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plates (by T. Rowlandson), uncut, sold not subject to return, Ackermann, 1821, 8vo. (846) Shepherd, £3 12s. 6d. 3011 Rowlandson. The Vicar of Wakefield, a Tale, by Doctor Goldsmith, first edition, with the 24 coloured plates by T. Rowlandson, half parchment, uncut, t. e. g., Ackermann, 1823, 8vo. (847) Sabin, £13 3012 Ruskin (John). Notes on some of the principal Pictures exhibited in the Royal Academy, 1875, presentation copy, with inscription, "Thomas Carlyle, with the author's constant love, June 4th, 1875," MS. memorandum of Thomas Carlyle, dated May, 1868, inserted, Orpington, 1875, 8vo. (849) R. Ward, 6 IOS. 3013 Scott (Sir W.) Quentin Durward, 3 vol., first edition, original boards, uncut, Edinburgh, 1823, 8vo. (855)

Sotheran, £2 18s. 3014 Scott (Sir W.) Waverley Novels, Border Edition, 48 vol., LARGE PAPER, printed on Arnold's hand-made paper, with the etchings printed as proofs before letters upon thin Japanese paper, with Introductory Essays and Notes by Andrew Lang, uncut, limited issue, Nimmo, 1892, 8vo. (857) J. Bumpus, £12 5s. 3015 Shelley (Percy B.) Prometheus Unbound, a Lyrical Drama, with other Poems, first edition, C. and J. Ollier, 1820Hellas, a Lyrical Drama, first edition, ib., 1822-The Cenci, a Tragedy, second edition, ib., 1821-Rosalind and Helen, a Modern Eclogue, with other Poems, first edition, 1819, with a general title, "Poetical Pieces by the late Percy Bysshe Shelley," half calf, in 1 vol., 8vo. (861)

Pickering, £8 3016 Sheridan (R. B.) The Duenna, or the Double Elopement, first edition, morocco extra, g. e., 1785, 8vo. (863)

Maggs, £3 35.

[Very rare. The first authorised edition appeared in 1794. -Catalogue.]

3017 Skilful Mountebank (The), or Come and I'le Cure you. It hath not so much power as Patience, yet 'tis a Playster for all Sores, by Joannes Baptista Guardano Lodovico Puncto, a Frenchified Italian, and borne in Bucklersberry, fine copy, calf extra, g. e., by Rivière, 1638, 8vo. (866) Ellis, £6

[Believed to be unique. A similar publication, entitled, "The Westminster Doctor," appeared about 1675, and is equally represented, so far as we are aware, by a single copy-Catalogue.]

3018 Smith (J. Chaloner). British Mezzotinto Portraits, a Descriptive Catalogue of these engravings from the Introduction of the Art to the early part of the present Century, with Notes, complete, 4 parts in 5, with a portrait to each part, original cloth, uncut, 1878-83, imperial 8vo. (867) Sotheran, £8 10s. 3019 Sporting Magazine, from July, 1852 to December, 1862, portraits and plates, 21 vol., half bound morocco, 1852-62, 8vo. (869) Rimell, I IOS. 3020 Sterne (Laurence). The Life and Opinions of Tristram

Shandy, Gentleman, frontispiece to vol. iii. after Hogarth, by Ravenet, 9 vol. in 4, original calf (not uniform), 1760-67, 8vo. (872) Rock, £12 [First editions of all the volumes. Sterne's autograph signature is in vol. v., vii. and ix.—Catalogue.] 3021 Stevenson (R. L). The Pentland Rising, 1666, original wrapper, 1866, 8vo. (873) Pearson, £8 5s. 3022 Stevenson (R. L.) Notice of a New Form of Intermittent Light for Lighthouses, contained in vol. viii., part iii. of the Transactions of the Royal Scottish Society of Arts, in which the paper was first printed, Edinburgh, 1871, 8vo. (874) Pearson, £6 3023 Stevenson (R. L.) On the Thermal Influence of Forests, contained in No. 86 of the Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, in which the Essay was first printed, 1873, 8vo. (875) Pearson, £3 3024 Stevenson (R. L.) On the Thermal Influence of Forests, first issue, original printed wrapper, Edinburgh, Neil and Company, 1873, 8vo. (876) Pearson, £12 3025 Stevenson (R. L.) Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes, frontispiece, first edition, original cloth, 1879, 8vo. (878) Denham, £3 17s. 6d.

3026 Stevenson (R. L.) Virginibus Puerisque, first edition, original cloth, 1881, 8vo. (879) Pearson, £4 4s.

3027 Stevenson (R. L.) New Arabian Nights, first edition, 2 vol., original cloth, 1882, 8vo. (880) Pearson, 11 5S. 3028 Stevenson (R. L.) and Henley (W. E.) Admiral Guinea, a Melodrama in Four Acts, original wrapper, For private circulation only, 1884, 8vo. (881) Pearson, £13 3029 Stevenson (R. L.) Thomas Stevenson, Civil Engineer, by Robert Louis Stevenson, original wrapper, Printed for private distribution, 1887, 8vo. (882)

3030 Stevenson (R. L.) and Henley (W. E.)

the Double Life, original wrapper, For
only, 1888, 8vo. (883)

Pearson, £5 155. Deacon Brodie, or private circulation Pearson, £6 15s.

