purchased at Dr. Monro's
Auction by Dr. Farmer_, for 29_l._ 4 14 0

8080. These Booke is called Ars moriendi, of William Baron,
Esq., to remayne for ever to the Nonnye of Deptford; _on
vellum, bound in purple velvet_. 2 3 0

6451. Chaucer's noble and amorous auncyent Hystory of
Troylus and Cresyde, in fyve Bokes, _imprynted by Wynkyn de
Worde_, 1517.

Here begynneth the Temple of Glass, _imp. by Wynkyn de
Worde_.

The Castell of Pleasure, _imp. by ditto_.

Here begynneth a lyttell Treatise cleped La Conusauce
D'Amours. _imp. by Pynson_.

The Spectacle of Lovers, _imp. by Wynkyn de Worde_.

History of Tytus and Gesippus, translated out of Latin into
Englyshe, by Wyllyam Walter, sometime servaunte to Syr Henry
Marney, Cnyght, Chaunceler of the Duchy of Lancastre, _imp.
by ditto_.

The Love and Complayntes betwene Mars and Venus.

The Fyrst Fynders of the VII Scyences Artificiall, _printed
by Julian Notarye_.

Guystarde and Sygysmonde, translated by Wyllyam Walter,
_imp. by Wynkyn de Worde_, 1532.

The Complaynte of a Lover's Lyfe, _imp. by ditto_.

Here begynneth a lytel Treatyse, called The Disputacyon of
Complaynte [of] the Harte, thorughe perced with the lokynge
of the Eye, _imp. by Wynkyn de Worde_.

This Boke is named the Beaultie of Women, translated out of
French into Englyshe, _imp. by Wier_.

Here begynneth a lytel Treatise, called the Controverse
betwene a Lover and a Jaye, lately compyled, _imp. by Wynkyn
de Worde_.

_The above 12 very rare and ancient pieces of poetry are
bound_ in one vol. _with curious wood-cuts, and in fine
preservation._

'The Temple of Glass alone was sold for 3_l._ 15_s._ and the
present vol. may, with propriety, be deemed matchless.' All
in quarto. 26 5 0

[N.B. _These articles should have preceded_ no. 6608; at
p. 423, ante.]

And here, benevolent reader, let us bid farewell to RICHARD
FARMER of transcendant bibliomaniacal celebrity! It is in
vain to look forward for the day when book-gems, simi