50                                 Kenneth A. Lohf

Giovanni Alvise, \^erona's third printer. One of the finest illus¬
trated Italian books of the fifteenth century, the original edition
is now very rare. The Officina Bodoni edition contains the original
Latin and Italian texts, the latter that of Accio Zucco, as well as
the sixty-eight woodcut illustrations attributed to Liberale da
Verona, the most important Veronese miniaturist of the period.
They were recut on wood by Anna Bramanti for this edition, and
they were colored by hand after a copy of the Aesop in the British
Museum. An additional volume containing the fables in Caxton's
translation is included in this splendid production of one of the
greatest presses of this century.

Another fine example of hand-printing, also acquired by means
of the Ulmann Fund, is the edition of James Russell Lowell's Four
Poems: The Ballad of the Stranger, King Retro, The Royal Pedi¬
gree, and A Dream I Had, printed and bound by Frederic and
Bertha Goudy at The Village Press, in Hingham, Massachusetts.
Issued on March lo, 1906, the edition of the four poems, first col¬
lected in this publication, consisted of fifty numbered copies on
Arches paper.

Engel Fund. Two important additions were made to the Solton
and Julia Engel Collection. The first of these is Id. Rider Hag¬
gard's copy of the first English edition of Robert Louis Stevenson's
Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, London, Longmans,
Green, 1886. Haggard's signature appears on the title-page, and
his signed note on the half-title reads: "Given to me by Charles
Longman in 1886. It was the specimen copy sent in to his oflice by
the binders." The second item purchased is the letter written by
Rudyard Kipling to Dr. M. S. Taylor on December 2, 1910, in
which the novelist praises Dr. Taylor's photographs of their win¬
ter holiday the previous year, and tries to persuade him to accom¬
pany him again on a skiing trip. In addition to his four-page letter,
Kipling has included another double page containing a limerick
and two pen drawings memorializing a skiing mishap in the snow.