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Encyclopædia Britannica, tenth ed., maps and illustrations, 36 vol., hf. mor. gt., 1875-1903 (927), Feb. 16, Hodgson Joseph, £3 17s. 6d.

[Oct. 12, Lot 925, £6; March 22, Lot 582, 35 vol., £4 8s.] Encyclopædia Britannica, a Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and Literature, eleventh ed. on thin paper, 29 vol., lambskin, t.e.g. (the Index on thick paper, in cloth), Cambridge, 1910-11, 4to. (899), Oct. 12, Hodgson £35 IOS. [Puttick, Oct. 20, Lot 349, £34; Hodgson, Feb. 16, Lot 597, £32; May 11, Lot 284, 31; Sotheby, May 18, Lot 596, 17 IOS.] Encyclopædia of the Laws of England, second ed., enlarged, with Indexes and Digest, 15 vol., buckram, 1906-9 (640), July 27, Hodgson Wildy, £5 7s. 6d. Endymion Series. Keats (J.) Poems, one of 125 copies, 1897-The Poems of Edgar Allan Poe, one of a limited ed., 1900-Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson, one of 75 copies, 1905, together 3 vol., on Japanese vell., illustrations by R. A. Bell, Heath Robinson and E. FortescueBrickdale, 8vo. (194), May 18, Sotheby Maggs, £2 18s. Engelbach. Naples and the Campagna Felice, first ed., maps and col. plates by Rowlandson, orig. salmon-col. cl., t.e.g., a remarkably fresh copy (but small hole in margin of one leaf), R. Ackermann, 1815, 8vo. (113), Nov. 17, Hodgson £7 7S.

[Puttick, Jan. 12, Lot 197, £6 10s.; Sotheby, March 1, Lot 16, £4 15s.; Hodgson, Jan. 19, Lot 142, £8 8s.] Engineering, an Illustrated Weekly Journal, Vol. i. to lxxiv., 1866-1902-Traction and Transmission, first 5 vol., 1901-2, together 79 vol., cl., folio (964), May 4, Hodgson Wheldon, £4 5S.

Englands Imminent Danger and Only Remedy, faithfully considered and represented, by an Impartial Hand, old English red mor. gt., with crowned cipher of King Charles II. on back and in corners, g.e., Printed for Thomas Dring, 1671, 8vo. (567), Jan. 17, Sotheby Tregaskis, £6 10s. English and Scottish Popular Ballads, edited by F. J. Child, limited issue of 1,000 copies, presentation copy from the editor to Charles Eliot Norton, 10 vol., hf. mor., g.t., Boston, 1882-98, 4to. (37), Dec. 13, Sotheby

Quaritch, £16 10s.

[Hodgson, Oct. 27, Lot 291, £12 10s.] English Catalogue. Bibliotheca Londinensis, a Classified Index, 1814-46, and London Catalogue, 1816-51, 2 vol., T.Hodgson, 1848-51-Low's English Catalogue, 18351900, with Index of Subjects, 1837-89, 10 vol., hf. bd. (binding of 1 vol. defective), 1864-1901-English Catalogue from 1901 to 1919, in 19 vol., cl., 1902-20, together 31 vol. (99), May 11, Hodgson Quaritch, £7 10S. English Dialect Dictionary, edited by Joseph Wright, 18

parts, in the orig. wrappers, 1898-1905, 4to. (842), July

27, Sotheby

[July 27, Lot 754, 7 vol., £1; 603, 6 vol., £2 8s.]

English Dramatists.

