Sotheby and Wilkinson on
Friday next, deserves a more permanent record than the Sale Catalogue.
"I consider the second tract of particular interest and
curiosity, as it elucidates an important point in English
literature, viz., the place (Worms) where Tindal printed the
edition of the New Testament commonly called the first, and
generally ascribed to the Antwerp Press.
"This book is printed in a Gothic letter, with woodcuts and
Initial Letters (in the year 1518).
"I have carefully examined every book printed at Antwerp, at the
period, that has fallen in my way; but in no one of them have I
found the same type or initial letters as are used therein.
"In the present tract I find the same form of type and woodcuts,
from the same school; and also, what is more remarkable, an
initial (D) letter, one of the same alphabet as a P used in the
Testament. These initial letters were always cut in alphabets,
and in no other books than these two have I discovered any of
the letters of this alphabet.
"The mistake has arisen from the circumstance of there having
been a piratical reprint of the book at Antwerp in 1525, but of
which no copy is known to exist."
The following is the title of the tract referred to by Mr. Rodd:--
"_Eyn wolgeordent und nuetzlich buchlin, wie man Bergwerck suchen
un finden sol, von allerley Metall, mit seinen figuren, nach
gelegenheyt dess gebirgs artlich angezeygt mit enhangendon
Berchnamen den anfahanden_" and the colophon describes it as
"_Getruckt zu Wormbs bei Peter Schoerfern un volendet am funfften
tag Aprill_, M.
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