3031 Stevenson (R. L.) Father Damien, an Open Letter to the Rev. Dr. Hyde of Honolulu, the very rare Sydney edition, with the corrections by the author at page 13, Sydney, 1890, 8vo. (884)

Pearson, £18

3032 Stevenson (R. L.) War in Samoa, original wrapper, September, 1893, 8vo. (885)

Denham, £2 2s. 3033 Stevenson (R. L.) A Letter to Mr. Stevenson's Friends, in the original uncut state as issued, For private circulation, 1894, 8vo. (886) Pearson, £5 3034 Stevenson (R. L.) Moral Emblems, a Collection of Cuts and Verses, by Robert Louis Stevenson, both series, with the two extremely rare single leaf advertisements to same, Davos Platz, 8vo. (887) Pearson, 14 10S.

3035 Stevenson (R. L.) The Graver and the Pen, or Scenes from Nature, with Appropriate Verses, original wrappers, Edinburgh, S. L. Osbourne and Company, n. d., 8vo. (888) Pearson, £6 155.

3036 Stevenson (R. L.) A Child's Garden of

the first edition, original cloth, g. t.,
trimmed, 1885, 8vo. (889)

Verses, first issue of edges entirely unPearson, £3 15s.

3037 Surtees (R. S.) Mr. Romford's Hounds, first edition, complete in the 12 parts, original wrappers, coloured and other illustrations by Leech, etc., 1864, 8vo. (894)

Quaritch, £6 17s. 6d. 3038 Swift (Dean). Travels into several Remote Nations of the World, in 4 parts, by Lemuel Gulliver, portraits and plates, 2 vol., first edition, calf extra, first issue, with the double pagination, 1726, 8vo. (895) Maberley, 13 15s. 3039 Swinburne (Algernon Charles). The Sailing of the Swallow (896) Ellis, £29

[The original proof sheets of the poem, consisting of 20 pages 8vo., uncut, with very numerous corrections and additions, in the autograph of the poet. The following note, also in his autograph and signed (initials "A. C. S."), is added at the end: "Thought you might like to read this before it appears in a month's time. You can keep or destroy this proof, as I have done with the revise.-A. C. S." There is a very curious note, too, at page 11.—Catalogue. These proof sheets were sold at Edinburgh last season for 18 7s. 6d. (see BOOK-PRICES CURRENT, vol. xv., No. 1104). ED.]

3040 Swinburne (Algernon Charles). Chastelard, a Tragedy, first edition, Moxon, 1866-Swinburne's Poems and Ballads, a Criticism, by W. M. Rossetti, Hotten, 1866, original cloth, uncut, 8vo. (1177) Maggs, £1 3s. 3041 Swinburne (Algernon Charles). Songs before Sunrise, first edition, original cloth, uncut, F. S. Ellis, 1871, 8vo. (1178) Maggs, £2 2s. 3042 Swinburne (Algernon Charles). Tristram of Lyonesse, and other Poems, first edition, presentation copy from the author, in the original cloth, 1882, 8vo. (1179)

Maggs, £4 45. 3043 Sylvester (J.) Parliament of Vertues Royal, Panaretus, Bethulians Rescue, Little Bartas, Map of Man, Epigramms, Lachrymæ for Prince Henry and Funeral Elegie on Sydneys, 1614-The Second Session of the Parliament of Vertues Reall, containing Job Triumphant, Memorials of Mortalitie, Henrie the Great, St. Lewis the King, A Hymn of Alms, The Battaill of Yvry, Honor's Farwel, etc., 1615, 2 vol. in I, calf extra, g. e., by F. Bedford, 8vo. (1180)

Maberley, £13 10S.

[The two parts are rarely found together. The present copies have all the separate titles and blank leaves so often wanting. The pieces composing this volume appear to have been separately printed at intervals, during the years 1614-15, and scarcely two copies exactly correspond in the contents. The present one, in unusually fine state, possesses the two Sessions and some of the supplementary forms subsequently added, and has certain blank leaves, not in

most copies, necessary to complete the sheets. Sylvester spent a part of his life abroad, apparently as a merchantadventurer in the Low Countries. Catalogue.]

3044 Tennyson (A.) Poems, by Alfred Tennyson, first edition, original boards, uncut, Moxon, 1833, 8vo. (1184)

Manning, £25 [Southey's copy, with inscription, "Robert Southey, Keswick, 13 March, 1834, from the author."-Catalogue.] 3045 Tennyson (A.) Maud, a Monodrama, printed in black and red, woodcut borders and initial letters, original vellum, uncut, with ties, in case, Kelmscott Press, 1893, 8vo. (1186) Pickering, £3 11s.

