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NOTES AND QUERIES. [ii s. v. MAY is, 1912.

The Western Rebellion. (Taunton, Barnicott & Pearce.)

MB. RICHARD LOCKE, who has been for some time preparing a history, plan, and directory of the town of Taunton, has.in the course of his researches come across this pamphlet, and reprints it with a few notes as a separate tract. The only known copy of the original is in the library of the Somer- set Archaeological and Natural History Society, Taunton Castle. It contains an account of all the persons arraigned and tried by Lord Jefferies in the month of September, 1685, for aiding and assisting the Duke of Monmouth. Three hundred and thirty-one were hanged in different parts of Somerset, Dorset, and Devon ; 850 were sold for slaves and 408 were otherwise punished.

Mr. Locke has added a chronological register of events relating to Taunton from A.D. 693, when Ina, King of the West Saxons, held the first great council of bishops there, to 1780, when silk manu- facture was introduced.

BOOKSELLERS' CATALOGUES. MAY.

MESSRS. MAGGS have sent us their Catalogue 287, Part II. of ' Oid-Tlme Literature,' which is no less interesting than Part I. Under the head- ing ' Manuscripts ' every item is of interest, the following being the best : A late fifteenth- century Breviary of 322 leaves, containing 12 miniature initials and 50 large scroll initials in blue and red, as well as hundreds of small illuminated ones in gold and colours (on the first leaf of the Calendar are the signatures " Desportes " and " Ex libris Philippi Portse") 120Z. ; a Persian MS. of Firdausi, on 700 leaves of native glazed paper, having an illuminated head-piece to each of the four books, and containing sixty illustra- tions in the text, mostly battle-pieces, coloured and illuminated with gold and silver an eigh- teenth-century work, 180Z. ; and a Psalter of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, on 330 leaves of vellum, in Gothic letter, by an Anglo-French writer, with twelve illuminated initials and marginal and other ornaments throughout, the text in large letters, and the commentary written smaller, 120Z. Messrs. Maggs have also a Second Folio Shakespeare, 1632, offered for 210Z., a fine copy, with few and unimportant defects, having the Droeshout portrait on the title. Under the heading of ' Law,' the chief items are Sir Anthony Fitzherbert's ' La Graunde Abridgement,' 1516, 3 vols., folio, attributed to Wynkyn de Worde, bound by Riviere, and in itself interesting as one of the first attempts made to present English law as a system, 1051. ; and the attempt which preceded it, Statham's ' Abridgement of English Law Cases down to the End of the Reign of Henry VI.,' printed in Norman - French (Secretary type), and either by Pynson in London, or in Rouen by Pynson's master, le Tailleur, 1490, 681. For 251. is offered a curious collection of proclama- tions and pamphlets connected with Bartholomew Fair ; and for 151. 15s. may be acquired a copy of the rare suppressed first edition of Galileo's ' Dialogo sopra i duo Sistemi del Mondo Tole- maico,e Copernicano,' sm. 4to, original calf, Fiorenza, 1632. The most costly book in the Catalogue is the first issue of ' Paradise Lost,' with the rare 1667 title-page, which bears the author's name in small capitals, 2251. The very

interesting section ; Books with Woodcuts ' (fifteenth and sixteenth centuries) includes some twenty examples, and among them the ' Nurem- berg Chronicle,' 1493, 311. 10s.

MESSRS. MAOOS'S Catalogue 288 gives engraved portraits and decorative engravings, chiefly of the French schools. Edelinck's engraving after J. Hellart's pleasing portrait of the Due de Bourgogiie from the Wilfrid Lawsou collection is perhaps the most interesting of all, c. 1700, 211., though NanteuiPs 'Ann of Austria,' 1666, 17/. 17s., T. Watson's mezzotint after Drouais's portrait of ' The Du Barry,' Ifrf. 15s. , and ' Madame de Pompadour ' Purcell after C. Coypel 12^. 12s, will tempt the collector hardly less. We noticed two fine en- gravings of which the historical interest is Russian : Stenglin's mezzotint after Caravagne's portrait of Elizabeth I, c. 1750, and the same engraver's re- production of Grooth's portrait of Peter III. of about the same date, for each of which 12/. 10s. is asked. Unusually interesting -as being a good impression of a very early specimen of mezzotint engraving is J. van Somer's ' Ferdinand Maximilianus,' 1668, 131 13s. The ' Decorative Engravings ' include the work of many well-known authors, much of which belongs to a period in which technique, and the amusing character of details, are more conspicuous than any higher imaginative merit ; we may instance Borinet's ' L'Amour offrant des Presents a Arianne,' 1790, 321. !.?.; 'La Declaration' and ' Le Serment,' line engravings by Bervic after Fragonard, c. 1830 40/. the pair ; and Dembrun's 'La Toilette de la Marine,' after Le Brun, 19/. 19-s.

[Notices of other Catalogues held over.]

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