, five shillings and thirty-five pounds; Shakespeare's _Poems_,
1640, seven pounds, ten shillings; Prynne's _Records_, three volumes,
1665-70, one hundred and forty pounds; the fourth volume, printed in
1665 or 1666, believed to be unique, three hundred and thirty-five
pounds; Houbraken's _Heads of Illustrious Persons_, two volumes, 1756,
folio, large paper, with first states and duplicate proofs of the
plates, etc., ninety-one pounds; Bartolozzi's Engravings, a collection
of six hundred and sixty plates in various proof states, bound in eight
folio volumes, sixty-two pounds; Boydell's Prints, five hundred and
forty fine impressions, bound in nine folio volumes, seventy-eight
pounds, fifteen shillings; Lysons's _Topographical Account of
Buckinghamshire_, inlaid in eight volumes, atlas folio, and
super-illustrated with four hundred and eighty drawings, etc., five
hundred and forty pounds; and Lysons's _Environs of London_, large
paper, eighteen volumes quarto, super-illustrated with eight hundred
drawings and a large number of plates, one hundred and thirty-three
pounds. The Duke, who died at the Great Western Hotel, London, on July
the 29th, 1861, was the author of _Memoirs of the Court and Cabinets of
George III._, 1853-55, two volumes; _Memoirs of the Court of England
during the Regency_, 1856, two volumes; _Memoirs of the Court of George
IV._, 1859, two volumes; _Memoirs of the Courts and Cabinets of William
IV. and Victoria_, 1861, two volumes; and _Private Diary of Richard,
Duke of Buckingham and Chandos_, 1862, four volumes; together with a few
political works.

FOOTNOTES:

[Footnote 92: A descriptive catalogue of the manuscripts in the Stowe
library by the Rev. Charles O'Conor, D.D., the Duke's librarian, was
printed in 1818-19.]

HENRY PERKINS, 1778-1855

Henry Perkins, who was born in 1778, was a partner in the well-known
firm of Barclay, Perkins and Co., brewers, but he does not appear to
have taken an active part in the business, and he spent the later part
of his life in retirement among his books at Hanworth Park, Middlesex.
He died at Dover on the 15th of April 1855.

Mr. Perkins, who was a Fellow of the Linnean, Geological and
Horticultural Societies, possessed a small but exceedingly valuable
library, which, among many other extremely rare books, contained two
copies of the Gutenberg Bible, one on vellum and the other on paper; a
copy on vellum of Fust and Schoeffer's Latin Bible of 1462; a