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NOTES AND QUERIES. tn s. i. JAN. i, 1910.

logue, which is annotated with references to authorities, will show what opportunities Herr Bosenthal offers for those who can, as lago recommends, put money in their purses. The Catalogue opens with the only complete copy known of the first book printed at Saluzzo, Alexander de Villa Dei, 5,000 marks. An original musical MS. of Johann Sebastian Bach, 6 pages, is offered for 6,000m. ; and an autograph letter of Beethoven to Biess of 1819 for 1,800m. A musical MS. of the latter master, 4 pages, is 1,200m. : 1,400m. will, however, buy 41 auto- graph letters and documents, 1829-63, from the "brilliant pen of Berlioz. M. Greuter's World 'Globe, 1632, which seems to be " totally unknown and undescribed," is 3,000m. Two leaves of a thirty-line Donatus by Gutenberg are also totally unknown, 5,000m. Gutenberg's ' Missale Speciale (Mayence, about 1450) has been the subject of much learned discussion, and is unpriced per- Tiaps, as his " first printed book," is regarded as priceless. Bibles, Horae, and other religious "books are included in numbers, but we have mentioned enough to show the remarkable cha- racter of the Catalogue.

Mr. A. Bussell Smith sends the Second Portion of his Catalogue of Tracts, Pamphlets, and Broadsides. The First Part took from 1519 to 1800, and this Second Portion takes us down to 1900. We note Bowland Hill's sermon preached before the Volunteers at Surrey Chapel in 1803 ; Burdett's speech after his liberation ; a Descrip- tion of the battle of Waterloo, two folding plates ; and Hone's Tracts. During the period 1820-29 we have ' The One-Eyed Coronation,' Pierce Egan's * Trial of Thurtelland Hunt,' Tom Paine, George Barnewell, &c. For 1830-36 there are the Princess Olive, ' The House of Beform that Jack Built,' The Whig-Dresser, Nos. 1 to 11, and Bibliographical and Retrospective Miscellany, No. 1. Under 1837-1900 occur B. H. Home's ' Orion,' published at a farthing ; Mesmerism ; Tennyson's ' Ode on the Duke of Wellington,' first edition, also the service and anthems used at the funeral ; Bibliographies of Buskin and 'Swinburne ; Trials, &c. There are a number of old plays in alphabetical order, items under rShakespeariana, and old county maps. Under Exhibitions we find Catlin's North American Indians, 1848 ; a description of the Chinese Junk, " sold only on board," 1841 ; The Aztecs, 1853 ; Tom Thumb and his Wife, 1865 ; Pano- rama of Waterloo at Leicester Square ; Niagara at Burford's Panorama, 1834, &c. There is also a collection of over a hundred illustrated handbills and advertisements.

We congratulate Mr. Henry Cecil Sotheran on the publication of the seven hundredth number of ' Sotheran's Price Current of Litera- ture.' The first number was published in 1844 or 1845 by Willis, to which he soon added ' Current Notes,' so it is probably the oldest catalogue which has been published con-


 * secutively. The present number, like all others

in recent years, is carefully edited by Mr. Sothe- ran, who, not content with giving the ordinary particulars of a book, adds bibliographical and biographical notes whenever occasion offers. For instance, the present issue contains Froude's under the pseudonym of Zeta : " This is very
 * Shadows of the Clouds,' the first edition, written


 * scarce, the greater part of the edition having

been bought up and destroyed by Mr. Froxide's father." It was published by J. Ollivier, 1847, and is priced 11. 5s. Among other items are Arnold's ' Friendship's Offering,' first edition, 11. 17s. Qd. ;' original editions of Bewick ; and a sumptuous set of Byron, extra-illustrated, 60Z. There are Galleries of Engravings, including a fine coloured copy of ' The British Gallery ' by Tres- ham and Ottley, 37/. 10s. ; also an exceptionally fine copy of ' Sir Thomas Lawrence,' by Cousins, Lucas, and Beynolds, very scarce, Graves, 1834-46, 75Z. A unique set of Mrs. Jameson's works, 6 vols., blue levant by Biviere, extra-illustrated with 140 original drawings, 1848-64, is 421. There are original editions of Dickens and Thackeray the latter including the Library Edition, 24 vols., 1869, 81. 17s. Qd. ; and ' Vanity Fair,' with the suppressed woodcut of Lord Steyne, together with ' The Newcomes ' and 1 Pendennis,' 5 vols., 1848-54, 11. 10s. Under Swinburne are many scarce editions.

Mr. D. Webster of Leeds sends two Catalogues. That for December contains, under American Indians, Schoolcraft's ' Indian Tribes of the United States,' royal 4to, 1852-7 (Vol. V. missing), 81. Boux and Barrels ' Herculaneum et Pompei,' 8 vols., Paris, 1861-70, is 51. 5s. This set includes the " Mus^e Secret," which is often wanting The Biverside Edition of Oliver Wendell Holmes 13 vols., is 11. 18s. There is the Edition de Luxe of Ward and Boberts's ' Bomney,' 4Z. 12s. Qd. ; and of Armstrong's ' Turner,' 41. 2s. Qd.

Mr. Webster's Special Catalogue contains new books and standard publications at reduced prices.

Messrs. Young send from Liverpool their Catalogue CCCC VI., which contains a magnificent collection of Gillray caricatures, original impres- sions, 1051. This was formed by a private col- lector, and he has pencilled on many of the plates the names of the persons who figure in the cari- catures. The first edition of Bacon's ' Henry VII.,' 1622, is 91. Qs. ; and a fine specimen of the first edition of Blake's ' Job,' an early copy with the misdated plate, 1825-6, 151. 15s. Under Albert Durer is a collection of 67 designs cut out of contemporary books by Buskin, mounted by him, and presented to his publisher, George Allen, from whose executors Messrs. Young purchased them, 1511-16, 10Z. 10s. Under Elizabeth is Creighton's Life of the Queen, published by Boussod, Valadon & Cie., 12Z. 12s. The first edition of both series of Elia is 251. ; and the final volume of Goupil's series of memoirs of English sovereigns, Herbert Paul's ' Queen Anne,' a guinea.

[Reviews of other Catalogues held over.]

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T. BAYNE ("Living English Poets in 1903"). The date should have been given as 1893.