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Transactions of the "Bibliographical Society Series. Issued Quarterly. Vol. X, i\b. 4. ^March 1930 Downloaded from https://academic.oup.com/library/issue/s4-X/4 by guest on 27 September 2021

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Bradshaw Collection. A Catalogue of the Bradshaw Collec- Downloaded from https://academic.oup.com/library/issue/s4-X/4 by guest on 27 September 2021 tion of Irish Books in the University Library, Cambridge. 3 volumes, royal 8vo, pp. x, 1696; cloth. £2 2s. Cambridge, 1916. Britwell. Catalogue of the Library of S. Christie-Miller, Esq., Britwell, Bucks. 3 volumes in 1, 4to, half buckram, gilt top, other edges uncut. £2 2s. Privately printed for friends only, 1873-6. Parti. Divinity; Part II. Voyages and Travels; Part III. British History. GesamtkatalogderWiegendrucke (Complete Catalogue of all known Incunabula). Compiled by the Commission appointed by the Prussian Board of Education. 4-to, buckram. Price per volume, £3 5s. 1925. To be published in about 14. annual volumes. Volumes I to 3 are ready, Vol. 4 will be ready in the Spring, 1930. Locker-Lampson (Frederick). An Appendix to the Rowfant Library. A Catalogue of the Printed Books, Manuscripts, Autograph Letters, &a, collected since the Printing of the first Catalogue in 1886. Royal 8vo, beautifully printed, with portrait and a view of Rowfant; Roxburghe binding. £1 Is. Privately printed at the Chiswick Press, 1900. Quaritch (Bernard). Contributions towards a Dictionary of English Book-Collectors, as also of some Foreign Collectors whose Libraries were incorporated in English Collections, or whose Books are chiefly met with in England, by Edward Burbidge, Frederick Clarke, F. S. Ellis, Rush C. Hawkins, W. Carew Hazlitt, Alfred H. Huth, Herbert Jones, Michael Kerney, Robert G. C. Proctor, Robert F. Roden, Albert Forbes Sieveking, the Editor, and others. Edited by Bernard Quaritch. Royal 8vo, with 10 portraits and 20 facsimiles (some coloured); cloth, wrappers bound in. £1 16s. 1892-1921. 11 Graf ton Street, New Bond Street, London, W. 1 Editions AUGUSTE PICARD 82, RUE BONAPARTE (VP), PARIS

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PAGE English Seventeenth-Century Almanacks. By EUSTACE F. BOSANQUET 361 The Library: A History of Forty Volumes. By A. W. POLLARD 398

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Rowe's Edition of Shakespeare. By ALFRED JACKSON . . 455 Reviews and Notices: Andres Brun, Calligrapher of Saragossa (Henry Thomas and Stanley Morison) 474 Some Forerunners of the Newspaper in England, 1476-1622 (Matthias A. Shaaber) 476 A Bibliography of the Works of J. B. Bury (Norman H. Baynes) . . . . • . . • -47^

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