Children_, and Higden's _Polycronicon_, but they
were not good copies. The library also comprised some fine illuminated
Horae and other manuscripts, including a copy on vellum of Chaucer's
_Canterbury Tales_ of the fifteenth century. Mr. Perkins died on the
10th of October 1860, and his library was sold by Sotheby, Wilkinson and
Hodge on July 10th, 1889, and six following days. There were two
thousand and eighty-six lots in the sale, which realised eight thousand
two hundred and twenty-two pounds, seven shillings. The first
Shakespeare folio fetched four hundred and fifteen pounds, the second
forty-seven pounds, the third one hundred pounds, and the fourth
fourteen pounds. Of the quarto plays, the Second Part of _Henry the
Fourth_ sold for two hundred and twenty-five pounds, _Othello_ for one
hundred and thirty pounds, and _Romeo and Juliet_ for one hundred and
sixty-four pounds. The copies of _Love's Labour Lost_, _Much Ado about
Nothing_, _Troilus and Cressida_, and _Pericles_ were poor ones, and
realised but comparatively small sums. The _Lucrece_ fetched two hundred
pounds.

JOHN BELLINGHAM INGLIS, 1780-1870

John Bellingham Inglis was born in London on the 14th of February 1780.
His father, a partner in the firm of Inglis, Ellice and Co., merchants,
Mark Lane, London, was a Director of the East India Company, and was at
one time its Chairman. In consequence of the failure of his father young
Inglis set up in business on his own account in the wine trade, but this
not proving successful, he retired after a short time on the money
rescued from the wreck of the fortune of his father, who died soon after
his failure. He resided for many years in St. John's Wood, but
afterwards removed to Hampstead Heath. He died at 13 Albion Road, N.W.,
on the 9th of December 1870.

Mr. Inglis, who was a good classical scholar, an excellent linguist, and
a man of considerable literary ability, commenced collecting books at a
very early age, and soon formed a very valuable and important library,
which was especially rich in works from the presses of the early
English printers. Unlike some possessors of libraries, he read the
books which he had collected; and the Duke of Sussex, at one of his
literary dinners at Kensington Palace, is reported to have said:
'Gentlemen, you are all very learned about titles, editions, and
printers, but none of you seem to have read anything of the books except
Mr. Inglis here.' In 1832 he trans