ever had the perseverance to read through) produced
L105 in a preceding sale: see page 591. The _Venus and Adonis_ has
kept close pace with its companions.

We may now revel among the rarities of the FIRST PART of this
extraordinary collection--

No. L _s._ _d._

123 Bale's Comedy concernynge thre Lawes
of Nature, Moses and Christ, corrupted
by the Sodomytes, Pharisees and Papystes
most wicked, wants the title, first
edition, curious portrait of the Author,
excessively rare. Inprented per Nicholaum
Bamburgensem, 1538 10 0 0

488 Wilkins' Concilia Magnae Britanniae et
Hiberniae, 4 vols. 1737. Folio 25 0 0

[Such a price is one among the few _harmless_ fruits of the Puseian
Controversy!]

958 Churchyard's Worthiness of Wales, first
edition, very rare, 1587. Quarto 24 0 0

[In my earlier days of Book-collecting, I obtained a copy of this most
rare volume, in an _uncut state_, from a Mr. Keene, of Hammersmith,
who asked me "if I thought _half-a-guinea_ an extravagant price for
it?" I unhesitatingly replied in the negative. Not long after, the
late Mr. Sancho, who succeeded Mr. Payne, at the Mews Gate, went on
his knees to me, to purchase it for _two guineas_! His attitude was
too humble and the tone of his voice too supplicatory to be resisted.
He disposed of it to his patron-friend, the Hon. S. Elliott, for five
pounds five shillings. Mr. Elliott had a very choice library; and was
himself a most amiable and incomparable man. It is some twenty-five
years since I first saw him at the late Earl Spencer's, at Althorp.]

960 Churchyard. The Firste of Churchyardes
Chippes, containinge Twelue seuerall
Labours, green morocco, gilt
leaves, 1578 0 0 0

The Second Part of Churchyard's Chips was never published.

961 Churchyard's Generall Rehearsall of
Warres, called Churchyardes Choise,
imprinted by White, 1579 7 7 0

The latter part of this Work is in Verse, and some have supposed that
Churchyard intended it to form the Second Part of his Chips.

1146 Gascoyne's Delicate Diet for Daintie
Mouthde Droonkardes, excessively rare;
only one other copy known, namely, that
which was in the Librarie