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380 NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 S.VIIL MAY 7,1921. which Messrs. Maggs have here the only known copy, printed by Ungut and Stanislas Polonus at Seville (1499: 1,250Z.) must conclude an all too brief selection of examples from Spain. Bergmann's ' Columbus ' from the Basle Press must not go unmentioned (1494: 500Z.), but having done so we must resist the temptation to quote further from these fascinating pages. MESSRS. MYERS'S Catalogue No. 226 deals with 264 items of which the most interesting are two French manuscript Books of Hours, on vellum, the one belonging to the middle, the latter to the end of the fifteenth century. The former, by a Parisian artist, on 191 leaves, contains 12 large miniatures, five somewhat smaller, 12 small miniatures of the months and the signs of the zodiac, and 214 large ornamental initials, with rich ornamental borders and numerous capitals (380Z.). The latter, on 98 leaves, has also a dozen large miniatures and is richly adorned, too, with capitals and borders ( 1 751.). There are one or two very good autograph letters, among which Crabbe's well-known appeal to Burke -"lam one of those outcasts on the world who are without a friend " interested us most. It seems cheap at 181. 18s. Lovers of Cruikshank and lovers of Dickens will find satisfactory pabulum in these pages. So, too, may students of Chinese art, for whom, from the Towneley Collection, there is a series of 110 drawings of Canton, c. 1780, bound together in a morocco-covered folio volume (2501.) . A Particularly fine binding is that of ' Les Psea vines e David ' in Marot's version, 1648 contem- porary, having covers of tprtoiseshell, carved, with silver clasps and back hinges 40Z. Messrs. Myers have copies of several well-known black- letter bibles ; a first edition of ' The Great Bible ' (60Z.), and a first edition of ' Matthew's ver- sion ' (501.) may be mentioned. Among the historical documents the most important is a collection of MSS. Ships' Letter-books, Log- books, Journals and other papers belonging to the career of Admiral Sir William Cornwallis. This is being offered in sixteen divisions, the most important of which are the documents connected with the War of Independence (200Z. and 1151.) and those connected with Cornwallis's employ- ment in the East Indies (10 51.). We noticed a complete set of first editions of Lever's works (1251.), a fine proof of Watson's engraving of Reynolds's portrait of Dr. Johnson done in 1770, without his wig (30Z.), a set of French eighteenth-century engravings illustrating 'II Decamerone ' in five vols. (1757: 42Z.), and a copy of the first edition of the Nuremberg Chronicle (1493: 95Z.). A most tempting cata- logue. WE have received MESSRS. CRADDOCK & BARNARD'S Catalogue No. 8, a carefully-drawn- up and well-illustrated list of drawings and engravings. The drawings present much that is of high interest : Koninck's ' Three Holy Women,' for example, once belonging to Sir Joshua Reynolds (201.) ; or Rubens's study of the head of his three-year-old son asleep (25L). Among works of the English school under this heading is described an eighteenth-century silk picture of a young gallant in a landscape which I appears attractive (14Z.). There is a capital j caricature drawing of a king by Thackeray | upon which is a note possibly by Frau von Littrow " Thakeray. In Weimar gezeichiiet." A water-colour drawing of a lime-kiln in a hilly landscape by Turner is offered for 60Z. We noticed one or two Bonaparte items Detaille's charcoal drawing of the meeting between Napoleon III. and Garibaldi (25Z.) ; and Isabey's caricature portrait of Napoleon I., ' Buonaparte FAn IV.' (1795-6: 45Z.). A most delightful item is Claudio Coello's ' Don Quixote and Sancho Panza,' from the collection of Henry Reveley a drawing which was once supposed to represent two Jesuits reading ( 1 5Z.). Of the pictures, the principal is a portrait of the school of Leonardo da Vinci a fine work, to be compared with the master's silver-point drawing at Windsor (250Z.). There is a lovely little head of the Madonna a bit of Venetian fresco, Cinquecento to be had for 25Z. Kneller's portrait of Abraham Simon, again, is exceedingly attractive in an old oval gilt frame, (80Z.). In the way of engravings we have also marked a number of interesting modern works but a mention of eight good Meryons, which include ' La Rue des Mauvais Garcons ' (45Z.). must suffice. 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