CHAPTER VII

Mr John Pearson--Origin of Our Connection--His Appreciable Value to Me--He assists, through Me, in Completing the Huth Library--Lovelace's _Lucasta_--The Turbervile--The Imperfect Chaucer--The Copy of Ruskin's Poems at Reading-- The Walton's _Angler_--Locker and Pearson--James Toovey-- Curious Incident in Connection with Sir Thomas Phillipps-- Willis & Sotheran--Two Unique Cookery Books--Only Just in Time--The Caxton's _Game and Play of the Chess_--A Valuable Haul from the West of England--A Reverend Gentleman's MSS. _Diaries of Travel_--The Wallers--Lamb's _Tales from Shakespear_, 1807--The Folio MS. of Edmond Waller's Poems-- An Unique Book of Verse--A Rare American Item--The Rimells--I take from Them and sell to Them--Some Notable _Americana_--The Walfords--An Unique Tract by Taylor the Water Poet--John Russell Smith and His Son--My Numerous Transactions with the Latter--Another Unknown Taylor--John Camden Hotten--I sift His Stores in Piccadilly--The Bunyan Volume from Cornwall--John Salkeld--My Expedition to His Shop on a Sunday Night, and Its Fruit--A Rather Ticklish Adventure or Two--Messrs Jarvis & Son--My Finds There--King James I.'s Copy of Charron, dedicated to Prince Henry--The Unknown Fishmongers' Pageant for 1590--The Long-Lost English Version of Henryson's _Æsop_, 1577, 108