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 NOTES AND QUERIES. ai u. vi. NOV. 23. 1912.

Jortance? makes it delightful reading.

BOOKSELLERS' CATAMGUKS. NOVEMBER.

FRANCIS EDWARDS sends us a Catalogue of on London and its Neighbourhood which

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rth'S"' l l feet Views" of London,' 1816, and Pv' History of the Royal Residences,' 3 vols., 19. Dallaway and Carpenter's History of the Western Division of Sussex, in 3 vols., large number of ! original water-

of Arts Literature, Commerce, Fashions, and

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folio leaves of vellum, lettered L. L F. on back, 50Z The period includes the production of The ' Opera,' which was given for the first 29 Jan 1727, when the account-book

of Shakespeare's plays appear among many others in these accounts.

MR. FRANCIS EDWARDS'S Catalogue No. 316 also contains a large number of good ^ items of which we may mention a complete and unabridged set of the Philosophical Transaction* of the Royal Society from 1665 to 1906, .for which 2001. is asked- Valpy's Delphin edition of the Latin Classics the whole 162 vols., 1825, 301. \ i and a coXlete set, from 1830 to 1911, of the Proceed- ings of the Zoological Society, 70Z.

MESSRS M\GGS'S Catalogue 297 is as full as ever of 1 tSSttnr items-once more Portrait. Deco-

T aureate '^2 July, 1871, 18Z. 18s.: "Spy's" Wagner-' The Music of the Future '-10 May, 1877 35? ; and 'The Diogenes of the Modern Corinthians without his Tub ' being Apes caricature of Carlyle, 22 Oct., 1870, 271. * Among the more important engraved portraita may be mentioned Cousins's mezzotint aft Lawrence's ' Lady Acland,' a copy signed by tM engraver, with the additional inscription M firft plate S. Cousins," 1826, 150 guineas. Then are two portraits of Mrs. SUUqM, ttw J interesting being a mezzotint of J . K. u ^ _ after the portrait Lawrence painted of 1 he was 13, 1783, 35*. Another example of Smithes work, for which 1061. is asked, is th,- en-ravin- after Appiani's portrait of Napoleon fnSh Napoleon, with the bridge of .Creole behind him, confronts a winged female fig^ewho inscribing something on a shield a P^J^gJ which might serve to iUustrate ]ust how fai brilliant technique may be said to redeem > hopelessness of utter frigidity in conception (IE Nearly the same might be said save for t charm of the figure-of Val Green's engraving of Reynolds's ' Lady Talbot,' 1782, 150J. Hoppnt ' Mrs. Jordan as Hypohta,' engraved by Jones is offered for 14Z. 14s. (1791), and a pair of Baito - after Reynolds' Lady Harrington and h. en' and 'Lady Smith and her Children j for 50 guineas. 401. is in each case the asked for Smith's mezzotint after Romney a j .urs. Carwardine and Child ' (1781), and Cousins, s engraving of Lawrence's 'Lady Gower and h Daughter' (1832). Lawrences pretty Lad} Blessington '-again engraved by Cousins 1 mav be had for 91. 9s. A more important woi of which the price is 115Z. 10s., is the portrait Peters of Lady Elizabeth Compton, engraved I JR. Smith, 1780. Among the engravings decorative subjects are six or seven Bartolos the best of which is after Angelica Kauffman ' Venus attired by the Graces,' 1784, 45Z. Therj are four after Morland among them ^ ' The Shepherds,' printed in colour, 1 08, 1 gx^neaSs well'as P a set of five sporting pates some of which are after his work, 1790, 52*. Ids.

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