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BOOKSELLERS' CATALOGUES. APRIL.

MESSRS. S. & E. COLEMAN'S Tottenham Cata- logue 3, Third Series, is devoted to Manuscripts Deeds, Court Rolls, Pedigrees, &c. Under Roya America is the King's Warrant to John Went- worth to be Surveyor of Woods in Nova Scotia and Territories in America, 3 pages, large folio signed by George III., Lord Portland, and others. 1 August, 1783, 101. 10s. Another document relating to America is a grant by George III. oi land in Nova Scotia to Alexander McNutt, William Caldwell, Arthur Vance, and others, 51. 5s. Under London and its Rebuilding after the Great Fire there is a deed between the Mayor and citizens of London and Peter Gelsthorp, citizen and apothecary, who was owner of the land where King Street is now. Peter, to oblige the Mayor and citizens, sold his land to them, so that in the future those who stood in Cheapside could see the Guildhall. The document is priced 51. 5s. There are also deeds relating to the old theatre of Lincoln's Inn Fields and Drury Lane Theatre, and several Militia Rolls. Pedigrees include those of Hills and Andrews, Harvey, Ayres, and other families.

Mr. William Glaisher's April Remainder Cata- logue contains Moore's ' Collector's Manual,' 9s. ; Crane's ' Artist's Reminiscences,' 6s. Gd. ; ' Grammont Memoirs,' 4s. Qd. ; ' Greville Diary,' 4 vols., 10s. 6d. ; Inchbold's ' Under the Syrian San,' 2 vols., 9s. ; Lorimer's ' Law of Nations,' 5.<?. ; Mackinder's ' Rhine,' with 50 coloured plates by Mrs. Jardine and 2 folding maps, 7s. ; and ' Russell of Killowen,' by O'Brien, 2s. 6d. There are novels at a shilling each.

Messrs. Maggs's Catalogue 266 is devoted to a remarkable collection of autograph letters and MSS. Among Rulers, Princes, and Court Favourites are Anne of Denmark, Mary of Modena, Charles Bonaparte, Madame Bona- parte (the mother of Napoleon), the Stuarts, and the Georges. Of American interest is a letter signed by Washington in reference to the Con- tinental troops meeting the Convention troops which surrendered under Burgoyne. - There are also letters of Capt. John Paul Jones, one of which relates to the corruption in America's " infant navy." Under Naval and Military we find Nelson, Wellington, and a collection of letters of Lady Hamilton. L T nder Statesmen and Authors are John Bradshaw, Brougham, Bright, Beaconsfield, Gladstone, Harrison Ainsworth, Mr. and Mrs. Browning, Byron, and Burns. There are letters o*f the Carlyles, De Quincey, -Cowper, George Eliot, and Dickens. Among Thackeray's letters is one on ' The Newcomes ' in which he compares himself with Dickens ; it is dated Paris, April, 1854. Another of 3 Decem- ber, 1840, refers to his ' Shabby Genteel Story,' and a third to ' Pendennis.' Under Swinburne are original manuscripts.

Messrs. Maggs have also a Catalogue of Nine- teenth Century Authors, first editions, including many presentation copies. This Catalogue has been compiled with special reference to the Thackeray and Dickens celebrations, although there are choice items under Byron, Coleridge, Books with Coloured Plates, George Meredith, Kate Greenaway, R. L. Stevenson, and many others. In all there are nearly seventeen hundred

entries. Among many choice Dickens items is an uncut series of first editions, 75 vols., in the various sizes in which they were issued, but uniformly bound by Riviere in full crushed levant, 350/. A remarkable copy of ' Pickwick,' all the numbers being dated 1836, and enclosed in a morocco case, is 185Z. Part II. contains the rare printed address announcing the death of Sey- mour. Other addresses include the one which appeared in Part XV., dated June 30, 1837, in which Dickens announces the resumption of the work, which had been " interrupted by a severe domestic affliction of no ordinary kind " (the death of Miss Mary Hogarth, Dickens's sister-in- law, who died suddenly on May 7, 1837). Under Dickensiana is the original portrait by Frith, 210Z. Among choice Thackeray items are two volumes, The Snob and The Gownsman, 1829-30, each enclosed in levant pull-off case by Riviere, 275/. They are in the original board covers, which are apparently not known to Thackeray bibliographers, nor can Messrs. Maggs trace anv other copy with them.

Messrs. Henry Young & Sons' Liverpool Cata- logue CCCCXIX. contains a most interesting- series of autograph letters of Scott ; a set of R. L. Stevenson's Works handsomely bound ; Gerarde's ' Herbal,' a fine copy, 1633, 181. 18s. ; French engravings ; ornamental bindings ; Baines's ' Lancashire,' extra-illustrated ; Hogarth, original impressions, engraved by Cook, 1795-1802, atlas folio, 10Z. 10s. ; and Hazlitt's ' Dodsley's Old English Plays,' 15 vols., 1874-6, 81. 8s. There are works under Ancient Religions and Aldine Press. The sixth edition of Chaucer, full morocco, 1687, is 10Z. 10s. ; and Scott's edition of De Foe, 20 vols., Talboys, 1840-41, 121. 12s. There are first editions of the Brownings ; specimens of early printing; the first edition of Hamerton's ' Graphic Arts,' 1882, 4Z. 4s. ; and some fine old portraits and prints.

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