Banquet, and communicated with the favored ones who were to be invited to be Stewards. Lord Lytton was asked to be the Chairman, and he accepts, saying that he shall be enchanted to take the chair at a dinner to so illustrious a guest."

It is manifestly impossible to quote each letter received by Mr. Kent in answer to his invitation; nor is it possible to give the list of illustrious names of those who responded. It is possible to state THAT NOWHERE ELSE IS THERE A COLLECTION OF LETTERS, IN WHICH EACH ONE IS AN ENCOMIUM ON ONE OF THE MOST BRILLIANT WRITERS OF ANY CENTURY.

There are, however, some expressions from literary celebrities in this collection, which cannot be passed over, and which we quote below:

Rev. G. R. Gleig, in responding, says: "If I can I will make a point of being present. If not, Mr. Dickens; may rest assured, that not one of his many admirers who will doubtless muster that day to do him honour, holds his genius as a writer, and his benevolence as a man, in higher respect than I do.'

Robert Chambers: "If I were in good health I would willingly go thrice to London to do honour to a man whom I so much admire and esteem.''

John Forster: a 4 pp. A. L., unsigned, making suggestions regarding the list of names- -in alphabetical sequence-which were carried out.

Frederick Locker: 3 A. L's. S.

W. C. Macready: A. L. S.
Henry Morley: A. L. S.

Frederick Ouvry: A. L. S.

B. W. Proctor: A. L. S. (2)
Charles Reade: A. L. S.

Earl Stanhope: A. L. S.

Marcus Stone: A. L. S. (2)

Alfred Lord Tennyson: A. L. S. "I have never yet attended any public dinner-it is not my fashion," etc.

Anthony Trollope: A. L. S.

W. Harrison Ainsworth: A. L. S.

Robert Browning: A. L. S. "I am very sorry to say that I am quite unable to go to the Dinner about to be given to my old and dear friend Dickens he well knows that my best wishes go with him through life.” Thomas Carlyle: A. L. S. Letter of regret.

No one

John Ruskin A. L. S. "I am sincerely obliged by your note. has deeper respect for the genius and the practical goodness and limitless good service of Mr. Dickens than I have. But just because it is deep, I have not the least mind to express it Dinner-wise."

In a pocket at the back of Vol. 2 is the original "bill-board" Poster announcing the Dinner, mounted on muslin.

493. [DICKENS (CHARLES).] John Jasper's Secret. A Sequel to Edwin Drood. Illustrated with full-page woodcuts. In the 8 original parts, October-May, 1871-72. 8vo, original pictorial wrappers, uncut, in green morocco case.

London: Publishing Offices, 1872

FIRST EDITION, and extremely rare, especially in the original parts. There was no copy of this work in either the Austin or Coggeshall collections dispersed in 1916.

494. DICKENS (CHARLES). Is She His Wife? or, Something Singular. A Comic Burletta, in One Act. Woodcut vignettes. 32mo, original cloth. Boston: James R. Osgood and Co., 1877 The real First Edition was privately printed by the author in 1851, of

which no copies are known to be extant. A reprint was published in the late sixties, of which only two copies are known. The present issue may justly be considered the FIRST EDITION PROCURABLE, AND IS ITSELF VERY

SCARCE.

Mr. Nightingale's Diary: A

495. DICKENS (CHARLES). Farce in One Act. 32mo, original cloth.

Boston: James R. Osgood and Co., 1877 FIRST PUBLISHED EDITION, very scarce and practically the only edition procurable, as only 3 copies of the first (privately printed) issue are known.

A very fine copy.

EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED COPY

496. DICKENS (CHARLES). (Life of) Dickens. By Adolphus William Ward. 12mo, full red levant morocco, gilt back, gilt top, uncut, by Root. London: Macmillan and Co., 1889 EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED by the insertion of 44 fine and well-selected portraits, views, and plates, including: portrait of Dickens aet. 27, by Graves, after Maclise; portraits of George Cruikshank, with facsimile signature; Robert Seymour, with facsimile signature; Joe Grimaldi, by Harris; John Forster, with facsimile signature; Countess of Blessington; Plate by Cruikshank of "Sir Lionel Flamstead and his Friends" containing portraits of Dickens and Ainsworth; portraits of Thackeray, Leech, Carlyle, Longfellow, and many others, with facsimile signatures. Quite a number of the plates are on India paper.

