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NOTES AND QUERIES, [ii s. xn. NOV. 27, 1915.

BOOKS PUBLISHED BETWEEN c. 1815 AND c. 1854.

ALTHOUGH it does not fall within the period indicated above, we cannot forbear noticing the aeries of twenty-six volumes of the work of the Anastatic Drawing Society, which Mr. James Commin of Exeter describes in his catalogue, and offers for 31. 15s. The volumes do not form a complete sequence, since they range from 1855 to 1889 ; but they contain many hundreds of plates. Two other interesting sets in this catalogue and not extravagantly dear are the first six volumes .of Bentley's Miscellany (1837-9, 11. 12s.), containing ' Oliver Twist,' Ainsworth's ' Jack Sheppard,' and many other good things besides George Cruikshank's etchings, and Nos. 1 to 30 of Ainsworth's Magazine (1842-4, 21. 10s.) which, again, contains a good deal of George Cruik-
 * shank's work. A first edition of the ' Life ' of

Queen Margaret of Navarre by M. W. Freer (1854, 31. 3s.) is an attractive item ; so, in quite ^another way, we found a book called Murray's ' Railway Reading,' published in 1852-3, and to be had for 4s. Qd. It is in 3 vols. 12mo, and we wonder what it is about whether it is a dignified precursor of Tit-Bits and its congeners. Mr. 'Commin has several good works of early nine- teenth-century topography, of which we may mention Payne's ' Picturesque Views in Devon- shire, Cornwall, &c.' (1826, 31. 3s.)

Topography and travels seem, on the whole, the subjects best represented in the catalogues before us, so far as publications of the period selected are concerned. Mr. Alfred Cooper of Manchester has, among many other books of the kind, a copy of the ' Liber Fluviorum ' line engravings from Turner's drawings of river scenery in France, brought out in 1853 (31. 10s.), and first editions of Robert Chambers's ' Walks in Edinburgh ' (1825, 11. 5s.), and Hoare's 4 Modern 1 Wilts"' (1843,1 2Z. 17 -). We may motice in passing a copy of Lingard's ' History of England,' 8 vols., 4to (1819, 21.).

William George's Sons of Bristol also have -some good works of early nineteenth-century topography, in particular Lycett's ' Views in Australia, and Van Diemen's Land ' fifty coloured views done in the summer of 1824, and published with descriptive letterpress (14Z. 14s.), and a set of the Lysons' ' County Histories ' (1806-22, 41. 15s.). We notice they offer a first edition of Carlyle's ' Life of John Sterling ' '(1851) for 3s. Equally cheap is a book called ' An Englishwoman in Russia,' written in 1855 " by a Lady ten years resident in that country," which might prove interesting, as also certainly us a copy, dated 1823, of Lewis's Etchings, 60 in all, consisting of " Groups illustrating the Physiognomy, Manners, and Character of France ^book-plate " The wicked borroweth and payeth not again." Wellington's Dispatches in 13 vols. (1837-9) are offered here for 11. 15s.
 * and Germany." This has Mrs. Schimmelpenninck's

S. R. Meyrick's ' A Critical Inquiry into Antient Armour ' (1824, 121.) is one of the best of the -works in the catalogue of Mr. Gregory of Bath, and another is Mudford's ' Historical Account of the Battle of Waterloo,' with a series of hand- painted plates and two folding maps (1817, 151. 15s.). Five volumes with two extra numbers of T.he New Bon Ton Magazine, or Telescope of the

Times (1818-20), having twenty-six caricatures by George Cruikshank, form an item which may attract the student of the Regency (8Z.) ; and Mr. Gregroy has also two examples of Pierce Egan,

viz., 'Real Life in London Bob Tallyho *

(1821-2, 12Z.), and ' The Day and Night Scenes of Jerry Hawthorn ' (1822, 16Z.). A good copy of Harris's ' Portraits of the Game and W T ild Animals of South Africa,' and a new binding, is also worth notice 1840, 201.

The best things in Messrs. Hill's latest catalogue which are to be referred to the period we are dealing with consist of editions of Greek and Latin Works, e.g., the ' Opera Omnia ' of St. Augustine in the edition published at Paris in 1836-9 by the Benedictines (5Z. 5s.) ; Montfaucon's edition of St. John Chrysostom (1834-9, 51. 5s.) ; Bekker's ' Aristotelis Opera Omnia,' " edidit Academia Regia Borussica " (1831-7, 31. 15s.) ; and six volumes of the ' Collection Orientale : Manuscrits Inedits de la Bibliotheque Royale,' being Sanskrit and Persian texts (the Bhagavanata Purana, and Firdusi), with French translation (Paris, 1836-46, 81. 10s.). Raynouard's ' Lexique Roman, ou Dictionnaire de la Langue des Troubadours,' in 6 vols. (Paris, 1838, 4Z. 4s.), is also here.

Mr. James Miles of Leeds has a noteworthy Lincolnshire item in Stonehouse's ' Isle of Ax- holme' (1839,2Z. 17s. 6d.),and heoffers a good set in the fourth edition (1854) of Agnes Strick- land's ' Lives of the Queens of England ' for 1Z. 15s. Sir John Swinburne's copy of Upcott, ' A Biblio- graphical Account of the Principal Works relating to English Topography,' 3 vols. (1818, 21. 5s.), is also worth mentioning.

In conclusion, we may give the names of one or two books on Australasia falling within our period from the catalogue of Mr. Albert Sutton of Manchester. There are Beechey's ' Narrative ' of the Voyage of H.M.S. Blossom, 1825-8, published in 1831 (1Z. 15s.); William Ellis's 'Polynesian Researches,' ' Tour through Hawaii,' and ' Vindi- cation of the South Sea Missions,' published in 1832 (seond edition), 1826, and 1831 respectively, and offered for a few shillings each ; Jeffreys's ' Van Diemen's Land ' '(1820, 1Z. 5s.) ; and Micchell's ' Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia ' (1839, 1Z. 4s.). These are but a few examples. This collection of works on Australia runs to over 450 items.

' THE CORNWALL PARISH REGISTERS 'the Index to which for Vols. I. -VI. we noticed in our last issue, p. 412 belongs to the Phillimore Register Series, in course of publication by Messrs. Phillimore under the general editorship of our correspondent MR. THOMAS BLAGG. The Devon and Cornwall Record Society are also printing a series of Cornwall Parish Registers, which, however, is an entirely separate undertaking.

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