ith many
Mervaylles, wood-cuts, B.M. g.l. _Emprynted by me Lawrence
Andrewe_, 1527, folio. 26 0 0

837. The Recuile of the Histories of Troie, translated into
English by William Caxton, very fair, B.M. g.l. _Imprynted
at London by W. Copland_, 1553, fol. 23 0 0

852. The Myrroure of Golde for the Synfull Soule, bl. l.
wood-cuts. _Imprynted at Lond. in the Fleete-strete, at the
sygne of the Sun, by Wynkyn de Worde_, 1526, 4to. 12 1 6

856. Barclay's (Alexander) Egloges, out of a Boke named in
Latin, Miserie Curialium, compyled by Eneas Sylvius, Poete
and Oratour, bl. l. _woodcuts, five parts, and complete_,
G.M. _Imprynted by Wynkyn de Worde_, 4to. 25 0 0

859. Holy Life and History of Saynt Werburge, very frutefull
for all Christian People to rede. Poems, bl. l. G.M. _Imp.
by Richard Pynson_, 1521, 4to. 31 10 0

Amount of the sale, 3135_l._ 4_s._]

PHIL. I attended the sale of Woodhouse's prints and books; and
discovered at it as strong symptoms of the madness of which we are
discoursing as ever were exhibited on a like occasion. I have the
catalogue upon fine paper, which, however, is poorly printed; but I
consider it rather a curious bibliographical morceau.

LYSAND. Make the most of it, for it will soon become scarce. And
now--notwithstanding my former boast to do justice to the remaining
bibliomaniacal characters of respectability--as I find my oral powers
almost exhausted, I shall barely mention the sales, by auction, of the
collections of WILKES, RITSON, and BOUCHER[412]--although I ought to
mention the _Bibliotheca Boucheriana_ with more respect than its two
immediate predecessors; as the collector was a man endowed with
etymological acumen and patience; and I sincerely wish the public
were now receiving the benefit of the continuation of his Dictionary;
of which the author published so excellent a specimen, comprehending
only the letter A. Dr. Jamieson has, to be sure, in a great measure
done away the melancholy impression which lexicographical readers
would otherwise have experienced--by the publication of his own
unrivalled "_Scottish Dictionary_;" yet there is still room enough in
the literary world for a continuation of Boucher.

[Footnote 412: It did not, perhaps, suit Lysander's notions
to make mention of book-sales to which no collectors' names
were affixed; but, as it has been my office, during the