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editions, such, for instance, as St. Augustine'* Johannes Fust & Schoeffer, c. 1460, which comes from the Syston Park Library, 6,000m ; anc the Lakeland copy of the 'Noctes Atticae,' printec by Nicolaus Jenson Gallicus at Venice in 1472 800m. ; and again the Venetian ' Horace,' printed in 1479 by Petri, 600m. From the episcopa library of Eichstatt comes a copy of Vindelinus <le Spira's ' Livy,' 1470, 1,200m. ; and another fine Venetian ' Livy ' is a copy of the Giunta edition of 1495, 600m. Also for 600m. is offered the Griininger ' Terence,' 1496 ; and we noticed a copy of Griininger's ' Vergil,' 1502, with 214 ^voodcuts designed by Sebastian Brant, for which 450m. is asked.
 * De Arte Praedicandi,' from the press

MB. WILLIAM BROWN of Edinburgh, in his 'Catalogue 200, offers some 29 Autograph Letters of Sir Walter Scott's, to be disposed of separately at prices ranging from II. 10s. to 81. 15s. They were written to Charles Erskine, " his good and -tried friend," from 1800 to 1829, and the best of them, as the descriptions in the Catalogue make clear, are of great interest. For 161. 16s. may be "bought an autograph sonnet by Swinburne on ' The Channel Tunnel,' dated April, 1882 lines which, if one may judge from the first four here given, would have been worthless from any other pen. Pierce Egan's ' Life in London ; or, The Day and Night Scenes of Jerry Hawthorn, Esq., and his Elegant Friend, Corinthian Tom, in their Rambles and Sprees through the Metropolis,' with 36 Cruikshank illustrations, 1820-21, 681., . is the best of four Cruikshank items. In the way of first editions the most interesting are Keats's ' Lamia, Isabella, and the Eve of St. Agnes, and other Poems,' a very good copy, the original boards, uncut, with its paper label on the back and eight pages of advertisements at the end, 1820, 581. 10s. ; Florio's ' Montaigne,' printed at London by Val. Sims for Edward Blount, 1603, small folio, with the three leaves of errata, 681. ; and Swinburne's ' Atalanta in Oalydon,' 1865, 161. 16s. For a fifteenth-century Horse, written by a Flemish scribe in Gothic cha- racter, with a gold line border, and embellished with 17 miniatures, of which 12 are full-page, and with many illuminated capitals, 135Z. is asked. Readers who have been interested in Mr. Clayton's notes on Henry Mayhew may be glad of his ' 1851 ; or, The Adventures of Mr. and Mrs. Sandboys and Family, who came up to London to " Enjoy Themselves " and to See the Great Exhibition,' with plates by G. Cruikshank, the price of which is 10s. 6d. We must not omit Simcoe's ' Journal of the Operations of the Queen's Rangers from the End of the Year 1777 to the Conclusion of the late American War,' Exeter, printed for the author, undated, 40Z. ; and a set of the ' English Dialect Dictionary,' of which the price is 141. 14s.

MESSRS. JAMES RIMELL & Sox's Catalogue of Books on Art (No. 229) includes items of varied interest belonging to many different periods and countries. Foremost among them is the com- plete set of the Arundel Society's Chromolitho- graphs. These were published from 1857 to 1894, and, the Society having been brought to an end in 1896, complete sets of this publication are of great rarity. For this, comprising 202 pictures on 175 mounts, 250Z. is asked. About 80 pictures are also offered separately, and of these the best

are the set which reproduces the Van Eyck altar- piece at Ghent, 16/. 16s., and Botticelli's Prirna- vera, W 6.^ Among the 40 or so Catalogues, that of the Beit Collection, compiled bv Dr Bode and amply illustrated, the price of which H ^.^s., and that of the woodcuts and engravings m the Huth Library, to be had for II. Is., might well tempt a collector. There is a first edition of i'me s Horace bearing the misprint !i post est " for potest on the medal of Ca;sar in vol. ii 1733 15^. ; and another good first edition is Blake's SB?*! w G ; m P laint ' and 'Night Thoughts,' 1797 121. France is well represented : we have the Edition des. Fermiers Gene>aux of La Fon- taine, abundantly and finely illustrated with OTfiSf b T T - Eisen nd Choffard, engraved bv Fhpart, Lemire, and other engravers a good copy, bound by Holloway, Amsterdam, 1762 oW. ; the CEuvres de Moliere,' with Moreau's illustrations, Paris, 1773, 31Z. 10s.; another set of engravings to illustrate La Fontaine those after Oudry by several engravers, 4 vols 35/ and Le Paradis Perdu, poeme par Milton' Edition en Anglais eten Frangais,' with 12 stippie

9 $S ili n ?J ed f in Col ?. Ur after M " Scha11 ' Paris, V ' m ' 1 mentlon on ly a few out of manv

In Topography we noticed the 24 plates of V - I6WS in 2, xford ' etched an ; and Girtin ' s 'Selection of the Most Picturesque Views of Paris and its Environs,' 1802 12Z. 12s. There are exarnp es of the work of Schongauer and of Albert Durer, and several books of Hours among these last a Hardouyn of 1519, which appears to contain within one cover two separate books of Hours, and is oddly described in the heading as an " Illu- minated Missal," 25Z. Under the heading Co< tume appear about 40 works, of which the most expensive describes, and illustrates with 96 plates the military history and costume of the variouS European armies at the time of the Peninsular War and Waterloo, Goddard & Booth, 1812 22,

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