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seer, Leech, Leslie, Maclise, Pinwell, Seymour, Stone, Stanfield, Tenniel, Topham, Walker, Webster, on India paper, 60 vol., full old-rose French crushed levant mor., damask watered-silk linings, g.e., London, Chapman & Hall, 1881-82, roy. 8vo. (145), Nov. 16, Amer. Art Assoc. $900

Dickens (C.), The Writings of, with Critical and Bibliographical Introductions by Edwin Percy Whipple and others, Standard Library ed., profusely illustrated with many engravings from the orig. designs by Browne, Cruikshank, Leech and others, 32 vol., three-quarter red levant mor. gt., g.t., fine set, Boston [1894], 12mo. (187), Nov. 3, Amer. Art Assoc. $145 [See also Jan. 12, $30; Mar. 1, $90.] Dickens (C.) Works, edited by A. Lang, Gadshill ed., portrait and illustrations by Seymour, Phiz, Cruikshank and others, 36 vol. (Vol. 34 wanting), orig. cloth, 1897 (158), Mar. 30, Hodgson Morrell, £12 IOS.

[See also Dec. 1, 18; Mar. 24, £17 10s.; July 21, hf. mor., £36; Dowell, July 25, £15.] Dickens (C). Works, edited by Richard Garnett, Edition des Amateurs, limited to 200 sets, this being No. 10, 30 vol. -The Life of Charles Dickens, by John Forster, 2 vol., extensively illustrated with steel portraits and illustrations from original designs by Phiz, Cruikshank, Leech and other artists, mostly on Japan paper, the fronts. in colours on heavy plate paper, title-pages in red and black on Japan paper, together 32 vol., three-quarter blue levant mor. gt., gt. panelled backs, g.t., uncut, fine set, London [1900], 8vo. (197), Dec. 1, Amer. Art Assoc. $170 Dickens (C.) Works, Biographical ed., plates, 20 vol., hf. mor., g.t., 1903-8, 8vo. (512), June 30, Sotheby Marks, £8 15s. Dickens (C.) Works, Letters, and Life by J. Forster, National ed., one of 750 copies, plates on India paper, 40 vol., orig. cloth, g.t., 1906-8, 8vo. (287), June 30, Sotheby

Sawyer, £68 [See also April 25, £53; Hodgson, May 18, £59; Dowell, Oct. 25, £45 10s.; Amer. Art Assoc., April 25, ex.-illus., $900.] Dickens (C.) Works, Fireside ed., illustrations by Cruikshank, Phiz, etc., 23 vol., tree cf., g.e., London, Chapman & Hall, n.d., 12mo. (110), Jan. 10, Anderson Gall. $40 Dickensian (The), a Magazine for Dickens Lovers, edited by B. W. Matz, Vol. i. to xix., cloth, wrappers preserved, sold as a periodical, 1905-23, 8vo. (311), July 28, Sotheby Marks, £1 18s. Dictionarium. Expositiones difficiliorum vocabulorum de bibliotheca per ordinem alphabeti, manuscript on vellum, 264 11., double columns, beautifully written in gothic characters, first initial in colours on a gold ground, others in alternate red and blue, with penwork ornament in the

complementary colour, French binding of green mor. gt., border of grapes and vine leaves on sides, 14th Cent., folio (279 by 208 mm.), (385), Dec. 13, Sotheby

Thorp, £65

[A fine manuscript, decorated in good style and in excellent condition. At the end is the note, "Hic liber est Beate Marie Regalis Montis [Royaumont]. Qui titulum delevit vel ab eadem ecclesia furtive alienaverit hunc librum sit a Deo anathema maranata." Every page in this manuscript has a row of capital J's, alternately red and blue, in front of each column of text. This type of ornament indicates a Parisian atelier of the earlier 14th century, and is found in the famous Bible written by Robert de Billyng, and dated 1327 (see H. Martin, "La Miniature Française," Paris, 1923).]

