he cobler's well-known example of applying one room
to almost every domestic purpose: for Reed made his library
'his parlour, kitchen, and hall.' A brave and enviable
spirit this!--and, in truth, what is comparable with it? But
the reader is beginning to wax impatient for a more
particular account. Here it is: _Bibliotheca Reediana. A
Catalogue of the curious and extensive Library of the late
Isaac Reed, Esq., of Staple Inn, deceased. Comprehending a
most extraordinary collection of books in English
Literature, &c.: sold by auction, by Messrs. King and
Lochee: November_, 1807, _8vo._ The following specimens of
some of Reed's scarce volumes are copied, in part, from the
account which was inserted in the _Athenaeum_, vol. iii., pp.
61, 157, under the extraordinary signatures of W. Caxton and
W. de Worde.

NO. 5867. A Portfolio of single-sheet Ballads. L15 15_s._
0_d._

6661. Colman (W.) Death's Duel, 8vo., _frontispiece_. 7 15 0

6685. Barnefield's Affectionate Shepherd, _very rare_, 4to.
1594. 15 10 0

6713. A musical Concort of Heavenly Harmonie, called
Churchyard's charitie. _See MS. notes in Churchyard's
Pieces, by Steevens, Reed_, &c., 1595, 4to. 8 15 0

6714. Churchyard's lamentable and pitiable Description of
the woeful Warres in Flanders, 1578, 4to. 4 19 0

6715. ---- a true Discourse of the succeeding Governors in
the Netherlands, and the Civil Warres there begun in 1565,
4to.

6716. ---- a light Bundle of Lively Discourses, called
Churchyard's Charge, presented as a New Year's Gift to the
Earl of Savoy, 1589, 4to. 11 5 0

6717. ---- Challenge, b.l., 1580, with a copious Manuscript
account of his works, by J. Reed, and a small octavo Tract,
called A Discourse of Rebellion, 1570, 4to. 17 10 0

6755. Gascoigne (George) whole workes, _fine copy in
Russia_, 4to., b.l., 1567. 15 5 0

6777. Cynthia, with certain Sonnets, _rare_, 1595, 8vo. 12 5 0

7479. Whetstone (George) Mirror of true Honor, and Christain
[Transcriber's Note: Christian] Nobilitie, exposing the
Life, Death, and Divine Vertues of Francis Earl of Bedford,
b.l., 1585, 4to. 7 0 0

7705. Beaumont and Fletcher's Philaster; or Love lies a
bleeding, _frontispiece_, 4to., 1620. 24 0 0

8536. Shakspeariana, a Large Assemblage of Tr