NOTES AND QUERIES. ai u. vi. NOV. 23. 1912.
Jortance? makes it delightful reading.
BOOKSELLERS' CATAMGUKS. NOVEMBER.
FRANCIS EDWARDS sends us a Catalogue of on London and its Neighbourhood which
ounty of
County oi
folio, datin
h are O g ere
rth'S"' l l feet Views" of London,' 1816, and Pv' History of the Royal Residences,' 3 vols., 19. Dallaway and Carpenter's History of the Western Division of Sussex, in 3 vols., large number of ! original water-
of Arts Literature, Commerce,
Fashions, and
m 109 -28
by
original edition, having the
Ser the management of John ,
folio leaves of vellum, lettered L. L F. on back, 50Z The period includes the production of The ' Opera,' which was given for the first 29 Jan 1727, when the account-book
of Shakespeare's plays appear among many
others in these accounts.
MR. FRANCIS EDWARDS'S Catalogue No. 316 also contains a large number of good ^ items of which we may mention a complete and unabridged set of the Philosophical Transaction* of the Royal Society from 1665 to 1906, .for which 2001. is asked- Valpy's Delphin edition of the Latin Classics the whole 162 vols., 1825, 301. \ i and a coXlete set, from 1830 to 1911, of the Proceed- ings of the Zoological Society, 70Z.
MESSRS M\GGS'S Catalogue 297 is as full as ever of 1 tSSttnr items-once more Portrait. Deco-
T aureate '^2 July, 1871, 18Z. 18s.: "Spy's"
Wagner-' The Music of the Future '-10 May,
1877 35? ; and 'The Diogenes of the Modern
Corinthians without his Tub ' being Apes
caricature of Carlyle, 22 Oct., 1870, 271. *
Among the more important engraved portraita
may be mentioned Cousins's mezzotint aft
Lawrence's ' Lady Acland,' a copy signed by tM
engraver, with the additional inscription M
firft plate S. Cousins," 1826, 150 guineas. Then
are two portraits of Mrs. SUUqM, ttw J
interesting being a mezzotint of J . K. u ^ _
after the portrait Lawrence painted of 1
he was 13, 1783, 35*. Another example of
Smithes work, for which 1061. is asked, is th,-
en-ravin- after Appiani's portrait of Napoleon
fnSh Napoleon, with the bridge of .Creole behind
him, confronts a winged female fig^ewho
inscribing something on a shield a P^J^gJ
which might serve to iUustrate ]ust how fai
brilliant technique may be said to redeem >
hopelessness of utter frigidity in conception (IE
Nearly the same might be said save for t
charm of the figure-of Val Green's engraving of
Reynolds's ' Lady Talbot,' 1782, 150J. Hoppnt
' Mrs. Jordan as Hypohta,' engraved by Jones is
offered for 14Z. 14s. (1791), and a pair of Baito
- after Reynolds' Lady Harrington and h.
en' and 'Lady Smith and her Children
j for 50 guineas. 401. is in each case the
asked for Smith's mezzotint after Romney a j
.urs. Carwardine and Child ' (1781), and Cousins , s
engraving of Lawrence's 'Lady Gower and h
Daughter' (1832). Lawrences pretty Lad}
Blessington '-again engraved by Cousins 1
mav be had for 91. 9s. A more important woi
of which the price is 115Z. 10s., is the portrait
Peters of Lady Elizabeth Compton, engraved I
JR. Smith, 1780. Among the engravings
decorative subjects are six or seven Bartolos
the best of which is after Angelica Kauffman
' Venus attired by the Graces,' 1784, 45Z. Therj
are four after Morland among them ^
' The Shepherds,' printed in colour, 1 08, 1
gx^neaSs well'as P a set of five sporting pates
some of which are after his work, 1790, 52*. Ids.
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