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NOTES AND QUERIES. [io s. VIL JU*E 15, 1907.

A somewhat fuller description of the various catalogues relating to the Strawberry Hil 1 sale may be of interest.

There are at least four of the sale cata logues :

1. Portrait, xxiv. 250 pp. At the end of the Catalogue is the following :

"Note. Some inaccuracies will be discoverd in the Catalogue, arising from a want of sufficienl time for its examination, in order to be prepared by the time it was originally announced ; these errors will be carefully rectified in the Second Edition, a small portion of which will be printed on large paper."

2. Portrait, xxiv, 1-53, 53*, 54*, 54-250= 252 pp.

The title-pages of 1, 2, and 3 are alike, except for the announcement in 2 and 2 that " a few copies are printed upon large paper, at 12s. each," the ordinary catalogues being sold for 7s.

3. This is the large-paper copy. Portrait, xxiv, 1-90, 97-250=244 pp., the hiatus being simply in the numbering of the pages, and not in the text. At p. 88 is an announce- ment that the lots offered for 2 and 3 May (the seventh and eighth days of the sale) will be divided into smaller lots and sold after the conclusion of the present sale. This notice, dated April 16, 1842, states that a *' very elaborate catalogue " will be ready on the 10th day of May.

4. This is the very elaborate catalogue, with vi, 131 pp. The " Collection of Rare Prints & Illustrated Works, removed from Strawberry Hill for sale in London," to be sold on Monday, June 13th, 1842, and nine following days, Sundays excepted. Price of Catalogue, 2s. 6d.

Two lists of " ' Names of Purchasers and the Prices " were published under the title of ' ^Edes Strawberrianse ':

5. 58 pp., giving the details of each of the twenty-four days' sales. Notwithstanding the fact that the collections in the seventh and eighth days' sales were withdrawn and their dispersal extended over ten days, the lots, purchasers, and prices are catalogued as if the sale had been carried out as origin- ally advertised. The method is somewhat mysterious, but, at all events, in the summary of the various days' sales the totals of amounts received balance.

6. 20 pp., giving a list of purchasers and prices at each of the ten days sales.

Nos. 1-4 were printed by " Smith & Robins, King Street, Long Acre," and Nos. 5-6 were " printed for J. H. Burn, 102, St. Martins Lane." No. 5 was published at 7s. 6c?., with an addition of twenty-five

copies, on large royal quarto, price 15s. ; and No. 6 was published in an " Impression Limited to Fifty Copies. Price, Three Shillings."

There should be mentioned also, as of interest to collectors, the humorous cata- logue of u The Classical Contents of Goose- berry Hall,' with its " Puffatory Remarks," sale fixed for "The 1st day of April and the 365 Following Days."

Very marked differences are found in Catalogues 1, 2, and 3. Nos. 2 and 3, which evidently represent the recataloguing, have the same number of lots in each day's sale, which exceed those catalogued in No. 1 on ten out of the twenty-four days.

The large-paper copy 3 often catalogues the same lot at greater length than 2, but it omits the seventh and eighth days entirely, while 2 follows 1 in this particular, and the 305 lots of the seventh and eighth days are expanded to 1,331 in the ten days' sale of No. 4. From p. 97 to p. 250 the discre- pancies between the three catalogues aro less noticeable.

I trust that I shall not be held too strictly to account in this attempt at a collation of Strawberry Hill catalogues, since, with the exception of Nos. 1 and 3, my catalogues are bound up in one volume, in what appears to be a contemporary binding. The binder, who must have been a Vandal, had unique ideas as to the arrangement of the matter entrusted to him and an absolute disregard of original covers, so that I cannot feel sure that nothing has been omitted. E. P. MERBITT.

Boston, U.S.A.

[The original article on Strawberry Hill was by MR. WILLIAM BATES, a valued contributor to N. & Q.' for many years. He died 24 Sept., 1884, and notices of him appeared at 6 S. x. 280, 304.]

GRANGER ANNOTATED BY

CAULFIELD. (See ante, pp. 65, 223, 323.)

Lady King [178]." 21. 2*. I have bought the Lady ing with her husband Sir E. King as a pair of
 * Vints ; the Lady is scarcer than that of Sir

Edmund."

A copy occurred in the Musgrave Sale,.

27th day, lot 27, and was bought by the

Marchioness of Bath at 11. This is the >nly instance I have been able to trace, but he print of the husband was included in learly all the principal sales, and fetched

about 21. Caulfield in his ' Calcographiana * irices these two prints at 21. 2s. and 51. 5s. or Sir E. and Lady King respectively.