Joseph, LI IOS. Hodgson, Oct. 27, Lot

Middleton (T.) Works, port., 8 vol.; Marlowe, 3 vol.; Marston, 3 vol.; Peele, 2 vol.; edited by A. H. Bullen, together 16 vol., a clean set, 1885-88 (677), March 16, Hodgson Bumpus, £12 158. English Empire in America (The), or a Prospect of their Majesties Dominions in the West-Indies . .. to which is prefixed a Relation of the First Discovery of the New World, called America, by the Spaniards, and of the Remarkable Voyages of several Englishmen to divers places therein, by Robert Burton, illustrated with 2 quaint maps and 2 woodcuts of animals, birds and fishes, crushed crimson levant mor., g.e., by Rivière, London, printed for Nath. Crouch, 1698, sm. 12mo. (101), Jan. 20, Anderson Galleries $52.50

[Rare and curious. The account of the First Discovery of America is particularly interesting, and the maps and cuts are very unusual. The initials of the author, Robert Burton, are supposed to represent the pseudonym of the publisher, who wrote the book himself.]

English Garner (An), edited by E. Arber, 8 vol., 1895-6, 8vo. (195), May 18, Sotheby Atkinson, LI English Historical Society. Publications, complete set, 29 vol. in 27, red mor., gt. panel tooling on sides, panelled back, inside border, g.e., by F. Bedford, a fine set, 1838-56, 8vo. (178), Dec. 2, Sotheby Quaritch, £23 IOS. English Men of Letters, edited by John Morley, 38 vol., orig. cl., v.y. (452), Feb. 23, Sotheby Dobell, I IOS. English Poets, Works of the, with Critical and Biographical Prefaces by Samuel Johnson, 68 vol., old straight-grain green mor., g.e., 1779-81, 12mo. (236), June 2, Hodgson

£8 English Reprints, edited by Edward Arber, LARGE PAPER, 8 vol., hf. mor., 1869-71 (121), July 25, Sotheby

Atkinson, £2 IOS. Enquiry after Religion, or a View of the Idolatry, Superstition, Bigottry and Hipocrisie of all Churches and Sects throughout the World, in verse, new hf. mor., Printed for Richard Baldwin, 1691, 4to. (52), March 10, Sotheby Rosenbach, £22

Entick (J.) New Naval History, plates, old cf. (cracking), 1757, folio (249), Oct. 20, Puttick Last, £5 Entomological Society of London. Transactions, First Series, New Series and Third Series, 5 vol. each, 1836-67, and from 1868 to 1889, together 37 vol., plain and col. plates, hf. cf. gt., 1836-89 (16), July 25, Sotheby Hermann, £36 [June 15, Lot 48, 1862-1870, £13.]

Entomology. Wiener Entomologische Zeitung. Herausgegeben und redigirt von L. Ganglbauer, Dr. Franz Löw, etc.,

from its beginning in 1882 to 1913, plates (a few col.), 32 vol., hf. mor., Wien, 1882-1913, 8vo. (1006), March 1, Sotheby Heffer, 13 IOS. Entomology. Tijdschrift voor Entomologie. Uitgegeven door de Nederlandsche Entomologische Vereeniging, plates (some in colours), Vol. i.-lxi., 60 vol., hf. mor., last 2 vol. in 4 parts in wrappers, 'S. Gravenhage, M. Nijhoff, 18581919, 8vo. (974), March 1, Sotheby B. F. Stevens, £33 [March 1, Lot 654, 24 vol., 1880-1903, £9 5s.] Ephraim (St.) De Compunctione cordis, gothic letter, 19 11., brown mor., g.e. [Hain *6597], Basle, Iacobus [Wolff], n.d., circa 1499, folio (454), May 25, Sotheby Dobell, £4 Epictetus. Enchiridion, brown mor. ex., tooled in gold, g.e., Venice, Joannes Antonius et frates de Sabio, 1528, 4to. (231), Dec. 6, Anderson Galleries $105

[Martin Bucer's fine copy of the editio princeps, in Greek.] Epictetus (Graece) ex editione Joannis Upton accurate expressum, printed on linen, old red mor. gt., with MS. inscription on fly-leaf, "Robert Browning, 5 Mar., 1830, the gift of his Uncle Reuben Browning," Glasguae, R. Foulis, 1748, sm. 8vo. (455), May 25, Sotheby Maggs, £6 5s. Epistle or Legend of Susannah, a Poem, 9 pages, without title or heading, begins

