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-a collection. Two attractive works on Costume .are Shaw's ' Dresses and Decorations of the Middle Ages ' (2 vols., 1843, 31. 12s. Gd.) and ' Les Modes Parisiennes ' (4 vols., 1854-6, 21. 10s.). We also noticed a first edition of ' Matthew of Westminster ' (1567, 21. 2s.) and eight volumes of ' The Present State of Europe ' (1692-1701, vols. vi. and x. missing) to be had for three guineas. A supplement to this Catalogue gives particulars of about a hundred items, many of which are very attractive ; we have only space to mention a copy of Mr. Foster's work on the De Walden Library s published at six guineas and offered here for two.

No. 256 is the most important of Messrs. Dobell' 8 -Catalogues that we have yet seen. It begins with fifteen items of first- class interest, from which we select for mention an exceptionally fine copy of Brant's ' Stultifera Nauis ' (1570), 40*. ; a first edition of ' Paradise Regained,' 281. ; and a first edition of Randolph's 'Poems,' bound by Riviere (1638), 14L Messrs. Dobell have further seven or eight of Richard Braithwaite's books, including the ' Epitome of the Lives of the Kings of France ' (1639), 51. 5s. ; and ' Time's Curtaine Drawne ' (1621), 4L 10s. ; Marmion's ' Holland's Leagver,' from the Huth Library (1632), 61. 6s. ; and, also from the Huth Library, ' The Maid's Petition,' a tract of four leaves, sm. 4to, in half calf, issued in 1647, and priced at three guineas.

In Messrs. Myers's Catalogue No. 213 we observed a set of 150 plates of designs of ' Carpets from the Jaipur Palaces ' work of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and noted that they are on a scale large enough to work from. This book, which has letterpress by Col. T. H. Hendley, and was printed by W. G. Griggs, is to be had for 101. ' Collectanea Hibernica ' is another attrac- tive item. It consists of engravings, portraits, MS. pedigrees, original documents, autographs, music, and other such things, ranging in date from 1599 to 1900, arranged in five thick folio volumes, and costs 251. We also liked the two volumes of Gillray's 'Caricatures' (1851), 31. 15s.; the collection of views and other matters relating to Bath (1645-1895), 31. IQs. ; and the copy of Viollet- le-Duc's ' Dictionnaire Raisonne de 1' Architecture Francaise du Xle au XVIe siecle, 1 31. 17s. 6d.

Mr. Meatyard sends us a Catalogue (No. 8) of Drawings and Engravings. Among the portraits we noted Valentine Green's ' Duke of Buccleuch ' after Reynolds, 4Z. 4s. ; J. R. Smith's ' Admiral Duncan,' 11. 10s. ; and Conde's ' Mrs. Fitzherbert ' after Cosway, 161. 16s. From a pleasant collection of Old Views in Great Britain we take the set of four aquatints of London Markets, painted by Pollard, and engraved by Dubourg (1822), 61. 18s. There are a few Colonial and Foreign views, of which the ' Taking of Quebec by General Wolfe ' a line engraving in body colours is perhaps the most interesting (11. Is.). In the way of eighteenth-century engravings of general subjects Mr. Meatyard has Bartolozzi's ' Judgment of Paris ' from Angelica Kauffman (101. 10s.) and Agar's ' Princess Czartoryski ' from Isabey (20 guineas). Among the original drawings is_a piece ' A Toreador ' by Constantin Guys, in colours, 131.

Mr. Horace G. Commin of Bournemouth (Catalogue No. 59) offers for 31. a run of The Annual Register from 1758 to 1844 (90 vols.). He has also Britton and Brayley's ' Beauties of

Enirlaiul, Wales, and Scotland,' 30 vols., in large paper edition, 31. 15s. ; the first series of Curtis's Botanical Magazine, vols. 1 to 16 (1790), 21. 5s. ; and a good collection of works on Dorset.

It is perhaps worth making a note of where to find a complete set of Punch. Mr. Albert Sutton of Manchester (Catalogue No. 226) has one from 1841 to 1914 (146 vols.), offered for 26Z. 10s. He has also the 13 vols. of Sir Walter Scott's edition of the Somers Tracts (11. Is.).

William George's Sons of Bristol (Catalogua No. 359) have a good copy of Nisbet's ' System of Heraldry ' in the best edition (Edinburgh, 1816), 51. 5s. ; and we marked in the same catalogue, as offered for twelve guineas, the 131 vols. of Petitot's Collection of Memoirs relating to French History from Philip Augustus to the beginning of the seventeenth century.

Messrs. E. Parsons Sons send us, just in time for inclusion in this notice, a really fascinating illustrated Catalogue of Old Engravings and Original Drawings. We have spent some time upon it, but must confess that it is difficult out of nearly a thousand items to pick out half-a-dozen to serve as specimens. The collection is repre- sentative of most countries, times, subjects, and schools, and, not less important, its range of prices condescends to the limited capacities of the pockets of some of us. Thus a spirited drawing of Dante and Virgil passing over the Sea of Ice, by Cambiaso, costs 4L Is. ; and a delightful mezzotint of Rembrandt's son Titus as Mars only 187. 18s. Of the more expensive works we may mention ' A Garden Scene, Naples,' by Fragonard a drawing in red crayon 1501. ; Morland's 'Giles, the Farmer's Boy,' engraved by Ward, 58 guineas ; Green's ' Duchess of Devonshire ' after Reynolds, 65 guineas ; and McArdell's ' Duchess of Ancaster,' 51.

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