'J i ■ CORNELL UNIVERSITY LIBRARY Cornell University Library 3 1924 031 351 889 olin.anx Cornell University Library The original of this book is in the Cornell University Library. There are no known copyright restrictions in the United States on the use of the text. http://www.archive.org/details/cu31924031351889 A View in the Farnum Library. From Rogers' "Private Libraries of Providence/ ^^^^E dut^l^^ne Ctbratg OF THE LATE EleAjanirer ^atnum, ^0q», iaroijiacnte, aai)oirt Kslantr. "That Mr. Farnum is an extremely careful student of bibliography the collection fully attests. Every author, ancient or modern, that Mr. Farnum has chosen to place upon his shelves, has been placed there at his very best. In his library, bibliographically speaking, there are no mistakes." — Horatio Rogers' ' ' Private Libraries of Providence, with a Preliminary Essay on the Lmie of Books." NEW YORK : GEO. A. LEAVITT & CO., AUCTIONEERS, Clinton Hall, Astor Place. November, 1884. A JIJS3 K f^CORNELC 'UNIVERSfTYl IBRARY *' 1 wol do my dilygence As ferre as sowneth in to honest To tel you a tale, ye two or thre." —Chaucer's " Monk's Prologue." The books of the Farnum Library require no eulogy from the compiler of this catalogue . Being the best of their kind, they tell their own story better than could be narrated by fulsome description' or words of puff. The condition, quality and quantity of the late Mr. Alexander Farnum's library were chronicled by Horatio Rogers in his valuable " Private Libraries of Providence," some six years ago, and as the collection appeared to him then. That impartial and Dibdinistic description follows these two prefatory pages. All the compiler has essayed to accom- plish has been to give titles, describe sizes and bindings, and add some few notes, mostly borrowed from other sources. These tell an old, well-worn tale. Like the bird in the fable, the writer has arrayed himself in the plumage of others. And that is really about all the cataloguer of the period can do. His work has been so faithfully performed for him, a generation or two ago, by Brunet, Stevens, Lowndes, Dibdin, AUibone, Willis, Quaritch, and the rest of the old bibliographical guild, that all he has to do is to follow in their tracks and plagiarize at every footstep. No literary merit can therefore be claimed for these pages, as no literary originality has been attempted. To compile a book catalogue in these days one only needs a paste-pot, a pair of scissors and a little horse-sense. That is the whole of the necessary equipment. This catalogue has been made with tools of that kind. It is compiled for the wealthy and cultured man of leisure and good taste, who loves books for their own sake, not for rarity or peculiarities alone. It, therefore, does not appeal to the impecunious, finical and hjrpercritical bibliographer who, as a rule, being as poor as Job, can afford to economically content himself with a sneering side laugh or a caustic, scorpionical criticism. Those, however, who laugh the softest often cry the loudest and longest. So much overweening conceit, fancied wisdom and bogus pretence, mingled with a considerable share of the Ananias penchant, so frequently hedge around the "biblio- graphical department," that the compiler has felt it necessary to put himself on record, by this open confession, on behalf of his tribe and himself. * * * This Library might have had the sizes of its volumes described by inches, but the rule followed has been to give them popularly, according to the commonly received ideas . Technicality, in that respect, has given way to the general conception, in accordance with the suggestion made over eight years ago by the compiler in an article on " The Sizes of Printed Books," in "The Stationer's Hand-Book," as follows: "It having been found impossible to give regularly the correct sizes of modern books as in former years, as folio, 4to, 8vo, i2mo, i6mo, etc., bibliographers have been forced to describe the new sizes by the names of the old they are most like.'' No " collations " will be found in this catalogue. Such are more suited to a Delmonico coterie of gourmets. The books are as they are, and are described for auction sale, with a just fairness to all the lots and without exaggeration of any. The compiler carried out the instructions of the late Mr. Farnum in the method of description, in the length of notes to the various lots, etc. The deceased owner wished his books thoroughly catalogued without regard to expense. The compiler obeyed orders and would have been just as willing to have done so if Mr. Farnum had desired him to have put fifty lots on -- page instead of the 4 PROEM. number they now average. He had in his mind's eye the dictum of the late Horace Greeley — "Follow copy if it carries you out of the window." There may be many typographical and descriptive errors in this catalogue. These have never failed to creep into all its predecessors that have been hurriedly printed and made up. Such mistakes are necessary to take the conceit out of cataloguers, and blunders that can be found in these pages are now offered as a sacrifice, for bibliographers to peck at. * * * Mr. Famum's library is one in a thousand. Church has said — " We ought to judge of the editions of books as we judge of men — none are perfect, and the best are good only by comparison. " True, but when a collection carefully winnowed from the book- sellers' stores on both sides of the Atlantic and culled from auctioneers' catalogues for nearly a quarter of a century by a connoisseur like Mr. Farnum, who knew what and where to buy the best that money could obtain, such a quotation should be disregarded. Mr. Farnum's theory was large paper copies rather than small — the reliures of Hay- day, Riviire, Bedford, Matthews, and Zaehnsdorff in preference to cheap store bindings — limited editions on fine paper instead of unlimited on wood pulp — unique extra illus- trated copies to be always chosen rather than volumes manufactured by the thousand, with well-worn plates and indistinct impressions — the choicest examples of American printed books represented by the Riverside Press or of the British printing office exhib- ited in the typographical beauties of Whittingham and Baskerville to be selected frequently and regularly — and in fact always editions-de-luxe, uncut copies not ravished by the binder's plough, and, above all, original editions, if with plates, but if not, then the best printed and the best edited that the book mart has produced or has to offer. Such were Mr. Farnum's first choice, and he gathered together the hbrary of extraordinary excellence, sumptuous character and superb condition, described in the following pages, which do not contain the account of a solitary volume but what adorned his shelves at Providence, and which, as a whole, are a bibliophilistic monument to his good taste and correct judgment. * # * The collection is strong in belles-lettres, the drama is fully represented, poetry is at the very best, history is carefully selected, and, in fact, every other domain of hterature necessary to constitute an American gentleman's perfect library will be found in it. It is a collection of literary treasures for a man of the nineteenth century, not for a Dryasdustic mummy. * * » Mr. Farnum's library fills the following description which the book lover Amott tells us respecting the contents of his book shelves :— " And in a corner of my house I have BOOKS ; the miracle of all my possessions, more wonderful than the wishing cap of the ' Arabian Tales,' for they transport me instantly not only to all places, but to all times. By my books I can conjure up to vivid existence before me all the good and great men of antiquity ; and for my individual satisfaction I can make them act over again the most renowned of their exploits. The orators declaim for me ; the historians recite • the poets sing ; in a word, from the Equator to the Pole, and from the beginning of time until now, by my books, I can fly whither I please." CHARLES SOTHERAN. New York Press Club, 120 Nassau Street. MR. ALEXANDER FARNUM'S LIBRARY. [Reprinted from pp. 165-178 of " Private Libraries of Providence, with a Preliminary Essay on the Love of Books, by Horatio Rogers.'' 410. Providence, 1878.] — Well read in poetry, And other books, — good ones, I warrant ye. Taming of the Shrew. We have somewhere read the story of an old Roman, who expended vast sums in purchasing a household of learned slaves. He wished to have the best poets and the best historians in living editions. One servant recited the whole of the Iliad : another chanted the Odes of Pindar : every standard author had its living representative. The library of Mr. Farnum reminds one of the household of the Roman, though happily the mortal edition of the ancient is replaced by the immortal offspring of the genius of Gutenberg. They certainly resemble each other in the possession of the best poets and historians in the best editions, and in every standard author having a representative. This attractive collection contains about four thousand five hundred volumes, and is largely composed of classical English literature, wherein it is unsurpassed in this vicinity. Among its strong points are the drama, embracing the major and minor dramatists from Shakespeare down, the British poets, general history, bibliography, antiquarian works, especially of the Elizabethan age, literary history, and books on the fine arts. Wood engraving has some particularly fine representatives. Every book in the library, almost without exception, is the very best edition ever issued, in whatever form that may be ; and of works of an important character, of which several approved editions exist, the best are usually to be found among its treasures. For example, there are about twenty editions of Shakespeare, from Halliwell's folio to Pickering's diminutive Diamond. Milton is also represented in several of the choicest editions, from that of John Basker- ville to that of William Pickering. When we say best editions, we do not always mean the most rare and costly, like the first four folios of Shakespeare, or the original issues of Milton ; but we apply the term to the most choice and elegant editions for critical use, as indicated by the examples we have given. Some of the books are most daintily gotten up, and about eight hundred volumes are large paper copies and limited editions. In one case only five copies were issued of a work in the style of the copy in Mr. Far- num's possession ; of another but twelve ; of several others twenty-five, fifty, and so on, as the case may be. To cull out some of the choicest specimens of this library will be our endeavor ; though, in attempting to do so, one feels like saying with the aged Dryden, — " Thoughts come crowding in so fast upon me that the only difficulty is to choose or to reject. " Mr. Famum's copy of Dibdin's bibliographical works, of which some of the volumes are unique, is, unquestionably, one of the finest in existence. With the exception of the Spenceriana, and Althorpianse, all the important volumes are on large paper. The copy of the Typographical Antiquities (one of sixty-six printed on large paper), is uncut, and bound in half vellum ; while uniform with it are, two volumes deserving special mention. One of these volumes comprises the first six signatures of the Typo- graphical Antiquities printed on vellum, and intended for the Earl Spencer, Dibdin's patron. These signatures belonged to William Savage, the printer, and, according to the title-page, formed " The only portion, and only copy that was printed on vellum." Though Dibdin's excuse for not completing the copy was the difficulty in working on vellum, yet we suspect that the real reason was the expense. In the early stages of the 6 IN TROD UCTION, undertaking, as appears by a note in Mr. Farnum's possession, Dibdin wrote to Savage as follows: — '* I am much pleased with what you have sent me: the vellum has a glorious look, and, if you exert all the talent which appears in the specimen, we shall make a magnificent book of the vellum copy." In a subsequent note to Savage, likewise in Mr. Famum's possession, he wrote : — ** I give up the vellum copy not from a suppo- sition of your want of skill to execute it, but from various causes which I will state hereafter. We shall now go on more smoothly. " Long after he had abandoned the copy he referred to these signatures in a foot-note to his Bibliomania, more harshly, it seems to us, than the truth justified ; for, notwithstanding what he had written to Savage, he spoke of them as follows:— *' The censure which is here thrown out upon others reaches my own doors : for I attempted to execute a single copy of my Typogf'aphical Antiquities upon vellum, with every possible attention to printing and to the material upon which it was to be executed. But I failed in every point ; and this single wretched looking book, had I persevered in executing my design, would have cost me about seventy-five guineas ! " * Mr. Farnum's Dibdin comprises forty-six volumes. His large paper copy of Remin- iscences of a Literary Life contains the rare Index, likewise on large paper, notwith- standing the statement in the Hosmer Catalogue that it was " only printed on small paper," f One of Mr. Farnum's copies of the Tour in France and Germany, the * Another of Dibdin's autograph letters in Mr. Farnum's possession, is interesting because of the references in it to his own works, and especially to his Reminiscences of a Literary Life, then about to be published. It is addressed to Ithuriel Towne of New York, who had paid sixty guineas for an illustrated Bibliomania, alluded to in a foot-note to the first volume of the Reminiscences, and which sold for $720 at the John Allan sale in 1864. The letter is as follows : — *' 7 Wyndham St., Bryanston Sqr. April 3, 1835. Dear Sir : I beg you to accept my very best thanks for all the kind and all the honourable testimonies con- tained in your letter of February last, in favor of my humble lucubrations. That they have afforded you a rational gratification, is matter of sincere pleasure to their author. Will you, however, forgive my remarking that you are much behind hand in your number of the volumes which have issued from the same prolific pen ? But to that gallantry of spirit which hesi- tates not to sacrifice 60 guineas for an illustrated copy of the Bibliomania upon large paper, every- thing is obtainable. Goon, dear Sir, and put the finishing stroke to your spirit of courageous enterprise. Possess the Decameron (the most beautiful, as Mr. Adlard will tell you, of all biblio- graphical books), the Tour, the Spencer Library, and above all, for utility, the Library Co-m-panion. As to the small rarer pieces 1 will confer with your honest agent, Mr. Evans, and together, we must get them at reasonable prices. The Typographical Antiquities in 4 vols, is reasonable and common — as an unfinished work. I transmit you a notice of a neiv "work — in which you will observe your name to be down — from authority; but I will be frank and tell you, that 1 have reserved for you a large paper copy — ;^io, loj. — subject to your rejection or possession. 'Twill be an immensely scarce work ; and perhaps my last performance. And now allow me to thank you, which I do very sincerely, for the splendid and acceptable present oi^& proofs of your countrymen's skill in the art of engraving. The specimens are most creditable to them. In return as soon as the " Reminiscences" are published, in September, I will send you a copy of my Lent Lectures on large paper, of which I shall beg your acceptance. Your country is a young country but the infant is Hercules. Farewell, dear Sir, and accept the assurance of my respect and esteem. Very much and truly, T. F. DIBDIN." I The Catalogue of the Library of Zelotes Hosmer, prepared for the sale which took place in 1861, contained this note to a large paper copy of Dibdin's Reminiscences of a Literary Life (Lot No. 301): " Containing the Index, very rare, and only printed on small paper. This is inlaid and bound with the large paper copy; also a long letter to Dawson Turner, whose copy this was," INTRODUCTION. 7 second edition, published in three volumes, has been extended to eight by inserted illus- trations, amongst which are a remarkable number of rare portraits and curious old views of places. One of his copies of the Bibliographical Decameron contains the ebony-spec- tacle portrait of Tom Payne, of which only twenty-five were printed. It likewise con- tains one of the prints of Diana of Poictiers, the plate having been destroyed after seventy- five (fifty ?) impressions had been taken off. "I learn," says Dibdin in a foot-note to his Reminiscences, "that 3/. 13^. bd. has been given for a single impression of this most original and fascinating portrait." But by far the most valuable of this fine set of Dibdin is a unique copy, of which we have not yet spoken. Dibdin projected a ' ' Dis- quisition on Early Engraving and Ornamental Printing," and though he never got so far as the actual composition of the work, still, with the assistance of Savage, the printer, he gathered much material for it in the form of a collection of numerous title- pages of early printers and many wood engravings. Among its artistic treasures Ger- many is represented by Albert Durer, Hans Burgkmair, Lucas Cranach, Hans Schaeu- flein, Henry Voghter, James Kobel, Gabriel Schnellbotz, Louis Businck, and others ; Holland and the Low Countries by John Walther van Assen, Henry Goltzius, Abraham Bloemaert, Anthony Sallaerts, and Christopher van Sichem ; — but it is idle to attempt to enumerate the artists whose cuts Dibdin had gathered together for the purpose of illustrating his work. SuflSce it to say that the collection includes cuts of many of the most famous wood engravers from the time of Albert Durer to that of Thomas Bewick. The whole, constituting a most remarkable collection, are mounted, or inlaid, in a folio volume. This interesting volume has been inspected by various engravers of this coun- try, and has awakened much interest. It is a matter of surprise that the rich and appre- ciative collectors of literary rarities in England allowed it to cross the Atlantic. Of kindred character to the last volume is another collection of wood-cuts by Durer, Burgkmair, and many other old masters. It came from the John Allan sale, and among its stores is a chiaro-scuro engraving on wood,* less than eleven by seven inches square, of which, or of a copy exactly like which, Jackson in his Treatise on Wood Engraving thus speaks : — "I have, however, seen one German cut executed in this style, with the date 1543, which for the number of the blocks from which it is printed, and the delicacy of the impression in certain parts, is, if genuine, one of the most remarkable of that period The subject is a figure of Christ ; in his left hand he holds an orb emblematic of his power, while the right is elevated as in the act of pronouncing a benediction The drawing of the figure of Christ is very much in the style of Lucas Cranach, and I am strongly inclined to think that the original painting or drawing was executed by him, whoever may have been the engraver. There must have been at least ten blocks required for this curious print, which, for clearness and distinctness in the colors, and for delicacy of impression, more especially in the face, may challenge a comparison not only with the finest chiaro-scuros of former times, but also with the best specimens of colored block-printing of the present day." The water mark of Mr. Farnum's print contains the name of H-OSER, but we have not been able to find any trace of such a paper-maker. In the bibliographical department of this library are to be found a beautiful copy of Brydges's scarce works in twenty volumes ; the Manuals of Brunet, and of Home, on large paper ; the Bibliotheca Anglo Poetica, also on large paper, and extensively illus- trated by the insertion of many rare portraits ; together with many other valuable works. A hap-hazard selection of a dozen or more works for mention will, at least, give a fair illustration of this collection. The Harleian Miscellany, in ten quartos, is from Rufus Choate's library, bearing his autograph on a fly-leaf : Somers's Tracts in thirteen volumes is uniform with it in size. The first twelve volumes of the Septimus Prowett edition of * [This wood engraving will not be sold with the Library.] 8 INTRODUCTION. Dodsley's Old Plays are on large paper, and the thirteenth has been stilted to match.