The Book-Collector: a General Survey of the Pursuit And of Those Who Have Engaged in It At Home And Abroad From the Earliest Period to the Present Time. With An Account of Public And Private Libraries And Anecdotes of Their Founders Or Owners And Remarks
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We must not omit in the present connection the copy of the prose story-book of Howleglas, given in 1578 with .others byEdmund Spenser to Gabriel Harvey. But an almost equally covetable possession was the copy just referred to of Milton's Paradise Lost, 1667, which occurred only the other day at a sale, where it was, as too often happens, mis-described, and brought ,£70. It bore on a small slip inlaid in a fly-leaf: "For my loving fFreind, Mr. Francis Rea, Booke binder in Worcester these," and o...n another piece of paper : " Presented me by the Author to whom I gave two doubl sovereigns" = £&, nearly as much as the poet had for the copyright. The story of the book is unknown to us ; it seems eminently likely that the first memorandum was written by Milton ; but whether it belonged to a wrapper forwarding the gift, or to a letter accompanying it, is problematical. Rea of Worcester must be the same individual who is described as haying re-bound in June 1660 the Jolley and Ashburnham copy of Higden's Polychronicon, printed by Caxton, 1482 ; but there an earlier owner, Richard Furney, calls him " one Rede of Worcester." At Trinity, Cambridge, there is the edition of Spenser, 1679, with a memorandum on the fly-leaf by Jacob Tonson, testifying to the MSS.
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