par Anthoine Verard_, 1495-96, forty-six pounds, four shillings;
_Speculum Christiani_, printed by Machlinia, sixteen pounds, sixteen
shillings; _Promptorius Puerorum_, printed by Pynson in 1499,
thirty-eight pounds, seventeen shillings; _The Floure of the
Commandments of God_, Wynkyn de Worde, 1521, thirteen pounds, thirteen
shillings; _The Catechisme, set furth by ... Johne, Archbischop of Sanct
Androus, etc. Prentit at Sanct Androus_, 1552, sixteen pounds, five
shillings and sixpence; _Mary of Nemmegen_, printed at Antwerp by Jan
Van Doesborgh in 1518 or 1519, the only copy known, twenty-four pounds;
Painter, _The Palace of Pleasure_, London, Thomas Marshe, 1575, a very
fine copy, twenty-three pounds; and Shakespeare's _Sonnets_, London,
1609, forty pounds, nineteen shillings. Perhaps the finest of the
manuscripts were a beautifully illuminated copy on vellum of the _Liber
de Proprietatibus Rerum, Anglice_, by Bartholomaeus de Glanvilla, written
towards the end of the fourteenth century, which fetched fifty-one
pounds, nine shillings; and Boccaccio's _Tragedies of the Falle of
Unfortunate Princes_, translated into English verse, written on vellum
in England in the early part of the fifteenth century, and richly
illuminated. Thirty pounds, nine shillings was all that was obtained for
this fine manuscript. After Inglis's death, his son, Dr. C. Inglis, sold
such books as he could not find room for. They were disposed of by
Sotheby, Wilkinson and Hodge on the 31st of July 1871, and five
following days, and realised two thousand seven hundred and sixty-six
pounds, thirteen shillings and sixpence. Among the fifteen hundred and
eighty-eight lots in the sale were a few rare books and some fine
papyri. A third sale of the books in this splendid library, by order of
Dr. C. Inglis, took place on June 11th, 1900, and three following days,
by the same auctioneers. In this sale there were eight hundred and
forty-nine lots, for which the sum of seven thousand five hundred and
nineteen pounds, twelve shillings and sixpence was obtained. Although no
Caxtons were to be found among the books, there were many rare and
interesting examples from the presses of Machlinia, Pynson, Wynkyn de
Worde, Julian Notary and other early English printers. The foreign
printers were also well represented, and the collection contained
several beautiful Books of Hours, both printed and in manuscript. Some
very high prices were obtained for the more importa