CHAPTER VIII

Messrs Reeves & Turner--My Literary Work for the Firm--My Advantageous Acquisitions Here--Cheap Rates at which Rare Books were Formerly Obtainable--The Large Turn-over of the Business--Wake of Cockermouth--An Unique Wynkyn de Worde--A Supposed Undescribed Shakespear in a House-Sale at Bognor-- Tom Arthur--The Wynkyn de Worde, which I secured for Another Shilling--Arthur and Sir Thomas Phillipps of Middle Hill--The Bristol Book Shops--Lodge's _Rosalynd_, 1592--Mr Elliot Stock--My Literary Work for Him--One Volume Unexpectedly Productive--Mr Henry Stopes--My Recovery for Him of a Sarum Breviary, which belonged to an Ancestor in Queen Mary's Days--His Wife's Family and Sir Walter Scott-- A Canterbury Correspondent and His Benefits--Two More Uniques--A Singular Recovery from New York--Casual Strokes of Good Luck in the Provinces--The Wynkyn de Worde at Wrexham--A _Trouvaille_ in the Haymarket--Books with Autographs and Inscriptions--A Few Words about Booksellers and Publishers, 128