Earl of Derby (grandfather of the present earl), born April, 1775, died June, 1851, who was president of the Linnæan and Zoological Societies, and well known for the large and valuable zoological collection which he formed at Knowsley and maintained during his life. The natural history collection of books which he gathered together has received large additions from the present earl, and now comprises over two thousand volumes. It is also rich in original botanical and ornithological drawings.

J. P. EARWAKER, Esq., F.S.A., Withington, Manchester, Author of the History of East Cheshire.

Cheshire Books.-A collection of MSS., deeds, printed books, pamphlets, and broadsides relating to the county of Chester. Also several portfolios of original drawings, engravings, views, and plans illustrative of the county, and a specimen of every map which has appeared since the time of Saxton in 1577 to the present day.

JOHN FINLAYSON, Esq., Manchester.

The Tractarian Controversy. A large collection of books and pamphlets bearing on this subject.

Lieut. Col. FISHWICK, F.S.A., Rochdale.

Lancashire Books.-Books and tracts of every description relating to Lancashire, including the majority of those mentioned in The Lancashire Library by Col. Fishwick. See that work. The author only named his own copies when unaware of their possession by any public local library. Books by Lancashire men, but not referring to the county, are, with certain exceptions, excluded from the collection. It is particularly rich in Lancashire sermons of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Many scarce maps of Lancashire, including one of 159-, Mercator's 1610, Speed's folio 1610, Speed's small oblong 1617, Blome's 1637, Saxton's 1620, and others.

Mr. Superintendent GEE, of the Manchester Police.

The Minor and Obscure English Poets.-Mr. Gee possesses a library of some six thousand or seven thousand volumes, mainly of poetic and dramatic literature, and including a few manuscript works. The speciality is a collection of some four hundred or five hundred volumes of verse by uneducated or self-taught writers. Mr. Gee observes that the majority of these authors have followed sedentary occupations, such as weaving and shoemaking, and that the Scottish exceed the number of English authors of this class. The collection is the labour of thirty years.

The Rev. PERCY M. HERFORD, Cheadle, Cheshire.

1. Cheshire Books.-About three hundred volumes.

2. Books relating to the Book of Common Prayer.-The rarest books of this class possessed by Mr. Herford are the "Puritan Directory for the publique worship of God throughout the three kingdoms," 1646, and a Greek version of the Book of Common Prayer issued three years after the last revision.

HENRY H. HOWORTH, Esq., F.S.A., Eccles, near Manchester.

1. History and Ethnography of Central Asia.

2. Ethnography and Early History of Central and Eastern Europe.
These books, Mr. Howorth desires me to say, are available for
reference to any student who wishes to consult them.

ALEXANDER IRELAND, Esq., Inglewood, Bowdon,

1. Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy.-Every edition published is in this collection, viz., the first, published in quarto in 1621 [Robert Burton was born 1576, died 1640]; the second in folio in 1624; third, folio, in 1628, with engraved frontispiece and portrait by Blon (this edition is rarer than the first); fourth, folio, 1632; fifth, folio, 1638; sixth, folio, 1651-2; seventh, folio, 1660; eighth, folio, double columns, 1676. These eight editions, all published in the seventeenth century, sufficed for a while; but Dr. Johnson's remark that the Anatomy of Melancholy "was the only book that ever took him out of bed two hours earlier than he wished to rise" seems to have led to a revival in the demand, and in 1800 the ninth edition appeared in two volumes royal octavo; the tenth, two volumes, in 1801; the eleventh, two volumes, in 1806. It has frequently been reprinted during the last forty years, editions appearing in 1827, 1836, 1837, 1838, 1845, and 1849. In 1871, a nicely-printed edition in three volumes, crown octavo, was published in New York.

2. Writings of Samuel Bailey, of Sheffield.-To Notes and Queries for 9th March, 1878 (Fifth Series, Vol. IX.), Mr. Ireland contributed a bibliographical list of the works of Samuel Bailey, of Sheffield, "philosophical essayist, metaphysician, writer on political economy and finance, poet, and Shaksperean critic" [born 1787, died 1870]. The list consists of twenty-two separate works. Mr. Ireland had then the whole except two pamphlets, which he has since acquired, so that his collection is now complete. A prospectus of a uniform edition of Bailey's works has been printed, in order to ascertain whether a sufficient number of subscribers can be obtained to cover the expense of printing. The works could be comprised in six or seven volumes. 3. The Works of William Godwin [b. 1756, d. 1836]. Thirty-five volumes.

