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1814, panelled calf, 161. There is a collection of the magnificent works of G. B. and C. F. Piranesi, the celebrated engravers and architects, 19 vols., original set, 95?. The whole catalogue is rich in treasures.

Mr. William Glaisher's Catalogue 361 is devoted to Remainders. In addition to a general list of books at remarkably low prices, there is a long list of Medical Remainders.

Mr. John Grant of Edinburgh does not number his Catalogues, and we suggest that he should do so. His October list contains the reissue of the large edition of 'Holbein's Portraits,' carefully coloured after the originals (only 50 so printed), Edinburgh, 1884, 4?. 4-9.; and Morris's 'Seats of Great Britain and Ireland,' 7 vols., 4to (including

the original edition of Mrs. Gaskell's ' Life,' 1857,

under Occult Literature a complete set of Border- land, 1893-7, 4 vols., 4to, II. 18s. 6d. There are some curious old medical works. A set of Jerrold s Shilling Magazine, 5 vols., Punch Office, 1845-7, is priced 15s. Prof. Knight's edition of Wordsworth, 11 vols., is II. Us. 6d. There is a long list under Scotland ; and under Music is a very large collec- tion, vocal and instrumental, sacred and secular.

Mr. George P. Johnston of Edinburgh has in his Catalogue 87 some curious rare books. There is the first edition of James VI. on ' Dsemonologie,' 1597, small 4to, 151. This copy wants (like the one described in Dickson and Edmond, No. 236) the blank leaves A 6 and M 2. Under Mary, Queen of Scots, are several scarce books, including ' Histoire et Martyre de la Royne d'Escosse, dovairiere de France, proche heritiere de la Royne d'Angleterre,' Paris, 1589, 12mo, crushed French levant, 1$. ; and Puissante, & tres Vertueuse Princesse, Marie par la grace de Dieu Royne douairiere d'Escoce,' Paris, 1561, 71. There is a list under Fictitious Scottish Imprints.
 * Oraison Fvnebre es Obseqves de tres Haute, tres

Mr. Robert McCaskie's Catalogue 30 contains a number of Rowlandson's plates from ' The Micro- cosm,' 1808, original impressions ; also miscellaneous etchings and caricatures by him. Under Historical Portraits are a number engraved by Houbraken, each embellished with emblematical ornament by Gravelot, original impressions. There is also a good general list, in which we note Tallin's ' London Street Views,' many of the buildings having tablets with the tradesmen's addresses of the late forties, II. 18s. 6d.

Messrs. Myers & Co. send us two Catalogues, 135 and 136. The former contains recent purchases. We note Burgmair's * Le Triomphe de rEmpereur Maximilian I.,' containing 135 engravings on wood (only a few copies of this rare work were struck off, for fear of destroying the original blocks, which are

E reserved in the Imperial Library at Vienna), folio, alf-russia, a fine copy, 14Z. 14s. A collection of Bunbury and Rowlandson's caricatures, made by Algernon F. Greville, private secretary to the Duke of Wellington, is 15/. 15s. ; and a collection oJ caricatures of Pitt and Fox, 131. 13s. The illustrated Library Edition of Dickens, 30 vols., half-calf, is

131. ; Dodsley's 'Old English Plays,' 15 vols., 11. 15-s. ; first editions of ' The Greville Journals, 7 3?. 12s. Qd. ; a copy of the original subscribers' Picturesque Works,' 19 vols., large 4to, 1781-1811, [81. 15s. ; Orme's ' Military and Naval Anecdotes/ [to, original half-morocco, uncut, 1815, 91. 10s. ; and a fine set of Hook's ' Archbishops of Canterbury,' 12 vols., tree calf, 61. Loggan's 'Oxonia Depicta/ 40 splendid views, folio, 1675, is III. 5s. In an album of drawings (in all about 60) by Corbould and others are four by Phiz which are supposed to be unpublished, 14:1. 10s. There is a play by the father of our old contributor Ebsworth, 'The Two- Prisoners of Lyons,' with the rare portrait of Mr.. Baker as Bertrand inserted, "For the Author," 1824, 10s.
 * hick-paper edition of Grose's 'Antiquarian and

Catalogue 136 is devoted to Engravings, Portraits,. ,nd Autograph Letters.

Messrs. James Rimell & Son's Catalogue 213 is- rich in books with coloured plates. Under Alken we ind'Lifeof a Sportsman,' 1824, 211. ; and 'John Mytton,' 1851, 11. Is. Under Cruikshank are 'Life in London,' 1821, 14Z. 14s. ; ' Life in Paris,' 1822, 91. 9s.; and 'The English Spy,' 1825, 23/. The Rowlandsons include 'The Vicar of Wakefield,' 1817, 10/. 15s.; and 'Volunteers,' 1798, 26/. 10s. Most of these are sumptuously bound in full morocco. Under Wordsworth is a presentation copy of ' The Excursion' to Talfourd, Moxon, 1836, 10Z. A curious work, Heywood's ' History of Women,' in- cludes a long account about witches, 1657, 31. 3s_ Under Walpole is a collection of 18 vols., including Cunningham's edition of the ' Letters,' 151. Other items comprise Shelley, Buxtoii Forman's edition, 8 vols., WL 18s.; Scott's 'Familiar Letters,' extra- illustrated, 51. 15s.; Omar Khayyam, Essex Press, II. 13s. (limited to 88 copies), Julia Pardoe's His- torical Works, 11. 7s. ; and Manning and Bray's; folio, 1804, 351. There are interesting items under Chaucer, Coleridge, Court Memoirs, &c.
 * County of Surrey,' extra-illustrated, 3 stout vols.,

Messrs. Henry Sotheran & Go. devote No. 686 of their Price Current to Books in Theology, Anglican,. Roman, and Protestant, both English and Foreign. The first item is the Ashburnham copy of the-- ' London Polyglott,' 1657-69, 351. The rare second! edition of the Coverdale Bible is 251. ; a set of ' The Library of Anglo-Catholic Theology,' 88 vols., cloth, 51. ; Dr. Copinger's ' Bible and its Transmission/ folio (only 220 copies printed), 1897, 21. 15s.; and Daniel's ' Thesaurus Hymnologicus,' 51. 5s. (" The most important collection of the ancient ritual song, of the Church ever published.") Under Dollinger is ' The Gentile and the Jew,' 2 vols, II.; and under Foxe the very rare first English edition, John Daye, 1563, 311. 10s. (no perfect copy is known : " taken as- a whole, the present is a fair and sound copy "). Mrs. Jameson s ' Legends of the Madonna,' ' Mo- nastic Orders,' 'Sacred and Legendary Art,' and' 'History of our Lord,' together 6 vols., first editions, are 01. 6s. ; and Lewes's ' Problems of Life,' 5 vols., 21. 5s. A list under Newman in- cludes a set of his Works, 35 vols., half-morocco, 1870-84, 4. 4s.; and the first edition of ' Apologia,' 10s. Qd. There are also lists under Pusey, Farrar, Stanley, &c. A complete set of the Huguenot Society's Publications, 1885-1907, is 13/. 13s.; a Hebrew manuscript, ' Sefer Jorah,' or scroll of the Law, eighteenth century, 1QL 10s.; and a book of ' Heures,' illuminated on vellum, circa 1516, 42.