Dictionary of National Biography, orig. ed., 63 vol., with two Supplements, 6 vol., together 69 vol., hf. mor., 1885-1912 (865), Jan. 26, Hodgson Lee, £17 [See also July 13, cl., £12 5s.; Sotheby, July 20, cl., £15 10s.; July 28, cl., £13 10s.; 1908-20, re-issue, 23 vol. -Sotheby, Nov. 22, mor., £33; July 20, cl., £16; Hodg

son, Dec. 21, mor., £26.] Dictionary of National Biography, Second Supplement, 3 vol., hf. mor., m.e., 1912, 8vo. (168), Dec. 21, Hodgson Stanton, £2 8s.

[See also Dowell, Feb. 28, 2 vol., 16s.; Ed. 1903, Index and Epitome-Puttick, Dec. 2, 1; Ed. 1903, Index, Epitome and Second Suppl.-Christie, July 25, £1 5s.] Dictionary (Pearson's Miniature), the smallest English Dictionary, LARGE PAPER, portrait, green levant mor. gt., g.e., by Zaehnsdorf, Glasgow, printed by Robert Maclehose [for David Bryce & Son], n.d. (33 by 22 mm.), (161), June 27, Sotheby Quaritch, £5 5s.

[See also Lot 162, small paper, £2.] Diderot (Denis). La Religieuse, portrait and plates in proof state before letters, 2 vol., red mor., by Bozerian (signed), rare, Paris, 1798, 8vo. (302), Feb. 21, Sotheby Maggs, £11 Digby (Sir Kenelm). Two Treatises, in the one of which, The Natvre of Bodies; in the other, The Natvre of Mans Sovle, is looked into, in way of discovery, of the Immortality of Reasonable Sovles, first ed., slight waterstains, wormhole in lower margins, hf. cf., At Paris, printed by Gilles Blaizot, 1644, folio (34), May 30, Sotheby

Morison, £19 [Presentation copy from the author, with inscription (shaved) at foot of title, "For Mr. President of the English College at Doway." See also July 14, £6 10s.; July 28, £4 5s.; Ed. 1668-Hodgson, Mar. 30, £3 3s.]

Digges (Sir Dudley). The Vnlawfulnesse of Subjects taking up Armes against their Soveraigne, first ed., orig. vellum gt., panelled sides [Oxford, L. Lichfield], 1643, 4to. (352), April 27, Sotheby McLeish, £3 IOS.

Digges (Thomas and Dudley). Foure Paradoxes, or Politique Discourses, a few ll. stained and a few passages scored, Errata pasted on reverse of last leaf, red mor., leafy borders, panel divided vertically into two decorated compartments, inner borders, black inlays, g.e., decorated by Sir E. Sullivan, H. Lownes for C. Knight, 1604, sm. 4to. (15), Dec. 13, Sotheby Edwards, £7 155. Dighton (Dennis). Drawings of the Costume of the British and French Armies, 68 sheets of drawings, besides 2 landscapes, 70 sheets in all, of which three are col., loose in a folder, 1814-22, folio (595), Dec. 13, Sotheby Garrett, £36 Dilke (Emilia, Lady). French Furniture and Decoration in the Eighteenth Century, buckram, g.t., 1901, sm. folio (140), Feb. 28, Dowell

£2 16s. [See also Amer. Art Assoc., Mar. 31, $17.50.] Dilke (Lady). French Engravers and Draughtsmen of the XVIIIth Century, plates, cloth, t.e.g., 1902, imp. 8vo. (455), Dec. 9, Hodgson Quaritch, £1 16s.

