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backs, broad gilt ornamental borders with joints, g. e. Royal folio. Firenze, 1817-19. £2 125. 4201. Fishmongers' Company. The Fishmongers' Pageant on Lord Mayor's Day, 1616; Chrysanaleia, the Golden Fishing devised by Anthony Munday, Citizen and Draper. Represented in 12 plates by H. Shaw from contemporary Drawings in the possession of the Fishmongers' Company, with illustrative Documents by J. G. Nichols. Russia gilt, g. e. (cracked). Imp. fol. 1844. £6 10s. ¶ Only 27 copies printed at the expense of the Fishmongers' Company, and the only one (except that retained in their library) with the arms of the 38 members of the Company who have been Lord Mayors emblazoned. From the library of Edw. Tyrrell, Esq., late City Remembrancer.

4202. Drake (Francis). EBORACUM, or the History and Antiquities of the City of York. Inlaid throughout, with specially printed titles. Extra illustrated with 450 rare views, portraits, original drawings, etc. Bound in 6 vols. Russia, g. e., with joints. Imp. folio. 1736. £31 ¶A most interesting copy, from the library of Fauntleroy, the Banker-Forger, at whose sale it was purchased by Mr. Hurd for £130 10s.

4203. Blasone Bolognese, cioè Arme Gentilizie di Famiglie Bolognesi, Nobili, Cittadinesche e Aggregate, con annotazioni. 22 11. of text and 4,720 coats-ofarms in colours. Half bound in 2 vols. Imp. folio. Bologna, F. Canetoli,

1791-93.

4204. Shaw (H.). DRESSES AND DECORATIONS OF THE MIDDLE AGES.
paper. Coloured and other illustrations.
Roy. 4to. W. Pickering, 1843.

2 vols.

4205. Caxton. RECUEIL OF The Historyes of Troy. H. Halliday Sparling. 2 vols. Vellum, uncut. Morris, 1892.

£3 35. Large Half red morocco, t. e. g. £2 185. Corrected for the press by Kelmscott Press, by Wm. £3 105.

£3 55.

£6 6s.

4206. Caxton. THE GOLDEN LEGEND. Edited by F. S. Ellis. 3 vols. Boards, uncut. Kelmscott Press, by Wm. Morris, 1892. 4207. La Fontaine (J. de). FABLES CHOISIES. 4 vols. Portraits and numerous plates after Oudry. Old French calf gilt, g. e. Paris, 1755-59. 4208. Grands Peintres Français et Etrangers, avec Texte par les Principaux Critiques d'Art. 2 vols. in 8 parts. Many hundred photogravures, in portfolios. Paris, 1884-86. £2 4209. Tasso (T.). GODFREY of BULLOIGNE, or the Recoverie of Jerusalem. Done into English Heroicall Verse by Edw. Fairefax. First edition. Portrait, and plates inserted from an Italian edition, 1617, signature of "John Dryden, 1695" on title. Old boards covered in fancy paper. A. Hatfield for J. Jaggard, 1600. £2 105.

SALE OF MISCELLANEOUS BOOKS.

Messrs. Hodgson, July 3rd, 4th, and 5th, 1895.

4210. Shakespeare (W.). WORKS. Edited by Clark, Glover, and Wright. 9 vols. Cloth. Cambridge, 1863-6.

£1 175.

4211. Halkett and Laing. DICTIONARY OF ANONYMOUS AND PSEUDONYMOUS

LITERATURE. 4 vols. Royal 8vo, Cloth, uncut.

1882-8.

£1 135.

4212. Young (E.).

Uncut. 1797.

NIGHT THOUGHTS. Illustrated by William Blake. Imp. 4to. £3 7s. 6d. 4213. Engravings and Woodcuts by the Old Masters (secs. xv. xix.). Reproduced in facsimile by the Imperial Press at Berlin. Fine impressions. 5 parts. Imp. folio. Half bound morocco. B. Quaritch, 1889-94. £3 195. 4214. Ex-Libris Society's Journal. Edited by W. H. K. Wright and A. J. Jewers. Illustrations. 4 vols. Cloth (vol. iv. in nos.). 1891-4. £1 165. 4215. Ongania (F.). LA BASILICA DI SAN MARCO IN VENEZIA. Beautiful chromolithographs in 2 atlas folio portfolios, and text illustrated by many hundreds of woodcuts and autotypes, in 15 parts or portfolios. Imp. 4to., and a parcel of text. (Sold not subject to collation.) 1881-93. £4 10s. 4216. Books about Books-DUFF. Early Printed Books; Pollard. Early Illustrated Ditto; Madan. Books in Manuscript; Elton. The Great Book Collectors; Hardy. Book-plates, and Horne on the Binding of Books. Printed on Dutch hand-made paper. Illustrations on vellum. 6 vols. Large paper. Half vellum, uncut. 1893-4. £3 Is. India proofs.

