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NOTES AND QUERIES. cio* s. i. MAY 21,

Giunta, 1573, 121. 12s. Under Song-Books there is 'The Bottle Companions,' 1710, 51. 5s. Mr. Smith has been able to trace only one perfect copy besides this, and that is in the British Museum.

Messrs. W. H. Smith & Son's May catalogue is full of works in all branches of general literature, and has also some valuable new remainders.

Messrs. Sotherau's catalogue dated the 7th inst. opens with four fine early manuscripts on vellum. These are followed by a complete copy of the first Polyglot Bible, 6 vols. folio, 1514-17, 1251. Sir John Thorold's copy sold for 176?., Beresford Hope's, 1601., and the Sunderland, 195/. The 1679 edition of Beaumont and Fletcher is 101. 10s. ; a fine and uniform set of Bewick, 1797-1820, 11. 10s. ; also the memorial edition, limited to 750 copies, 61. 6s. ; Blake's ' Songs of Innocence ' (privately printed, 1876), 4?. 10s. ; Milman's 'History of Christianity,' 1840-54, Ql. 9s. (this copy belonged to Henry Buckle, and contains 110 pages of his MS. notes bound in) ; the rare first edition of Bunyan's ' Holy War,' 1682, 4. 10s. ; Claude le Lorrain, ' Liber Veritatis ' ; 300 prints by Richard Earlom in the collections of the Duke of Devonshire, the British Museum, &c., Boydell, 1777-1819, 81. 10s. : Dickens's ' Oliver Twist,' including the rare 'Fireside' plate, 1838, very scarce, 31. 3s. ; also 'Joseph Grimaldi,' 1838, 1'2l. 12s. ; one of the four sets, printed throughout on vellum, of the ' Dramatists of the Reformation,' large-paper size, 14 vols., 1872-9, 601. ; Griffiths's ' Paintings of Buddhist Cave Temples,' 11. 10s. ; several interesting items under Junius, including the first authorized edition (Henry Sampson Wood- fall, 1772). There is a choice copy of Lysons's ' Magna Britannia,' 1813 - 22, 601. ; a set of the Microscopical Society, 1853-92, 16/. 16s. : and a very fine copy of Motley's ' Historical Works,' first editions, very scarce. Not the least interesting item is a reprint of ' The Manners and Customs of the French,' being a facsimile of the rare edition published by Thomas Sotheran in 1815. When reviewing this book we mentioned that Mr. Henry Sotheran remembers hearing his father say of the illustrations, which are in the Rowlandson style, " that they were by one Benjamin Rotch, a Middle- sex magistrate/' and it was suggested " that the mystery may yet be threshed out in the pages of N. & Q.' "

Mr. Albert Sutton, of Manchester, has a selection from the library of Mr. Edward Hibbert. There is a copy of Grose and Astle's ' Antiquarian Reper- tory,' 1807-9, 81. 3s. ; Burton's 'Arabian Nights,' 12 vols., 81. 10s.; Britton and Brayley's 'England and Wales,' 1801-23, 31. 7s. 6d. ; and a fine set of the Powys-Land Club, 1868-98, 201. There are interest- ing works under Military, including Costume. There is an extra-illustrated copy of Dowden's ' Life of Shelley,' the two volumes being extended to four by the insertion of two hundred finely engraved portraits and views. Mr. Sutton has purchased the Manchester reprint of Dickens's ' Sunday under Three Heads,' and offers the 12mo edition for 6d. a copy and the small 4to at Is.

Mr. Thomas Thorp, of St. Martin's Lane, has, like Mr. Dobell, in his May catalogue a number of books from Mr. Henley's library ; also a valu- able collection of book-plates, 101. 10s.; 'Bent- ley's Miscellany,' 1837-61, 11. Is. ; a first edition of Miss Burney's 'Camilla,' 1796, 4:1. 10s. ; a collection of 19 vols. of ' Illustrated Books of the Sixties,'

<U. 17s. 6d. Under London, as well as under Ire- land, are many works to select from. Among the former we find a collection of 350 coats of arms of citizens, 17 ; Jesse's ' Literary and Historical Memorials,' first edition, 1847; 'Old London Song Sheets,' Seven Dials ; Stow's ' Survey,' John Forster's copy, with his book-plate. There is an uncut copy of Rawlinson's 'Oriental Monarchies,' 81. 15s., and a first edition of Carlyle's ' French Revolution,' 1837, 81. 8s. A large number of recent books are included at second-hand prices.

Recent purchases of Mr. George Winter, of Charing Cross Road, include a good general collec- tion of modern literature, and under Engravings is to be found an interesting selection of portraits and illustrations.

In the May catalogue of Messrs. Henry Young & Sons, of Liverpool, we find Moryson's ' Itinerary,' 1617, 11. Is. ; and Hanno, first edition, 1559, 11. 10s. Under Blake occur ' There is no Natural Religion, 1886, scarce,30s. ; Swinburne's 'Critical Essay,' 1868, also scarce, 21. 2s. ; Gilchrist's ' Life,' and many others. There is a remarkable collection of old herbals, including Dodoens's, 1578, 181. 18s. This is the second English herbal published. The catalogue is rich in Rowlandsons and Cruikshanks. Under French engravings wefind Boccace, " Le Decameron, traduit par A. Le Ma9on," 211., 1757-61. Lady Dilke, in her work on the ' French Engravers of the Eighteenth Century,' justly styles it the "famous Boccaccio, enlivened with brilliant vignettes of delightful baby groups, who mimic every shade of human conduct." There is a large-paper copy of Houbraken and Vertue's ' Heads of Illustrious Persons,' 1747-51, 151. 15s. : also Granger's ' Bio- graphical History,' 1804-22, 9/. 9s. Under Mezzo- tints we find ' The Life and Works of John Raphael Smith,' 1902, 311. 10s. ; only 350 sets were issued. Under Napoleon there is much of interest ; and Messrs. Young include their usual bargains to book collectors.

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