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BOOKSELLERS' CATALOGUES.
PLEASANT it is to leave the daily press for a while, with its accounts of wars and rumours of wars, and quietly to turn over the pages of these new catalogues.
Mr Cleaver, of Bath, has the original issue of Punch, 1841-1902, 257. ; ' The Royal Military Chro- nicle ' 1811-15, with portraits, 21. 10s. ; ' The Battle Abbey Roll,' 1889 ; ' Costumes,' 1802-18, 6 vols. ; Shelley's ' Essays,' Moxon, 1840 ; several sets of the ' Antiquarian Itinerary ' ; and a number of works on Somerset, Hampshire, Berkshire, and Scotland.
From Mr. Dobell's good general list we pick out the following: A folio Shakespeare, 1351., Thos. otes for Robert Allot, 1632: Fleay's 'London Stage'; 'Omar Khayyam,' Edward FitzGerald's fourth (and final) version, 41. 4s., 1879 ; FitzGerald's 'Poems,' 31. 3s., presentation copy; FitzGerald's ' Literary Remains,' Edition de luxe, 41. 4s. ; Cole- ridge's paper the Friend, Nos. 1 to 27 (all pub- lished), and ' The Plot Discovered,' original edition, very rare ; ' Dr. Syntax in Paris,' 1820 ; and ' Life of Blake,' first edition.
We have from Mr. Francis Edwards one of his " short lists," in which we find Adam's work on 'Architecture' (1778-1822), price Wl. 10s.; 'New France,' by Charlevoix, translated by Dr. Shea ; Dumas's 'Celebrated Crimes,' 8 vols., 1895; Flet- cher's ' English and Foreign Bookbindings '; Foster's
- Miniature Painters ' ; Garnier's ' Soft Porcelain of
Sevres ' ; Perrot and Chipiez's ' History of Ancient Art'; Roberts's' Memorials of Christie's'; Racinet's 'Le Costume Historique,'20. ; and 'Fauna Japo- nica' (Leyden, 1833-50), 371. 10s.
Messrs. George's Sons, of Bristol, have a list in eluding Dr. Grosart's private issues, works on ceramics, architecture, and drama.
Mr. Charles Higham's catalogue dated the 20th inst. contains a large collection of theological works, those specially Roman Catholic occupying eighteen pages.
Mr. Macphail, of Edinburgh, has a first edition of Kay's ' Original Portraits, 1837. This is a good sound copy and contains upwards of 400 portraits, price 41. 17s. Qd. There is also Nisbet's ' Heraldry,' in perfect condition, 11. 15s. ; this has the full complement of the rare 53 large full-page plates. Slezer's 'Theatrum Scotise,' 1814, a very choice copy, is 6 guineas. A complete set of the Pro- ceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, from its commencement in 1851 to 1900, 34 vols. , is 1W. 10s. ; &ndArchceologia,hom 1800 to 1844, 21. 15s. There are also many interesting items classed as Jacobite, Edinburgh, Highland, Occult, &c.
Messrs. Maggs, of the Strand, have a list of engraved portraits and decorative engravings in mezzotint, stipple, and line.
Messrs. James Rimell & Son have an interesting catalogue of engravings after many well-known artists, including Lawrence, Reynolds, Morland, and Stothard, also chromolithographs by the Arundel Society, at low prices.
Messrs. Sotheran's list is dated the 10th. In this the Times reprint of the ' Encyclopaedia Britannica ' is offered for 21/., 35 vols., including index, as new. A note informs us that the Time* cash price is 511. net. Another copy is to be had for 267. This is half-morocco extra. The Times price for this is given at 191. net. We notice a copy of Pickering's
exquisite Diamond Edition of Shakespeare, 9 vols.,
48mo, calf extra, 1825, 3?. 3s. , scarce. The catalogue
also includes a choice set, to 1897, of the Shropshire
Archaeological Society's Transactions, 201. ; Alesius,
' Responsio ad Cochlaei Calumnias,' 16/. 16s. (this
is excessively rare, and there is no copy in the
British Museum) ; and Transactions of the Biblical
Archaeological Society, 21 vols. A large portion of
the catalogue is devoted to works on theology and
philosophy, some of them very rare. Under
Political and Social Economy we find John Bright,
Canning, Cobden, Grattan ; the Economic Journal,
13 vols. ; Mayhew's ' London Labour and the Lon-
don Poor ' ; an extensive collection of ' Remarkable
Trials,' 68 vols., 1757-1857, 55^. General Literature
includes Milton's ' Paradise Lost,' the rare first
edition, S. Simmons, 1668, 30/. ; Stow's ' London,'
1720, and another copy, 1754-5; George Smith's
' Household Furniture,' 1808, very scarce ; Bon Ton
Magazine, 6 vols., 1818-21 ; the first English trans-
lation of Seneca, 1581, very rare, 11. 10s. ; a choice
copy of Stirling-Maxwell's ' Annals of the Artists
of Spain,' first edition, 1848 ; ' Life of Stothard,'
with personal reminiscences, by Mrs Bray, 200
engravings, 1851 ; Thackeray's ' \ 7 anity Fair,' first
edition, 1848, scarce, 67. 15s. ; Tuer's ' History of the
Hornbook '; and ' The Turner Gallery,' 1859-61. Not
the least interesting item is Charles Molloy West-
macott's 'The English Spy,' 1825-6, 2 vols., bound
in crushed crimson Levant morocco extra by
Riviere, 301.
Mr. Winter, Charing Cross Road, has a collection of Latin, French, and Italian MSS. among his recent purchases. His catalogue contains a good general list among other items, first edition of Ingoldsby ; ' The Social Day,' by Peter Cox, with water-colour painting on the fore edges ; ' Martin Chuzzlewit,' first edition, &c.
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