y pounds, and two hundred pounds. The illuminated
copies of Boccaccio's _Ruine des Nobles Hommes_, printed by Colard
Mansion; Aristotle's _Opera Varia Latine_, printed by Andrea de Asula;
and the _Heures de la Vierge Marie_, printed by Geoffroy Tory, realised
six hundred and ninety-five pounds, eight hundred pounds, and eight
hundred and sixty pounds.

Of the Caxtons the _Life of Jason_ and the _Dictes_ fetched the highest
prices--two thousand one hundred pounds, and thirteen hundred and twenty
pounds; the former being the largest sum ever paid for any Caxton book.
Three hundred and eighty-five pounds were obtained for the 'Book of St.
Albans'; one thousand pounds for Chaucer's _Canterbury Tales_, printed
by Wynkyn de Worde in 1498, believed to be the only copy extant; and
three hundred and sixty pounds for the _Treatyse of Fysshing with an
Angle_, by the same printer. This little book, which consists of sixteen
leaves, and without the covers weighs about two ounces, sold for nearly
forty-five times its weight in gold. The first edition of the _Reformed
Primer_ sold for two hundred and twenty-five pounds; Grafton's
_Chronicle_, with the letter of the Duke of Norfolk, for seventy pounds;
and a vellum copy of the _Tewrdannck_ for three hundred and ten pounds.

The first folio Shakespeare, which was slightly imperfect, was bought by
Mr. Sotheran for five hundred and eighty-five pounds, for presentation
to the Memorial Library, Stratford-on-Avon. The second folio fetched
ninety pounds, and the third one hundred and ninety pounds. Hakluyt's
_Navigations_ sold for two hundred and seventy-five pounds, and the set
of the first five editions of the _Compleat Angler_ for eight hundred
pounds. At the Corser sale they realised but one hundred and forty
pounds. The copy of _Merlin_ with the Monnier binding brought seven
hundred and sixty pounds, and a collection of early impressions of
sixty-two prints by Albert Duerer three hundred and fifty pounds.

FOOTNOTES:

[Footnote 99: Eighteen are mentioned in Blades's _Life and Typography of
Caxton_. London, 1861-63.]

[Footnote 100: This volume was recently sold for the Earl of Ashburnham
by Sotheby, Wilkinson and Hodge to a private purchaser for ten thousand
pounds.]

SIR WILLIAM TITE, C.B., 1798-1873

Sir William Tite, C.B., was the son of Mr. Arthur Tite, a London
merchant. He was born in London in 1798, and after receiving his
education at private schools, became a pup