Two others of the King’s _Caxtons_ were the gift of Jacob BRYANT. One of these is Ralph LEFEVRE’S _Recueil des histoires de Troye_, printed, probably, in 1476. The other is the _Doctrinal of Sapience_, printed in 1489. This last-named volume is on vellum, and is the only copy so printed which is known to exist. A third Caxton volume was bequeathed to GEORGE THE THIRD by Mr. HEWETT, of Ipswich. This is the _Æsop_ of 1484, and is the only extant copy. [Sidenote: GEORGE III AND THE BIBLIOMANIA.] It was delivered to the King by Sir John HEWETT and Mr. Philip BROKE, the legator’s executors. GEORGE THE THIRD was very sensitive to the special triumphs of collectorship, and would be sure to prize the _Æsop_ all the more for its attribute of uniqueness. A story in illustration of this specific tinge of the bibliomania in our royal Collector was wont to be told by Sir Walter SCOTT, and is mentioned in his interesting obituary notice of the King, printed in the _Edinburgh Weekly Journal_[15] immediately after the King’s death. According to SCOTT, GEORGE THE THIRD was fond of crowing a little over his brother-collector, the Duke of ROXBURGHE, on the score that the royal copy of the famous _Recuyell of the Histories of Troye_ had a pre-eminence over the Roxburghe copy. The pre-eminence was of a sort, indeed, to which no one but a thorough-paced Collector would be sensible. For it consisted in the ‘locking,’ or wrong imposing, of certain pages, afterwards corrected at press. The fault, therefore, indicated priority of working off. But I do not find in the King’s _Recuyell_—which now lies before me—the peculiarity spoken of in the poet’s story. Such a fault does exist in the Roxburghe copy, which now belongs to the Duke of DEVONSHIRE. Other and authenticated anecdotes, however, are abundant, which suffice to show the close knowledge of, and the keen interest in, his books, by which GEORGE THE THIRD was characterised. It was a still better trait in him that he found real pleasure in knowing that the treasures and rarities of his Library subserved the inquiries and studies of scholars. Nor did he make narrow limitations. Men like JOHNSON and Bishop HORSLEY profited by the Collection. So, too, did men like GIBBON and PRIESTLEY. The total number of Caxton prints amassed by GEORGE III was thirty-nine. Of these three are in the Royal Library at Windsor—namely, the _Recueil_ (1476?), the _Æsop_ (1484), and the _Doctrinal_ (1489). [Sidenote: GEORGE THE THIRD’S APPEARANCE AS AN AUTHOR.]