were excessively rare, and some of them unique. Among them were
the _Venus and Adonis_ of Shakespeare, printed in 1602; his _Poems_
printed in 1640, and several of the first editions of his separate plays
in quarto. The library also comprised a large portion of the
extraordinary collection of poetical sheets, consisting of ballads,
satires, elegies, etc., formed by Narcissus Luttrell, who, Sir Walter
Scott says, 'seems to have bought every poetical tract, of whatever
merit, which was hawked about the streets in his time, marking carefully
the price and date of the purchase.'

After Bindley's death his books were sent to Evans of Pall Mall for
sale. They were disposed of in five portions. The first sale took place
in December 1818, and the fifth, which consisted of omissions, in
January 1821. There were nine thousand three hundred and eighty-three
lots in the five sales, which occupied forty-six days, and realised
upwards of seventeen thousand five hundred pounds. The following are a
few of the more notable books, and the prices they fetched in the
sales:--_The Temple of Glasse_, printed by Berthelet, forty-six pounds,
four shillings; Chute's _Beawtie Dishonoured_ (London, 1529)--Steevens's
copy, thirty-four pounds; Lewicke's _Titus and Gisippus_ (London, 1562),
twenty-four pounds, thirteen shillings and sixpence; Parker, _De
Antiquitate Britannicae Ecclesiae_ (London, 1572), forty-five pounds,
three shillings; Nicolas Breton's _Floorish upon Fancie_ (London, 1577),
forty-two pounds; Hunnis's _Hyve full of Hunnye_ (London, 1578),
eighteen guineas; _The Forrest of Fancy_ (London, 1579), thirty-eight
pounds, six shillings and sixpence; Markham's _Tragedie of Sir Richard
Grinvile_ (London, 1595), forty pounds, nineteen shillings; Robert
Fletcher's _Nine English Worthies_ (London, 1606), thirty-seven pounds,
sixteen shillings; Dolarny's _Primerose_ (London, 1606), twenty-six
pounds, ten shillings; and Purchas's _Pilgrimes_, five volumes (London,
1625), thirty-four pounds, thirteen shillings. The first edition of
_Othello_ sold for fifty-six pounds, fourteen shillings; of _Love's
Labour Lost_ for forty pounds, ten shillings; and the _Venus and Adonis_
of 1602 for forty-two pounds. Seven hundred and eighty-one pounds, one
shilling were obtained for the Luttrell collection of poetical sheets;
and fifty-two pounds, ten shillings for a little _Manual of Devotions_,
one inch and seven-eighths long, and one inch and three-eighths b