* Pickering's Prayer Book, in seven folios, shows all the changes from the Prayer Book of Edward VI., to the present time. Aristotle's Works, translated by Thomas Taylor, in ten quartos, forms, according to Branet, the only uniform edition of Aristotle's complete works in any language. Ritson's antiquarian works, in forty volumes, bound in tree calf by Riviere, contains all the cancelled leaves and suppressed passages. Yarrell's Birds, the largest size in six imperial octavos, only fifty copies of that size having been issued, and his Fishes, the second size, are full of beautiful wood-cuts. Mr. Far- num was one of the original sixteen American subscribers to Halliwell's folio Shakespeare, illustrated by Fairholt, in sixteen volumes, of which there were but one hundred and fifty copies printed. This is one of the best specimens of printing of modern times, being all worked by hand, and on paper which is superb. Large paper copies, like the one in this library, of Dr. Grey's edition of Hudibras, published at Cambridge in 1744, are, according to the Bibliotheca Anglo Poetica, of rare occurrence ; and Dr. Dibdin says only twelve were issued in that style, f The copy of the London edition of Hudi- bras here, pubhshed in 1819, contains the plates engraved for the work as additional illustrations ; and they are printed in colors in a very remarkable way, and are very elegant. There are works of marvellous beauty here, containing specimens of illumination and decoration of the middle ages. Of this class is Silvestre's Universal Paleography, or facsimiles of writing of all nations and periods in two elegant folios, J They are gorgeous volumes, and have the reputation of being some of the finest books ever issued. Not unUke in character are the original edition of Le Moyen Age by Lacroix, and Shaw's books relating to the middle ages on large paper, viz. : Illuminated Ornaments ; Dresses and Decorations ; Decorative Arts, Ecclesiastical and Civil, etc. The attractiveness of this style of works, by reproducing the ornamentation of even old books alone, whether of letter or illustration, can well be understood by those not familiar with them by the following, which we take from an English writer, who, in speaking of a Gothic story of the fourteenth century, " before the press vulgarized wonders," thus describes the class to which it belonged : — " The scribe, the artist, and the binder, lavished their time and skill. Six years were not unf requently spent upon the internal decorations. The margin , in the place of canvas, was enriched with portraits, magnificent dresses, flowers and * It is very difficult to pick up a perfect large paper copy of the edition of Dodsley's Old Plays in twelve volumes, published by Septimus Prowett in 1825-27, with a supplemental volume issued by William Pickering in 1833. One reason is that, after it had become scarce, extra sets were made up, as far as possible, from sheets left over, lacking signatures being supplied by printing new ones, which but imperfectly matched the original. Another reason is that the time of issuing the set stretched over several years. Mr. Farnum in making up his set collected no less than three different copies before securing a perfect one. The writer experienced almost as much difficulty in making up an uncut copy on small paper. This edition will probably always continue to be highly prized. The edition recently issued, and edited by Hazlitt, will scarcely supplant it as iVIr. Hazlitt has omitted some plays that have recently appeared in the collected works of their authors, but which are to be found in the Prowett edition : he has also added some plays not to be found in Dodsley. t The statement in the text is, perhaps, a little too unqualified. Dibdin's exact language in a note to the Library Companion in regard to large paper copies of Grey's edition of Hudibras, is as follows : — "On large paper, it is said, only 12 copies were struck off ; but I have my doubts on this head, as it is not an uncommon book, and 100 copies were subscribed for. Do T deceive myself in the supposition that I have seen more than a dozen of copies ? Be that as itmay, I find such a copy, bound by Roger Payne in red morocco, selling for 14/. 145., at the sale oi Colonel Stanley's library; and a similar one — * very fine copy, old red morocco, borders of gold,' (inviting description ! ) marked at 12/. J2J., in the catalogue of Messrs. Payne and Foss. It may be necessary to state, that the plates in this edition are from the very humorous pencil of Hogarth," — etc, } The two smaller volumes of text, of course, accompany the folio illustrations. INTRODUCTION. 9 fruits. Letters of silver shone on a purple ground. Golden roses studded a covering of crimson velvet ; the clasps of precious metal, richly chased, shut up the adventurous knights and the radiant damsels in their splendid home." There are also illustrated books in profusion, and all superb. Among works with fine plates are Lodge's Portraits, Houbraken's Heads, and Woodburn's Gallery of Rare Portraits, all in folio ; then too, there is an original Hogarth from the library of David Roberts, the painter, in elephant folio ; and, of like size, Westwood's Miniatures and Ornaments of Anglo-Saxon and Irish Manuscripts. A collection of over seventeen hundred plates of Bartolozzi, the celebrated Florentine designer and engraver, in five elephant folios, is undoubtedly one of the finest testimonials to this artist's genius ever formed. Among its treasures are numerous engraver's proofs, comprising several series of impressions from a number of the plates, showing the progress of the artist's work from the etching to the finished print. Books illustrated with inserted plates are likewise to be found in Mr. Famum's library. Of this character are Irving's Washington ; Dunlap's History of the Rise and Progress of the Arts of Design in the United States, extended from two to four volumes ; Rogers's Pleasures of Memory, and Cowper's Task, both inlaid to quarto size, magnifi- cently illustrated with many proofs and autograph letters, and richly bound ; and numerous other works. Eastlake's Material for a History of Oil Painting, besides its inserted illustrations, contains five original drawings by Eastlake. Four of them are in colors, being copies of frescoes made by the artist during his travels in Italy: the other is a sheet of studies in pencil and pen drawing. These were bought at a sale of the artist's effects, and were guaranteed by Lady Eastlake to be the work of her husband. The last volume we shall mention will be Byron's English Bards and Scotch Review- ers, inlaid to folio size. It was gotten up by William Upcott, a man famous in England for his love of literary rarities. It afterwards belonged to John Allan of New York, likewise noted for his fine books, and by him it was considered one of his choicest gems. It contains one hundred and forty-five inserted portraits, mostly proofs, and numerous landscape plates. Besides the autographs of Lord and Lady Byron, the Earl of Carlisle, Lord Aberdeen, Lady Holland, the graceful mistress of Holland House, and numerous other illustrious personages, there are in it original letters of Wordsworth, Lamb, Sydney Smith, Fox, Rogers, Gifford, R. P. Knight, Montgomery, William Cobbett, William Miller, Richard Cumberland, John Murray the senior. Lord Hervey, reporting the sale of his South Sea stock, the Duke of Portland, and others. Charles Lamb's letter to Mr. J. OUier contains this characteristic sentence: — "It is enough once for all to assure you, that I never could succeed in anj^thing proposed to me to do, and I wont strive against my poor obstinate grain." It concludes equally characteris- tically, thus : — ' ' Yours and your brother's, C. Lamb. " No wonder its respective owners have regarded this book as a prize. That Mr. Farnum is an extremely careful student of bibliography the collection, of which we have given so imperfect a sketch, fully attests. Every author, ancient or modern, that Mr. Farnum has chosen to place upon his shelves, has been placed there at his very best. In his library, bibliographically speaking, there are no mistakes. We think we may, with great propriety, apply to Mr. Farnum's knowledge of books and book-coUecting, as well as to his other literary attainments, the well-known lines of the poet, — , . , " What the child admired. The youth endeavoured, and the man acquired." ^0 Cibrartana, Cibrarg Committees, anb IBooktJUDcrs. To better accommodate the distant buyers to whom we mail Catalogues, and for parties unable to be present, the Auctioneers will execute all oedees feee op charge. In ordering from our Catalogues give the numbee of the lot, as well as the fiest woed of title, and extreme limit pee volume, or (if engravings and pamphlets) pee piece, which will be used only in competition, or exactly as the purchaser would bid for him- self. If unlimited orders are given, a proper discretion will be exercised. Our Catalogues are compiled by experts, who endeavor to give buyers, as far as practicable, a fair idea of the condition of every lot offered for sale. We, however, neither guarantee the absolute correctness of any description, nor the perfect con- dition of any lot. It should be understood that each lot is sold separately, and by itself, as catalogued, and without reference to any other lot. Orders to purchase sent to us should, therefore, be for each lot on its own merits. PUECHASES SENT DIEECT TO THE AuCTIONEBES AEE ALWAYS MADE AS MUCH BELOW THE AMOUNT NAMED IN THE OEDEE AS CIRCUMSTANCES WAEEANT. Few bookbuyers, comparatively, are aware of the many advantages of attending our sales, and of the facility with which a good library may be completed. Often at these sales, libraries, which have been selected by persons of judgment, are distributed to all parts of the United States. This enables buyers to profit by the experience of others, and at the same time to make selections of choice editions and valuable books, often at much less price than they could be procured from other sources. Consignments of laege oe small collections solicited. GEO A. LEAVITT & CO. ^^Send orders as early as possible. , 1884. GEO. A. LEAVITT & CO., CLnsTTON Hall, Astok Place, New Yohk. Please execute the following bids for me at the auction sale of " The Famum Library." Na7m~ Address Bids are alnrays so much PER VOI^Vms:, or PER PIECE. NO. TITLE OB ItEMARKS. BID. NO. TITLE or REMARKS. BID CONDITIONS OF SALE. 1. 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' Books, books again, and books once more ! These are our theme, which some miscall Mere madness, setting little store By copies either short or tall. But you, O slaves of shelf and stall ! We rather write for you that hold Patched folios dear, and prize ' the small. Rare volume, black with tarnished gold." -Austin Dobson. 'BECKETT (Gilbert). Comic History of England, with 20 colored engramngs and numerous woodcuts by John Leech, 2 vols. 8vo, London, i860 ; also — A'Beckett's Comic History of Rome, from the Founding of the City to the End of the Commonwealth, profusely illustrated with engravings on wood and colored plates, after designs by Leech, London, n. d. Together 3 vols. 8vo, calf gilt, marble edges. Abeillard and Heloisa. History of the Lives of, com- prising a Period of 84 Years from 1079 to 1163. With their Genuine Lives from the Collection of Amboise. A new edition. 2 vols. 8vo, half calf. Basil, J. J. Tourneisen, 1793 Scarce. The Rev. John Berington's edition of the letters of these unfortunate lovers. The editor was a well-known Catholic con- troversialist. Lowndes styles the above — " a valuable and accurate work composed from authentic materials.'' 14 THE FARNUM LIBRARY. 3 Adams (John). Works of, with a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations by his grandson, Charles Francis Adams. Portraits and facsimiles. lo vols, imperial 8vo, cloth, uncut. Boston, 1856 Large Paper. " Of the writings of our Revolutionary worthies, none have been presented to the public with so much abihty, care and good faith as those of John Adams. The main portion of the labor devolved on Charles Francis Adams, who has devoted to it several years, and has set an example of thorough research and sound judg- ment, which cannot be too highly commended." — Griswold. 4 Adams. Defence of the Constitutions of Government of the United States of America against the Attack of M. Turcot. By John Adams, LL.D. Third Edition. 2 vols. 8vo, calf, gilt (title mutilated shghtly). Phila., 1797 The writer has not distinguished between republicanism and democ- racy. The work did much to familiarize the European mind to the novel state of things then taking place in America. It includes the opinions of eminent vnriters on various republics of the world. " This work is not, as its title states, a defence of the American Constitution, but a warm defence of the Constitution of Great Britain. It is the best anti-democratic treatise that we have seen; for Dr. Adams appears to dread that that is the extreme to which his countrymen will naturally lean, and he has exerted his best endeavors to obviate the evil." — Monthly Review. 5 Adams. Letters of John Adams, addressed to his Wife, edited by his grandson, Charles Francis Adams. Por- trait. i6mo, cloth, uncut. Boston, 1841 6 Adams. Letters of Mrs. Adams, the wife of John Adams. With an Introductory Memoir by her grandson. Portrait and facsimile. i6mo, half calf, gilt. Boston, 1848 Scarce. 7 Addison. Works. A New Edition, with Notes by Richard HuRD, D.D., Lord Bishop of Worcester. Fine portrait. 6 vols, royal 8vo, calf, gilt, marbled edges. London, Cadell and Davies, 1811 Large paper. ' ' We own that the humor of Addison is, in our opinion, of a more delicious flavor than the humor of either Swift or Voltaire. ' ' — M acaulay . 8 Addison. Life of Joseph Addison, by Lucy Aikin. Por- trait. 2 vols, crown 8vo, half calf, gilt. London, 1843 " As a literary biography it is a model ; and its pages are besides enriched by many hitherto unpublished letters of Addison." — London Athenaum. THE FARNUM LIBRARY. 15 9 Addison (Joseph). Works complete of the late Right Honorable Joseph Addison, Esq. With a complete Index. Baskerville's beautiful Edition, in large TY's%, portrait and engravings by Grignioh, from Hayman's designs. 4 vols, royal 4to, calf, gilt, rebacked. Birmingham, 1761 The most sumptuous edition of Addison ever published. It com- prises the Spectator, Tatler, Guardian, Freeholder, Travels, Plays, Poems, etc. Copies of works printed by Baskerville are rarely found free from stains. The above copy is exceptionally so. " He who hath the Baskerville edition hath a good and even a glorious performance. It is pleasant (and, of course, profitable) to turn over the pages of these lovely tomes at one's Tusculum, on a day of oppression from heat or of confinement from rain." — Dibdin. 10 Addisoniana. [A Collection of Anecdotes and Facts con- nected with the Life of Joseph Addison, by Sir Richard Phillips.] Portraits and facsimile letters. 2 vols. lamo, half calf, gilt. London, [1804] Full of interesting matter. 1 1 ^sop. Select Fables of, and other Fabulists, in Three Books. Numerous plates. 8vo, calf gilt, citron edges. Birmingham, John Baskerville, 1761 Remarkably fine copy of this rare and beautiful book. Perfectly tree from stains and with brilliant impressions of the plates. 12 ^sop. Fables of. With full-page illustrations by Henry Stephens, lithographed in tint by Julius Bien. 4to, cloth, bevelled sides, gilt edges. N. Y., Scribner, 1868 Large paper, with proof before letters impressions of the plates. Mr. Stephens has no superior in the pecuhar style of illustration which is most effective in bringing out the spirit of .i^Lsop's Fables, and in this volume he has given us full-page cartoons, brimming with droll humor, reciting the Fables over again, and enforcing their morals just as effectively as was done by the words of .(Esop himself. The illustrations are among the finest specimens of art ever produced in this country, and the volume as a whole is most creditable to American artistic skill. 13 ^sop. Fables, with Life of the Author. One hundred and eleven fine engravings on wood from designs by Herrick. i2mo, cloth, uncut. N. Y., 1865 Riverside and first edition. 1 6 THE FARNUM LIBRARY. 14 Agincourt (Seroux d'). The History of Art by its Monu- ments, from its Decline in the Fourth Century, to its Res- toration in the Sixteenth Century. Translated from the French by Owen Jones. With 3,835 Subjects on 328 plates of Architecture, Sculpture and Fainting. 3 vols, in i, foho, half red morocco, uncut. London, 1850 The division of this grand work is into three parts : I. Architecture, 73 plates; II. Sculpture, 51 plates; III. Painting, 101^ plates. To Antiquaries and lovers of the Fine Arts, this work is indispensable ; it connects the works of Winckelmann and Cicognara, and forms with them a most interesting series. "This fine work was the first in which the idea of exhibiting the Progress of Art, by a series of its noblest monuments, was perfectly carried out. By a series of accurate Engravings from celebrated Monuments, we trace the transitions of Art from the classic period to our own times. Sculpture, Painting, the Art of Illumination, and the Art of Engraving on Wood, on Gems, and on Medals are similarly represented. It is a work that has long been sought and prized by all who could afford the high price at which only it was to be pro- cured. No Library, Architect, Painter, Sculptor, or any one connected with the Fine Arts, should be vdthout such a work." — Quaritch. 15 AiKiN (Lucy). Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth, portrait, 2 vols., 1819 ; Memoirs of the Court of Charles \., portrait, 2 vols., 1833; Memoirs of the Court of James I., portraits, 2 vols., 1822. Together 6 vols. 8vo, yellow calf gilt, marbled edges. London, 1819-33 This lady has delineated with a graceful pen some of the most inter- esting periods of English History. 16 Alden (Rev. Timothy, A.M.). Collection of American Epitaphs and Inscriptions, with occasional Notes. Four portraits and vignette engraved title. 5 vols. i6mo, yellow calf gilt, edges gilt. N. Y., 18 14 Rare and a beautiful copy of the only extensive series of American epitaphs. The Menzies copy brought I4.25 per vol. and is not described as possessing the portraits. 17 Aldine British Poets. Pickering's Beautiful Aldine Edition. With Memoirs and Notes, by Sir Harris Nicolas, J. Mitford, A. Dyce, and others. Elegantly printed by Whittingham, with portraits. 53 vols. fcap. 8vo elegantly bound by Riviere in crushed sage morocco THE FARNUM LIBRARY. 17 extra, gilt, with the Aldine anchor and dolphin on the sides and gilt edges on marble. London, Pickering, 1830-53 The above is a superb set, with the three-volume Burns, which is not usually included. This is admitted to be the most beautiful and valuable edition of the Poets ever printed, containing many pieces of each author never before published. It comprises the following : — I. Akenside, 1845 ; II. Beattie, 1853; III. Bums, 3 vols., 1839 ; IV Butler, 2 vols., 1835; V. Chaucer, 6 vols., 1852; VI. Churchill, 3 vols., 1844 ; VII. Cowper, 3 vols., 1851 ; VIII. Collins, 1853 I IX. Dryden, 5 vols., 1852 ; X. Fal- coner, 1836 ; XI. Goldsmith, 1853 ; XII. Gray, 1853; XIII. Howard, 1831 ; XIV. Milton, 3 vols., 1852 ; XV. Pamell, 1852 ; XVI. Pope, 3 vols., 1852; XVII. Prior, 2 vols., 1835; XVIII. Shakespeare, 1853; XIX. Spenser, 5 vols., 1852 ; XX. Swift, 3 vols., 1853 ; XXI. Thom- son, 2 vols.,- 1847; XXII. White, 1830; XXIII. Wyatt, 1831 ; and XXIV. Young, 2 vols., 1852. 18 Alison (Sir Archibald). History of Europe, with the Continuation to 1852, and Index. With fine portraits, 23 vols. 8vo, and the Library Atlas. Together 24 vols. 8vo and 4to, calf gilt, marbled edges. London, v. d. Best Library edition, printed in large type. "An extraordinary work, which has earned for itself a lasting place in the literature of the country, and within a few years found in- numerable readers in every part of the globe. There is no book extant that treats so well of the period to the illustration of which Mr. Alison's labors have been devoted. It exhibits great knowledge, patient research, indefatigable industry, and vast power." — London Times. 19 Allen (George). Life of Philidor, Musician and Chess Player. 8vo, boards, gilt top, other edges uncut. Phila., 1863 A handsome large paper copy on tinted paper. The real name of "Philidor" was Frangois Andre Damian. 20 Allen (Thomas). Lambeth, History and Antiquities of the Parish of, and of the Archiepiscopal Palace, with Biographies, Genealogies, etc. Numerous engravings, some colored fac- similes, pedigrees, plans, etc. Royal 8vo, half calf, gilt. London, 1826 Of great interest to the genealogist and antiquary. 1 8 THE FARNUM LIBRARY. 21 American Almanac (The), and Repository of Useful Knowledge for the Years 1830 to 1861 inclusive. To- gether 32 vols, in 16. i2mo, uniform half morocco. Boston, 1830-61 Sets as complete as the above are of rare occurrence. ' ' This valuable work, which is, in fact, a compendious annual reg- ister, terminated in 1862, is well worthy of being preserved as a book of reference. It was succeeded by the National Almanac." — Sabin's Dictionary. 22 American Bibliopolist. Complete from its commencement in 1869 to April, 1877 [since which time it has not been issued]. 