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Jacobus do Voragine, * Legenda Aurea,' 251. ; and Symonds's ' Renaissance in Italy,' 7 vols., 211. Other items challenging notice arc 'Poetry of the Anti- Jacobin,' extra illustrated, Arber's reprint, large paper ; Barbara's ' Ingoldsby ' ; Bentham's ' Works,' 1843; Dodsley's translation of the 'Decameron,' extra illustrated ; the Villon Society's 'Decameron,' large paper; Browning's 'Works,' first edition; Ormerod s 'Chester' ; ' Stephani Thesaurus,' Valpy, 1816-28 ; Dialect Society's Publications ; Fielding's Berthelette, 1554; Hugo's 'Works'; Litta, ' Fa- miglie Celebri Italiane ' ; Bentley's ' Lucretius,' with autograph letter; Cust's 'National Portrait Gallery, 3 407. ; 'Paradise Lost,' 1674, 61. 6*., and a second with Martin's plates; Baker's 'Northampton- shire'; Pennant's 'Topographical Works,' Percy Society, 101. 10d., the cheapest copy we have seen catalogued ; ' Angelo on Fencing,' extra illustrated ; Ocampo, ' La Cronica General. Under customary headings, such as India, China and Japan, Egypt, Ruskin, &c., innumerable books which the book- lover may find with difficulty are indexed.
 * Works,' first edition ; Gower's 'Confessio Amantis,'

Mr. James Roche has Pierce Egan's ' Life in Lon- don,' Cruikshank original wrappers, price 60. ; Sharpe's edition of the poets, lllO vols., 23/. ICk ; Ackermann's 'Microcosm of London, '3 vols., IS/. 18.s.; Boydell's * Shakespeare Gallery ' ; Claude's ' Liber Veritatis'; Romney's water-colour drawing of 'Shakespeare nursed by Comedy and Tragedy'; Bowyer's edition of Hume's ' History ' ; Roberts's 'Holy Land'; Stanfield, Roberts, &c., 'Scotland Delineated'; Bunbury's plates illustrating Shake- speare ; Macaulay's ' Works,' library edition ; a long series of Arundel prints ; another of coloured illus- trations ; original edition of the Le Brun Gallery ; Boswell's 'Johnson,' extra illustrated; H. B.'s 'Caricatures' ; ' Religious Ceremonies,' 1736 ; Smol- lett and Fielding's ' Works ' ; the Munich Gallery, &c. There are a collection of portraits and a long list of those illustrated works which are a speciality with Mr. Roche.

Mr. Thomas Thome, of Newcastle, indexes the Pickering series of folio reprints of the Book of Common Prayer, 7 vols. ; Bullen's series of son^- book reprints ; Chaffers's ' Keramic Gallery ' "a 1398 Chaucer, price 12/. ; Freeman's ' Norman Con- quest'; the Dulwich Gallery; Kingsley's 'Life and Work ; ' British Birds ' ; Engleheart's Miniatures, one with added illustrations- Pro- pert'a 'Miniatures' ; Sowerby's 'English Botany' publications of the Harleian Society, the Chemical Society, the Reliquary, &c. The first two-volume edition of Tennyson's 'Poems,' 1842, and the first In Memonani are priced respectively 21/. and 41. 10s. ; I he Perfumed Garden ' is offered for3/ 3 Genest s 'Account of the English Stage,' some bindings broken, is7/., which is cheap ; FitzGerald's 'Omar Khayyam/ 1879, is 31. 10*.; Sir George Dasent s Works are 6V. 6.s. ; the same price is asked for a copy of the Vinegar Bible. Under Byron, Dickens, Thackeray, &c., the curious may look with advantage. Heraldry also supplies manv interesting items.

Mr. Albert Sutton, of Manchester, draws special of the 'Illustrations of the

Sixties,' which he holds, after Mr. Gleeson White will m time be prized as highly as 'Bible Wood- cuts ' the 'Dance of Death,' and the 'Liber Studiorum.' In their own way these are said to touch high-water mark." His catalogue contains a series of such, which does not claim tobe

complete ; but most of the views expressed are accurate, and of highest interest to collectors, since some scores or hundreds of such books are offered at prices ranging from 26-. a volume to 6,9. or 7s.

From the Chaucer's Head, Birmingham, Mr. Downing issues a catalogue of miscellanea, in which we detect an. extra-illustrated copy of Mabel E. Wotton's 'Portraits of Famous Writers '; Belcher and Macartney's ' Later Renaissance Architecture in England ' ; Miss Cartwright's ' Christ and His Mother in Italian Art ' ; ' The Transactions and Pr9ceedings of the Society of Biblical Archaeology'; Fairfax Murray's 'Catalogue of the Portraits at Welbeck Abbey ' ; a Diodorus Siculus, Venice, 1481 (the first edition is 1476), with marginal notes: the tenth edition of the 'Encyclopedia Britannica, 35 vols., bound in three-quarter morocco, 25/.; Tuer's 'Horn-Book,' 2 vols., 1896; Index Society's publications ; Westwood's ' Illuminated Manu- scripts ' ; Re"tif s ' Les Franchises ' ; Foster's ' Mary, Queen of Scots'; the 'Newgate Calendar'; thai 1872 ' Omar Khayyam ' ; Caulfield's ' Remarkable Persons,' both series ; the Plantin Pindar ; and ' Meditationi del Rosario della Gloriosa Vergine/ Venice, 1583, with fine wood engraving.

A curious item stands second in the catalogue of Mr. Alexander W. Macphail, of Edinburgh. It is ' Macbeth.' with alterations by Tate, printed by T. & W. Ruddiman for Allan Ramsay, published at Is., and offered for 301. ' The Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland,' a complete set, are 91.10$. Burns's 'Merry Muses,' privately printed in 1827, is offered for 15,s. There is a long list of Curiosa. The speculative book-purchaser may look under headings such as Jacobite, High- lands, &c. What seems a cheap copy of Picart's ' Costumes and Ceremonies of the World,' 1707-10, is offered. It is in 13 vols. folio, but wants the first section of vol. x.

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