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NOTES AND QUERIES. [n s. m. JAN. 21, 1911.
BOOKSELLERS' CATALOGUES. JANUARY.
MR. BERTRAM DOBELL'S Catalogue 191 has lists under Angling and Astrology. Under Bacon are his ' Essays ' and ' Advancement of Learning,' 4to, calf, 1629, the two works bound in one, in fine condition, 61. 6s. Under Costume are 48*etchings of female costume, 1643-9, 11. 5s. Works under Drama include Joseph Knight's copy of Randall's ' Rival Managers,' with his book-plate and signature, 7s. Qd. Under James Hogg is the first edition of the first publication of the Ettrick Shepherd, Edinburgh, 1801, uncut, 11 12s. Under Thomas Hood are first editions. Under Juvenile is the Rev. E. Mangin's ' Stories for Short Students,' 1829, 3s. Qd. it contains a curious account of Shakespeare : " But with all this he had, as a writer, many great faults, for some of which he deserves to be despised or hated by the wise and good." Under Lytton is a rare item * Weeds and Wild Flowers,' not published, Paris 1826, 11. 10s. ; under Natural History are the privately printed works of Theo. Johnson ; and under Thomas Love Peacock are first editions. There is a list under Shakespeare. Shelley items include his ' Letters to Elizabeth Kitchener,' edited by Thomas Wise, first edition, .one of a very few on vellum, 2 vols,, privately rHntpd 1890, 4L 4s. Under Swinburne is the first edition of ' Poems and Ballads,' Moxon, 1866, A fine copy of the original issue, with the original title-page, SI. 8s. The first edition of ' Endymion,' .enclosed in crushed blue-morocco slip case, is Q51. ; and the first edition of ' The Newcomes,' 2 ! vols., in the original parts, Ql. 6s. There is a list of Foreign Books, chiefly French.
Mr J Jacobs's Catalogue 55 opens with souvenirs of Marion Crawford, being volumes from his library containing his autograph signa- ture and his book-plate. Other items include under Byron, bound in one volume, The Giaour, Iftia 'The Corsair,' 1814, and ' The Bride of Ahydos,' with the rare errata, 1813, OZ. 9s. Under Diamond Necklace Affair are ' Memoires jxisti- ficatifs de la Comtesse de Valois de la Motte, half-calf a Londres, 1788, 31. 3s. Books on London include Stow, black-letter, 1603 2* 2s. Other items are Phillips's ' New World of Words, 1671 11 ' ' Encyclopaedic Dictionary, 8 vols., 4to, half -morocco," 1902-4, 11. 15s. ; ' Harmsworth Encyclopaedia,' 8 vols., 4to, 11. 10s ; Michaelis s < AnJaent Marbles,' translated by Fennell, 1881 15s.; and Pickering's 'Spenser, 5 vols., half - ralf 1825 21 5s. Under New Testament is the first Spanish Protestant edition (by Cypriano de Valera), 1596, 21. 15s. (not represented at the Caxton Exhibition). There are many works under Music.
Mr. G. A. Poynder's Reading Catalogue 57 contains under Architecture an extra-illustrated .copy of Sharpe's ' Architecture of the Cistercians, 4to, morocco, 1874-6, 31. 3s. Under Botany are Curtis's Botanical Magazine, Vols. I.-XX. 1 10 vols., tree calf, 1803-4, 21. 12s Qd. ; and Paxton's Maqazine, 16 vols., half-morocco, 1840-48, 61. 15s. The general portion includes BryctN 'American Commonwealth,' Library Edition, 3 vols., 1888 3L 3s.; De Morgan s ' Budget of Paradoxes,' first edition 1872, 21 5s ; Fielding and Walton's ' English Lakes, large -paper, arge 4to, half -morocco, Ackermann, 1821,
4Z. 10s. ; and Barrington's ' Ireland,' 2 vols.,
imperial 4to, half green morocco, 1833, 21. 15s.
(this was officially suppressed). There are works
under Illustrations of the Sixties, Longevity, and
Occult. Under Music is Hill's ' Organs of the
Middle Ages,' 2 vols., imperial folio, cloth gilt,
tops uncut, 1883-91, 51. 10s. ; and under Milton
is Sir E. Brydges's edition with the Turner illus-
trations, 6 vols., half-morocco, 1835, 21. 2s.
[Notices of other Catalogues held over.]
NICOLAS MORY. We regret to record the death
on Thursday evening, the 12th inst., at Boulogne-
sur-Mer, of M. Nicolas Mory. It was to him we
owed the first notice of the valuable discoveries
made by M. Magne at Fontevrault, and at the
time of his death he and his eldest son were taking
steps to ascertain for us the origin of the copies
at the Crystal Palace of the effigies from the
Plantagenet tombs. M. Mory was fond of
antiquarian pursuits, had a good knowledge of
the classics, and delighted in quoting Horace.
He was a friend of Mariette, the French Egypt-
ologist, and was proud to point out the statue
of him close to his residence in the Boulevard
Mariette.
On the 26th of August, 1905, we had a note stating that Nicolas Alexandre Toussaint Mory, the grandfather of the subject of this notice, brought copies of the Treaty of Peace in 1815 to London, for publication in the English press. It had appeared in the Moniteur on the 26th of November, and within thirty-three hours Mory arrived in London with copies of it. The treaty appeared the following morning in all the London papers, where the French Ambassador read it for the first time. It was not until the same day that the official news was received at Calais.
M. Mory will be long mourned by a large circle of friends. He had that true courtesy of the heart which endears a man to all.
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