ALL THE BOOKS IN THIS CATALOGUE ARE IN THE PUBLISHED BINDING UNLESS OTHERWISE DESCRIBED. THEY ARE IN EXCELLENT CONDITION, AND FAULTS, WHERE ANY, ARE FULLY NOTED.

1 ABERCROMBIE (LASCELLES). Four Short Plays [The Adder, The Staircase, The Deserter, End of the World]. Sq. cr. 8vo, boards. 1922 6s 2 ABERCROMBIE (LASCELLES). Speculative Dialogues. First Edition. Fine Copy. Cr. 8vo. 1913 7s

3 ABERCROMBIE (LASCELLES). Emblems of Love. Designed in Several Discourses. First Edition. Excellent Copy. Cr. 8vo. 1912 8s

4 ADDISON (J.). Works. Portrait and plates. 4 vols, 4to, calf. Baskerville, Birmingham, 1761 £10

5 ADDISON, etc. The Miscellaneous Works, in Verse and Prose, of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison, Esq., 4 vols, 1765. The Spectator, 8 vols, 1775. The Free-Holder, or Political Essays, by the Right Honourable Joseph Addison, Esq., 1758. The Guardian, 2 vols, 1760. 15 vols, 8vo, contemp. mottled calf. Printed for J. and R. Tonson £5

6 ADDISON. The Works of the Right Hon. Joseph Addison. With Notes by Richard Hurd, D.D. Portrait. 6 vols, roy. 8vo, calf gilt, very large margins and good type. 1811

7 AGATE (JAMES). White Horse and Red Lion. 8vo. 1924

£415s 7s 6d

Illustrated by Cruikshank,

£8 17s 6d

9 AIKIN. Select Works of the British Poets. With Biographical and Critical Prefaces. By Dr. Aikin. 8vo, calf, title foxed. N.D.

5s

10 AITKEN (CONRAD). Punch: The Immortal Liar. Documents in His History. [Poems]. First Edition. Fcp. 4to. Clean copy. 1921

3s 6d With

11 ALDINGTON (RICHARD). Images of War. A Book of Poems. hand-coloured wood-cut illustrations. 12mo, boards, with linen back. 1919 £1 10s Number thirty-six of eighty copies printed on cartridge paper at the Beaumont Press. 12 The Cambridge History of AMERICAN LITERATURE. Edited by W. P. Trent, J. Erskine, S. P. Sherman and C. Van Doren. 4 vols, roy. 8vo £6

13 AMERICAN POETRY SINCE 1900. By Louis Untermayer. With 17 portraits. 8vo 12s 6d

14 Interesting ANECDOTES, Memoirs, Allegories, Essays, and Poetical Fragments; Tending to Amuse the Fancy and Inculcate Morality. By Mr. Addison. 6 vols, 8vo, half calf, m.e. Printed for the Author, 1794

15 An ANGLO-SAXON READER. By A. J. Wyatt. Demy 8vo

20s

15s

16 An ANTHOLOGY OF ENGLISH VERSE. By John Drinkwater. Thick fcp. 8vo. 1924

6s

17 The Poetry of the ANTI-JACOBIN. Edited by L. Rice-Oxley [The Percy Reprints. Edited by H. F. B. Brett Smith]. Cr. 8vo 6s The best political satire since the age of Dryden."-Cambridge History of English Literature.

18 ARNOLD (M.). Essays by Matthew Arnold. Including Essays in Criticism, 1865. On Translating Homer (with F. W. Newman's Reply), and Five Other Essays, now for the first time collected. Oxford Edition. Port. Cr. 8vo, leather. As NEW. 1914 3s 6d

19 ARNOLD (MATTHEW). On the Study of Celtic Literature. Cr. 8vo 3s 6d 20 ARNOLD (MATTHEW). Mixed Essays. Cr. 8vo 3s 6d

21 ARNOLD (MATTHEW). Poems. With an Introduction by Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch. Portrait. Cr. 8vo, half red levant gilt. Fine copy. 1913 £1 10s 22 AUSTEN (JANE). Novels. The Text based on Collation of the Early Editions, by R. W. Chapman. With Notes and Indexes. Coloured frontispiece and Illustrations from contemporary sources. 5 vols. 8vo. 1923

£55s

Large paper edition, limited to 1,000 sets.

