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trate the various works ; for instance, there are five editions of Burns placed under the names of the various illustrators ; but a complete index of authors is given at the end. We should advise Mr. Goodspeed to give the prices in his Catalogues issued for England in English money. There is an interesting note under Pendleton s Lithography, Boston Monthly Magazine,, Vol. I. No. 7, December, 1825, two copies, each with a different plate. These two lithographs are amongst the earliest specimens of the art as practised in Boston, and illustrate an article on the subject. In this the writer states : ' Nothing was done to bring lithography into this country until within a few months, when Mr. John Pendleton commenced an establishment for litho- graphy in this city. Perhaps a little before his return from France, a few attempts had been made in the city of New York, but they had not reached us, nor have they yet. Mr. Pendleton is a young gentleman of taste and talents, from the State of New York, who was on a visit to Paris, on business of an entirely different nature, and becoming pleased with lithography, put himself immediately under the first artists of France." With the infor- mation he obtained, and taking with him the proper materials, he went to Boston and engaged with his brother, a " copper - plate printer of established celebrity."

Messrs. W. N. Pitcher & Co.'s Manchester Catalogue 166 contains Holden's ' Architecture,' 2 vols., oblong folio, half-calf, 1861-fi, 31. 3s. ; 'The Century Dictionary,' 8 vols., thick folio, half- morocco, 51. 10s. ; Burke's ' Heraldic Illustra- tions,' 3 vols., imperial 8vo, half-morocco, 1844 6, 3Z. 3s. ; and an extra-illustrated copy of Thacke- ray's essay on Cruikshank, green levant by Morrell, 4:1. 15s. The second edition of ' Robinson Crusoe' and the first edition of ' The Farther Adventures,' 2 vols., 1719, mottled calf by Riviere, are 14Z. Grote's ' Greece,' 8 vols., tree calf by Riviere, is 4.1. 4s. ; Henderson's ' James I. and VI.,' Edition de Luxe, 2 vols., 61. 6s. ; Lever, illustrations by Phiz. 34 vols., cloth, 31. 3s. ; Montalembert's ' Reprints of British Dramatists,' 27 vols., 9Z. 10s. ; first edition of Valpy's ' Shakespeare," 15 vols., calf gilt, 1832, 41. 10s. ; and ' The Faerie Queene,' designs by Muckley, one of 30 copies, 81.
 * Monks of the West," 7 vols., 31. 3s. ; Pearson's

Mr. Charles F. Sawyer's Catalogue 11 is Part I. of Latest Purchases. The first item is a beautiful copy of the ' Nuremberg Chronicle ' ; it is tall and clean, and contains all the 2,250 woodcuts, fine impressions, bound by Riviere ; it is from the library of Josiah Vavasseur, and has his book-plate. Mr. Sawyer offers it for 45. ; a note on the fly-leaf states that it cost 65^. Other works include Bur- ton's ' Arabian Nights,' 17 vols., as new, 101. 10s. ; and the Leatherstocking Edition of Fenimore Cooper, 32 vols., 21. 18*. We note sets of the following : Defoe, 16 vols., art cloth, 41. 4s. ; De Quincey, 16 vols., half -calf, 31. 3s. ; George Eliot, 8 vols., half-morocco, Edition de Luxe, 21. 18s. 6d. ; Fielding, edited by Henley, 16 vols., original cloth, 4/. 17,s. 6d. ; Scott's Complete Works, 101 vols., three-quarter red levant, Cadell. 1831, 28 guineas ; Sterne, edited by Cross. 12 vols., buckram, 31. 10s. ; Thackeray, 26 vols., 121. 12s. ; and Victor Hugo, 10 vols., half -morocco, 31. 10*. A miniature book, ' The English Bijou Almanack for 1837,' poetically illustrated by L. E. L., has portraits of Queen Adelaide, Coleridge, Goethe, and others, and con-

tains four pages of music. The book measures f in. by i in., is enclosed in gilt leather case, 1837, 3/. 3-s. There is a selection of ancient and modern bindings.

Messrs. Henry Sotheran & Co.'s Price Current 690 is devoted to books on Political Economy, Social History, and Law, English and Foreign, and many authors of note on these subjects appear in its pages. The list under Bentham includes the scarce edition of his works edited by John Hill Burton, 11 vols., royal 8vo, calf, Edinburgh, 1843, 101. 10s. Under George Canning is Therry's edition of his speeches,

6 vols., calf, 1836, 31. 3s. ; and under Capt. Cook is his catalogue of the different specimens of cloth he collected in his voyages (it contains 56 actual specimens), 1787, 35Z. A collection of Corn Law Tracts, 1828-42, is priced a guinea. Under Sir F. M. Eden, described as the " Forerunner of Poor-Law Reform," is his ' State of the Poor,' 3 vols., 4to, 1797, 81. A collection of 145 letters from Leon Faucher, addressed to Henry Reeve from Paris, 1835-54, is 251. A collection relating to the general election of 1880 contains nearly 650 illustrations, and consists of ballads, broadsides, and caricatures and portraits of the Ministry. The whole is carefully mounted, forming 3 vols, imperial folio, 1 folio, and 3 post 8vo, together

7 vols., half -morocco, 211. ; under Gladstone is Sir John Gladstone's ' Mercator's Reply to Mr. Booth's Pamphlet on Free Trade,' Liverpool, 1833, 12s. 6d. The author anticipated disastrous results from the repeal of the Corn Laws. There is an early work of Halliwell-Phillipps, ' Some Account of a Collection of Bills, Accounts, and Inventories, illustrating the History of Prices 1650-1750,' privately printed, Brixton Hill, 1852, 11. 2s. 6d. Under John Howard are ' The State of the Prisons in England ' and ' The Principal Lazarettos in Europe,' 1777-89, 21. 2s. ; under Lord Overstone are collections of his tracts on Money, Commerce, &c. ; and under McCulloch, Mill, Adam Smith, and others are many items. A sound and uniform set of Hansard, 1806-1906, is priced 235Z. ; and a set of the Statistical Society, 1839-1908, 40Z.

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