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Notes on Three Books. By WILLIAM WILLIAMS, F.L.A. THREE books of unusal interest to students of Welsh bibliography have been acquired recently by the National Library of Wales. I. In 1930 the Press Board of the University of Wales published a reprint of the 1630 edition of the Welsh trans- lation, by Rowland Vaughan, of the Practice of Piety by Lewis Bayly. Two copies of the 1630 edition were described by the writers of the Introduction' to the reprint, and it was stated that these variants differed in some minor typo- graphical details. Of one copy only a fragment was available. The title page of the other copy states that the book was printed by Felix Kyngston for Robert Allot in London in 1630. At the end of the work there is a chronogram which it was suggested could be read 1629. Mr. G. J. Williams1 advanced certain reasons why the chronogram could, with equal reason, be read 1620. A copy of the work, to all intents and purposes identical with the 1630 edition, has been purchased by the National Library with the date 1629 printed on the title page. II. The Catalogue of Printed Literature in the Welsh De- partment, published by the Cardiff Free Libraries in 1898, contains a list of the editions of Hanes y Ffydd er Dechreuad y Byd hyd yr oes hon, by Charles Edwards. 1 Y Lienor, Gaeaf 1930.