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 260 NOTES AND QUERIES, do* s. rv. SEPT. 23, ISKB. ' Dramatists of the Restoration,' 1872-9, 601. (one of four sets printed on vellum). Messrs. Sotheran .-•: ill have good copies of the Third and Fourth Folios; also a complete set to June, 1892, of Hansard. The latter is very scarce, and is marked At 21W. Mr. Albert Sntton, of Manchester, has a list •devoted to Voyages and Travels. Among the two thousand are many works of special interest. Under Africa we note Alexander's narrative of the Kaffir war of 1835,9*. 6rf. ; Anderson's ' Twenty-five ears in a Waggon in the Gold Regions of Africa.' 1887, •9*.; Boul ton's Map, 1787, 5*.; Holland and Hozier's ' Expedition to Abyssinia,' 1870, II. 5*. ; and Dr. Junker's 'Travels,' 1875-86, II. 2*. 6d. The authors include Livingstone, Burton, Dr. Carl Peters, Stan- ley. &c. Under America is Af-Beeldinghe, &c., Ant- werp, 1640, price '21. One of the chapters relates to the history of the Society of Jesus in America. Capt. Dampier's ' Voyage,' 1717, is priced 11. 15*. Other items are Benjamin Franklin's ' Memoirs,' Colburn, is:::;, 13s. (K ; Gordon's 'Establishment of the Independence of the United States.' 1788, 11 I - •. W.; Lockman's ' Travels of the Jesuits,' 1772. 11. If.; Lewis and Clarke's 'Travels,' 1814,
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11. in. Under Australasia, Turkish Empire, and Miscellaneous Voyages and Travels are many works of interest. Mr. Thomas Thorp, of Reading, has a good general list. The items include Rowlandson's •Beauties of Sterne,' 1809, very rare, 22*.; sixteen volumes of Lytton's works, all first editions, 30-*.; Bruce's novels. 8 vols., 1804. 36*. ; Budge's * Book of the Dead,' 1895, 41. 4*.; 'Hogarth,' 3 vols., bril- liant impressions, Boydell, 1812, 35*. ; Barbauld's ' Novelists.' 50 vols. 12mo, calf, 1820,67. : Thorpe's ' Registrum Roffense.' 1769, 21. 18*. : the eighth edition of Waller's ' Poems,' 1711, 11. 18*. ; St. John Hope's ' Stall-Plates of the Knights of the Garter,' 1348-1485, '21. 10*. : five volumes of P. Lacroix's works, 8/. 8*. ; ' Index to Biographies in " The •Gentleman's Magazine," 1731-80." 30*.: Hasted's ' Kent,' 4 vols. folio, 1778-99, 24/.; a collection of Canterbury Registers, 1392-1800, 12 vols., 67. 10*. ; and Pepys's 'Diary,' 187.r>, 7 vols., 41. 10*. There are also a number of interesting Tracts, 1642-75. Mr. James Westell, of New Oxford Street, has a •catalogue devoted to foreign theological works, containing many of the Fathers and Doctors of the Church, besides monastic and Catholic history. We note a copy of Parsons's ' Elizabeths Angliaa Regime Edictum, 29 Nov., 1591,' published 1592, price 18*. This work, it is stated, gave great offence to Elizabeth. The justice of rieiug against a heretic prince is clearly enforced, and Burleigh, Bacon, Leicester, and others are compared to the most infamous tyrants of ancient times. It is always a pleasure to linger over the catalogues of Messrs. Henry Young & Sons, of Liverpool, and their September list contains many choice items. Under Aldine Press are some fine specimens; under Ariosto is the Baskerville edition, 1773, 4 vols.. full bound in coeval calf, !/. 4*.; and under Bindings there are some beautiful examples. Early editions, we find, comprise Burns, Coleridge, Lamp, and Thackeray, including the rare original edition of ' The Irish Sketch-Book,' 1843, uncut, SI. 8*. This belonged to the late Duke of Cambridge. The first complete edition of 'The Dunciid,' printed for A. Dod, 1729, has on the title- page the vignette of an ass chewing a thistle, and laden with books and papers, on the top of which an owl is seated. This copy contains the rare leaf of Addenda or Errata at end, and is in full morocco, price 4/. 10*. Other items include the second edition of Camden's 'Britannia,' 1587, 21. 10«.; Gough's translation, 3 vols. morocco, 1789, 101. l(k ; Dugdale's ' History of St. Paul's,' first edition, 1658, 1W. ; Hawkins's 'History of Music,' 1776, 51. 5». ; and Sandford's 'Coronation of James II.,' folio, 1687, 51. 5*. Under Heraldry is Yorke's ' Union of Honour,' containing "the Amies, Matches, and Issues of the Kings, Dukes, Marquesses, and Earlea of England from the Conquest untill this present yeere 1640." The author of this valuable book WH a working blacksmith in the city of Lincoln. Fuller, in his 'Worthies,' writes that he "wua good workman as well as a good writer ...... an excellent workman in his profession, insomuch that if Pegasus himself would wear shoes, this man alone is ht to make them." The copy ottered is a fine one, dated 1640-1, price 31. 3s. Wild's •Cathedrals,' 1807-23, is 67. 6*. ; and Kitton'a ' Charles Dickens by Pen and Pencil,' large-paper copy, proof impressions, 1890-2. 3 vols.. in full morocco by Riviere, ISi. 18*. French Literature includes La Fontaine, Zola, Daudet, and Gyp. Under French Portraits is ' Portraits des Person- nages Francais les plus illustres du XV" Siecle.' with historical notice by P. G. J. Neil, Paris, 1848, 71. li. In this copy the portraits are proof impressions. Among Old Portraits and Prints is a fine impression of Reynolds's ' Lady Seaforth and Child,1 10 May, 1787, 251. 10 Comsjjcmbrnis. We must call nfiecial attention to the following noticet :— UK cannot undertake to answer queries privately. To secure insertion of communications corre spondents must observe the following rules. Let each note, query, or reply be written on a separate slip of paper, with the signature of the writer and such address as he wishes to appear. When answer- ing queries, or making notes with regard to previous entries in the paper, contributors are requested to put in parentheses, immediately after the exact heading, the series, volume, and page or page* to which they refer. Correspondents who rejwat queries are requested to head the second com- munication " Duplicate." G. L. ("Those temples, pyramids, and piles tremendous ").— From Horace Smith's 'Address to the Mummy at Belzoui's Exhibition.' J. G. 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