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460 NOTES AND QUERIES. [i»» s. iv. DM. 2, UM. "* Survey of London,' black-letter, SI. 3s. There an also many publications of the Grolier Club, am •works from the Daniel, Kelmscott, and Huve. presses. Mr. William Dunlop, of Edinburgh, has a number of interesting works relating to Scotland. These include Drummond's 'Old Edinburgh,' reproduce! in facsimile, 1879, 'H. 5s.: Billings's 'Antiquities, •31. Ins.; and ' The Arms of the Burghs of Scotland,' by the Marquess of Bute, II. 7s. 6<£. The genera! list comprises Boswell's 'Johnson,' Murray, 1853, 10 vols., 24s. ; Hume and Smollett, 18 vols., food as new, IT-1. 6d.; Lingard, 10 vols., 12s.; roude's ' History,' 12 vols., 35s. ; ' Picturesque America,' 2 vols. royal 4to, 12s.; ' Australasia Illustrated, 1606 to the Present. Time,' 1892, 11. 1*. •(published at 111. 11*.); P. H. Emerson's 'Pictures of East Anglian Life,' 1888, 12s. 6d. (published at "II. 7s.); and a clean copy of Moreri's 'Le Grand Dictionnaire,' 1740, 18s. m. Lord Byron, in writing to Murray, said, " I have Bayle's Dictionary, but •cannot do without Moreri." Messrs. E. George & Sons have a catalogue of Alpine, Antiquarian, Architectural, and Miscel- laneous Books. Under General Literature is 'Calendar of Wills, 1258-1688,' printed for the •Corporation of London, 1889-90, 11. 15s. A set of The Saturday Review, 1856-65, is 31. The Garden, 1876-88, 26 vols., 51. ; and a very fine series of the .Revue des Deux Monties, 1856-88, SI. 9s. We have two lists from Messrs. W. Heffer & Sons, of Cambridge. One contains works on Philosophy, Moral Sciences, Politics, Africa, America, &c. ; while the other—a short list of 215 items—includes very few that are not of some special value. A large-paper copy of Ariosto, Venice, 1772. is 10i. 10s. Under Alciati is ' Omnia Emblemata,' Paris, 1608, •2J. 1ft*. This the catalogue says is so excessively rare that only two other copies are known. Under Virgil, Baskerville, 1557, is the poet Alfieri's copy with his book-plate, 11. 10s. There is a fine large copy of the first edition of ' The Anatomy of Melan- -choly,' 1621, yd. 10s. Queen Elizabeth's Prayer- Book, first edition, 1578, is 45/. We have space to note only a few more : Tennyson's ' Poems,' 1833, 301.; 'Lorna Doone,' 3 vols., in original cloth, very scarce, 251.; Rossetti's ' Sister Helen,' Oxford, 1857, for private circulation, 121.12s.; Thackeray, 7 vols., 1848-59, 211. ; and an original charcoal drawing by Burne-Jones, ' The Miraculous Draught of Fishes, framed, 281. 10s. There is a Shelley MS., 367. ; and an original MS. of De Quineey, 20?. 10*. Nine letters of Charles Lamb include one to his friend Allsop, in which he writes : " I am going to ask you to do me the greatest favour which a man can do to another, I want to make my will, and to leave my property in trust for mv sister. N.B.—I am not therefore going to die. Would it be unpleasant for you to be named for one?" The letters are priced ii.V. There is also an original holograph unpub- lished acrostic to Emma B—, signed "Ch" Lamb," price 302. Mr. H. H. Peach, of Leicester, has MSS. and rare books of the fourteenth century to the eighteenth. There is a fine tall copy of the ' Nuremberg Chronicle,' 211. Other items include Beaumont and Fletcher, 1679, 91. 