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Cyril Davenport

PROLOGUE

LIST OF MOST IMPORTANT WORKS CONSULTED

Passionale, etc., MS., circa 1100 A.D. Henry I.

ROYAL ENGLISH
BOOKBINDINGS

By
CYRIL DAVENPORT, F.S.A.
Of the Department of Printed Books, British Museum

LONDON
SEELEY AND CO. LIMITED, GREAT RUSSELL STREET
NEW YORK: THE MACMILLAN CO.
1896

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

COLOURED PLATES
			PAGE
I.	Passionale, etc., MS., circa 1100 A.D.	Henry I.	Frontispiece
II.	Penitential Psalms, etc., MS., sixteenth century	Henry VIII.	16
	Novum Testamentum GrÆce. LutetiÆ, 1550 (gold centres)	Queen Elizabeth	16
III.	Deloenus. Libellus de tribus Hierarchiis, etc., MS.	Henry VIII.	18
IV.	ΒΑΣΙΛΙΚΟΝ ΔΩΡΟΝ. Written for Prince Henry, by King James VI. of Scotland. MS	James I.	54
V.	Ortelius. Theatre of the World. London, 1606	Do.	58
VI.	New Testament, etc. London, 1643	Charles I.	66
VII.	Gil. ΠΑΡΕΡΓΑ, etc. Londini, 1632	Do.	68
VIII.	Order of the Coronation of George III. and Queen Charlotte. London, 1761	George III.	94

ILLUSTRATIONS IN THE TEXT
	Indentures between Henry VII. and John Islippe, Abbot of Westminster, concerning the foundation of the Chantrey, etc., MS.	Henry VII.	11
	Opus eximium de vera differentia RegiÆ Potestatis et EcclesiasticÆ. Londini, 1534	Henry VIII.	15
	Description of the Holy Land, in French. By Martin Brion. MS.	Do.	17
	Le Chappellet de Ihesus, MS., sixteenth century	Margaret Tudor, Queen of James IV. of Scotland	21
	Il Petrarcha. Venetia, 1544	Queen Katharine Parr	23
	Prayers, etc. Malborow, 1538 (Doublure)	Edward VI.	29
	Queen Mary’s Psalter, MS.	Queen Mary	33
	Prayers, etc. London, 1574-1591	Queen Elizabeth	35
	Christian Meditations, in Latin, 1570	Do.	37
	Parker. De antiqvitate BritannicÆ EcclesiÆ. London, 1572	Do.	41
	Orationis DominicÆ Explicatio, per L. Danaeum. Genevae, 1583	Do.	45
	La Saincte Bible. Lyon, 1566	Do.	47
	Gospels in Anglo-Saxon and English. London, 1571	Do.	49
	Trogi Pompeii Historiarum Philippicarum epitoma. Parisiis, 1581	Do.	53
	Livius. Romana Historia. AvreliÆ Allobrogvm, 1609	Henry Prince of Wales	61
	Collection of Miscellaneous Tracts in MS.	Do.	63
	Dallington. Aphorismes, Civill and Militarie. London, 1613	Charles Prince of Wales	67
	Common Prayer. London, 1662	Charles II.	69
	A short View of the late Troubles in England, etc. Oxford, 1681	Do.	73
	Bible. Cambridge, 1674	James II.	75
	Euclide. Oxford, 1705	Queen Anne	79
	Ælfric. An English-Saxon Homily on the Birthday of St. Gregory. London, 1709	Queen Anne	81
	Account of what passed in a Conference concerning the Succession to the Crown, MS.	George I.	85
	Le Nouveau Testament. Amsterdam, 1718	George II.	87
	Chandler. A Vindication of the Defence of Christianity. London, 1728	Do.	88
	Common Prayer. Cambridge, 1760	Queen Charlotte	90
	Portfolio containing the Royal Letter concerning the King’s Library	George IV.	92

⁂The Coloured Plates are printed by Edmund Evans.

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