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4132 Westmacott (C.)

Sotheran, £5 1OS. Points of Misery, original edition, with 20 designs by Robert Cruikshank, in wrapper, uncut, 1823, 8vo. (712) Ellis, 75. 4133 [White.] Sporting Scenes and Country Characters, by "Martingale," with numerous illustrations on wood, original covers bound up, mottled calf extra, t. e. g., 1840, 8vo. (714) Ellis, 19s. 4134 Wilkinson (Sir J. G.) Manners and Customs of the Ancient Egyptians, both series, 6 vol., engravings, some coloured, original cloth, uncut, 1837-41, 8vo. (718) Sotheran, £1 14s. 4135 Yarrell (W.) History of British Birds, 3 vol., first edition, LARGEST PAPER, with the Supplements, 520 wood engravings, half morocco gilt, t. e. g., Van Voorst, 1843, imperial 8vo. (723) Roche, £6

[APRIL 4TH, 5TH, 6TH AND 7TH, 1900.]

SOTHEBY, WILKINSON & HODGE.

THE REMAINING PORTION OF THE LIBRARY OF THE LATE MR. GLEESON WHITE AND OTHER PROPERTIES.

(No. of Lots, 1545; amount realised, £1,404 Is.)

[NOTE. The majority of the books sold on this occasion were made up in "parcels."-ED.]

(a) The remaining portion of the late Mr. White's Library. 4136 Blake (W.) Works, Poetic, Symbolic and Critical, by Ellis and Yeats, 3 vol., numerous illustrations, 1893, royal 8vo. Hill, £1 16s.

(61) 4137 Brown (Ford Madox). Cartoons, 20 plates in portfolio, 1895, atlas folio (166)

Thorp, £1 4s.

4138 Dürer (The) Society Publications, First Series, 22 etchings in portfolio, 1898, imperial folio (167) Tregaskis, £1 3s. 4139 Morris (Wm.) The Art of, by Aymer Vallance, with reproductions from Designs and Fabrics printed in colours of the Original Examples of the Type and Ornaments used at the Kelmscott Press-also a Bibliography by Temple Scott, portrait, editor's copy, Chiswick Press, 1897, folio (158)

Tregaskis, £5 15s.

4140 Muther (R.) The History of Modern Painting, 3 vol., numerous illustrations, 1895-6, 4to. (134)

Walford, £1 8s.

4141 Roberts (W.) Memorials of Christie's, a Record of Art Sales

XIV.

24

from 1766 to 1896, 2 vol., portraits and illustrations, 1897, 8vo. (40) J. Douglas, £1 4142 Scribner's Magazine from 1873-81 and 1887-91, 26 vol., cloth and half bound, 1873-91, 8vo. (89) Halewood, I IOS. 4143 Stevenson (R. L.) and W. E. Henley. Three Plays, first edition, presentation copy, with autograph inscription, programmes of the performances of two of the plays, and the printed prologues, 1892, 8vo. (60) Pickering, £2 12s. 4144 Studio (The). An Illustrated Magazine of Fine and Applied Art, 13 vol., illustrations, including a large folding plate in the first volume, 1893-8-Seven Supplementary Numbers, etc., 8vo. (144) Edwards, £6 15s. 4145 [Swinburne (A. C.)] The Heptalogia, or The Seven against Sense, a Cap with Seven Bells, first edition, Chatto, 1880, 8vo. (51) Pickering, 1 7S. 4146 Whistler (J. M.) Whistler v. Ruskin--Ten o'Clock, 2 copies -Notes "Harmonies" "Nocturnes," 4 parts, etc., 1884-9 -Mathews (E.) Shilling Garland, 9 Nos., 8vo. (80) Tregaskis, £15s. 4147 Whitman (Walt) Complete Poems and Prose, 1855-1888, portraits, presentation copy, "Gleeson White, from the author, Nov. 4, 1890," and pressed leaves mounted on flyleaf given by Walt Whitman to Mr. White, reviews, etc. inserted, 1889, royal 8vo. (54) Tregaskis, £2 25. 4148 Wilde (O.) Poems, fourth edition, presentation copy, with autograph inscription on fly-leaf, 1882, 8vo. (69)

(B) Other Properties.