4. The Works of Mary Wollstonecroft ( Godwin) [b. 1759, d. 1797]. Fourteen volumes.

5. The Works of William Hazlitt [b. 1778, d. 1830]. — Eighty-three volumes, including the various editions of his principal works; his unreprinted articles from the Edinburgh Review and other periodicals; memoirs and recollections of him; articles and essays on his works from English, American, and French reviews and periodicals.

6. The Works of Leigh Hunt [b. 1784, d. 1859].—Ninety volumes, including the various editions of his principal works, unreprinted articles from newspapers, magazines, and reviews; memoirs of him; and articles on his writings and genius.

The following is the title of a volume, chiefly relating to the writings of William Hazlitt and Leigh Hunt, printed by Mr. Ireland in 1868:"List of the Writings of William Hazlitt and Leigh Hunt, chronologically arranged; with Notes, descriptive, critical, and explanatory, and a selection of opinions regarding their genius. and characteristics, by distinguished contemporaries and friends, as well as by subsequent critics; preceded by a Review of and extracts from Barry Cornwall's Memorials of Charles Lamb, with a few words on Hazlitt and his writings, and a chronological list of the works of Charles Lamb. By Alexander Ireland. Manchester, 1868. Privately printed."

JOHN LEIGH, Esq., Medical Officer of Health for Manchester, Bewick.-A large collection of Bewick's works, including every edition in every size of the birds and quadrupeds; all his other works of importance; a large number of illustrations to his smaller works; and one of the six first impressions on vellum of the Chillingham Bull before the accident to the block.

G. W. NAPIER, Esq., Alderley Edge, Cheshire.

1. De Imitatione Christi.-A large collection of the very early editions, including the Editio Princeps, printed at Augsburg in 1471.

2. Black-letter Books.-A collection of nearly a thousand volumes printed in the sixteenth century, and illustrating the religious history of Eng. land at that period. It comprises the works of Erasmus, Cardinal Pole, Sir Thomas More (the Utopia in Latin, English, French, and Italian), the original editions of the writings of the Reformers; the works of Henry Nicholas, founder of the sect called the Family of Love; of John Penny, John Knox, Whitgift, Cartwright, and Father Parsons. All these are the original editions, not reprints. Also, nearly all the biographies of Sir Thomas More.

3. The Martin Marprelate Tracts.—A probably complete collection. 4. Seventeenth Century Books.-Comprising the works of Prynne, Henry Burton, Fuller, Heylyn, Glanvill; satirical tracts against Archbishop Laud, and works on the Sabbatarian Controversy. Also, on the Controversy connected with the celebrated Admonition to the Parlia

ment.

5. Ikon Basilike.-Editions in English, Latin, and French, and the works connected with the authorship of the book.

FRANCIS NICHOLSON, Esq., author of The Birds of Lancashire and Cheshire, and Hon. Librarian of the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society.

1. Ornithology.-About two hundred and seventy volumes, in English, French, and German, including works published by the London and French zoological societies, British Museum, and ornithological societies and clubs, the Ibis (twenty-one vols.), Zoological Record (fourteen), Zoologist (thirty-six), and sets of other periodicals; the works

of Buffon, Bonaparte, Gould, Latham, Elliott, Heuglin, Temminck, Gray, Dresser, Sclater, Salvin, Rowley, Sharpe, Marshall, Butter, David, and Oustelet; and several hundreds of ornithological tracts and pamphlets, bound in twenty-one volumes.

2. Sporting Books.-Works on boxing, fencing, &c. A notable collection, many of them rare.

J. H. NODAL, Heaton Moor, near Stockport.

1. Gilbert White's Selborne.-A nearly complete collection of all the editions, together with articles and descriptions from reviews and periodicals.

2. Plato in English.-Translations of Plato into English of the complete works, and of separate dialogues; together with commentaries and illustrative essays, in books, pamphlets, reviews, and magazines.

