AN ECLECTIC LIBRARY.

Humor & Satire, B.

Timothy Bobbin.

The Passions, Humourously Delineated. By Timothy Bobbin, Esq. Containing twenty-five plates, with his portrait, title plate, and poetical descriptions. London: Edward Orme, 1810. —Colored engravings in a cartoonish style, well-scanned by the librarian.

Sebastian Brant: The Ship of Fools.

Stultifera Nauis, qua omnium mortalium narratur stultitia, admodum utilis & necessaria ab omnibus ad suam salutem perlegenda, è latino sermone in nostrum vulgarem versa, & iam diligenter impressa. An. Do. 1570. ¶The Ship of Fooles, wherein is shewed the folly of all States, with divers other workes adoiyned unto the same, very profitable and fruitfull for all men. Translated out of Latin into Englishe by Alexander Barclay priest. Imprinted at London in Paules Churchyarde by Iohn Cawood Printer to the Queenes Maiestie. —Barclay’s version is “translated out of Latin, French, and Duch” (that is, High Dutch or German), originally in 1508. In this edition the Latin verse translation of each chapter, in roman type, is followed by Barclay’s doggerel in blackletter.