4217. Storer (J.). CATHEDRAL CHURCHES OF GREAT BRITAIN.

Largest paper. 4 vols. 4to. Old russia, gilt edges (repaired). 1814. 1 125. 4218. Rawlinson (G.). SIXTH GREAT ORIENTAL MONARCHY. Coloured fronts. Maps and cuts. Cloth. 1873. £3

Maps and plans. 3 vols. £175.

4219. Cook (Capt.). VOYAGE TO THE PACIFIC OCEAN. 4to., with folio atlas of plates. 4 vols. Calf. 1785. 4220. Owen (R.). ODONTOGRAPHY. With atlas of plates. 2 vols. Royal 8vo. Half morroco, gilt tops. 1840-5.

£1 85.

4221. Low's English Catalogue of Books, from 1835 to 1894 (wanting 1884), with Index of Subjects, from 1837 to 1880. 6 vols. Half bound, and 13 parts, sewed.

4222. Freer.
3 vols.
4223. Freer.
2 vols.
4224. Scott.

£4 17s. 6d. HENRY III., KING OF FRANCE-His Court and Times. Frontispiece. Cloth, uncut. 1858.

135.

Elizabeth de VALOIS AND The Court of PHILIP II. Frontispiece.
Cloth, uncut. 1857.

145.

WAVERLEY NOVELS.

Numerous

illustrations £4 45.

Abbotsford Edition.
Royal 8vo. Cloth. 1842.

(some plates spotted). 12 vols. 4225. Ottley (W. Y.). HISTORY OF ENGRAVING UPON COPPER AND IN WOOD. Large paper. Proofs on India paper. 2 vols. Imp. 4to. Uncut. 1816. £6 10s. 4226. Guercino-Bartolozzi's Engravings from Drawings by Guercino, Carracci, etc. Upwards of 150 fine tinted plates. 2 vols. Imp. folio. 1764. £7 4227. Cassell's Magazine of Art, from the commencement in 1878 to 1893. Etchings and other illustrations. 16 vols. Half bound. £2 105. 4228. Parker (J. H.). GLOSSARY OF ARChitecture. Illustrations. 3 vols. Half calf gilt. 1850. £285. 4229. Allibone. DICTIONARY Of English LITERATURE. 3 vols. Royal 8vo. Cloth. 1881. £1 105. 4230. Barrie (J. M.). A WINDOW IN THRUMS. Etchings by W. Hole, R.S.A. (only 550 so printed). Royal 8vo. Cloth, uncut. 1892. £1 25. 4231. Lawrence (Sir T.). ENGRAVINGS FROM HIS CHOICEST WORKS. Proof impressions of the beautiful portraits, engraved by Cousins, etc. Royal folio. Half morocco. H. Graves, 1841. £5 105.

4232. Coates's Herd-Book.

Plates. Vols. I to 38 (wanting Bulls, vol. 2, Cows, vol. 4 and vol. 15). 38 vols. Boards, 1822-92.

£4

4233. Scott (Sir W.). WAVERLEY NOVELS. Library edition. Fronts. and vignette titles. 25 vols. 8vo. Original cloth. Black, 1852. £3 145.

SALE OF A PORTION OF THE LIBRARY OF REV. J. E. KEMPE, M.A., AND OTHER PROPERTIES.

1802.

Messrs. Puttick and Simpson, July 10th and 11th, 1895.

4234. Ruskin (J.). Stones of VENICE. 3 vols. Illustrated by the author. Cloth. Royal 8vo. 1873. £4 65. 4235. Arundel Society's Publications, consisting of Chromo-Lithographic Facsimiles of Paintings by the Old Masters, a series comprising 80 chromo-lithographs and engravings, together 87 plates. £20 105. 4236. Shakespeare. A Collection of Prints illustrating the Works of Shakespeare. Fine impressions. 2 vols. Old crimson morocco, g. e. Atlas folio. Boydell, £12 4237. Thackeray. MARVY'S SKETCHES AFTER ENGLISH LANDSCAPE PAINTERS, with short notices by W. M. Thackeray. Illustrations. Half mor., rare. D. Bogue, n. d. LI IOS. 4238. Hora Beate Marie Virginis sed'm usum ecclesie romane. Printed on vellum, within woodcut borders, 18 large and 14 small miniatures, initial letters in gold and colours. Old red morocco, with arms of Dugast Bois St. Just et de sa femme Maindestre, g. e. Paris, par Gilles Hardouyn pour Germain Hardouyn, s. d. £13 10s. 4239. Horæ Intemerate Virginis Marie Secundum usum Romanum. Printed on vellum, 15 large and 46 small miniatures, initial letters in gold and colours (some 11. supplied in MSS.), 9 11. of MSS. inserted at end. Crimson morocco extra, tooled sides, doublé with olive morocco, gauffré edges. Paris, Thielman Kerver, s. d.

