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beautiful copy of this most important edition in a fine early 18th-
century binding by the English bookbinder, John Brindley.
(Lodge fund.)

2.  Plutarch. Parallel Lives in French. Paris, Michel Vascosan,
1559. This is the first edition of the famous rendering by Jacques
Amyot, which had such great influence on Sir Thomas North,
whose translation into Efizabethan English (1579) served as a
source for Shakespeare. (Lodge fund.)

3.  Ludolphus de Saxonia. Vita di . . . Jesu Christi, Lyon,
Jacobus Myt, 1519. A rare edition of one of the Carthusian
masterworks of 14th-century mysticism. In a fine contemporary
calf binding, blind stamped. (Friends' Book Account.)

4.  Xenophon. Opera. Paris, Antoine Fitienne, 1625. A noble
fofio, printed by the "Imprimeur du Roi," who had the privilege
of using the "Royal Greek Types" designed by Garamond nearly
a hundred years before. The binding is especially notable; it is of
fine dark blue straight-grained morocco, by Roger Payne. The
volume was formerly in the library of Sir Mark Masterman Sykes
(1771-1823), whose collection contained a number of Payne
bindings. (Lodge fund.)

Later Printed Books. Only a few of these can be described here.
Notice should be taken, however, of the very rare work by
Captain Philip Pittman, The Present State of the European Settle¬
ments on the Mississippi, London, 1770; it contains eight engraved
maps, some folding, most of which bear the signature of the
engraver, Thomas Kitchin. (Bancroft Endowment.)

Other works in this category are: F. A. Durivage's Mike Martin
(1845); Richard Hovey's The Laurel (1889); and Sherwood
Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio (1919), all Bancroft purchases.

Modern Fine Books. Seven splendid examples of recent fine print¬
ing and illustration have been purchased by means of the Ulmann