(Finely decorated English twelfth-century manuscripts from St. Osyth's Abbey, Essex; a thirteenth-century manuscript from Norwich Cathedral; a fourteenth-century manuscript of Rolle of Hampole Pricke of Conscience; The Helmingham Codex of The Canterbury Tales; The only known manuscript of an anonymous English translation of The Dicts and Saying of the Philosophers; A fifteenth-century collection of French Ballades and Poetry, Hitherto unknown and largely unpublished; the Helmingham Herbal and Bestiary, English, last quarter of the fifteenth-century; an unrecorded manuscript of the original version of Sidney's Arcadia; Coverdale's Bible, the first edition in English, 1535; a magnificent set of the first four Shakespeare folios.)