Portrait of Hobbes (Vol. viii. p 368.).—I have an etching (size about 6½ in. by 8½ in.) inscribed:
"Vera et Viva Effigies Thomæ Hobbes, Malmesburiensis."
and under this:
"I. Bapt. Caspar pinxit; W. Hollar fecit aqua forti, 1665."
It is a half-length portrait, and represents Hobbes uncovered, with his hands folded in his robe; and is without any arch or other ornament.
Did Caspar paint more than one portrait of Hobbes? Is this the one mentioned by Hollar, in his letter dated 1661, quoted by Mr. Singer.
Wm. McCree.
Tenets or Tenents (Vol. vii., p.205.; Vol. viii., p. 330.).—Were there two editions of the Vulgar Errors published in the same year, 1646? For my copy, "printed by T. H. for Edward Dod, and
are to be sold in Ivie Lane, 1646," and which I have always supposed to be of the first edition, has "Tenents," very distinctly, on the title-page. On the fly-leaf, opposite to the title-page, is the approbation of John Downame, dated March 14, 1645, and commencing thus:
"I have perused these learned animadversions upon the common tenets and opinions of men," &c.