A.D. 1851
At the sale of the books of the poet Gray, by Messrs. Sotheby and Wilkinson, on Aug. 28, his copies of Clarendon and of Burnet’s Own Times (vol. i.), with many MSS. notes written by him in the margins, were bought for £49 10s. and £2 18s. respectively348. Perfect specimens of facsimiles, which would defy detection, were obtained for the completion of the Library copy of Coverdale’s Bible; being pen-and-ink copies of the title, from Lord Leicester’s copy, and of the map of Palestine, from Lord Jersey’s copy, executed with admirable skill by the late well-known facsimilist, Mr. J. Harris.
A Supplemental Catalogue of the printed books, comprehending all the accessions which had been made during the years 1835-1847, was published in this year, in one folio volume, under the editorship of the Rev. Alfred Hackman, M.A., by whom the greater part of the earlier Catalogue had been compiled, as mentioned at p. 268.
On March 27, Convocation voted an addition of £50 per annum to the stipends of the Sub-librarians.
Recovery of Pococke MS. 32. See p. 81.
Malone’s Correspondence. See p. 232.
Notes
348 The Clarendon had been previously sold at an auction on Nov. 29, 1845, by Messrs. Evans, with various other books which had belonged to Gray.