of the three
witches of Warboys, arraigned, convicted, and executed at
the last assizes at Huntington; for bewitching the five
daughters of Robert Throckmorton, Esq., and divers other
persons, with sundrie devilish and grievous torments; and
also for bewitching to death the Lady Crumwell. _Extra
rare_, 4to. 4 0 0

8230. Witches apprehended, examined, and executed for
notable villanies, by them committed both by land and water,
with a strange and most true triall how to know whether a
woman be a witch or not: _with the plate_. _Extra rare_,
4to. 3 5 0

8269. The Pleasure of Princes, the Art of Angling, together
with the Ordering and Dieting of the Fighting Cocke, 1635,
4to. 2 5 0

8296. The Knyght of the Toure; _a perfect and fine specimen
of the father of English Printers_, 1484, folio. The reader
(if he pleases) may consult my first volume, p. 202, of the
_Typographical Antiquities of Great Britain_, for some
account of this edition. 111 6 0

My copy of this first part of the Catalogue of Brand's books
is upon _large paper, with the prices inserted in the
margin_. The _second part_ of the BIBLIOTHECA BRANDIANA,
containing duplicates and Pamphlets, was sold in February,
1808, by Mr. Stewart. There were 4064 articles. Few
collections attracted greater attention before, and during,
the sale than did the library of the late Mr. Isaac Reed: a
critic and literary character of very respectable
second-rate reputation. The public Journals teemed, for a
time, with book-anecdotes concerning this collection; and
the _Athenaeum_, _Monthly Mirror_, _Censura Literaria_,
_European Magazine_, struck out a more bold outline of the
Bibliotheca Reediana than did the generality of their fellow
Journals. Reed's portrait is prefixed to the European
Magazine, the Monthly Mirror, and the Catalogue of his own
Books: it is an indifferently stippled scraping, copied from
a fine mellow mezzotint, from the characteristic pencil of
Romney. This latter is a private plate, and, as such, is
rare. To return to the Library. The preface to the Catalogue
was written by the Rev. H.J. Todd. It is brief, judicious,
and impressive; giving abundant proof of the bibliomaniacal
spirit of the owner of the library--who would appear to have
adopted t