official documents of the order, its chronicles, controversies, &c. Lastly, Mr. Gilson, after a pleasant introduction on why manuscripts should be studied and where they are to be found, writes on the history of the collections at the British. Museum, what is to be found there and what is not, and how the student should proceed to get what he wants. The total cost of the five books is one hundred and five pence, and we hope they will fire one hundred and five young students to taste the joys of genuine research work. A. W. P. NOTES MISS PRIDEAUX's rapid survey of fine printing and bookbinding1 is a most praiseworthy attempt to popularize interest in the study of these crafts, and derives additional value from being connected with a useful exhibition of tools and materials. Miss Prideaux makes excellent use of her forty pages and finds space for an appreciative notice of recent fine printing in England and America. On recent fine bookbindings, to which she has herself made admirable contributions, she withholds her judgement, noticing no binders later than 'Mearne' (with whom, in defiance of Mr. Duff, she continues to associate the fine English' Restoration' bindings) and the ever-delightful Roger Payne. Her sixteen plates illustrate some fine specimens of the two crafts and show the craftsmen at work. An unlucky little slip, by which the underlines to a (not very good) example of Jenson's roman type and the Aldine Hypnerotomachia are interchanged, will no doubt be speedily corrected. 1 Victoria and Albert Museum. Notes on Printing and Bookbinding: a guide to the exhibition of tools and materials used in the processes. By S. T. Prideaux. pp. 40, with 16 plates. Obtainable either direct from the Museum or through any bookseller. Price Is. 6d. The Library offers its sincere congratulations and good wishes to the editors of The Print Collector's Quarterly,1 which last April made its first appearances after the war, with its head-quarters transferred from the United States to London, and Mr. Campbell Dodgson as its editor-in-chief. Good wishes are really superfluous, as the lavish number of illustrations ensures success, and Mr. Dodgson's own article on the etchings of J. L. Forain, Mr. A. M. Hind's on those of G. B. Tiepolo, Mr. Oppé's account of the curious experiments of Alexander Cozens, and Mr. Malcolm Salaman's of the etchings of E. L. Lumsden, make a very attractive first number. The half-tone illustrations are brilliantly good, but they are necessarily much reduced, and those who want to know Forain's etchings must study the wonderful originals now exhibited in the Print Gallery at the British Museumwhich is exactly what Mr. Dodgson would have them do. A. W. P. 1 The Print Collector's Quarterly, Vol. 8, No. 1. Edited by Campbell Dodgson. American editor: Fitzroy Carrington. J. M. Dent & Sons. 205. a year. 11 Grafton St., New Bond St. London, W. I DEALER IN ANCIENT MANUSCRIPTS EARLY PRINTED BOOKS ENGLISH LITERATURE (both old and modern) BOOKS ON THE FINE ARTS SCIENTIFIC BOOKS ORIENTAL BOOKS & MANUSCRIPTS ERNARD QUARITCH, LTD. acts as agent for the He also acts as agent for the sale of the publications of the British Museum, the Government of India, and some twentyfive Learned Societies in different parts of the world. The Library Fourth Series 1 September 1921 NOTES ON THE BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THREE SIX TEENTH-CENTURY ENGLISH BOOKS T BY SIR D'ARCY POWER, K.B.E., F.R.C.S. (ENG.), F.S.A.1 CON HE middle of the sixteenth century witnessed a revolu tion in the treatment of the sick poor in London, and produced a number of books written by men who had the interest of surgery at heart and who strove to raise their calling from a trade to a profession. Vicary, Gale, Clowes, Banester, Read, and Maister Peter Lowe wrote books which are still a joy to read. Their language is charming, their invective is fierce, their poetry is vile, but they give so lively a picture of the times in which they lived that many a profitable hour may still be spent in their company. The object of the Bibliographical Society, however, is Bibliography, so I leave this band of writers and will ask you to consider three books whose history has not yet been completely elucidated. 1 Read before the Bibliographical Society of London, 21 March 1921. F |