inches long. (Name stamp of Eliz. Newdigate and the contemporary autograph of Eliz. Pole.) In a purple morocco case.

London: Printed for John Eyries, etc., 1735

6. ANMER (JOHN). Sacred Hymns of 3, 4, 5 and 6 parts for Voyces and Vyols, Bassus (only). Title within a woodcut border. Small 4to, unbound. London: Printed Edw. Allde, 1615

RARE.

7. APULEIUS. The Metamorphosis, or Golden Asse of Apuleius. Translated . . . by Thomas Taylor. 8vo, half green crushed levant morocco, gilt top, uncut. London, 1822 [1893]

One of 600 copies of this fine reprint.

8. ARIE DIVERSE composte da diversi Autori in Canto fermo sopra il Credo, copiata da me D. Urbano Vallombrosano. Musical MS. on paper, 78 leaves, finely written in red and black with a painted title of flower scrolls, and 20 large painted ornamental initials. 4to, original vellum, in a buckram case. London, 1695

9. ARTHINGTON (HENRY). Provision for the Poore, now in penurie, out of the Store-house of Gods plentie. Device on title. Small 4to, crushed blue levant morocco, gilt edges, by Rivière. A few restorations. London: Printed by Thomas Creede, 1597 FINE COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION. Printed in Black Letter. From the Arbury Library. with label.

10. ASCHAM (ROGER). A Report and Discourse. . . of the affaires and state of Germany and the Emperour Charles his Court, duryng certaine yeares while the sayd Roger was there. Title within border (scraped). Small 4to, crushed purple levant morocco, line border, gilt edges.

At London: Printed by Iohn Daye (circa 1570)

RATE. A letter from John Astely "from Hatfield, xix. Octobris. 1552" is prefixed, and this work is in the form of an answer to it.

11. AUTHORS AND MEN OF LETTERS. Sixteen Autograph Letters, including Lord Macaulay, 2 A. L's. s.; Robert Southey, A. L. s.; Hartley Coleridge, Autograph Verses, and others.

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12. AUTOGRAPHS OF NOVELISTS. A. L. s. of Mrs. Gaskell, 3 pp. 8vo, referring to Cranford; Anthony Trollope; W. Harrison Ainsworth; Miss Edgeworth, and "Cuthbert Bede" with signature and letter ending, of Charles Dickens.

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13. AVELA Y SUNIGA (DON LEWES DE). Commentaries translated out of Spanish into English (by John Wilkinson). BLACK LETTER, woodcut initials. Small 8vo, olive morocco, line tooled, with uncut edges.

London: Imprinted by Richard Tottel, 1554

A LARGE AND FINE COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION, with the two original blanks completing the last signature. VERY RARE.

14. AYTOUN (W. E.) AND MARTIN (SIR T.). Book of Ballads, edited by Bon Gaultier. Illustrated by Doyle, Leech and Crow

quill. 8vo, beautifully bound in full crushed green levant morocco, gilt line frames, two of the illustrations inlaid in colors in centre of covers, gilt edges, by De Sauty. Preserved in a book box. Original covers bound in.

London, 1877

A HANDSOME COPY, with an A. L. s. of Sir T. Martin inserted.

15. BADMINTON LIBRARY. Profusely illustrated. 19 vols., 4to, half blue morocco, gilt tops, uncut. London, v. d.

LARGE PAPER COPIES, 250 so printed.

16. BANCROFT (RICHARD). A Sermon preached at Paules Crosse the 9 of Februarie, being the first Sunday in the Parleament, 1588. Title within woodcut border. 12mo, half morocco, gilt top (some headlines shaved), by Worsfold.

VERY RARE.

London: Printed by I. I. 1588

17. BARHAM (R. H.). The Ingoldsby Legends. Illustrated with colored plates by Arthur Rackham. Imp. 8vo, original vellum gilt, gilt top, uncut, with ties. London, 1907

ONE OF 560 COPIES ON LARGE PAPER.

18. BASKERVILLE PRESS. Milton (John). Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained. Engraved portrait. 2 vols. 8vo, half calf. Birmingham: Printed by John Baskerville, 1758

With bookplate of George H. Wailes.

19. BEARDSLEY (AUBREY). The Story of Venus and Tannhauser. 4to, boards, uncut.

London: Printed for Private Circulation, 1907

One of 250 copies on hand-made paper.

20. BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER, A King and No King. Woodcut on title. Small 4to, crushed brown levant morocco, gilt edges, by Rivière. (A few headlines shaved.)

At London: Printed for Thomas Walkley, 1619 FIRST EDITION, WITH THE ORIGINAL BLANK BEFORE TITLE. From the Arbury Library, with label.