Pickering, 1 6s.

4149 Adventures of a Post Captain, by a Naval Officer, 24 coloured plates by Williams, half calf, uncut, n. d. (1817), 8vo. (215) Hornstein, £2 12s. 4150 Ainsworth (W. H.) Works, "The Original Illustrated Edition," 16 vol., illustrations by G. Cruikshank, etc., Routledge, n. d., 8vo. (265) Hatchards, £2 12s. 4151 Anglo-Saxon Review. A Quarterly Miscellany, edited by Lady Randolph Churchill, portraits, calf, the sides gilt to a Clovis Eve pattern, with arms in the centre, g. t., J. Lane, 1899, folio (1405) Denham, 14s. 4152 Arabian Nights' Entertainments, translated, with copious Notes, by E. W. Lane, 3 vol., many hundred engravings, from designs by W. Harvey, half morocco gilt, m. e., 1839-41, 8vo. (1163) Bumpus, £2 4153 Archer (J. W.) Vestiges of Old London, a series of etchings from original drawings (tinted), with descriptions, half bound, t. e. g., 1851, 4to. (1158) Edwards, £17s. 4154 Ashley (A.) History of the Art of Etching, by A. Ashley, MS. additions, 3 vol., illustrated with nearly 400 engravings, by Howitt, Van de Velde, Wilson, Waterloo, Weirotter, Hollar, Landseer, etc., half russia, 3 vol., 4to. (522) Denham, L1 145.

4155 Atkinson (J. A.) and J. Walker. Manners, Customs and Amusements of the Russians, with Descriptions in English and French, 3 vol., 100 coloured plates, original boards, uncut, Bulmer and Co., 1803-4, folio (1120) Maggs, £4 10s. 4156 Baillie (Captain W.) Works, 107 plates after the great masters, Boydell, n. d. (746) Roche, £2 8s. 4157 Beauties of England and Wales, by Britton, Brayley, etc., 18 vol. in 25, numerous plates, half calf gilt, 1801-15, 8vo. (465) Ridler, £1 135. 4158 Beckett (G. A. à). The Comic History of England, 2 vol., 20 coloured plates and woodcuts by Leech, very clean, in original gilt cloth, Punch Office, 1847-48, 8vo. (296)

Edwards, LI IIS. 4159 Bewick (T.) Fables of Æsop and others, first edition, on LARGEST PAPER, subscriber's copy, with thumb mark receipt, woodcuts, calf, joint cracked, m. e., Newcastle, 1818, imperial 8vo. (294) Thorne, £3

4160 Bewick (T.) Figures of Birds, 2 vol., morocco extra, t. e. g., 1800, 4to. (1301) Loftus, £2 10S.

[As apparently no other copy is known, this was sold not subject to collation. - Catalogue. But 10 copies were printed. ED.]

4161 Bewick (T.) Four large wood Engravings of Lion, Tiger, Zebra, Elephant, proofs on India paper, in sunk mounts, 101⁄2 by 8 inches (circa 1790), 4to. (626) Thorne, £2 6s. 4162 Bewick (T.) History of British Land and Water Birds, 2 vol. in 1, fine impressions of the woodcuts, Newcastle, 1809 -History of Quadrupeds, sixth edition, ib., 1811, half russia, g. e., 2 vol., 8vo. (399) Thorne, £110S. 4163 Bewick (T.) Vignettes to the Birds and Quadrupeds, 273 woodcuts, each printed on a separate page without letterpress, uncut, Newcastle, 1827, 8vo. (400) Thorne, £2 6s. 4164 Bewick (T.) History of British Birds, with the "Additamenta," 2 vol., "imperial paper," numerous woodcuts, calf gilt, Newcastle, 1826, 8vo. (1141) Hill, £2 18s.

