621.

first members of the Royal Society of Water-Color Painters, superintended the production and wrote the letterpress. The paintings were all by the best artists of the day-men who are now famous in water-color, Cattermole, Havell, Bennett, Reeve, Wild, and others. Printed in colors, they were then finished by hand, adding to their perfection as a completed picture and to fidelity as a facsimile of the original drawing. Both exteriors and interiors of the palaces are shown. An added value is in the fact that many of the buildings have been altered since the drawings were made: Buckingham Palace was altered; additions were made to Windsor Castle; Carlton House is destroyed, and so on.

UARLES (FRANCIS). Sion's Sonnets, Sung by Solomon the King, and Periphras'd by Fra. Quarles. THE EXCEEDINGLY RARE FIRST EDN. With engraved border round title. Small 4to, full crushed levant morocco extra, gilt edges, BY RIVIERE. Lond.: Printed by W. Stansby. . . and are to be solde at his shoppe, 1625.

The first and only separate edition. The dedication and marginal notes were omitted in later editions. The Lefferts' copy is evidently the only copy of this interesting work offered by public auction in America.

622. RESTIF DE LA BRETONNE.

La Semaine

Small 8vo,

Nocturne, sept nuits de Paris. Ouvrage servant à l'histoire du Jardin de Palais Royal. full red levant morocco, gilt over marbled edges, BY HARDY.

Paris, 1790

Curious volume, containing two fine copper-plates.

623. REVOLUTION. The Answer to the Declaration of the American Congress. Being the British Reply to the American Declaration of Independence. FIRST EDN. Svo, newly bound in half-marbled calf. SCARCE. Lond. 1776

624. REYNOLDS (SIR JOSHUA). PERSPECTIVA PICTORUM ET ARCHITECTORUM ANDREA PUTEI. Engraved title and 100 plates. Folio, original vellum, enclosed in leatherlined case. Romæ, M.DC. XCIII. [1693]

A volume of UNIQUE AND EXCEPTIONAL INTEREST. On the title-page is the autograph of Sir Joshua Reynolds, "J. Reynolds," and his well-known square stamp "Sr J R." Mounted and inserted on the fly-leaf, general title, title to Part I and the engraved title are four sheets of paper, containing SKETCHES AND COPIES OF PORTRAITS BY KNELLER, VAN DYCK, LARGILLIÈRE. This volume formerly belonged to a Mr. W. Ford, who has written the following account on the fly-leaf: "When he was but Eight years old he read with great avidity and pleasure the Jesuit Perspective, a book which happened to lie on the Window-seat of his Father's parlour; and made himself so completely master of it, that he never afterwards had occasion to study any other treatise on that subject" [Malone's Life, page 7-communication from himself in 1786].

"He then attempted to draw the school at Plympton, a building elevated on stone pillars, and he did it so well that his

father said, 'Now this exemplifies what the author of the Perspective asserts in his preface,-that, by observing the rules laid down in this book, a man may do wonders; for this is wonderful.'" [Ibid., page 8, Malone's Life of Sir Jos. Reynolds.]

"It is almost unnecessary to say that this is the identical copy which belonged to Sir Jos. Reynolds, as his autograph and well-known stamp on the title-page are a sufficient indication of it; however, I will further state in confirmation of the fact, that I purchased it myself at his sale, along with the Drawings, which are undoubtedly of his hand."—W. FORD.

Such is the history of this remarkable volume, which has such interesting association with one of the greatest painters not only of the eighteenth century, but of all time.

625. REYNOLDS (SIR JOSHUA). Sir Joshua Reynolds, First President of the Royal Academy. By Sir Walter Armstrong. Seventy-eight photogravure reproductions of his most celebrated paintings, and six facsimiles in color. Thick folio, cloth, gilt top, uncut.

Lond. 1900

The most authoritative book on Reynolds, now very SCARCE.

Books with Colored and Aquatint Plates by Thomas Rowlandson.

Some of which are of great rarity.

626. ROWLANDSON AQUATINT PLATES. An Excursion to BRIGHTHELSTONE, made in the year 1789. By Henry Wigstead and Thomas Rowlandson. Oblong folio, half green morocco. Lond. 1790

FIRST EDITION. OF EXTREME RARITY. THIS IS EVIDENTLY

THE FIRST COPY THAT HAS BEEN OFFERED FOR SALE BY AUCTION
IN THIS COUNTRY.

