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price of a six-shilling novel being, with few excep
tions, Is. 6d.
Mr. Francis Edwards has a Short List of Modern Publications. Among them are a number of Court memoirs and military works. Of the latter he is
S'eparing a catalogue from his very large stock. r. Edwards has also an Additional List, of New Remainders, including Hamilton's ' 14th Hussars, 18*. ; Marks's ' Life of Frederick Walker, A.R.A., 10-9. 6d. ; ' The Anwar-i-Suhaili,' translated from the Persian, 11. ; ' Memorials of Lord Selborne, 16s. ; Whittier's * Works,' 7 vols., 186'. ; and El- worthy's 'The Evil Eye,' l'2s. Gd.
Messrs. Henry March Gilbert Son, of South- ampton, have many interesting items under Ame- rica, India, <fec. Under Costumes is ' Modes et Costumes Historiques Etrangers,' par Pauquet Freres, Paris, 1868, 45*. (the 96 plates are hand- coloured). Dibdin's ' Bibliomania, 3 1842, is 31. 3s. ; raik's 'Romance of the Peerage,' 1848, -38*.; ' George Eliot Portfolio,' 39 Japanese proofs illus- trating the works of George Eliot, 1887, 45*. ; ' The Maclise Portrait Gallery, 4to, 1873, 12s. 6d. ; Milton's 4 Poetical Works,' Tonson, 1761, 30s. : New Monthly Magazine, 91 vols., '31. Is. Qd. ; Rabelais, Bohn's edition, 12s. Qd. ; Rowlandson, ' Selection from his Works,' by Joseph Grego, 2 yols. 4to, scarce, 1880, 55s.; and Horsfield's 'Antiquities of Sussex,' 1835, 31. 109. There is a list of beautiful engravings and etchings.
Mr. Charles King, of Torquay, sends a cata- logue entitled 'British Topography, Part IV.' In it we find many interesting pamphlets, tracts, old county maps, and quaint sermons. Under London occurs ' London in 1851 ' ; Wyld's Map, 1850 ; Reeves's ' History,' 1764 ; ' London's Roll of Fame,' 1884 ; ' The Joyous Neighbourhood of Covent Garden,' &c.
Mr. H. H. Peach, of Leicester, has some interest- ing MSS., including the New Testament from the monastic library at Evesham, 101. 10s. Specimens of early printing include Cologne, Strassburg, Venice, and Berthelet's Press. There are some interesting broadsides, among them being a collec- tion of 750 Ballads, 1820-60, 11. 10*. ' A Satyr against Coffee' (1682?) is priced Is. 6d. : Avoid Satanick Tipple ! hence. Thou murderer of Farthings, and of Pence. And Midwife to all false Intelligence, &c. Tracts include a collection of Prynne's, 1642-7, 1M. 2s. ; Tracts relating to Charles I., 1640-48, 11. 5s. ; and 'The Two Last Speeches' of the Earl of Strafford, and other tracts, II. 2s. Qd. There are a good many early classics. Among modern books are Swinburne's ' Notes on Poems and Reviews,' scarce, 10*. 6d. ; and F. G. Stephens's 'Flemish and French Pictures,' 12s. 6d.
Herr Ludwig Rosenthal, of Munich, publishes Catalogue No. 106, devoted to Theologie Catholique (Rosellis Zweissig, et Supplement). Many of the books are very rare, and are in all languages except German. The catalogue comprises MSS., Incunables, Histoire des Ordres religieux, Las Scolastiques avec leurs Commentateurs et leurs Adversaires, Grands Ouvrages de Bibliotheque, &c. This is the fifth catalogue that Herr Rosenthal has devoted to this special subject, and the number of items approaches six thousand five hundred.
Messrs. Henry Sotheran & Co. publish the first portion of a catalogue of second-hand books in
Philology, the completion to appear next month.
As we are just going to press we defer notice. We
can see at a glance that the items are full of
interest.
Messrs. Henry Young & Sons, of Liverpool, have an extra- illustrated Da vies' 8 'Life of Garrick.' 1808 SI. 8s. ; a complete set of The Alpine Journal, very rare, 34J. ; Payne's 'Arabian Nights,' 167. 16s. ; and MacGibbon and Ross's 'Architecture of Scotland,' 1QZ. 10s. A choice copy of Campbell's 'Poetical Works,' with autograph letter, Moxon, 1837, is priced 6?. 6s. There are many Dickens items: ' Pickwick,' first edition, containing the two Buss plates, 51. 15s. 6d. ; also first editions of ' Nicholas Nickleby,' ' Bleak House,' and 'Little Dorrit' : but specially interesting is a fine set, extra-illustrated, of Forster's 'Life,' and the 'Letters of Dickens,' edited by his daughter and sister-in-law, 30^. The six volumes are extended to twelve, and contain two autograph letters, one addressed " Dear Mr. Overs" (the working-man author befriended by Dickens), whose 'Evenings of a Working Man: being the Occupation of his Scanty Leisure,' was noticed in The Athenaeum of 3 August, 1844. Under 'An Unique "Stothard Gallery" ' is his 'Life' by Mrs. Bray, the one volume being extended to two folio volumes with 322 engravings, SQL Among many special items is the Duke of Buccleuclvs sub- scription copy of Gould's 'Birds of Great Britain.' The five large volumes are full bound in blue morocco by Zaehnsdorf, QQl. There are some fine genuine original impressions of Hogarth, including the complete series of 'Marriage a la Mode,' the six prints framed in old English gold, 251.
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