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BOOKSELLERS' CATALOGUES. MAY.
MR. P. M. BARNARD'S Tunbridge Wells Cata- logue 29 con tainsearly printed books, 1501-20, and has many illustrations. A fine copy of the edifio princeps of Corio's ' Historia di Milano,' the woodcuts being remarkably good, 1503, is 11. Is. There are two fine Horse. The first, printed by Pigouchet, Paris, 1501, has every page within beautiful his- toriated borders, besides 19 large cuts, 12/. In the second, printed by Kerver, Paris, 1505, Roman letter in red and black, the cuts are remarkably fine ; the first two leaves are wanting, but they contained only the title and almanac, vellum, 16/. 16s. Under Plautus is a fine clean copy of the Venice edition of 1511, the woodcuts of which are said to have been in part designed by the Master of the ' Poliphilus,' calf gilt, 4/. 4s. Books printed after 1520 include ' Amadis,' Venice, 1533, 11. ; and the original edition of Jost Amman's 'Gynseceum,' 1586, 51. 18. From the Wodhull Collection is the editio princeps of Euclid, folio, 1533, 21. 15*. Under Herbal is a copy of 'The grete herball,' Treveris, 1526, imperfect ; it contains over 450 woodcuts, vellum, IO/. 10s. A collection of original editions of works by John Leland is 4. 4s. There is a copy of Petrarch, Venice, 1545, 21. 10*. ; also of Pliny, folio, Frankfort, 1582, 3/. 3*. The latter is remarkable for its excellent woodcuts, including a curious hospital scene with operations in progress.
Mr. James Cameron's Edinburgh Catalogue 225 abounds, as usual, in works of special Scottish interest. We have under the Forty-Five Andrew Lang's ' Prince Charles Edward,' II. 5s. ; under Broadsides, a collection of folio printed documents, 11. 5-f. ; and under Burns The Lounger, 1785-6, a set of the original numbers bound in 1 vol., folio, 8*. 6d. The issue for 9 December, 1786, contains a review of the Kilmarnock edition by the editor, and quotes poems t'roni the book, thus bringing Burns into public notice. Under County Maps of Scotland are those by Thomson, 1824. A copy of Drummond's 'Old Edinburgh ' is cheap at I/. 5*. Under Glasgow School of Painters is Prof. Baldwin Brown's work, 1908, 51. 5*. There are some old quarto plays, 1673-96. Under Dickens is the first edition, in parts, of ' Our Mutual Friend,* 11. 2s. 6d. There are some Baxter colour-prints, and copies of The Sun of the 28th of June, 1838, printed in gold.
Messrs. Simmons & Waters of Leamington end two Catalogues. No. 230 contains A'Beckett's ' Comic History of Rome,' first edition, II. Is. 6d. ; 'Arabian Nights ' in French, 16 vols., 21. 5s. ; Tom Hood's works, with Life, 9 vols., half-calf, 1860-63, 21. 15s. ; Lodge's
- Portraits,' 12 vols., royal 4to, 1823-34, SI. 8s. ;
and ' Life of Morland ' by Dawe, Edition de Luxe, folio, half -vellum, 1904, 4Z. An extra-illustrated copy of Pepys, 8 vols, crimson calf by Morrell, 19045, is 51. 5s. Other illustrated works include Grammont, 2 vols., 21. ; Hewitt's ' Northern Heights,' 4Z. 17s. 6d. ; ' Nollekens and his Times,' 51. 5s. ; Smith's ' Book for a Rainy Day,' 21. 10s. Howell's ' Familiar Letters,' 41. 4s. ; Sharp's ' County of Warwick,' 21. 2s. ; and Mackay's
- Thames,' 51. 5s. All these are handsomely
bound by Morrell. Classified lists will be found under Catalogues of Famous Art Sales and Pamphlets and Tracts, including Reform. One of the smallest books published in England, Schloss's ' English Bijou Almanac for 1840,' J inch high by inch wide, is a guinea ; and
a set of Thackeray, half-calf, by Riviere, 13 vols.,
1898, 51. 10s.
Messrs. Simmons & Waters's second list, No. 231, is devoted to Old Engravings, Baxter Coloured Prints, Portraits, &c. The Bartolozzis include ' Cleopatra,' II. 15s. ; and ' The Death of Chatham,' 21. Among Baxter prints arc Prince Albert, 21. 2s. ; Edward VII. when a boy, 17s. 6d. ; Sir Robert Peel, 11. 12s. Qd. ; and ' Wreck of the Reliance,' 21. 10s. There are items under Caricatures, Crowquill, Cruikshank, and Reynolds. A collection of Indian costumes, 80 native water-colours, 1830, is 21. 2s. ; and a pair of needlework pictures in old frames, about 1800, 31. 5s. Under Rubens are 25 large engrav- ings, Paris, 1710, 61. The Catalogue closes with a list of over five hundred cheap portraits.
Mr. Albert Sutton of Manchester devotes a cata- logue specially to Shakespeare and the Drama. This includes old plays, dramatic biographies, operatic memoirs, and theatrical histories. We note Bell's 'British Theatre,' 34 vols., calf, 1797, 6/. 6s. Numerous items will be found under Gibber, Payne Collier, Colman, Cumberland, Dryden, and Massinger ; and about 150 under Shakespeare. There are several editions of Doran's ' Their Majesties' Servants,' including the first in original cloth, 21. Under the name of our founder are his 'Three Notelets on Shakespeare,' 1865, for the small sum of 3s. The marked sale catalogue of the library of Dr. Wright, 1787, 7s. 6d., is of interest as showing the difference between prices obtained then and now. Nearly all the Shakespeare Quartos went for sums varying from 2*. 6rf. to SI. 5s.; while the 1623 Folio was sold for 101., the Second Folio for 21. 9.s., the Third for 11. 8s., and the Fourth for a guinea.
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