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duction of his writing." Perhaps some reader of ' N. & Q.' will be able to help him. The price of the book is 61. 10s.

There are items under Rome, Venice, &c. Mr. Barnard gives valuable notes to each, and evidently bestows much time and pains in pro- ducing his catalogues, which always contain rarities. This one has seven full-page illustra- tions.

Mr. Bertram Dobell opens his Catalogue 169 with a few of his purchases from the library of the late Lord Amherst. We note two. Brant's ' Ship of Fools,' a perfect copy^ 1570, is 28Z. This example contains Barclay's ' Mirror of Good Manners ' and ' The Egloges,' which are frequently missing. A manuscript on vellum, a codex of the Epistolse of S. Hieronymus, circa 1400, has a painted initial miniature of the saint in a cave, dictating his epistles to a pupil, and many beautiful illuminated initials, large folio, morocco extra by Bedford, 251. A Second Folio Shake- speare wants last leaf, 1632, 551. ; and there is an important volume of Restoration poems in manuscript, containing ballads, songs, satires, lampoons, epitaphs, &c., written in the time of Charles II. There are 106 pieces, and Mr. Dobell believes that 65 of these have never been printed, as he has made diligent search through the lite- rature of the period, but failed to discover them. Would that our old contributor Ebsworth were here to tell us I The volume is in contemporary binding, with a ducal coronet on the sides, 40Z. The general portion of the Catalogue contains first editions of Matthew Arnold, and the first edition of ' English Bards and Scotch Reviewers,' Cawthorn, 1809, II. Is. Drama includes Terry's ' Theatrical Gallery,' 1825, 1Z. Is., and the ' Galerio Theatrale,' 76 full-length portraits of French actors and actresses, 1818-20, 31. 3s. Other items include Fuller's ' Worthies,' first edition, folio, 1662, 4Z. 4s. ; Huth's ' Fugitive Tracts," 2 vols., 51. 5s. ; Stow's ' London,' black- letter, 1618, 21. 5. ; Hayley's ' Life of Romney," 1809, 51. 15s. ; and first edition of Rossetti s poems, 1870, SI. 12s. First editions of Swinburne include the extremely rare ' Atalanta in Calydon,' Ql. 6s. There are bound volumes of modern pamphlets at prices varying from 3s. Many of these are of great interest : political, folk-lore, drama, trials, F. W. Newman, Shakespeare, &c. Those with a taste, like the Shah of Persia, for collecting London posters are offered some interesting series.

Mr. Alexander W. Macphail of Edinburgh has in his List XCVI. much relating .to Scotland, including a set of the Acts of the Parliament of Scotland, 1124-1707, edited by Thomson, with index by Dickson, 13 vols., folio, 1814-75, 91. 10s. ; and the Scottish History Society's publications, 48 vols., 201. There is a list under Art, and much of interest under Burns, including an oil painting of his cottage, 12 In. by 8 in., in gold frame, 31. 3s. ; and a water-colour of Fergusson's tomb, erected by Burns in 1786, 1Z. Is. ' Hood in Scot- land,' published at Dundee in 1885, gives reminis- cences of him during his life in Forfarshire as a young man, 3s. 6d. Under Charles Lamb is ' The Chimney-Sweeper's Friend and Climbing Boys' Annual,' supposed to have been partly edited by Lamb, 1824, 10s. 6d. ; and under Shake- speriana the first edition of Dodd's ' Beauties, ' 2 vols., calf, 1752, 10s. 6d.

Mr. W. M. Murphy's Liverpool Catalogue 421 contains the Transactions of the Society of Biblical Archaeology, 1872-1902, 14Z. ; and the Herleian Society, 1886-1901, 13Z. 13s. Under De Foe is a rare collection of pamphlets bound in one volume, 17. Is. Under Dryden is the Library Edition, with Life by Scott, 18 vols., calf, Edin- burgh, 1821, 6Z. ; and under Pope are some rare anonymous pamphlets, including the first edition of ' The Temple of Fame,' in one volume, 1719-21, 31. 3s. Among art books we find Wedmore's ' Turner and Ruskin,' 2 vols., imperial 4to, 31. 18s. ; and Wright 3 ' Gallery of Engravings,' 3 vols., 4to, morocco extra, 1844-6, 18s. Under Costume is the scarce first edition of Chery and Alix's ' Recherches sur les Costumes et sur les Theatres de toutes les Nations,' 54 exquisitely coloured plates, 2 vols., in 1, 4to, red morocco, Paris, 1790, 81. 8s. There is a handsomely bound copy, tree calf extra, of Froude's ' England," 12 vols. 7Z. The Edition de Luxe of Kipling 19 vols., cloth, Scribner, 1899-1903, is 8Z. 8s.

Mr. A. Russell Smith's Catalogue 65 is devoted to Engraved Portraits, most of them at low prices, an interesting and varied collection. We note " Ingoldsby," Beethoven, Bartolozzi, and Wilson Barrett as Claudian. A fine impression of Colley Cibber is 3Z. 3s. ; and ' Grimaldi's Drolleries," a coloured lithograph with the face allowing for 27 different portraits, and capable of nearly 200 changes, small folio, 15s. Other items are Dickens with autograph ; Sam House, the patriotic publican of Soho, supporter of Wilkes and Fox ; Fanny Kemble, Edmund Kean, Ben Jonson, Macaulay with autograph, Milton when a boy, Old Parr, Walter Scott with dog (apparently a private contemporary etching, 1817), and prints of Washington, including inter 1 - view with his mother when he was about to become a midshipman, and his monument at Baltimore. Poets include Wordsworth, Tenny- son, Cowper, and Moore. Among royal per- sonages are Mary, Queen of Scots ; the wife of William III ; the Charleses ; the Henrys ; the Georges, and many of the French kings. [Notices of several other Catalogues are held over.]

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