d. Sir Frederick Madden's editions of "Havelok
the Dane" was issued in 1828, of the Romance of "William and
the Werwolf" in 1832, and of the old English version of
"Gesta Romanorum" in 1838. The valuable "Manners and
Household Expenses of England in the Thirteenth and
Fifteenth Centuries," edited by T. Hudson Turner, was
presented to the Club by Beriah Botfield in 1841; Payne
Collier's edition of the "Household Books of John Duke of
Norfolk, and Thomas Earl of Surrey, 1481-1490," was issued
in 1844, and his "Five Old Plays illustrative of the Early
Progress of the English Drama" in 1851; the Rev. Joseph
Stevenson's edition of "The Owl and the Nightingale, a Poem
of the Twelfth Century," was issued in 1838, and his edition
of "The Ayenbite of Inwyt" in 1855; John Gough Nichols's
edition of the "Literary Remains of King Edward the Sixth"
appeared in 1857 and 1858 (2 vols.), and Dr. Furnivall's
edition of Henry Lonelich's "Seynt Graal" in 1863-1864.
Several years elapsed before the second great Printing Club
was founded. In 1823 _The Bannatyne Club_ was started in
Edinburgh, chiefly by Sir Walter Scott, for the purpose of
printing works illustrative of the History, Antiquities and
Literature of Scotland. It derives its names from George
Bannatyne (born Feb. 22, 1545, died 1607). A long series of
books have been issued by the Club to its members, many of
which are of great interest. The Catalogue of the Abbotsford
Library was presented in 1839 to the members "by Major Sir
Walter Scott, Bart., as a slight return for their liberality
and kindness in agreeing to continue to that Library the
various valuable works printed under their superintendence."
In the same year appeared Sir Frederick Madden's edition of
_Sir Gawayne_. Bishop Gawin Douglas's "Palace of Honour" was
printed in 1827, and his translation of Virgil's "AEneid" in
1839 (2 vols.). The Club was closed in 1867.
_The Maitland Club_, which derived its name from Sir Richard
Maitland of Lethington (born in 1496, died March 20, 1586),
was instituted in Glasgow in 1828. A volume containing "The
Burgh Records of the City of Glasgow, 1573 to 1581," was
presented to the Club in 1832-34; the Poems of Drummond of
Hawthornden in 1832; Robert Wodrow's "Collection upon the
Lives of
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