The Jack Harris Samuels Library                      5

A brief survey of the Library must begin with the sixteenth
century, the period of the earliest book, the 1545 Chaucer already
mentioned. Other authors of the century include Edmund Spen¬
cer, Sebastian Brant, and Raphael Holinshed. The pristine copy of

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Title-page of the 1630 edition of Robert Greene's drama.

Spencer's Colin Clouts Come Home Again, 1595, is from the col¬
lection of the English poet, Frederick Locker-Lampson. The
leather bookplate of Henry Huth, the English banker and biblio¬
phile, is in the two volumes of Holinshed's Chronicles of England,