[See also Sotheby, July 14, £1 10s.; Amer. Art Assoc., Mar. 31, $100.] Dilke (Lady).· French Painters of the XVIIIth Century, illustrations, cloth, t.e.g., 1899, 4to. (304), Oct. 6, Puttick

[See also Amer. Art Assoc., Mar. 31, $12.] Quaritch, £2 Diodorus Siculus. Bibliothecae historicae, libri XVII., some I. water-stained and some margins wormed, contemp. binding of brown cf., sides decorated with an elaborate interlacing fillet to a geometrical design, on both covers the name Cecil repeated four times and the Burghley crest (a sheaf of arrows) stamped repeatedly (sometimes within the garter) either in the border or in compartments formed by the interlacing fillet, the background is also decorated by the following stamps repeatedly used, a lion, a Tudor rose, a small star, and a fleur-de-lys, in the centre oval on the upper cover is the inscription των καλων και τημιων η είλησις [sic], and on the lower cover, το ηλιστον και αριστον n bewpia [sic], joints cracked, sold as a binding, Basileae, H. Petri, 1548, folio (778), May 30, Sotheby Tregaskis, £21 Diomedes. De Arte Grammatica [with Tracts by other Grammarians], [Hain 6215, Proctor 7167], with colophon "Impressum est hoc opus per Henricu de sancto Urso in Vincentia, Anno . . . MCCCCLXXXVI." printed in roman type, a few wormholes, full mottled cf. gt., with arms of the Prince de Condé on sides, Vicenza, 1486, 4to. (216), Dec. 13, Sotheby Leighton, £9 Dionis Nicaei Rerum Romanarum Epitome, edited by Joannes Xiphilinus, woodcut initials and ornamentations by Geoffroy Tory, contemp. vellum, Lutet., 1551, sm. folio (427), Feb. 23, Hodgson Edwards, £1 6s. Dionysii Lebei-Batilii Emblemata a Jano Jac. Boissardo delineata sunt, editio prima, engraved title and 65 fine plates of emblems by Th. de Bry, old vellum, Francofurti, 1596, sm. 4to. (601), Feb. 21, Sotheby Edwards, £3 10s.

Dionysius Alexandrinus.

De Situ Orbis Habitabilis ex versione A. Bechariæ, roman letter, hf. vellum, Venetiis, F. Renner de Hailbrun, 1478, sm. 4to. (427), June 20, Sotheby Ellis, £14 10S. Dionysius Alexandrinus. Eloquentissimi viri domini Antonii Becharie veronensis Proemiu in Dionysii traductionem de situorbis habitabilis ad clarissimu physicu magistru Hieronymu de leonardis, second ed., red old English mor., rare, Venetiis, Franciscum Renner de Hailbrun, 1478, sm. 4to. (445), Oct. 13, Anderson Gall. $24

[Brunet calls for 36 leaves, but the work is apparently complete in 34. A beautiful example of Renner de Hailbrun's fine printing.] Dionysius Halicarnases. Antiqvitatvm sive Originvm Romanarvm Libri XI., panelled cf. (the panel from an old binding and inlaid), Basiliae, in officina Frobenia, 1532, folio (466), Jan. 12, Amer. Art Assoc.

$9

[The Latin version translated from the original Greek by Lapo Birago, corrected and annotated by Henricus Glareanus. Good copy, clean and unwormed, title remargined at top and bottom. With manuscript notations and the date 1613, evidently written by a former owner, on title-page. See also Ed. 1758-Sotheby, Mar. 28, £5 10s.] [Disraeli (Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield).] The Revolutionary Epick, first ed., pres. copy, with two inscriptions in the author's hand, "Mrs. Austen from her friend the Author," on the first half-title, and "Mrs. Austen from her friend Disraeli" on the half-title of Book ii., hf. cf., E. Moxon, 1834, 4to. (332), Feb. 21, Sotheby Thorp, £9 5s. Disraeli (B.) Vivian Grey, first ed., 5 vol., A.L.s. (2 pp., dated Sept. 9, 1851) inserted in Vol. i., hf. cf. gt., g.t., Henry Colburn, 1826-7 (532), July 20, Sotheby

Edwards, I IOS. [Disraeli (B.)] The Wondrous Tale of Alroy, 3 vol., with a 12 pp. list of publishers' advts. at the beginning of Vol. i., 1833 (331), July 21, Hodgson Quaritch, £13 [Disraeli (B.)] The Young Duke, by the Author of "Vivian Grey," 3 vol., 1831 (330), July 21, Hodgson Dulau, £12 [See also Sotheby, Feb. 21, £7.]