There woned a berne in babaloyne in yt burgh riche
He was a jue gentil joachim he hyght,

followed by a Sermon, in English, 21 pages, begins: "In
ilke synful man or woman that is bonden in dedly synn,
on one page verses occur, followed by a portion of R.
Langland's Piers Plowman, occupying 54 pages, be-
ginning-

In a summer sesyn whanne softe was ye sunne

I schope me in to ye schrophys a schepe as I were
In habite of a hermite unholy of werkys

I went wide in ye werlde wonders to here;

"

ends, Explicit visio Willi. de Petro Plowhman; the last
23 pages are occupied by a poem headed :
'Hic incipit
vita de Dowell dobet et dobest secdm wit et reson.
Thus irobid in russit I romyd abowtyn," ending-

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"We have lettys of his lyf he schal hys lyf tyne Fro deth that is our duke swyche dedys we bryng." MSS. on paper, 54 ll. in all, 8 by 5 inches, late xiv. or early xv. cent., orig. vell. covers, lined canvas, XIV.-XV. cent., sm. folio (47), Oct. 21, Sotheby Quaritch, £100

[A volume of very considerable literary interest and importance.] Epistles & Gospels. "Here begynneth the Pystles and Gospels of everye Sonday and holy day in the yere" (with the table after the use of Salisbury), black letter, double columns, 34 lines, 72 11. (signs. A-R in fours), lower portion of last leaf supplied in fac., modern brown mor.,

stamped blind antique ornaments, not subject to return, Imprynted.. in Fletestrete by me Wyllym Powell. . at the Signe of the George nexte to Saynt Dunstons Church, n.d., sm. 4to. (562), Jan. 17, Sotheby Ellis, £5 [Extremely rare. The leaves probably form part of a primer printed in Queen Mary's reign.] Epistolae clarorum virorum selectae de quamplurimis optimæ, ad incandam nostrorum temporum eloquentiam, italic letter, Aldine anchor device on title-page and at end, red mor. gt., from the Hamilton Palace collection, Parisiis, apud Bernardum Turrisanum, 1556, sm. 8vo. (459), May 25, Sotheby Ellis, £1 12s.

[Contains several letters from and to Cardinal Pole.] Epistolæ diversorum Philosophorum, etc., Græce, first Aldine ed. [Proctor 5569], beautifully printed, 2 vol. in 1, old vell., a large copy, some edges being uncut, Venetiis, Aldus, MID. [1499], sm. 4to. (247), Dec. 1, Hodgson

Ellis, £5 Epistolae Graecae [editio Aldina prima], some MS. notes in the margins, 2 parts in 1 vol., cf., Venice, Aldus, 1499, 4to. (265), April 18, Sotheby Dobell, £3 5s. Epistole et Evangelii et Letioni vulgari in lingua Thoscana, nuovamente ristampate, very large woodcut beneath title, containing figures of Christ and St. Peter in a circle in centre, and four small figures of prophets within an arabesque border, numerous fine woodcuts within frames, and initial, figures of the prophets (small hole in last leaf), from the collection of William Morris, with his auto signature on fly-leaf, vell., Firenze, I. Giunti, 1551 (419), July 25, Sotheby Quaritch, £100 Epistolae Magni Turci, roman letter, 31 ll., green mor. gt., g.e., Rome, Ioh Phil de Lignamine, 1473, 4to. (457), May 25, Sotheby Davis & Orioli, £10 10S. [Epistole] Turci magni ad multos scripte, et Epistole rescripte ad eundem, numero nonaginta, gothic letter, long lines, 16 11., the last blank, with signs., hf. russ. [Hain *10498], [Wurtzburg, Reyser, circa 1486], 4to. (458), May 25, Sotheby Maggs, £6 15S. Epistolae Obscurorum virorum, ad venerabilem virum magistrum Ortuinum Gratium Daventriensem . . . variis et locis et temporibus missae, ac demum in volumen coaetae, gothic letter, mor. gt., In Venetia impressum in impressoria Aldi Minutij Anno q supra, etc., s. a., 4to. (549), Nov. 15, Sotheby Maggs, £8

