De Worde, 1532, 4to.; and a hitherto
imperfectly described impression of _The Boke of Fyshinge_,
printed by W. De Worde, in 4to., without date; which usually
accompanies that fascinating work, ycleped Dame Juliana
Barnes's _Boke of Hawkyng, Huntyng, and Cote Armoor_. My
friend Mr. J. Haslewood first made me acquainted with this
rare treasure--telling me he had "a famous tawny little
volume" to shew me: his pulse, at the same time, I ween,
beating one hundred and five to the minute! The second
anecdote more exactly accords with the nature of my
preliminary observations. In one of the libraries abroad,
belonging to the Jesuits, there was a volume entitled, on
the back of it "_Concilium Tridenti_:" the searching eye and
active hands of a well-educated Bibliomaniac discovered and
opened this volume--when lo! instead of the _Council of
Trent_, appeared the _First_, and almost unknown, _Edition_
of the _Decameron of Boccaccio_! This precious volume is now
reposing upon the deserted shelves of the late Duke of
Roxburgh's library; and, at the forth-coming sale of the
same, it will be most vigorously contended for by all the
higher and more knowing powers of the bibliographical world;

But when the gods descending swell'd the fight,
Then tumult rose; fierce rage and pale affright
Varied each face:

[_Pope's_] _Homer's Iliad_, b. xx. v. 63.

MIRABEAU. _Catalogue de la Bibliotheque de Mirabeau l'aine,
par Rozet_, 1792, 8vo. A fine collection of books; some of
them very curious and uncommon. At the head of the choice
things contained in it must be noticed the "Recueil de
Calques, ou dessins des titres et figure d'un grand nombre
des plus anciens ouvrages, graves en bois, ou imprimes en
caracteres mobiles, depuis l'origine de l'imprimerie," &c.
These designs were 226 in number; of which a description is
given at the head of the catalogue. They were purchased for
1105 livres, and again sold, with the same description
prefixed, at the last Crevenna sale of 1793 (see p. 79,
ante). Consult the _Curiosites Bibliographiques_ of Peignot,
p. 139.----MIROMENIL. _Catalogue des Livres de la
Bibliotheque de M. Hue de Miromenil, garde des sceaux de
France_, Paris, 1781, 4to. "It appears, from the catalogue
of M. de Coste,