roclamations as were published
during the Raigne of Elizabeth (and James I.); collected by Humphrey
Dyson, London, 1618. The first and second Shakespeare folios. Three
copies of the first edition of Milton's _Paradise Lost_, with the first,
third and fourth title-pages.

The immense collection of broadsides forms one of the most remarkable
features of this magnificent library. In volume iv. p. 201 of the
_Transactions of the Bibliographical Society_, published in 1898, Lord
Crawford informs us that 'in the last fourteen or fifteen years he had
managed to collect something like nineteen thousand of them, including
English, French, German and Venetian Proclamations (3000), Papal Bulls
(11,000) and English Ballads (3000).' Among them are several very rare
indulgences printed by Wynkyn de Worde and Pynson, and a large number of
proclamations and ballads of special interest and value, far too
numerous to mention.

The present Earl of Crawford, who is a Trustee of the British Museum,
President of the Camden Society, a Fellow of the Royal Society and the
Society of Antiquaries, and who was formerly President of the Royal
Astronomical Society, has printed catalogues of the English broadsides
and ballads, and of the Chinese books and manuscripts in his collection,
together with hand-lists to the Oriental manuscripts, the early editions
of the Greek and Latin writers, and the proclamations issued by
authority of the kings and queens of Great Britain and Ireland. He has
also printed collations and notes of some of the rare books in the
library.

FOOTNOTES:

[Footnote 101: Mainly contributed by Mr. J.P. Edmond, Librarian to Lord
Crawford.]

[Footnote 102: Lord Crawford's Seat, near Wigan.]

[Footnote 103: Since the above was printed it has been announced that
Lord Crawford's MSS. have become by purchase the property of Mrs.
Rylands of Manchester.]

HENRY HUTH, 1815-1878

Mr. Henry Huth, who was born in London in 1815, was the third son of Mr.
Frederick Huth of Hanover, who settled at Corunna, in Spain; but on the
occupation of that town by the French in 1809 he came to England, where
he became a naturalised British subject, and founded the well-known firm
which is still carried on by his descendants. Mr. Henry Huth, we are
informed in the preface to the Catalogue of the Huth Library, written by
his son, Mr. Alfred Henry Huth, was intended for the Indian Civil
Service, and was sent to Mr. Rusden's school at Leith