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BOOKSELLERS' CATALOGUES. MAY.
MESSRS. J. & J. LEIQHTON send Part XV.. D-Dy, of their Catalogue of Early Printed and other Interesting Books. There are many rare editions of Dante, including the first edition with the com- mentary of Benrenuto d'Imola, 1477 ; first edition with the commentary of Landino, 1481 ; the rare Florence edition of 1506, with its beauti- ful Florentine cut ; and a fine large copy of the 1544 edition. There are also the seven illustra- tions by Blake, India proof plates, oblong folio, 1827, 20 guineas. It was at Linnell's suggestion Blake made these drawings. There are rare items under Datus, Sir John "Davies, and Decretals. A tall copy of the rare first English translation of Euclid, 1570, is 10Z. In this Dee's learned
- eface occupies 50 pages. Other items under
r. Dee include a copy of Aquinas, Paris, 1519, with his autograph, 181. Under De Foe are first editions ; and under Demosthenes is the first issue having the device of Aldus, 1504, besides .the first Latin edition printed in England, 1571. 'There are handsome copies of Dibdin's ' Anti- quities,' * Spenceriana,' and ' Picturesque Tour.' Under Distilling is a tall fine copy of Jer. Brun- schwyg, blue morocco, 1527, 45Z. Under Drama .one naturally turns first to Shakespeare. There is the extremely rare Hawkins Second Folio, A sound and tall copy, enclosed in case, 1632, 120Z. It bears the Hawkins imprint, and it is .believed that only three or four others are known with this. The Second Folio, with the imprint -" T. Cotes for J. Smethwick," 1632, is 180Z. Among other Shakespeare rarities is the doubtful play * A Yorkshire Tragedy,' 1619, 115Z. Other English dramatists represented are Ben Jonson, Beaumont and Fletcher, Goldsmith, and Massinger. The Greek and Roman dramatists include a copy of Euripides, Lyons, 1527, in the original French
Terence. The Catalogue is full of interesting
illustrations.
Mr. Alexander Macphail's Edinburgh Cata- logue 107 contains some old Bibles and Prayer Books, including a Latin Bible, 1495, with a curious portrait of St. Jerome translating the ^Scriptures, IL 10s. ; and a copy of John Knox's liturgy, 1615, 31. 15s. ' The Countess of Marres Arcadia,' with the title in facsimile, and pp. 417 to 440 supplied in MS., 12mo, choicely bound in red morocco, 1625, is 3Z. 3s. American items include ' The Parable of the Ten Virgins Opened,' by Thomas Shepard, the rare second edition for America, without name of printer or town, 1695, 21. 2s. There are works under Freemasonry, Glasgow, &c. A copy of Calvin's sermons, 1581-1604, is II. 8s. 6d. ; and an unopened copy -of Caw's ' Life and Works of Sir Henry Raeburn,' 59 full-page reproductions, royal 4to, 1901, 2Z. 10s. Among Stevensoniana is Col. Prideaux's
- Bibliography,' 12s. Qd. (only 100 copies printed).
There are a number of Trials, including that of Peltier for libel against Napoleon. A copy of Crabbe, with Westall's plates, fine condition, 5 vols., 1823, is II. 15s. ; Finden's ' Harbours,' 2 vols., 4to, red morocco, 15s. ; and Geikie's ' Etchings,' 11. 5s. A choice Jacobite engraving of Prince Charles entering Edinburgh is 21. 5s.
Among other pictures are ' Johnson rescuing
Goldsmith from his Landlady,' an oil painting of
the cottage where Burns was born, engraving of
old Leith pier, &c.
Mr. W. M. Murphy's Liverpool Catalogue 164 contains Paxton's Magazine of Botany, 16 vols., 1841-9, 81. 8s., and Harleian Society, 41 vols., 13Z. 13s., besides items under America, Archi- tecture, Art, Australia, Binding, Coloured Plates, Folk - lore, and Furniture. An illuminated copy of Froissart, 2 vols., royal 8yo, morocco, 1862, is 11. Is. ; and the first edition of the ' Greville Memoirs,' 8 vols., 31. 10s. Under Hieroglyphics is a very fine copy of Valerian from the library of Hugh F. Hornby, with book-plate, Lyon, 1615, 4Z. 4s. There are many entries under Ireland, also under Liverpool. An unopened copy of Croker's edition of Pope, 10 vols., is 21. 4s. ; and the 1807 reproduction of the Shakespeare First Folio, 3Z. 17s. Qd.
Messrs. Simmons & Waters of Leamington Spa send their Catalogue 255, devoted to Autographs. These include letters from Queen Adelaide, Harrison Ainsworth, John Bright (a letter of three pages, 16 June, 1862, on direct taxation), George Canning, Cobden (one letter, 28 November, 1859, ridicules the French invasion scare), Joseph Hume, Hunt the Radical, Wellington, and William IV. There is also one of the copies of ' The Merchant of Venice ' presented by Sir Henry Irving on the hundredth performance, 14 February, 1880, 4Z. 4s. This copy has the invitation to Mr. Payne, and in addition the page of the cast is signed by every member with three exceptions.
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N. BURCHER ("She never found fault with you, never implied"). From Mrs. E. B. Browning's poem
- My Kate.'
J. TuRRAL("One and all"). This motto is dis- cussed at 9 8. v. 148, 424 ; x. 168, 252, 290.
CORRIGENDUM. Ante, p 325, col. 2, 1. 7 from foot, for " Davis" read Devis.
