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NOTES AND QUERIES. [9* S.XIL JULY 25,19031

General Indexes, is priced 87^. 10s. Gould's ' Birds of Australia,' with supplement, 8 vols. folio, is priced ISO/. ; his ' Birds of Great Britain,' 551. Other ornithological works which appear are only less scarce. Ackermann's ' University of Oxford ' (from Battle Abbey) has the plates coloured by hand. Nine volumes of Ruskin's chief works in best editions are priced 151.

Mr. Bertram Dobell's catalogue opens with Ame- cana, some of them scarce. Following this come a London bookseller's catalogue, 1687, the first ever issued ; Browning, Byron, Cruikshank items ; works on the drama, including Bellamy's ' Apology,' 6 vols. in 3; a Gray's 'Ode,' performed in the Senate House at Cambridge, first edition (7^. 15s.) ; Baring- Gould's 'Life of R. fe. Hawker'; Johnson's ' Ras- selas,' Col. Grant's copy of the third edition ; a pre- sentation copy from Lamb of his ' John Woodvil ' (price 251.) ; an English Montaigne, 1632, fine copy ; and Wordsworth's 'Lyrical Ballads,' first and secondeditions (Ql. 6s.). A collection of pamphlets and works on Scotland are also mentioned.

Messrs. Pitcher & Co., of Manchester, offer Acker- mann's 'History of St. Peter's, Westminster,' 1812, price 121. 12s. ; a first Bailey's 'Festus'; and 'One Hundred Examples of Bartolozzi's Engravings ' (only 100 copies). Weber's Beaumont and Fletcher, once a drug, is now marked scarce and priced 51. 5s. ; Bryan's ' Dictionary of Painters,' extended to 4 vols., is priced 18Z. ; and Burton's ' Arabian Nights,' 351. Extra-illustrated ' Life ' and ' Works ' of Byron are 14 guineas and 301. respectively. Tonson's ' Don Quixote' is 51. 5s. A bound copy of the 'D.N.B.,' in 66 vols., is offered for 6QZ. Ryley's ' Itinerant,' the whole 9 vols., is scarce and cheap. Dugdale's 1 Monasticon ' is 261. ; H. B.'s ' Political Satires ' (a set) is 85/., and Hamerton's ' Etchings and Etchers,' extended to 7 vols., 1251. Houbraken and Vertue's 'Heads,' well bound, is 251. A fine copy of ' Martial Achievements of Great Britain ' ; ' Me- moirs of Charles Mathews,' extra - illustrated ; Nichols's 'Literary Anecdotes' and 'Literary History,' 17 vols. ; a unique extra-illustrated copy of Mr. Wheatley's ' Pepys ' ; Pyne's ' Royal Residences ' ; Symonds's ' Renaissance ' ; Payne's ' Arabian Nights ' ; and Drake's ' Eboracum. ' are among the works that follow.

Mr. Albert Sutton, of Manchester, issues a cata- logue of cheap books, including military literature. Under headings such as Carlyle, Cruikshank, Dickens, Thackeray, America, Australia, Lanca- shire, Scotland, the student may find many works he seeks.

Mr. George Winter's catalogue is miscellaneous. Its most interesting items may be found under Napoleon, Philological, and Shakespeariana. In the Addenda appear one or two works of extra interest.

Mr. Frank Rollings, of the Turnstile, Holborn, has a large collection of works from the Kelmscott Press, some of them scarce, and all in great demand. He catalogues also a series of autograph letters, many of which might rank as curiosa. Among miscel- laneous books are two rare works of Cotton Mather; Nimrod's 'Memoirs of John Mytton,' second edition ; Casanova in English, large paper ; Cole- ridge's 'Poems,' 1796, and 'Remorse,' 1813; Skelton's ' Charles I.' ; Rowlandson's ' Sketches from Nature,' coloured plates; Hissey's 'Driving Tours,' a complete set ; first editions of Jesse's ' Historical Works,' Ainsworth's 'Jack Sheppard,' and the ' Ingoldsby Legends,' with early editions of

Scott, Swinburne, Morris, Tennyson, Sheridan', Shelley, &c., many of them now very much in request.

Mr. Macphail, of Edinburgh, has engravings of old Edinburgh and many works on Scottish antiquities ; he has also a remarkable collection of works on occult literature, astrology, freemasonry, transcendentalism, &c.

Mr. James Irvine, of Fulham, catalogues works on mountaineering, sport, botany, natural history, Australasia, and very many 'other subjects.

Messrs. Ellis & Elvey's catalogue contains some old astronomical works, including a curious reli6 of early Elizabethan days, the original autograph manuscript of Thomas Charnock's ' A Booke off the Principle Rules off Astronomi begone An'o dom'i 1558.' The list is also rich in works on Australasia, bibliography, music, Ireland, and Scotland. Ijb includes a beautiful copy of the third edition of ' Paradise Lost,' bound by Riviere ; More's ' Utopia,' 1518 ; and the " Tudor Translations," edited by the late W. E. Henley, in the original plum-coloured boards, uncut. There are also some interesting portraits.

Messrs. A. Maurice & Co.'s July list opens with an excessively rare item, ' The Restigouche and its Salmon Fishing,' one of the entire edition of 105 copies, of which only 25 were for sale in Great Britain. There are also the first edition of Mary Howitt's 'Autobiography,' extra-illustrated, and many books on occult sciences and gardening.

Mr. A. Russell Smith has just issued a catalogue of nearly three thousand engraved portraits at prices from sixpence to half-a-crown.

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