shillings; a vellum copy of the first edition of Livy,
printed by Sweynheym and Pannartz at Rome in 1469, two hundred and
sixty-two pounds, ten shillings; the first edition of the _Anthologia
Graeca_ on vellum, printed at Florence in 1494, seventy pounds; a perfect
copy of Higden's _Polychronicon_, printed by Caxton in 1482, one hundred
and three pounds, nineteen shillings; three other imperfect Caxtons,
fifty-eight pounds, seventeen shillings and sixpence; Barclay's _Shyp of
Folys_, printed by Pynson in 1509, thirty pounds, nine shillings;
Bradshawe's _Lyfe of Saynt Radegunde_, printed by Pynson, without date,
thirty-two pounds; _The Cronycle of Englonde_, printed by Wynkyn de
Worde in 1502, thirty-eight pounds, seventeen shillings; a copy on
vellum of the _Orcharde of Syon_, printed by Wynkyn de Worde in 1519,
sixty-five pounds, two shillings; _Vitruvius de Architectura_, printed
on vellum by P. de Giunta in 1513, one hundred and seven pounds, two
shillings; the Coverdale Bible, 1535, eighty-nine pounds, five
shillings; and Archbishop Parker's _De Antiquitate Britannicae Ecclesiae_,
1573, forty pounds. Mr. Dent possessed the first three Shakespeare
folios, and a large number of the separate quarto plays. The folios
realised respectively one hundred and ten pounds, five shillings,
fifteen pounds, and sixty-five pounds, two shillings. The copy of the
third folio had many contemporary manuscript corrections. Of the quarto
plays, twenty-six pounds was obtained for the first edition of _Love's
Labors Lost_, twenty-two pounds for the first edition of _Othello_,
sixteen pounds for the first edition of _The Merchant of Venice_, and
four pounds, ten shillings for the first edition of _Midsummer Night's
Dream_.

Several of the manuscripts were of exceptional beauty and interest. A
Roman Breviary, with illuminations in the finest Flemish style,
presented to Queen Isabel of Castile by Francisco de Rojas, sold for
three hundred and seventy-eight pounds; a copy of the Gospels in Greek,
said to have been written about the end of the eleventh century, for two
hundred and sixty-seven pounds, fifteen shillings; an _Office de la
Vierge_, written by Nicolas Jarry, the celebrated calligraphist, in 1656
for Anne of Austria, and which afterwards passed into the possession of
Madame de Maintenon and the Prince de Conti, for one hundred and ten
pounds, five shillings; and a copy of the _Westminster Liber Regalis_,
written in the fifteenth cen