[34] The copy of this book in the University Library, Cambridge, wanting all signature _c_, but in fine condition, and uncut, has on the first blank leaf some early writing which refers to the year 1485, showing probably that the book was not printed after that date.
In the Holborn type there are a larger number of books, at least fourteen being known. Of these the best known and most common is the _Speculum Christiani_, supposed, from the occurrence of the name in a manuscript copy, to have been compiled by one Watton. It is interesting as containing specimens of early poetry. Another book was popular enough to run through three editions; this was the _Treatise on the Pestilence_, written by Kamitus or Canutus, bishop of Aarhuus. It is impossible to say when it was printed, or whether some panic connected with the plague caused a run upon it. One of the editions must have been almost the last book which Machlinia issued, for it contains the title-page already referred to. The most important book in this set in point of size is the _Chronicles of England_, of which only one perfect copy is known. In the copy in the British Museum occurs a curious thing. The book is a folio, but two of the leaves are printed as quarto. In this type are three law-books, _Year-Books_ for years 34 and 37 of Henry VI., and the _Statutes_ of Richard III. There are also two school-books, the _Vulgaria Terentii_ and an interesting _Donatus_ in folio, whose existence is known only from duplicate copies of one leaf. The remaining books are theological, and comprise two separate _Nova Festa_, or services for new feasts; one for the Visitation of the Virgin, the other for the Transfiguration of our Lord. These services were almost at once incorporated in the general volume of the _Breviary_, so that in a separate form they are very uncommon. The last book to be mentioned is the _Regulæ et ordinationes_ of Innocent VIII., which must have been printed some time after 23rd September 1484, when that pope was elected. Of a later date still is a _Bull_ of the same pope relating to Henry VII.’s title and marriage. It must have been printed after 7th November 1485 (the date of Parliament), and after 2nd March 1485-86 (the date of the _Bull_).