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BOOKSELLERS' CATALOGUES. OCTOBER.
CATALOGUES have increased rapidly on our table during the past fortnight.
Mr. Thomas Baker's Catalogue 531 contains the Essex House Press edition of Edward VII. 's Prayer Book, printed in red and black on hand-made paper. 5?. 56'. : Scott's Works and Lockhart's Life, 99 vols., 4?. 4s. ; 'The Century Dictionary,' 4?. 15-9. ; Bampton Lectures, 1780-1891, 112 vols. (complete set except 4 vols.), 25?. ; Sir Henry Spelman's Works, 4 vols., folio, blue morocco, a fine copy from the Sutherland Library, 10?. 10s. ; De Rossi's ' Roman Catacombs,' 6 vols., 4to, publisher's wrappers, Rome, 1864, 20?. ; ' Encyclopaedic Dic- tionary,' 7 vols., 4to., II. 4s. ; Lingard's 'England,' 14 vols., full calf, 1823, 11. 15s. ; Rogers's 'Poems,'
of Latin Christianity,' 15 vols., half-russia, 3?. 3s. ;
' The Paston Letters,' 21. 2s. ; and Stackhouse's
'Lectures on the Remains of Ancient Pagan
Britain,' 4to, II. Is. There are items under Aldine,
Ecclesiastical Cases, Hobbes, Dean Hook, Hooker,
Ritualism, &c.
Mr. B. H. Blackwell's Oxford Catalogue CXXIX. is devoted to Educational Books. Mr. Blackwell sends us the first part Classical Literature, a fine collection which offers many chances of securing valuable books at reasonable prices.
Mr. L. C. Braun's Catalogue 57 is a Clearance Catalogue, and the items are marked at low prices. The Addenda of Recent Purchases include
- Pater's Essays,' prepared for the press by Shad-
well, 9 vols., 5?.; Napier's 'Peninsular War,' 6 vols., 21. 10s.; Skelton's ' Oxonia Antiqua Restau- rata,' 170 fine engravings, India proofs, 2 vols., imperial 4to, 1823, 21. 10s. (published at 22?.); and Wheatley's ' London, Past and Present,' 3 vols., 21. 15s.
Messrs. Brown & Co. send from Salisbury, Cata- logues 1, 2, and 3 of their new series ; they contain items under Angling, Architecture, Art, Leech, Military, &c. We note a few : Roberts' s ' Holy Land,' 1880, II.; 'Esmond,' 3 vols., original cloth, uncut, 1853, 7s. 6d.; also first edition of 'Pendennis,' 2 vols., half-calf, 1849. 18s.; Bryan's 'Dictionary of Painters,' 2 vols., royal 8vo, 1886, II. 15s.; Ebsworth's 'Choyce Drollery,' 10s. Qd.; also his 'Westminster Drolleries,' 10s. Qd. Allibone's ' Dictionary,' 5 vols., 1885-91, is 51. Under Caricature is Everett's 'English Caricaturists,' 4to, 1886, II. Is. An uncut copy of Humphreys's work on ' British Moths,' is 21. 10s. There are lists by counties under Topography : we note under Wilts, Hoare's 'Modern History of Wiltshire,' 6 vols. in 7, folio, half-russia, 1822-44, 32?.
Mr. Richard Cameron's Edinburgh Catalogue 223 opens with Scott, 100 vols., cloth, 1878-82, 11. 10s. ; Kay's ' Portraits,' 2 vols., 4to, full crimson morocco, 1837, 8?. 10s. ; and Society of Antiquaries of Scot- land, Proceedings, 40 vols., 1851-1906, 11. 10s. Under Burns is a set of art illustrations of his works, 5 vols., folio, 16s. Qd. (published at 51. 5s.). Drum- mond's ' Old Edinburgh,' a series of over a hundred fine views of Closes and historical houses, imperial 4to, 1879, is 31. 15s. (one of fifty copies issued on large paper). There is the entire issue of The Illuminated Magazine, edited by Jerrold. Among the contributors were Mark Lemon, Reach, and
A'Beckett. There are numerous engravings and
coloured plates by Leech. It lived only from May,
1843, to April, 1845, 4 vols. in 24 parts, original
picture covers, 16s. 6d. ' Maclise Portrait Gallery/
4to, 1873, is 12s. A reminder of Chartist days is
The Chartist Circular, published for the Universal
Suffrage Committee for Scotland, and edited by
William Thomson, complete from No. 1, Sept. 28,
1839, to Sept. 18, 1841, folio, Glasgow, 9s. 6d. There
are early juvenile books and scrapbooks, and of
course plenty of works of special Scottish history.
The 1,200 items of Mr. Bertram Dobell's Cata- logue 166 are varied enough to satisfy many kinds of readers. There is the first edition' of ' Manfred,' uncut, for 10s. 6d., besides first editions of Dickens. Under Leigh Hunt is ' The Liberal,' 4 parts, uncut, 1822-3, 21. 2s. ', and under Keats a large-paper copy of his ' Poetical Works,' with memoir by Moncktoii Milnes, 4to, Moxon, 1854, 21. 5s. An interesting: item is Mercurius Reformatus, 3 vols. in 1, May 15th, 1689, to March 14th, 1691, folio, 11. 5s. This is an extremely rare periodical. Mr. Dobell tells us that it was sold at a penny a sheet (or number), and has advertisements of new publications, ke., including an announcement of a volume of Bunyan's writings : " Mr. John Bunyan, author of 'The Pilgrim's Pro- gress,' and many other excellent books, that have found great acceptance, hath left behind ten manu- scripts prepared by himself for the press before hi&
death. His widow is desired to print them All
persons who desire so great and good a work should be performed with speed are desired to send in 5s. for their first payment." From Bunyan we can pass to Shakespeariana, and finally, if pugilistically inclined, purchase a record of the lives and battles of celebrated pugilists in 7 vols. for 11. 5s.
Mr. Francis Edwards sends us the first part of his Catalogue of Old English Literature. Among rare books under America is Hubbard's ' New England,' 1677, first edition. The folding map engraved on wood is supposed to be the first produced in America. Hubbard left England in 1635, graduated at Harvard in 1642, became pastor of the Congregational Church at Ipswich, Massa- chusetts, and in 1688 was appointed acting President of Harvard. The copy Mr. Edwards has for sale is fine, clear, and tall, full levant, 70?. There is a fine copy of 'The Planter's Plea,' 1630, 35?. Mante's ' War in North America, 1763-4,' beautifully bound in full red morocco is 36?. ; and a fine tall copy of the first edition of Raleigh's ' Discoverie of Guiana,' 1596, 301. Another rare and important item is Gabriel Thomas's ' Historical Account of Pensil- vania,' 12mo, contemporary calf, London, printed for A. Baldwin, 1698, 140?. There are two George Washington souvenirs. The copy of ' The Acts of Assembly now in Force in the Colony of Virginia/ was formerly in the possession of the Washington family, and contains notes in the writing of Bushrod Washington, 1769, 30?. George Washing- ton's letter-book during the campaigns of 1775-6, containing much unpublished material, in levant case, is priced 65?. The general portion includes first edition of Beaumont and Fletcher, an excep- tionally fine copy, 1647, 52?. 10s. ; arid first edition of Florio's translation of Montaigne, in the original vellum, 1603, 70?. A note states that "one of the priceless treasures in the British Museum is a copy of this edition of Florio's translation of Montaigne's Essays, having the un- doubted autograph of Willm. Shakespeare." Under