9 vols, in 8, half morocco, uncut. N. Y., 1869-77 This magazine contains valuable information respecting Sales of Books at Auction, Literary Discussions, etc It was edited by the late Joseph Sabin, his son Joseph F. Sabin, Henry B. Bult and Charles Sotheran. 23 Ames (Fisher). Works of. With a Selection from his Speeches, and Correspondence edited by his Son, Seth Ames. Portrait. 2 vols. 8vo, polished calf, gilt, marbled edges. Boston, 1854 An elegant copy, bound by Riviere. "It is a. very substantial addition to the political literature of the country." — Bryant. 24 Amory (Thomas, Gent.). The Life of John Buncle, Esq. A New Edition. 3 vols, crown 8vo, half calf gilt, sprinkled edges. London, 1825 Large paper, " The soul of Rabelais passed into Thomas Amory. " — Hazlitt. "This amusing and singular work is a sort of sketch of his own [Amory's] life." — Lowndes. 25 Ancient Ballads. A Collection of Seventy-Nine Black Letter Ballads and Broadsides, Printed in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth between the Years 1559 and 1597, accom- panied with an Introduction and Illustrative Notes. 8vo, cloth, uncut. London, Joseph Lilly, 1867 Uncut copy printed by Whittingham at the Chiswick Press. This is a reprint of the famous collection of rare Ballads belonging to the late Mr. G. Daniel, of Canonbury, and which was sold by auc- tion for upwards of ;^700. ' ' It may be confidently asserted that the present collection is not less interesting and is certainly much more curious than any that have preceded it, illustrating as it does the Language, Opinions, Manners Usages, the Feelings and passing Events of the greater part of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth." " I love a Ballad in Print." — Shakespeare. THE FARNUM LIBRARY. 19 26 ANDRii. Life and Career of Major John Andrb, by Win- THROP Sargent. Portrait. 8vo, cloth, uncut. Boston, 1 86 1 Large paper copy, of which 75 copies only were printed, at the Riverside Press. Very Scarce. " He (Andre) was more unfortunate than criminal, and as there was much in his character to interest while we yielded to the necessity of vigor, we could not but lament it." — Washington. 27 Angelo (Michael). Life of, by Herman Grimm, Translated with the Author's Sanction by Fanny Elizabeth Bun- nett. Portrait on India Paper and numerous full-page illustrations. 2 vols, royal 8vo, cloth, uncut. Boston, Little, Brown 6^ Co., 1866 Large paper. No. 46 of " fifty copies printed," and with the extra plates only to be found in those copies. 28 Anne of Brittany. Illuminated Calendar and Home Diary for 1845. Copied from the Hours of Anne of Brit- tany. Printed in gold and colors by Owen Jones. Im- perial 8vo, cloth, gilt edges. London, 1845 Unique. This beautiful volume contains large designs illustrating the manners of the 15th Century, with flower borders copied from the same MS., with the figure subjects colored by hand. A superbly executed facsimile of illuminated work in this most nota- ble manuscript, executed for Anne, Duchess of Brittany, consort of Louis XII. of France. For a full and detailed description of the original MS. see Dibdin's "Tour on the Continent," Vol. II., pp. i8i-2or. Up to the early part of 1880 any data tending to indicate the name of the artist was unknown, but the following notice from " Le Livre," of December, 1880, would appear to settle the matter in favor of Jean Bourdichon: ' ' Tout le monde connatt de reputation les celibres ' Heures d'Anne de Bretagne ' que posside notre biblioth^que Nationale, on en a vu soit I'original, soit la remarquable reproduction editee par Curmer. La question de Tattribution des miniatures merveilleuses que ce manuscrit contient n'avait pas encore ete elucidee. Ce probleme, qui a passionne tant d'erudits, vient d'etre resolu par la decouverte d'un document que vient de faire un bibliophile Lyonnais, M. Andre Steyert. C'est un mandat original portant ordre au tresorier general de finance de la reine de payer k Jean Bourdichon, peintre at valet de chambre du roi, la somme de mille et cinquante hvres ou six cents ecus d'or pour ' avoir richement et somptueusement historie et enlumine unes grans heures pour nostre usaige et service, ovr il a mys et employe grant temps.' II est date du 14 1507 (O. S.) signe Anne et contresigne Deforest." 20 THE FARNUM LIBRARY. 29 Antiquarian and Topographical Cabinet, containing a Series of Elegant Views of the most Interesting Objects of Curiosity in Great Britain, accompanied with Letter-Press Descriptions. 10 vols, in 5. 8vo, red morocco elegant, gilt edges. London, 1807 Large paper. A Fine copy. 30 [Apperly (Charles James)]. Horse and Hound, their Various Uses and Treatment, etc. By Nimrod. Steel plates and cuts. 8vo, cloth. Edinburgh, 1843 Nimrod is " a popular writer on sporting subjects." — Allibone. 31 Apuleius. Metamorphoses. A Romance of the Second Century. Translated by Sir George Head. Crown 8vo, half calf. London, 185 1 "The romance of the 'Golden Ass,' which contains the beautiful tale of Cupid and Psyche, remains unrivaled." — D'Israeli. 32 Arabian Nights' Entertainments. Knight's Original Pictorial Edition. Translated with Copious Notes by E. W. Lane. Many hundred beautiful engravings by Will- iams, Jackson, Landells, etc., from designs by William Harvey. 3 vols, royal 8vo, cloth, top edges gilt, others uncut. London, C. Knight, 1839-41 Very scarce. A fine copy of the original edition, with most brill- iant impressions of the cuts. ' ' The Notes of Mr. Lane throw more light upon the mystery of Arab life than perhaps all other works in the language." — Athenaum. 33 Archaica and Heliconia, containing Reprints of Rare Old English Pieces of Prose and Poetry. Edited by Park, Sir Egerton Brydges and Haslewood. Vignette titles. S vols. 4to, complete, tree marble calf extra gilt, edges gilt on marble by Riviere. London, 1814-15 Very scarce. Only 200 copies of the "Archaica'' were privately printed, and by Longmans, at ;f 25 3s. the set in boards. Contents: — Greene's Philomela, 1615 ; Greene's Arcadia, 1616 ; Southwell's Triumphs Over Death, 1596; Breton's Characters upon Essays, Moral and Divine, 1615; and his Good and the Bad, i6i6; Nash's Christ's Tears over Jerusalem, 1613; Harvey's Four Letters, and certain Son- nets, especially touching Robert Greene, 1592; Harvey's Pierce's Super- erogation (with Notes), 1593; New Letter of Notable Contents, 1593; Brathwayt's Essays upon the Five Senses, with one upon Detraction; Christian Resolves and Divine Contemplations, 1625. But 150 copies of the ' ' Heliconia " were printed, and at $75, unbound. Contents: — Vol. I., Breton's Small Handful of Fragprant Flowers; THE FARNUM LIBRARY. 21 Proctor's Gorgeous Gallery of Gallant Inventions; Breton's Flourish upon Fancie. Vol. II., HandefuU of Pleasant Delites, edited by C. Robinson; Whitstone's Life and Death of Francis, Earl of Bedford; Phoenix Nest, edited by R. S. ; Barnes' Spirituall Sonnets; Spirituall Sonnets, by H. C; Churchyard's Funeral of Sir F. Knowles; Storers' Life and Death of Cardinal Woolsey. Vol. III., England's Pamassuso, edited by Robert Abbott ; Churchyard's Goodwill ; Sad and Heavy Verses for the Loss of Archbishop Whitgift, by Churchyard. 34 Ariosto (Ludovico). The Orlando Furioso. Translated into English Verse. With Notes by W. Stewart Rose. 8 vols. 8vo, half morocco, top edge gilt, others uncut. London, John Murray, 1823 Large paper. A faithful and spirited translation. In point of poetic adornment the Oriando is at once rich and original; Ariosto is as much superior to Tasso in native genius as he is inferior to him in skill of constructive art. 35 Aristotle. Works of. Translated from the Greek. With Copious Elucidations from the Best of His Greek Com- mentators, viz.: Alexander Aprodisiensis, Syrianus, Ammonius Herm^as, Priscianus, Olympiodorus, Sim- PLicius, etc. By Thomas Taylor ; with Dissertation by the same on the Philosophy of Aristotle. Together lo vols. Royal 4to, uniform russia extra gilt, marbled edges. Y^OTiAon, printed for the author and translator, 1807-12 Very rare, being the sole existing complete translation of Aristotle into English. Only 50 copies were printed of any size, and at the ex- pense of Wm. Meredith. The above is a remarkably fine copy, and, with the exception of one bought for the Brown University some fif- teen years ago for $i6o, it is the only one Mr. Famum has ever seen or heard of being offered for sale in America. "Aristotle's Works, translated by Thomas Taylor, in ten quartos, forms, according to Brunet, the only uniform edition of Aristotle's complete works in any language." — HORATio Rogers. The ten volumes are divided as follows : I . , The Organon, with Elucidations of Ammonius and Simplicius, 1807. II , Rhetoric, Poetic and Nicomachean Ethics, 1811. III., Great and Eudemiam Ethics, Politics and Economics, 1811. IV., Physics or Physical Auscultation, with Notes of Simplicius, 1806. V., Treatises on the Heavens, Generation, Corruption and Meteors, 1807. VI., History of Animals and Treatise on Physiognomy, 1809. VII., Parts and Motion of Animals, Problems, Indivisible Lines, Arithmetic of Infinites, 1810. VIII., Treatise on the Soul, Sense, Sensible Memory, Reminiscence, etc., 1808. IX., Metaphysics; Treatises against Xeno- phanes. Mechanical Problems, etc. (second edition), 1812. X., Tay- lor's Dissertation on the Philosophy of Aristotle, 1812. 2 2 THE FARNUM LIBRARY. 36 Arnold (Thomas). History of Rome, 3 vols, in 2; and Later Roman Commonwealth. 3 vols. 8vo, cloth. N. Y., 1846 "As a writer, Dr. Arnold [of Rugby School] was remarkable for vigorous thought, clearness of expression and purity of style."— Gentle- man's Magazine. 37 Arnold (Matthew, son of the preceding). God and the Bible. i6mo, cloth. Boston, 1876 A review of objections to his " Literature and Dogma." 38 Arnold (Edwin). Light of Asia. i6mo, cloth, uncut. Boston, 1879 The life and teachings of the founder of Buddhism told in verse from the standpoint of an Indian Buddhist. 39 Arnold (S. G.). History of the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations. Large maps. 2 vols. 8vo, half divinity calf, marbled sides and red edges. N. Y., 1859-60 "The accurate treatment by the author of the results of patient research, his impartiality and love of truth, and the patriotic spirit which animated the whole work, have won for him an honorable place among American historical writers. While he seemed to be less studious of adorning his theme with the graces of composition, or of enriching it with carefully wrought pictures of characters and events, he never failed to impress its lessons upon his readers with clearness, force and earnestness — those commanding qualities ' which produce conviction ' in all effective speech, whether of the pen or of the tongue. He made the work what he designed it to be, an authentic history, ' a standard authority upon the subject and period of which it treats. ' " — Providence Journal, 40 Arthur of Little Britain. History of that Valiant Knight, Arthur of Little Britain. A Romance of Chiv- alry. Translated by Lord Berners. New edition. With a series of plates in outline, by Heath, of illuminated drawings from an ancient MS of the Original Romarue. 4to, cloth, uncut (binding broken). London, 1814 Very rare. Large paper, and only 25 copies printed. The above copy has the exquisite illuminations, COLORED BY HAND, AND heightened by metals. The work was edited from the extremely rare original edition [printed by Robert Redbourne, the sole production of his press, and without date] by E. V. Utterson, who used extraordin- ary diligence in tracing out the name of the original writer of the Romance, the time of its composition, and other much-wishedfor particulars. THE FARNUM LIBRARY. 23 41 Arthur. Morte cI'Arthur. The Byrth, Lyf and Actes of Kyng Arthur, of his Knyghtes of the Rounde Table, theyr mervyllous Enquestes and Adventures, and in the end " Le Morte Darthur," with Introduction and Notes by R. SouTHEY. Exquisite woodcut initials. 2 vols, royal 4to, half morocco, top edges gilt, others uncut. London, Caxtoft, 1485; reprinted i?)!"] Large paper. A fine copy. " Indisputably the best prose Romance the language can boast.'" ' ' This worlc contains a short abridgment of the most celebrated adventures of the Round Table ; and, being written in comparatively modem language, gives the general reader an excellent idea of what romances of chivalry actually were." — SIR Walter Scott. 42 Arvine (Hazlitt, A. M.). Cyclopaedia of Anecdotes of Literature and the Fine Arts. With numerous illustrations. Royal 8vo, cloth. Boston, 1859 Contains a copious and choice selection of anecdotes of the various forms of literature, of the arts, of architecture, engravings, music, poetry, painting and sculpture, and of the most celebrated literary char- acters and artists of different countries and ages, etc. 43 Arundines Cami sive Musarum Cantabrigiensium Lusus Canori CoUegit atque edidit Henricus Drury, A.M. Editio quarta. 8vo, cloth, uncut. Cambridge, 1851 With carmine borders, initial letters, rubricated title, etc. 44 AsCHAM (Roger). Whole Works, now first collected and revised, with Life by Dr. Giles. 4 vols, crown Svo, cloth, uncut. London, Russell Smith, 1865 Large paper copy. ' ' Ascham is a great name in our national literature. He was one of the first founders of a true English style in prose composition, and one of the most respectable and useful of our scholars." — Retrospective Review. 45 Astle (Thos.). Origin and Progress of Writing, as well Hieroglyphic as Elementary, with some Account of the Origin and Progress of Printing. With portrait and numerous engravings taken from Marbles, MSS. and Char- ters ancient and modern, s,oiin coi.O'b.^J). Royal folio. Ele- gantly bound in splendid calf extra gilt, edges gilt, by Clarke & Bedford. London, T. Bensley, 1803 Large paper.- Only 100 printed. A very fine copy of the second and best edition, with additions. Sir M. M. Sykes's copy sold for ;f4 4S. ' ' The completest work on the subject of writing, extant, in this or any other language." — Lowndes, 24 THE FARNUM LIBRARY. 46 Aubrey (John). Miscellanies upon Various Subjects. Por- trait. Post 8vo, cloth, uncut. London, John Russell Smith, 1857 A most amusing collection of Fatalities, Omens, Dreams, Appa- ritions, Spirit-Rappings, Prophecies, Magic Visions, Converse with Angels and Spirits, Second Sight, Ecstasy, etc. 47 Audubon (J. J.). The Birds of America, from Drawings made in the United States and their Territories. By John James Audubon. With the complete series of colored plates. 7 vols, royal Svo, half blue morocco, uncut. N. Y., J. J. Audubon, 1840-44 Original subscription edition. For the beauty and perfection of its plates this beautiful original edition is beyond any comparison with the more modern issues. A fine clean copy. " These are works with which critics have not much to do ; or with respect to which they can only discharge that part of their duty which is generally thought to give the least pleasure — we mean praise. No one can see these splendid drawings, and compare them with ordinary illustrations of natural history, in which animals appear as spiritless as if they had been sitting for their portraits, without admiring his taste and skill." — North American Review. 48 Audubon and Bachman (J.). The Quadrupeds of North America, by J. J. Audubon and the Rev. John Bach- man, D.D. Colored plates. 3 vols, imperial Svo, half green morocco, uncut (title-page of Vol. 2 lacking). N. Y., J. J. Audubon, 1852-54 An elegant copy of Audubon's ow^N original edition in which the plates are incomparably superior to those in Lockwood's re-issue. A most beautiful and interesting work, the engravings exhibiting, in most instances, two or more figures (male and female) in the most life-like attitudes, with their young, prey, &c., the entire plate colored, with views of their favorite haunts and localities. 49 Austin (John). Lectures on Jurisprudence, or the Philoso- phy of Positive Law. Third edition, revised and edited by Robert Campbell. 2 vols. 8vo, cloth, uncut. London, John Murray, 1869 " One of the most valuable contributions to the philosophy of law and legislation that has been produced in modern times, and entitles the author to rank with Hooper and Montesquieu." — Marvin. THE FARNUM LIBRARY. 25 50 Autograph Leaves of Our Country's Authors. Vignette title and views and over 200 pages of the facsimile handwrit- ing of the best-known American authors. 4to, cloth gilt, top gilt edge. Baltimore, 1864 Published in aid of the Sanitary Fair. 26 THE FARNUM LIBRARY. ACON (Francis). (I.) Works. Collected and Edited by James Spedding, Robert Leslie Ellis and Douglas Denon Heath. Portraits on India paper — the Arms of Bacon in gold and colors on each title. 15 vols, half morocco, uncut, Riverside Press, Cambridge, 1863. Also — (II.) Personal History of Lord Bacon, from unpublished papers. By Wm. Hepworth Dixon. Cloth, uncut. Together 16 vols. 8vo. Boston, 1861, and Cambridge, 1863 Large paper. Only 100 copies printed of the " Works " in 15 vols, and 75 on large paper of the " Personal History." Very scarce in this size. The finest production of the celebrated Riverside Press, and the most beautiful example of American typography. To posterity and distant ages, Bacon bequeathed his good name, and posterity and distant ages will do him ample justice. Wisdom herself has suffered in his disgrace, but year after year brings to light proof of the arts that worked Bacon's downfall and covered his character with obloquy. 52 Backus (Isaac). History of New England, with particular reference to the denomination of Christians called Baptists. Second edition, with Notes by David Weston. 2 vols. 8vo, half morocco. Newton, Mass., 1871 Complete sets of the original work, published 1777-96, are now rare. The copy in the hbrary of Judge Greene sold for $75. Mr. Bancroft, the historian, bears honorable testimony to the author's fidelity, con- sidering his history, as to facts, more to be depended on than any of the early histories of New England. 53 Baillie (Joanna). Dramas. A Series of Plays on the Passions, each Passion being the subject of a Tragedy and a Comedy. 3 vols. 8vo, yellow calf, gilt. London, 1836 Large paper and best edition. " This may be said to form a sequel to the Plays on the Passions." — Lowndes. THE FARNUM LIBRARY. 27 54 Bain (Alexander, M.D.). The Senses and the Intellect, third edition, 1868; and on the Study of Character, including an Estimate of Phrenology, 1861. Together 2 vols. 8vo, cloth, uncut. By the learned author of " The Emotions and the Will." 55 Bancroft (George). History of the United States, from the Discovery of the American Continent. Portraits on India paper, and an inserted photo-Portrait. 10 vols, im- perial 8vo, cloth, uncut. Boston, 1861-75 Large paper. Very scarce. 50 copies printed, 2 of which were destroyed by the fire at C. B. Richardson's store, New York, September, 1864. The above is No. 11, with an original autograph letter of the author in an envelope, also loose newspaper cuttings. ' ' His work is and must be the standard history of the country, and as such should reach every family, and be studied by every person who would be acquainted with the events of our past existence." — New Haven Journal. 56 Bancroft. The Same. Vols, i and 2. Portrait. 8vo, cloth, uncut. Boston, 1834-37 Very scarce and original edition. 57 Bancroft. History of the Formation of the Constitution of the United States. 2 vols. 8vo. N. Y., 1882 ' ' The American Constitution is the most wonderful work ever struck off at a given time by the brain and purpose of man." — Gladstone. 58 Barclay (J. T., M.D.). City of the Great King; or Jerusalem as It Is and It is to Be. Portrait and numerous illustrations, many full paged and colored. Royal 8vo, cloth Phila., 1858 This volume, by an author who was a missionary at Jerusalem for three and a half years, AUibone says, is "a reliable work — highly com- mended." 59 [Barham (Rev. R. H.).] Ingoldsby Legends ; or Mirth and Marvel, by Thomas iNGOLDSBy, Esq., with Notes In- troductory and Illustrative by R. H. Dalton Barham. With humorous plates by Cruikshank and Leech. 2 vols. 8vo, cloth, uncut. London, Bentley, 1870 Library Edition. " For originality of design and diction, for quaint illustration and musical verse, they are not surpassed in the English language. . . . From the days of Hudibras to our time, the drollery invested in rhymes has never been so amply or felicitously exemplified." 28 THE FARNUM LIBRARY. 60 Baring-Gould (S.). The Book of Were Wolves. Frontis- piece. Crown 8vo, cloth, uncut. London, 1865 An account of a terrible superstition. 61 Barrow (J.). Life of Peter the Great. Illustrated. i6mo, cloth, bevelled sides, gilt edges. London, n. d. Interesting in these Nihilistic times. 