original calf binding (back repaired), in the writing of Handel's pupil and amanuensis, J. Christopher Smith (17121795). These volumes are one of the four full scores known to have been written by him. One of the copies is in the Hamburg Public Library (formerly in Mr. Schoelcher's possession), another belonged to the late Mr. H. B. Leonard, and another, the “Dublin" score, is at St. Michael's College, Tenbury, formerly the property of Sir F. Gore Ouseley, 1712-1795, folio (343) Goldschmidt, £50 [This copy is believed to have been used by Handel at various performances, as is shown by the pencil-notes in the fly-leaf of each volume; and, judging by the autograph signatures inside the covers, it appears that it was at one time in the possession of Dr. William Hayes (1707-1777).— Catalogue.] 6607 Haywood (Eliza). Works, consisting of Novels, Poems and Plays, 4 vol., calf, 1724, 8vo. (54) Dobell, £2 18s. 6608 Herbarius (Germanicé), printed in bold gothic type, with many woodcuts (coloured by hand), old oak boards (some leaves in MS., sold not subject to return), Augspurg, 1485, folio (274) Quaritch, £19 6609 Hissey (J. J.). Drive through England, illustrated by the author, cloth, 1885, 8vo. (58) F. Edwards, £3 2s. 6d. 6610 Johnson (C.) Chrysal, or Adventures of a Guinea, 12 coloured plates, 3 vol., boards, uncut, 1822, 12mo. (65) Maggs, £2 8s. 6611 Jonson (Ben). Workes, portrait by Vaughan and engraved title, old calf, 1640, folio (280) Dobell, £4 7s. 6d. 6612 Keats (John). Poems, first edition, half calf, C. and J. Ollier, 1817, 12mo. (68) Robson, £25 [With autograph inscription on the fly-leaf, "John Clare, Helpstone, 1820."—Catalogue.] 6613 Keats (John). Endymion, a Poetic Romance, first edition, half calf, Taylor and Hessey, 1818, 8vo. (69) Sotheran, £14 [With autograph inscription on the half-title, "John Clare, Helpstone, 1821."-Catalogue.] 6614 Keats (John). Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St. Agnes and other Poems, first edition, half calf, Taylor and Hessey, 1820, 12mo. (70) Dobell, £13 5s.. [With autograph inscription on the fly-leaf, "John Clare, Helpstone, 1820."—Catalogue.] 6615 Lamb (Charles). Prince Dorus, or Flattery put out of Countenance, a Poetical Version of an Ancient Tale, illustrated with a series of 9 coloured engravings, first edition, original covers, M. J. Godwin, 1811, 12mo. (75) Sabin, £62 6616 Lamb (Charles). Works, 2 vol., first edition, original boards, uncut, C. and J. Ollier, 1818, 8vo. (76) Dobell, £69 [With inscription on the half title of vol. I in the author's handwriting, "For Mr. Clare, with C. Lamb's kindest remembrance."-Catalogue.] 6617 Lamb (Charles). Elia. Essays which have appeared under that signature in the London Magazine, first edition, original boards, uncut, Taylor and Hessey, 1823 (77) Stevens & Brown, £88 [On the fly-leaf, “Mr. John Clare with Elia's regards,” in the author's autograph.-Catalogue.] 6618 Lang (A.) Ballads in Blue China, presentation copy, cloth, 1883, 8vo. (81) Sotheran, £2 10s. 6619 Parkinson (John). Paradisi in Sole. A Garden of all sorts of pleasant flowers which our English ayre will permitt to be noursed up, woodcuts of plants, old calf (last leaf damaged), 1629, folio (297) J. Russell, £45 6620 Pole (Cardinal). Reginali Foli Cardinalis Britanni, ad Henricũ Octavum Britanniæ Regem, pro Ecclesiasticæ Unitatis defensione, libri quatuor, morocco extra, g. e., Romæ, apud Antonium Bladum (circa 1536), folio (299) Cogswell, £4 6621 Pope (A.) Works, 2 vol., portrait by Vertue (torn), calf, 1717-35, folio (300) Maxstead, £2 1OS. 6622 Shakespeare (W.) Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, old calf, rebacked, Printed by J. Darby, 1723, 4to. (322) Sotheran, £4 15s. [The edition referred to by H. H. Furness in his Variorum Edition of "Hamlet," the existence of which he doubted. It is presumably the edition of the ". accurate Mr. John Hughes" noted by Theobald in his "Shakespeare Restored," the text conforming to those mentioned therein.—Catalogue.] 