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NOTES AND QUERIES. [9 th s. xn. SEPT. 12, 1903.

Bishop Corbet's 'Poems,' 121. 12s.; Cotgrave's 1 Wit's Interpreter,' 1655, 30/. ; Cotton's * Scar ronides,' 5/. 10*. ; Cowley's ' Poernata,' 1668, 51. 5s. early newspapers ; Richard Flecknoe's ' Diariura, 1651, 01. 10*. ; Ben Jonson, 2 vols., 1640, 28L 8*. Lovelace and Davies's ' Letters of Affairs,' 1W. 10*'. Milton's 'Paradise Lost, 1668, 5K., 'Paradise Re- gained ' and ' Samson Agonistes,' 1670, 551. ; Ogilby's ' Virgil,' thick paper, 251. ; ' Quaker Tracts,' 211. ' The Rump,' first edition, 10/. 10s. ; ' The Wits or, Sport upon Sport,' 2 vols., 201. No. 147, W. Shake speare, is a curious collection, which we cannot quite make out.

Other catalogues of the same firm also reach us. One of fine -art and illustrated books includes coloured caricatures by Rowlandson, Woodward Cruikshank, Lane, Alken, Crowquill, and Pym Frankau's ' Eighteenth - Century Colour Prints,' 221. Ids. ; Foster's ' The Stuarts ' ; Jesse's ' English Historical Memoirs ' ; Propert's ' Miniature Art ' ; ' Annals of Sporting ' ; Audley's ' Ornamental Arts of Japan ' ; Balzac's ' (Euvres Completes ' ; Nash's ' Worcestershire ' ; Girtin's ' Views in Paris ' ; Wouverman's ' CEuvres ' ; a MS. Koranus Ara- bicus ; ' Portrait Miniatures in the Burlington Fine -Arts Club'; Williamson's 'Account of Cos- way ' ; a large-paper ' Rubaiyat ' of Omar Khayyam ; a large collection of etchings, with works on porce- lain and on pottery.

A clearance catalogue is rich in Ackermanns, Alkens, costume books, Cruikshanks, and, among separate items, Bewick's ' Works,' 40 guineas ; Brunet's ' Manuel de Libraire ' ; Sharpe's ' British Poets ' ; Chaffers's ' Keramic Gallery' ; Newhouse's ' Coaching Scenes ' ; Fagan's ' History of Engraving ' ; Hill's ' Etchings of Animals ' ; ' The Houghton Gal- lery'; Mignerak's 'Lace,' Paris, 1605, 18 guineas; Meyrick's 'Ancient Armour'; Lysons's 'Environs of London,' extra-illustrated; a 1762 'Cpntes de Lafontaine,' morocco, by Dessoin, with his label ; Morland's ' Sketches of Rustic Farmyards ' ; Piranesi's ' Rome ' ; Smith's ' Catalogue Raisonne",' 42 guineas ; Philobiblon Society's publications ; a collection of Swinburne's works.

A catalogue of mezzotint portraits includes rare portraits of Penn, Richardson, Shakespeare (the Chandos portrait), Goldsmith, Cobbett, Evelina, Duchess of Newcastle, and others.

Mr. Thorp's Catalogue, No. 141, issued from Reading, has a series of interesting articles under such familiar headings as America, Angling, Aus- tralia, Greek and Latin Classics, London, Oxford, Berks, Bucks, &c. Special items include the Osterley copy of Ashmole's 'Antiquities of Berk- shire,' Curll, 10(. 10*., a later edition, 1736, 01. 9*. ; Brayley and Britton's 'Beauties of England'; two collections of Miss Burney's ' Works,' first edition ; ' Le Moniteur de la Mode ' ; Sir G. F. Duckett's 'Charters'; the ' Encyclopaedia Britannica,' 25 vols., full morocco, with the revolving bookcase; Hawker's 'Quest of the Sangraal'; 76 vols. of ' N. & Q.,' no General Indexes ; a 1750 Rabelais in English ; Roberts's ' Holy Land,' 4 vols., atlas folio ; Home Tooke's ' Diversions of Purley,' MS. addi- tions ; and Park's Walpole's 'Royal and Noble Authors.'

Mr. Charles Higham issues what he calls a Holyday - Time Catalogue, consisting largely of theology. There are a largish collection of Roman Catholic works ; Hook's ' Lives of the Archbishops ' ; some foreign and colonial missionary publications ; a contemporary MS. of James I. ; an early Wesley's

' Hymns ' ; Laguna's Spanish version of the Psalms ; the Westminster Missal of the Henry Bradshaw Society ; a Keble's ' Hymns Ancient and Modern,' with MS. additions by the author ; and Newman's ' Lives of English Saints.'

The Rochdale catalogue of Mr. James Clegg gives many works from the library of John Bright. A copy of Cotton's 'Short Explanation' is said to have belonged to Charles Reade the novelist, and to contain a deeply interesting note relative to him and his wife and their domestic happiness. As Reade was never married, this must be curious. Many books are presentation copies to Bright, and some have MS. notes in his hand. Sixty vols. of Cobbett's ' Political Register ' are priced 37. There are a few engravings.

The September catalogue of Henry Young & Sons, of Liverpool, contains some rare and interest- ing books, comprising fine illuminated MSS., including ' Horse Beatse Marise Virginis cum Calen- dario,' with beautiful miniatures, price 120/. The date is about 1440. There is also an heraldic work containing 600 large drawings of the Knights of the Garter, from its foundation to the time of King Charles I., price 40Z., as well as a complete set of the ' Bibliotheca Curiosa ' for 11. 7s., published at 16/. 16s. ; Hill's book on organs, containing 75 large plates of the most famous organs in Europe ; a complete set of the League (newspaper), the organ of the National Anti-Corn-Law League, from its commencement, 30 Sept., 1843, to its close, 4 July, 1846, 3 vols. There are some bargains for book collectors.

Mr. Thorp's (St. Martin's Lane) catalogue for September, in addition to books on general litera- ture, contains a number of Boydell's prints illus- trating Shakespeare.

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