Presented in chronological order.

1. Henry Earl of Surrey, Certaine Bokes of Virgiles Aenaeis, turned into English Meter, ed. by William Bolland (London: Valpy, 1814).

Originally printed in 1557. Presented to the Club by William Bolland.

2. T. Cutwode, Caltha Poetarum; or, The Bumble Bee, ed. by Joseph Haslewood (London: 1815).

Originally printed in 1599. Presented to the Club by Richard Heber. This poem (a political satire) was one of the works banned by the Archbishop of Canterbury on publication during the ‘Bishop's Ban’ in 1599.

3. Thomas Churchyarde, The First Three Books of Ovid De Tristibus, translated into English (London: W. Bulmer, 1816).

Originally printed in 1578. Presented to the Club by Earl Spencer. At the time it was reprinted it was believed to be the only surviving copy of Churchyarde's translation. Ovid had written what is now usually referred to as Tristia ex Ponto while in exile from the court of Emperor Augustus for reasons that are today unclear.

4. Richard Barnfield, Poems, ed. by James Boswell (Auchinleck: Auchinleck Press, 1816).

Originally printed in 1598. Presented to the Club by James Boswell.

5. John Raynolds, Dolarny's Primrose or the First Part of the Passionate Hermit (London: W. Bulmer, 1816).

Originally printed in 1606. Presented to the Club by Francis Freeling and reprinted from a rare edition in his own collection.

6. La Contenance de la Table (London: W. Bulmer, 1816).

Presented to the Club by George Freeling.

The text is a fifteenth- century French guide for children, offering advice in verse on the subject of table manners.

7. King James VI of Scotland, Newes from Scotland, declaring the Damnable Life of Doctor Fian, a notable Sorcerer, who was burned at Edenbrough in Ianuarie (London: W. Bulmer, 1816).

Originally printed in 1591. Presented to the Club by George Freeling. This is a pamphlet describing a notorious witch trial.

8. Anon., A Proper New Interlude of the World and the Child, Otherwise called Mundus et Infans (London: W. Bulmer, 1817).

Presented to the Club by Viscount Althorp. Originally printed by Wynkyn de Worde in 1522.

A morality play based on a poem from the late fourteenth or the early fifteenth century called The Mirror of the Periods of Man's Life. The edition presented to the Roxburghe is taken from a unique copy of the earliest surviving printed edition.