4240. Jesse (J. H.). MEMOIRS OF THE COURT OF ENGLAND. Cloth. 1843.

£14

3 vols. Portraits. £3 55.

4241. Holborn-Drollery, or The Beautiful Chloret surprized in the Sheets, to whom is annexed Flora's Cabinet Unlocked. Mor., g. e. (title and 3 11. edged). 12mo. 1673. ¶ Very scarce. 4242. Austen (Jane). 4243. Williams (D.). plates coloured.

Midgley's copy sold for £3 16s.

LI IS. PRIDE and PrejudiCE. First edition. 3 vols. 1818. 55. THE HISTORY OF MONMOUTHSHIRE. Special copy, with the Russia. 1796.

£2 10s. 4244. Morgan (G. B.). HISTORICAL AND GENEALOGICAL Memoirs of the MORGAN FAMILY. Illustrations, 3 series, parchment wrappers. Privately printed, 1891£145. Coloured plates. Half £5

95.

4245. Alken (H.). ILLUSTRATIONS TO POPULAR SONGS. morocco. Oblong. 1823.

4246. De Quincey. CONFESSIONS OF AN ENGLISH OPIUM-EATER. First edition.

Half calf.

1822.

125.

4247. Nichols (J.). LITERARY Anecdotes of the Eighteenth CeNTURY. 7 vols.

Portraits.

Cloth.

1812.

155. 4248. Bunbury (H.). Twenty-two Plates illustrative of interesting Scenes in the Plays of Shakespeare. Half bound. n. d. £7 105. 4249. Felix on the Bat; being a Scientific Inquiry into the use of the Cricket Bat. Coloured plates. Cloth. 1845. 135.

1851-3.

4250. Ruskin (J.). STONES OF VENICE. 3 vols. First edition. Illustrated by the author. Cloth. Imp. 8vo. £6 5s. 4251. Campbell's Lives of the Lord Chancellors. 7 vols. Cloth. 1846. £18s.

SALE OF THE LIBRARY OF THE EARL OF ORFORD.

Messrs. Sotheby and Co., June 10th and 11th, 1895.

4252. Adam (R.). RUINS OF THE PALACE OF THE EMPEROR DIOCLETIAN AT SPALATRO. 61 plates. Fine early impressions, vellum gilt, with the Walpole arms on sides (original subscriber's copy). Imp. folio. 1764. £245. 4253. Esopus. VITA ET FABELLÆ GR. ET LAT.; Gabriæ Fabellæ Gr. et Lat. Phurnutus, Heraclides, Palæphatus, etc. Editio Aldina, old calf. Small folio. Venet. Aldus, 1505.

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4254. Alciatus (Andreas). EMBLEMATUM LIBELLUS, nuper in lucem editus. 84 fine woodcuts, brown morocco, line tooled with fleurons, gilt edges, by F. Bedford, fine copy, very rare. Venet. Aldus, 1546.

£6 This the first part of Alciat, all that was printed at the Aldine Press. The Syston Park copy sold for £11 10s.

4255. Aldo Manutio. RELATIONE DELLA QUALITA DI JACOMO DI CRETTONE ALL, illustriss. et excellentiss. S. Jacomo Boncompagno (4 leaves, I blank), brown morocco gilt, anchor on sides, gilt edges, rare. Impresso Aldo, Vinegia, 1581 (Mediol., 1830). 16s.

This account by Aldus of the "Admirable Crichton" was printed (about 1830) from a MS. in the Ambrosian Library by Tosi of Milan, in imitation of Aldine type. Only 13 copies printed (not 30 as Brunet says). 4256. A[llott] (R.). ENGLAND'S PARNASSUS; or the Choysest Flowers of our Moderne Poets, with their poetical comparisons. Autograph of Sophia Evelyn on fly leaf, old calf, imprinted for N. L. C. B. and T. H. £34 Extracts from Shakespeare, Spenser, Gascoyne, Dekker, Chapman, Ben Jonson, and others. One of the largest copies known.

