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Notable Purchases, i$S^-i<))9                      35

ca. 1890-1918; one (about Jane Austen) from William Dean
Howells, 4 Jan. 1902; and two letters and three signed poems by
David Gascoyne, 1949.

Three book manuscripts have been added: Sir Thomas \^'il-
ford's The Sympathetical Affection Between Arithmetick and
Geometry, early seventeenth century (for the D. E. Smith collec¬
tion) ; L. E. Du Flou's unpublished novel, A Summer Romance,
ca. 187 3-84; and Henry iMiller's The Air-Conditioned Nightrnare
(including the original manuscript and corrected galley and page
proofs).

Four fifteenth-century printed items were acquired for inclu¬
sion in the Gonzalez Lodge collection of early classical works:
the earliest one is the Bologna, 1479, edition of Franciscus de
Maioranis' Passus super universalia et praedicamenta Aristotelis;
thereafter follow Aulus Persius Flaccus' Satyrae in the Brescia,
i486, edition; the Milan, 1491, edition of Suetonius' Vitae XII
Caesarum; and the Venice, 1500, edition of Aulus Gellius' Noctes
Atticae.

In addition to the two manuscripts and four fifteenth-century
printed books already mentioned, forty-four other early texts
were added to the Gonzalez Lodge collection. Of these, thirty-
five are sixteenth-century items, including the first Aldine edition
(1503) of the commentaries by Ammonius Hermiae; the Paris
(1512) edition of Apuleius' Asinus aureus; the Aldine edition
(1503) of Euripides; a German translation of Ovid's Metamor¬
phoses (Frankfort, 1581); a German translation of Plutarch's
Vitae (Kolmar, 1547); and the Paris (1552-53) edition of
Sophocles in Greek, published by Adrien Turnebe, and bound in
handsome red morocco, gilt, by Roger Payne for Earl Spencer,
from whom the volume passed to Sir Mark Masterman Sykes and
later to the Duke of Sussex. The remaining Gonzalez Lodge pur¬
chases represent seventeenth-century (8) and eighteenth-century
(i) printings of cla,ssical writings, and include three English
editions: Thucydides Eight Bookes of the Peloponnesian warre
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