9s. ; Chaucer, 1602, 81. 8s. ; ' Robinson Crusoe,' fourth edition, 167. 15s. ; Dugdale's ' St. Paul's,' '21. 5s.; Heywood's ' Pleasant Dialogues and Drammas,' 1637,11. 1«.; Ben Jonson, 2 vols. folio, 1640, 121. 12s.; Thucydides, 1550, <H. 12s. 6d. ; and Burton's 'Arabian Nithta' Benares, 1885, 3&. There are works of intS under Commonwealth, Elizabeth, and Ireland. Mr. C. Richardson, of Manchester, has the ninth edition of Bunyan, excessively rare, 1683, 2W.; a set of 'N. & Q.,' 1849 to June. 1898. 97 vols, half- morocco, and the Indexes to the eight Series-Svols, cloth 4K.: Villon Society's Publications, 13 voli, 1*. 10s. ; Miller 8 series of works on Costume 352 coloured plates, 7 vols. folio. 1804-20 101 10s • i first edition of Edward FitzGerald's 'Euphranor' 'Shakespeare', _.-_„ —. , —-j ~. .-.. ««, »uv»T «^.. M.VO, , OIlttKcBpCftlc 8 Poems, Kelmscott Press, 81. ; a fine copy of Littre. 5 vols., 1888-93, <U. ; ' Museum of Painting and Sculpture,' 1828-32, 67.; Ruskin's ' Modern Painters. 6 vols. imp 8yo, 1888 67 ; and Waverley Novels. 48 vols., Cadell, 1829-32, 67. Mr. Albert Button, of Manchester, has a set of the Chetham Society's Publications, 1840-1904 °4i • Hazlitt's ' Early English Bibliography,' with Indei volume by Gray, 57. 15s. ; Hotten's " Librarv of Humour," 13 vols., 3^. 5s.; Caulfield's ' Portrait*,' 1819, 11. 8s. ; first edition of Campbell's ' Poetical Works,' Moxon. 1837,11.2s. 6rf.; Cavendish Society's Publications, 1848-71,51. ; a copy of ' Eikon Basi- like,' 1648. -21. 2s.; Pickering's editions of Coleridge, 15 vols., 1840-49, original cloth, 4/. 10s.; first edition of Goldsmith's 'Citizen of the World,' J Newberv 1762, 31. 12s. 6d. ; Jardine's "Naturalist's Library.4 40 vols., 1833, 31. ; and 'Newgate Calendar.' 18008, 21. 2*. Other items include 'Scott's Complete Works, with Life.' 100 vols., Cadell, 1829-39. VS.; and Stevenson's 'The Story of a Lie,' first edition, 1882, 101. 10s. A note in the catalogue states: " In July, 1899, a copy sold for 30/. 10s. The work was to have been published by Hayley A Jackson in 1882, but was suppressed before publication. Only five or six copies are known to have escaped de- struction." JSjfolicfs ia Corrtsponbrnts. We must call special attention to the foUme»; notices:— OK all communications must be written the mm* ind address of the sender, not necessarily for pub- lication, but as a guarantee of good faith. WE cannot undertake to answer queries privately. T. CANX Humus* ("A Pagan suckled in a creed outworn").—From Wordsworth, 'Mincellaneou Sonnets,' xxxiii., " The world is too much with i»" F. SWINFORD ("Fly, envious Time").—'On Time' will be found at p. 21 of Dr. Aldis Wright's edition of Milton, published by the Cambridge UniverutJ Press in 1903. LADY RUSSELL, COL. BELL, and S. H. A. HEBTIT. —Forwarded. L. R. M. STRACHAN (" She never found fault with you," &c.).—Anticipated ante, p. 316. NOTICE. Editorial communications should be addre»e«J ,o "The Editor of 'Notes and Queries'"—Adver- iisementa and Business Letters to "The P»l>- isher"—at the Office, Bream's Buildings, ChmuowT Lane, E.C. We beg leave to state that we decline to retsn oinmunicatiuns which, for any reason, wa do D**^ print; and to this role we can make no exc*ptMiv