Page:Notes and Queries - Series 10 - Volume 8.djvu/386

 320

NOTES AND QUERIES. [io s. vm. OCT. 19, 1907.

Enthoven's 'Life of Wren,' II. 6s. ; Campbells ' Lives of the Admirals,' II. 5s. ; Dixoii's ' Royal Windsor,' II. 5s. ; the ' Irving Shakespeare,' II. 10s. ; Strickland's ' Queens of England,' 8 vols., Colburn, 1854, II. 10s. ; and Wordsworth, Eversley Edition, 8 vols., 18s.

Mr. W. M. Murphy sends from Liverpool his List 129, which contains Bentham's Works, 11 vols., 1843, 9/. 10s. ; ' The Century Dictionary,' in specially made oak case, Times, 1902, 81. 8s. (cost 17/. 17s. net) ; Audubon's ' Quadrupeds of North America,' New' York, 1854, a very fine copy, scarce, 121. 12s. ; and Chaucer, Clarendon Press, 6 vols., 31. 3s. Under Dickens is ' A Tale of Two Cities,' in the parts as issued, 1859, SI. 8s. Hakluyt's ' Voyages,' 16 vols. in 17, 1885-90, is Gl. 6s. ; Longfellow, Riverside Edition, 11 vols., II. 5s. ; ' British Poets,' edited by Park, 1805-15, 70 vols., 11. Is. ; Liddon's ' Life of Pusey,' 4 vols., II. 4s. ; Greig's ' Scots Minstrelsie,' 6 vols. , royal 4to, 15s. (a complete compendium of Scottish songs) ; Staunton's ' Shakespeare,' Edition de Luxe, 15 vols., imperial 8vo, III. 10s. ; and Wai- pole's ' Anecdotes of Painting ' and ' Catalogue of Engravers,' Strawberry Hill, 1765-71, 5 vols., 4to, '21. 2s. Mr. Murphy has many choice sets in hand- some bindings, including Ainsworth, Bronte, Car- lyle, Dickens, c.

Mr. Frank Murray, of Derby, has a Clearance List, Part II. There are many works_of general

&c. ; but by far the larger portion is devoted to a fine collection of old music from the libraries of the late Samuel Reay and the late Rev. W. Becker of Southwell, the friend of Byron. The works are in excellent condition, mostly folio, and in the original boards, with leather backs, beautifully engraved. Some contain Bartolozzi plates.

Mr. E. Menken's Catalogue 180 has interesting items under Bibliography, one volume of sale cata- lo<mes including those of the libraries of Talleyrand and Sir Egerton Brydges, 1816-21, 12s. 6d. ; while that of the Willett' Library, 1813, is 12s. 6d. The latter is rich in Caxtons. Under Black-Letter is Calvin's ' Christian Religion,' 1562, 3/. 3s. There is a list of works on lace. A copy of Brant's ' Stulti- fera Navis,' brilliant impressions of the woodcuts, 1498-1515, is 51. 5s. Other items are Pope's ' Essay 011 Man ' in Portuguese verse, Whittingham, 1819, privately printed, 21. 2s. ; Browning's ' Pied Piper,' Quilter's designs, II. 18s. 6d. ; ' Topographical Sur- vey of Marylebone,' 1832, II. Is. ; first edition of Chesterfield's ' Letters,' 1774, II. Is. Galignani's ' Coleridge, Shelley, and Keats,' Paris, 1840, 12s. 6d.; and ' Dickens by Pen and Pencil,' 1889-90, 21. 10s. 'Cases of Supposed Exemption from Poor-Rates,' by E. Griffith, gives the history of the various Inns of Court, and reports of cases bearing upon their exemption from poor-rates, 1831, 15s. 6d. There is a fine tall copy of the first edition of Howell's 31. 10s. A curious relic of the battle of the un- stamped newspaper is a collection of twenty-eight of the news sheets issued by Hetherington, 1830, 7s. 6d. Instead of the duty stamp each issue bears a representation of a printing press surrounded by the legend " Knowledge is Power."
 * English-French-Italian-Spanish Dictionary,' 1660,