[The last edition superintended in its passage through the press by Bewick.-Catalogue.]

4165 Bewick (T.) History of Quadrupeds, LARGE PAPER, morocco extra, g. e., 1791, royal 8vo. (1296) Rimell, £2

[100 copies only were printed on royal paper.—ED.] 4166 Bewick (T.) Esop's Fables, original calf, with thumb mark receipt, and bookplate of William Thomas, engraved by Thomas Bewick, inserted, 1818, demy 8vo. (1297)

Craddock, I IIS.

4167 Bewick (T.) British Birds, vol. i., thick paper, morocco extra, t. e. g., 1804, royal 8vo. (1298) Loftus, £145.

[A few copies of vol. i. were printed on large paper and dated 1804, to range with vol. ii. of that year. They otherwise belong to the second issue of the first edition.Catalogue.]

4168 Bewick (T.) General History of Quadrupeds, fifth edition, royal paper, the numerous woodcuts engraved by T.

Bewick, calf gilt, m. e., Newcastle, 1807, 8vo. (613)—Bewick (T.) History of British Birds, 2 vol., royal paper, the numerous figures engraved on wood by T. Bewick, calf gilt, m. e., ib., 1805, 8vo. (614) Britton, £3 5s. 4169 Bible (The). Genevan Version, revised by L. Tomson, second edition of the Bible printed in Scotland, damaged at beginning and end, otherwise a fairly sound copy, sold not subject to return, Edinburgh, Andro Hart, 1610, folio (1112) Russell, £8 5s.

[The first Bible printed in Scotland was the well-known 'Bassandyne Bible," 1579 (1576), folio, taken from the folio issued at Geneva in 1562.-ED.]

4170 Boccaccio (G.) The Decameron, translated by John Payne, 2 vol., illustrations by L. Chalon and the additional plates, Lawrence and Bullen, 1893, imperial 8vo. (836)

Thorp, £1 18s. 4171 Botticelli. Drawings by Sandro Botticelli for Dante's Divina Commedia, edited by F. Lippmann, reduced facsimiles after the originals, 1896, 4to. (1060) Rimell, £110S. 4172 Bourassé (Abbé J. J.) La Touraine. Histoire et Monuments, numerous full-page and other illustrations, morocco gilt, gilt gaufré edges, Tours, 1856, folio (1117) Barclay, £1 5s. 4173 Britton (J.) Architectural Antiquities of Great Britain, 5 vol., numerous plates, the first 4 vol. half russia, the other in boards, uncut, 1807-26, 4to. (520) Rimell, £1 13s. 4174 Brown (Rev. F.) Abstracts of Somersetshire Wills, six series, 6 vol., 150 copies printed, half vellum, uncut, Privately printed for F. A. Crisp, 1887-90, 8vo. (934)

Hitchman, £2 125. 4175 Brown (J.) Original Memoirs of the Sovereigns of Sweden and Denmark, 2 vol., portraits, 1895-Secret Memoirs of the Court of Louis XIV., portrait, 1895, one of 5 copies of each work printed on Japanese vellum paper, 3 vol., 8vo. (1230) Maggs, 1 5s. 4176 Brugsch-Bey (Dr. H.) History of Egypt under the Pharaohs, edited by P. Smith, second edition, 2 vol., maps and illustrations, 1881, 8vo. (910) Sotheran, £1 18s. 4177 Buckle (H. T.) History of Civilization in England, 2 vol. and duplicate vol. i., 1858-61, 8vo. (654) Sotheran, £175. 4178 Burney (Miss). Evelina, or the History of a Young Lady's

Introduction to the World, coloured plates by W. Heath, half morocco gilt, m. e., 1821, 8vo. (764) Spencer, £97s. 6d. 4179 Burton (R.) The Anatomy of Melancholy, eighth edition, vellum gilt, gilt gaufré edges, 1676, folio (812)