6623 [Tennyson.] Poems by Two Brothers, first edition, original boards, uncut, Simpkin and Marshall; and J. J. Jackson, Louth, 1827, 8vo. (130) Stevens & Brown, £39 6624 Voragine (Jacob de). Legenda Aurea Sanctorum, gothic letter. with painted capitals, morocco extra, g. e. (MS. notes by Sir G. Ormerod respecting this edition), Colonia (U. Zell), 1483, folio (317) Quaritch, £8 1OS. 6625 Waller (Edmund). Poems, etc., written by Mr. Edmund Waller, of Beckonsfield, Esquire, first edition, morocco extra, g.e., by Rivière and Son, Printed by T. W. for Humphrey Mosley at the Princes Armes in Pauls Churchyard, 1645, 8vo. (137) Young, £14 15s. 6626 Walpole (Horace). A Catalogue of the Royal and Noble Authors, 2 vol., frontispiece and vignettes on titles, old morocco extra in style of Roger Payne, g. e., with David Garrick's bookplate in both volumes, 300 copies issued, Printed at Strawberry Hill, 1758, 8vo. (139) Maggs, £8 6627 Yorkshire. The Costumes of Yorkshire, descriptions in English and French, 41 coloured plates, including the 4 military which are generally wanting, half morocco, Printed by T. Bensley, 1814, 4to. (217) Bain, £4 15s. XVI. 43 [JULY 21ST AND FOUR FOLLOWING DAYS, 1902]. SOTHEBY, WILKINSON & HODGE. A SELECTION FROM THE LIBRARY of Colonel CranmeR BYNG AND OTHER PROPERTIES. (No. of Lots, 1738; amount realised, £3,537 6s.) 6628 Alpine Journal (The), a Record of Mountain Adventure and Scientific Observation, by Members of the Alpine Club, vol. i. to xix., vol. xx., Nos. 147-53, 3 odd numbers and Catalogue of the Library, unbound, 1864-1901, 8vo. (383) W. Ford, £25 6629 Armstrong (W.) Gainsborough and his place in English Art, 62 photogravures and 10 lithographic facsimiles in colour, Heinemann, 1898, folio (228) E. Parsons, £8 5s. 6630 [Barker (M. H.)] Greenwich Hospital, a series of Naval Sketches, descriptive of the Life of a Man-of-War's Man, by an Old Sailor, first edition, with coloured etchings by George Cruikshank, original impressions, half morocco gilt, 1826, 4to. (512) Braun, £2 6631 Beaumont (Fr.) and John Fletcher. Comedies and Tragedies, never printed before, first edition, portrait of Fletcher by Marshall (bottom margin shaved), old calf, H. Robinson and H. Moseley, 1647, folio (881) Dobell, £17 5s. 6632 Bell (Malcolm). Edward Burne-Jones, a Record and Review, portrait and numerous illustrations, uncut, t. e. g., issue limited to 390 copies, 1892, 4to. (137) Shepherd, £3 4s. 6633 Besler (B.) Hortus Eystettensis, medallion portrait, engraved titles and about 360 plates, best edition, with the 7 plates of the Classis Hyberna often wanted, vellum (Norimberga), 1613, large folio (1281) Wesley, £3 18s. 6634 Blake (William). Songs of Innocence, first edition, 15 leaves, printed on both sides of the paper, before Blake contemplated the issue of the "Songs of Experience," three of which are incorporated in this edition, and when issued together in vol. in 1794, were then printed for the first time on one side of the paper only; this copy, to be quite complete, should include "A Dream, Little Girl Lost and Little Girl Found," occupying_4pp. on 2 leaves, unbound, The Author and Printer, W. Blake, 1789, 8vo. (396) E. Parsons, 19 10s. 6635 Boccaccio (G.) Il Decamerone, 5 vol., portrait, engraved titles and 110 plates and vignettes by Gravelot, Boucher, Cochin and Eisen, half russia, uncut, Londra (Paris), 1757, 8vo. (272) Cox, £5 5s. 6636 Boydell (J. and J.) History of the River Thames, 2 vol., with 76 large engravings of the most famous scenery, seats, mansions, etc. on its banks, coloured like drawings, with an extra title in vol. i., “Views and Scenery on the River Thames," in the original boards, with the paper labels on sides, uncut, W. Bulmer and Co., 1794-96 (505) Thorp, £31 10s. [With the above lot are included a large collection of portraits, views, etc., castles and abbeys, natural history plates, newspaper and other cuttings, arranged for further illustrating the work, in 7 parcels.-Catalogue.] 