Note 375 — APPENDIX D.

Of this xylographic Apocalypse the Library possesses two other editions; one being that called by Mr. Sotheby the Fourth, which was given by Archbp. Laud, and the other being that called the Fifth by Sotheby, but 'Editio princeps' by Heinecken, which was bought in 1853 for £120 5s. Other Block-books in the Library are, (1) two editions of the Biblia Pauperum, or Scenes from Bible History; one coloured, the other (which belonged to Douce) uncoloured; (2) the Historia B. M. V. ex Cantico Canticorum, being the edition called the Second by Sotheby; (3) Propugnacula, seu Turris Sapientiæ, a broadside, bought in 1853 for six guineas. A facsimile of this is given in vol. ii. of Sotheby's Principia; (4) Speculum Humanæ Salvationis. In this book, which is the second Latin edition of the work (formerly described as the Editio princeps), twenty pages are taken off from wood-blocks, and the rest from moveable type. The copy belonged to Douce. It came previously 'ex Musæo Pauli Girardot de Prefond,' but is not mentioned in De Bure's catalogue of that library, published in 1757. It is said that a copy of this book has been sold for the large sum of 300 guineas.