23 AUSTEN (JANE). Works. 7 vols, cr. 8vo, half levant, gilt. 1923 24 AUSTEN (JANE). Another set, bound in half calf, gilt. 1923

£5

£4

25 AUSTEN (JANE). The Watsons. With an Introduction by A. B. Walkley. Portrait. 12mo. 1923 6s

26 AYTOUN (W. E.). Poems. With Preface by F. Page. Portrait. Cr. 8vo, calf, extra. Fine copy. 1921

13s 6d

27 BACON (FRANCIS, BARON VERULAM). Works. Engraved portrait, etc. 10 vols, 8vo, calf, gilt. 1819 £310s 28 BACON (F.). The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount of St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor England. 10 vols, calf (rebacked), back gilt, and with coloured labels. 1819

£7 10s

29 BACON'S ESSAYS, with a Table of the Colours of Good and Evil. Whereunto is added The Wisdom of the Antients, enlarged by the Honourable Author. P. 8vo, half morocco. 1691 10s

30 BACON (SIR FRANCIS). Letters written during the Reign of King James the First, now collected, and augmented with several Letters and Memoirs address'd by him to the King. FIRST EDITION. Sm. 4to, old calf, skilfully repaired. 1702 £2 2s

31 BAILEY (JOHN). The Continuity of Letters. 8vo

12s 6d

15s

17s 6d

32 BAIN (F. W.). A Mine of Faults. Front. Sm. 4to. 1909

33 BAIN (F. W.). The Descent of the Sun. Front. Sm. 4to. 1903
Both the above are fine copies of the First Editions, printed on Large Paper.

34 BARBELLION (W. N. P.). Enjoying Life, and other Literary Remains. First Edition. Cr. 8vo. Clean copy. 1919

6s 35 BARBER [MARY]. Poems on Several Occasions. First Edition. 4to, original calf, joints strengthened. A fine copy. 1734 £1 15s With an introduction by Dean Swift. The publication and sale of Swift's" Polite Conversations," which she had obtained, placed Mary Barber in comfortable circum

stances.

36 BARNES (WILLIAM, Poet and Philologist). His Life, by his daughter. Portrait. Cr. 8vo, half calf, gilt. 1887 7s 6d

37 BARING (MAURICE). The Grey Stocking, The Green Elephant, A Double Game [Plays]. Cr. 8vo, cloth. 1911

3s

6s

38 BARING (MAURICE). Hildesheim. Quatre Pastiches. Sm. 4to. 1924 39 BARING (MAURICE). Punch and Judy, and other Essays. Cr. 8vo. 1924 10s 6d 40 BAYFIELD (M. A.). A Study of Shakespeare's Versification. Demy 8vo £1 Is 41 BEACONSFIELD (LORD). Novels. 11 vols, cr. 8vo. 192

£2 15s

42 BEACONSFIELD, Earl of, Life of, by W. F. Monypenny and G. E. Buckle. Portraits and Illustrations. 6 vols, demy 8vo

£4 16s

43 Francis BEAUMONT and John FLETCHER. Plays. Edited by E. A. Glover and A. R. Waller. 10 vols, cr. 8vo £4 10s 44 BEAUMONT (FRANCIS) and John Fletcher. Works. Edited by the Rev. A. Dyce. Portraits. 11 vols, 8vo, calf. 1843-6 £7

45 BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER. Comedies and Tragedies. Lacking portrait and title commences at sheet A2, and has hole, size of a penny, through 50 leaves in " Tragedy of Valentinian." Folio, old half calf, cracked. 1679 £1150

46 BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER. The Finest Scenes, Lyrics and other Beauties of those two Poets, selected, with introductory preface, by Leigh Hunt. Cr. 8vo. London, Bohn, 1855 £2 10s

Very interesting copy, with the following inscription—" To Southwood Smith, from his loving patient, Leigh Hunt."

47 BEERBOHM (MAX). And Even Now. First Edition. Sm. 4to. 1920. Fine copy

48 BELLOC (HILAIRE). On. P. 8vo. 1923

£1 5s

6s

49 BENSON (A. C.). Le Cahier Jaune. Poems. 8vo, wrappers (corner torn). Eton, Privately Printed, 1892 15s

Scarce. Maurice Baring's copy, with his autograph and bookplate.

50 BEOWULF. By R. W. Chambers. An Introduction to the Study of the Poem, with a discussion on the stories of Offa and Finn. With eight plates. Demy 8vo £1 10s 51 BIBLIOGRAPHY, A Manual of, an introduction to the Knowledge of Books, Library Management, Cataloguing, etc., by W. T. Rogers. Coloured front, and 37 illustrations. Cr. 8vo, parchment. New York, 1890 6s

52 BIBLIOGRAPHY. Mendelssohn's SOUTH AFRICAN Bibliography-Catalogue of the Mendelssohn Library of Works relating to S. Africa, with Notices of Works not as yet included in the Collection, a list of Parliamentary Blue-Books on S. Africa, etc., reproductions of rare engravings, etc. 2 vols, roy. 8vo, cloth. 1910 £1 12s 53 BINYON (LAURENCE). London Visions. Collected and Augmented. P. 8vo. 1908 10s

Inscribed presentation copy from the author.