The work consists of eight plates in aquatint, ALL BRILLIANT IMPRESSIONS, BY ALKEN, FROM DESIGNS BY ROWLANDSON, depicting places of interest in and on the way to BRIGHTON, including The Race Ground (a race in progress), Crowley (where a horse sale is in progress), Bathing machines (at Brighton, typical old-time scene), etc., etc.

Brighton, originally Brighthelmston, plainly derives its name from some Saxon Brighthelm, but his identity has never been discovered. Its present form came into use at the end of the eighteenth century, but it is sometimes found on documents at the time of Charles the Second.

627. ROWLANDSON COLORED PLATES. The Rhedarium for the sale of all Sorts of Carriages. By Gregory Gigg. A New Book of Horses and Carriages, designed and etched by T. Rowlandson. Oblong folio, three-quarter canary-colored crushed levant morocco, gilt edges.

Lond. [1791]

FIRST EDITION, OF EXTREME RARITY, AND APPARENTLY THE FIRST COPY THAT HAS BEEN OFFERED FOR SALE BY AUCTION IN THIS COUNTRY.

The work consists of eight plates and engraved title, ALL OF

WHICH ARE IN COLORS.

628. ROWLANDSON COLORED PLATES. Sterne (Laurence). A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy. By Mr. Yorick. 12mo, full mottled calf extra, gilt top, OTHER EDGES ENTIRELY UNCUT. Lond. 1809

FINE COPY of the first issue of this edition. It is embellished with TWO SPIRITED PLATES IN COLORS BY THOMAS ROWLANDSON. 629. ROWLANDSON COLORED PLATES. Characteristic Sketches of the Lower Orders (cries of London). 54 COLORED PLATES BY THOMAS ROWLANDSON. 16mo, neatly bound in half calf, gilt back and edges. VERY RARE.

Lond., circa 1810

630. ROWLANDSON COLORED PLATES. [Combe (William).] A Complete Set of the famous "Syntax" Tours, as follows: (1) The Tour of Doctor Syntax in Search of the Picturesque, a Poem, Lond. 1812; (2) The Second Tour of Doctor Syntax in Search of Consolation, a Poem, Lond. 1820; (3) The Third Tour of Doctor Syntax in Search of a Wife, a Poem, Lond. 1821. 3 vols. 8vo, full crimson crushed levant morocco extra, gilt top, by ROOT. ALL FIRST EDNS. Lond. 1812-21

FINE SET.

WITH THE EXTENSIVE SERIES OF FINELY COL ORED PLATES BY THOMAS ROWLANDSON. ALL OF THE VOL UMES CONTAIN LIST OF PLATES, a rare occurrence.

A ROWLANDSON ITEM OF GREAT RARITY. 631. ROWLANDSON AQUATINTED PLATES. The English Dance of Death. Oblong 4to, half morocco.

Lond. Ackerman (plates dated), 1814, 1815, etc.
THE EXCESSIVELY RARE COMPLETE SET OF THE FIRST IMPRES-
SIONS OF THE ROWLANDSON PLATES TO THE ENGLISH DANCE OF
DEATH, ISSUED IN AQUATINT BEFORE THEY WERE COLORED AND
MADE INTO THE TWO VOLUMES (as the following lot).
COMPRISES SEVENTY-TWO PLATES. FINE COPY.

PLATES.

632. ROWLANDSON COLORED [Combe (William).] The English Dance of Life, by the Author of "Doctor Syntax," 2 vols., Lond. 1815-1816; also, The Dance of Life, a Poem, by the Author of "Doctor Syntax," Lond. 1817. 3 vols. royal 8vo, newly and handsomely bound in full polished calf extra, GILT EDGES ON THE ROUGH, MANY UNCUT, by RIVIERE

Lond. Ackerman, 1815-1816-1817

A FINE AND PERFECT SET, AND ALL. FIRST EDITIONS. ILLUSTRATED WITH ALMOST ONE HUNDRED PLATES IN COLORS BY THOMAS ROWLANDSON.

It is thought that an edition of The Dance of Death that was published by Coxhead in 1816 (a very crude production) had the effect of creating the desire in the great caricaturist to produce an edition of The Dance of Death and The Dance of Life worthy of his highest genius. That he succeeded in the production of the above volumes is beyond all doubt.

The union of the gruesome and grotesque strongly appealed to his imagination, and he employed exceptional care on the work, with a result that this work will always stand out prominently as one of the master productions of a master of his art.