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NOTES AND QUERIES. [ii s. ix. MAY 23, 101*.


 * and William Le Queux. Among the illustrators
 * are John Hassall, Lawson Wood, Byam Shaw,

Lewis Baumer, Charles Grove, and .T. H. Thorpe. One contributor, the Duke of Argyll, died while the publication was at press, and it is a pathetic poem which appears with his name.

The price, as we state, is one shilling, and purchasers have the satisfaction of helping the institutions connected with printing, bookselling, .and newsvending. Last year a certain sum was given to trade charities, and we hope that Mr. W. Hugh Spottiswoode, who originated ' Printers' Pie,' will have the satisfaction of dividing a larger tsum this year. ' The Queen ' Newspaper Book of Travel, 1914.

(Horace Cox, 2s. Qd. net.)

IN this little book over 2,000 home and foreign resorts are alphabetically arranged under coun- tries, and the best time for visiting them is given. Practical hints as to railways, customs, sports, c., are included, and two special sections deal with outlined tours (by rail, motor, cycle, and on foot), at home and abroad respectively. Chapters are devoted to information for those who wish to visit India or other winter resorts. There are 21 excellent maps and 72 illustrations. Mr. M. Hornsby has bestowed his visual care in gathering the information.

BOOKSELLERS' CATALOGUES. MAY.

MB. B. ATKINSON of Forest Hill devotes 'fifteen pages of his Fifth Catalogue to books at '2s. each, and a large number of the other items are -equally moderate in price ; for instance, one can obtain the 1759 edition of Walpole's ' Cata- logue of Royal and Noble Authors,' 2 vols., for 4s. Among works slightly higher in price are Reid's ' Word and Phrase Concordance to Burns,' Glasgow, 1889, 13s. 6d., and Ellis's ' Lexical Con- cordance to Shelley,' 1892, II. There is also a 'list of remainders, including ' The History of the Hawtrey Family,' 2 vols., 1903, 3s. 6d., and Huyshe's ' Royal Manor of Hitchin and its Lords,' 1906, 2s. 6d.

'MR. P. M. BARNARD of Tunbridge Wells divides his Catalogue 87 into three parts : Incuna- bula, Aldine Press, and Early Illustrated Books. Part I. contains examples of the early presses of Strassburg, Cologne, Augsbxirg, Nuremberg, Speier, Fsslingen, Reutlmgen, Leipzig, Hagenau, Freiburg, Rome, Venice (including Cicero, ' Tusc. Qua?st.,' Jenson, 1472, 35Z.), Milan, Florence, Ireviso, Naples, Padua, Mantua, Verona, Bale, Paris, Lyons, Daventer, Louvain, Brussels (Car- melite Breviary, Fratres Vitae Comrnunis, 1480, 25Z.), Seville, and Pamplona. Among the Aldine productions are the first editions of Sophocles, 1502, 51 15s., and Herodotus, 1502, 252. -the latter a copy owned in turn by Beatus Rhenanus, R. F. P. Brunck, and Renouard. The illustrated books in Part III. include Burgo, ' Pupilla Oculi,' Paris, 1510, bound with Richard Rolle of Ham- pole, ' De Emend. Vitre,' Paris, 1510, 35Z. ; a collection of medical tracts by Ciiampier, Lyons, 1506-16, 18Z. ; first German translation of the ' Odyssey,' 1537, 15Z. : Horse B.V.M., Kerver, 1514, 21Z. ; ' Hypnerotomachia,' 1545, 45?. ; Reisch, ' Margarita Philosophica,' 1508, 18Z. ; and Vergil, Strassburg, 1502, 15Z. The Catalogue contains about thirty reproductions of woodcuts.

MESSRS. H. R. HILL & SON include in their Catalogue 119 many works in handsome bindings. There are several books in black-letter, e.g.^ Ascham's ' Scholemaster,' 1579 ; ' Toxophilus,' 1571 ; and his ' Report and Discourse of the Affaires of Germany ' (1570, first edition), in 1 vol., 221. 10s. ; the second edition of Barclay's translation of Brant's ' Stultifera Navis,' with 118 curious woodcuts, " imprinted at London in Paule's Churchyarde, by John Cawood," 1570, 211. 10s. ; Langland's ' Vision of Pierce Plow- man,' " nowe the second time imprinted by Roberte Crowley, dwellinge in Elye rentes in Holburne," 1550, 12Z. 12s. ; and the editio princeps of the Nuremberg Chronicle, with the supplement ' De Sarmacia,' Nuremberg, Antonius Koberger, 1493, 18Z. 10s. The development of English literature is well represented. We may name Skeat's ' Complete Works of Chaucer,' with the Supplementary Volume, 7 vols., 1899, 3Z. 15s. Gd. ; Arber's ' English Reprints,' com- plete set, 30 vols. in 10, 1869, 21. 2s. ; A. H. Bullen's ' English Dramatists,' large paper, 16 vols., 1885, 121. ; Painter's ' Palace of Plea- sure,' edited by J. Haslewood, 2 vols., 1813, 31. 15s. 6d. ; a number of works issued by the Early English Text Society ; and Child's ' Eng- lish and Scottish Ballads,' 8 vols., Boston, 1857, 2Z. 10s. There are sections devoted to Natural History Sciences ; Engineering, Mechanics, Tech- nics, &c. ; and Classics and Philology.

MESSRS. MAGGS'S Catalogue of Bookbindings, Historic and Artistic, is elaborately illustrated with specimens of Italian, Venetian, French, Spanish, English, and Scotch bindings. Plate III. is an excellent specimen of a chained book in its original binding, with brass corner-pieces, and chain attached : it is Joannes Nider's ' Aurei Sermones,' Esslingen, C. Fyner, 1478, and is priced 30 guineas. Erasmus's Paraphrase of the Acts, " Basileae ex Off. Jo. Frobenii," 1524, in a contemporary English binding, is 57Z. 10s. ; Cicero's ' Opera,' 1545-6, 7 vols., in Grolier bind- ing, 125Z. ; Sternhold and Hopkins's ' Psalms collected into English Meeter,' 1635, in an embroidered binding, 42Z. 10s. ; and ' Heures presentees a Madame la Dauphine,' morocco extra by Padeloup, 185Z. Present-day English binding is not overlooked : we may cite as examples the " Parchment Library Edition " of Shakespeare, large paper, 12 vols., 1882, levant morocco by Cobden-Sanderson, 42Z. ; the Kelm- scott Press vellum copy of Morris's ' Poems by the Way,' 1891, green levant morocco by Riviere, 45Z. ; Tennyson's ' Princess,' 1860, blue levant morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, enriched with 162 precious stones, 175Z. ; and Aytoun's ' Lays of the Scottish Cavaliers,' 1865, dark-blue levant morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, set with 131 jewels, 125Z. The Catalogue concludes with a list of Books on Bookbinding.

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