Tregaskis, £1 IOS. 4180 Burton (Sir R. F.) The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, reprinted from the original edition, and edited by L. C. Smithers, 12 vol., 1894, 8vo. (1223) Walford, £4 4181 Burton (Sir R. F.) The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, another copy, 12 vol., 1894, 8vo. (1224) Bumpus, £4 4182 Burton (Sir R. F.) The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus, now first completely Englished into verse and prose, with

explanatory notes by L. C. Smithers, one of 4 copies printed on LARGE JAPANESE VELLUM PAPER, the frontispiece in three states, For subscribers only, 1894, 8vo. (1219)

Denham, £2 10s. 4183 Campan (Mme.) Memoirs of the Court of Marie Antoinette, 2 vol., portraits, 1895-Memoirs of Madame la Marquise de Montespan, 2 vol., portraits, 1895-Memoirs of C. M. Talleyrand, 2 vol., portraits, 1895, 6 vol., 8vo. (1218) B. F. Stevens, £1 9s. 4184 Carlyle (Thomas). Works, bound in 18 vol., russia gilt, m. e., n. d., 8vo. (865) Ellis, £3 12s. 6d. 4185 Columbus (Christopher). His own Book of Privileges, 1502, facsimile of MS. now first published, with Translation, etc., edited by B. F. Stevens, oak boards, half bound, uncut, 1893, folio (1075) Maggs, £2 4186 [Combe (W.)] History of Johnny Quae Genus, the Little Foundling of the late Dr. Syntax, a Poem, coloured plates by Rowlandson, half bound, joints broken, Ackermann, 1822, 8vo. (763) Maggs, £2 5s. 4187 Cosway (Mrs.) Progress of Female Virtue, 8 plates engraved by A. Cardon from original drawings, fine impressions, one of the engravings imperfect, original boards, R. Ackermann, 1800, oblong folio (803) Parsons, 1 15s. 4188 Daniell (T.) Oriental Scenery, 24 large coloured views in Hindoostan, in facsimile of the original drawings, half bound, 1795, oblong folio (1121)

Thorp, £4 4189 Dickens (C.) Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi, edited by "Boz," 2 vol., first edition, illustrations by Cruikshank and a portrait of Grimaldi, in the original pink cloth, uncut, 1838, 8vo. (627) Lewine, £2 8s. 4190 Dickens (C.) Works, édition de luxe, 30 vol., portrait and illustrations by G. Cruikshank, etc. on India paper, 1881-2, 8vo. (259) Roche, £9 12s. 6d. 4191 Dickens (C.) Works, 30 vol., édition de luxe, numerous plates by G. Cruikshank, Seymour, Phiz," etc., on India paper, morocco extra, g. t., uncut, by Rivière, Edmund Yates' copy, with his ex-libris in each vol., 1881-2, 8vo. (1389) E. Parsons, £25 10s. [This set brought £34 at Mr. Yates' sale. See BOOKPRICES CURRENT, vol. ix., No. 843.-ED.]

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4192 Dumas Fils (A.) La Dame aux Camélias, Preface de J. Janin, illustrations by A. Lynch, half morocco, g. t., uncut, Paris, n. d., 4to. (861) Foulard, 1 5s. 4193 Egan (Pierce). Real Life in London, by an Amateur, 2 vol., coloured plates designed and engraved by Heath, Alken, Rowlandson, etc., a few leaves soiled, uncut, T. Johnson and Co., n. d., 8vo. (868) Bartlett, £110S.

4194 Eliot (G.) Romola, 2 vol., édition de luxe, illustrations by Sir F. Leighton on India paper, morocco extra, g. t., by Rivière, Edmund Yates' copy, with his ex-libris in each vol., 1880, 8vo. (1387) Maggs, £1 17s.

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