Show FIND VALUABLE OLD VOLUMES british museum gets two copies of the alyf of our lady copies are rare london the british museum has just secured two copies of tho only two leaves known of the so called sec ond edition of the lyt ot our lady by john lydgate printed by caxton about 1484 in folio some almo ago the librarian of the st bride typographical library mr R A peddle discovered among a col lection of pamphlets and other papers originally the property of william blades a bundle 0 early printed leaves and fragments of leaves wrap ped in a leather binding from which tho boards had been removed on in it was discovered that the whole 0 the printed matter was from press and the binding itself was from his workshop there were thirty eight leaves of the Koeth lus printed about and there appear ed to be little doubt that the binding belonged to the Boeth lus and that the careful disintegration ot the boards bad resulted in the remaining fragments among these fragments these six copies of the two leaves before referred to were discovered one leaf was still pasted on the binding the alyf of our lady contains ninety six leaves and there are eight copies now known to be in existence |