Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 October 1895 — Rare Books. [ARTICLE]

Rare Books.

During the last year the most remarkable acquisition made by the department of printed books at the British Museum has been the extraordinary collection of rure English books, chiefly belles lettros, of the period of Elizabeth and James I, discovered in 1887 by Mr. C. Edmonds, at Lamport Hall, Northamptonshire, the seat of Sir Charles Isham, where they had been laid aside and forgotten for probubly not loss than two centuries Twenty-two of these books have now found a home In Bloomsbury, And form by far the most important acquisition in early English literature made by the museum fora long time. All are exceedingly scarce, and two are absolutely unique. One of these is " The Transformed Metamorphosis,” u poem by Cyril Tourneur, the celobruted tragic poet, 1000; the other, "The Lamentations of Amlntfts for the Doath of Phillis,” by Thomas Watson, “paraphrasticully translated out of Latin into English hexamoters by Abrahum Fraunce,” 1596. A book called *'Epleodion on Lady Helen Branch,” subscribed "W, Har,” is remarkable us containing an allusion to Shakespeare’s “Lucrece.” Only two other copies of this are known.