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BOOKSELLERS' CATALOGUES. OCTOBER.
MESSRS. S. DRAYTOX & SONS of Exeter include in their Catalogue 267, New Series, all that was sold of the library of the late Chancellor Edmonds, Canon of Exeter Cathedral. A copy of Fry's 4 Bibliographical Description of the Editions of the New Testament ' is 11. Is. (original price 31. 3s.) ; and a French New Testament, 1567, 31. 3s. Alford's Greek Testament, 4 vols., is to be had for the small sum of 5s. Under Spain is
- Espafia Artistica,' 3 vols., imperial folio, 31. 10s.
"Warrington's ' Stained Glass,' also imperial folio, is 21. 10s. Under Art is ' Rowlandson,' by Grego, 2 vols., 4to, half morocco extra, 1Z. 10s. ; and under Australia is ' Picturesque Atlas of Australia,'
- 2 handsome vols., large folio, morocco extra,
11. 15s. (original price 101. 10s.).
MR. THOMAS THORP'S Guildford Catalogue 54 contains 5,264 items, and is an admirable all- round list. The Library Edition of Harrison Ainsworth's Works, 16 vols., half blue morocco, is 61. 6s. ; and Alken's ' Military Duties,' original drawings, bound in crimson morocco, 21 guineas. Under America is Agassiz's ' Natural History,' 4 vols., 4to, 4L 4s. A fine copy of the first edition of ' Bibliotheca Americana? Primordia,' small 4to, contemporary calf, 1713, is 4Z. 10s. ; and Mackenzie's ' Voyages from Montreal, 1789 and 1793,' 4to, half russia, 1801, 31. 10s. There are original MS. Log Books. Pickering's ' Voca - Tjulary of Words and Phrases which had been supposed to be peculiar to the U.S.A.,' Boston, 1816, is 12s. ; and Mrs. Warren's ' Poems,' 12mo, calf, printed at Boston, 1790, 11. 10s. Works on Architecture include Street's ' Gothic Architec- ture in Spain,' 21. 8s. Under Baskerville Press is a fine copy of Ariosto, 4 vols., royal 8vo, 1773, contemporary crimson morocco extra, 121. 10s. Among Bibles is the rare reprint of Cranmer's edition, 1549, folio, blue morocco extra by Bed- ford, 14L 10s. Works on Bibliography include 'Sonnenschein's ' Best Books,' 9s. ; and ' Biblio- theca Anglo-Poetica, or, A Descriptive Catalogue -of a Rare, Rich Collection of Early English Poetry in the possession of Longmans & Co.,' 1815, 11. 5s. A note to the latter states that " This extremely useful catalogue of the rare and curious collections made by T. Park, and added to by T. Hill, is deserving of a place in every good library." Under Blackmore is the scarce first edition of ' Lorna Doone,' 3 vols., original blue cloth, uncut, 30L This was a pre- sentation copy to Mortimer Collins. Among Prayer Books is a First Prayer Book of Ed- ward VI., 1549, 52L 10s. There are valuable botanical works. Among coloured illustrations are 'Townsend's ' Parisian Costumes, 1832 to 1851,' also a number of extra plates of coiffures, 10 vols., 4to, half roan (no title-pages), 121. 10s. There are several editions of Dickens, singly and in sets. The Chevalier D'Eon's copy of Rousseau's ' CEuvres,' Vols. I.-II. only, contemporary half calf gilt, royal book-plate in each volume, is 101. 10s. Under Tenniel is a collection of proofs of Sir John Tenniel's cartoons, from his own collection in several instances, and with MS. remarks by him. Many of these subjects were altered before publication. The price is '211. There is a unique historical relic of Queen Caroline, being manuscript correspondence relating
to her, neatly copied into 3 vols. 4to by her
Majesty's secretary, sumptuously bound, each
volume having a beautiful contemporary fore-edge
painting, depicting the three royal residences, with
the royal monogram C.R. on sides, 1821, &c., 151.
net. The Catalogue contains the names of a
portion of Mr. Thorp's stock of book-plates : as
these occupy 19 pages, he must have a considerable
collection. At the end of the Catalogue is a list
of books to be obtained at his London shop,
in St. Martin's Lane.
[Notices of other Catalogues held over.]
CHARLES EDWARD DOBLE.
EVERY institution of any real importance isbuilb up upon the devoted industry, knowledge, and skill of a large number of workers whose names never reach the public, who yet it is no disparage- ment to well-known men to say it constitute the very pillars, one might almost say the very being, of the enterprise to which they contribute their life-work. Not seldom the comparative obscurity in which they live is of their own choice : is no doubt a main condition for the effective discharge of a well-loved task.
Such a worker passed away last month in the person of Mr. C. E. Doble of the Clarendon Press. Born in 1847, and educated at Dulwich College and at Worcester College, Oxford (of which latter he was a scholar), he worked for some seven years on The Academy, and then, in 1881, when the Clarendon Press was being reorganized by Dr. Bartholomew Price, returned to Oxford, where he settled down for the rest of his life as a faithful servant of the Press. How exact and various were his attainments may, in some degree, be seen by the contributions which have appeared over his initials in our own columns principally in the Seventh, Eighth, and Ninth Series. His chief original work was ' The Remarks and Collections of Thomas Hearne'; but he contributed papers of value on questions of scholarship to various periodicals. His friends lament the loss of af character of unusual gentleness, modesty, and sincerity.
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CORRIGENDUM. Ante, p. 110, col. 1, 1. 16, for " Chile " read exile.
