6                                   Kenneth A. Lohf

Scotlande, and Irelande, 1577, which are handsomely bound in the
original calf. The English edition of Brant's The Ship of Fooles,
1570, contains the text translated by the Scotch poet and divine,
Alexander Barclay. It may be recalled that Brant's satire, in the
form of an allegory—a ship laden with fools and steered by fools to
the fools' paradise of Narragonia—vehemently criticizes the weak¬
nesses and vices of his time. The book achieved phenomenal popu¬
larity and influence throughout Europe, and the effective and
poignant woodcuts, present in the English edition in the Samuels
Library, greatly assisted its popularity.

The collection of English drama of the seventeenth century is
among the treasures of the Library. Nearly two hundred quarto
editions, from the Elizabethan and Restoration periods, were ac¬
quired, the rarest being the exceptionally fine copy of the first
edition of Christopher Marlowe's The Famous Tragedy of the
Rich Jew of Malta, published in 1633, forty years after the play¬
wright's death. Nearly as scarce is the 1631 edition of the anony¬
mous A Pleasant Comedie of Faire Em, The Millers Daughter of
Manchester. Only a single copy of the 1592 first edition, that in
the Bodleian Library, is known to exist. Among the works by
Shakespeare are the 1619 edition (but dated 1608 on the title-
page), published by Thomas Pavicr, of The Chronicle History of
Henry the Fift; and a copy of the second folio edition, Mr.
William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories arid Tragedies, pub¬
lished in 1632, with the rare Allot imprint, which reads "Printed
by Tho Cotes, for Robert Allot, and are to be sold at his Shop at
the Signs of the blacke Beare in Pauls Church yard." The poetry
of the period is also well-represented by handsome editions, many
in the original bindings, of the writings of Richard Brathwait,
Thomas Carew, John Donne, Richard Lovelace, Andrew Marvell,
and John Milton.

Virtually all of the major literary works of the eighteenth cen¬
tury are present, and the prized editions of the novels of Henry
Fielding, Tobias Smollett, and Laurence Sterne are in contem-