Annals of the Bodleian Library, Oxford, A.D. 1598-A.D. 1867: With a Preliminary Notice of the earlier Library founded in the Fourteenth CenturyMacray, William Dunn
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Annals of the Bodleian Library, Oxford, A.D. 1598-A.D. 1867: With a Preliminary Notice of the earlier Library founded in the Fourteenth Century
Macray, William Dunn
Bodleian Library
[332] Mrs. Sutherland died March 18, 1852.
[333] In Mrs. Sutherland's own copy of the catalogue (now in the
possession of E. L. Hussey, Esq., Oxford), some of these numbers are
enlarged in MS. as follows: Charles II, 557, being 432 plates; Cromwell,
379, 255 plates; William III, 436, 367 plates. Amongst the portraits,
there are frequently numerous copies of the same plate, being
impressions in all its different states. In a few instances
(particularly with regard to Charles I) some of the prints entered in
the catalogue have not been found in the volumes.
[334] Ten copies were printed of a larger and finer edition, for
presentation to various Libraries, but as only four of these (Bodleian,
Cambridge University, British Museum, and Bibl. Royale, Paris)
acknowledged the gift (the letters from which are preserved in one copy
of the catalogue), no more than five copies were printed of the
Supplement. Consequently those Libraries which did not return thanks for
the gift have now an imperfect book.
[335] It is here printed from the original (written in the beautifully
neat hand of the late Registrar, Dr. Bliss,) which is now in the
possession of a nephew of Mrs. Sutherland, Edw. Law Hussey, Esq., of
Oxford, M.R.C.S. It is sealed with the old University seal, described on
p. 1 of these _Annals_, enclosed in a gold box. The late Rev. R. Hussey,
Regius Professor of Ecclesiastical History, was one of the brothers of
Mrs. Sutherland.
[336] A very erroneous notice of the collection, written in a singularly
depreciatory tone, was inserted in an article in the _Quarterly Review_,
in 1852, vol. xci. p. 217. The writer appears to have confounded the
facts connected with Gough's preference of the Bodleian to the British
Museum (as told in Nichols' _Lit. Hist._), or possibly Douce's, with the
totally different circumstances of Mrs. Sutherland's gift, whose husband
had left the collection entirely at her disposal, provided only that it
were not dispersed.
A.D. 1838.
One of the 'curiosities of literature' was obtained by the purchase (for
£10 10_s._) of the _System of Divinity, in a Course of Sermons on the
first Institutions of Religion_, by Rev. Will. Davy, A.B., Vicar of
Lustleigh, Devon. It is a work in twenty-six volumes, of which only
fourteen copies were printed, entirely by the hands of the indefatigable
author himself, between the years 1795 and 1807. It is very roughly
executed, the author having purchased only just so much old and worn-out
type, as sufficed for the printing of two pages at once; accomplishing
in this way the work upon which he had set his heart, 'arte meâ, diurno
nocturnoque labore' (as he says in a Latin preface), in consequence of
having failed to procure in any other way the publication of his book.
The copy in our Library is distinguished by having many additions
inserted, printed (in many cases with later and better type) upon small
slips[337].
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