ent from the author, it has fallen
to the lot of Mr. Christie to become, professionally, the
vender of a work which he himself never meant to be sold. A
copy was very lately disposed of, in this manner, for
14_l._----BENTLEII EPISTOLAE; _Edited by_ [the Rev.] _Dr.
Charles Burney_: 1807, 4to. This is one of the most
beautiful productions of the Shakspeare press; nor are the
intrinsic merits of the volume inferior to its external
splendour. The scarcer copies of it are those in medium
quarto; of which only 50 were printed: of the imperial
quarto, there were 150 executed.--I add two more similar
examples, which were not printed at the Shakspeare
press:--LORD BALTIMORE'S _Gaudia Poetica_; Lat. Angl. et
Gall. with plates. (No date). Large quarto. Only ten copies
of this rare volume were printed, and those distributed
among the author's friends: a copy of it was sold for 6_l._
10_s._ at the sale of Mr. Reed's books: see Bibl. Reed,
no. 6682. It was inserted for sale in the catalogue of
Mr. Burnham, bookseller at Northampton, A.D. 1796--with a
note of its rarity subjoined.----VIEWS IN ORKNEY and on the
NORTH-EASTERN COAST OF SCOTLAND. Taken in 1805. Etched 1807.
Folio. _By the Marchioness of Stafford._--The letter-press
consists of twenty-seven pages: the first of which bears
this unassuming designation; "Some Account of the Orkney
Islands, extracted from Dr. Barry's History, and Wallace's
and Brand's Descriptions of Orkney." To this chapter or
division is prefixed a vignette of _Stroma_; and the chapter
ends at p. 5. Then follow four views of the Orkney
Islands.--The next chapter is entitled "The Cathedral of
Kirkwall," which at the beginning exhibits a vignette of the
_Cathedral of St. Magnus_, and at the close, at p. 9, a
vignette of a _Tomb in the Cathedral_. To these succeed two
plates, presenting Views of the _Inside of the Cathedral_,
and an _Arch in the Cathedral_.--The third chapter commences
at p. 11, with "The Earl of Orkney's Palace," to which a
vignette of a _Street in Kirkwall_ is prefixed. It ends at
p. 12, and is followed by a plate exhibiting a view of the
_Door-way of the Earl's Palace_; by another of the _Hall of
the Earl's Palace_; and by a third containing two Views,
namely, the _Inside of the Hall_, and, upon a