Verse, from the Original Arabic, by John Payne, 10 vols.; Tales from the Arabic, 3 vols.; Alaeddin and the Enchanted Lamp. Beautifully illustrated with the etchings after Lalauze. 14 vols., 8vo, three-quarter terra cotta levant morocco, gilt backs, gilt tops, uncut. London: Printed for Subscribers only, 1889 EDITION DE LUXE. One of 500 copies. 7. ARNOLD (ISAAC N.). The Life of Abraham Lincoln. Extended to 2 vols., 8vo, three-quarter brown levant morocco, gilt tops, Chicago, 1885 EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED by the insertion of about 100 fine portraits and plates. A CHOICE COPY. uncut. 8. AUSTEN (JANE). Collected Set of FIRST EDITIONS of Her Works as follows: Sense and Sensibility, 3 vols., 1811; Pride and Prejudice, 3 vols., 1813; Mansfield Park, 3 vols., 1814; Emma, 3 vols., 1816; Northanger Abbey, and Persuasion, 4 vols., 1818. Together 16 vols., 12mo, full levant morocco, gilt edges. FIRST EDITION of each work. Exceedingly rare. London, 1811-18 9. AUSTEN (JANE). Novels. Portrait, colored by hand, and frontispieces. 10 vols., 8vo, half olive morocco, gilt tops, uncut. WINCHESTER EDITION. One of 250 copies. Fine copy. London, 1898 10. BACON (SIR FRANCIS). The Tvvo Bookes of Francis Bacon. Of the Proficience and Advancement of Learning. Small 4to, full brown levant morocco, gilt edges (blank fore-edge of title restored). London: Henrie Tomes, 1605 FIRST EDITION, and the first publication of Bacon in his great scheme of philosophy. It at once placed him in the front rank both as a writer and a thinker. One of the finest monuments of learning and literature of its time. 11. BALZAC (HONORE DE). La Comédie Humaine. Translated into English by Katharine Prescott Wormeley. Splendidly illustrated by noted French artists, ALL OF THE PLATES EXQUISITELY FINISHED IN WATER COLORS. 40 vols., large 8vo, full green crushed levant morocco, the sides ornamented with floral sprays in gold tooling and colored inlays, doublures of maroon levant with inlaid fleur-de-lis and flowers, in colored leathers, watered silk ends, solid gold edges. Philadelphia: Historical Publishing Co., n. d. WATER-COLOR EDITION, limited to only ten sets, this being Set No. 1. The distinctive feature of this edition is the fact that all of the illustrations are beautifully colored by the Goupil process, giving them the appearance of original aquarelles. A very handsome set. 12. BALZAC (HONORE DE). La Comédie Humaine (in the Original French). Beautifully illustrated by etchings after the best French Artists. 46 vols., 8vo, original silk cloth, paper labels. Phila. and Paris: George Barrie et Fils, n. d. LIMITED ISSUE, PRINTED THROUGHOUT ON JAPANESE VELLUM. It is to the_lasting honor of America that this edition in the original French, of BALZAC, the World's Greatest Novelist, the finest edition ever issued, has been brought out by an American house. 13. BALZAC (HONORE DE). Novels. Now for the First Time completely translated into English. Illustrated with numerous fine etchings. 53 vols., 12mo, three-quarter dark blue morocco, gilt tops, uncut. Philadelphia: Barrie, n. d. FINE SET OF THE LIMITED EDITION, with "The Droll Stories." 14. BARROW (JOHN). Memoirs of the Naval Worthies of Queen Elizabeth's Reign; of their Gallant Deeds, Daring Adventures, and Services. Illustrations. Thick 8vo, three-quarter red levant morocco, gilt top, uncut. London: John Murray, 1845 FINE COPY. EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED WITH OVER 50 FINE PORTRAITS OF THE COMMANDERS IN THE INFANT STATE OF THE BRITISH NAVY. 15. BEAUX AND BELLES OF ENGLAND. Illustrated with numerous fine photogravure plates, the frontispiece in each volume being hand colored. 14 vols., 8vo, three-quarter red morocco, gilt tops, uncut. London: The Grolier Society, n. d. EDITION DE LUXE. Comprising: The Sheridans, 2 vols.; Nell Gwyn; Lady Blessington, Count Grammont, Mrs. Robinson, Lord Hamilton and Lady Nelson, 2 vols.; Beau Brummell, 2 vols.; Mrs. Siddons, 2 vols.; Lord Chesterfield, 2 vols. 16. BECON (THOMAS). The Reliques of Rome, contayning all such Matters of Religion, as haue in times past bene brought into the Church by the Pope. Woodcut portrait of Becon. Printed in Black Letter. 12mo, full straight-grain morocco, gilt edges (some leaves shaved close). London: John Day, 1563 FIRST EDITION. Becon seems to have had a very see-saw existence between the Catholics and Protestants of his time. He was imprisoned by both parties. 17. BIBLE. The Holy Bible, containing the Old and New Testaments and the Apocrypha. Illustrated with numerous fine etchings. 