Sale at Puttick & Simpson’s (1884)--a very poor copy, wanting eleven leaves, was sold for £8. Rev. Fuller Russell (1885), £265 (Hibbert’s copy, which sold in 1829 for £36, 4s. 6d.; Hibbert had given £55, 13s. at the Marquis of Blandford’s sale in 1819). Hardwicke (Wimpole), 1888, £60 (with “Cicero de Amicitia”). F. Perkins (1889), £100 (two leaves of Table in MS.). Birket Foster (1894), £77 (wanting eighteen leaves). _The History of Reynard the Fox_, first edition (32). J. Ratcliffe (1776), £5, 10s.--George III. J. Inglis (1826), £184, 16s.--T. Grenville. J. D. Gardner (1854), £195--Duke of Newcastle. (All three copies are perfect.) ---- Second edition. One copy only--that in the Pepysian Library, Cambridge--is known to exist. _Tully of Old Age_, etc. (33). Dr. Bernard (1698), 4s. 2d. Francis Child bought Bryan Fairfax’s perfect copy in 1756 for 2 guineas. In 1885 this was sold at the Earl of Jersey’s sale (1885) for £350. Dr. Askew bought T. Rawlinson’s perfect copy in 1756 for £1, 5s., and at Askew’s sale (1775) Willett gave 13 guineas for it. At Willett’s sale (1813) it was sold to the Marquis of Blandford for £210. At the Marquis’s sale (1819) T. Brockett gave £87, 3s. for it. At Brockett’s sale (1823) Watson Taylor bought it for £47, 5s. Thorpe bought it at Watson Taylor’s sale (1823) for £47, 15s. 6d. The “Merly” copy turned up again in 1857, when it was sold to Mr. F. Huth for £275. The Duke of Roxburghe’s imperfect copy was bought in 1812 by the Duke of Devonshire for £115. Since Blades’s book was published--the Rev. T. Corser (1868), £96 (“Old Age” only); Mr. Severne (1885), £250 (perfect); Earl of Crawford (1889), £320 (perfect); Earl of Ashburnham (1897), £102--Pickering & Chatto (_Declamatio_ only). _The Chronicles of England_, first edition (39). R. Smith (1682), 3s. 6d.; Dr. Bernard (1691), 4s.; J. Ratcliffe (1776), £5, 5s.; S. Alchorne (1813), £63--Duke of Devonshire. J. Roberts’s copy (1815) was bought for £105 by John Milner, at whose sale in 1829 W. S. Higgs bought it for £70, 7s.; at Higgs’s sale (1830) it realised £73, 10s. The following sales have taken place since the publication of Blades’s book:-- Mr. Rainy, Bath (1883), £160--British Museum (poor copy, and imperfect). J. Hirst (1887), £67 (imperfect). Duke of Buccleuch (1889), £470--Quaritch (perfect, blanks excepted). _The Chronicles of England_, second edition (43). Bryan Fairfax’s imperfect copy was sold in 1756 to Francis Child for £5. In 1885 it sold for £40 at the sale of the Earl of Jersey’s library. J. Ratcliffe’s imperfect copy was sold (1776) to George III. for £4, 5s.