62 Barlow (Joel). The Columbiad : a Poem. Beautiful Portrait of Barlow, and numerous plates by Smirke, engraved by Heath, Bromley, etc. Thick 4to, calf extra, marbled edges. Phila., 1807 Fine copy of the first edition From the Libraries of E. B. Cor- win and Rufus Choate. The earliest attempt at an American epic. It was printed at the expense of Robert Fulton, to whom it was dedicated. The above was a new edition, with great alterations of the ' ' Vision of Columbus," beautifully printed, and illustrated with eleven fine engrav- ings from Smirke's designs. " The Columbiad made its appearance in the most magnificent volume which had ever been published in America." — Allibone. 63 Bartlett (John Russell, the distinguished bibliographer, and ex-Secretary of State of Rhode Island). Personal Narrative of Explorations and Incidents in Texas, New Mexico, California, Sonora and Chihuahua. Map and plates. 2 vols. 8vo, half morocco, gilt. N. Y., 1854 " This work of Mr. Bartlett is replete with interest from the manner in which he has jotted down his observations. The style is simple and unpretending, and all the more graphic and attractive on that ac- count." — N. Y. Knickerbocker. 64 Bartlett. Dictionary of Americanisms : a Glossary of Words and Phrases usually regarded as Peculiar to the United States. Royal 8vo, cloth. Boston, 1859 Second edition. Greatly improved and enlarged. 65 Bartlett (W. H.). Walks about Jerusalem and its En- virons. With beautiful steel engravings, plans, and numerous woodcuts. Thick impl. 8vo, half green morocco gilt, edges gilt. London, George Virtue, n. d. An early edition, with good impressions of the plates. 66 Bayard. The very Joyous and Pleasant History of his Feats, Exploits, Triumphs, and Achievements of the Good Knight, without Fear and without Reproach, the gentle Lord de Bayard. Set forth into English by Edward CocKBURN. Frontispiece, and printed in the old style by Whittingham. Small 4to, polished calf extra, top edge gilt, others uncut. London, 1848 Scarce. A fine example of Chiswick Press typography. THE FARNUM LIBRARY. 29 67 Bayle (Peter). The Dictionary, Historical and Critical, of Mr. Peter Bayle. [Translated into English, with many additions and corrections made by the Author himself that are not in the French editions.] Second edi- tion, with Life by Des Maizeaux. Portrait. 5 vols, folio, calf, rebacked (title of Vol. 3 lacking). London, 1734-38 Best edition. " Bayle's Dictionary is, as a cornucopia of flowers, bright, blooming, and captivating." — Dibdin. " His Critical Dictionary is a vast repository of facts and opinions." — Gibbon. " He was the only man who ever collected with so much judgment and wrote with so much spirit at the same time." — Pope. 68 Bay Psalm Book. A Literal Reprint of the Bay Psalm Book, the earliest New England version of the Psalms, and the first book printed in the United States, Cambridge, for C. B. Richardson, 1862 ; and being — The Whole Booke of Psalmes faithfully translated into English Metre. Whereunto is prefixed a discourse not only the lawfulness, but also the necessity of the heavenly Ordinance of sing- ing Scripture Psalmes in the Churches of God. Imprinted 1640. 8vo, cloth, uncut. Cambridge, printed for Charles B. Richardson, 1862 Very rare. Of this reprint but 50 copies were printed for sub- scribers, and ONLY FIVE on the heavy tinted paper, of which the above is one. The original edition was printed at Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1640, but six perfect copies of which are known. It was the first book printed in North America. The most recent sale of a copy was that in the collection of the late C. Fiske Harris, of Providence, which was sold for $1,500 at the auction rooms of Geo. A. Leavitt & Co., Clinton Hall, Astor Place, N. Y. 69 Beaumont and Fletcher. Dramatic Works, with Notes and Biographical Memoir by the Rev. A. Dyce. Portraits. II vols. 8vo, cloth, uncut. London, 1843 Best Edition. One of the best edited works of modem times. " Beaumont and Fletcher are lyrical and descriptive poets of the first order ; there is hardly a passion, character, or situation which they have not touched in their devious range, and whatever they touched, they adorned with some new grace or striking feature ; they are mas- ters of style and versification in almost every variety of melting modula- tion or sounding pomp, of which they are capable in comic wit and spirit, they are scarcely surpassed by any writers of any age." — Hazlitt, 30 THE FARNUM LIBRARY. 70 Becker (Prof. W. A.). Gallus or Roman Scenes of the Times of Augustus, translated by Metcalfe; and Charicles — Illustrations of the Private Life of the Ancient Greeks. Front, and cuts. 2 vols. i2mo, cloth, uncut. London, 1853-54 71 Beckmann (John). History of Inventions and Discov- eries, translated by William Johnston, enlarged. 4 vols. 8vo, calf. London, 18 14 Best edition of a very interesting and valuable work. " This work is the result of the most extensive, varied and profound research and learning." — McCuLLOCH. 72 Beckford (Wm.). Vathek. Vignette portrait. i6mo, cloth, gilt edges. London, 1868 Printed at the Chiswick Press and verbatim from the first edition, with the original prefaces and Notes by Healey. The Tale of " Vathek, " originally written in French, and published before the author had closed his twentieth year, has for more than half a century continued in possession of all the celebrity which it at once commanded. Vathek is, indeed, without reference to the time of life when the author penned it, a very remarkable performance. 73 Behn (Aphra). Plays written by the Late Ingenious Mrs. Behn. Portrait. 4 vols. i6mo, elegantly bound in calf gilt, edges gilt. London, 1724 Very scarce. Third (and best) edition. " Mrs. Behn was a woman of so celebrated a fame while she lived, and so esteemed, that to give a perfect draught of her, one must write like her." — Charles Gibbon. " She has been accused, and that not without great justice, of inter- larding her comedies with the most indecent scenes, and giving in- dulgence in her wit to the most indelicate expressions. The best and perhaps the only true excuse that can be made for it is, .... as she wrote for a livelihood, she was obliged to comply with the corrupt taste of the times. And as she was a woman, and naturally, moreover, of an amorous complexion, and wrote in an age and to a court of gallantry and licentiousness, the latter circumstances, added to her necessities, compelled her to indulge her audience in their favorite depravity ; and the former, assisted by a rapid flow of wit and vivacity, enabled her so to do ; so that both together have given her plays the loose cast which it is but too apparent they possess. " 74 Bell (J., of Antermony). Travels in Russia and Asia, includ- ing Persia, China, Siberia, &c. Finely printed by YovLVi. 2 vols. 4to, calf. Glasgow, 1763 Best edition. "The best model of travel- writing in the English language. " — Quarterly Review. This copy of Bell's " Travels," which Dibdin justly eulogizes, for- merly belonged to Edward Gibbon, the historian, and has his armoria book-plates. It is very scarce. THE FARNUM LIBRARY. 31 75 Beloe (Rev. William). Anecdotes of Literature and Scarce Books. 6 vols. 8vo, half calf gilt, top edges gilt, others uncut. London, 1808-14 Scarce. "A work containing much bibliographical information, and extracts from scarce books." — Lowndes. ' ' A valuable storehouse of bibliographical matter. The bibliographer should not fail to secure morocco, Roxburghe style, uncut. Edinburgh and London, Blackwood, 1862 Large paper copy of the original edition and one of twenty-five copies. The Book-Hunter, charming in its original matter, is the very epic of Bibhography and Bibliomania. 148 Burton. Book-Hunter. With additional Notes by Richard Grant White. i2mo, cloth, top edge gilt, others uncut. N. Y., 1863 The above edition was printed from type and not from stereotype plates. Only 500 copies were printed. A dainty little volume, full of the crumbs of conceit, and the flowers of fancy, forming an entertaining literary and bibliographical treat, dealing in a most delightful way with the nature and functions of the Bibliomaniac, with numerous anec- dotes. 149 Burton. History of Scotland, from Agricola's Invasion to the Revolution of 1688. 7 vols. 8vo, calf extra, marbled edges by Henderson & Bisset. Edinburgh, 1867-70 Best large-type library edition. Very scarce. " Mr. Burton's History will be, at least till some still abler vmter arise, the 'popular' history of Scotland In no other history of Scotland, with which we are acquainted, are there the especial attrac- tive graces which distingpiish these volumes of national history." — Athenieum. 150 Burton (Robt.). Anatomy of Melancholy. What it is, with all the Kinds, Causes, Symptoms, Prognostics, and the several Cures of it. Facsimile title on India paper. 3 vols. 8vo, half morocco, uncut, top edge gilt, Roxburghe style. Cambridge, Riverside Press, 1859 Large paper copy, only 75 printed. The above copy contains the duplicate title-pages with Burton's coat- of-arms in gold and colors. Only 15 were issued in this manner. The great Johnson has praised it in the warmest terms, and the ludicrous Sterne has interwoven many parts of it into his own popular performance. Milton did not disdain to build two of his finest poems on it ; and a host of inferior writers have embellished their works with beauties not their own, culled from a performance which they had not the justice even to mention. ' ' The book, in my opinion, most useful to a man who wishes to ac- quire the reputation of being well-read, with the least trouble, is ' Bur- ton's Anatomy of Melancholy.' " — Lord Byron. 50 THE FARNUM LIBRARY. 151 Burton (T.). Cromwellian Diary, from 165610 1659 (now first published), with Notes, Historical and Biographical, by RuTT. Plate of the House of Commons as in 1656, and fac- similes of Autographs. 4 vols. 8vo, half calf, gilt. London, 1828 ' ' This is little short of a miracle, the recovery of the Debates of the Cromwell Parliament, taken on the spot by one of its very members." 152 BussEY (G. M.) and Gaspey (T.). Pictorial History of France and of the French People, from the Establishment of the Franks in Gaul to the Period of the French Revo- lution. With four hundred designs by Jules David. 2 vols, royal 8vo, half morocco, gilt. London, 1843 Original edition, with bright, clear impressions of the wood- engravings. 153 BussEY. Fables, Original and Selected by the Most Esteemed and Oriental Authors, with an Introductory Dissertation on the History of Fable, Notices of eminent Fabulists, &c., by G. JloiR BusSEY. Numerous engravings from J. J. Grand- ville's designs. Royal 8vo, half calf. London, 1842 Grandville is a prince among book-illustrators. 154 Butler (Joseph, Bishop of Durham). Works, with Preface and Life, by Bishop Halifax. 2 vols. 8vo, morocco, be- velled sides, red edges. Oxford, University Press, i%4^-^o " He is amongst the few classic authors of the first rank in modern literature. He takes his place with Bacon, and Pascal, and Newton." — Bishop Wilson. 155 Butler (Samuel). Hudibras and Genuine Poetical Remains, /. e. : — I. Hudibras, with Dr. Grey's Annotations. New edition, corrected and enlarged. Portraits, engravings and vignettes on wood by Hogarth on India paper. 3 vols. London, Charles and Henry Baldwin, 18 19 II. Genuine Poetical Remains, with Notes, by Robert Thyer. With a Selection from the Author's Characters in Prose. Portraits and full-page illustrations on wood, India Paper. London, Joseph Booker, 1827 Together 4 vols, royal 8vo, uniform elegant morocco, extra gilt, edges gilt. London, 1819-27 Unique and Large Paper — best modern editions. The above copy of "Hudibras" has the richly gilt and illuminated plates by THE FARNUM LIBRARY. 51 Cooper added. The engravings and vignettes on wrood by Hogarth are on India Paper. Horatio Rogers speaks as follows of Mr. Farnum's copies of Hudibras : — "Large paper copies, like the one in this library, of Dr. Grey's edition of Hudibras, published at Cambridge in 1744, are, according to the Bibliotheca Anglo Poetica, of rare occurrence; and Dr. Dibdin says only twelve were issued in that style. The copy of the London edition of Hudibras here, published in 1819, contains the plates engraved for the work as additional illustrations ; and they are printed in colors in a very remarkable way, and are very elegant." In a foot-note the same distingruished bibliophile adds: — " The statement in the text is, perhaps, a little too unqualified. Dibdin's exact language in a note to the Li- brary Companion in regard to large paper copies of Grey's edition of Hudibras, is as follows ; — 'On large paper, it is said, only 12 copies were struck off; but I have my doubts on this head, as it is not an uncommon book, and 100 copies were subscribed for. Do I deceive myself in the supposition that I have seen more than a dozen of copies ? Be that as it may, I find such a copy, bound by Roger Payne in red moroccco, sell- ing for ;f 14 14s., at the sale of Colonel Stanley's library; and a similar one — very fine copy, old red morocco, borders of gold, (inviting descrip- tion!) marked at 12/. I2j., in the catalog^ue of Messrs. Payne and Foss. It may be necessary to state, that the plates in this edition are from the very humorous pencil of Hogarth.' " — Vide lot 157 below. " The best critical edition of this author (Butler) was by Dr. Grey in 1 741; a performance replete with curious interesting and accurate his- torical and bibliographical intelligence. I rarely open this book with- out rising gratified by its perusal." — Dibdin. Lowndes states the "Genuine Poetical Remains" — "was to have formed two volumes, but the publisher died previous to its completion. A title-page was added as above, to make it appear as a complete work. " 156 Butler. Hudibras in English, with the famous French Version on the opposite page, translated by Capt. T.owne- LEY, with Remarks by Larcher. Curious folding plates after Hogarth. 3 vols. i6mo, yellow calf extra, edges gilt. London, 1757 Extremely rare. Only 200 copies printed. An elegant copy with India Proof portrait inserted. Concerning Hudibras there is but one sentiment — it is universally allowed to be the first and last poem of its kind. The learning, wit and humor certainly stand unrivalled. Various have been the attempts to describe the two last; the greatest English writers have tried in vain — Cowley, Barrow, Dryden, Locke, Addison, Pope and Congreve, all failed in their attempts ; perhaps they are more to be felt than ex- pldned, and to be understood rather from example than precept; if any one wishes to know what wit and humor are, let him read Hudibras with attention, he vidll there see them displayed in their brightest colors. 52 THE FARNUM LIBRARY. 157 Butler. Hudibras in Three Parts, written in the Time of the Late Wars, Corrected and Amended with Annotations and Preface by Zachary Grey, LL.D. Adorned with a set of copper-plates by Hogarth and portrait by Y'E^tve.. 2 vols, royal 8vo, elegantly bound in paneled calf extra, edges gilt by Bedford. London, 1744 Large and thick paper. A magnificent copy of this excessively rare book. Dibdin on page 731 of his " Library Companion " says — " On large paper, it is said, only 12 copies were struck off; but I have my doubts on this head, as it is not an uncommon book and 100 copies were subscribed for. Do I deceive myself in the supposition that have seen more than a dozen of copies ? Be this as it may, I find such a copy bound by Roger Payne, in red morocco selling for ;^I4 14s. at the sale of Colonel Stanley's Library." ' ' Best edition. Copies in fine condition are in considerable request. The cuts are beautifully engraved by Hogarth." — LowNDES. 158 Byron (Lord). Life, Works and Illustrations of, i. e.: — I. Byron. Poetical Works of Lord Byron. Steel portrait. 8 vols. 8vo. London, John Murray, 1839 IL Moore (T.). Letters and Journals of Lord Byron, with Notices of his Life by Thomas Moore. With 44 highly- finished engravings by the Findens, from designs by Tur- ner, Stanfield, etc. 3 vols. 8vo. Third Edition. London, John Murray, 1833 III. Finden's Landscape and Portrait Illustrations to the Life and Works of Lord Byron, with Descriptions by Brockedon. Upwards of \oo highly-finished, beautiful and interesting engravings from drawings by Turner, Stan- field, Roberts, Harding, Cattermole, Callcott, Copley, Fielding, Prout, etc. Fine original impressions. 3 vols, small 4to. London, John Murray, 1833-4 IV. HoBHOUSE (John). Historical Illustrations of the Fourth Canto of Childe Harold. Second Edition Re- vised and Corrected. 8vo. London, John Murray, 1818 TI'ogether 15 VOLS. Handsomely and superbly bound in full green morocco extra, gilt edges by Hayday, for " White, 24 Pall Mall." London, 1818-39 A splendid set of the best and very scarce editions of the author of " Don Juan," Fine original editions of " Complete Works " and of Finden's " Illustrations to Byron," bright impressions of the plates; THE FARNUM LIBRARY. S3 and best editions of Moore's Life of the Poet, and Hobhouse's His- torical Illustrations. " If the finest poetry be that which leaves the deepest impression on the minds of its readers — and this is not the worst test of its excel- lence — Lord Byron, we think, must be allowed to take precedence of all his distinguished contemporaries." — Jeffrey. 159 Byron. English Bards and Scotch Reviewers : a Satire. Third Edition. 8vo, inlaid and enlarged to 4to, and thoroughly illustrated with the insertion of ri^S portraits and 44 autographs, innumerable criticisms, etc. Blue morocco extra, gilt edges. London, 18 10 Unique, and cost Mr. Farnum $130 at the Allan Sale. " The last volume we shall mention will be Byron's English Bards and Scotch Reviewers, inlaid to folio size. It was gotten up by Will- iam Upcott, a man famous in England for his love of literary rari- ties. It afterwards belonged to John Allan of New York, likewise noted for his fine books, and by him it was considered one of his choicest gems. It contains one hundred and forty-five inserted por- traits, mostly proofs, and numerous landscape plates. Besides the autographs of Lord and Lady Byron, the Earl of Carlisle, Lord Aber- deen, Lady Holland, the graceful mistress of Holland House, and numerous other illustrious personages, there are in it original letters of Wordsworth, Lamb, Sydney Smith, Fox, Rogers, Gifford, R. P. Knight, Montgomery, William Cobbett, William Miller, Richard Cumberland, John Murray, the Senior, Lord Hervey, reporting the sale of his South Sea stock, the Duke of Portland, and others. Charles Lamb's letter to Mr. J. Oilier contains this characteristic sentence : ' It is enough once for all to assure you that I never could succeed in anything proposed to me to do, and I won't strive against my poor obstinate grain.' It concludes equally characteristically, thus: — ' Yours and your brother's, C. Lamb.' No wonder its respective owners have regarded this book as a prize.'' — Horatio Rogers. 160 Byron. — Lord Byron, a Biography, with a Critical Essay- on His Place in Literature. With portrait and facsimile. 8vo, cloth, uncut. London, Murray, 1872 The best Life of Byron yet written, and from the pen of Karl Elze, a German. 54 THE FARNUM LIBRARY. ^DMON. Metrical Paraphrase of Parts of the Holy Scriptures in Anglo-Saxon ; with an En- glish Translation, Notes and a Verbal Index. By Benjamin Thorpe, F.S.A. Royal 8vo, half morocco gilt, top edge gilt, others uncut. London, 1832 Very SCARCE. Printed by the "Society of Antiquaries," of Lon- don. i'62 Camden (William). Remains Concerning Britain. Por- trait and cuts. Crown Svo, cloth, uncut. London, John Russell Smith, 1870 Large paper. This volume has quite a number of coats of arms of English families in the text. Camden, who held the office of Clarenceux King-at-Arms in the Herald's College at London, is known in literature as the "British Pausanias." 163 Campbell (Thomas). Gertrude of Wyoming ; a Pennsyl- vanian Tale, and other Poems. First Edition. Illustrated by portraits and views. 4to, half green morocco gilt, bev- elled sides and gilt edges. London, T. Bensley, 1809 Unique. This was John Allan's copy, and is enhanced by the insertion of 41 portraits and views, all carefully inlaid. "The greatest effort of Campbell's genius was his 'Gertrude of Wyoming.' " — Moir. 164 Campbell. Life and Letters of, edited by William Beat- tie, M.D. With two portraits. 3 vols. 8vo, cloth, uncut. London, Hall, Virtue &• Co., 1850 William Beattie was one of the executors of the author of " Ger- trude of Wyoming." 165 Campbell. Pleasures of Hope. Illustrated by Birket Foster, George Thomas, and Harrison Weir. Small 4to. Elegantly bound in morocco gilt, edges gilt. London, 1856 A fine piece of Hayday's binding. "The 'Pleasures of Hope' is one of the most beautiful didactic poems of our language. " — Byron. THE FARNUM LIBRARY. 55 1 66 Campbell. Specimens of the British Poets, with Bio- graphical and Critical Notices, and an Essay on English Poetry. 7 vols, crown 8vo, half red morocco gilt, edges gilt. London, 1819 Large paper, a fine copy and scarce. "Campbell's Essay on English Poetry is one of the most captivating productions to be met with." 167 Campbell (John). Lives of the British Admirals : contain- ing also a New and Accurate Naval History from the Earliest Periods. Continued to the Year 1779 by Dr. Berkenhout. a New Edition Revised, Corrected and brought down to the Present Time by Henry Redhead Yorke. With portraits. 