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BOOKSELLERS' CATALOGUES. NOVEMBER.
MESSRS. GOAD of Bath have just issued two of their Shilling Clearance Lists. These are marked Al and A2, and contain over 1,000 entries.
Messrs. Higham's Catalogue 504 is, as usual, principally devoted to theology and kindred subjects. We may mention a complete set of The Church Quarterly Review, October, 1875, to October, 1911, 6Z. 15s. ; Hurrell Froude's ' Re- mains,' edited by Keble and Newman, 4 vols., 1838-9, 11. 15s. ; Haddan and Stubbs's ' Councils and Ecclesiastical Documents relating to Great Britain and Ireland,' 3 vols. in 4, 1869-71, 3Z. 3s. ; Hastings's ' Dictionary of the Bible,' 5 vols., 1906, 4Z. 4s. ; The Hibbert Journal, Nos. 1-32, 21. ; a manuscript collection of 360 Hymns and 11 Doxologies, in the writing of Sir Richard Hill of Hawkstone Park, 3Z. 3s. ; and 4 Tracts for the Times,' 6 vols., 1840-41, II 5s.
Mr. J. Jacobs has in his Catalogue 59 a number of tracts by Swift, including first editions of the first three Drapier Letters. Under Dublin also will be found a collection of rare tracts printed there. Other entries comprise Barbier's ' Dic- tionnaire des Ouvrages Anonymes et Pseu- donymes,' first edition, 4 vols., 1806, 21. 2s. ; 64 early numbers of The Calcutta Review, 61. 6s. ; Crocker's ' English Dictionary,' edited by Haw- kins, 1724, 1Z. 5s. ; Hamilton's ' Grammont,' first English edition, 1714, 21. 2s. ; ' Monnaies inconnues des Eveques des Innocens,' &c., first edition, 46 plates, 1837, 11. 5s. ; the first edition of the ' De Natura Hominis ' of Nemesius, and the first complete edition of Cleander, bound in one volume, 1565-6, 11. 5s. ; Ozell's translation of Brantome, 1744, 11. 5s. ; and Rodkinson's translation of the Babylonian Talmud, second edition, 20 vols. in 10, 61. 6s.
Messrs. Lupton Brothers of Burnley send their Catalogue 115, which is arranged in three sections, viz., General Literature, Natural History Science, and Poetry and Drama. Under General Lite- rature are many choice books, such as Smith's ' Catalogue Raisonne,' 9 vols., 1908, 2Z. 10s. ; Nicolas's ' Knighthood,' containing 22 Baxter prints, 4 vols., 8Z. 8s. ; the illustrated Library Edition of Dickens, 30 vols., three-quarters levant morocco, gilt tops, 14L 14s. ; the Library Edition of George Eliot, calf, gilt tops, 9Z. ; the eleventh edition of ' The Encyclopaedia Britannica,' on India paper, 28 vols., flexible sheepskin, 24Z. ; ' The Historians' History of the World,' with bookcase, 25 vols., 11. 10s. (Times price 25L) ; and the scarce first edition of Jesse's ' Pretenders,' 2 vols., 21. 15s. A set of the Transactions of the Federated Institution of Mining Engineers, 18 vols., is priced 9Z. ; a set of Pater's Works, 4Z. 10s. ; the Library Edition of Ruskin's Works, 38 vols., 25Z. ; and the original Library Edition of Scott, extra-illustrated, 25 vols., three-quarter morocco, gilt tops, 12Z. 12s.
The Natural Science section is divided into 14 headings to facilitate reference. Under Poetry and Drama are Gilfillan's ' Poets,' 48 vols., half- morocco, 4Z. ; Johnson's ' English Poets,' 68 vols., 2Z. 5s. ; and the black-letter edition of Chaucer, 1602, 4Z. 4s.
Mr. W. M. Murphy of Liverpool has several important books in his Catalogue 169. We may mention Audubon and Bachrnan's ' Quadrupeds
of North America,' 3 vols., coloured plates,
1851-4, 13Z. 13s. ; Journal of the Asiatic Society,
1897-1909, 17 vols., 6Z. 10s.; Buller's 'Birds of
New Zealand,' hand-coloured plates, 1873,
5Z. 5s. ; the Illustrated Edition of Dickens, 30
vols., 4Z. 15s. ; Westwood's ' Palaeographia Sacra
Pictoria ' 50 plates, 1863-5, 11. ; Bing's ' Artistic
Japan,' 6 vols. in 3, coloured plates, 1888-91,
5Z. 5s. ; Audsley and Bowes's ' Keramic Art of
Japan,' 2 vols., coloured plates, 1875, 5Z. 10s. ;
Repton's ' Landscape Gardening,' 26 plates, 1794,
11. ; Christopher St. Germain's ' Dyaloges be-
tweene a Doctour of Divinitie and a Student in
the Lawes of Englande,' black-letter, 1554, 5Z. ;
and the first edition of ' Peregrine Pickle,' 4 vols.,
1751, 5Z. 5s.
Messrs. Rimell's Catalogue 227 includes La Fontaine, ' Contes et Nouvelles,' Fermiers Gene- raux edition, 2 vols., beautifully illustrated, Amsterdam, 1762, 50Z. ; Kentish Tracts of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, 31 bound in 1 vol., 21Z. ; Pine's Horace, 2 vols., 1733, 15Z. ; Bacon's ' Advancement of Learning,' first edition, 1605, 14Z. 14s. ; a series of Leigh Hunt's Works, 24 vols., nearly all first editions, 8Z. 8s. ; J. H. Jesse's Works, 17 vols., all first editions, 21Z. ; and Wordsworth and Coleridge's ' Lyrical Ballads,' 3 vols., 1798-1800, 7Z. 17s. 6d. Among extra- illustrated theatrical Lives are those of Bannister, 2 vols., HZ. 11s. ; Elliston, 2 vols., 12Z. 12s. ; Kemble, 2 vols., 12Z. 12s. ; and Macready, 2 vols., 8Z. 8s. There is also a long series of books illus- trated by Cruikshank.
THE news that Mr. Aleyn Lyell Reade is pub- lishing a new instalment of his ' Johnsonian Gleanings ' is very Welcome. His address is Park Corner, Blundellsands, near Liverpool, and all good Johnsonians should become subscribers to work Which is at once fresh and careful. ' Francis Barber, the Doctor's Negro Servant,' is the subject of the new part, in which Mr. Reade will follow the career of him and his family, and afford some interesting side-lights on Johnson.
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L. E. M. (" ' Universal British Directory of Trade and Commerce ' : Webb, London Watch- maker "). Try the Guildhall Library, which has a large collection of Directories ; also F. J. Britten's ' Old Clocks and Watches and their Makers,' of which an enlarged edition appeared last June.