14 vols., 8vo, oaken board sides, russet morocco backs, blind tooling, gilt tops, uncut. Boston: Hinkley, n. d. HAND-MADE PAPER EDITION, one of 488 copies printed at the Merrymount Press. A VERY CHOICE SET. MANUSCRIPT BIBLE DATED 1458 18. BIBLE IN LATIN. Manuscript written in Gothic characters in red and black, double columns, and dated at end 1458. 522 leaves of fine vellum. Decorated with 78 ornamental initials painted in gold and colors. The first two with floral marginal ornaments, and historiated one with a figure of St. Jerome, writing; the other with the figure of our Saviour. Also hundreds of initials in red and blue. Thick 4to, 9 x 614 inches, English early 19th century binding of crimson straight-grain morocco, inlaid with green, gilt tooled sides and back, gilt edges by Edwards of Halifax (?). [Dated 1458] A splendid Manuscript Bible of the 15th century in the finest condition. The leaves of Hebrew names at end were added a few years later, having a colophon dated 1463. Probably executed in Germany. 19. BIBLIOGRAPHY. [Heywood (Thomas). ] Bibliotheca Parliamenti, Libri, Theologici, Politici, etc. Done into English for the Assembly of Divines. Small 4to, modern boards. Printed at London, 1653 A rare satire on the Puritans in the form of bibliography. From internal evidence the writer was an author-possibly Thomas Heywood, author of "The Iron Age, "" etc. He was bitter against the Puritans for the prohibition of stage-plays, and the writer of this book indulges his witticisms against them. See last two entries, where Iron, Gold, Silver and Brass Ages are mentioned. 20. BINDING. ANTONINUS. Itinerarium Antonini Avgusti, et Bvrdigalense. Quorum hos nunc primum est editum: Illud ad diuersos manuse. codices & impressos comparatum, emendatum, & Hieronymi Svritae Cæsaragustani, doctissimo commentario explicatum. Printer's device (on copper) on title. Thick 12mo, full green straight-grain morocco, fully gilt back and sides, green silk linings, gilt edges, gauffred, by R. Storr, Grantham, with his ticket. Coloniæ Agrippinæ (Cologne), 1600 A beautiful copy. Bindings with this binder's ticket are very rarely met with. This has the Syston Park book-plate. 21. BOOK OF HOURS. Usum Romanum. Printed on vellum. Gothic characters, 96 leaves (several leaves missing). Illustrated with 15 large woodcuts with borders, and woodcut borders to each page containing hundreds of smaller cuts and designs. Initials painted in red and blue. 8vo, old calf, gilt edges. Colophon: Paris Thielman Kerver for Gillet Remacle, 1503 A good example of the famous French printed Book of Hours. Desirable from the fact that the woodcuts have not been colored. 22. BOSWELL (JAMES). The Life of Samuel Johnson, L.L.D.... The Whole exhibiting a view of literature and literary men in Great Britain, for near half a century during which he flourished. 5th Edition, revised and augmented. 4 vols., 8vo, full red morocco, panelled backs with centre inlays, vellucent painted devices in front covers, gilt edges. London: Printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1807 EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED with a large number of portraits, views, and facsimiles. Most desirable edition, pictorially and from a reader's standpoint. 23. BOULTON (WILLIAM B.). The Amusements of Old London. 12 illustrations from contemporary sources, colored by hand. 2 vols., 8vo, cloth, gilt tops. London, 1901 24. BRITISH POETS. 68 vols., 12mo, half olive morocco, gilt tops, uncut. Boston: Houghton, Miffin and Co., n. d. 25. BRONTE (EMILY). ORIGINAL AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPTS of 11 Poems written on various occasions, 1837-39, in Emily Brontë's painfully minute handwriting in imitation of print, on scraps of paper of various sizes. Inlaid or mounted to royal 4to size, and bound, together with complete transcriptions, engrossed title-page and introduction, in a royal 4to volume, full crimson crushed levant morocco, lettered in gold on back and front cover, gilt edges, by Sangorski & Sutcliffe. These eleven poems written by Emily Brontë remained unpublished until 1910, when they were included among the unpublished poems contained in the volume of "The Complete Poems of Emily Brontë," Edited by Clement Shorter. He states in his introductory Bibliographical Note: The additional poems were contained in note books that Charlotte Brontë had handled tenderly when she made her selection after Emily and Anne had died. These little note books were lent to me by Mr. Nichols, her husband, some forty years afterwards, with permission to publish whatever I like from them." Some of the poems are dated, but they are here arranged in the order in which they appear in the published volume. The first manuscript, dated 1839, has, like many of her other poems, a pathetic biographical interest, she dwelling on her own sad, lonely life, "As friendless after eighteen years, " and referring also to the death of her mother, who passed away in 1821. A brighter note is, however, struck in the last of these poems: "What though the stars and fair moonlight Are quenched in morning dull and grey? And this, my soul, is day." 26. BROWNING (ROBERT). Complete Works. Edited by Charlotte Porter and Helen A. Clarke. Portraits and illustrations. 