Mr. Albert Sutton, of Manchester, has in his Catalogue 155 a Fourth Folio Shakespeare, 1685,

60/.; a large coloured print of Niagara, the Horse- shoe Fall, New York, 1852, 101. ; Arber's ' Re- prints of Rare Tracts,' 61. 6s.; Bail if s Magazine of Sports, 1860-98, 167. ; Benthif* Miscellany, 1837-58, 8A 17s. 6d. ; British Association Reports, 1831-98, 101.', Carlyle, Library Edition, 34 vols., 8vo, cloth, 91. 5s.; and Coleridge, Pickering's edition, 15 vols., 1840-49, in the original cloth, paper labels, uncut, 4J. 10<s. Among magazine sets are The Contemporary, 1S66-1905, 88 vols., 16/.; Fortnightly, 80 vols., 1865- 1903, 161. ; Fraser, 1830-82, 2AI. ; The Reliquary, 43 vols., 1860-1903, 161.-, The Westminster from the commencement in 1824 to 1903, including the rare volumes of The London Review and The London and Westminster Review, making in all, with the index, 161 vols., 301.; and All the Year Round, 1859-94, 61. Other items include a collection of first editions of Mrs. Gaskell's works, 17 vols., 1848-63, 61. 10s.; Hazlitt, 30 vols., 81. 8s.; Lady Jackson's 'Historical Memoirs,' 9 vols., 51. 10s.; Brinkley's ' Japan,' 10 vols., imperial 4to, 51. 5s. (published in New York, 1897, at 301. net) ; and Spenser's 'Poetical Works,' 5 vols., morocco, Pickering, 1825, 31. 3s. We cannot commend the system of numbering the lots adopted in the catalogue. The important lots, though numbered consecutively, are scattered throughout the catalogue ; and it is rather disconcerting to find lot 79 following lot 4 on the second page.

Messrs. Henry Young & Sons, of Liverpool, have many choice books in their List CCCLXXXV. Fitzgerald's ' Life of Garrick,' extra-illustrated, is 81. 8s. ; the first edition of the ' Arabian Nights ' with Smirke's illustrations, proof impressions, 9/. 9s. ; Dibdin's ' Bibliographical Decameron,' 1817, 301.; also his 'Tour,' 1821-3, 181. 18s. ; first edition of Fielding's ' Miscellanies ' and ' Jonathan Wild,' 1743, very scarce, 4Z. 4s. : best edition of the ' Greville Memoirs,' 4tl. 10s. ; Gerarde's ' Herbal,' a fine copy, 1633, 181. 18s. ; ' Historical Portraits,' 121. 12s. (all the plates unspotted a very unusual circumstance), the first illustrated edition of Milton, 1688, 61. 6s.; a choice set of Black's edition of Scott, levant morocco, 60 vols., 1859-61, 25/.; and Weever's ' Ancient Funerall Monuments,' a fine copy of the first edition, 1631, 51. 15s. The Koran, beautifully written in Arabic, each page enclosed by a border of gold, date about 1750. is_ 11. Is. There is much of interest under Early Printing, Liverpool, &c.

ISAAC CHALKLEY GOULD, F.S.A., who died on the llth inst., at Traps Hill House, Loughton, Essex, in his sixty-fourth year, was a constant writer in ' N. & Q.' (at first under his initials) from the Sixth Series down to the very last volume.

to

J. C. B. G. (" Definition of Genius "). See 9 S. xi. 373, 432, 512.

CORRIGENDUM. Ante, p. 296, col. 2, 1. 27 from foot, for "potura," re&dputura. NOTICE.

Editorial communications should be addressed to "The Editor of 'Notes and Queries'" Adver- tisements and Business Letters to " The Pub- lishers" at the Office, Bream's Buildings, Chancery Lane, E.C.