54 BLAKE (W.). Works: Poetic, Symbolic, and Critical. Edited by E. J. Ellis and W. B. Yeats. Portraits and facsimiles. 3 vols, imp. 8vo. 1893 £23

55 William BLAKE. His Philosophy and Symbols. By S. Foster Damon. Front. Roy. 8vo. 1924

£22s

56 BLAKE (W.). Life, by Gilchrist. Illustrated. 2 vols, 8vo. 1880 The second and best edition.

£10 10s

In Ten

12s

P. 8vo,

57 BLACKMORE (RICHARD). Prince Arthur. An Heroick Poem. Books. First Edition. Folio, original calf. 1695

The author's poem " Creation was much praised by Dr. Johnson. 58 BLANCHARD (LAMAN). Lyric Offerings. First Edition. original boards. London, William Harrison Ainsworth, 1828 Inscribed presentation copy-" E. C. from L.B." Blanchard edited the "Monthly Magazine" and "George Cruikshank's Omnibus.'

10s 6d

59 BLOOMFIELD (ROBERT). Remains. 2 vols in 1, p. 8vo, calf. 1824 10s 6d An interesting copy of the collected works of Bloomfield, with the following inscription Gratefully presented to the author of The Modern Dunciad,' by G. R. Bloomfield's family, Hannah Bloomfield, Feb. 1, 1825."

44

The author of "The Modern Dunciad" was, of course, George Daniel, a friend of both Bloomfield and Charles Lamb.

60 BLOOMFIELD (ROBERT). The Farmer's Boy. First Edition. Large Paper. With cuts by Bewick. Sm. 4to, boards rebacked [few stains at edges of leaves]. 1800

15s

61 BLUNDEN (E. C.). Pastorals. A Book of Verses. First Edition. Fine Copy. P. 8vo, original wrappers. 1916 10s 6d

A very scarce early work of Edmund Blunden's.

62 BLOUNT (SIR THOMAS POPE). De Re Poetica; or, Remarks upon Poetry. With Characters and Censures of the Most Considerable Poets, whether Ancient or Modern. Estracted out of the Best and Choicest Criticks. Sm. 4to, panelled calf, well rebacked. 1694

The First Edition.

£3 3s

63 BLUNDEN (EDMUND). The Shepherd; and other Poems of Peace and War. 8vo, 1922

Awarded the Hawthornden Prize, 1922.

64 BLUNT (W. S.). Poems. Cr. 8vo. 1923

6s

7s 6d

With

65 BOCCACCIO. The Decameron; or, Ten Days' Entertainment. Introduction by Thomas Wright, M.A. With portrait and ten designs by T. Stothard. Cr. 8vo, half calf, gilt. [1872]

£1

66 BOOKBINDING AND THE CARE OF BOOKS. A Text book for bookbinders and librarians, by D. Cockerell. Illustrated. P. 8vo, boards. 1915 5s 67 BOOKBINDING considered as a Fine Art, Mechanical Art, and Manufacture, by H. B. Wheatley. Full-page plates. Roy. 8vo. 1880.-Zaehnsdorf, Suggestions in Bookbinding, 1886. With other Papers, etc., on the same subject. In one vol. Half morocco 15s

68 BOOKS ON THE GREAT WAR. An Annotated Bibliography of Literature issued during the Conflict, by Lange and Berry. Vols 1-4, in 2 vols, 8vo, cloth. 1915 7s 6d 69 BOOK-VERSE, an Anthology of Poems of Books and Bookmen, from earliest times, edited by W. Roberts. P. 8vo, boards, cloth back. 1896 4s 6d

70 BORROW (GEORGE).

vols, large cr. 8vo

Works.

Photogravure and other illustrations. 6

£1 11s 6d

71 The Journal of a Tour to CORSICA, and Memoirs of Pascal Paoli. By James Boswell, Esq. Edited, with an introduction, by S. C. Roberts. Portrait. 1923

Cr. 8vo. 4s 6d

72 Letters of James BOSWELL. Collected and edited by Chauncey Brewster Tinker. Portrait and facsimile. 2 vols, 8vo. 1924 £1 16s 73 Young BOSWELL. Chapters on James Boswell, the Biographer, based largely on New Material. By Chauncey Brewster Tinker. Many Illustrations. Roy. 8vo. 1924 15s 74 BOTTOMLEY (GORDON). A Vision of Giorgione. Three Variations on a Venetian Theme. Sm. 4to, white buckram, gilt. Very clean copy. 1922 £1 4s Number 15 of fifty copies, signed by the author.

75 BOTTOMLEY (GORDON). Chambers of Imagery. First Edition. 2 vols. p.8vo, original wrappers. 1907-1912 13s 6d 76 BOTTOMLEY (GORDON). The Poems of Thirty Years. With a portrait by Charles Shannon and a cover design by Charles Ricketts. Sm. 4to. 1925 £1 1s