21. BEWICK (T.). A History of British Birds. 2 vols. Newcastle, 1805; A General History of Quadrupeds. Newcastle, 1807; The Fables of Esop, and others. Newcastle, 1818; A Supplement to the History of British Birds. Newcastle, 1821. Profusely illustrated with woodcuts by Bewick. 5 vols. royal 8vo, contemporary calf, line tooled (hinges weak). Newcastle, v. d.

A nice clean set.

22. BICKERSTAFFE (I.). Love in a Village. A Comic Opera. 8vo, polished calf, gilt back, gilt edges, by Rivière.

London: Printed for R. Baldwin, etc., 1765

With the half-title. From the Arbury Library, with label.

23. BINDING. Lazari Bayfii annotationes in L.II. Illuminated arms on title, and woodcuts. Tall 8vo, old brown morocco, gilt and blind panelled sides, gilt back, gilt edges.

[Colophon] Parisiis: Robertus Stephanus, 1536

AN INTERESTING SPECIMEN OF 17TH CENTURY ITALIAN BINDING.

24. Virgil. Opera omnia. Clarissimorvm virorvm annotationibus illustrata. Opera & industria Ioannis a Meyen. Engraved title. 8vo, splendidly bound in old French red morocco, back and sides richly and profusely decorated with fleurs-de-lis in lozenge pattern, gilt borders, gilt edges, with the name Michael Groselier stamped half on each cover. Paris: Apud Ioan. Libert, 1630

25.

A fine specimen of contemporary binding.

La Vie de Socrate. Dediee a Mons. le Cardinal Mazarini, par Mr. Charpentier. Frontispiece. 8vo, old French red morocco, gilt back, gilt panelled sides, with corner fleurons, gilt edges, with arms containing in a shield, clasped hands, above which is a sun, and beneath a fleur-de-lis. A plumed vizor surmounts the crest. Paris, 1657

26. Heures Imprimées par l'ordre de Monseigneur le Cardinal de Noailles, Archevesque de Paris, a l'usage de son Diocése. Engraved plates. 2 vols. 12mo, old French red morocco, gilt backs, sides richly tooled with a festooned rope border, flowers, stars and fleurs-de-lis, gilt edges, gilt paper linings and flys. Paris, 1729 A very interesting contemporary binding.

27. Tablettes Dramatiques, contenant l'Abrégé de l'Histoire du Théatre Francois, l'Etablissement des Théatres à Paris, etc. 12mo, old French red morocco, gilt floral sprays in compartments on back, sides ornamented with a handsome border of flowers and leaf sprays, with circular corner ornaments, gilt edges, linings and flys of blue satin. Paris, 1752

A handsome specimen of binding of the period. On the fly-leaf is inscribed: "Donné par Madame La Marquise de Ximenes à M. Jacobin le 16 Juillet 1817."

28. BLAKE (WILLIAM). Poetical Sketches. By W. B. 8vo, polished calf, inside dentelles, gilt edges, by Bedford (the last three sheets in facsimile reprint).

Printed in the year MDCCLXXXIII FIRST EDITION. A LARGE AND CLEAN COPY. VERY RARE. Bookplate of Robert A. Potts.

29. BLOCK WOODCUT. An Early Block Woodcut, repre senting the subject of the "Quindecim Signa," pasted in the front cover of an imperfect MS. Service Book of the XVth century, beginning "De Sancto Francisco Confessore Vigilia." (35 leaves, 634 x 434 inches), written in Gothic letter, double columns, 25 lines, red rubrics and painted capitals. Small 4to, original monastic binding of oak boards and sheepskin, with leather strap clasp. Sæc. XV

EXCESSIVELY RARE. The woodcut, which is in outline, measures 64 by 44 inches and represents the prophecy "that the sea shall rise forty ells above all mountains and appear to stand up like a wall. The cut appears to be the upper subject of the second leaf (in a block book), THE FIRST ENGRAVED SUBJECT OF THE "QUINDECIM SIGNA" (circa 1430). (S. Leigh Sotheby, "Principia Typographia," vol. II, p. 43.) At the head of the woodcut are three lines of block text in German. The first figure and a corner of the text are damaged.

WITH FORE-EDGE PAINTING

30. BLOOMFIELD (ROBERT). Wild Flowers; or Pastoral and Local Poetry. With full-page woodcuts after Thurston's designs. 8vo, red russia, gold and blind tooled side borders and gilt back.

London, 1813

WITH A CHARMING FORE-EDGE PAINTING, under gold, of a Suffolk Meadows, with horses, a Rustic, and a Sportsman.

31. BLOXAM (M. H.). The Principles of Gothic Ecclesiastical Architecture. Portrait and numerous woodcuts. 3 vols. 8vo, crushed maroon levant morocco, backs and sides richly ornamented, gilt edges, by Birdsall.

Rugby, 1882

THE AUTHOR'S OWN COPY, with numerous additional illustrations and notes, several A. L's. s. bound in.

