nt books, as the
following list of a few of the most notable will show:--_Speculum Humanae
Salvationis_, printed by G. Zainer at Augsburg in 1471, eighty-four
pounds; Turrecremata, _Meditationes_, Romae, 1473, one hundred pounds;
the first edition of the _Philobiblon_ of Richard de Bury, Coloniae,
1473, eighty pounds; _Rolle de Hampole super Job_, attributed to the
Oxford press of Rood and Hunt, about 1481-86, three hundred pounds;
_Chronicle of England_, printed by Machlinia about 1484, one hundred and
seventy-five pounds; _Heures de lusaige de Romme_, with cuts printed in
various colours, Paris, Jehan du Pre, 1490, two hundred and seventy-two
pounds; First Letter of Columbus (Latin) 1493, Vespuccius, _Mundus
Novus_, 1502, and other rare tracts in one volume, two hundred and
thirty pounds; _Verardus in Laudem Fernandi Hispaniarum Regis_, etc.,
containing the letter of Columbus to King Ferdinand on his discovery of
America, 1494, ninety pounds; _Vitas Patrum_, printed by Wynkyn de Worde
in 1495, fifty pounds; _Hoefken van Devotien_, Antwerpen, 1496, one
hundred and one pounds; _Postilla Epistolarum et Evangeliorum
Dominicalium_, printed by Julian Notary in 1509, fifty pounds; _Mirrour
of Oure Ladye_, R. Fawkes, 1530, forty-nine pounds; _Heures de Rome_,
with illustrations by Geoffroy Tory, Paris, 1525, one hundred and
forty-four pounds; and Spenser's _Faerie Queene_, _Foure Hymnes_,
_Prothalamion_, etc., all first editions, 1590-96, one hundred and
seventy pounds.

WILLIAM HENRY MILLER, 1789-1848

Mr. William Henry Miller, who was born in 1789, was the only child of
Mr. William Miller of Craigentinny, Midlothian. In 1830 he entered
Parliament as one of the Members for Newcastle-under-Lyme, which seat he
held until the year 1841. He died unmarried at his residence,
Craigentinny House, near Edinburgh, on the 31st of October 1848, and was
buried, according to his desire, in a mausoleum on his estate. Mr.
Miller formed a fine collection of very choice books at Britwell Court,
Buckinghamshire, many of which he acquired at the Heber and other
important sales of the first half of the nineteenth century. He was very
particular about the condition and size of the volumes he purchased, and
from his habit of carrying a foot-rule about him for the purpose of
ascertaining their dimensions he became known as 'Measure Miller.' The
library was bequeathed to his cousin Miss Marsh, from whom it passed to
Mr. Samuel Christie-Mil