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Other worksinclude Meteyard's 'Lifeof Wedgwood,' 2 vols., calf, II. 5s. ; ' Chambers's Encyclopaedia,' lOvols., 1904, 4?. 4s.; Chaffers's ' Keraraic Gallery,' II. 15s. ; translations by Lord Lyttelton and Gladstone, 51. 5s. (the volume contains a letter of Gladstone to Mr. Macmillan, 1869), and a copy of Warburton's edition of Pope, 9 vols., 1752, II. 10s.

Messrs. Myers & Co.'s Catalogue 125 has a collec- tion of caricatures by Gillray, Cruikshank, and Rowlandson, 14/. 10s. ; Creighton's ' Queen Eliza- beth.' large royal 4to, Goupil, 1897, 14Z. ; ' Hogarth,' by Nichols, atlas folio, 61. 6*. (includes the three suppressed plates) ; Kaempfer's ' Japan,' 2 vols., folio, 1727, 51. 15s; Ruskin, the new Edition de Luxe, 31 vols., 27^. ; the scarce first issue of Skelton's Mary Stuart,' Goupil, 1893,1 4/. ; andDodsley's 'Old English Plays,' 15 vols., 1874-6, 11. \7s.6d. There are views in several counties and of colleges at Oxford and Cambridge, the former from the Stone Collection.

Messrs. Myers's Catalogue 126 is devoted to engravings. One under America is entitled ' The Bostonians in Distress.' From a branch of " Liberty Tree" is suspended a huge cage labelled "Boston, ' in which are confined a number of men who are compelled to swallow raw fish, by sailors in a boat with baskets of fish. It was printed for R. Sayer and J. Bennett, map- and print-sellers, ,53, Fleet Street, 19 November, 1774, and is priced 10^. 10s.

Messrs. W. N. Pitcher & Co., of Manchester, have in their Catalogue 153 first editions of Dickens and Tennyson. There are many handsome sets, including De Foe, 16 vols., 1899, 3/. 10s. ; Fielding, 11 vols., 1902, 4?. 5s. ; Edgeworth's Tales and Novels, 18 vols., 1832, 51. 5s. ; Jesse's ' George Selwyn,' 4 vols., 1843-4, 31. 10s. ; Marrvat's Novels, 24 vols., 61. 15s. ; Scott, "Centenary Edition," 25 vols., 6/. 6s.; Smollett, 12 vols., 1899, 51. 10s. ; Thackeray, 26 vols., 1902, 11. Is. : Whyte-Melville, 25 vols., 1898-1900, 11. 10s. ; and Thomas Hardy, 19 vols., 1906, 51. 10s. Under Charles Keene are twenty-one etchings from the original copperplates by Goulding, with introduc- tion by Spielmann, 1905, 51. 5s. (published at 30 guineas net). The general items contain much of interest.

Messrs. James Rimell & Son's Catalogue 209 contains engravings, portraits, mezzotints, and water-colours. There is a collection of over eight hundred theatrical portraits, 84/. Under Free- masonry is a set of coloured plates of ceremonies, very rare, 1809, 101. 10s. Portraits include early English and eccentric and remarkable characters. There are a number of the Arundel Society chromo- lithographs.

All who desire to possess standard authors in choice bindings should obtain Messrs. Sotheran's Price Current 678. There is hardly a page without the name of Riviere, and wherever we turn we read of books bound in all shades of colour, either in morocco or calf. Even 'N. & Q.' is offered dressed in half-roan with red edges, complete to 1901, for 40/. We note just a few items : the illus- trated edition of Aytoun's ' Lays.' polished levant morocco extra, with a design or thistles, 61. 6s. ; Bacon's Works, calf gilt, SI. ; ' The Ingoldsby Legends,' 3 vols., blue levant, 3/. 5s. ; Sorrow's Works, 11 vcls., half-morocco, III. 11s.; Sir Richard Burton's Voyages and Travels, 39 vols., half-calf extra, 1851-93, very scarce, 34/.; a sumptuous set of

Byron, including Moore's 'Life,' extra-illustrated, 10 thick 4to vols. in 12, large paper, three-quarter crushed dark-blue levant, 1830-39, 601.; Carlyle, " Ashburton Edition," 20 vols., calf 3xtra, 151. 15s.; a fine set of Pyne's books of costumes, 7 vols., folio, claret morocco, 101. 10s.; Litta's ' Famiglie Celebri di Italia,' many thousand portraits beautifully coloured by hand, 14 vols., royal folio, Italian vellum extra, with Lord Ellesmere's stamp on sides, Milano, 1819-58, 45/. ; and Longfellow, "Author's Pocket Volume Edition," 15 vols., limp morocco, in case, 1890, 4Z.

Messrs. Henry Young & Sons, of Liverpool, have in their Catalogue CCCLXXXVII. a handsome coloured copy of ' The Miser's Daughter,' 1848. bound in the finest dark-red morocco by the Guild of Women Binders, 11. 7s. ; and a fine set of Jane Austen, 51. 5s. Under Byron is ' Childe Harold,' 1841, full morocco, 51. 10s. ; while the large original edition of the Conversations noted by Medwin, 1824, is 6/. 6s. A perfect copy of Camden's ' Britannia,' 4 vols., russia, 1806, is 81. 8s. Under Cruikshank is Ireland's ' Napoleon,' first edition, 4 vols., 1828, 281. Under Early Printing will be foiind Hemmerlein's ' Variae Oblectationis Opuscula et Tractatus,' edited by Seb. Brant, author of ' The Ship of Fools,' 1497, and ' De Nobilitate et Rusticitate Dialogus,' both works in Gothic type, 91. 9s. Under Pepys is Wheatley's edition, 10 vols., first edition of each, difficult to procure, 11. 15s. A very handsome copy of Ptolemy s 'Geography,' 1535, bound in dark- brown levant by Zaehnsdorf, is 25/. ; and choice copies of Rogers's 'Italy' and 'Poems,' 1830 and 1834, bound in dark-green levant, 25/. The " Abbots- ford Waverley," 12 vols., original cloth, 1842-7, is priced 91. Under Scotland is a collection of 13 original water-colours of the Kells country, painted on the spot by C. L. Saunders, each carefully mounted, oound in an oblong folio volume, 9/. 9s.

F. T. ELWORTHY. We regret to notice the death on Friday week last of our correspondent Mr. Frederic Thomas Elworthy, of Foxdown, Wellington, best known as the author of ' The Evil Eye : an Account of this Ancient and Widespread Superstition ' (1896). He also published ' Horns of Honour, and other Studies in the Byways of Archaeology,' in 1900 : and earlier, several important works on the grammar and dialect of his native county, Somerset. Mr. Elworthy had, says The AtheivKum, formed a remarkable collection of charms, talismans, and prophylactic ornaments, which "ought to be acquired for some national collection." Numerous articles by him are included in the General Index to the Ninth Series.

H. B. F. (" Millions for defence, but not a cent for tribute "). C. C. Pinckney, when A mbassador to the French Republic, 1796.

E. GANDY. Forwarded.

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