Evolution of the Dragon: Advertisements

The following unnumbered pages of advertisements appeared at the end of the original book, published in 1919. They are included for completeness.—JBH.

RECENT AND FORTHCOMING PUBLICATIONS OF THE JOHN RYLANDS LIBRARY.

CATALOGUE OF THE DEMOTIC PAPYRI IN THE JOHN RYLAND& LIBRARY. With facsimiles and complete translations. By F. Ll. Griffith, M.A. 1909. 3 vols. 4to. 3 guineas net.

Vol. I: Atlas of facsimiles in collotype. Vol. 2: Lithographed hand copies of the earlier documents. Vol. 3: Key-list, translations, commentaries, and indexes.

This is something more than a catalogue, since it includes collotype facsimiles of the whole of the documents, with transliterations, translations, valuable introductions, very full notes, and a glossary of Demotic, representing, in the estimation of scholars, the most important contribution to the study of Demotic hitherto published.

CATALOGUE OF THE COPTIC MANUSCRIPTS IN THE JOHN RYLANDS LIBRARY. By W. E. Crum, M.A. 1909. 4to, pp. xii, 273. 12 plates of facsimiles, in collotype. I guinea net.

The collection includes a series of private letters considerably older than any in Coptic hitherto known, in addition to many manuscripts of great theological and historical interest. Many of the texts are reproduced in extenso.

CATALOGUE OF THE GREEK PAPYRI IN THE JOHN RYLANDS LIBRARY. By Arthur S. Hunt, M.A., Litt.D., J. de M. Johnson, M.A., and Victor Martin, D. ès L. Vol. I: Literary texts (Nos. 1-61). 1911. 4to, pp. xii, 204. 10 plates of facsimiles in collotype. Vol. 2: Documents of the Ptolemaic and Roman periods (Nos. 62-456). 1916. 4to, pp. xx, 488. 23 plates in collotype. Each volume 1 guinea net.

The texts are reproduced in extenso, and comprise many interesting Biblical, liturgical, classical papyri, and non-literary documents of an official or legal character ranging from the third century B.C. to the sixth century A.D.

SUMERIAN TABLETS FROM UMMA IN THE JOHN RYLANDS LIBRARY. ... Transcribed, transliterated, and translated by C. L. Bedale, M.A.. . With a Foreword by Canon C. H. W. Johns M.A., Litt.D. 4to, pp. xvi, 16, with ten facsimiles 5s. net.

This thin quarto consists of a description of fifty-eight tablets, forming part of the collection recently acquired by the library.

A CLASSIFIED CATALOGUE OF THE WORKS ON ARCHITECTURE AND THE ALLIED ARTS IN THE PRINCIPAL LIBRARIES OF MANCHESTER AND SALFORD, with alphabetical author list and subject index. Edited for the Architectural Committee of Manchester by Henry Guppy and Guthrie Vine. 1909. 8vo,. pp. xxv, 310. 3s. 6d. net, or interleaved 4s. 6d. net.

This catalogue is the first of its kind to be issued, with the exception of a few union lists of periodicals and incunabula.

AN ANALYTICAL CATALOGUE OF THE CONTENTS OF THE TWO EDITIONS OF "AN ENGLISH GARNER," compiled by Edward Arber (1877-97), and rearranged under the editorship of Thomas Seccombe (1903-04). 1909. 8vo, pp. viii, 221. 1s. net.

A BRIEF HISTORICAL DESCRIPTION OF THE LIBRARY AND ITS CONTENTS, illustrated with thirty-seven views and facsimiles. By Henry Guppy. 1914. 8vo, pp. xvi, 73, and thirty-seven illustrations. 6d. net.

THE JOHN RYLANDS FACSIMILES. A series of reproductions of some of the more interesting and important of the rarer books in the possession of the library. The volumes consist of minutely accurate facsimiles of the works selected, preceded by bibliographical introductions.

1. PROPOSITIO JOHANNIS RUSSELL, printed by William Caxton, circa A.D. 1476. ... With an introduction by Henry Guppy. 1909. 8vo, pp. 36, 8. 3s. 6d. net.

An oration, pronounced by John Russell, Chancellor of England, on the investiture of Charles, Duke of Burgundy, with the Order of the Garter, in February, 1469, at Ghent.

For many years the copy now in the John Rylands Library was considered to be unique. Until 1807 it lay buried and unnoticed in the heart of a volume of manuscripts, with which it had evidently been bound up by mistake. Since then, another copy has been discovered in the library at Holkam Hall, the seat of the Earl of Leicester.

2. A BOOKE IN ENGLYSH METRE, of the Great Marchaunt man called "Dives Pragmaticus" … 1563.... With an introduction by Percy E. Newbery; and remarks on the vocabulary and dialect with a glossary by Henry C. Wyld. 1910. 4to, pp. xxxviii, 16, 5s. net.

The tract here reproduced is believed to be the sole surviving copy of a quaint little primer which had the laudable object of instructing the young in the names of trades, professions, ranks, and common objects of daily life in their own tongue.

3. A LITIL BOKE the whiche traytied and reherced many gode thinges necessaries for the .. . Pestilence … made by the ... Bisshop of Arusiens… [London], [1485?] …With an introduction by Guthrie Vine. 1910. 4to, pp. xxxvi, 18. 5s. net.

Of this little tract, consisting of nine leaves, written by Benedict Kanuti, or Knutsson, Bishop of Västerås, three separate editions are known, but only one copy of each, and an odd leaf are known to have survived.

There is no indication in any edition of the place of printing, date or name of printer, but they are all printed in one of the five types employed by William de Machlinia, who printed first in partnership with John Lettou and afterwards alone in the City of London, at the time when William Caxton was at the most active period of his career at Westminster.

