According to Ritson, this book “was staid at the press by order of the Archbishop of Canterbury and Bishop of London; and such copies as could be found or were already taken were to be presently brought to the Bishop of London to be burnt.” Dibdin gives an amusing account of the Roxburghe Club reprint (1815) in his “Reminiscences” (vol. i. p. 465, note):--“A bet was laid (the winner of the bet to give the Roxburghe Club a dinner) between Sir M. M. Sykes and Mr. Dent whether the anniversary meeting of 1815 was the third or fourth of the club. Mr. Dent was the loser, when Mr. Heber promised to present the club with a reprint of the above poem at the extra dinner in contemplation. Only nine days intervened, but within that period the reprint was transcribed, superintended at the press by Mr. Haslewood (without a single error), bound by Charles Lewis, and presented to the members on sitting down to dinner. Mr. Haslewood was reported to have walked in his sleep with a pen in his hand during the whole period of its preparation.” Drummond of Hawthornden’s _Forth Feasting_, 1617, bought by Ouvry at Sotheby’s in 1858 for £8, 15s. (bound in morocco), fetched £60 at Ouvry’s sale in 1882. Fabyan’s _Chronicles_ (Pynson, 1516), first edition. Dr. F. Bernard (1698), 4s. 8d. Roberts (1815), £84--North. John North (1819), £92. (Perfect.) Samuel Lysons (1820), £35--Lord Aylesford. Lord Aylesford (1888), £250--Christie Miller. (Completed by leaves from another edition.) Foxe’s _Acts and Monuments_ (John Daye, 1562-63), first edition, complete. Earl of Ashburnham (1897), £150. Frobisher’s _Three Voyages of Discoverie_, 1578, with Keymis’s _Second Voyage to Guiana_, 1596, in one vol., calf gilt, by Kalthoeber. Beckford (1882), £300. Ouvry’s copy of Frobisher, wanting the maps, sold for £68. Froissart’s _Cronycles_ (Pynson, 1523-25), two vols. folio. G. Mason (1798), £36, 15s. Roxburghe (1812), £63. Towneley (1814), £42 (title of vol. i. a reprint). W. H. Crawford (Lakelands), 1891, £25. Hakluyt’s _Principal Navigations, Voiages and Discoveries of the English Nation_, 1589, with rare map, fine copy, in pigskin. Jadis, £26, 5s. Same copy, Duke of Hamilton (1884), £23. Hariot (T.), _Merveilleux et estrange Rapport_ ... Francofurti, 1590. Duke of Hamilton (1884), fine copy, in morocco by Lewis, £97. Linschoten’s _Voyages into the Easte and West Indies_, 1598, maps and plates from the Dutch edition, title inlaid, and last leaf mended. Roxburghe, £10, 15s. Same copy, Beckford (1882), £14. Colonel Stanley, £22. Lodge’s (Thomas) _Rosalynde_, 1598. Longman (1815), £20 (imperfect). Heber, £5, 10s. Ouvry (1882), £63. Lok’s (Henry) _Ecclesiastes_ (London: Richard Field, 1597).