[Probably printed at Cologne.] Eragny Press. Autres Poésies de Maistre François Villon & de son école, front., fancy bds., 1901-Les Ballades, woodcut, fancy bds., 1900, together 2 vol., 8vo. (373), July 20, Sotheby Bagguley, £3 Eragny Press. Jules Laforgue. Moralités Legendaires, woodcuts, 2 vol., fancy bds., 1898, 8vo. (372), July 20, Sotheby Mercer, £1 18s.

Eragny Press. Choix de Sonnets de P. de Ronsard, front., fancy bds., 1902, 8vo. (374), July 20, Sotheby Davis & Orioli, £I IS. Eragny Press. Les Ballades de Maistre François Villon, in red and black, woodcut border and initials, orig. bds., 1900, 8vo. (109), April 25, Sotheby Quaritch, LI IS. Eragny Press. A Brief Account of the Origin of the Eragny Press, by T. Sturge Moore, limited ed., woodcuts, bds., Esther & Lucien Pissarro, Eragny Press, 1903 (985), June 15, Sotheby Quaritch, £3 Erasmus (D.) Absolutissimus de octo orationis partium constructione libellus, title within a woodcut border, Coloniae, apud C. Cesarium, 1521-De duplici copia Verborum, ac rerum commentarii duo, title in red and black, within a border of woodcut ports., Argentorati, H. Morardi, 1521— Familiarum colloquiorum formulae, title within a woodcut border, Coloniae, G. Soteris, 1522, and another, in 1 vol., orig. oak bds. covered stamped leather, clasps (one missing), sm. 4to. (48), Oct. 21, Sotheby Tregaskis, £6 Erasmus (D.) Adagiorum Chiliades tres, Aldine anchor on title and at end, old red mor., gt. panelled tooling with centre ornament on sides, gt. panelled back, Venetiis, in ædibus Aldi, 1508 (118), June 28, Sotheby Hertzberger, £4 [May 25, Lot 472, 1514, 1 IOS.]

Erasmus (D.) Adagiorum opus, brown mor. sides, gt. tooled with a series of fleurs-de-lys within dentelle borders, arms of the Collegium Grassinæum in the centres, back in compartments with fleur-de-lys, g.e., Osterley Park copy, Lugduni, S. Gryphius, 1550, folio (341), May 18, Sotheby Thorp, £2 IOS.

Erasmus (D.) Apologia ad eximium virum Jacobum Fabrum, roman letter, old hf. cf., Theodoricus Martinus, n.d. [1517], sm. 4to. (479), May 25, Sotheby

Davis & Orioli, £1 8s. Erasmus (D.) Apophthegmes, translated into Englyshe by Nicolas Údal, black letter, orig. stamped leather, Excusum typis Ricardi Graftoni, 1542, sm. 8vo. (526), May 25, Sotheby Edwards, £3

[Hodgson, March 31, 1564, 10; Sotheby, May 25, 1564, £17.]

Erasmus (D.) Ausslegung über das göttlich tröstlichwort unsers lieben Herrn unnd seligmachers Christi, lit. goth., vell., from the Huth library, n. pl. [Ivo Schoeffer von Meyntz], 1521, 4to. (488), May 25, Sotheby Ellis, £2 5s. [Another copy, Lot 489, £25s.]

Erasmus (D.) Bellum, translated into Englyshe, black letter, old red mor. gt., g.e., T. Bertheleti, 1533, 8vo. (520), May 25, Sotheby Drake, £25 Erasmus (D.) The Censure and iudgement whyther dyuorsemente betwene man and wyfe stondeth with the lawe of God, black letter (some side-notes shaved and

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