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him. General Sir George Wolseley gives an account
of * A Vale of Lanherne.'
OUR readers will doubtless have seen the interest- ing and unmistakable reference to Shakespeare which Mr. Sidney Lee communicated to The limes of the 27th ult. The precise words, contained in a household account of the expenses incurred at Bel- voir, by Francis, sixth Earl of Rutland, are as follows :-" 1613, Item, 31 Martii, to Mr. Shak- speare in gold about my Lordes impreso, xliiij*. ; to Richard Burbage for paynting and making yt, in gold, xliiijs. iiijfi. viijs." The entry has much curiosity, and Mr. Lee's account of the " impreso " itself, and of the conditions attendant on and following its production, and of the relations between the Earl and the Tudor poets, is a cha- racteristically fine piece of scholarship, which our readers will do well to study.
MR. ROBERT BROW.V, of Barton-on-Humber, is writing a history of his native town. The first volume, which covers the history from Roman times to 1154, will shortly be published by Mr. Elliot Stock. It is in quarto, and embellished with illustrations, maps, plans, and facsimiles.
BOOKSELLERS' CATALOGUES. JANUARY.
A HAPPY NENV YEAR to booksellers, readers, and
buyers.
Mr. H. W. Ball, of Barton-on-Humber, has many interesting items under America, Lincoln- shire, Freemasonry, and Wesleyan. Under the last are 872 Methodist pamphlets, 6/. 10*.; and a col- lection of over eight hundred works by Wesleyans, 20/. Under Cromwelliana is a chronological list of events in which Cromwell was engaged, with 84 fine portraits, folio, old crimson morocco, 1810, 4/. 10*.
Mr. Andrew Baxendine, of Edinburgh, has
- Facsimiles of the National Manuscripts of Scot-
land,' 3 vols., atlas folio, 1867-71, 3/. 15s. Under Scotland there is a set of The Scottish Geographical Magazine, 20 vols., 6^. 6s-.; and the 'New Statistical Account of Scotland.' by the respective ministers of each parish, 15 vols., 1845, 21. 15s. Qd. (published at!6/. 16*.).
Mr. Thomas Carver, of Hereford, has a collection of beautiful books suitable for presents. We note a few : Lamb's ' Elia,' first issue of the first edition, 1823. 71. 7s. ; ' Turner,' by Sir Walter Armstrong, 121. 12s. ; and first edition of Thacke lay's ' Esmond,' " a brilliant copy," 10/.
Mr Galloway, of Aberystwyth, has first editions of George Meredith ; a long list under Classical Early Children's Books; Shakspeare, edited by Henley, 31. 3s. ; and Rabelais, with Chalon's plates edited by A. H. Bullen, 16*. Under Wales is ' The Mabinogion,' translated by Lady Guest, 1847 8/. 8s.
Messrs. William George's Sons, of Bristol, have works on Architecture, Natural History, and Geo logy. Among the general entries we note 'Paradis Regain'd,' to which is added * Samson Agonistes, 1671, 10*. Under Napoleon is a coloured print drawn by Capt. Marry at, of the funeral processior leaving Longwood.
Mr George Gregory, of Bath, has a catalogu devoted to Greek and Latin Classics (with man exquisite colour prints of J. R. Smith in th Addenda), and another catalogue of general litera
ure. We would strongly urge Mr. Gregory to
dopt the usual catalogue form. We find the one
e uses most difficult to read.
Mr. Frederick R. Jones, of Thames Ditton, has a et of the Archaeological Society's Journal, vols. u o xxxii., 1845-75, 51. 10-9.; Baring-Gould's 'Book of Vere- Wolves,' 1865, 24.9.; Arnold's 'Friendship's- Garland,' first edition, 1871, 25s ; Billings's 'Anti- luities of Scotland,' 4 vols., 1845-52, 6/. 6* ; La Fon- aine, Amsterdam, 1764, 71. 7s.; and Rogers's ' Italy," ncut, with the labels, 1830-34, 51. 5s. Messrs. Myers & Co.'s list contains interesting:
works under America ; also under Art, including. hignell's ' Life and Paintings of Vicat Cole,' 898, 30s.; and Humphry Ward and Roberts's- Romney,' 11. 5s. There are many noteworthy terns under Dramatic, also under Occult. Among. he general entries are Warrington's ' History of Stained Glass,' folio, 1848, 31. 5s.-, " The Secret His- ory of Queen Elizabeth. Printed for Will with he \vish," 1695, 10s.;BrayleyV Londiniana,' 4 vols.,. 825, 15s.; Gray's ' Indian Zoology,' 1830-4, 4/. 10s.;. Skelton's ' Oxfordshire,' 1823..3J.; Forbes's ' Kalen-
dars of Scottish Saints,' 11. 12s. 6<:Z.: Barrere and ^eland's 'Dictionary of Slang,' 11. 7s. 6d.; and a
copy of the firm's ' Catalogue of Engraved Por-
^' 14,000 items, Is. Qd.
Mr. Poynder, of Reading, has a choice set of
Park's 'British Poets,' crimson morocco, 10?. 10s.;
a complete set of the Delphin Classics, 8^. 8s.; and a
jood copy of Ashmole's 'Berkshire,' 1736, 67. 6s.
There are many interesting items under Ballads,
Philology, Military, Economics and Sociology, and
Botany and Horticulture.
Mr. James Roche has a genuine original set of- Punch, 1841-95, 13gs.; Dunker's 'History of Anti- quity,' Bentley, 1877-82, 21. 8s. 6d. ; Howell and Cobbett's ' State Trials,' scarce, 1809-26 (published at 52/.), 12^. 12s. ; Macklin's ' Old and New Testa- ments,' 6 vols., russia, 1800, 21. 10s. (cost 85^.)- Motley's 'John of Barneveld,' out of print, Murray, 1874, 21. 8s. Qd. : and Rattray's ' Costume of Afghanistan,' scarce, 1848, 2L12s.6d. There are a number of works on the Indian mutinies, a collec- tion of ' Voyages Pittoresque?,' military works, &c.
Mr. Ludwig Rosenthal sends us from Munich an illustrated catalogue of rare and costly books, and another concerning the Eastern Church. He offers, amongst other things, ' Acta Sanctorum,' MS. of the eleventh century on vellum, 2,000m. ; a Com- munion Office of Edward VI., by A. Alesius, a Scotchman, 500m. ; Aristophanes, eleven plays in- the edition of Grynoeus, 1532, 100m.; A Greek MS. containing ' The Clouds ' of Aristophanes, the- ' Hecuba' and 'Orestes' of Euripides, and the 'Works and Days' of Hesiod, with scholia in the margin, presumably of the fourteenth century, 800m.; some early editions of Aristotle ; an English Armorial, MS. on sixteenth-century paper, 175m. an Italian Armorial, 1460, 1,000m. ; the Biblia Poly- glotta of Cardinal Ximenes; and many other rarities. Admirers of French elegance should find- a set of Dorat, 20 vols., cheap at 400m.
The books on the Eastern Church are of special interest at the present moment. They include several specimens of the work of Thomas Smith (1638-1710), a Nonjuring divine whose knowledge of Eastern ecclesiology gained him at Oxford the name of " Rabbi " Smith. Volumes also of a wider scope- are entered here, such as Krumbacher's masterly
