It has to be remembered that since 1610 (see p. 20) the Library has had a right to a copy of every book published in the United Kingdom, and receives about 300 literary items (books, pamphlets, sheets of music, etc.) a day. But every foreign book and periodical has to be purchased, and though much has been done, the foreign literature is not fully adequate. All that can be accomplished is to provide, in this department, a large and useful working library. It is in English Literature, in Theology and in Classics that the Bodleian can be justly called firstrate. The number of _Incunabula_ is about 5600,[27] of which the Caxtons are sixty. Space only allows in this place a mention of such out of the collections of printed books as have a distinctive character and are still kept together, with a few other notes. Ashmole (English antiquities, heraldry, astrology). Dissertations. Douce (English literature). Georgian (Georgian language and literature: the Wardrop Collection). Gough (British topography). Hope (old periodicals). Linc. (i.e. Bp. Barlow’s books, seventeenth century). Malone (English dramatic literature, including a large set of folios and quartos of Shakespeare’s works). Nichols Newspapers (1672-1737, bound in one long chronological order). Pamphlets (with a long English series in chronological order). Oxford 15th cent. press. Parliamentary Bluebooks. Rawlinson (miscellaneous seventeenth and eighteenth century literature). Selden (British history). Tanner (English literature). Tractatus Lutherani (the Reformation in Germany). Among rarities other than _Incunabula_ may be mentioned as specimens:— Nine blockbooks. The only copy of the first edition of Shakespeare’s first publication, 1593 (see p. 32). Two collections of early sixteenth century English romances, all rare, some unique (S. Selden, d. 45 and 4ᵒ L. 71 Art.) The original Bodleian First Folio of Shakespeare, 1623 (see p. 46). The only copy of the Bay Psalm-book (1640) outside the United States, which possess nine copies only. Lord Kingsborough’s _Antiquities of Mexico_, on vellum, 1831-48, 7 atlas folio volumes. PICTURES AND COINS