6637 [Browning (Elizabeth Barrett).] Prometheus Bound, translated from the Greek of Aeschylus, and Miscellaneous Poems, first edition, original boards, uncut, A. J. Valpy, 1833, 8vo. (34) Wise, £15 15s. 6638 Buck (S. and N.) Views of the most remarkable Ruins of Abbies and Castles in England and Wales, 423 plates, first edition, original calf, 4 vol., 1726-42, folio (26) Parsons, £17 6639 Carey (David). Life in Paris, first edition, complete in the original 7 parts, with the illustrated wrappers (defective), 21 coloured plates, representing scenes from real life, designed and engraved by George Cruikshank, and woodcuts, J. Fairburn, 1822, 8vo. (375) Sabin, £15 15s. 6640 Chamberlaine (John). Portraits of Illustrious Personages of the Court of Henry VIII. engraved in Imitation of the Original Drawings of Hans Holbein in the Collection of his Majesty, 80 portraits, half morocco, g. e., Bulmer, 1828, folio (1272) Quaritch, £6 6641 Cook (Colonel). Observations on Fox Hunting, original boards, uncut, 1826, 8vo. (3) Hornstein, £8 2s. 6d. 6642 Cosway (R.) Catalogue of a Collection of Miniatures and Contemporary Miniaturists in the Possession of E. Joseph, Esq., photographic illustrations, half morocco, g. e., For private circulation only, 1883, folio (483) Quaritch, £9 155. 6643 Cranmer (Archbishop). An Answer of the most Reverend Father in God Thomas Archebyshop of Canterbury unto a crafty and sophysticall cavilation devised by Stephen Gardiner, late Byshop of Winchester, agaynst the trewe and godly doctrine of the most holy Sacrament of the Body and Bloud of Our Saviour, partly in black letter, original calf, London, R. Wolfe, 1551, folio (23) Maggs, £2 10S. 6644 Daniel (W.) Voyage Round Great Britain, commencing from the Land's End, Cornwall, upwards of 300 coloured plates, 8 vol. in 4, half morocco, g. e., 1814-25, folio (664) Spencer, £16 6645 Dickens (Charles). Works, édition de luxe, numerous plates and woodcuts by Cruikshank, Seymour, "Phiz," Cattermole, Tenniel, Doyle, etc. on India paper, 30 vol., original cloth, uncut, 1881-2, imperial 8vo. (140) Stevens, £13 6646 Dictionary of National Biography, edited by Leslie Stephen, complete in 63 vol., with 3 vol. of Supplement, uncut, as published, 1885-1901, 8vo. (81) Pearce, £39 6647 Engravings and Woodcuts by Old Masters (sec. xv.-xix.), reproduced in facsimile by the Imperial Press at Berlin and published under the direction of Dr. Friedrich Lippmann, upwards of 500 plates, 10 parts, half morocco, Quaritch, 1889-90, folio (614) Quaritch, £17 6648 Fielding (T. H.) A Picturesque Tour of the English Lakes, LARGE PAPER, 48 coloured plates, clean copy, original boards, uncut, Ackermann, 1821 (1277) Spencer, £6 6649. Fielding (T. H.) Cumberland, Westmoreland and Lancashire Illustrated, 44 coloured engravings of the scenery of the lakes, with Descriptive Letterpress, half bound, McLean, 1822, folio (218) Thorp, £4 18s. 6650 Fletcher (Phineas). The Purple Island, or the Isle of Man, together with Piscatorie Eclogs and other Poeticall Miscellanies, with the rare two pages of verse by Quarles, "To my deare friend, the Spencer of this age," at the end of the volume, morocco, g. e., Cambridge, 1633, 4to. (166) E. Parsons, £6 10s. 6651 Foster (J. J.) British Miniature Painters and their Works, 59 plates, LARGE PAPER, 125 copies printed, uncut, 1898, folio (227) Rimell, £9 10S. 6652 Germ (The). Thoughts towards Nature in Poetry, Literature and Art, etchings by W. Holman Hunt, Collinson, F. Madox Browne and W. H. Deverell, 4 parts, all published, in I vol., half calf, specimen wrappers preserved, and an autograph letter from G. V. P. Tupper respecting the publication inserted, 1850, 8vo. (38) Maggs, £28 6653 Goldsmith (O.) History of England, 4 vol., first edition, portraits on the text, half calf, uncut, 1771, 8vo. (1551) Pickering, L26 6654 Gray (T.) Odes, first edition, with half title and vignette on title, title and last leaf backed, MS. notes, said to be in the autograph of the author, morocco extra, panelled sides with rich tooling, and centre ornament, g. e., by Rivière, Strawberry Hill, 1757, 4to. (540) Denham, £30 6655 Gray (T.) Poems, first collected edition, original calf gilt, J. Dodsley, 1768, 4to. (1448) Pickering, £3 7s. 6d. Princesses of England, 6 vol., portraits, 1849-55, 8vo. (290) Hornstein, £4 18s. 6657 Haden (Francis Seymour). Etudes à l'Eau-Forte, Notice et Descriptions par Philippe Burty, 25 plates, in half morocco portfolio, Paris, 1866, folio (490) Keppel, £77 6656 Green (Mary A. E.) Lives of the 6658 Houbraken and Vertue. Heads of the Illustrious Persons of |