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Chaucer is the second collected edition, with the
addition of ' The Plowman's Tale,' first published
in this edition, the last four leaves in facsimile, full
morocco by Riviere, 1542, "51. Among Bibles is
the first edition of Cromwell's, or the Great Bible,
a genuine and magnificent copy, with the exception
of the title, the first three leaves and the last leaf,
reproduced in facsimile by the elder Harris, 1539,
60?. There are plenty of other rarities, including a
Caxton with the signature of John Foxe, the
Martyrologist, and notes by him.
Mr. Goad's Bath Catalogue IX. contains Tissot's
- Life of Christ,' 21. 15s. ; Roberts's ' Holy Land,'
1855, 21. 2s. ; and Marriott's ' Vestiarium Chris- tianum,' 1868, 16-9. There are a number of extra- illustrated books in fine bindings. We note ' Life of Tennyson,' by his son, first edition, 2 vols., 55 extra portraits and other illustrations, with letters to Moxon by Sir F. Pollock, Millais, and Dickens, green morocco, 1897, 10?. 10-9. ; ' In Tennyson Land,' by Walters, 21. 10s. ; ' Songs from the Plays of Shakespeare,' printed for the Guild of Women Binders, superbly bound, 15?. 15,*. ; Maxwell's ' Life of W. H. Smith/4/. 4s. ; and Minchin's 'Our Public .Schools,' 141 extra illustrations, 2 thick vols., 11. 10s.
Mr. Goad sends also his Catalogue K 3, consist- ing of items at a shilling.
Mr. John Grant sends from Edinburgh his Annual Catalogue of New and Standard Books at Greatly Reduced Prices. These relate to Africa, America, Japan, Agriculture, Biography, Drama, Finance, Fine Arts, Folk-lore, Welsh, Scottish, and Gaelic Literature, Shakespeariana, choice illustrated books of the eighteenth century, &C.
Mr. James Miles's Leeds Catalogue 148 contains the first edition of Scrope's ' Deer-Stalking,' also 'Days and Nights of Salmon Fishing,' 2 vols., royal 8vo, olive green levant by Riviere, 1838-43, 9?. Us. 6d. There are a number of works under French Literature and German Literature. Other items include Foster's 'Miniature Painters,' 2 vols., folio, vellum, Edition de Luxe, limited to 175 copies, 1903, 6?. 6*.; Dawe's 'Life of Morland,' with notes by Foster, II. Us. 6c?.; Navy Records Society Publications, 31 vols., royal 8vo, 1894-1905, 6?. 15s.; and the Abbotsforcl Scott, 12 vols., half- morocco, 41. 15s. There is a selection of Yorkshire Topo- graphy and Local Literature. This includes a -collection of MSS. and autograph letters, 533 items, formed by Mr. Clarke, a former Mayor of Don- faster, and ranging in date from 1681 to 1869, 41. 10s.
Mr. R. Rayson sends from Chiswick No. 2 of his Book Compendium, containing Appell's 'Early Christian Art,' interleaved with author's notes, 1872, 15*. ; Richard Brown's ' Sacred Architecture,' folio, I/. 10*. M. ; Bewick's 'Fables,' Bickers, 11. 11s. Gd. ; Lowndes's 'Tracts in Prose and Verse,' 1825-7, 5/. 5.s-. ; Whitehurst's ' Napoleon III.,' 2 vols., 11. Is. ; Williams's ' Travels in Italy,' 2 vols., 1820, 21. 2s. ; Southey's ' Life of Wesley,' 2 vols., half-calf, 1846, If. Is.; arid Blackstone's 'Laws of England,' 4 vols., 1876, 11. 4s. A collection of Oxford pam- phlets, 1847-51, is also 11. 4s. Many of the books are from the libraries of Sir Richard Mills and the Marquis of Conyngham, and bear their book- plates.
Catalogue 8 of Messrs. C. J. Sawyer opens with -an exceptional bargain, a copy of the Grolier Bible, of which only 86 copies were issued to subscribers. It is printed on the finest Japanese vellum, specially
made in the Imperial manufactory at Tokio, and
has 70 veritable etchings ; the 14 vols. are bound in
antique buff pigskin, with fleurated corner-pieces
executed in silver, and are enclosed in
181. 18s. (the original price was fifty guineas). A
copy of the Edition de Luxe of Burton's ' Arabian
Nights,' privately printed for the Grolier Society,
is 16?. 16s. Other works include Craik's ' Romance
of the Peerage,' 1?. 18s. Qd.; ^The Dillon Collection,'
containing 134 examples of the engravers of the
nineteenth century, 16?. 16s.; 'Twenty-One Etch-
ings of Keene,' 4?. 17s. 6c?.; ' Catalogue of the Kaun
Collection,' 4 vols., 10?. 10s.; the Library Edition of
Carlyle, 34 vols., full calf, 1869-71, 16?.; Fielding,
edited by Henley, 16 vols., 4?. 17s. Qd.; ' Greville
Journals,' first edition, 8 vols., half-morocco, 7?. 10s.;
La Fontaine, 2 vols., royal 8vo, half-morocco, 1906,
5?. 2s. 6d.; Lante's 'Galerie des Femmes illustres
de France,' folio, morocco, very rare, 10?. 10s.;
Valpy's Shakespeare, 15 vols., 4?. 4s.; Thackeray,
Library Edition, 24 vols., 1869, 12?.; Montaigne,
with introduction by Saintsbury, 3 vols., uncut, 8?.;
and Bridge's ' Alexander the Great,' 2 vols., 41. 10s.
A number of large-paper copies of Black's Colour
Books are offered at a guinea each.
Messrs. Henry Young & Sons' Liverpool Cata- logue CCCXC V. contains a magnificent copy of Clarendon's ' Rebellion,' the original folio edition, extended to 6 vols. by the insertion of 420 fine old portraits, full bound in old English straight-grained red morocco, 1702-4, 60/. ; and Claude's 'Liber Veritatis,' first edition, Boydell & Hurst, red morocco, a beautiful copy, 25?. There are fine specimens of early priritingj Alduses, Elzevirs, &c. ; and the Chaucer folios of 1602 and 1721. Blake items include ' The Book of Job,' early copy of the first edition, 1825-6, 15?. 15s. Under Burke is the Library Edition in 8 vols., full calf, 1852, 9/. 9s.; and under Dickens a complete set of the first issue of the large - print Library Edition, rare, 30 vols., half red morocco, 1874-6, 21?. Under Hobbes of Malmesbury is Molesworth's edition, 16 vols., tree calf, 1839-45, 8/. 8s. There are lists under Andrew Lang, Leech, and others ; arid also some old mezzo- tint portraits.
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A. W. COOPER (" Marlborough Square "). This square is at Chelsea. The article at 7 S. x. 214 to which MR. PAGE referred was by the late F. G. STEPHENS.
GWENT ("Value of Money in Edward III.'s Reign "). Many articles have appeared in ' N. & Q.' on the value of money at different periods. See especially 2 S. iv. 293 ; x. 311 (by PROF. DE MORGAN) ; 3 S. i. 182, 238, 395.
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