8 vols, royal 8vo, half calf gilt. London, 1812-17 Large paper, best edition — ' ' With lives of the most eminent naval commanders from the time of Dr. Campbell, by Wm. Steven- son." 168 Campbell (Lord). Lives of the Lord Chancellors and Keepers of the Great Seal of England, 8 vols. ; Lives of THE Chief Justices of England, 3 vols. Together 11 vols. 8vo, of which 10 are bound in calf gilt, marbled edges, and one in cloth. London, 1848-69 Best Edition, large type. The ' ' Lord Chancellors" are now out of print and quite scarce. ' ' I need scarcely advise every reader to consult Lord Campbell's ex- cellent work." — Macaulay. 169 Canning (George). Speeches of The Right Hon. George Canning. With a Memoir of his Life by R. Therry. Portrait. 6 vols. 8vo, calf, gilt, marbled edges. London, James Ridgway, n. d. Handsome Library Edition. "A work which is destined to con- vey to posterity the remains of his splendid talents as an orator. " — HUSKISSON. 170 Cardinal (The). 3 vols, in one. Demy 8vo, cloth. London, Bentley, 1854 By the author of " The Duchess." 171 Carew. The Works of Thomas Carew, Sewer in Ordinary to Charles the First. Reprinted from the Original Edition of 1640. Crown 8vo, half calf. Edinburgh, 1824 Very scarce. Only 125 copies printed, and edited by J. Maitland, 56 THE FARNUM LIBRARY. afterwards Lord Dundrennan. Mr. J. H. Markland's copy, and with his heraldic book-plate. " Carew's Sonnets were more in request, between 1630 and 1640, than any poet's of his time. They were many of them set to music by H. and W. Lawes and other eminent subscribers. Al. Chalmers has included them in his editions of the poets." — Lowndes. 172 Canticum Canticorum, reproduced in Facsimile from the Scriverius Copy in the British Museum. With an Histori- cal and Bibliographical Introduction by J. Ph. Berjeau. FoHo, vellum, top edge gilt. London, Trubner, i860 Rare. Only one hundred and fifty copies of the facsimile of this most rare block-book, printed on heavy paper. Seiz assigns the printing of the "Canticum Canticorum" by Law- rence Coster to the year 1433, immediately after the production of the " Biblia Pauperum," 1432. The " Book of Canticles" consists of 32 engravings, printed two on each page ; but as they are printed on one side only, each printed side facing one another as in all the early Block Books, the whole book contains only sixteen pages folio, which are without mark or signature. 173 Carlyle (Thomas). History of Frederick the Great OF Prussia. Portraits, and plans of battles, etc. 6 vols. 8vo, cloth, uncut. London, 1859-65 Original Edition. Like all biographers, Carlyle loves his hero ; unlike some, he adores his hero in his heart, as one who does not belong to the heap of shams, by which the candid author of these volumes fancied the world was oppressed. This love and admiration, however, are so honestly held and sincerely maintained, that one cannot but respect the man who entertained such feelings. 174 Carlyle. Thomas Carlyle, a History of the First Forty Years of his Life, 179S-1835. By James Anthony Froude, M.A. 2 vols. 8vo, cloth, bevelled sides, top edges gilt. N. Y., 1882 17s Catlin (George). Letters and Notes on the Manners, Customs and Condition of the North American Indians, written during Eight Years' Travel amongst the Wildest Tribes of Indians in North America. With 400 illustra- tions (some plates foxed^. 2 vols, royal 8vo, cloth, uncut. N. Y. [London], 1841 " Mr. Catlin is the historian of the Red Races of mankind ; of a world fast fading away, and leaving hardly a trace of a wreck behind. With his pen and pencil he has brought the existence of these wild and uncivilized beings so vividly before our eyes, that we seem to have ac- companied him in his wanderings, seen them, mixed with them, and THE FARNUM LIBRARY. 57 impressed the recollection of their forms and features, their costume, strange customs, feasts, ceremonies, religious rites, wars, dances, sports, and other modes of life, distinctly upon our rarnds.."— Literary Gazette. 176 Catlin. Eight Years' Travels in Europe, with his North American Indian Collection. Numerous illustrations. 2 vols. 8vo, half morocco, marbled sides and edges. London, 1848 Very scarce. Second edition — " published by the author." 177 Cats (Jacob) and Fairlie (Robert). Moral Emblems, including Aphorisms, Adages, and Proverbs of all Nations, with 60 large and beautiful illustrations on wood, and numer- ous vignettes and tail-pieces by J. Leighton. 4to, morocco extra, gilt edges (cover loose). N. Y. [London], i860 The emblems and other works of Cats have for two centuries been household books in Holland, both for their moral doctrine and the in- genious designs with which Adrian Van de Venne symbolized their teachings. 178 Caulfield (James). Portraits, Memoirs, and Characters of Remarkable Persons, from the Reign of Edward the Third to the Revolution, collected from the most Au- thentic Accounts extant, new edition, with many additional rare portraits — ^107 curious portraits, 3 vols, cloth, uncut, London, 1813. — Also — Caulfield's Portraits, Memoirs, and Characters of Remarkable Persons, from the Revolu- tion in 1688 to the end of the Reign of George II., col- lected from the most Authentic Accounts extant, 155 curious portraits of eccentric and notorious persons of Great Britain, 4 vols, sprinkled calf, London, 1819-20. Together 7 vols. London, 1813-20 Large paper copy, wit h the illustrations of the fine copy of the second series («. e. 1688 — George II.), on India paper. Very scarce in this condition, and which Lowndes does not mention . 179 Caxton. Life and Typography of William Caxton, En- gland's first Printer, with Evidence of his Typographical Connection with Colard Mansion, the Printer at Bruges. Compiled from original sources by William Blades. Illustrated with 62 plates, portraits and facsimiles, on India paper. 2 vols. 4to, half morocco, uncut. London, 1861-63 Only 250 copies were printed of these volumes, which are illustrated with sixty-two plates, comprising facsimile pages from most of Caxton's 58 THE FARNUM LIBRARY. books. Ninety-four separate works and editions are described, being thirty-one more than are noticed in the Typographical Antiquities of Dr. Dibdin. A list of more than five hundred separate copies of Cax- ton's various publications is annexed, with the names of the Collections in which they are preserved, including Libraries in England, Scotland, Ireland, and the Cape of Good Hope ; in America, France, Austria, Denmark, Germany, Holland and Sweden. It also includes the whole of his prologues and epilogues, and his own historical work, " Poli- cronicon.'' 1 80 Caxton. The Game of the Chesse, reproduced in fac- simile from a copy in the British Museum, with a few re- marlis on Caxton's typographical productions by Vincent FiGGiNS. An exact facsimile in the same rude Gothic type of the excessively rare original work as printed by Caxton, with the 23 woodcuts. 4to, half morocco. London, i860 A literary curiosity; the whole type was cast expressly for this work, and the cuts traced from the copy in the British Museum; the paper was also made expressly, and as nearly as possible like the original. But a few copies were printed. 181 Caxton. The Bibles in the Caxton Exhibition, 1877, or a BibHographical Description of nearly 1,000 representative Bibles. By Henry Stevens. Vignette cuts. 8vo, cloth, uncut. London, 1878 Only a limited edition was printed, and on fine paper. 182 Caxton. How to Tell a Caxton. Facsimiles. i6mo, sewed. London, Sotheran, 1870 William Blades was the author of this manual. 183 Cellini (Benvenuto). Memoirs, written by himself. Trans- lated by Thomas Roscoe. Portrait. 2 vols. 8vo, calf gilt. London, Colburn, 1822 " More interesting than any novel I know." — Horace Walpole. 184 Centlivre (Mrs. Susanna). Dramatic Works, with Life. Fine portrait. 3 vols. i2mo, sprinkled calf gilt. London, 1760-61 An exceedingly fine copy of the very rare First Edition. These plays are greatly admired for their incidents, language, and humorous descriptions of real life. 185 Cervantes. Don Quixote, translated [by Mary Smirke]. Beautifully printed in large type by Bulmer, with 48 superb engravings from pictures painted by Robt. Smirke, R.A. THE FARNUM LIBRARY. 59 4 vols. 4to, yellow calf extra, gilt edges, by Clarke and Bedford. London, 1818 Large paper with India proof impressions of the exquisite plates. A splendid copy in the best English binding. Of this edition Branet says : — " This anonymous translation is in part new, and in part based upon those of Jarvis and SmoUet, but that which particularly distinguishes this edition from those we have named, is that it is enriched with engravings after Smirke. This series of en- gravings numbers seventy-four, 48 large plates and 26 vignettes and tail-pieces." Don Quixote — " is to Europe in general what Ariosto is to Italy and Shakespeare to England — the one book to which the slightest allusions may be made without affectation, but not missed without discredit. Numerous translations, and countless editions of them in every language bespeak its adaptation to mankind ; and no vpriter has been found para- doxical enough to withhold his admiration." — Hallam. 186 Cervantes. Exemplary Novels. Translated by W. K. Kelly. Portrait. Post 8vo, cloth, uncut. London, 1855 To the above are added — ' ' El Buscapie, or the Serpent, and La Tia Fingida, or the Pretended Aunt." " As works of invention they rank among their author's productions, next after Don Quixote ; in correctness and grace of style they stand before it." — Ticknor. 187 Cesnola (Louis Palma di). Cyprus : Its Ancient Cities, Tombs and Temple. Portraits, maps and numerous illus- trations. 4to, fresh cloth, top edge gilt, others uncut. N. Y., 1878 A narrative of General di Cesnola's researches and excavations during ten years' residence in the Island of Cyprus. 188 Chambers (R.). Cyclopedia of English Literature. A History of British Authors, from the earliest to the present time, with copious Selections from their Writings. Por- traits and engravings. 2 vols, royal 8vo, cloth. Boston, 1851 189 [Chambers.] Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation. Tenth Edition, with extensive additions and emendations. With numerous engravings on wood. 8vo, half morocco, gilt, marbled sides and edges. London, 1853 Best edition. Excessively scarce. 190 Chatterton (Thomas). The Works ; containing his Life, by G. Gregory, D.D., and Miscellaneous Poems, edited by Robert Southey. With facsimile of Chatterton's 6o THE FARNUM LIBRARY. {Rowley's) handwriting, engravings of Redcliff Church and other plates. 3 vols. 8vo, half morocco, top edge gilt, others uncut. London, 1803 A good copy of this excellent and best, but scarce edition of the works of — "The marvellous boy; The sleepless soul that perished in his pride." 191 Chatto (W. a.). Playing Cards, Facts and Speculations on the History of. Illustrated and some of the plates colored. 8vo, cloth, uncut. London, Russell Smith, 1848 ' ' A perfect fund of antiquarian research, and most interesting even to persons who never play at cards. " — Tait's Edinburgh Magazine. 192 Chaucer (G.). Canterbury Tales, with an Essay on his Language and Versification, and an Introductory Dis- course, Notes and a Glossary by Tyrwhitt, portrait and plate of the Canterbury Pilgrims, 5 vols., London, Picker- ing, 1822. — Also — Chaucer's Romaunt of the Rose, Troilus and Creseide, etc., with Life by Sir Harris Nico- las, forming a Supplement to Tyrwhitt's Edition of the Canterbury Tales, completing the Poetical Works of Chaucer, 3 vols., London, Pickering, 1846. Together 8 vols, crown 8vo, sumptuously and uniformly bound by Hayday and Mansell in smooth polished green morocco, bevelled sides, dead gilt edges. London, W. Pickering, 1822-46 Large paper. A superb copy of both these very scarce editions. Tyrwhitt's edition of Chaucer is said to make him "the best-edited poet in the English language." " Maister Chaucer that nobly enterprysed How that our englysshe might fresshly be enued." — Skelton. 193 Chaucer. Browne (M.). Chaucer's England; being Chap- ters on the Social Condition of the English People in the Age of Chaucer. Portrait and illustrations on wood. 2 vols, crown Svo, cloth. London, 1869 A clean uncut copy. " I consider Chaucer as a genial day in the English Spring." — Warton. 194 Chesterfield (Earl of). Letters ; including numerous Letters now first published from the Original MSS. Edited, with Notes, by Lord Mahon. Portrait. 5 vols. Svo. calf extra, citron edges. London, 1845-53 Only Complete and Best Library Edition. Fine copy in per- fect condition, and very scarce. " In Lord Mahon's case, the work of 'editing' is not confined to THE FARNUM LIBRARY. 6 1 putting his name on the title-page, and adding a stray note here and there. He supplies the elucidatory information required by the text, and employs conscientious care in seeing the text is critically perfect." — AthentBum. " The name of Lord Chesterfield has become a synonym for good breeding and politeness. . . . But it recalls little or nothing of the statesman, the orator, the wit. We forget that this same little man was one of the best Lords-Lieutenant Ireland ever knew, the best speaker in the House of Lords till Pitt and Murray entered it, one of the most graceful essayists, and the wittiest man of quality of his time, a time when wit meant something more than pleasantry and sparkle," etc., etc. — Edinburgh Review. 195 CiBBER (Colley). Dramatic Works [complete, with names of the Actors and the parts they took]. Engravings and portraits. 5 vols. i2mo, calf. London, 1777 Rev. John Mitford's copy, with notes in his handwriting. " Best edition." — Lowndes. 196 CiBBER. Apology FOR THE Life OF, by himself, interspersed with Characters and Anecdotes of his Theatrical Contem- poraries, Notes, etc., by E. Bellchambers. Portraits 8vo, cloth, uncut. London, 1822 Best edition. Forms a complete History of the Stage for the space of forty years. " One of the most amusing specimens of biography in the language, and the best history of the English stage during the time Gibber was concerned with it." — Retrospective Review. 197 Cicero (Marcus Tullius). Life of, by Conyers Middle- ton. Fine portrait. 3 vols, royal Svo, sprinkled calf gilt. London, 1804 Best edition. 198 Cicero. Life of, by W. Forsyth, with 20 illustrations. Thick 8vo, half morocco, red top edge. London, Murray, 1869 199 Clarendon (Edward, .Ear/). History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England, together with a Historical View of the Affairs of Ireland. New edition. Collated with the MSS. in the Bodleian Library, and Notes by Bishop Warburton. 7 vols, royal 8vo, cloth. Oxford, 1849 Large paper. Library and best edition. Finely printed in large type, with the suppressed passages, carefully collated from the original MS. in the Bodleian Library. "Clarendon — a lover of the constitution of his country, a patriotic statesman — is always interesting, and continually provides materials for the statesman and philosopher." — Southey. 62 THE FARNUM LIBRARY. 200 Clark (E. L.). Daleth ; or, The Homestead of the Nations — Egypt Illustrated. With 10 colored plates and numerous woodcuts. 8vo, cloth, uncut, top edge gilt. Boston, 1864 Of great Egyptological value, although written in a popular style. 201 Clarke (James Freeman). Events and Epochs in Relig- ious History. Illustrations. Crown 8vo, cloth, bevelled sides. Boston, 1881 The substance of a course of twelve lectures delivered at the Lowell Institute, Boston. 202 [Clarke (William).] RepertoriumBibliographicum; or, Some Account of the Most Celebrated British Libraries. View and portraits of bibliophiles. Royal 8vo, half calf, cloth sides. London, 1819 Beckford, the author of Vathek, assisted in the compilation of this work, particularly in the description of his own library at Fonthill. In this volume is a plate of the Bodleian Library and portraits of book col- lectors, including the Duke of Roxburghe, Cracherode, Planta, Storer, Bernard, Boucher, Crofts, Gossett and Towneley, as well as the rare plate of Francis the First, often wanting, and the only plate ever engraved by W. Behnes, the sculptor . 203 [Clemens (S. L.).J Innocents Abroad, by " Mark Twain." With 234 illustrations. Thick 8vo, cloth. Hartford, 1869 204 Clough (Arthur Hugh). Poems and Prose Remains, with a Selection from his Letters and a Memoir. Portrait. 2 vols, crown 8vo, cloth, uncut. London, 1869 205 CoBDEN (Richard). Life of, by John Morley. Etched por- trait by Thomas Riley. 8vo, cloth. Boston, 1881 " Author's edition" of the Ufe of the great Free-trader. 206 CoGHLAN. Memoirs of Mrs. Coghlan, daughter of the late Major Moncrieffe, written by herself, and dedicated to the British Nation; Interspersed with Anecdotes of the late American and present French War; with Remarks, Moral and Political, N. Y., 1795, with Introduction and Notes. Privately reprinted. 4to, sewed, uncut. N. Y., 1864 Large paper edition of 200, and of which only 20 were printed in 4to, the above being No. 15. Mrs. Coghlan was for some time the mistress of Aaron Burr, after having been seduced by him. She afterwards led an abandoned life in New York and Europe. THE FARNUM LIBRARY. 63 207 Coleridge (Samuel Taylor). Life and Works, as FOLLOWS : — I. Coleridge. Poetical Works. Yellow polished calf gilt, by NuTT. 3 vols, crown 8vo. [Large paper and very scarce.] London, W. Pickering, 1828 II. Coleridge. Literary Remains Collected and Edited by H. N. Coleridge. 4 vols. 8vo, half calf gilt. London, W. Pickering, 1836 III. Coleridge. Life by J. Gillm.^n. Vol. i. (all pub- lished.) 8vo, cloth, uncut. London, IV. Pickering, 1858 IV. Coleridge. Letters, Conversations and Recollections of. 2 vols. i2mo, boards, uncut. hondon, Moxan, 1836 V. Coleridge. Early Recollections Relating to Coleridge, by Joseph Cottle. Portraits. 2 vols. i2mo, cloth, uncut. London, Longmans, 1837 VI. Coleridge. The Friend. 3 vols, post 8vo, cloth, uncut. London, Pickering, 1844 VII. Coleridge. Biographia Literaria. 2 vols, in three. Post 8vo, cloth, uncut. Very scarce. London, Pickering, 1847 VIII. Coleridge. Aids to Reflection. 2 vols, post 8vo, cloth, uncut. London, Pickering, 1848 IX. Coleridge. Notes and Lectures upon Shakespeare. 2 vols, post 8vo, cloth, uncut. London, Pickering, 1849 X. Coleridge. Church and State — and Lay Sermons. Post 8vo, cloth, uncut. London, Pickering, 1839 XI. Coleridge. Poems of. Post 8vo, cloth, uncut. Very Scarce. London, Pickering, 1844 XII. Coleridge. Notes on English Divines. 2 vols, post 8vo, cloth, uncut. London, Moxon, 1853 XIII. Coleridge. Essays on His Own Times, Forming a Second Series of " The Friend." 3 vols, post 8vo, cloth, uncut. London, Pickering, 1850 XIV. Coleridge. Notes, Theological, Political and Mis- cellaneous. Post 8vo, cloth, uncut. London, Moxon, 1853 XV. Coleridge. Lay Sermons. Third Edition. Post 8vo, cloth, uncut. London, Moxon, 1852 64 THE FARNUM LIBRARY. XVI. Coleridge. Confessions of an Inquiring Spirit. Fourth Edition. Post 8vo, cloth, uncut. London, Moxon, 1863 XVII. Coleridge. Osorio, a Tragedy. Post 8vo, cloth, uncut. London, 1873 XVIII. Coleridge. Table Talk. Second Edition. Por- trait {foxed). Post 8vo, cloth, uncut. London, 1836 XIX. Coleridge. Lives of Northern Worthies, by Hart- ley Coleridge. 3 vols, post 8vo, cloth. London, Moxon, 1852 Together 37 vols., various sizes and bindings, of which 3 are in calf, 4 in half calf, 28 in cloth, and 2 in boards. A complete collection, or nearly so, of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's "Works," with some Coleridgiana added, and most of which are first editions and very scarce. "This illustrious man [Coleridge], the largest and most spacious intellect, the subtlest and most comprehensive, in my judgment, that has yet existed among men." — Thomas De Quincey. " As his [Coleridge's] fame will be settled by his best poems, he is assure of future reputation as any poet of this age." — Allan Cun- ningham. 208 Collier (J. P.). A Bibliographical and Critical Account of the Rarest Books in the English Language, alphabetically arranged, accompanied with numerous Extracts, in verse and prose, and a very Copious and Useful Index, which during the last fifty years have come under the observation of J. Payne Collier, F.S.A. 2 vols. 8vo, half morocco, uncut, Roxburghe style. London, 1865 Limited of 250 copies, handsomely printed on fine paper. • The whole of the contents of Mr. Collier's privately-printed Bridge- water Catalogue, 4to, 1837 (usually selling in London for £t ts.), is incorporated in these volumes; together with hundreds of new arti- cles, all of them of the rarest and most interesting description, so as to form a valuable Manual for Bibliophiles. The author, in one of his letters to the publisher, said: " I WILL make the book a model of ITS kind, as far as my knowledge goes, and a book of refer- ence FOR EVERY MAN WHO CARES ABOUT ENGLISH LITERATURE, FROM EARLY TIMES UNTIL THE RESTORATION." This valuable and interesting work is, in fact, an extended edition of the author's catalogue of the Duke of Bridgewater's Library. It describes books which, for the most part, are so scarce, that but few American Libraries possess them; and Mr. Collier has performed an acceptable office in quoting largely from the works he has described. THE FARNUM LIBRARY. 