OHN LANE has just published "The Uncollected Work of Aubrey Beardsley," with an introductory essay by C. Lewis Hind. THE Navarre Society, Ltd., of London, as just published an edition of Walton and Cotton's "Complete Angler," uniform with the society's other publications, illustrated by eight etchings by Damman and seventy-four woodcuts scattered thru the text. This edition is one that will appeal to the Walton collector. AN attempt is being made to collect material for a biography of William Gifford, the first editor of the Quarterly Review, many periods of whose life are still obscure. John Murray, 50A Albemarle Street, London, W.1, asks for the privilege of seeing any letters or documents containing material that may be useful in preparing this biography. SOME of the mysteries concerning Edgar Allen Poe, especially the story of his two years' army service and certain details of his quarrels with his foster father will be discussed in a volume of "Edgar Allan Poe Letters" to be published in a limited edition in the autumn by J. B. Lippincott Company. This volume will contain an introduction and commentary by Mary Newton Stanard. CHARLES J. SAWYER of London, who purchased the famous Huth collection of chap books and garlands, has THE HE current catalog of Maggs Brothers of London, entitled "Important and Valuable Books, Historical, Biographical and Literary," contains 1,777 lots, much of which is of special interest to collectors. An important lot is an unusual collection of children's books, published between 1670 and 1860, in London, Paris, Glasgow and elsewhere, consisting of 380 volumes, many illustrated by Bewick, Cruikshank and other famous illustrators. These volumes are mainly in original wrappers or board bindings, great care having been taken to secure the books in the choicest possible condition. has THE great success of Stanley Morison's monumental "Four Centuries of Printing," the limited edition of which was exhausted soon after publication, encouraged the publishers to undertake another work entitled, "The Art of the Printer," which will be on a more modest scale and more moderate in price. It will be a demy quarto, showing in all 250 examples of fine printing, from the year 1501 to William Morris. Its price, £1 10s., should bring it within the reach of many printers, bibliophiles, amateurs and pub lishers thruout the world. It will be published in the fall by Ernest Benn, Ltd., of London. AN important book sale, comprising selections from various consignments, will be held at Sotheby's in London, July 27th. The 222 lots include such rarities as a fine Italian Psalter of the fourteenth century, one of the finest known examples of its kind; a Wycliffite New Testament, about 1400; a twelfth century Seneca; leaves with very fine miniatures; Oriental manuscripts; many rare works of early English literature; fine bindings, including a Grolier binding of a rare type and several Maoli bindings; rare tracts of Erasmus; first editions of Fielding, Smollett, and Sterne; a collection of English sporting books; autograph letters including Washington, John Eliot, Carlyle, Thackeray, Stevenson, Lamb, Napoleon, and the fine complete manuscript of Sir Walter Scott's "The Antiquary." "THE WOODCUT ANNUAL FOR 1925," promised some months ago by Alfred Fowler, publisher of "The Bookplate Annual," has made its appearance and is all that the advance notices have led us to expect. The volume is a handsome large quarto, arranged in double column, printed in large type, on Old Stratford paper, bound in orange boards and limited to 600 copies. Gardner Teall tells "The Story of the Woodcut," from its infancy to present modernism, illustrated with fourteen wood engravings of various periods. Rudolph Ruzicka has written "A Note on the Technique of Wood-engraving and Wood-cutting" illustrated with examples of the author's own work in black and white and in color. Ralph C. Smith, of the Graphic Arts Division of the United States Division of the United States National Museum, discusses "Portrait Engraving by Timothy Cole" giving especial attention to this phase of the great artist's work together with a quick glance at his whole career. James Guthrie writes about "The Woodcut as a Book Art," and in addition to the illustrations for all of these articles there is a portfolio of woodcuts by Lucien Pissaro, Charles A. Wilkinson, 1 Charles B. Falls, John F. Greenwood, Margaret Callet-Caracano, and J. J. Lankes. The frontispiece is a reproduction in colors of "Flying Island" by Walter J. Phillips and there is a color insert by Rudolph Ruzicka to illustrate the method of printing woodcuts in colors. These features are followed by a list of contemporary woodcuts, useful for the print collector and important as a chronological record of the art of the woodcut. The list has been compiled from information supplied by the artists and gives the titles, dimensions, states, and editions of these various contemporary prints. This volume, the first in a new series, will undoubtedly be an important factor in the revival of wood engraving, and Mr. Fowler should have the encouragement and support of all who are interested in progress in this field of the graphic arts. IN the N the current number of Antiques George H. Sargent writes at length about "The Highest Priced American Book," John Eliot's translation into the Indian language of Baxter's "Call to the Unconverted," published in Cambridge in 1664, an unique copy of which brought £6,800 a few weeks ago in a London auction room. The publication of this volume was a matter of record and it had been sought untiringly by collectors and librarians. Its recent discovery was due to the sale at auction of a consignment of old books and pamphlets by the Royal Society Library in order to get funds for the purchase of books for its scientific library. The trustees of the Royal Society has had little respect for rarities that have been given it. In 1830 this society offered the Arundel Manuscripts, then in its possession, to the British Museum, which purchased them, to obtain funds for the purchase of scientific books. And it said that before the recent sale a similar offer was made, the museum authorities being permitted "to make their own valuation." The trustees of the British Museum could hardly offer a nominal price for such a rarity as Baxter's "Call," or for a unique copy of the trial issue of the Second Folio of Shakespeare. As Mr. Sargent points out, "the Royal Society now profits to a large degree by its action, but it can never retrieve the losses due to past neglect. In 1872 the elder Quaritch bought from a cellarful of old books and pamphlets, many of which were beyond restoration, being water-soaked, torn and mildewed. Skill ful restoration, however, gave him a good bargain, as many of the specimens saved were from block books and incunabula, which have long since passed into great public and private libraries. The portion offered in the recent sale was a portion of the remainder of the Society's rare books." As another writer has remarked, "the lack of care and preservation of the Society's treasures has doubtless resulted in amazing lusses." 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