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NOTES AND QUERIES. [io s. XL JUNE 19, im

cited by Holofernes (' love's Labour's Lost ' IV. ii. 95), and the quotation " Semel insanivimus omnes " which long baffled the research of Dr. Johnson.

Prof. Watson might fairly have reminded his readers that the obsolete ""Glomery," of which C'heke was the last master, an office investing him with authority over degrees in grammar, is the same word which still survives in " glamour " (" glamourye," " gramarye "). He apparently makes the frequent mistake of understanding ' manners " in Wykeham's often quoted maxim in its modern sense of courtesy and civility, instead of morality (p. 98). " Udell " (p. 315) should be added to the errata.

BOOKSELLERS' CATALOGUES. JUNE. MB. CHARLES J. SAWYER'S third part of his fourteenth list contains his latest purchases, and opens with a complete set of Sharpe's rare and beautiful edition of the poets, with the portraits .(usually wanting), 100 vols., full calf gilt, 1822, 321. 10s. Mr. Sawyer tells us that, owing to so many sets going to America, it is a matter of rgreat difficulty to procure a set in Europe. There Is a fine tall copy of Parkinson's ' Paradisi in Sole Paradisus Terrestris,' first edition, 1629, 221. ; .and a large clean copy of ' The Secretes of the Reverend Maister Alexis, of Piemont,' 131. 13s. Under Alken is ' The Life of a Sportsman,' by Nimrod, Ackermann, 1842, 181. 18s. ; and under Matthew Arnold the rare first edition of ' The J3trayed Reveller,' in original cloth, 1849, 31. 12s. 6d. There is a fine collection of art works. Under Coloured are La Fontaine, 2 vols., crimson morocco, 1814, 12Z. 12s. ; and the first issue of the twelve parts of ' The Looking-Glass ' for 1830, half-morocco, 4Z. 4s. Under Cruikshank is Byron's ' Don Juan," Cantos I. to V., 1821, 91. 9s. ; and under Shake- rfipeare, Isaac Reed's edition, 12 vols., full calf, 1823, 51. 5s. American items include a beautiful miniature of Washington, II. 10s. Under Napoleon IB also a miniature similar to one in the Wallace Collection, 11. 10s. There are a number of works of the Elzevir Press.

Messrs. Sherratt & Hughes's Manchester Cata" Jogue 3 contains two special offers : Marlowe, edited by Havelock Ellis, with introduction by John Addington Symonds, thick royal 8vo, Is. Qd. (only 250 printed) ; and Davenport's ' Mezzo- 'tints,' 40 plates in photogravure, 31. 3s. There are works under Africa and America. Under Boccaccio is Payne's translation of the ' Deca- meron,' with the 22 plates specially designed for this edition, 2 vols., 51. 5s. (only 174 copies printed). Other items are Hill Burton's ' Scot- land,' 7 vols., 31. 3s. ; ' Cowper's Correspondence," edited by Wright, 4 vols., 11. 5s. ; Cruikshank's ' Omnibus,' Tilt, 1842, 16s. ; Freeman's ' Norman Conquest,' 6 vols., 61. ; his ' History of Sicily,' 4 vols., 31. 3s. ; and Walpole's ' George II.,' .3 vols., Colburn, 1847, 11. 2s. Qd. Under Planch^ is his ' Cyclopaedia of Costume,' 2 vols., 61. 6s. ; under Ruskin, a collection of first and early editions, together 8 vols., imp. 8vo, 1856-74, 131. 13s. ; and under Caldecott is a complete collection of his songs and pictures, 2 vols., large paper, 4Z. There are many works relating to Yorkshire ; and under Lancashire there are .more than eighty items. The Catalogue closes

with a number of books containing the delightful illustrations of the sixties ; these are mostly offered at low prices.

Mr. Albert Sutton's Manchester List 168 contains under Ainsworth ' The Tower of London ' and ' Windsor Castle,' 2 vols., 1840-44, 4Z. ; also the first edition of ' The Lancashire Witches,' 3 vols., 11. 10s. A set of the Badminton Library, 12 vols., large paper, is 61. 6s. ; and Borlase's ' Dolmens of Ireland,' 3 vols., 21. 15s. Under Cruikshank is a copy of Pierce Egan, half- morocco, 1821, 61. 6s. There are a number of works of the Elzevir Press, and also under Erasmus. Under John Addington Symonds will be found his ' Shakespeare's Pre- decessors in the English Drama,' first edition, 1884, 31. 10s. ; and ' In the Key of Blue,' 1893, 12s. Qd.

Messrs. Walford Brothers issue a Catalogue of Genealogical and Heraldic Books, comprising sections on Family Histories, Visitations, Parish Registers, Wills, Borough and County Records, Peerage, Baronetage, Knighthood, and Society Publications. There are in all 1,460 items, so that the list is really valuable for reference. A set of the Visitations, Registers, &c., issued by the Harleian Society, in all 93 vols., is 561. ; of the Huguenot Society, 14Z. ; and of the Index Society, 1878-91, 15 vols., 21. 15s. There is an unusually complete copy of the notes on the Phillipps family issued from the Middle Hill Press, 1816-72, 151. Family histories include those of Archer, Alnwick, Bagshawe, Baird, Barclay, Bohun, Brisbane, Brodrick, Campbell, Clayton, Cole, Danvers, the English Emersons, Guelph, John Lea of England and Pennsylvania, Lindsay, Mackenzie, Menzies, Nevill, Taylor (originally Taylard), Watson, and Wentworth. Of American family histories there are over fifty. Heraldry includes a painting of the arms granted, to Prince Albert on his marriage to Queen Victoria, 3 ft. by 3 ft., framed, 31. 3s. Under Peerages is a collec- tion of 367 affidavits and 33 other documents relating to the Annesley peerage, 81. 8s. A handsome copy of Dugdale's ' Monasticon Angli- canum," 9 vols., large folio, full morocco extra by Clarke (one of 50 copies), 1817-30, is 40Z.

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