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NOTES AND QUERIES. en s. v. JAN. 13, 1912.

Also, is the name Blunkett known to any of your readers ? The family lived in Peck- ham and owned property in the " Poltry." Anne Blunkett married Robert Jones. Can Blunkett be a German or Swiss name ? (Mrs.) HUGH SMITH.

" PRINCE OF ORANGE COFFEE-HOUSE."- Is, there a print or drawing of "The Prince of Orange Coffee-House," Haymarket, in any of the great collections of views of Old London ? HORACE BLEACKLEY.

' PILGRIM'S PROGRESS ' ILLUSTRATED. In what serial were a set of illustrations to ' Pilgrim's Progress ' published about the year 1880 ? (? The Day of Rest.)

J. T. F.

Durham.

COUNTY BIBLIOGRAPHIES.

(US. iv. 488.)

THE answer to this query should raise points interesting to topographers and genealogists. The information which MR. E. A. FRY asks for should ( 1 ) reveal how much work remains to be done in the direction of county bibliography, not only in bringing up to date such books as J. R. Smith's ' Bibliotheca Cantiana,' 1837, but in under- taking bibliographies for those counties which so far have none. (2) It should dis- cover how far intelligent students of local history have in MS. or in preparation works upon local bibliography. Valuable books on bibliography are often prepared, and then no publisher can be found to undertake them. (3) It should tend to induce local archaeological societies to spend some of their funds in publishing such works.

(4) It should make evident the importance of founding a national Topographical Society, whose work should include the compilation of a book for the whole of Great Britain on the lines (only better) of L. U. J. Che- valier's ' Topo - bibliographic,' 1894-1903. Such a society should lay down rules as to how such books should be carried out.

(5) It should make plain how useful a work could be compiled of books which, although not in themselves county bibliographies, have yet county classifications. There are many hundreds of them. A few occur to me at the moment of writing which will illustrate what is intended to be conveyed Bickley's ' Index to B.M. Charters and

Rolls'; Chaloner Smith's 'Wills'; Fuller's ' Worthies ' ; Wood's ' Life and Times '

Oxford Historical Society) ; the Catalogue of the Library at Stourhead ; C. E. Keyser's ' List of Buildings w T ith Mural Paintings '. ; the Endowed Charity Reports, and many other valuable blue - books which are so arranged ; Turner's ' Bodleian Charters ' ; and Miller Christy's list of books on the airds of various counties. I give below, under the name of each

ounty of England, the titles of such biblio- graphies as exist, and references to such

ources as are known to bibliographers.

Bedfordshire The Catalogue of the Bedfordshire General Library has apparently not been printed since 1837.

For Elstow and John Bunyan see Dr. John Brown's ' Life of Bunyan,' 3rd ed., 1887, pp. 453-89.

Berkshire The Catalogue of the Reference Section of the Reading Public Library has an appendix, pp. 99-121, containing a list of books, prints, and scrap-books (chiefly relating to elections) arranged under parishes. There has been no edition of this since 1893. Buckinghamshire Bibliotheca Buckingham!- ensis (by Henry Gough). Archi. and Archseol. Soc. for the County of Buckingham, Records of Buckingham, vols. v., vi. Aylesbury (G. T de Fraine), 1890, pp 96.

Harcourt (L. V.) An Eton Bibliography, London, 1902, pp. 132.

Cambridgeshire Bowes (Robert), A Catalogue of Books printed at or relating to the Uni- versity, Town, and County of Cambridge from 1521 to 1893, with Bibliographical and Bio- graphical Notes. Cambridge, 1891, 8vo. A full and valuable Index volume was issued subsequently.

Cf. also Gray (G. J.), Early Stationers, Bookbinders, and the First Printer of Cam- bridge (Trans, of Bibliographical Society, vi. 145-8, 1903).

An Index to the Collections of William Cole (1714-82) has recently been announced to be published. The Cole collections relate to the parochial antiquities of Cam- bridgeshire, Huntingdonshire, and Bucking- hamshire.

The Catalogue of the Reference Section of the Free Library of Cambridge contains a bibliography of Cambridge books by John Pink.

Whitaker (W.), Geology of the Neigh- bourhood of Cambridge, 1881, has biblio- graphical appendix.

The Cambridge Antiquarian Society issued in 1898 (Deighton, Bell & Co.) an Index to their valuable Proceedings from 1840 to 1897.

See also Bradshaw (Henry), Books printed by J. Siberch at Cambridge, 1521-2.

Fordham (Henry George), Lists of Cam- bridgeshire Maps (vide Cambridge Anti- quarian Society Proceedings 1905-8). Cheshire As many bibliographical Works relating to this county include Lancashire as well, reference should be made under both ' Cheshire ' and ' Lancashire.'