65 209 Collier. Book of Roxburghe Ballads (Popular Ballads of the Reigns of Elizabeth, James, and Charles), edited by John Payne Collier, printed in antique type, with 50 curious woodcuts. 4to, morocco extra, gilt edges on red by Riviere. London, 1847 Rare. A handsome copy in Riviere's binding of this fine specimen of the typography of Whittingham's Chiswiclc Press. This volume has been called—" a treasure of curiosities, rich as well as rare." Nearly all the ballads contained in this interesting collection are unique. They are printed from the extraordinary collection which be- longed successively to the Duke of Roxburghe and Mr. Bright. At the sale of Mr. Bright's library, in 1845, they sold for ;^535. 210 Collier. History of English Dramatic Poetry, and Annals of the Stage. 3 vols. 8vo, calf gilt. London, Murray, 1831 Presentation copy to the Rev. John Mitford by John Payne Col- lier, with Autographs of both of those distinguished authors, and also numerous MS. notes by Mitford. The best work on the Rise and Progress of the English Drama, and scarce. 211 Collier. Poetical Decameron, or Ten Conversations on English Poets and Poetry, particularly of the Reigns of Elizabeth and James I. 2 vols. 8vo, half Roxburghe gilt, top edge gilt, others uncut. Edinburgh a«(/ London, 1820 Large paper. A fine uncut copy. " Few books lately published contain so much valuable and original information." — Hallam. 212 Combe (William). Three Tours of Dr. Syntax in Search of the Picturesque, of Consolation, and of a Wife. Illustrated with 81 colored plates byT. Rowlandson. 3 vols, royal 8vo, cloth, uncut. London, Nattali and Bond, 1855 213 CoNGDON (Charles T.). Reminiscences of a Journalist. Portrait. Crown 8vo, cloth. Boston, 1880 214 Congreve (William). Works of, consisting of his Plays and Poems, with Life. Portrait, and an elegant series of plates, by Gkign on, from Hayman's designs. 3 vols, royal 8vo, tree marbled calf extra, citron edges, by Bain. Birmingham, Baskerville, 1761 Scarce. This is a beautiful specimen of Baskerville's printing, and is, at the same time, the best edition of Congreve's works. A fine copy. ' ' We have had in Congreve a humorous observer of another school [than Swift], to whom the world seems to have no moral at all, and whose ghastly doctrine seems to be that we should eat and drink and be merry when we can, and go to the deuce — if there be a deuce — when the time comes." — Thackeray. 66 THE FARNUM LIBRARY. 215 Constable (John, R.A.). Memoirs of the Life of, composed chiefly from his Letters, by C. R. Leslie, R. A. Portraits on India paper and mezzotinto engravings after his most cele- brated Pictures, by D. Lucas. 4to, cloth, uncut. London, 1845 ■' Got up in a peculiar, antique and handsome manner, congenial to and worthy of the subject." — London Literary Gazette. 216 Constable (Archibald), and His Literary Correspondents, a Memorial by his Son, Thomas Constable. Steel portrait. 3 vols. 8vo, cloth, uncut. Edinburgh, 1873 A most interesting work. One volume is entirely composed of Sir Walter Scott's correspondence, and the other two volumes with the correspondence of the most eminent literati of the early part of the present century. 217 Conway (Moncure Daniel). Demonology and Devil Lore. With numerous illustrations. 2 vols. 8vo, cloth, uncut. N. Y., 1879 218 CoNYBEARE (Rev. W. J.) and Howson (Rev. J. S.). Life and Epistles of St. Paul. Illustrated with engraved titles and fronts., and numerous steel engravings. 2 vols. 4to, ele- gantly bound in morocco extra gilt, bevelled sides, gilt edges. London, Longmans, 1852 Best edition. A fine copy of the original edition, with broad margins and brilliant impressions of the plates. 219 Cook (Clarence). The House Beautiful, Essays on Beds and Tables, Stools and Candlesticks. Colored front, and numerous cuts. 4to, fresh cloth gilt, top edge gilt, others uncut. N. Y., 1878 With four-page autograph letter of this distinguished art critic in- serted . The cuts in Clarence Cook's ' ' House Beautiful " were sold by the Scribners to Macmillan & Co., of London, and were published by them in a series of three books called " The Drawing-Room." " The Dining-Room," and " The Bed-Room." Some of the cuts were copied into The Portfolio as fine specimens of English workmanship, their American origin not being known to the editors of that journal. 219* CooK (Captain James). Voyages Round the World. Illus- trated with maps and numerous engravings on wood and steel. 2 vols, imperial 8vo, cloth, uncut. London, Tallis, n. d. THE FARNVM LIBRARY. 67 220 Cooper (J. Fenimore). Novels. With Barley's illustra- tions on steel. 20 vols. i2mo, uniformly bound in half calf gilt. N. Y., Townsend &> Gregory, 1859-62 A desirable set, and including : — Afloat and Ashore, Bravo, Chain- bearer, Deerslayer, Lionel Lincoln, Miles Wallingford, Mohicans, Oak Openings, Pathfinder, Pilot, Pioneers, Prairie, Red Rover, Satinstone, Spy, Two Admirals, Water-Witch, Wing and Wing, and Wish-ton-wish. 221 Cooper. History of the Navy of the United States of America. 2 maps. 2 vols. 8vo, cloth. Scarce. Phila., 1839 222 Cory (Isaac Preston). Ancient Fragments of the Phoe- nician, Chaldean, Egyptian, Tyrian, Carthaginian, Indian, Persian, and other Writers ; with an Introductory Disser- tation ; and an Inquiry into the Philosophy and Trinity of the Ancients. 8vo, cloth, uncut. London, William Pickering, 1832 The extremely scarce second edition. 223 Coryate (Thomas). Crudities; reprinted from the Edition of 161 1. To which are now added His Letters from In- dia, &c. ; and Extracts Relating to Him, from Various Authors : being A more particular Account of his Travels (mostly only Foot) in Different Parts of the Globe, than any hitherto published. Together with his Orations, Character, Death, etc. Illustrated with copper plates. 3 vols. 8vo. Elegantly bound by Jenkins and Cecil in polished sprinkled calf extra, citron edges. London, 1776 Best edition. A beautiful copy of this celebrated, curious and interesting book. Very scarce and in such condition remarkably so. " A life of this singular and extraordinary character will be found in Wood's ' Athente Oxoniensis.' " — Lowndes. 224 CosTELLO (Louisa Stuart). Specimens of the Early Poetry of France, from the Time of the Troubadours and Trouveres to the Reign of Henri Quatre. With four beautiful plates. Crown 8vo, calf gilt. London, Pickering, 1835 A nice copy, bound by Hayday, of this handsome volume, printed by Whitiingham, and illustrated with plates from medieval manu- script. 68 THE FARNUM LIBRARY. 225 Costume. The Book of, or Annals of Fashion, from the earliest period to the present time, by a Lady of Rank. Illustrated with upwards of two hundred engravings on wood by eminent artists, and illuminated title. Thick royal 8vo, cloth, uncut. London, Colburn, 1847 The authoress of the above was the Countess of Blessington, the chire amie of the Count D'Orsay. 226 CowELL (Benjamin). Spirit of '76 in Rhode Island : or Sketches of the Efforts of the Government and People in the War of the Revolution. Royal 8vo, cloth. Boston, 1850 This volume includes "the names of those who belonged to the Rhode Island Regiments in the army, with biographical notices, reminiscences, etc." 227 Cowley (Abraham). Works, consisting of those which were formerly Printed and those which he Design'd for the Press, Publish'd out of the Author's Original Copies, with the Cutter of Coleman Street, In two Volumes, Tenth Edition ; also the Third and Last Volume, being the Second and Third Parts, the Eighth Edition, with Neces- sary Tables and divers Poems of Eminent Persons in Praise of the Author. With portrait and plates. 3 vols. 8vo, elegantly bound by Riviere in tree marbled calf extra, gilt, edges gilt on marble. London, 1707-8 Best edition. A very beautiful copy. Clarendon ' ' represents him (Cowley) as having taken a flight beyond all that went before him ; and Milton is said to have declared that the three greatest English poets were Spenser, Shakespeare and Cowley." 228 CowPER (William). The Task. 8vo, inlaid to 4to, and illus- trated by 102 plates, mostly proof s on India paper. 4to, morocco extra, gold borders, by Hayday. London, J. Sharpe, 1825 Unique and printed by Whittingham at the Chiswick Press. This beautiful volume was one of the gems of the collection of John Allan. The 102 plates, which are carefully inlaid, comprise many rare prints, of which a large number are India proofs. The portraits are particularly noticeable. 229 CowPER. Poetical Works, with his Correspondence, Translations and Life, by Robert Southey. Numer- ous beautiful engravings, portraits and vignettes. 15 vols, foolscap 8vo, yellow calf extra, gilt inside borders and marbled edges. London, Pickering, 1835-7 Best edition, and only 350 copies printed at the Chiswick Press. Very scarce and a fine copy. THE FARNUM LIBRARY. 69 230 CowpER. Poetical Works. Portrait and rubricated titles. 2 vols. 8vo, blue morocco elegant, gilt edges. London, William Pickering, 1853 231 CoxE (Archdeacon William). Historical Works, VIZ.: I. Memoirs of Sir Robert Walpole, Earl of Orford. 3 vols. Portrait. 1798 II. Memoirs of Horatio, Lord Walpole. Portraits. 1802 III. History of the House of Austria. 3 vols. [Only 60 copies printed.] 1807 IV. Memoirs of the Kings of Spain of the House of Bour- bon. 3 vols. 1813 V. Memoirs of John, Duke of Marlborough, with his Correspondence. 3 vols. Portraits, maps and military plans 1818-19 VI. Shrewsbury Correspondence. Portrait. 1821 VII. Memoirs of the Administration of the Rt. Hon. Henry Pelham. 2 vols. Numerous portraits, views, maps and plans. 1829 Together 16 vols. 4to, bright and fresh uniform yellow russia extra gilt, citron edges. London, 1798-1829 The Large paper and best editions of ttiese valuable historical works, and in very fine bindings. A splendid copy of the quarto edition. " He who wishes to understand intimately the politics of the two last reigns must consult the volumes of Mr. Coxe : the future his- torian will refer to them with confidence and gratitude." — Annual Review. ' ' The biographical labors of Mr. Archdeacon Coxe are considerable in extent, and meritorious in quality ; and, as they appear to my judg- ment, are likely to be more appreciated by posterity than in the pres- ent times." — T. F. Dibdin. ' ' Coxe's writings throw more light on the history of England, from the accession of the House of Brunswick, than any other publication whatever. " — Lowndes. 70 THE FARNUM LIBRARY. 232 Crabbe (Rev. George). Poetical Works, complete, with Life. Letters and Journals, by his son. Beautiful front- ispieces and vignettes. 8 vols, post 8vo, half calf gilt, marbled sides and edges. London, 1853 Uniform in size with the editions of Bums, Byron, Cowper, etc., in this catalogue. " He does not accumulate horrors for effect. He has no extravagant and unnatural heroes pouring forth their morbid sentiment in his pages. There is no sickly affectation, but a pure and healthy portrait of life." — Cunningham. 232* Crashaw (Richard). Complete Works. Edited by W. B. TuRNBULL. Post 8vo, cloth, uncut. London, John Russell Smith, 1858 " Poet and Saint ! to thee alone are given, The two most sacred names of earth and heaven.'' — Cowley. 233 Crowe (J. A.) and Cavalcaselle (G. B.). History of Painting in Italy from the Second to the Sixteenth Cen- tury, and in North Italy from the Fourteenth Century. Profusely illustrated. Together 5 vols. 8vo, cloth, uncut- London, Murray, 1864-71 Very scarce. The original editions, uncut. ' ' The work of Messrs. Crowe and Cavalcaselle is by far the richest mine of information upon Italian Painting that has been opened to us for many a long day. In a judicious, philosophical way it associates picture with picture, artist with artist, and school with school, illustrating and drawing illustrations from all, by showing their general connection with the general history and the social and political tendencies of their own times " — Examiner. 234 Crowe and Cavalcaselle. The History of Early Flemish Painters. Notices of their Lives and Works. Numerous illustrations. i2mo, cloth, uncut. London, 1857 Uniform with Mrs. Jameson's " Early Italian Painters." 235 Crowe (Eyre Evans). History of France. 5 vols. 8vo^ cloth, uncut. London, 1858-68 A work worthy of rank beside Thiers and Guizot. 236 Cruikshank (George). Grimm's German Popular Stories. Edited by Edgar Taylor, with Introduction by John RusKiN, M.A. With illustrations after the original designs of George Cruikshank. 4to, half morocco, gilt top edge, others uncut. Roxburghe style. London, John Camden Hotten, n. d. Large paper, with proof impressions of Cruikshank's plates. Vide Ruskin's introduction for an account of these fascinating stories and of the wonderful designs by Cruikshank. THE FARNUM LIBRARY. 71 237 Cruikshank. Six Illustrations to Cowper's John Gilpin, engraved on wood. 8vo, in paper cover. Proofs on India paper. 238 Cruikshank. Illustrations of Time. 7 plates. Oblong folio, sewed. London, n. d. 239 Cruikshankiana, an Assemblage of the Most Celebrated Works of George Cruikshank. 80 different examples of the great master's work on 68 separate plates. Folio, half morocco. London, Edward Lumley, n. d. Published at £/^ 4^. Cruikshank is — "the modem Caillot. A never-ceasing, still-beginning source of amusement. Unlike most representations, his works never tire, nor does his humor fail. Look at them a hundred times, and the same laugh is sure to follow. To turn his designs into words each print would require a volume, so wonderfully does he condense his creative powers. Yet in each a stem moral is afforded, and that in the most powerful and attractive manner. " 240 Cunningham (P.). Story of Nell Gwyn; and the Say- ings of Charles the Second, related and collected by Peter Cunningham. Woodcuts. Post 8vo, cloth, uncut. London, Bradbury &= Evans, 1852 Rare. Fine copy and uncut of the original edition, which is very different in typography, etc., to pirated and ostensible reprints. The story was originally published in "The Gentleman's Magazine" for 1 85 1. The above is corrected and enlarged with much additional matter. 241 CuRRAN (John Philpot). Speeches of, edited with Memoir and Historical Notices by Thomas Davies, M.R.I.A. Portrait after Sir Thomas Lawrence. 8vo, cloth, uncut. London, 1847 ' ' Complete and correct edition. " 242 Curtis (George Ticknor). History of the Origin, Formation and Adoption of the Constitution of the United States, with Notices of its Principal Framers. 2 vols. 8vo, cloth. Scarce. N. Y., 1854-58 In the preparation of this work, the Hon. Daniel Webster took a lively interest, and almost with his dying breath urged Mr. Curtis to complete what he had undertaken: "You have a future, I have none. You are writing a history of the constitution. You will write that work, I shall not. Go on, by all means ; and you shall have every aid that I can give you." 72 THE FARNUM LIBRARY. 243 CuRTius (Prof. Dr. Ernst). The History of Greece. Trans- lated by Adolphus William Ward, M.A. 5 vols, 8vo, cloth. London, 1873 244 Gushing (Caleb). Treaty of Washington : Its Negotiation, Execution and the Discussions relating thereto. i2mo, cloth. N. Y., 1873 'f^ THE FARNUM LIBRARY. 73 ANIEL (George). Merry England in the Olden Time. With illustrations by John Leech and Robert Cruikshank. Crown 8vo, cloth. London, n. d. ' ' This is an instructive and amusing volume. " — Allibone. 246 [Daniel.] The Modern Dunciad, Virgil in London, and other Poems. [By George Daniel.] Post 8vo, half calf, gilt. London, Wm. Pickering, 1835 Printed by Ciiarles Whittingham. " Tiiis modem Pope, wlioever he be, has produced a Dunciad, which the stinging bard of Twicken- ham would not be ashamed to own. The bard spares neither poet nor courtier; and in the office of satirist he speaks with the boldness of Juvenal." — London Monthly Review. 247 Daniel (Samuel). Poetical Works, with Memoirs of his Life and Writings. 2 vols, post 8vo, yellow calf extra, gilt edges. London, 17 18 Best edition, rare. Robert Southey's copy, with the poet's auto- graph and inserted portrait of Daniel, also cut by Bewick. This author was termed by Headley "the Atticus of his day,'' and Drummond pronounced him, " for sweetness and rhyming, second to none. " 248 Dankers (J.) and Sluyter (P.). Journal of a Voyage to New York and a Tour in several of the American Colonies in 1679-80, by Jasper Dankers and Peter Sluyter, of Wiewerd in Friesland. Translated from the Original Manuscript in Dutch for the Long Island Historical So- ciety, and edited by Henry C. Murphy, i 2 plates. 8vo, cloth, top edge gilt, others uncut. Brooklyn, 1867 The above is " Long Island Historical Society Publications," Vol. i, and was prepared for that Society by the late Henry C. Murphy, the sale of whose library at Clinton Hall, Astor Place, N. Y. City, by Geo. A. Leavitt & Co., realized over $52,000. 249 Dante Alighieri. The Divine Comedy, translated by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ; and the New Life 74 THE FARNUM LIBRARY. translated by Charles Eliot Norton. Together 4 vols. 4to, cloth, bevelled sides, top edges gilt, others uncut. Boston, Ticknor and Fields, 1867 Large paper. The "Vita Nuova" contains an original autograph of the translator. ' ' Shelley always says that reading Dante is unfavorable to writing, from its superiority to all possible compositions. " — Byron. 250 D'Arblay (Madame, Miss Burney). Diary and Letters Complete [including the period of her residence at the Court of Queen Charlotte]. Edited by her Niece. Por- traits and facsimile. 7 vols, crown 8vo, half morocco gilt, marbled sides and edges. London, 1843 Best edition. Miss Burney's Diary, sparkling with wit, teeming with lively anecdote, and delectable gossip, and full of sound and dis- creet views of persons and things. 251 Darley (F. O. C). Cooper Vignettes. A series of 6/\beau- tiful engravings on steel, from designs by Darley, illustrating James Fennimore Cooper's Novels and fine portrait of Cooper, with descriptive letter-press. Folio, brown morocco extra, bevelled sides, gilt edges. N. Y., James G. Gregory, 1862 Artist's Proofs on India paper of the exquisite plates, mounted on cardboard. A subscriber's copy. Large paper, and only a few printed in this superior manner. A very early proof copy of a series of subjects entirely national in theme, the product of the foremost of our Draughtsmen, and executed entirely by American engravers. 252 Darwin (Charles). Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication. With illustrations. 2 vols. 8vo, cloth. London, 1868 253 Darwin. Origin of Species, by Means of Natural Selection. Fifth Edition, with Corrections and Alterations. Crown 8vo, cloth, uncut. London, 1869 254 Davis (William). An Olio of Bibliographical and Literary Anecdotes and Memoranda, Original and Selected. . i2mo, calf. London, J. Rod^vell, 18 14 The author also wrote a work entitled— " A Journey Round the Library of a Bibliomaniac." 255 Davison (Francis). Poetical Rhapsody, with a Preface by Sir S. Egerton Brydges. The second volume con- THE FARNUM LIBRARY. 75 taining the Poems of "A. W." and Sir Walter Raleigh. 3 vols, in 2. Royal 8vo, polished calf gilt, edges gilt. Lee Priory Press, 1 8 14-17 Large paper. Only one hundred copies printed, and with vignette title-pages on India paper. " The collection of Elizabethan Poetry, now introduced to the curious through the Lee Priory Press, has long been a desideratum among the lovers of Old English Literature ; for though it passed through four editions in the Reign of James I. , it has, for at least a century, been so rare that but few have been gratified with a perusal of it." Lowndes calls it ' ' The most estimable of our Early Metrical Mis- cellanies.'' 256 Davy (Sir Humphrey, JBart.). Memoirs of Life of, by his brother, John Davy, M.D., F.R.S., etc. 2 vols. 8vo, half calf, gilt. London, 1836 ' ' This biography is admirably written — correct details, full of instruction and amusing throughout." — London Review. 257 Davy. Salmonia; or. Days of Fly-Fishing, by An Angler. Numerous woodcuts. i6mo, green calf, gilt. London, 1828 ' ' This is a book on a very delightful subject, by a very distinguished man." — Christopher North. 258 Davy. Consolations in Travel; or, Last Days of a Philos- opher. Illustrated. i6mo, cloth, uncut. London, 1851 ' ' Pervaded by a tone and temper, and an enthusiastic love of nature, which are as admirably expressed as their influence is excellent." 259 D'Aubigne (J. H. Merle). History of the Reforma- tion in the Sixteenth Century. Translated by H. White, and illustrated by an extensive series of portraits. 