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THE WORKS OF SIR DAVID LINDSAY
4. Quaritch. Formerly the Bolland copy purchased for the Britwell
Library. Lacks four leaves supplied in facsimile.
5. Cambridge University Library. Syn. 7. 56. 40 (formerly Y. 9. 4).
One of the books of Bishop Moore, Bishop of Ely, and a gift book of
George I., 1715, with the King’s bookplate recording the gift. Bound
up with the Pierce Ploughman of Owen Rogers, 1561. Perfect. Early
eighteenth century binding.
6. Glasgow University Library. Hunterian Collection. Bv. 3. 2.
B2-B7 and M* missing.
7. Peterborough Cathedral Library. S. 29. Formerly in the pos¬
session of Bishop White Kennett (1660-1728), whose signature is on
the title. This copy contains an extra leaf as second leaf to the volume.
This is, recto, the Contents, and, verso, the title of the 1581 edition.
The text is that of the 1566 edition. Below the colophon is the inter¬
esting inscription :—
Thomas Digges Esquier
William Ruskatt’s book haberdasher
Anno Dom. 1605
bought of Mrs Stow the cronicklers wife.
This copy was rebound in the eighteenth century.
8. Library of Sir R. Leicester Harmsworth. Bookplate of Thomas
Brooke, F.S.A., Armitage Bridge. The first four leaves are in facsimile.
Bound in morocco extra by Bedford.
9. Henry E. Huntington Library. The Hoe copy. Two of the wood-
cuts have been faintly coloured by hand. Bound in brown levant gilt,
and blind tooled in compartments, gilt edges, by Riviere. Hoe sale
catalogue, II. 347.
10. Library of the Earl of Crawford and Balcarres. The catalogue
reports leaves 16, 24, 41, 42, 92, 93, 96, 97, 104 wanting, but these have
been supplied from another copy. The preliminaries are in facsimile.
Morocco extra. ? Laing’s sale, £2.1.
xi. Library of the Earl of Crawford and Balcarres. Imperfect copy
bought from the sale of the Braidwood Collection at Sotheby’s, 10th
November 1911, for £1, is. From this copy were taken the leaves to
repair No. 10. Bookplate of Adam Sim of Coulter. Contains a letter
from William Paterson, the Edinburgh publisher, to Sim, stating that
Laing had identified the copy as of the 1566 edition, and that it had
formerly been in Laing’s own library, he having bought it from ' one
Mann, a bookseller in Darlington, and afterwards disposed of it when
he got a more perfect copy.’ An addition in another hand states that
Paterson was just about to publish Laing’s edition. The copy is very
mutilated, and actually made up of leaves from three different copies.
Sir Egerton Brydges reprinted Purfoote’s Epistle and Lindsay’s
Exhortation to the Reader touching the Writing of Vulgar Speech, in
Censura Literaria, 2nd ed. (London: Longmans), 1815, I. 121-129,
as a contribution by J[ohn] H[all] of Conduit Street [identification of
initials by Bliss in the Bodleian annotated copy]. Laing reprints Pur¬
foote’s Epistle, Lindsay, HI. 223-224.