497. [DOBSON (AUSTIN).] The Authentic History of Captain Castagnette, Nephew of the "Man with the Wooden Head.' From the French of Manuel. Illustrated with 43 pictures by Gustave Doré. 4to, original pictured boards, uncut.

London: S. O. Beeton (1866)

FIRST EDITION OF AUSTIN DOBSON'S TRANSLATION, and the earliest of his works ante-dating his first edited work by four years and his first volume of poems by seven years.

498. DOMENECH (ABBE EM.). Seven Years' Residence in the Great Deserts of North America. Illustrated with colored woodcuts by A. Joliet, plates of ancient 2 vols. 8vo, original cloth, uncut.

Fine copy of the FIRST EDITION.

Indian Music, and a map.
London, 1860

499. DONNE (JOHN). The First Sermon Preached to King Charles, At Saint Iames: 3. April, 1625. Small 4to, half gray calf. London: Printed by A. M. for Thomas Iones, 1625 THE EXTREMELY RARE FIRST EDITION. Not in Lowndes, Hoe, nor Huth, and apparently the only copy which has occurred in many years.

500. DONNE (JOHN). Polydoron; or, A Miscellania of Morall, Philosophicall and Theologicall Sentences. Printer's ornament on title. 16mo, old half calf. In half brown morocco slip-case. Printed at London by Tho. Cotes for George Gibbes, 1631 THE EXCESSIVELY RARE FIRST EDITION, of which but one copy appears to have occurred in the past 18 years. Lowndes merely mentions the title, without locating any copy. No copy in the Hoe or Huth collection.

501. DONNE (JOHN). Poems, By J. D. With Elegies on the Authors Death. 8vo, full dark maroon levant morocco, gilt ornament on sides, gilt edges, by Rivière.

London: Printed by M. F. for John Marriot, 1633 THE EXTREMELY RARE FIRST EDITION, with the two additional leaves, "The Printer to the Understanders'' not found in all copies. The celebrated Epitaph on Shakespeare occurs on Y3, mis-paged 149. A very large fine copy, measuring 7 9/16 x 5 7/16 inches.

502. DONNE (JOHN). Poems, By J. D. With Elegies on the Authors Death. Engraved portrait of the author by William Marshall, with verses by Izaac Walton. Small 8vo, full brown levant morocco, gilt back, gilt panelled sides, with corner fleurons, gilt edges, by Rivière.

London: Printed by M. F. for John Marriot, 1639

FINE COPY OF THE RARE THIRD EDITION. The contents of this edition are the same as in the second edition of 1635, of which they are a paginary reprint, the only difference being in a slight change in the arrangement of the " 'Epistle. The Hoe copy, with bookplate.

503. DONNE (JOHN). Letters to Severall Persons of Honour: Written by John Donne Sometime Deane of St. Pauls London. With brilliant impression of the portrait of Donne by Lombart. Small 4to, full brown levant morocco, gilt back, gilt fillet border on sides, gilt edges, by Rivière.

London: Printed by J. Flesher, for Richard Marriot, 1651 THE VERY RARE GENUINE FIRST EDITION, with the correct imprint. Fine copy, with ample margins throughout. Autograph presentation copy to Bishop Henry C. Potter, with the following inscription: "An old book In the new country given to Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of New York by W. Donne, Vicar of Wakefield. Queen's Accession, 1897." With Bishop Potter's bookplate.

