ng been preceded by the impressions, Colon.
1473; Spirae, 1483; and Paris, 1500. So far as I remember, the editio
princeps has not been specified by Gough. (_Brit. Topog_. ii. 121.)

R.G.

I find I can answer the Query of L.S. (Vol. ii., p. l53.), who asks,
"Where can I procure a _translation_ of Robert de Bury's _Philobiblon_?"

A translation was published by Mr. Rodd, in 1832, of which the following
is the title:--

"Philobiblon: a Treatise on the Love of Books, by Richard de
Bury, Bishop of Durham, written in MCCCXLIV; and translated from
the first Edition, MCCCCLXXIII, with some Collations. London:
Printed for Thomas Rodd, 2 Great Newport Street, Leicester
Square, 1832."

This translation is a small 8vo. volume, of which there is a copy in the
Douce collection in the Bodleian; at the beginning of which copy, on a
fly-leaf, the words, "J.B. Inglis to his friend F. Douce, Esq.," are
written; and opposite, on the inside of the cover, there is written in
pencil, apparently in Douce's own hand, "I had read the MS. of this work
before it was printed."

There appears to have existed some difference of opinion with respect to
the authorship of the _Philobiblon_. Leland, in his _Itinerary_, ed.
8vo. Oxford 1744, vol. iii. pp. 77, 78, sub loc. _Saresbyri_, says,--

"Ex tabella in Sacello S. Mariae. Orate pro anima Ricbardi Poure,
quondam Sarum Episcopi." ...

"Qui quidem Richardus Episcopus postea translatus fuit ad
Episcopatum Dunelmensem ... Incipit Prologus in Philobiblon
Richardi Dunelmensis Episcopi, _quem librum compilavit Robertus
Holcot_ de Ord. Praedicatorum _sub nomine dicti Episcopi_."

Still, however, in the appendix to vol. iv. of the _Itinerary_, p. 164.,
it is said:--

"Richardus de _Bury_, alias _Angravyle_ dictus, episc. Dunelm.,
scripsit Philobiblon."

Upon Leland's authority, the Bodleian catalogue ascribes the work in
question to Robertus Holcot. Watt, however (_Bibl. Brit._), seems to
imagine R. de Bury and Holcot to be the same person. His words are (vol.
i. c. 176 ):--"Bury, Richard. Dunelm., _alias_ Robertus Holcot, Bishop
of Durham, and Chancellor and Treasurer of England, in the reign of
Edward III.;" and again, under Holcot's name, "Holcot, Robert, _or_
Richard D. Bury."

The translator (J.B. Inglis) distinguishes in his Preface between these
contemporary writers, and considers R. de Bury to be the undoubted
author of this work pass