12 vols., 8vo, three-quarter crushed blue morocco, gilt tops, uncut. New York, 1899 AUTOGRAPH EDITION, one of 275 copies, with the plates in two states, one on India paper, the other on Japan paper. A CHOICE SET. DAVID GARRICK'S OWN COPY 27. BUCKINGHAM (DUKE OF). The Chances, a Comedy as it is acted at the Theatre Royal. Small 4to, wrappers, uncut, in cloth case. London: R. Wellington, 1705 David Garrick's Own Copy, with his Autograph annotations and stage directions on nearly every page, this plainly having been the promptcopy. Garrick has also inserted at least a dozen manuscript additions to the text. UNIQUE AND OF GREAT INTEREST. 28. BULLEN (A. H.). Some Shorter Elizabethan Poems; Some Longer Elizabethan Poems. 2 vols., 8vo, cloth, gilt tops, uncut. Westminster, 1903 29. BULWER (EDWARD, LORD LYTTON). Novels. Beautifully and fully illustrated. 32 vols., crushed green levant morocco, handsomely tooled gilt back and sides; doublures of white levant morocco, with a centre ornament of tooled and inlaid rosesprays, and gilt rose-sprays on corners, marbled flys, gilt tops, uncut, by Trautz-Bauzonnet. EDITION MAGNIFIQUE. A VERY HANDSOME SET, JAPAN PAPER, WITH THE PLATES IN TWO STATES. PIECES IN EACH VOLUME IS COLORED BY HAND. Boston, n. d. PRINTED ENTIRELY ON ONE OF THE FRONTIS UNCUT COPY OF THE EDINBURGH BURNS 30. BURNS (ROBERT). Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect. Portrait by Beugo after Nasmyth. 8vo, original boards, entirely uncut, in cloth slip-case. Edinburgh, Printed for the Author, 1787 Very fine copy of the First Issue of the First Edinburgh Edition. Rare in uncut state. This important edition contains 27 pieces here printed for the first time. These were either not written or were withheld when the Kilmarnock edition was published the previous year. This copy seems never to have had the back strip of the binding. A UNIQUE AND REMARKABLE COLLECTION OF BYRON AUTOGRAPHS 31. BYRON (GEORGE NOEL GORDON, LORD). A Collection of Lord Byron's Autographs, including the following: 2 page folio letter signed N. B., to Lady Frances Wedderburn in Paris, on the subject of a reconciliation with her husband. Autograph Order on his banker, John Hanson, in favor of Mr. Daighton, signed Byron. Autograph Note to his publisher, John Murray, signed N. B. Letters from his Wife, Lady Noel Byron, written in the third person. Letter from his only child, Ada Byron, written as Lady King. Another from the same, signed A. Lovelace, when married to Earl Lovelace. 4 page letter from the Marquise de Boissy, the former Countess Guiccioli, referring to Byron and his daughter, the Countess Lovelace. Autograph letter from the first Lord Byron, dated 1768, referring to work at Newstead Abbey. Letter from Thomas Moore with regard to the preparation of Lord Byron's Memoirs. With 14 choice portraits of the writers of all the letters. In all 27 letters and prints bound in a folio album of brown morocco, gilt tooled inside borders, gilt edges, by ZAEHNSDORF, lettered "LORD BYRON Mss." About 1811-23. The Byron letter to Lady Wedderburn is of extreme interest, showing familiarity with her relations with her husband. "My dear Friend, I saw your husband soon after receiving your letter and the enclosed statement which I need not say shocked me very much, neither did I conceal the Impression it made upon me from himself. As he expressed a strong wish to see your letter I availed myself of your permission to show it, more particularly that he might not take any fancies into his head, which is a Windmill of Suspicions of all kinds. I then put your three queries, to which he answered 'Yes' expressing at the same time great attachment to yourself''; etc., etc. In this year 1823 Byron was living with the Countess Guiccioli at Genoa; he left there to fight for Greece, and died the following April, 1824. 32. CARLYLE (THOMAS). Works. Illustrated. 26 vols., 8vo, three-quarter red levant morocco, gilt tops, uncut. Boston, n. d. MEMORIAL FUND EDITION. One of 250 copies, with the plates IN TWO STATES. |