e anterior edition (of 1677) for the sake
of better impressions of the plates; which, however, in any
condition, are neither tasteful nor well engraved. What is
called '_a good Hollar_' would weigh down the whole set of
them!----_Strype's Ecclesiastical Memorials_; 1721, _Folio_,
3 vols.----_Annals of the Reformation_; 1725, _Folio_, 4
vols. Happy the collector who can regale himself by viewing
large paper copies of these inestimable works! In any shape
or condition, they are now rare. The latter is the scarcer
of the two; and upon large paper brings, what the French
bibliographers call, 'un prix enorme.' There is one of this
kind in the beautiful library of Mr. Thomas
Grenville.----_Hearne's Works_--'till Mr. Bagster issued his
first reprints of Robert of Gloucester and Peter Langtoft,
upon paper of three different sizes--(of which the largest,
in quarto, has hardly been equalled in modern
printing)--used to bring extravagant sums at book-auctions.
At a late sale in Pall-Mall, were [Transcriber's Note:
where] the books in general were sold at extraordinary
prices, the large paper Hearnes absolutely 'hung fire'--as
the sportsman's phrase is.----_Hudibras, with Dr. Grey's
Annotations, and Hogarth's cuts_; 1744, 2 vols. There were
but twelve copies of this first and best edition of Dr.
Grey's labours upon Hudibras (which Warburton strangely
abuses--) printed upon large paper: and a noble book it is
in this form!----_Milner's History of Winchester_; 1798,
4to., 2 vols. Of this edition there were, I believe, either
twelve or twenty-four copies printed upon large paper; which
brings serious sums in the present general rage for books of
this description.----_Kennet's (Bp.) Parochial Antiquities;
Oxford_, 1695, 4to. The only known copy of this work upon
large paper is in the fine library of Sir Richard Colt
Hoare, Bart. This copy was probably in the collection of
'that well-known collector, Joseph Browne, Esq., of Shepton
Mallet, Somersetshire:' as a similar one 'in Russia, gilt
leaves,' was sold in Pt. II. of his collection, no. 279,
for 7_l._ 17_s._ 6_d._ and purchased in the name of
Thornton.----_The Chronicles of Froissart and Monstrelet_:
translated by Thomas Johnes, Esq. Hafod, 1803, 1810, quarto,
9 vols.: including a volume of