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BOOKSELLERS' CATALOGUES. JANUARY.
MR. RICHARD CAMERON'S Edinburgh Catalogu
228 contains, as usual, a number of works of
Scottish interest. Other items include the Cole
ridge and Prothero edition of Byron, 1898-1904
13 vols., cloth, as new, II. 15s. ; Kinglake's
- Crimea,' 9 vols., II. 6s. ; ' Fine Art Illustrations
of Scott,' 13 vols., folio, II. 5s. ; and the Works of " Christopher North," 12 vols., half -calf 1Z. 15s. Under Napoleon is Bell's Weekly Messenger, Sunday, 3 Jan., to 26 Dec., 1813, folio, boards, 9s. Qd. The numbers contain ful] details of Napoleon's campaigns, with accounts of the disastrous retreat from Russia and of Wellington's Peninsular campaign.
Mr. Bertram Dobell's Catalogue 179 contains books from the library of the late Frederick Hendriks, most of them with prints, autograph letters, and notes. Byron, complete edition in one volume, extra-illustrated with Finden's engravings and a series of female portraits, green morocco extra, a fine copy, 1850, 15s. Under Dickens is Ward's ' Memoir,' illustrated with 50 portraits of Dickens and his contem- poraries, and six autograph letters from Albert Smith, Forster, and others, calf extra, 1882, 31. 3s. Under Heraldry is Sylvanus Morgan's 4 Treatise of Honor and Honorable Men,' the Author's unpublished manuscript, 170 pages, with drawings of coats of arms (inserted is the title-page of ' The Sphere of Gentry,' containing the Author's portrait), 1642, 11. 10s. Under Roxburghe Club is a volume containing Dibdin's ' Song to be sung at Roxburger's Hall,' ' Diary of Roger Payne,' &c., with a collection of 200 illus- trations, royal 8vo, half-russia, 21. 12s. Among miscellaneous books are works under Ballads and Bibliography. Under Calderon is MacCarthy's translation of three dramas of Calderon, 1870, II. Is. There is a rare and curious book under Drinking : ' A Warning-Piece to all Drunkards and Health-drinkers,' full of accounts of the untimely end of persons alleged to have been killed by drink, 1682, 21. 2s. A fine large copy of Fletcher's ' Rule a Wife and Have a Wife,' first edition, small 4to, half-morocco, Oxford, Leonard Lichfield, 1640, is SI. 10s. ; the first edition of ' The Egoist,' 3 vols., original cloth, library ticket removed from covers, 1879, 21. 10s. ; and a rare copy of Boccaccio's ' De Prseclaris Mulie- ribus,' 1475, crimson morocco, 221.
Mr. John Hitchman's Birmingham Christmas Catalogue contains the Autograph Edition of Ruskin, 8 vols., full morocco extra, 9Z. 9s. ; Lucas's edition of Charles Lamb, 8 vols., half- levant, 4Z. 12s. Qd. ; J. M. Barrie's Novels, Author's Edition, 10 vols., 21. 5s. ; Catlin's ' North American Indians,' 2 vols., 21. 10s. ; Scharf and Cust's ' Mary, Queen of Scots,' 11. 5s. ; \Vyon's ' Great Seals of England,' folio, 21. 8s. ; Thackeray's Novels, 7 vols., first editions (except ' Vanity Fair,' which is the second issue of the first), half -levant, 51. 5s. ; and the first edition, in the original wrapper, of Swinburne's ' Ode on the Proclamation of the French Republic,' 1870, 15s.
Mr. Hitchman has also a short list (No. 500) of a few interesting books at reduced prices, including Burton's ' Arabian Nights,' the Cen- tenary Edition of Carlyle, Bradshaw Society Publications, St. John Hope's ' Order of the Garter,' &c.
Mr. Sutton's Manchester Catalogue 173 contains
Ainsworth's ' Windsor Castle,' ' Old St. Paul's,'
and ' The Miser's Daughter,' the 3 vols. as new,
1844-8, 15Z. 15s.; black-letter editions of
Foxe's works '; the Library Edition of Froude's
' History,' 12 vols., cloth, uncut, 1856-70, 4Z. 4s. ;
a set of Lever's novels, original illustrations,
16 vols., .half -calf, 8Z. 8s. ; Staunton's edition of
Shakespeare with Gilbert's illustrations, 3 vols.,
1858, 11. Is.; and Smith's ' Dictionary of Greek
and Roman Biography,' 3 vols., 1850, 12s. Under
Cruikshankiana is a collection of 81 plates,
folio, original boards, McLean, 11. 10s. There
are nearly 300 items devoted to Irish Topography
and Literature.
Mr. T. Thorp's Catalogxie 41 contains a collec- tion of Mrs. Inchbald's Manuscript Diaries, 10Z. 10s. Under Hogarth is a set of original drawings inserted in a copy of ' Tristram Shandy,' Vols. I. III., bound in one thick small 8vo volume, rough half -calf (date cut from title), about 1765. These seven drawings are executed, Mr. Thorp states, " in Hogarth's best style," price 105Z. Among the Addenda will be found under Hogarth an atlas folio, half -calf, containing 79 plates, fine early impressions, 1738-90, 8Z. 10s. Under America are some early maps. There are many juvenile books, ranging from 1760 ; and there is a list of book-plates recently purchased. Works under London include an extra-illustrated copy of Brayley, the 4 vols. extended to 10, 1816, 7Z. 10s. ; and a ' Register of Admissions to Gray's Inn,' 1521-1889, with Register of Mar- riages 1695-1754,' by Joseph Foster, privately printed, 1889, 12s. Qd. Among speeches are those of Sir Robert Peel, with explanatory index, 4 vols., 1853, 2Z. 10s. Under Wordsworth is Moxon's edition, 6 vols., original cloth, uncut, 1841, 1Z. 16s.
Mr. Thorp issues from Guildford Catalogue 20, which contains works on Zoology, Botany, Astronomy, and Physics.
[Reviews of other Catalogues held over.]
THE REV. JOHN PICKFORD. We are sorry to
notice the death on December 30th of the Rev.
John Pickford, Rector of Newbourne, Suffolk, at
the age of 80. He was one of the steadiest corre-
spondents to our columns, and kept up to the last
a vivid interest in history, antiquities of all sorts,
his Oxford friends, and the classics. He wrote a
'Life of Thomas Percy, Bishop of Dromore.' At
10 S. xii. 376 he pointed out that his first communi-
cation to us appeared as long ago as 19 July, 1856,
in the Second Series.
ON all communications must be written the name
and address of the sender, not necessarily for pub-
lication, but as a guarantee of good faith.
WE cannot undertake to answer queries privately, nor can we advise correspondents as to the value of old books and other objects or as to the means of disposing of them.
CORRIGENDUM. A nte, p. 16, col. 2, 1. 19, for ' gaujah " read yanjah.
R. B R (" Jookery-parkery "). See 10 S. iv. 87, fifi, 232. and the articles on hocus-pocus in the N.E.D.'
