FIFTEENTH-CENTURY BOOKS.
[To THE EDITOR Or THE "SFECTATOR."] Sre,—Under the auspices of the Prussian Minister of Education a Commission of distinguished German scholars has been at work for some years collecting materials for a general catalogue of books printed in the fifteenth century, which will be published with the aid of a Government grant. The libraries of Germany have been searched for fifteenth-century books with remarkable results, and similar inquiries have been set on foot in Austria, Switzerland, France, Italy, Belgium, Holland, Spain, Sweden, and Denmark. One of the Commission's workers is about to visit England to take notes of as many as possible of the fifteenthcentury books in this country which have not already been described. The Commission also desires to form some estimate of the number of libraries in the British Isles possessing fifteenthcentury books and the quantities in each. To facilitate these researches the Bibliographical Society has undertaken to receive and, as far as possible, to tabulate any information on this subject which may be sent to it. I beg, therefore, on behalf of the Society to be allowed to appeal in your columns to all owners, public or private, of books printed in the fifteenth century, to send me a note of the numbers of such books which they possess and of the titles of any which they believe to be undescribed. If it is so desired the information given will be treated as eonfidential.—I am, Sir, &c., ALPE= W. POLLARD, Hon. Secretary Bibliographical Society. 40 Murray Road, Wimbledon, S.W.
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