io*s. ii. DEC. 17.19M.] NOTES AND QUERIES.
Mr. David Cadney, of Cambridge, has a nice little
catalogue, many of the items being very cheap.
There is "an extremely rare pamphlet connected
with the 'Snob' of Thackeray," 'The Snob's Trip
to Paris ; or, the Humours of the Long Vacation, a
Fiction founded on Fact,' Cambridge, published by
W. H. Smith (the same publisher who issued ' The
Snob '), Rose Crescent, 12mo, uncut, as issued, 31. 3s.
Mr. Richard Cameron, of Edinburgh, has a large collection of works relating to Scotland. These include the 'Acts of the Scottish Parliaments,' 121. 12s. ; ' New Club Publications,' edited by Dr. David Laing and others, 19 vols., 1878-89, I'll. 10s (only eighty copies privately printed, the original cost being 301. 5s.) ; Jamieson's ' Dictionary,' 4. 10s. ; books on Edinburgh and Glasgow, and county maps. A copy of the Somers Tracts, 13 vols., calf gilt, is offered for 1L 10$. The original price was 421.
Mr. F. S. Cleaver, of Bath, includes in a short list a clean set of Grose's 'Antiquities of Eng- land and Wales,' 8 vols., 1784, 31. 18s. 6d. ; Ogilvies ' Dictionary, ' 1885, 25s. (this was published at 61. 6s.) ; Blackwood, from its commencement, 1817, to 1837, 21. 10s. ; and Smollett's works, half-calf, 1900, 51. 5s.
Mr. James G. Commin, of Exeter, sends us two most interesting catalogues, containing the unique collection of books and pamphlets formed by the late C. D. Heathcote ; many of these have valuable notes. There is a complete set of the Western Antiquary, 12 vols., 31. 15s.; Camden Society, 67 vols., 51. 5s. ; Rowe's ' Forest of Dartmoor ' and Falcon's 'Dartmoor Illustrated,' together 3 vols., 4.1. 10s. The works relating to Devonshire and Cornwall are very numerous. A collection of works by Hawker of Morwenstow, 18 vols., 1821-99, is priced 51. 5s. Among the pamphlets is Banting on ' Corpulence,' reminding us of the Banting mania of the early sixties.
Mr. Bertram Dobell has a first edition of A'Beckett's ' Comic History of England,' 1847, scarce, 31. 12s. ; the original edition of Alken's ' Touch at the Fine Arts,' McLean, 1824, 31. 15s. (this is very scarce) : first edition of ' Lavengro,' 11. 15s. ; Peter Cunningham's 'Story of Nell Gwyn,' New York, 1883, an extra-illustrated copy, containing 109 por- i traits, 101. 15s. ; and Pierce Egan's ' Life in London,' |
1821, extra-illustrated, 14/. 10s. A large and valuable collection of broadsides relating to the Prince of i Orange is offered for 21. 10s. Mr. Dobell has also a number of Cruikshank books.
Messrs. George's Sons, of Bristol, have a list of five hundred items newly added to their stock. Under America are Choris's ' Voyage Pittoresque,' being the pictorial record of Kotzebue's voyage,
1822, Ql 15s. ; and Galloway's ' Reply to the Obser- vations of Sir William Howe, in which his Misrepre- sentations are Detected,' 1780, 15s. In the general list will be found a copy of the Baskerville ' Virgil,' Birmingham, 1757, 31. 3s.; Burton's 'Anatomy of Melancholy,' 1652, 31. Is. Gd. ; Lindley's Porno- logical Magazine, 31. 15s. ; ' Monumenta Historica Britannica,' 1848, 11. 10s. : * Martial Achievements of Great Britain from 1799 to 1815,' 53 plates by Heath, 11. 15s. ; a handsome set of Motley, 61. 6s. ; also Swinburne, 28 vols., all first editions excepting 'Atalanta in Calydon,' 'Both well.' 'Erechtheus,' and ' Essays and Studies,' original cloth, 131. 13s.