Disraeli (B.) Novels and Tales, portrait, 10 vol., hf. red mor., 1871-8 (372), July 13, Hodgson Grant, £2 12S.

[See also Ed. 1881-Christie, July 25, £3; Hodgson, Dec. 1, 3 3s.; Dec. 21, £3 3s.; Jan. 26, £2 10S.; Sotheby, April 25, £3 12s. 6d.; June 20, mor., £5 15s.; Ed. 1890-4 -Sotheby, Jan. 31, mor., £5; Ed. 1900-July 20, cf., £6 5s.; Ed. 1904-Amer. Art Assoc., Nov. 16, 20 vol., on vell., $300; Jan. 19, 20 vol., $22.50; April 25, 20 vol., $80.] Disraeli (Isaac). Commentaries on the Life and Reign of Charles I., first ed., 5 vol., pres. copy, with inscription in

the hand of his son, Benjamin Disraeli [Lord Beaconsfield] "To Benjamin Austen, Esqr., from the Author, with his sincere regards," cf. gt. ex., H. Colburn, 1828, 8vo. (329), Feb. 21, Sotheby Geddes, £4 4S. Disraeli (I.) A Second Series of Curiosities of Literature, second ed., corrected, 3 vol., cf. ex., 1824, 8vo. (333), Feb. 21, Sotheby Abbey, £1 5s.

[See also Ed. 1849-Hodgson, May 4, £1 8s.] Disraeli (I.), A Collected Set of the Works of, mainly first eds., 18 vol., uniformly bound in full cf., gt. panelled backs and inner borders, col. edges, by Bedford, fine set, Greenwich and London, 1801-1841, 12mo. and 8vo. (205), April 25, Amer. Art Assoc.

$80 Dixon (Capt. George). A Voyage Round the World, map and plates (some col.), old mottled cf., 1789, 4to. (127), Nov. 22, Sotheby H. Stevens, £3 10S.

[See also Hodgson, July 13, £1 18s.] Dixon (Dr. Joseph K.) The Vanishing Race, the Last Great Indian Council, illustrated with 80 photogravures, full dark blue pol. cf. gt., g.t., by Zaehnsdorf, New York, 1914, roy. 8vo. (386), May 5, Amer. Art Assoc.

$10

[Tipped in is a note in the author's autograph, "To Russell A. Bowen. Sincerely yours, The Author, Joseph K. Dixon."]

Dixon (Richard W.) Lyrical Poems, No. 13 of 105 copies, ornaments, wrapper, Daniel Press, 1887, sm. 4to. (103), Dec. 21, Hodgson Tregaskis, 1 8s. Dobson (Austin).

The Ballad of Beau Brocade, and other Poems of the XVIII. Century, first ed., with 50 illustrations by Hugh Thomson, inscribed by the Author on flyleaf, orig. cloth, uncut, with the Frederick Locker bookplate, London, 1892, 12mo. (202), Nov. 15, Anderson Gall. $12.50

Dobson (A.) Eighteenth Century Vignettes, the Three Series, first eds., front., Vol. ii. and iii. pres. copies inscribed by the Author, orig. buckram, g.t., 1892-6, 8vo. (183), Mar. 21, Sotheby Heffer, £5 10s.

[See also Anderson Gall., Feb. 14, $4.50.] Dobson (A.) The Garland of Rachel, by Austin Dobson and divers Kindly Hands, first ed., limited to 36 copies, miniature by Mrs. C. H. Daniel, head-pieces and printer's mark by Alfred Parsons, full stiff vellum gt., with ornamental lettering on obverse cover, g.t., uncut, scarce, Oxford, Daniel Press, 1881, 8vo. (369), Feb. 14, Amer. Art Assoc.

$135

[This was Austin Dobson's own copy, with his bookplate on verso of front cover. Tipped in to end-leaf is a printed circular giving a bibliographical account of this work.] Dobson (A.) William Hogarth, with an Introduction on Hogarth's Workmanship by Sir W. Armstrong, plates,

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