10 s. vin. DEC. 21, 1907.] NOTES AND QUERIES.
499
is a handsome set of Thackeray, the Library Edition>
24 yols., half-calf extra, 131. 13s. The items under
Wilts include Britton's ' Beauties,' 3 vols., full
morocco, 21. 2s. Several works will be found under
Japan.
Mr. Henry Davey has in his Sixth Catalogue, Prof. De Morgan's ' Book of Almanacks,' with an index for every year, Old Style and New, up to A.D. 2000, 1851, Is. 6d. ; and a copy of Miss Braddon's ' Garibaldi, and other Poems,' 1861, 5s. There is a list under London : and under York is Crowne's ' York Cathedral,' 1847, 21. 5s.
Mr. Bertram Dobell's Catalogue 158 has a unique volume under Wordsworth. It contains the poet's own copies of his earliest publications, with many manuscript alterations in nis own hand ; and Cole- ridge's ' Fears in Solitude,' all with the edges totally uncut. Mr. Dobell absolutely guarantees that they are the copies preserved by the poet. This quarto volume, half-calf, is 1751. Other Wordsworth items are the first edition of the Poems, 2 vols., half- morocco, 1807, uncut, 11. Is. ; ' Peter Bell,' 1819, uncut, 31. 15s.; and 'Elegy on the Death of La_mb,' privately printed, filled with pencilled alterations, 1835, 161. The general entries include an album of portraits from Charles Kean's library, 61. 15s.; 'Ingoldsby,' first edition, 9. 9s.; Charlotte Bronte's Poems, containing ten pages of dialogue in her hand- writing, 61. 6s.; a collection of Civil War Tracts, 1624-56, 18?.; Chapman's 'May Day,' first edition, extremely rare, 1611, 321- ; and Carew's Poems, circa 1640, 101. 10s. Under Coleridge is a complete set of 3 the original numbers of The Friend, entirely uncut, boards as issued, enclosed in morocco case specially made by Riviere, 12/. A copy of 'Don Juan Lamberto' is priced Ql. 9s. There is a beautiful set of Dickens's 'Tale of Two Cities,' with all the wrappers and advertisements, in morocco case by Zaehnsdorf, 14. 10s. There are many other treasures in Mr. Dobell's Catalogue, but space does not admit of notice.
From Paris we have a Catalogue issued by M. Dorbon-Aine. We note a few items : Aretino's ' Les Sonnets Luxxirieux,' with the complete set of drawings by Jules Remain, 220fr. ; Balzac, '(Euyres completes,' 145fr. ; ' Bibliotheque Charpentier,' 62 vols. in 32, 380fr.; Delange's 'L'GEuvre de Bernard Palissy,' 175fr. ; Victor Hugo, 19 vols., 95fr. ; La Fontaine, ' Les Amours de Psyche" et de Cupidon,' 120fr. ; and ' Napoleon I., Commentaires,' 120fr. One item ' Documents et particular-it^ historiques sur le Catalogue du Comte de Fortsas 'reminds us of the great bibliographic hoax which had been perpetrated in 1840 by M. Chalons, President of the Society of Bibliographers at Mons (see Athenceum, Feb. 26th, 1848, or ' John Francis,' vol. i. pp. 114-16). The price of the Comte's ' Catalogue ' is 12fr.
Messrs. Jaggard & Co., of Liverpool, ha vein their List XXXI. Dr. Copinger's 'The Bible and its Transmission,' 41. 4s.; Carter's 'Medals of the British Army,' 3 vols., 11. 10s.; Bertall's 'La Com^die de notre Temps,' 21. 2*.; Boutell's ' Chris- tian Monuments,' 15s. ; ' Bridgewater Treatises, Pickering, 13 vols., tree calf, 11. 10s.; Cowper's ' Life ' by Hayley, 3 vols., 4to, 11. 5s.; and ' Dresden Gallery,' SI. 10s. Among sets of magazines is The Gentleman's, 1731 to 1800, 88 vols., calf, Earl Car- rington's book-plate in each, 131. 10s.