Mr. Charles Higham has a number of recent
Sirchases, including those from the libraries of r. Benjamin Harris Cowper and the Rev. W. D.
Parish. Those of the former contain many notes..
A copy of Beza's poems, a beautiful and rare
specimen of Stephens's press, 1569, is priced
21. 12s. 6d.-, Cowper's 'Lexicon,' 1850-4, 51. 5s. ; a
set of the Journal of Sacred Literature, 40 vols.,
4.1. 4s.; 'Library of the Fathers,' 41 vuls., 1838-47,
the set as originally completed, 11. There are a
number of works relating to foreign and colonial
missions, besides a quantity of Roman Catholic
and patristic literature; and among new books at
net prices is Billings's 'Baronial and Ecclesiastical,
Antiquities of Scotland,' 4 vols., 31. 3s.
Mr. George P. Johnston, of Edinburgh, has in his list 77 vols. of the ' Almanach de Gotha,' 71. Is. ; a number of works in reference to the Darien Settle- ment ; American pamphlets ; pamphlets relating to the South Sea Bubble; the account of the loss of the Comet steam-packet, 21 October, 1825 (this was- the first passenger steamboat on the Clyde), very scarce, 11. 4s. ; arid many rare books.
Mr. James Miles, of Leeds, offers ' Visitation of England and Wales,' c., by Dr. Howard and Frederick Arthur Crisp, 19 vols., 151. 15s. This- magnificent set of books was printed at Mr. Crisp's private press. A copy of the Times issue of the- ' Encyclopaedia Britannica ' is 201. Mr. Miles states that the Times now charges over 501. for this. A set of Balzac, 40 vols., is 4.1. The list of works relating; to America includes geological and coast surveys.. There are also interesting items under Angling and Architecture. Under Decoration we find the original edition of Owen Jones's ' Grammar of Ornament,' 50s., and under the Rev. Patrick Bronte 'The Rural Minstrel,' 1815, price 30s. A copy of Britton's 'Cathedrals,' 1814-35, is priced at 41. 4s. This was published at 531. A set of Grose's works, 1783 to 1801, is 51. 17s. 6d. ; Ritson's works, 12 vols., 1825-33,, Chiswick Press, 21. 11s. 6d. ; and ' The Orchid Album,' 11 vols., 13/. 13s. There are also a number of works on occult literature.
Mr. H. H. Peach, of Leicester, has many valuable items in his new list. There are manuscripts on vellum, the first of these being a Breviary of Franciscan Use from Monte Alvernia, written on 447 leaves of tine vellum, c. 1450, 101. 10s. Another MS. is in English, ' The Little Hours of the Virgin,' Sarum Use, c. 1430, 51. 10s. There are a number of early printed books ; a copy of Dibdin's ' Bibliotheca Spenceriana,' also his catalogue of books of the fifteenth century and his ' ^des Althorpianse,' 7 vols. in all, 101. 10s. : Noel Humphreys's ' Master- pieces of the Early Printers,' 21. 5s. ; and a copy of probably t he first edition of ' The School for Scandal,' 51. 5s. A volume of various poetical works includes a list of 'Books printed for E. Curll at Pope's Head, Rose Street, Covent Garden,' 16 pp. This interesting collection, bound in 1 vol., is 11. 5s. Lawson's ' Treatise concerning Baptisms ' is printed by T. Sowle, contains a twelve-page list of books sold by him, mostly W. Penn's American and Quaker works, and is priced Is. 6d.
We have received from Messrs James Rimell & Son, of Shaftesbury Avenue, Part I., A to G, of their catalogue of engraved portraits. They purpose con- tinuing this at intervals, so as to comprise the full alphabets of all the classes therein. The arrange- ment is excellent. We notice on the back of the cover that a copy of Chaloner Smith's catalogue of 'British Mezzotinto Portraits,' 1884, is offered at, 3U/.