J. PAUL RYLANDs, Esq., F.S.A., Thelwall, Warrington.

1. Heraldic Works.

2. Family Histories and Genealogies. Both collections contain rare, and some extremely rare, works.

T. GLAZEBROOK RYLANDS, Esq., Thelwall, Warrington.

Writings of Ptolemy.-A collection of all his works, including the Almagest editions 1538, 1541, 1551, with the commentaries of Theon, Proclus, and Monte-Regio; De Speculis, ed. 1518; De Analimati, 1562; Planispherium, 1558; Geography, eds. 1475, circa 1480 (Bulinghieri), 1482, 1490, 1511, 1525, 1535, 1540, 1542, 1573, 1597, 1618, 1843, 1845; the Mont Athos facsimile; Mercator's Maps, 1578 and 1698; and other works like those of Raidilius and Werner, which include a translation of the first and part of the seventh books.

Mr. T. G. Rylands has also partial collections relative to the Diatomacaæ, English botany, early geography and maps, early printing, bibliography, and medieval architecture.

E. R. G. SALISBURY, Esq., Glan-Aber, Chester.

Wales and the Four Border Counties of Cheshire, Shropshire, Herefordshire, and Monmouthshire.—A collection of about eighteen thousand volumes of all sorts referring to the above. It is made up of books in Welsh, on Wales, and by Welshmen; books on Cheshire, Shropshire, Herefordshire, and Monmouthshire, and by natives of those four counties. Also prints, engravings, and loose memoranda relating to the Principality and the four border counties; a fairly perfect set of all serials published therein down to the end of 1862; and more than one hundred folio volumes of cuttings, original letters, and scraps relating to these sixteen shires, the latter being continued down to the present time. All books since 1862 (with this exception) relating to the subject-matter of the collection have been placed by Mr. Salisbury in his general library. It has been a part of his plan to secure every edition of all published works down to 1862, and he has

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thus secured many editions which are not noticed in books of reference. The formation of the collection has been the labour of nearly half a century. Many of the early works in it came from the libraries of the late Rev. Thomas Jones, of Denbigh, Arthur Jones, of Bangor, and Henry Parry; many of the later ones from the libraries of Richard Lloyd (the bard of Snowdon), Edward Parry, of Chester, and Hugh Jones (Erfyl), a noted Welsh antiquary. So far as Cheshire is concerned, nearly every printed work relating to the county, or published by natives of it, is in this remarkable collection.

George Simpson, Esq., Mottram-in-Longdendale.

Socialism.-Probably the largest extant collection of books on this subject. Mr. Simpson, some fifty years ago, was secretary to the Socialist colony or settlement at Queenwood, Hampshire.

The Rev. Canon TOOLE, D.D., St. Wilfrid's, Hulme, Manchester.

1. Irish History.

2. Ecclesiastical History. Includes many early-printed sixteenth and seventeenth century books.

JOHN TOWERS, Esq., Brunswick-street, Chorlton-on-Medlock, Manchester. Music.-A collection of about five hundred books on music, comprising German, two hundred and eighty-one; English, two hundred; French, nineteen; together with about one hundred and fifty volumes of music, amongst which are the publications of the German Bach Society, Breitkopf and Haertel's complete edition of Mozart's works, and Beethoven's score copies of his symphonies. The works comprise the Musicalisches Lexicon of Johann Gottfried Walther, the first important musical dictionary, Leipsic, 1732; Mattheson's book on the whole duty of a conductor (Der Vollkommene Kapellmeister), Hamburgh, 1739; Marpurg's elaborate and exhaustive treatise on every known form of the Fugue (Abhandlung von Der Fuge), Berlin, 1753; Christoph Nichelmann's work on the art and science of composing melody, Dantzic, 1755; the Allegemeine Musikalische Zeitung, fifty volumes, Leipsic, 1798-1848, the most important musical periodical ever published; and the Berliner Allegemeine Musikalische Zeitung, seven volumes, Berlin, 1824-1830, edited by Adolph Marx. Some of the works in Mr. Towers' possession are believed to be unique in England, and his musical library is one of the largest, if not the largest, private collection of the kind in this country. Mr. Towers is engaged upon a bibliography of works on music.

WILLIAM J. YOUNG, Esq., Longsight, Manchester.

1. Rowlandson and Cruikshank.-A large collection of works illustrated by Thomas Rowlandson and George and Robert Cruikshank, including forty-two volumes of the former, and five hundred of the latter.

2. Bewick.-Twenty-one of his principal works.

3. Ruskin.-Nearly all his works.