sively rare.
Printed for Henry Olney, 1595 15 5 0

"Foure Sonnets written by Henrie Constable to Sir Philip Sidneys
Soule" are prefixed. These have not been reprinted in the subsequent
editions. Only three other copies of the first edition of this elegant
and valuable Treatise are known. One of which is in the British
Museum, and one in the Bridgewater Library.

The Third Part of Mr. Chalmers's library--abundantly rich in Scotch
literature, and containing much valuable illustration of the HISTORY
OF PRINTING IN SCOTLAND, will probably quickly succeed the publication
of this Work. Mr. Chalmers had frequently expressed to me his
intention as well as inclination to give a complete History of the
SCOTISH PRESS; and if the materials collected by him find their way
into his native country, it is to be hoped that some enterprising
spirit, like that which animates the present Librarian of the Signet
Library, will find sufficient encouragement to bring them before the
public. I bargain for a _Quarto_.

MENALCAS (whose fame expands more largely in the _Bibliographical
Decameron_ and _Reminiscences_) was my old and "very singular good
friend" the Rev. HENRY JOSEPH THOMAS DRURY, Rector of Fingest, and
Second Master of Harrow School; second, because he declined to become
the _first_. His library, so rich and rare in classical
lore--manuscript as well as printed--was sold by Mr. Evans in 1827.
The catalogue contained not fewer than 4729 articles. The bindings,
chiefly in Lewisian calf and morocco, were "de toute beaute;" and the
"oblong cabinet" sparkled as the setting sun shot its slanting rays
down the backs of the tomes. Of this catalogue there were 35 copies
only printed upon writing paper, for presents.

This library was strikingly illustrative of the character of its LATE
owner; for it is little more than a twelvemonth since he has been
called away from that numerous and endearing circle, in the midst of
which I saw him sitting, about a twelvemonth before his departure--the
happiest of the happy--on the day of the nuptials of his youngest
daughter but one, with Captain Beavan. His books were in fine
condition throughout--gaily attired in appropriate bindings of calf or
morocco, as the character and condition might be. His love of old
classical _Manuscripts_ was properly and greatly beyond that of
printed books: but each class was so marked and identified by his
calligraphical MS. notes, th