and its Story,' by C. W. Stubbs, Bishop of Truro, large paper (one of 100), 3l. 3s. There is also a small-paper copy at a guinea.
Mr. Frank Hollings's List contains the first edition of Sorrow's 'Romano Lavo-Lil,' cloth, uncut, 1874, 3l. 10s.; and first edition of 'Sordello,' Moxon,' 1840, 2l. 15s. There are a number of books on natural history, and a large collection of works on Freemasonry and the various Masonic lodges. First editions of Coleridge include 'Poems on Various Subjects,' very scarce, 1796, 2l. 10s. The 'Confessions of an Opium-Eater,' olive morocco, 1822, is 3l. 5s. The Dickens list includes 'Master Humphrey's Clock,' 1840-41, 3l. 10s.; and 'Nicholas Nickleby,' extra-illustrated, crushed morocco, 1839, 1l. 7s. 6d. There are many works under Cruikshank. A collection of pamphlets by Gladstone, Manning, and Newman, presentation copies to Sir George Bowyer, bound in one volume, is offered for 1l. 15s. There are first editions of George Eliot, Kipling, and Lever; and under Shelley is the first edition of 'Essays and Letters from Abroad,' edited by Mrs. Shelley, Moxon, 1840, 1l. 10s. Bewick items include 'Select Fables,' 1820, 1l. 1s.; and under Thackeray is a copy of 'Vanity Fair' with the suppressed portrait, 2l. 2s.
Mr. Edmund Lister of Oldham devotes his first Catalogue to Book-plates, of which there are over 2,500. These include Byron, Capt. Cook, Dickens, Dilke, Trinity College, Dublin, Charles James Fox, Lord Halifax (various dates), Manchester institutions, and Oxford. There is the celebrated Fust plate, 1662, besides some American plates. It is a very interesting catalogue. Mr. Lister has collections of Magazine articles which he offers at moderate prices, and he suggests that "collectors may be glad to have these contemporary reviews and opinions on their favourite authors." We note Matthew Arnold, 25 articles, 7s. 6d.; De Quincey, 11, 5s.; Dickens, 34, 1l. 7s. 6d.; Disraeli, 14, 3s.; Folk-lore, 18, 5s.; America, 200, 1l. 10s.; Books and Booksellers, 52, 10s.; Dramatic Biography, 44, 7s. 6d.; the Brownings, 26, 10s. 6d; Tennyson, 36, 15s.; Wordsworth, 27, 18s., &c.
Messrs. Maggs Brothers' Catalogue 245 contains Rare Books, Prints, and Autographs, and is beautifully illustrated. Under America are a fine tall copy of Bullock's 'Virginia,' 1649, very rare, 37l. 10s.; Esquemeling's 'Bucaniers of America,' complete, with the rare fourth part, full calf, 1684-5, 22l. 10s.; Cotton Mather's 'Ecclesiastical History of New England,' 1702, 9l. 10s.; and his 'Wonders of the Invisible World: an Account of the Tryals of Several Witches, lately executed in New England,' 1693, 10l. 10s. There is a collection of newspapers embracing the earliest period of American independence, and containing Washington's proclamations, in one volume, folio, 9l. 15s. Under Art are Gainsborough's Works, engraved by Scott and others, royal folio, 13l. 13s.; a complete set of Hamerton's writings, first editions, 1850-97, 67l. 10s.; Landseer, Library Edition, 8l. 8s.; Reynolds, by S. W. Reynolds and other engravers, 5 vols., large folio, 1865, 85l.; and Turner, a set of the 'Liber Studiorum,' in three cases, 1807-19, 850l. There are four rare early printed books: a fine copy of the second Aldine edition of Colonna's 'La Hypnerotomachia di Poliphilo,' 1545, 52l. 10s.; Homer, the Editio Princeps, 2 vols., folio, bound in eighteenth-century morocco, 1488, 245l.; Thomas Aquinas, printed on vellum, 1478, 150l.; and the great picture-book of the Middle Ages, the Nuremberg Chronicle, 30l. Allot's 'England's Parnassus,' 1600, which is being analyzed in Mr. Crawford's series of articles in 'N. & Q.,' is 45l.; Malory's 'Prince Arthur' 1634, 12l. 12s.; and first edition of 'Paradise Lost,' 28l. Among first editions are 'Sense and Sensibility,' 3 vols., original boards, uncut, 1811, 45l.; 'Bells and Pomegranates,' 1841-6, 9l. 9s.; Mrs. Browning's 'Essay on Mind,' original boards, 12l. 12s.; Grimm, 2 vols, red levant by Rivière 1823-6, 38l.; 'Guy Mannering,' 3 vols., uncut, 75l.; and Swinburne's 'Laus Veneris,' Moxon, 1866, 14l. 14s.; and 'Poems and Ballads,' 9l. 9s. Under Tennyson is a collection of first and later editions, in all 50 vols., uniformly bound in full blue levant by Rivière with the original covers bound in, 175l. The illustrations in the Catalogue include Washington, Mrs. Opie as the Sleeping Nymph, Mrs. Robinson, and Morland's 'Horse-Feeder.'
Messrs. Myers & Co.'s Catalogue 139 contains, under Ancient Peruvian Art, Baessler's 'Archæology of the Incas,' translated by Keane, 1902-3, 10l. 10s. Under Barham is a three-page autograph letter, from "Residentiary House, St. Paul's, Nov. 14, 1844," to " My dear Miss Acton . … with many thanks for your kindness, which, together with the double terms offered me by Mr. Colburn, may induce me to take a fresh start towards a third volume," 5l. 5s. Under Brighton is a sumptuous copy of Repton's 'Designs for the Pavilion,' crushed levant extra, 1808, 6l. 10s. One of four copies on vellum of Davenant's Works, with memoir and notes by Maidment and Logan, 5 vols., 1872-4, is 17l. 10s.; and Crowne's Dramatic Works, 4 vols., 14l. These two books cost the late owner over 150l. Under Matthew Arnold is a collection of presentation copies: 'Empedocles on Etna,' 1849, 5l. 5s.; 'Poems,' 2 vols., 1853-5, 3l. 3s.; 'Essays in Criticism,' 1865, 4l. 4s.; Report for 1882 on the Westminster schools he inspected, extremely rare, 6l. 6s.; and others. A handsome copy of 'The Complete Angler,' with the Stothard and Inskipp engravings, 2 vols., levant, 1836, is 8l. 5s. There are works on Bibliography and London. Under Morris is 'The Earthly Paradise,' 4 vols., half-morocco, 1870, 2l. 2s.; under Fitz-Gerald the Edition de Luxe, 7 vols., 2l. 18s. 6d.; and under George Eliot the Cabinet Edition, 1878-85, 5l. 17s. 6d.
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