5 vols. 8vo, cloth, uncut. Edinburgh, 1853 260 Dawson (Henry B.). Assault on Stony Point by General Anthony Wayne, July 16, 1779. Prepared for the New York Historical Society and Read at Its Regular Monthly Meeting, April i, 1862, with illustrative notes. Colored map and facsimiles. 4to, sewed uncut. Morrisania, N. Y. Only 250 copies printed, of which above is — " No. 131, H. B. D." (signed). 261 Decker (T.). The Gull's Hornbook. Edited from the scarce edition of 1609, with Glossary and Notes, by Dr. Nott. 4to, russia, gilt. Bristol, 181 2 Only 100 copies printed. This work, by the author of the " Honest Whore," affords a greater 76 THE FARNUM LIBRARY. insight into the fashionable follies and vulgar habits of Queen Eliza- beth's day than perhaps any other extant. " His ' Gul's Home Booke or fashions to please all sorts of Guls,' first printed in 1609, exhibits a very curious, minute and interesting picture of the manners and habits of the middle class of society." — Drake. 262 De Costa (B. F.). The Pre-Columbian Discovery of Amer- ica by the Northmen, illustrated by Translations from the Icelandic Sagas, edited with Notes and a General Intro- duction. With map. 8vo, cloth. A\ha.nj, /oel Munsell, 186S 263 De Foe (Daniel). Life and Adventures of Robinson Cru- soe. Embellished with engravings from designs by Thomas Stothard. 2 vols, large 8vo, half morocco. London, Cadell &= Davies, 1820 Large paper. A fine copy of the best edition of this " Classic." " This book (Robinson Crusoe) shall be the first Emilius shall read; in this ideal, will, for a long time, consist his whole library, and it will always hold a distinguished place among others. " — Rousseau. 264 De Foe. The Novels and Miscellaneous Works of Daniel De Foe. With a Biographical Memoir of the Author, Literary Prefaces to the various Pieces, Illustrative Notes, etc., including all contained in the edition attributed to Sir Walter Scott, with considerable additions. Por- trait. 20 vols, post 8vo, half calf gilt, contents lettered, top edges gilt. Oxford, D. A. Talboys, 1840-41 " This edition is now very scarce. It was published at £$." — Allibone. " Few men have been more accurate observers of life and manners and of the mechanism of society than De Foe. . . . His Novels, in spite of much improbability, have been oftener taken for true narra- tives than any fictions that ever were composed." — London Quarterly Review. 265 De Foe. Life, and Recently Discovered Writings, extend- ing from 17 16 to 1729, by W. Lee. Engravings comprising numerous portraits of De Foe from various sources, fac- similes, etc. 3 vols. 8vo, cloth, uncut. London, 1869 It would appear from a discovery of certain letters in the State Paper Office in 1864 that De Foe did not give up literary pursuits at so early a period as has been generally supposed, but continued contributing to several political journals; from a careful investigation by Mr. Lee of these old newspapers has resulted the "Collectanea," forming two volumes of the above. THE FARNUM LIBRARY. 77 266 Delafield (Col. R.). Report of the Art of War in Europe, '^54-56. Colored front, and numerous folded diagrams. Thick 4to, cloth. Washington, 1861 Quite scarce. Col. Delafield's Notes and Observations were made under the orders of the " Hon. Jefferson Davis, Secretary of War.- 267 Dennis (George). The Cities and Cemeteries of Etruria. Profusely illustrated. 2 vols. 8vo, cloth, uncut. London, 1848 Very scarce. " These volumes are a valuable storehouse of classical and antiquarian lore to every scholar; and the most general reader must be attracted." — Edinburgh Review. 268 Dennison (Rev. F.). Notes of the Baptists and Their Prin- ciples in Norwich, Conn., from the Settlement of the Town to 1850. i2mo, cloth. Norwich, 1857 The author was pastor of the Central Baptist Church of Norwich, Conn. 269 Dennistoun (James). Memoirs of the Dukes of Urbino, illustrating the Arms, Arts and Literature of Italy from 1440 to 1630. Portraits, views, cuts, pedigrees and fac- similes. 3 vols. 4to, cloth, uncut. London, 185 1 A book of interest to students of art as well as of history, in conse- quence of its references to Raffaele of Urbino. 270 De Quincey (Thomas). Works. Steel portrait. 22 vols. 1 2 mo, half morocco extra, contents lettered, top edge gilt, others uncut. Boston, 1859-63 Comprises — Avenger ; Autobiographic Sketches ; Biographical Essays; Confessions of an English Opium-Eater; C^sars; Essays on the Poets; Historical and Critical Essays, 2 vols. ; Letters to a Young Man ; Literary Reminiscences, 2 vols. ; Memorials, 2 vols. ; Miscella- neous Essays; Narrative and Miscellaneous Papers, 2 vols.; Note- Book of an English Opium-Eater; Philosophical Writers, 2 vols.; Political Economy; Theological Essays, 2 vols. ' ' We have no richer prose, in at least the present day, than that of De Quincey; and no other writer, not even Carlyle himself, of more decided individuality." — Dean Trench. 271 D'EwES (Sir Simonds, Bart.). Autobiography and Corre- spondence of, during the Reigns of James I. and Charles I. Edited by James Orchard Halliwell. Two por- traits. 2 vols. 8vo, cloth, uncut. London, 1845 These interesting volumes should be placed on the library shelf be- side the Diaries of Evelyn and Pepys. 78 THE FARNUM LIBRARY. 272 DiBDiN (Charles). Sea Songs and Ballads by Dibdin and others. i6mo, red morocco, gilt. London, 1863 A beautiful copy of this best edition printed by Whittingham, at the Chiswick Press. Charles Dibdin was the uncle of Thomas Frog- nail Dibdin, the bibliophile, whose father was Capt. Thomas Dibdin, celebrated by his brother as " Poor Tom Bowling, the Darling of the Crew," THE FARNUM LIBRARY. 79 IStiHtn's iSfiJltOflrapIjtcal SSIorfts. An English critic has remarked — "We are decidedly of opinion THAT NO bibliographical COLLECTION CAN BE COMPLETE WITHOUT Mr. DiBDIN'S VOLUMES, WHICH ARE, INDEPENDENT OF THE SOLID INFORMATION THEY CONTAIN, FREQUENTLY ENLIVENED BY LITERARY ANECDOTES, AND RENDERED GENERALLY INTERESTING BY GREAT VARIETY OF OBSERVATION AND ACUTENESS OF REMARK." S. Austin Allibone observes — "Now of all Englishmen who have EVER lived, there NEVER WAS A MAN BETTER SUITED TO MAKE A DRY STUDY ATTRACTIVE, AND A LEARNED SUBJECT PLAIN, THAN Dr. DiBDIN OF ROX- BURGHE MEMORY. THIS MAGICIAN COULD WITH HIS PEN DRESS UP A BEGRIMED, UNCOUTH-LOOKING VOLUME, IN MORE ATTRACTIVE STYLE THAN COULD GrO- LIEr's BINDER WITH HIS MOST CUNNING TOOLS. He COULD CONVERT ' BELIN- DAS ■ AND 'AlMASAS ' INTO, BIBLIOMANIACS, AND MAKE A DRY CATALOGUE OF OLD English poetry more attractive than the last novel. It was BUT necessary FOR HIM TO APPLY THE EPITHETS ' EXCESSIVELY RARE,' OR 'exceedingly CURIOUS,' AND THE NEGLECTED CaXTON IN YOUR GARRET WOULD BUY YOU A YEAR'S CLOTHING FOR YOUR HOUSEHOLD, AND THE OLD FAMILY Bible would defray your Christmas festivities." Dibdin's symptoms of the Book Disease are. (i) a passion for large PAPER, (2) UNCUT, (3) illustrated, (4) UNIQUE, (5) VELLUM COPIES, (6) FIRST editions, (7) TRUE EDITIONS, AND (8) BLACK LETTER, (9) PRIVATE DISTRIBU- TION, OR AT A PRIVATE PRESS, (lo) ALL THE EDITIONS, OR (ll) CONNECTED WITH A PARTICULAR AUTHOR OR SUBJECT. HiS PROBABLE MEANS OF CURE ARE, (l) DIRECTING OUR STUDIES TO USEFUL WORKS ; (2) REPRINTING SCARCE, AND INTRINSICALLY VALUABLE, PRODUCTIONS ; (3) EDITING OUR BEST ANCIENT AUTHORS, IN PROSE OR POETRY ; (4) ERECTING PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS, AND (5) STUDYING BIBLIOGRAPHY. 273 DiBDiN (Thomas Frognall). Typographical Antiqui- ties, ETC., Six unique volumes, comprising: — I. Dibdin. Typographical Antiquities ; or, the History of Printing in England, Scotland and Ireland : containing Memoirs of our Ancient Printers, and a Register of the Books printed by them. Begun by the late Joseph Ames, F.R. and A.SS. Considerably augmented by William Herbert, of Cheshunt Herts ; and now greatly enlarged, with Copious Notes, and illustrated with appropriate en- gravings ; Comprehending the History of English Liter- 8o THE FARNUM LIBRARY. ature, and a View of the Progress of the Art of Engraving in Great Britain, by the Rev. Thomas Frognall Dibdin. Portraits and plates. 4 vols. foHo, half vellum, uncut. London, William Miller, [1810-19] Unique and largest vellum paper, of which only 66 copies were printed and with additional portraits. Only two other copies are known to be in the United States. This copy has three original autograph let- ters of Dibdin's inserted. Two of these refer to the vellum copy of the ' ' Typographical Antiquities " described below. The other is written to his printer, William Savage, as follows :—" Dear Sir. I seize the opportunity of a gentleman's passing by your house, to request of you to come and take your tea with me at 5 this evening — or Yz past 5. The Stage will be at the corner of Albemarle St., 10 minutes before 5. I wish much to see you & have much to observe upon the Sheets. They are printed with great accuracy. Yrs. T. F. Dibdin." A few sheets in one of the volumes are, as in some other known copies, on smaller paper. Lowndes calls the "Typographical Antiquities" — "an invaluable work," and adds—" it is much to be regretted has not been completed for want of sufficient encouragement." II. Dibdin. The Same. Being the only 24 pages ever printed on vellum of the preceding work — " the only por- tion and only copy that was printed on vellum." Folio, half vellum, uncut, bound to match the preceding. Horatio Rogers speaks of the above unique bibliomaniacal GEM in his "Private Libraries of Providence." He says: — "The copy of the Typographical Antiquities (one of sixty-six printed on large paper), is uncut, and bound in half vellum ; while uniform with it are two volumes deserving special mention. One of these volumes comprises the first six signatures of the Typographical Antiquities printed on vellum, and intended for the Earl Spencer, Dibdin's patron. These signatures belonged to William Savage, the printer, and, accord- ing to the title-page, formed ' The only portion, and only copy that was printed on vellum.' Though Dibdin's excuse for not completing the copy was the difficulty in working on vellum, yet we suspect that the real reason was the expense. In the early stages of the undertaking, as appears by a note in Mr. Famum's possession, Dibdin wrote to Sav- age as follows : — ' I am much pleased with what you have sent me : the vellum has a glorious look, and, if you exert all the talent which appears in the specimen, we shall make a magnificent book of the vellum copy.' In a subsequent note to Savage, likewise in Mr. Farnum's pos- session, he wrote : — ' I give up the vellum copy not from a supposition of your want of skill to execute it, but from various causes which I will state hereafter. We shall now go on more smoothly. ' Long after he had abandoned the copy he referred to these signatures in a foot- note to his Bibliomania, more harshly, it seems to us, than the truth THE FARNVM LIBRARY. 8 1 justified ; for, notwithstanding what he had written to Savage, he spoke of them as follows :— ' The censure which is here thrown out upon others reaches my own doors : for I attempted to execute a single copy of my Typographical Antiquities upon vellum, with every possible attention to printing and to the material upon which it was to be executed. But I failed in every point ; and this single wretched looking book, had I persevered in executing my design, would have cost me about seventy-five guineas ! ' " The originals of the two letters referred to above will be found in the first volume of the " Typographical Antiquities," and Dibdin also says, speaking of the vellum copy— " The blooming capital is rather too faintly struck off." III. Dibdin. A Collection of Wood Engravings, etc., got- ten together by Dibdin and Savage for the former's intended "Disquisition on Early Engraving and Orna- mental Printing," consisting of a careful and judicious selection of wood engravings, both plain and colored, by the best masters of the art, and a large portion of which are proofs and many are on India paper ; also at the end of the same are some pages of Ames's Preface and Ac- count of the " Life of William Caxton," on India paper, PROBABLY unique, as Well as ornamental alphabets and the VERY RARE mczzotints of Joseph Ames, Thomas Martin and William Herbert, and two of " John Moore, Bishop of Ely," one before all letters, the last being excess- ively rare. The whole bound in i vol. Folio, half vellum, uncut, uniform with the above. This very remarkable and unique collection of wood engravings has the following history attached to it and which is told by Gen. Horatio Rogers in his account of Mr. Famum's Library : — -"But by far the most valuable of this fine set of Dibdin is a unique copy, of which we have not yet spoken. Dibdin projected a ' Disquisition on Early Engraving and Ornamental Printing,' and though he never got so far as the actual composition of the work, still, with the assistance of Savage, the printer, he gathered much material for it in the form of a collection of numerous title-pages of early printers and many wood engravings. Among its artistic treasures Germany is represented by Albert Durer, Hans Burgkmair, Lucas Cranach, Hans Schaeflein, Henry Voghter, James Kobel, Gabriel Schnellbotz, Louis Businck, and others ; Hol- land and the Low Countries by John Walther van Assen, Henry Golt- zius, Abraham Bloemaert, Anthony Sallaerts, and Christopher van Sichem ; — but it is idle to attempt to enumerate the artists whose cuts - Dibdin had gathered together for the purpose of illustrating his work. Suffice it to say that the collection includes cuts of many of the most 82 THE FARNUM LIBRARY. famous wood engravers from the time of Albert Durer to that of Thomas Bewick. The whole, constituting a most remarkable collec- tion, are mounted, or inlaid, in a folio volume. This interesting vol- ume has been inspected by various engravers of this country, and has awakened much interest. It is a matter of surprise that the rich and appreciative collectors of literary rarities in England allowed it to cross the Atlantic.'' Together 6 vols. Folio, uniform, half vellum, uncut. This UNIQUE lot of six volumes belonged in their entirety to Dibdin's friend and printer WiUiam Savage, and a portion — namely, II. and III. above— to Dibdin himself. 274 Dibdin (Thomas Frognall). Bibliographical Works, Twenty-four volumes, comprising: — I. The Bibliographical Decameron; or, Ten Days' Pleas- ant Discourse upon Illuminated Manuscripts and Subjects connected with Early Engraving, Typography and Biblio- graphy. With numerous plates, facsimiles, and steel vignettes, many on India paper. 3 vols. 4to, handsomely bound in smooth polished sage morocco extra, with crest, quar- tered shield and motto on the sides, gilt inside with leather joints and vellum ends, by C. Lewis, and uniform with the rest of this lot. London, Printed for the author by W. Bulmer 6^ Co., Shakespeare Press, 181 7 Large paper and a magnificent copy. Only 50 copies printed. With four extra proof plates, including the very rare and costly engrav- ing of the " Presentation in the Temple by F. Veronesi, drawn and engraved by G. R. Lewis," of the 26th illumination see Vol. 1, CLII. Of this Lowndes states — " An additional plate from a missal executed by Francis Veronese in Mr. Esdaile's Collection was after- wards published by Mr. G. Lewis, which was originally intended for the work but not executed in time." The same authority says — " This is in fact a continuation of the Bibliomania, the same characters being introduced in the dialogues. From the information which this work contains, and the splendor of the decorations and printing, it will ever be considered as a model of excellence and good taste in typography and the arts. Both the copper-plates and the woodcuts which embellished the work have been destroyed." " Overtures were made for its republication in French, but it was too late. The various blocks from which the engravings were made had been destroyed by the author and his friends. Although a thorough- paced bibliomaniac, we have no sympathy with such barbarous waste." — Allibone. The " beautiful specimen" of printing in gold, "glittering like the THE FARNUM LIBRARY. 83 sun," missing in many copies, will be found in its place on page 417, Vol. II. Opposite page 435 of Vol. 3 will be also discovered a proof before letters of the extremely rare " private plate of Mr. Thomas Payne, Bookseller, in spectacles, which was destroyed," and of which only 25 were printed as well as the regulation portrait of that bibliopolist. Concerning the rare ebony-spectacled portrait of "Honest Tom" Payne, "the English bookseller," Dibdin relates:—" A pleasing tale may be told about the said portrait. It fias preceded by one in the line manner, by the same artist from a different original, in which our Thomas is introduced amidst a sportive group of relatives and friends, playing a game at whist, with his cards in his left-hand; looking sharply through an ebony pair of spectacles as his opponent is drawing out the ace of trumps! Instead of cards, I caused a book to be put in his hand; but Mr. T. Payne, that now is, finding a better likeness of his father in the original from which the above was taken, offered to furnish the plate here published at his own expense. There was no need, however, of such waste of money. Twenty-five copies of the original, ebony-spectacled engraved portrait — which have been eagerly snapped up by perch-like collectors— have reimbursed this extra expense: and \^\5 first plate is now broken UP." Opposite page 388 is a proof impression of the rare line engraving of Lord Spencer, before letters, and facing the title is a proof impression of Meyer's portrait of Dibdin. ' ' The dialogue (of the Bibliographical Decameron) is cleverly sus- tained, and the occasional Socratic form affords opportunity for numerous sallies of wit, while the information conveyed is of more value than that contained in any other of the doctor's works which affect greater sincerity." The late Mr. Freeling a distinguished book collector, enthusiasti- cally remarks: — " If the gods could read, they would never be without a copy of the Decameron in their side pocket! " " One of the most beautiful as well as one of the most instructive books in the language. " — Allibone. " The volumes not only exceed my expectations but even my imagination. Without a rival in the whole history of Typography." — Isaac Disraeli. II. Dibdin. Reminiscences of a Literary Life with Anec- dotes of Books and Book Collectors by the Reverend Thos. Frognall Dibdin, D.D. With portraits and plates. 2 vols, imperial 8vo, elegantly bound by Hayday, to match the above and following volumes of lot 274, with gilt edges. London, John Major, 1836 Large paper, of which only 39 copies were printed. The above described copy has the very rare subsequently published index in large paper and the vignette opposite page 974 on India paper. 84 THE FARNUM LIBRARY. Horatio Rogers thus refers to Mr. Farnum's copy in his "Providence Libraries'': — " His large paper copy of Reminiscences of a Literary Life contains the rare Index, likewise on large paper, notwithstanding the statement in the Hosmer Catalogue that it was ' only printed on small paper.' The Catalogue of the Library of Zelotes Hosmer, prepared for the sale which took place in 1861, contained this note to a large paper copy of Dibdin's Reminiscences of a Literary Life (Lot No. 301): ' Containing the Index, very rare, and only printed on small paper. This is inlaid and bound with the large paper copy; also a long letter to Dawson Turner, whose copy this was. ' " ' ' A most laudable storehouse of biographical and bibliographical anecdote.'' — Alltbone. III. DiBDiN. Bibliomania, or Book-Madness ; a Biblio- graphical Romance. Ne'w Edition, edited by Walmsley, with a Supplement, and Key to the assumed characters in the Drama. Steel front, and wood engravings. 2 vols, 4to, superbly bound in morocco extra, gilt edges, uniform -with the other volumes of this set, but only the top edge gilt, by Matthews London, 1842 Large paper, only 55 copies printed. Best Edition and Scarce. To this improved edition is added Preliminary Observations, a Sup- plement continuing the work, a Key to the Characters, and a reprint of the First Edition of 1809. The first volume of this copy of the " Bibliomania" has the follow- ing letter of T. F. Dibdin to Ithuriel Towne of New York inserted. Horatio Rogers writes in his work: — " Another of Dibdin's autograph letters in Mr. Farnum's possession, is interesting because of the refer- ences in it to his own works, and especially to his Reminiscences of a Literary Life, then about to be published. It is addressed to Ithuriel Towne of New York, who had paid sixty guineas for an illustrated Bibliomania, alluded to in a foot-note to the first volume of the Reminiscences, and which sold for $720 at the John Allan sale in 1864. The letter is as follows: — ' 7 'Wyndham St., ' Bryanston Sqr. ■ April 3, 1835 ' Dear Sir: — I beg you to accept my very best thanks for all the kind and all the honourable testimonies contained in your letter of February last, in favor of my humble lucubrations. That they have afforded you a rational gratification, is matter of sincere pleasure to their author. Will you, however, forgive my remarking that you are much behind hand in your number of the volumes which have issued from the same prolific pen ? But to that gallantry of spirit which hesi- tates not to sacrifice 60 guineas for an illustrated copy of the Biblio- mania upon large paper, everything is obtainable. Go on, dear Sir, THE FARNUM LIBRARY. 