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111. FRERE (SIR BARTLE). Old Deccan Days, or Hindoo Fairy Legends Current in Southern India. Collected from Oral Tradition by M. Frere, with Introductory Notes by Sir Bartle Frere. Illustrated by C. F. Frere, some in colour. Scarce. 8vo. 1858

112. GALT (JOHN). The Club-Book: being Original Stories by John Galt, D. M. Moir; The Ettrick Shepherd, Allan Cunningham, &c. Edited by John Galt. 3 vols. buckram. 1831

A scarce Galt item.

113. GERM (THE). The Rare Pre-Raphaelite Magazine; with Original Poetry, and Etchings by Holman Hunt, Ford Madox Brown. Four Parts in Yellow Polished Calf extra, with the First Cover Inlaid and the Prospectus inserted at end. Wm. Bell Scott's copy with two fine back-plates designed by his brother, David Scott. Wm. Bell Scott has added an Index to each Part. Fine copy.

1850 114. GESSNER (SALOMAN), Euvres de. In Four Volumes. With Brilliant Impressions of the fine Engravings after Moreau. Immaculate Copy. Paris, 1799

115. GILBERT (W. S.). The Bab Ballads. With Illustrations by the Author. First Edition. Fine copy. Very Scarce. . 1869

115A. GOTHIC ARCHITECTURE. A Glossary of Terms used in Grecian, Roman, Italian and Gothic Architecture. Fifth (and best) Edition, Enlarged. Exemplified by 1700 Woodcuts. 3 vols. (one of text and two of plates). Original cloth. Fine copy. Very Scarce. 1850

116. GRAY (JOHN). Silverpoints: Poems. First Edition in the original cloth, with designs in gold by Charles Ricketts. Handmade paper. Very Scarce. Fine copy. London, 16mo. 1893 117. GREENAWAY (KATE). Almanack for 1894, 1890, on black paper.

(2) 118. GREENAWAY (KATE). The April Baby's Book of Tunes, by the Author of "Elizabeth and her German Garden." Illustrated by K. G. First Edition, as new.

1900 Mother Goose, or the Old Nursery Rhymes. Illustrated by K. G. Original boards and wrapper. First Edition. n. d. (2) 119. GREENAWAY (KATE). The Language of Flowers. Illustrated by K. G. First Edition. Fine copy. Very Scarce. n. d. 120. GREENAWAY (KATE). The Pied Piper of Hamelin. 35 colored plates, some double page, by K. G. First Edition, new. n. d.

121. GREENAWAY (KATE). A Day in a Child's Life. Songs and Music by Myles B. Foster. Illustrated by K. G. First Edition.

n. d.

122. GREENAWAY (KATE). Under the Window. Pictures and Rhymes for Children. First Edition. Picture binding as new. Scarce.

n. d.

122A. GREENAWAY (KATE). The English Spelling Book, by Wm. Mavor. Illustrated by Kate Greenaway. First Edition. Picture boards. Very Scarce. 1885

Perhaps the daintiest of all this artist's drawings.

123. GREENAWAY (KATE). The Queen of the Pirate Isle, by Bret Harte. Illustrated by K. G. Buckram. First Edition as issued. [1887]

Has Bret Harte's visiting card at end.

124. HARDY (THOMAS). The Romantic Adventures of a Milkmaid. A Novel. First Edition. Original covers, 12mo, sewed. Munro's Seaside Library.

n. d.

124B. HARDY (THOMAS). Etched portrait of Thomas Hardy, by W. Strang. Proof signed in full by the Novelist. In cut out Chiswick mount.

Very few of these proof impressions were thus signed. Rare.