[This copy contained the four cancel leaves issued after the work was published.--Catalogue.] 3046 Testament (Het Nieuwe), in Nederduytsch, met Psalmen Davids ende Catechismus, lit. goth., some leaves wormed, contemporary Dutch binding, oaken boards, cloth cover, embroidered in silver threads, with a silver serpent in high relief in centres, perforated silver clasps and bosses, with engraved figures of birds, and long silver chain, gilt and gauffred edges, Amst., J. P. Wachter, 1621 (1188)

Pickering, £24 3047 Thackeray (W. M.) Rebecca and Rowena, a Romance, illustrations by Richard Doyle, first edition, calf, 1850, 8vo. (1189) Sabin, £16 105. [Inserted is an autograph letter from the illustrator, Richard Doyle, to the publisher, F. Chapman, referring to the book. "I have just seen some of the proof sheets of Thackeray's book, and am shocked to find the book is to be so much larger than you told me it was to be. My drawings will look small in the middle of such large pages. Besides the eight illustrations, I have at Thackeray's request done a title page, but without much work in it. There are also two small cuts for the text, and three initials to the chapters."-Catalogue.]

3048 Thackeray. Crowe and Cavalcaselle. The Early Flemish Painters, Notices of their Lives and Works, illustrations, original cloth, uncut, 1857, 8vo. (1195) Pearson, £12

[Presentation copy to Thackeray, with inscription. On the title is Thackeray's library stamp. It was lot 60 in the sale catalogue of that author's library.-Catalogue.]

3049 Thomson (J.) Alfred, a Masque. Represented before their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales, at Cliffden, on the First of August, 1740, first edition, calf extra, g. e., London, printed for A. Millar, over-against St. Clement's Church in the Strand, 1740 (1199) Banks, £8

[Contains the first edition of "Rule Britannia." "From 1740 dates one of Thomson's most famous compositionsthe noble ode known as 'Rule Britannia,' destined to be the political hymn of this country as long as she maintains her political power."-SOUTHEY.]

3050 Tractatus aureus et perutilis de perfecta ymitatione Christi et

vero mundi contemptu, lit. goth., painted capitals, a large and sound copy in old oak boards, covered with stamped pigskin, 1487 (1205) Cotton, £6 IOS. 3051 Tymme (Thomas). A Looking Glasse for the Court, composed by Anthony of Guevara and translated by Sir Fraunces Briant, black letter, woodcut border round title and printer's mark on reverse of last leaf, margin of title repaired and side-notes shaved, morocco extra, g.e., by Rivière, Imprinted at London for W. Norton, 1575, 8vo. (1207) Sotheran, £5

[This is the first edition edited by Tymme, who has prefixed An Address to the Reader in verse. -Catalogue.] 3052 Voltaire. Romans et Contes, 3 vol., portrait and proof plates before the numbers after Marillier, Monnet and Moreau, old French calf gilt, 1778, 8vo. (1210) Mannering, £7 10s. 3053 Walton (Isaac). The Complete Angler, fourth edition, much corrected and enlarged, plates of fish, R. Marriot, 1668Venables (Colonel R.) The Experienced Angler, third edition, frontispiece by Vaughan, 1668, 2 vol. in I, original sheepskin binding, 1668, 8vo. (1211) Meredith, £35

3054 Walton (Isaac). Life of Mr. George Herbert, first edition, portrait by White, fine copy, in the original calf binding, 1670, 8vo. (1214) Bain, £4 10s. 3055 Walpole (Horace). The Mysterious Mother, a Tragedy, with the following MS. note inside the cover: "J. Knightpurchased at a Chandler's Shop in the Village of Fetcham in Surrey, where, with many other books, it had been deposited by Richard Brinsley Sheridan as a security for necessaries furnished to that unfortunate Gentleman, whilst he resided at Randall Park, Leatherhead, and the Rectory at Fetcham." A note on the fly-leaf states: "This book was presented by the Author to Richard Brinsley Sheridan, as the present proprietor of it was informed, by the Honble. Douglas Kinnaird. The marginal notes, etc. are in the handwriting of Sheridan," russia gilt, g. e., J. Dodsley, 1781, 8vo. (1216) Hatchard, £6 3056 Watts (Dr. Isaac). Hymns and Spiritual Songs, in Three Books-I., Collected from the Scriptures-II., Compos'd on Divine Subjects-III., Prepared for the Lord's Supperwith an Essay towards the Improvement of Christian Psalmody, by the Use of Evangelical Hymns in Worship, as well as the Psalms of David, first edition (some headlines shaved), original calf, J. Humphreys for John Lawrence at the Angel in the Poultrey, 1707 (1217) Higham, £65

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[The first edition of Isaac Watts' "Hymns and Spiritual Songs was long regarded as almost unknown. In 1854 Peter Cunningham, in his Life of Watts in his edition of the English Poets, says: "A first edition of the hymns, 1707, is rarer than a first edition of the 'Pilgrim's Progress,' of which it is said only one copy is known."-Catalogue. See ante No. 1426.-ED.]

3057 Wordsworth (W.) Ode on Charles Lamb, slightly foxed,

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