Previously, and at the time of the printing of the book, the work of the University Press was done in the "Theatre," a view of which is given at the left of the figure of Minerva, in the vignette on the title-page. This was the Sheldonian Theatre, built from designs by Christopher Wren, at the expense of Archbishop Gilbert Sheldon, who succeeded Lord Clarendon as chancellor. It was opened in 1669, and was used for various academic purposes, as well as for the home of the Press. Clarendon's design was fulfilled in 1713; and the Clarendon Building, as it was called, was occupied until it was outgrown, and the Clarendon Press, for under this name it was now equally well known, was removed once more, in 1830, to its present quarters. The vignette, with its interesting glimpse of the buildings near the Theatre, is signed "delin MBurg. ſculp. Univ. Ox.," in the first two volumes, and "delin MBurghers ſculpt, Univ. Ox. 1704," in the third, where the plate also shows other signs of having been gone over or reëngraved.* Beside these vignettes, the work is ornamented with ambitious copper-plate head- and tail-pieces, and initial letters, some unsigned, but probably all by Burg. A portrait of Clarendon occurs as a frontispiece in each of the three volumes. It is after the painting by Sir Peter Lely, and was engraved in 1700 by Robert White, a prolific producer of portraits framed with borders that, in most cases, were less tasteful than this one, with its mace, bag, and coat-of-arms. The inscription reads: "Edward Earle of Clarendon, Lord High Chancellor of England, and Chancellor of the Univerſity of Oxford. An^o. Dñi 1667." The plate for the third volume has been much worked over, if not entirely redrawn in a slavish copy. White's name is erased, and Burg's appears in its stead. Some copies of all three volumes of the first edition are dated 1704; while others show a confusion of dates, and the portraits do not follow the order here described. Folio. Large paper copy. COLLATION: _Three volumes. Three portraits._ * A: P. L. Lamborn used a similar idea for an ornament which he engraved for the Cambridge University Press about 1761. THE TATLER 39. The | Lucubrations | Of | Iſaac Bickerſtaff Eſq; | Vol. I. | [Quotation] London, | Printed: And ſold by John Morphew, near Stationers-Hall. MDCCX. [-MDCCXI.] Note. The Bookbinder is deſired to place the Index after [Tatler, No. 114] which ends the Firſt Volume in Folio. The first number of the _Lucubrations_, a folio sheet headed with the title _The Tatler_, and ending with the imprint _London: Printed for the Author, 1709_, appeared on Tuesday, April 12. It was issued thereafter three times a week, on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays, "for the convenience of the post."