WOODCUTS OF THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY IN THE JOHN RYLANDS LIBRARY. Reproduced in facsimile. With an introduction and descriptive notes by Campbell Dodgson M.A. Folio. Ten plates, of which two are in colour, and 16 pp. of text, in a portfolio. 7s. 6d. net.

Two of these woodcuts are of exceptional interest and importance, and have been known and celebrated for a century and a half, but have not hitherto been reproduced in a satisfactory manner by any of the modern photo-mechanical processes. The two woodcuts referred to represent "St. Christopher" and "The Annunciation," the former of which has acquired a great celebrity by reason of the date (1423) which it bears, and which, until recently, gave to it the unchallenged position of the first dated woodcut.

THE ODES AND PSALMS OF SOLOMON. Facsimile in collotype of the original Syriac manuscript in the John Rylands Library, accompanied by a typographical reprint or transliteration of the text, a revised translation in English Versicles, and an exhaustive introduction dealing with the variations of the fragmentary manuscripts in the British Museum, the accessory patristic testimonies, and a summary of the most important criticisms that have appeared since its first publication in 1909. By J. Rendel Harris, M.A., D.Litt., etc., Hon. Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge, and Alphonse Mingana, D.D. 2 vols. 4to.

Vol. I: The text, with facsimile reproductions. 10s. 6d. net.

Vol. 2: Translation and introduction. 10s. 6d. net. (Shortly.)

THE ASCENT OF OLYMPUS. By Rendel Harris. Demy 8vo. Pp. 140. 20 Illustrations. 5s. net.

A reprint, with corrections, expansions, justifications, and additional illustrations, of the four articles on Greek Mythology, which have appeared in the "Bulletin" from time to time.

THE EVOLUTION OF THE DRAGON. By G. Elliot Smith, M.A., M.D., F.R.S. Demy 8vo. Illustrations. 10s. 6d. net.

An elaboration of the lectures: "Incense and Libations," "Dragons and Rain Gods," and "The Birth of Aphrodite".

CATALOGUE OF THE WESTERN MANUSCRIPTS IN THE JOHN RYLANDS LIBRARY. Part I: Latin Manuscripts, Nos. 1-185. By Montague Rhodes James, Litt.D., etc. 2 vols. 4to. 200 plates of facsimiles. 3 guineas net. (Shortly.)

Vol. 1: Descriptive catalogue, with indexes of contents, place names, proper names, saints, illustrations, etc. Pp. xvi, 328.

Vol. 2: Facsimiles in collotype.

The collection here described includes examples, of first-class quality, of the art and calligraphy of all the great schools of Europe.

BULLETIN OF THE JOHN RYLANDS LIBRARY. A quarterly publication, which in addition to notes and news respecting the Library, with lists of the most recent additions to the shelves, includes original articles by leading scholars, which are of permanent value and interest. 1s. net.

THE JOHN RYLANDS LECTURE SERIES.

THE ORIGIN OF THE CULT OF APHRODITE. By Rendel Harris, M.A., D.Litt., etc. Pp. 30. 9 Illustrations.

THE ORIGIN OF THE CULT OF APOLLO. By Rendel Harris, M.A., D.Litt., etc. Pp. 40. Frontispiece and illustrations.

THE ORIGIN OF THE CULT OF ARTEMIS. By Rendel Harris, M.A., D.Litt., etc. Pp. 39. Illustrations.

THE ORIGIN OF THE CULT OF DIONYSOS. By Rendel Harris, M.A., D.Litt., etc. Pp. 17.

THE ORIGIN AND MEANING OF APPLE CULTS. By Rendel Harris, M.A., D.Litt., D.Theol., etc. (Shortly.)

NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL IDEALS IN THE ENGLISH POETS. By C. H. Herford, M.A., Litt.D. Pp. 24.

SOME EARLY JUDÆO-CHRISTIAN DOCUMENTS IN THE JOHN RYLANDS LIBRARY: 1. A new life of Clement of Rome; 2. The Book of Shem son of Noah; 3. Fragment from the Philosopher Andronicus and Asaph, the Historian of the Jews. Syriac Texts, edited with English translations by Alphonse Mingana, D.D. Pp. 62. (Price 2s.)

BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTES FOR STUDENTS OF THE NEW TESTAMENT. By A. S. Peake, M.A., D.D. Pp. 10. (Price 6d.)

WAR AND CIVILIZATION. By W. J. Perry, B.A. Illustrated with 9 sketch maps. (Price 1s. 6d.)

SOME NOTES ON SHAKESPEARE'S STAGE AND PLAYS. By William Pod, Founder of the Elizabethan Stage Society. Pp. 16. 3 Illustrations.

PROMINENT POINTS 1N THE LIFE AND WRITINGS OF SHAKESPEARE. Arranged in four tables, with notes, by William Poel. (Price 2s.)

A PURITAN IDYLL: RICHARD BAXTER (1615-1691) AND HIS LOVE STORY. By Frederick J. Powicke, M.A., Ph.D.

THE INFLUENCE OF ANCIENT EGYPTIAN CIVILIZATION IN THE EAST AND IN AMERICA. By G. Elliot Smith, M.A., M.D., F.R.S. Pp. 32. 7 Illustrations.

THE ENGLISH CIVIL SERVICE IN THE FOURTEENTH CENTURY. By T. F. Tout, M.A., F.B.A. Pp. 32.

MEDIÆVAL TOWN PLANNING. By T. F. Tout, M.A., F.B.A. Pp. 35. 11 Illustrations. (Price 1s. 6d.)