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MB. ROBERT FORRESTER'S Glasgow Catalogue 95 contains an assortment of general literature. The works under Art include ' Orrock, Painter, Connoisseur, and Collector,' 2 vols., large 4to, 21. 11s. Qd. ; and ' Romney,' by Ward and "Roberts, 2 vols., 4to, Edition de Luxe, 41. 10s. Under Darien Tracts is a rare collection, 1696- 1707, 101. 10s. ; under De Morgan, ' A Budget of Paradoxes,' 1872, 21. 5s. ; and under Dickens, first editions. The entries under Glasgow include Fairbairn's ' Belies,' 1Z. 11s. Qd. ; ' Munimenta ' of the University of Glasgow, Maitland Club, 1854, 31. 3s. ; and Small's ' Sketches of Quaint Bits,' one of 60 copies on large paper, 11. 12s. Qd. Foster's
- Miniature Painters,' 2 vols., 4to, is 21. 12s. Qd. ;
- Tartans of the Clans,' by Grant, 11. 15s. ; Wai-
pole's ' Letters,' edited by Cunningham, 9 vols., half-morocco, 4Z. 10s. ; Boulton's ' Amusements of Old London,' 12 coloured illustrations, 15s. ; and Evelyn's ' Diary,' edited by Wheatley, 4 vols., 11. Is. Under Architecture in the Addenda is Fergusson's ' History,' 5 vols., 4Z.
Messrs. William Glaisher's Catalogue 370 is a Supplementary one of Remainders. We note a few : ' Mrs. Brookfield and her Circle,' 3s. Qd. ; Cram's ' Japanese Architecture,' 4s. Qd. ; Mrs. Evelyn Cecil's 'London Parks,' 25 coloured plates, 8s. Qd. ; Hepworth Dixon's ' Her Majesty's Tower,' 6s. ; Smith's * Catalogue Baisonne" of Dutch, Flemish, and French Painters,' 21. 10s. ; Fielding an*d Smollett, 12 vols., 12s. Qd. ; and Oomme's ' Governance of London,' 5s.
Messrs. James Bimell & Son's Catalogue 220 contains A' Beckett's ' Comic History of Borne ' and ' Comic History of England,' first editions, 3 vols., original cloth, 1847, 11. Is. ; and ' Fables of JEsop ' and Gay's ' Fables,' 4 vols., royal 8vo, 1793, 121. 12s. Under Alken is one of a very few copies made up by the publisher of Alken's sport- ing and humorous designs, 3 large folio vols., -contemporary crimson morocco, M'Lean, 1824, 230Z. Byron's * Poetical Works,' 712 extra views, 8 vols., 4to, cloth, Murray, 1833, is 201. Cruik- -shank collectors will be interested in the ' Descrip- tive Catalogue of his Works ' from the Truman Collection, 42Z. There are extra-illustrated copies of Granger's ' Biographical History,' Gray's ' Poems,' 12mo, inlaid to folio size, Hamerton's ' Landscape in Nature, Literature, and Art,' Manning and Bray's ' Surrey,' Coxe's ' Memoirs of Walpole,' and many others.
Messrs. Henry Sotheran & Co.'s Price Current 704 contains a set to 1909 of the Anthropological Institute Publications, including the rare volume -of ' Anthropologia,' 1848-1909, 351. Under Austral- asia are Angas's ' New Zealand,' imperial folio, McLean, 1847, 14Z. 14s.; and ' South Australia,' parts as published, uncut, 60 large coloured plates, 1847, 101. 10s. Under Coleridge is a choice set, 31 vols., all 12mo except the ' Literary Bemains ' and ' Life,' new half -calf, Pickering, &c., 1834-73, 17Z. 17s. Dickens items include the following in the original parts : ' Dombey,' 11. Is. ; * Hum- phrey's Clock,' 11. Is. ; * Copperfield,' Ql. 6s. ; and 1 Pickwick,' 151. 15s. Under Dryden is Scott's edition, 18 vols., calf, 1821, 111. 11s. Under Gospels is the first edition of the Anglo-Saxon version, John Daye, 1571, a fine tall copy in purple levant by Riviere, 251. A set of the Philo-
biblon Society's publications, with 5 extra
volumes, 20 vols. in all, 1854-84, is 181. 18s. ; a set
of The Portfolio, 1870-93, with the monographs to
1901, 24 vols., folio, calf, and 42 parts, 16Z. 16s. ;
and Tudor Facsimile Texts, edited by Farmer.
43 vols., 30Z.
Among autograph letters is one of Leigh Hunt's to Lord John Russell, soliciting patronage for his son-in-law, in which he says : " Ever since I first saw you, I always said of you (pardon me for personally criticizing you at all) that you appeared to me to possess the head and brow of a sage upon the face of the earth." There is also a long letter from Wellington, 6 pp., 4to, near Madrid, 11 Aug., 1812, Ql. 9s.
MESSRS. JACK are publishing immediately the sixth edition of ' Armorial Families,' by Mr. A. C. Fox-Davies, a work which, as we said in a
Erevious notice, " has risen steadily in public ivour." The new edition promises to be a handsome book, and will include an extensive series of coats of arms printed in their full heraldic colours, as well as a very interesting article on ' The Ancient Families of England,' giving the names of the select few who can claim Saxon and Norman descent.
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