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rare first edition of ' Fears in Solitude,' morocco, by Riviere, 4to, 1798, 151. ; under Chatterton, a large-paper copy of the 1794 edition of the Rowley poems, 4Z. 10s. ; and under Chaucer the 1602 edition, QL The Dickens Edition de Luxe, 1881-2, is 151. Goldsmith items include first editions of ' The Good-Natur'd Man ' and ' She Stoops to Conquer,' 1768-73, 2 vols., red morocco by Zaehnsdorf, 351. ; also ' The Haunch pf Venison,' half-calf, 1776, 31. 3s. Other first editions are Keats's ' Endymion,' morocco, 1818, 181. 18s. ; and ' Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St. Agnes, and other Poems,' original boards, uncut, 1820, 501. Under Shelley are also choice items, including first editions of ' St. Irvyne ' and ' Zastrozzi,' 1810-11, 60L ; ' Queen Mab,' original boards, 1813, 161. 16s. ; 'The Cenci,' original boards, 1819, 851. ; another copy, morocco by Zaehnsdorf, 651. ; and ' Prometheus Unbound, ' 1820, 331. A collection of first editions of Swin- burne, 39 vols., is 33Z. ; ' The Queen Mother,' Pickering's imprint, 40Z. ; and first edition of ' Laus Veneris,' 181. 18s. There are a number of works under Biography.

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