EXTRA ILLUSTRATED.

176 PORTSMOUTH (Louise de Keroualle, Duchess of). Memoirs of.

Compiled from state papers preserved in the Archives of the French Foreign Office by H. Forneron, with Memoirs, portraits. facsimile letters, etc., and a preface by Mrs. G. H. Crawsford.

Extra illustrated and extended to 2 vols by the insertion of 105 portraits and views and with specially printed title-pages.

2 vols, bound in full crushed levant morocco extra, gilt lines on sides and back, uncut, t. e. g. 1888. £10 105

The Duchess of Portsmouth was the elder of two daughters of Guillaume de Penancoet, sieur de Keroualle, a Breton gentleman of very ancient lineage, whose wife was, through her mother, connected with the De Rieux. Louise de Keroualle became maid of honour to Henrietta Duchess of Orleans, sister of Charles II. In 1670 she accompanied t England the Duchess of Orleans, who was negotiating the first treaty of Dover. There is no proof of the existence at the time of any design t establish her as the mistress of Charles II, but he was growing wear of Lady Castlemaine. The effect produced on him by his sister's attendant was at once obvious, and probably contributed to a prolongation of the negotiations. A coldness on the part of Charles towards Louis XIV resulted from the sudden death of the Duchess of Orleans after her returt to France, and Louise de Keroualle was thereupon sent back to England Charles ordering a royal yacht to meet her at Calais. On arriving i London she was named maid of honour to Queen Catherine.

Her ascendency over the king, which seemed assured by the retirement from court of the Duchess of Cleveland, was imperilled by the arrival in England about the end of 1765, of Hortensia Mancini, Duchess of Mazarin. Her splendid apartment at the end of the gallery at Whitehall, was, according to Evelyn, twice or thrice pulled down and rebuilt to satisfy her prodiga and expensive pleasures, it was ultimately burnt down, with all the buildings adjoining, 9 April, 1691."

HORAE BEATAE MARIAE VIRGINIS.

ILLUMINATED MS. ON VELLUM, EXECUTED FOR CHARLES VIII OF FRANCE. See No. 153.

See also Plate XXXIII.

ILLUMINATED MS. ON VELLUM, EXECUTED FOR CHARLES VIII OF FRANCE. See No. 153.

See also Plate XXXII.

177 PORTRAITS.- Houbraken and Vertue's Heads of Illustrious Persons of Great Britain.

With their Lives and Characters by Thomas Birch.

120 large and fine portraits of celebrated English Characters from Chaucer to Pope. BRILLIANT ORIGINAL IMPRESSIONS.

2 vols in one, folio, handsomely bound in contemporary full russia extra, elaborately gold-tooled on sides and back, gilt edges. Lond., 1747. £14 14S

The portraits, which measure about 14 by 8 inches, include:

QUEEN ELIZABETH'S PRAYER BOOK.

178 PRAYER.-A Book of Christian Prayers.

Collected out of the Auncient Writers and best learned in our tyme, worthy to be read with an earnest mynde of all Christians in these daungerous and troublesome dayes.

Black and Roman Letter. Every page ornamented with elegant woodcut borders from the designs of Albert Durer, Holbein's Dance of Death, Scenes and Illustrations of Scriptures, Emblematic Figures, etc.

Sm. 4to, fine copy in full morocco gilt, g. e. printed by John Daye, 1578.

(SEE ILLUSTRATION, NO. XLIII.)

"

At London,

£45

The First Published Edition of what is usually termed Queen Elizabeth's Prayer Book," attributed to J. Foxe, also to Richard Daye. On the reverse of title is a full-page woodcut of Queen Elizabeth, kneeling.

GENEVA FORM OF PRAYER.

179 PRAYER.-The Forme of Prayers and Ministration of the Sacramentes, etc.

Used in the Englishe Congregation at Geneva, and approved by the famous and Godly learned man, M. John Calvin.

12mo. (No place of publication), 1561. Old calf.

Excessively Rare.

£35

This famous Liturgy, still used by the Scottish Church, was compiled by Knox, Whittingham, and others, at Geneva, under the supervision of John Calvin. It is interesting to note that this Edition was published almost immediately after Knox had pursuaded the Scottish Parliament to abolish the Authority of the Roman Church. It was in August, 1560, that a Commission was given to Knox by the Parliament to draw up in several heads the sum of the reformed doctrine. In four days the Confession of Faith, which Knox had already at his fingers' ends was completed. It was adopted on 17 August without alteration of a sentence."

180 RAYNALDE (Thomas, Phisition). The Byrth of Mankynde, otherwyse named the Womans Booke.

Newly set foorth, corrected, and augmented, whose contentes ye may reade in the Table of the Booke, and most playnely in the Prologue.

Black Letter. Several curious woodcuts.

Sm. 4to, FINE TALL COPY, in its original calf binding. 1560.

£12 128

"More enlarged and encreased, and more diligently corrected than it was before, eyther in the Latine or in the Englyshe. And where before in the other printes there lacked matter necessary to the openyng and declaration of the figures pertayning to the inner partes; it is nowe so plainely set foorth that the simplest Mydwyfe which can reade, maye both understand for her better instruction, and also other women that have nede of her help. the more commoditie."-Preface.