124c. HARRIS (THOMAS LAKE). The Song of Satan. A Series of Poems Originating with a Society of Infernal Spirits and received during Temptation Combats by T. L. Harris. Appendix to "The Arcana of Christianity." 8vo, cloth. New York, 1858

Fine copy of this extremely scarce separate issue. The infernal spirit" seem to have retained a very pretty wit, for these verses, in burlesque of Keats, Wordsworth, Ingoldsby, etc., make the most enlivening reading, to say nothing of their excellent arguments and instances. 125. HARTLAND (EDWIN SIDNEY). The Legend of Perseus: a Study of Traditions in Story, Custom and Belief. First Edition. 3 vols. Very Scarce. 1894

126. HEWLETT (MAURICE). Pan and the Young Shepherd: a Pastoral in 2 Acts. First Edition.

1898

127. HEWLETT (MAURICE). The Forest Lovers: a Romance. First Edition.

Fine copy.

1898

128. HOLY GRAAL, High History of the. Translated from the French by Dr. Sebastian Evans. Frontispiece and Title by Sir E. Burne-Jones, hade specially for this work. 2 vols. parchment boards. 1898

No. 31 of 250 L. P. copies on hand-made paper.

128A. [HICHENS (ROBERT).] The Green Carnation. First Edition. Very Scarce.

1894

The witty burlesque on Wilde and his Dorian Gray, etc., issued anonymously.

129. HINTON (JAMES). Selections from Manuscripts. 4to, thick 8vo. 1856

OF EXCESSIVE SCARCITY, printed for private circulation only. They consist of "papers written simply as a private record of my thoughts not a statement of my first thoughts but a history of them." One of the rare instances of a book issued with its lines of print unjustified.

130. HOLBEIN (HANS). The Dance of Death. Enlarged Facsimiles of the Original Wood Engravings by Hans Lutzelberger in the First Complete Edition of 1547. With Preface and 50 plates by Frederick H. Evans. NNo. 7 of 10 copies, with India Proof Impressions, mounted; and a Frontispiece of Holbein's portrait of himself in the Buccleuch Collection of Miniatures enlarged to 44 in. diameter and printed in platinotype by Frederick H. Evans. Hand-made paper. Bound in unskinned parchment, uncut, gilt tops, and signed by the producer. Privately Printed, 1916

131. HOLBEIN (HANS). L'Alphabet de la Mort. Publies D'Après les Manuscrits par Anatole de Montaiglon. Scarce. 8vo, Fine copy beautifully engraved and printed. Paris, 1856

132. HOGG (JAMES-The Ettrick Shepherd). The Three Perils of Man: or War, Women and Witchcraft: a Border Romance. 3 vols. First Edition. Original boards, entirely uncut.

1822

A most exhilarating book, well deserving of a reprint. Very Scarce, especially in this state.

133. HOGG (JAMES). The Three Perils of Woman, or Love, Leasing and Jealousy. A Series of Domestic Scottish Tales. First Edition. 3 vols. half calf.

Scarcer even than the "Man" series.

1823

134. HOGG (JAMES). The Brownie of Bodsbeck and other Tales. First Edition. 2 volf. half calf, good copy. Scarce. 1818

135. HOGG (JAMES). Winter Evening Tales. Collected among the Cottages in the South of Scotland. First Edition. 2 vols. half calf. 1820

136. HOGG (JAMES). Altrive Tales: Collected among the Peasantry of Scotland and from Foreign Adventures by the Ettrick Shepherd. With Fine Portrait Frontispiece (spotted) and Illustration by GEORGE CRUIKSHANK and a memoir of the Author. First Edition. Boards broken. 1832

137. HOGG (JAMES). The Mountain Bard; consisting of Ballads and Songs founded on Facts and Legendary Tales by the Ettrick Shepherd. First Edition. Boards, uncut.

1807

The Poetic Mirror or the Living Bards of Britain. Parodies of Wordsworth, Byron, Scott, etc. First Edition. Half calf.

1817 (2)

138. HOGG (JAMES). The Shepherd's Calendar: a Collection of Short Stories. First Edition. 2 vols. Boards. Scarce.

1829

The Domestic Manners and Private Life of Sir Walter Scott. Boards. Poor copy. Very Scarce.

Glasgow, 1834 Inserted is a reprinted article from "Notes and Queries," showing that this is a pirated edition of the original “Familiar Anecdotes of Sir Walter Scott," New York, 1834, of which no copy is in the British Museum and seems entirely unknown.