504. DORAN (JOHN). The Bentley Ballads: A Selection of the Choice Ballads, Songs, &c., contributed to "Bentley's Miscellany." With four Ballads contributed by the Editor. Engraved title-page by Brown after drawing by George Cruikshank. 12mo, original cloth, uncut. London: Richard Bentley, 1858 FIRST EDITION. A note on the inside cover states: "Those pieces marked with are in the ed. of 1861 but there are so few that this is really a different collection.'

505. DOUGLAS (GAWIN). The Palis of Honour (in Verse), compyled by Gwayne Dowglas, Bysshope of Dunkyll. Printed in Gothic type; title within woodcut border from a Geoffrey Tory design, ornamental initials and woodcut device. Small 4to, full brown levant morocco, gilt ornaments on sides, gilt edges, by Rivière.

Imprinted at London in fletstret, at the sygne of the Rose garland by Wyllyam Copland, n. d. (1553)

A REMARKABLY FINE COPY OF THE EXCESSIVELY RARE FIRST EDITION. This is Gavin Douglas's FIRST POEM, and contains at the end the Poetical Address to James IV. which may have induced the King to give him his city appointment, that of Provost of St. Giles, Edinburgh.

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506. DOUGLAS (GAWIN). VIRGIL. The XIII Bukes of Eneados of the famose Poete Virgill Translatet out of Latyne verses into Scottish metir, by the Reuerend Father in God, Mayster Gawin Douglas Bishop of Dunkel & vnkil to the Erle of Angus. Euery buke hauing hys perticular Prologe. Title printed within woodcut border. Printed in Gothic type. Thick small 4to, handsomely bound in full olive levant morocco, gilt back, sides having a central oval of red morocco inlay, containing the names of the author and translator and date, surrounded with ornamental gilt scrolls and leaves, gilt edges, limp morocco protecting cover and slip case, by Rivière. Imprinted at London, 1553

A HANDSOME COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION, with ample margins throughout. This is the first metrical translation of Virgil's Eneid, and the second translation of that work into English. The first was in prose, and was printed by Caxton. THE PRESENT COPY HAS THE RARE EXTRA LEAF, FOLIO CLXIII, NECESSARY TO MAKE A PERFECT COPY. The work is EXTREMELY

RARE IN PERFECT CONDITION.

507. DOYLE (A. CONAN).

The Adventures of Sherlock

London: George Newnes, 1892

Holmes. Profusely illustrated. 8vo, original cloth, gilt edges. FIRST EDITION. Fine copy.

508. DRAKE (SIR WILLIAM RICHARD). A Descriptive Catalogue of the Etched Work of Francis Seymour Haden. With Supplement. 2 vols. 8vo, cloth, uncut. London, 1880-1903

FIRST VERSION OF HORACE IN ENGLISH

509. DRANT (THOMAS). A Medicinable Morall, that is the two Bookes of Horace his Satyres, Englyshed accordyng to the prescription of saint Hierome. The Wailyngs of the Prophet Hieremiah, done into Englishe Verse. Also Epigrammes. Perused and allowed accordyng to the Queen's Majesties Instructions. Printed in Gothic type. Small 4to, full russia, gilt fillet border on back and sides, gilt edges, by Bedford.

Imprinted at London in Fletestrete by Thomas Marshe, 1566 FIRST EDITION AND EXTREMELY RARE. Drant confesses that this is a paraphrase rather than a translation and says that he began it more than two years before, completing it by piecemeal, or rather "inch meal.' Among the epigrams occurs a copy of verses presented to Drant by Queen Elizabeth when she was at Cambridge, in August, 1564. It is probable that G. Harvey's phrase "Dranting of verses'' was intended as a contemptuous reference to Drant's muse. The present is the FIRST AND ONLY EDITION of Jeremiah and the Epigrammes.

The Ross Winans copy, with bookplate.

FIRST ENGLISH TRANSLATION OF HORACE, 1567 510. DRANT (THOMAS). Horace: His Arte of Poetrie, pistles, and Satyrs Englished, and to the Earle of Ormounte, by Thomas Drant addressed. Elaborate woodcut border to title, large woodcut device of arms on following leaf, and ornamental initials. Printed