Mr. John Jeffery's Catalogue 113 contains under Quakers (America) 'The Dawnings of the Gospel
Day,' by Francis Howgil, containing ' The Popish
[nquisition in New England,' 1676, 51. 5s.; and the
American edition of ' The Rise and Progress of the
Quakers,' 21. 2s. There are some early chapbooks,
aamphlets, and old music.
Messrs. George T. Juckes & Co., of Birmingham, send their Catalogue 185, containing a collection of apoks relating to Dante formed by Thomas White- side Hime. Under Beardsley is The Yellow Book, 13 vols., 21. 10s. ; and under Dickens ' A Child's History of England,' first edition, 3 vols., 11. 10s. There is a handsome set of Gibbon's ' Rome,' 8 vols., half-calf, 1881, 31. 3s. Under Horn-Books is Tuer's well-known work with facsimiles, 11. 10s. A beau- tiful copy of Lodge's ' Portraits,' 8 vols. , half-calf, is 31. 3s. ; a copy or the Edition de Luxe of Daudet's ' Sapho,' 1899, 31. 3s. ; also of Smollett, edited by Henley, 12 vols., cloth, 21. 15s. A collection of Spanish and Italian novels, 1870-1901, is to be had [or 11. (cost 51.).
Messrs. Lupton Brothers, of Burnley, have in bheir Catalogue 96 a good collection of miscellaneous literature. A handsome copy of Matthew Arnold's Works, Edition de Luxe, 15 vols., is 51. ; the "Winchester Edition" of Jane Austen, 10 vols., 11. 10s. ; Audsley and Bowes's ' Keramic Art of Japan,' 2 vols., folio, SI. 8s. ; " Memorial Edition" of Bewick, 5 vols., royal 8yo, 31. 3s. ; and Moul ton's ' Library of Literary Criticism,' New York, 1901-5 r 81. 8s. Dickens items include 'Joseph Grimaldi,* first edition, 4?. 17s. 6d. Other works are Froude's 'England' 12 vols., calf, 61. 6s.; 'The Vicar of Wakefield,' illustrated by Mulready, 21. 2s. ^ La Fontaine, Amsterdam, 2 vols., 1762, 121. 12s. ; Ruskin's 'Modern Painters,' 5 vols., royal -8vo, Smith & Elder, 1873, 61. 6s. ; ' Stones of Venice/ 1873-4, 31. 3s. ; and Hallam's Works, 9 vols., 21. 10s. There are first editions of Cruikshank, and a long list under Drama and Shakespeariana.
Messrs. B. & J. F. Meehan send from Bath their Catalogue 63, which has works under Bath, Gypsies, Napoleon, &c. A copy of Joseph Knight's ' Theatrical Notes,' 1893, is 11. Is. ; ' Life of Maurice, 2 vols., 11s. 6d. ; first edition of Newman's ' Apologia,' 11. Is. ; and Library Edition of his ' Parochial Sermons,' 6 vols., 11. 3s.
Mr. E. Menken's Catalogue 182 contains selections from the libraries of Beavington Atkinson, Joseph Foster, and the Rev. Forbes Witherby. We note a set of the 22 folio Reports of the Deputy Keeper of the Public Records, 1840-61, 21. 12s. ; Beltz's ' Order of the Garter,' Pickering, 1841, 11. 5s. 6d. - r Burke's ' Heraldic Illustrations, 4 vols., 4. 10s. ; ' Cambria Triumphans,' 1810, 201. ; Edmonson's ' Pedigrees of the English Peers,' 51. 5s. ; and Yorke's ' The Union of Honour,' folio, 1640, 101. 10s. The list is rich in family histories ; and under Foster is his 'Index to Printed Pedigrees,' with 3,500 additional names, unpublished, out ready for the printer, 81. 8s. There is also a copy of his ' Index to Heralds' Visitations,' 151. 15s. There is a fine copy of St. John Hope's ' Stall-Plates of the Knights of the Garter,' 31. 5s. An illuminated heraldic manuscript on vellum is priced 161.
Murray's Nottingham Book Company send Catalogue 70, which contains some fine specimens of bindings. Danet's 'Dictionary of Roman and Greek Antiquities,' 1698, bound by Louis XIV.'s binder, is a very handsome volume, 101. 10s. There are lists under Early Printed and Elzevir Press.