139. HOPE ADRIAN). Catalogue of Collection of Pictures formed by him and Sold at Christie's June, 1894. With 64 Collotype Plates. Boards, 8vo. 1894

140. HOUSMAN (LAURENCE). The Were-Wolf, by Clemence Housman. With 6 Illustrations and Decorative Title by L. Housman. First Edition. 1896

Weird Tales from Northern Seas from the Danish of Jonas Lie, by R. Nisbet Bain. With 12 Illustrations by Housman. First Edition. 1893

Russian Fairy Tales. Selected and Translated by R. Nisbet Bain and Illustrated by C. M. Gere. First Edition. 1892 (3)

141. HUGHES (THOMAS). The Scouring of the White Horse, or the Long Vacation Rambles of a London Clerk. Illustrated by RICHARD DOYLE. 1859

142. ILLUMINATING (The Art of): as Practised during the Middle Ages with a Description of the Various Pigments and Processes employed. By Henry Shaw, F. S. A. Second Edition, with many Coloured Plates, and some additional ones inserted. Demy 4to. Scarce.

1870

143. IMAGE (SELWYN). Poems and Carols. Hand-made paper. Printed at the Chiswick Press.

1894

HORNE (H. P.). Diversi Colores: Poems. Published 1891 (2)

for the Author at the Chiswick Press,

Two small but perfect specimen of bookmaking.

144. INDIAN ARCHITECTURE. Illustrations from the Mohammedan Conquest downwards: by Makham Kittoe. Oblong folio. Calcutta, 1838

WITH UNPUBLISHED DRAWING BY KEENE 145. JERROLD (DOUGLAS). Mrs. Caudle's Curtain Lectures. Illustrated by CHARLES KEENE. First Edition. Printed on pale green paper. Frontispiece in colours. Embossed cloth as new. 4to. 1866

Inserted is a colored reproduction of and Mrs. Caudle in bed; she lecturing. drawing of Mrs. Caudle by Keene, Emmanuel.

Immaculate copy and Very Scarce.

a drawing by John Leech of Mr. Also an hitherto unpublished" from the collection of Walter

146. KERAMIC ART OF JAPAN, by George A. Audsley and James L. Bowles. Many plates, very finely printed in good and colours. Fine copy. Scarce. Demy 8vo.

1881

147. KIPLING (RUDYARD). other Verses. First Edition. Fine copy.

Barrack-Room

Ballads and

1892

148. KIPLING (RUDYARD). The Seven Seas. First Edition. New.

The Five Nations. First Edition. New.

1896

1903 (2)

149. KIPLING (RUDYARD). The Jungle Book. Illustrated. First Edition. Fine copy.

1894

150. KIPLING (RUDYARD). The Second Jungle Book. Illustrated. First Edition. Fine copy. 1895 151. KIPLING (RUDYARD). Soldiers Three. First Edition. RARE. Allahabad, 1889

Story of the Gadsbys. First Edition.

[blocks in formation]

With the "National Observer" review. 153. KIPLING (RUDYARD). Captains Courageous: a Story of the Grand Banks. Illustrated. First Edition. Fine copy, as 1897

new.

154. KIPLING (RUDYARD). Stalky & Co. First Edition. Good copy.

1899

Inserted is the correspondence from G. C. Beresford (McTurk) in the "Daily Chronicle," 1900. Also "The Windsor Magazine,'' with a Stalky instalment not in the book.

155. KIPLING (RUDYARD). The Maulakha: a Story of West and East, by Kipling and Wolcott Balestier. First Edition. 1892 Just-So Stories, for Little Children. Illustrated by the Author. First Edition. 1902 (2)

156. KELMSCOTT PRESS. Godfrey of Bologne: Reprinted from Caxton's Translation of 1481. Printed in the "Troye" type. Vellum, 4to. 1893

300 copies only of this, the most lavishly ornamented of the Press books.

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