FIRST AND OTHER EDITIONS.-Cont'd.

806. THE WHITEY-BROWN PAPER MAGAZINE. Ten lithographed leaves of text and illustrations for the contemplated periodical which was to have borne that name. Nine plates from the original drawings by Thackeray for "The Veracious History of Dionysius Diddler"; with the explanatory text, also by Thackeray. Small 4to, bound in polished calf, gilt edges. Inserted are the pages from "Thackerayana" referring to the above work, the book-plate of Frederick Burgess, and a reprint of one of the plates. [Lond. 1839]

*THE ONLY KNOWN COPY. The Whitey-Brown Paper Magazine came to nothing, and these few lithographed pages are all that remain to indicate what was intended. The illustrations are extremely interesting caricatures of Dr. Lardner, editor of the Cabinet Cyclopædia, and his friend Lord Bulwer Lytton; and the likenesses are amusingly good. The author has taken the precaution to state in the beginning that Dionysius lived many thousand years ago.

On the first page appears the caption "Preface, Advertisement, or Introduction." After a brief résumé of the career of Dionysius the artist takes the subject in hand, and shows his progress through the world, from the time of his departure from the University of Ballybunion,-in the hedge. The last picture shows him dressed in the clothes of "Sir Hinry Pelham," who has loaned him a horse; and the concluding lines read:

"But fear then seized upon the soul of Hodge

Says he that gemman cannot be my master,

For, as he rode away, he gave me sixpence,

And my dear master never gives me nothen.'"'

In Thackerayana" Grego says of this little work:

"For

the force and fun of its satire, it perhaps excels all that he ever did in the indulgence of his amazing talents for ludicrous personalities." The illustrations were reproduced in the "Autographic Mirror" for 1864.

(See Illustration.)

807. BRITISH and Foreign Review; or, European Quarterly Journal. No. XVI, April, 1839. 8vo,, half calf, gilt, gilt top, uncut; original covers bound in. Lond. 1839

* Contains "Speeches of Henry Lord Brougham, etc," by Thackeray. [Pages 490-539.]

808. THE CORSAIR. A Gazette of Literature, Art, Dramatic Criticism, Fashion and Novelty. From the beginning in March, 1839, to March 7, 1840, inclusive; and Index. Edited by N. P. Willis and T. O. Porter. Small folio, half red morocco, gilt top. N. Y. 1839-40

* Of great interest to the collector of Thackerayana, as it contains his first appearance before an American audience." In introducing him Mr. Willis writes: "He will present a long letter every week, and you will agree with me that he is no common acquisition." Hotton, the English publisher, discovered these letters some time after Thackeray's death, and republished them under the title of "The Student's Quarter."

FIFTH SESSION

Friday Afternoon, February 27, 1914, at 2:30 o'clock.

FIRST AND OTHER EDITIONS-Continued.

809. CATHERINE. A Story by Ikey Solomons, Esq., Junior. 4 full-page illustrations by the author. [Fraser's Magazine for May, June, July, August, November, 1839, January and February, 1840.] 8vo, half red morocco, gilt top, uncut, with all the original wrappers and advertisements; and a specially printed title bound in. Lond 1839-40

810. CATHERINE. A Story. By Ikey Solomons, Esq., Junior. 8vo, boards, original wrappers bound in. Bost. 1869 *First American edition.

811. COMIC ALMANACK for 1839. 12 illustrations by George Cruikshank. 12mo, red morocco, gilt, gilt top, uncut, with the original wrappers and advertisements bound in. Lond. 1839

*Contains the first appearance of Thackeray's Stubbs's Calendar; or the Fatal Boots. INSERTED IS A 1 P. 4TO, A. L. S. (SIGNED WITH INITIALS), FROM THACKERAY TO G. WRIGHT, Friday Night-2 Nov. Here is the last bit of December-Cruikshank wants a copy by Monday not having begun his last (12th) plate.

Pray let this piece be copied and printed in time for Cruikshank; and if you will send me a proof of the whole paper," etc., etc. With his seal.

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812. STUBBS'S CALENDAR; or, The Fatal Boots. illustrations by George Cruikshank. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. Another copy of the same, 6 illustrations. 2 vols. 16mo, original boards (one back missing, other rebacked).

N. Y. Stringer & Townsend, 1850

* When this tale appeared in the Comic Almanac for 1839 it was illustrated with 12 designs by Cruikshank. In this edition the publishers seem to have had an insufficient number of sets of plates to properly illustrate their edition, and to have contented themselves with using only six in each copy, making it necessary to get two or more copies to obtain all the illustrations. These two volumes, together, have a complete set of the plates.

813. STUBBS'S CALENDAR. (back missing).

12mo, original boards. N. Y. 1850

*The six plates in this copy are: January, the Birth of the Year; March, Showery; May, Restoration Day; July, Summery Proceedings; September, Plucking a Goose; December, The Winter of our Discontent.

FIRST AND OTHER EDITIONS.-Cont'd.

814. ANTI CORN-LAW CIRCULAR. Nos. 8, 10, 11, 18, 39-51, containing all the articles by or attributed to Thackeray. Together 17 numbers, folio, loose.

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Manchester: July 23, 1839, to Jan. 14, 1841 *Two "Illustrations of the Rent Laws" in Nos. 8 and 18 are known to be by Thackeray. "Rain and the Rents" in No. 10, Nicholas Nickleby" in No. 11, and two woodcuts and text on page 3 of No. 39 are attributed to Thackeray. RARE. But few copies of these early contributions by Thackeray have been offered for sale. There is also an original poem, Peers, Poetry and the People," by Samuel Taylor Coleridge.

815. ANTI CORN-LAW CIRCULAR (THE). From the beginning in April, 1839; and the sequel Anti-Bread-Tax Circular to Sept. 26, 1843. 2 vols. folio, old half morocco and calf. Manchester, 1839-43 *Thackeray contributed "Illustrations of the Rent Laws" and accompanying woodcuts.

816. Another copy, in old half calf (covers broken).

817. THE LOVING BALLAD of Lord Bateman. Illustrated by George Cruikshank. 18mo, original cloth (loose in binding). In a red levant morocco slip case.

Lond., Charles Tilt, 1839 * First issue of the First Edition, with the page numbers (for the text) in the center, and the spelling "vine" for "wine" on page 13.

The text is now considered with reasonable certainty to be by Thackeray and the Preface and Notes by Dickens.

818. THE LOVING BALLAD of Lord Bateman. Illustrated by George Cruikshank. Small 4to, calf (slightly scorched). Lond. 1883

* Only 250 copies printed.

819. THE LOVING BALLAD of Lord Bateman. Illustrated by Geo. Cruikshank. 12mo, cloth. Bost. 1884

820. THE LOVES of Lord Bateman and Fair Sophia. Adapted by Charles Selby. Frontispiece. 16mo, half morocco (leaves re-hinged). Lond. n. d.

821. RITCHIE (ANNE THACKERAY). Lord Bateman: A Ballad. From "Harper's." 8vo, half morocco. N. Y. 1892

822. THE PARIS SKETCH BOOK. By Mr. Titmarsh. Numerous designs by the author on copper and wood. FIRST EDITION. 2 vols. 12mo, red levant morocco, gilt tops, uncut, original covers bound in, by Grieve-Edine (a few pages water-stained). Lond. John Macrone, 1840