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Show . r t Valuable Find of Manuscript a very Interesting anil ream JWcovery of Illuminated maiiuf wid early printed books, raugi jS 'nr buck an J IkO, 1ms jut been v J li "11 ribrliry ut Oxton Hull, n) Yr Ingham (1 - ( Oua,- r , It came utmut In thin "w'a. !"' The l V or the parish, Itev. W. Laycoek, I nu"' pel mission to ko through the '' vh the libiary at 111 leisure. rho doing his curloHlty was arouse'd by a locked and forgotten rupbonrd therein, which lie proceeded to Investigate. In contents proved to be between forty mid fifty volumes, which confirmed the Impression conveyed con-veyed by the BnM'iuIty of their appearance ap-pearance that they belonged to the very earliest stage of tL art of printing, print-ing, which was Introduced into tbla country In 1M7. The majority .if them are folio volumes, vol-umes, and with one exception they are all In their orlglnnl bindings. The covers are carefully planed boards of solid onk, and the books are bound with stout lenther laces, the backing and lining being fragments of Illuminated Illum-inated manuscripts of a much earlier d't, cut up as waste with a ruthless Indifference. |