32. BOCCACCIO. A Treatise excellent and Compendious shewing and declaring, in maner of Tragedye the Falles of Sondry most notable Princes and Princesses . . . translated by Dan John Lydgate, Monk of Burye, and nowe newly imprynted, corrected and augmented... Black Letter, double columns, title within woodcut figured border, woodcuts. Small folio, blue morocco, line tooled, gilt edges on the rough (title very slightly mended and some corners stained). London: Imprinted by Rich. Tottel, 1554 EXTREMELY RARE. Contains "The Daunce of Machabree," 12 pp., at end, also the duplicate leaf CCXX, with "Greneacre's a Lenuoy upon John Bochas," which are not in all copies.

33. BONNER (EDM., Bishop of London). Homelies. Black Letter, title within woodcut architectural border, large woodcut, initials of classical subjects. Small 4to, old scored russia, gilt edges (hinges weak). London: Imprinted by John Cawoode, 1555

FIRST EDITION.

34. BOOK OF PRESIDENTS (A), with Additions of diuers necessarie Instruments, meet for all such as desire to learne the manner and forme how to make Euidences and Instruments, etc. Black and roman letters. Small 8vo, limp vellum (some margins wormed and writing on some).

Imprinted at London for the Companie of Stationers, 1611

35. BOXING. The Art of Manual Defence; or, System of Boxing: Perspicuously explained in a series of Lessons. By a Pupil both of Humphreys and Mendoza. Frontispiece and 9 plates. 8vo, crushed red levant morocco, gilt back, line borders, gilt top, uncut, by Rivière. London: Printed for G. Kearsley, 1789

FINE COPY. RARE.

36. BRIDGES (ROBERT). Now in Wintry Delights. Small 4to, original wrappers, uncut and unopened.

FIRST EDITION.

Oxford: Daniel Press, 1903

37. BROWNE (SIR THOMAS). Hydriotaphia, Urne-Buriall, or, A Discourse of the Sepulchrall Urnes lately found in Norfolk. Together with The Garden of Cyrus, etc. 2 plates, and the leaf with

printed title-label at the end (inscription on one plate just touched). 8vo, old calf, gilt back. London: Printed for Hen. Brome, 1658 FIRST EDITION. With bookplate and autograph of C. Elkin Mathews, and a long note by him on fly-leaf.

38. BROWNING (ROBERT). Dramatic Idyls. Both series. 2 vols. 12mo, half red morocco. London, 1879-80

FIRST EDITIONS, Dr. F. J. Furnivall's copies with his autograph in each volume. A photographic portrait of Browning has been inserted in each volume, and also a copy, in Dr. Furnivall's hand, of a letter to him from Browning.

39.

Jocoseria. 12mo, original cloth.

London, 1883

FIRST EDITION. Presentation copy from the author, inscribed: "F. J. Furnivall, Esq. with all gratitude and esteem from Robert Browning. March 9, 83." A photo, portrait of Browning has been inserted, and there are a few MS. notes by Dr. Furnivall.

40. uncut.

Ferishtah's Fancies. 12mo, original cloth, top edges London, 1884 FIRST EDITION. Presentation copy from the author, inscribed: "F. J. Furnivall, Esq. with the grateful regards of Robert Browning. Nov. 18– '84." There are also a few MS. notes by Dr. Furnivall.

41. Parleyings with certain People of Importance in their Day. 12mo, original cloth, uncut. London, 1887

FIRST EDITION. Presentation copy from the author, inscribed: “Dr. Furnivall from his gratefully ever Robert Browning. Jan. 28, '87." The volume has been scored practically throughout, and there are many MS. notes by Dr. Furnivall.

42. Prose Life of Strafford, with an Introduction by C. H. Firth. Browning Society, 1892; Asolando, with Biographical and Historical Notes (By Edward Berdoe), 1894; Essay on Shelley, edited by R. Garnett, 1903. 3 vols. 12mo, original cloth.

London, v. d.

43. BUCHANAN (GEORGE). De Jure Regni apud Scotos. Title within woodcut border, with printer's device. Small 4to, old vellum. Edinburgh, 1579

FIRST EDITION. An Excellent copy. Bookplates of R. S. Turner and William Cowan.

44. BULLEN (A. H., Editor). Musa Proterva. Love Poems of the Restoration. 8vo, cloth, paper back, gilt top, uncut.

One of 400 copies.

Privately printed, 1902

45. BURNE (NICOL). The Disputation Concerning the Controversit Headis of Religion, betwixt the pretendit Ministeries of the deformed Kirk, &c. in Scotland and Nicol Burne, Professor of Philosophie in S. Leonardis College. . . . Dedicat to King James the Saxt. 8vo, old polished calf, gilt and blind tooling.

ORIGINAL EDITION. VERY RARE.

Imprented at Parise, 1581

46. BURNEY (C.). Present State of Music in Germany, the Netherlands and United Provinces. 2 vols. 8vo, old polished calf, with crest stamped in gilt in panels on backs. London, 1773

Fine copy.