1626, &c.,' for seven guineas; and '211, Collection of Political
Poems, Dialogues, Funeral Elegies, Lampoons, &c., with various Political
Prints and Portraits, 3 vols. 1641, &c.,' for sixteen pounds; and it is
probable that these are the collections to which Sir Walter Scott refers.

Dr. Dibdin, in his enthusiastic mode of treating matters of bibliography,
endeavours to establish a pedigree for those who

"Love a ballad in print a' life,"

from Pepys, placing Mr. Luttrell the Second in descent.

"The opening of the eighteenth century," he observes, "was
distinguished by the death of a bibliomaniac of the very first order
and celebrity; of one who had no doubt frequently discoursed largely
and eloquently with Luttrell upon the variety and value of certain
editions of old ballad poetry, and between whom presents of curious
old black-letter volumes were in all probability passing, I allude to
the famous Samuel Pepys, secretary to the Admiralty."

Of Narcissus Luttrell he then says:--

"Nothing would seem to have escaped his lynx-like vigilance. Let the
object be what it may (especially if it related to poetry), let the
volume be great or small, or contain good, bad, or indifferent
warblings of the Muse, his insatiable craving had 'stomach for all.'
We may consider his collection the fountain-head of these copious
streams, which, after fructifying in the libraries of many
bibliomaniacs in the first half of the eighteenth century, settled
for awhile more determinedly in the curious book-reservoir of a Mr.
Wynne, and hence breaking up and taking a different direction towards
the collections of Farmer, Steevens, and others, they have almost
lost their identity in the innumerable rivulets which now inundate
the book-world."

It is to the literary taste of Mr. Edward Wynne, as asserted by Dr.
Dibdin, that modern book-collectors are indebted for the preservation of
most of the choicest relics of the Bibliotheca Luttrelliana.

"Mr. Wynne," he continues, "lived at Little Chelsea, and built his
library in a room which had the reputation of having been Locke's
study. Here he used to sit surrounded by innumerable books, a great
part being formed by 'an eminent and curious collector in the last
century.'"

What Dr. Dibdin says respecting Mr. Wynne's building a library and
Locke's study is inaccurate, as there can be no reasona