1600.

4257. Aretino (Pietro). CAPRICCIOSI ET PIACEVOLI RAGIONAMENTI, nouva editione (con la Puttana Errante). Modern portrait of Aretin inserted (edizione originale Elzeviri), red morocco, full gilt dotted scroll back, line frame with centre ornamented on sides, inside gilt borders, gilt edges, by Hardy, fine copy. Stampata in Cosmopoli (Amst. Elzevir.), 1660. £4 155.

4258. Ariosto (Lud.).

1545.

ORLANDO FURIOSO. Old calf. Small 4to. Vinegia, Aldo,

LI IIS.

4259. Ariosto. ORLANDO FURIOSO, con cinque canto d'un nuovo libro et altre Stanze nuovamente aggiunti, con belle Allegorie. Woodcuts. Catherine de Medici's copy, in contemporary Venetian light brown calf, inlaid in dark brown centre and

corner scrolls in a panel, with outside borders of alternate floreate scrolls, and large double M and double C interlaced, gilt edges. A remarkably fine specimen. 4to. Lione, B. Honorati, 1556.

£130.

4260. Ariosto. ORLANDO FURIOSO (con le Osservazioni del Sig. A. Lavezola), nuovamente adornato di figure di Rame di Gir. Porro. 51 fine copperplate engravings (plate 33 in duplicate as usual). Bound in 2 vols. Old French red morocco, elegant ornamental back and sides, gilt edges. Madame de Pompadour's copy with her arms in centre. Small folio. Venet.. 1583-4. £21 This copy is separated by the binder at plate 37, on the back of which is written a neat title.

4261. Art of Contentment (The), by the Author of "The Whole Duty of Man," etc. Old English red morocco, inlaid in black and slate-colour mosaics, with elaborate scroll gilt tooling. A fine specimen. Oxford, 1675. £7 155. 4262. Ashburnham MSS. (Catalogue of the), the three parts complete (comprising the Libri and Barrois MSS. and Appendix). Boards, uncut. 4to. Privately printed, C. F. Hodgson, n. d. £6 5s. 4263. Ashurnham Manuscripts (Catalogue of the). Large paper, boards, uncut folio. Privately printed, C. F. Hodgson, 1853. £5 55.

4264. Ashburnham Library. Catalogue of the most rare and curious printed books. Half morocco, top edges gilt, privately printed, 1864. £5 10s. 4265. Astronomici Veteres Græci et Latini (Julius, Firmicus, Manillus, Aratus et Proclus), editio prima Aldina. Woodcuts. 2 vols. in I. Vellum gilt, gilt edges, fine copy, rare. Small folio. Venet., Aldus, 1499.

The Beckford copy sold for £12 55.

£7

4266. Bacon (Lord). THE Two Books of the Proficience AND ADVANCEMENT OF LEARNING, divine and humane. First edition. Large paper, brown morocco gilt, gilt edges, by F. Bedford, very fine copy. Small 4to. Henrie Tomes, 1605. £49 ¶ An interesting copy, having belonged to the learned Isaac Casaubon, whose autograph is on the title, and numerous marginal annotations in the first book. Large paper copies are extremely rare.

4267. Baffo (Giorgio). RACCOLTA UNIVERSALE DELLA OPERE. Portrait and frontispiece. 4 vols. in 2. Calf gilt, gilt edges, fine copy, rare. Cosmopoli (Venezia), 1789.

£3 Free poems in the Venetian dialect. Said to have been printed at the expense of the Earl of Pembroke. 4268. Beda (Ven.) HISTORIÆ ECCLESIASTICA GENTIS ANGLORUM LIB. V., quibus accesserunt Anglo-Saxonicæ Leges. Old calf gilt, J. A. de Thou's copy, with his arms and those of his second wife on sides, and monogram on back, red edges. Cant. R. Daniel, 1643. £185. 4269. Bempo (P.). GLI ASOLANO, EDIZIONE PRIMA (with the dedication to Lucretia Borgia and leaf of errata), vellum gilt. Venet., nelle case d'Aldo Romano, 1505. LI 145.

4270. Biblia Græca. SACRE SCRIPTURE VETERIS NOVÆQUE OMNIA. (Cura And. Asulani). Title, headings, and initials in red. Old calf gilt, gilt edges. Fine copy. Folio. Venet. Aldus, 1518. £27 Very rare. The Sunderland

First complete edition of the Bible in Greek. copy produced £64 and the Syston Park £51.

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