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Many people who do not usually see The Library (H.

Milford, as. 6d.) will like to know that in the current number Mr. A. W. Pollard gives a full account, with a collotype facsimile, of the newly discovered Caxton Indulgence, which was most pro- bably the first piece of printing to be done in England. It is a document of twenty-two lines, issued by the Abbot of Abing- don to Henry Langley and his wife on December 18th, 1476— the names and the date being inserted by hand. Caxton began to pay rent for his house in the Almonry at West- minster from the preceding Michaelmas, and may well have started his press with a small order from the Abbot. His first book printed in England—The Dictis and Sayings of the Philosophers—was not finished till November, 1477.