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NOTES AND QUERIES, [ii s. xn. JULY 24, 1915.

ENGRAVINGS AND BOOKS ON ART.

IN the way of Engravings, one of the most important items in the catalogues before us is a Collection of 207 examples of the Little Masters, which Messrs. Sotheran (v. their No. 758) acquired and sold two years ago, and have now repurchased. It was made by the late W. J. Lottie, Chaplain at the Savoy, and has for a principal feature a fine set of works by the brothers Beham. No doubt it is more difficult to take pleasure in German work than it was a year ago, but perhaps these -early productions from which the Renaissance and the Reformation have not eliminated a certain mediaeval quality are as easy to enjoy as anything German can be. The collection is offered for 3807.

Messrs. Leighton's ' Early Printed Books contains a good deal of the highest interest in the way of engravings. We may mention that the student will find described there work by Diirer Holbein, Burgkmair, the Cranachs, Woen- sam, DeUberti, Da Vinci, Salviati, and many others.

English engraving is represented most fully In Messrs. Rimell's Catalogue No. 239, which -details a part of their collection of engraved British portraits. We may notice J. Watsons Marquis of Granby ' (Reynolds), 81. 18s. 6cZ. ; Cousins's ' Maria Lister ' (Newton), 61. 6s., and

Keble ' (Richmond), 47. 4s. ; Valentine Green's 'Lady Caroline Howard' (Reynolds), 231., and March's ' Mrs. Hartley ' (Reynolds), 201. ; Corbutt s
 * David Garrick' (Gainsborough), 157. 15s.;

Lord Howe,' 251., and ' Sir William Howe,' 237. ; and Osborne's 'Mrs. Jordan' (Romney), 177. 5s.

'There is a pleasant little set of portraits of Nell Gwyn, including a mezzotint by R. Tompson after Lely, in first state before all letters, 427.

In Messrs. Leighton's ' Early Printed Books,' again are several works which deal with art, architecture, and allied topics. Thus they have Vice's ' Le Imagini delle Donne Auguste ....Venice, 1557 (47. 4s.) ; a number of copies of editions of Tagliente's work on calligraphy, of which we may mention a sixteenth - century Venetian edition in a fine binding, 351. ; three or four copies of Vitruviiis, ' De Architettura ' ; and De Paganim's ' Divina Proportioned by Lucas Patiolus, with cuts by Leonardo da Vinci, in two copies, of which the better costs 181.

Messrs. Maggs's Catalogue 338 devoted to First Editions and Association Books includes a good number of items of which the interest is

.artistic. Aubrey B ear dsley's work, and that of

-" Phiz," Leech, Doyle, and Randolph Caldecott, are represented by very interesting items. The Cruikshank collection runs to near a hundred items, and includes an Egan's ' Life in London ' (427. 10s.), an ' English Spy ' (821. 10s.), and a COPT of Maxwell's ' History of the Irish Rebellion in 1798 * (107. 10s.). There are also two good Bewicks, ' The History of British Birds ' (117. 11s.) and the 'Works' (307.).

A catalogue worth looking through from the

^point of view of our subject is that of Messrs. Hill, who have several works at moderate prices

on Heraldry, Ancient Monuments, Numismatics, &c. We noticed here a copy of Garner and Stratton's ' Domestic Architecture of England during the Tudor Period' (67. 6s.), and one of Sotheby's 'Principia Typographica ' (87. 8s.), as

-well as Dora's ' (Euvres de Rabelais ' (37. 15s.).

Messrs. Sotheran describe a good set of Mrs. Jameson's works all first editions bound by Riviere, to be had for 157. ; and we noted in the same catalogue Ogilby's 'Entertainment of.... Charles II. in his Passage. . . .to his Coronation,' with Hollar's folding plates of the procession and Loggan's plates of the triumphal arches. The imprint is that of Marriot & Dring instead of the more usual Roycroft, 97.

Mr. Barnard of Tunbridge Wells has a catalogue of nearly 500 items describing Books on Art and kindred subjects. The works on Calligraphy are curious and interesting, and we particularly noted the fine Album Call igraphique of St. Victor, which is not dear at 57. 15s. A collection of ' Ornemens Rocailles,' by different authors, should also be useful (67. 6s.). There are several works on individual painters, of which perhaps the best is,' L'OBuvre de Rembrandt,' by M. Charles Blanc, published at Paris in 1880 (47. 15s.).

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