85 and put the finishing stroke to your spirit of courageous enterprise. Possess the Decameron (the most beautiful, as Mr. Adiard will tell you, of all bibliographical books), the Tour, the Spencer Library, and above all, for utility, the Library Companion. As to the small rarer pieces I will confer with your honest agent, Mr. Evans, and together, we must get them at reasonable prices. The Typographical Antiqui- ties in 4 vols, is reasonable and common — as an unfinished work. ■ I transmit you a notice of a new work — in which you will observe j/oar name to be down — from authority ; but I will be frank and tell you, that 1 have reserved for you a large paper copy — ;^io, loj'.— subject to your rejection or possession. 'Twill be an immensely scarce work ; and perhaps my last performance. And now allow me to thank you, which I do very sincerely, for the splendid and acceptable present of the proofs of your countrymen's skill in the art of engraving. The specimens are most creditable to them. In return as soon as the " Reminiscences" are published, in September, I will send you a copy of my Lent Lectures on large paper, of which I shall beg your accept, ance. Your country is a young country but the infant is Hercules- Farewell, dear Sir, and accept the assurance of my respect and esteem. ' Very much and truly, ' T. F. DiBDIN.'" Lowndes thus speaks of the Bibliomania: — "The Bibliomania is written in dialogues or conversations, the characters introduced are well-known book collectors of the author's acquaintance. The great value of the work is in the notes, which abound with anecdotes of Books and Book Collectors, and an account of the rarer articles in their collections, and the prices at which they were sold, extracted from the sale catalogues. This work has in a great degree given a stimulus to the collecting of our early literature, and bibliography in this country, on which subjects it will be always consulted as an authority. — The characters personified are Aurelius, G. Chalmers, Esq. ; Atticus, Richard Heber, Esq.; Alfonso, Mr. Morell ; Bernardo, J. Haslewood, Esq.; Gonzalo, J. Dent, Esq.; Hortensius, W. Bol- land, Esq.; Leontes, J. Bindley, Esq.; Lepidus, Dr. Cosset ; Lysander and Rosicrusius, the Author; Lorenzo, Sir M. M. Sykes, Bart.; Lavinia's husband, J. Harrison, Esq.; Lisardo, R. Heathcote, Esq.; Marcellus, Edmond Malone, Esq. ; Mustapha, Mr. W. Gardiner ; Menander, Tom Warton ; Malvolio, ; Menaleus, Rev. H. Drury ; Mercurii, Foss, Triphook, and Griffiths ; Nicas, G. Shepherd, Esq.; Narcotus, Rev. J. Jones ; Orlando, M. Wodhull, Esq.; Pros- pero, F. Douce, Esq.; Philemon, J. Barwise, Esq.; Phormio,'R.&v. H. Vernon; Quisquilius, G. Baker, Esq.; Rinaldo, Mr. Edwards; Sir Tristram, Sir Walter Scott, Bart.; Sycorax, Joseph Ritson ; Ul- pian, E. V. Utterson, Esq. Some copies have the words 'Book Madaess' in the title-page, printed in red. It was published ati/. is., and has bri/Ught 8/. 8.f. Eighteen copies only were printed upbn LARGE PAPER, in two Volumes imperial octavo, in which was inserted 86 THE FARNUM LIBRARY. a portrait of the author, in a clerical habit, engraved by Freeman after Masquerier, astatis xxxv. ; the plate was destroyed after twenty-five impressions were taken off. These copies were charged lo/. loj. , and have since been sold for 52/. \os. But since the enlarged edition, published in 1842 by Mr. Bohn, these prices have receded . " " You have contrived to strew flowers over a path which, in other hands, would have proved a very dull one ; and all Bibliomanes must remember you long, as he who first united their antiquarian details with good-humored raillery and cheerfulness." — Sir Walter Scott to Dr. Dibdin. IV. Dibdin. The Library Companion ; or, The Young Man's Guide, and the Old Man's Comfort, in the Choice of a Library. By the Rev. T. F. Dibdin. 2 vols, royal 8vo, bound uniformly with the remainder of the volumes of lot 274 by Matthews, but stilted to match in height, and the top edges gilt. London, 1825 Large paper. Very scarce, and second edition published at 5/. 5j. With original MS. note on the fly-leaf by (?) Dr. Dibdin : — "V. E. ICing, Rear Admiral 1825. For the Revd. Russell Richards, with ' Dibdin's Reminiscences.' " There is also loose in this work a four-page MS. description of a set of 54 vols, of Dibdin, with memo- randum by " C. B. Richardson." Lowndes says ; — " This work contains much curious and important bibliographical information not elsewhere to be found, and will at all times be consulted, as a work of reference, by the Bibliographer, Biographer and Historian. It is only the first portion ; a second volume was to have appeared. Large paper, published at 5/. Jj. Dent, pt. i. 611, morocco, 2/. 14!'. Second edition (with a few cor- rections, but omitting the Cracherode breeches story, &c.), Lond. 1825, Svo. Published at i/. is. Large paper at 5/. 5J. A post- script, containing a reply to the critiques on this work in the British Critic, Westminster and Quarterly Reviews, of which a few copies only were printed for private distribution. Svo. pp. 36." V. Dibdin. Bibliographical, Antiquarian, and Pic- turesque Tour in France and Germany. With fine impressions of the numerous beautiful engravings ; the vig- nettes, by Lewis, on India paper. 3 vols. 4to, morocco extra, gilt edges by Hayday to match the rest of lot 274. London, 1821 Large paper. Only 100 copies printed. With the vignettes on India paper. First edition, and superior to the second of 1829, as it's abridged and omits — "all the original plates excepting five." " For these volumes $25,000 waspaidfor engraving alone. One of the most handsome that ever came from the British Press." — Scott, THE FARNUM LIBRARY. 87 " One of the most beautiful and covetable books of modern times." — SOUTHEY. " The most splendid publication which in my days I have seen." — Keibbert. The bibliographer Lowndes states of the 1821 original edition; — "This work contains much curious information respecting the MSS. and rare works in public and private libraries abroad. It is printed and embellished in the same style of excellence as the Doctor's other works. A private plate of Diana of Poictiers is inserted in some copies, at p. 478 of Vol. 2, engraved by Thompson from a picture by Primaticcio, formerly in the collection of Qaintin Craufurd, now in Earl Spencer's. This plate was destroyed after fifty impressions were taken off. Another plate of the Comte de Brienne was engraved as an additional illustration at p. 468 of Vol. 2. Also a View of the Prater at Vienna, engraved by Corbould, from a drawing by G. Lewis, at vol. 2, p. 469. An excellent critique on the work appeared in the New Edinburgh Review. Jadis, 124, with portrait inserted, morocco, 15/. \is Dent, pt, i. 6og, g/. i^s. Nassau, pt. i. 968, russia, 14/. i^s. Large paper, in 410, 100 copies printed. Drury, 1133, with numerous illustrations, morocco, 47/. 5J. Sir M. M. Sykes, pt. i. 962, 21/. Brockett, mi, boards, 18/. its. Lang, 694, 21/. loj.'' The three very rare plates referred to above will be found in the following volume. VI. DiBDiN. A Series of Groups, Illustrating the Physi- ognomy, Manners, and Character of the People of France and Germany. By George Lewis. Containing sixty plates suitable to illustrate the Original Edition of the Tour in France and Germany. Bound uniformly by Matthews to match the other vols, of lot 274, and lettered "Dibdin's Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour. Vol. IV. Illustra- tions." London, 1823 Largest paper. Genuine India Proof Impressions. Very SCARCE in this size. With the above are bound up Cotman's "Architectural Illustra- tions of Normandy," inlaid to size and India paper impressions, as well as the three extremely rare plates mentioned above. These are — I. J. Thomson's " Diane de Poictiers, from an original painting supposed to be by Primitaccio, late in the Collection of Quintin Craufurd, Esq., and now in that of Earl Spencer at Althorp," of which only 50 were printed; II. "Comte de Brienne, Grand Master of the Ceremonies to Francis the rst, etc., from an original painting in the Collection of the late Quintin Craufurd, Esq., en- graved by S. Freeman"; and III. "The Prater, Vienna, G. Lewis, Del., G. Corbould, Sculp." The volume also has theportrait of "M. V. F. Lamouroux, J. S. Cotman, delnt." 88 THE FARNUM LIBRARY. Horatio Rogers says: — "It likewise contains one of the prints of Diana of Poictiers, the plate having been destroyed after seventy- five (query fifty) impressions had been taken off. ' I learn,' says Dibdin in a foot-note to his Reminiscences, 'that 3/. 13^. td. has been given for a single impression of this most original and fascinaiirg portrait.' " VII. Dibdin. A Bibliographical Antiquarian and Pictur- esque Tour in the Northern Counties of England and in Scotland. By the Rev. Thomas Frognall Dibdin, D.D. 3 vols. 4to. Bound by Hayday to match the remainder of lot 274. 'LoxiAovi, printed for the Author, MDCCCXXXVIII. Large paper. 100 copies printed. "With the vignette cuts on India paper as well as some of the plates. In this work the author concluded his tours. It is an essential companion to France and Germany; and, as it describes some collec- tions that have ceased to exist, possesses an historical interest. VIII. Dibdin. More (Sir T.). Utopia, translated by Robinson, with copious Notes (including the whole of Dr. Warner's) and a Bibliographical introduction by Dr. T. F. Dibdin. Portrait and wood engravings on the title and throughout the volume, with the rare plate of the More Family. Small 4to. Bound by Matthews to match the other volumes of the set with the top edge gilt, others uncut. Large paper. London, 1808 ' ' Large Paper. Forty copies only printed ; with the Private Plate of 'The Family of Sir Thomas More, ' which is not in the small paper copies." — Menzies's Catalogue, " prepared by ]o^'E¥YL Sabin." "The Romance of the Utopia has a very common fate upon it — to be more known and admired all the world over than here at home." — Bp. Burnet. ' ' When the Utopia of Sir Thomas More was first pubUshed it occasioned a pleasant mistake. This political romance represents a perfect, but visionary republic, in an island supposed to have been newly discovered in America. ' As this was the age of discovery, ' says Granger, ' the learned Budeeus, and others, took it for genuine history; and considered it as highly expedient that missionaries should be sent thither, in order to convert so wise a nation to Christianity.'' — D'IsRAELi's Curiosities of Literature. IX. Dibdin. Bibliotheca Spenceriana; or a Descriptive Catalogue of the Books printed in the Fifteenth Century, and of many Valuable First Editions, in the Library of George John, Earl Spencer, K.G., etc. etc. etc. By the THE FARNUM LIBRARY. 89 Reverend Thomas Frognall Dibdin. Fine quartered coat of arms of the Spencer Family by Sir Isaac Heard, with numerous other engravings, facsimiles, etc. 4 vols, imperial 8vo. Bound uniformly, by Matthews, with the rest of lot 274 and with top edges gilt. London, printed for the Author, 1814 15 A SPLENDID COPY and with Nos. X. and XI. of lot 274, make a handsome and uniform library set of these important works. The seven volumes complete were published in boards at twenty guineas. In a recent catalogue Henry Sotheran & Co., the celebrated biblio- poles of London and Manchester, England, asked £44 los. for a large paper copy of the " Bibliotheca Spenceriana." The duplicate of p. 509, Vol. III., containing the beautifully engraved figure of Hesiod, printed after the volume was issued, and wanting in many copies, is in its place in this. ' ' This catalogue contains only the works printed in the fifteenth century and the Editiones Principes. It is compiled with the greatest care and industry, and those who have had occasion to consult its pages, can testify to its accuracy and great utility. The collection is the finest private one in Europe; the catalogue will ever be regarded as of the first importance to the theologian, the historian and the critic, and as a perfect model for the bibliographer. " — Lowndes. X. Dibdin. ^des Althorpian^; or, An Account of the Mansion, Books and Pictures at Althorp, the Residence of George John, Earl Spencer, K.G., to which is added a Supplement to the Bibliotheca Spenceriana. With 32 beautiful engravings of the most important pictures in the gallery, and charming woodcuts on India paper, a systematic Catalogue of Editions of the Scriptures, and an Account of the Aldine Editions. 2 vols, imperial 8vo. Bound by Matthews uniformly in morocco, gilt tops, trimmed edges, to correspond with the set. London, 1822 A very fine copy of this magnificent work. Mr. Farnum states that — "Mr. Welf ord considers the impressions of the plates in the ' Althorp- ianffi ' the finest he ever saw. See the author's Reminiscences, II., 557-94, for the interesting account of the publication of this work, where it appears that the cost of engraving the portraits was upwards of ;^2,ooo. " This work is intended as a Supplement to the Bibliotheca Spen- ceriana, forming Vols. 5 and 6. It contains an account of the Ances- tors of Earl Spencer, a history of the mansion, with an account of the pictures, and 32 engravings of the most important in the gallery, a systematic catalogue of editions of the Scriptures, an account of the Aldine editions, not contained in the former volumes. A supplement to the works printed in the fifteenth century." — Lowndes. 90 THE FARNUM LIBRARY. XI. DiBDiN. A Descriptive Catalogue of the Books printed in the Fifteenth Century, lately forming Part of the Library of the Duke Di Cassano Serra, and now the Property of George John, Earl Spencer, K.G. With a General Index of Authors and Editions contained in the present Volume and in the Bibliotheca Spenceriana and ^des Althorpianas. Imperial 8vo. Bound uniformly by Matthews with the other volumes of the set in morocco, with the top edge gilt. 'LovAon, printed for the Author, 1823 This forms another — the third and last — supplemental volume to the "Bibliotheca Spenceriana," with an index to the seven vol- umes, and completes that virork. This series of seven volumes will always be a favorite with the collectors of rare books, etc. , because they describe an actual col- lection of books which will probably never be dispersed. See Home's Bibl., II. 533. " This forms the seventh volume of the Bibliotheca Spenceriana, and contains many rare and curious articles printed in the fifteenth cen- tury, not described in the former volumes. The author in the preface states ' that the descriptions contained in the seven volumes occupy nearly 3,000 pages,' and adds, ' When the Study of Bibliography shall be more generally cultivated, its uses will be more generally acknowledged. It will be found to rank among those branches of antiquarian research, which are as conducive to correct taste and use- ful intelligence as any other. I have done everything in my power to establish, on a firm foundation, the celebrity of a Library, of which the remembrance can only perish with every other record of individual fame.' " — Lowndes. Together one lot of 24 vols., making a superb and magnifi- cent set hardly to be equalled and of which all the volumes are large paper copies with the exception of the " Bibli- otheca Spenceriana," 7 vols., which are small paper but range in height with the other 17 vols. The whole uni- formly bound in the finest possible morocco binding — polished, sage colored, with heavy tooling on the back, sides and insides, with leather joints, mostly gilt edges all round and a few gilt top edges only, the others trimmed or uncut — the choice example of Charles Lewis's binding, the above described " BibHographical Decameron " [minus the coats of arms on the sides and crests on the backs] being taken by the celebrated Hayday of London and Matthews of New York as the patterns from which the THE FARNUM LIBRARY. 91 remainder of the set were bound by them. Of this remarkable set of 24 vols., with its beautiful pages, the brilliant impressions of its engravings [including the rare and costly inserted plates], and its superb reliure can be employed the same language which the preparer of the Menzies Catalogue used in describing that set—" In fine, we do not hesitate to state, that, taking the collection volume for volume, leaf for leaf, and plate for plate, its purity and beauty of condition cannot be excelled, if indeed equalled, by any other, either in, or out of, the United States. It may here be remarked that no part of the set has been subjected to the process of washing, as the crisp and firm texture of each and every leaf, throughout, will sufficiently testify." 275 DiBDiN. Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Pictur- esque Tour in France and Germany. Second Edition. With portraits and numerous highly-finished plates, steel vig- nettes on India paper and many woodcuts, also numerous in- serted and mounted illustrations. 3 vols, extended to 8, 8vo, handsomely bound by Zaehnsdorf in full red morocco elegant, bevelled sides, gilt edges. London, Robert Jennings and John Major, 1829 Unique and extraordinary extra illustrated copy, containing about 600 inserted plates, consisting of portraits, views, etc., etc. The por- traits consist of rare and very scarce plates of royal and noble person- ages, authors, statesmen, artists, churchmen, soldiers and miscellaneous persons, of which a five-page MS. list is inserted. Some of the por- traits and views are colored, and on page 370 of Vol. 8 is an illuminated portrait of S. Francois Xavier on vellum. There are also— a very rare Bartolozzi before letters of "Hebe," after Cipriani; a fine por- trait of Hollar, engraved by himself; a proof impression of Del- VAUx's exquisite portrait of Gessner; an original title-page to a rare edition of " Terence," engraved by Wm. Marshall; and a number of views from Turner's " Rivers of France ' — original impressions, now so scarce. Many of the engravings are of great rarity. The "Tour in France and Germany" is a work of exhaustless attraction for all lovers of the picturesque, and of bibliographical and antiquarian lore, and Lowndes remarks of it — " This work contains much curious information respecting the MSS. and Rare Works in public and private Libraries abroad. It is printed and embellished in the same style of excellence as Dibdin's other works." " A work calculated to have as intoxicating an effect on the imagin- ation of literary antiquaries as the adventures of the heroes of the 92 THE FARNUM LIBRARY. Round Table on all true knights, or the tales of the early American voyagers on the ardent spirits of their age. It has not passed, how- ever, without some hostile (though unfounded) remarks from the printers, binders, and librarians of France. Foremost among his an- tagonists stands M. Crapelet, Imfrimeur, who has not only thrown off a hundred copies of Mr. Dibdin's Thirtieth ' Letter, avecdes Notes,' but has also printed for M. Licquet his version of the Ninth ' Letter, avec des Notes' likewise, and the bookbinder, Lesne's Epistle to the English Bibliographer. M. Crapelet is offended with Mr. Dibdin's cari- cature of the ' Boulevards Italiens' with his request to have a private plate of 'Madame son Epouse' (and still more, with his wishing to have it done at his own expense), with his description of a Ccena Deum at Mr. Crapelet's house, with his slily caricaturing or abusing the younger Brunet (car il ne d'ecrit rien de sang f raid), with his vaunting the superiority of English charities over others in his description of those of Mme. Truettel, at Groslay, near Montmorency, and with his having let out his name as the author of the ' Souvenirs de Londres. ' Mr. Dibdin replied to him satisfactorily in a small brochure entitled ' A Rowland for an Oliver,' of which only thirty-six copies were printed. M. Licquet is now head librarian of the public Library of Rouen; and M. Peignot, who fills the same office at Dijon, a Dibdino Stat. His Two Letters are printed by Renouard. Last and least in size, but greatest in virulence and even insanity of attack, is Lesne, who brings both horse and foot to the encounter, and assaults with a mixture of verse and prose." — Wrangham. 276 Dibdin. — A'Kempis (T.). The Imitation of Jesus Christ. Translated from the Latin. Originally ascribed to Thomas A'Kempis; with an Introduction and Notes by the Rev. Thomas Frognall Dibdin, D.D. Imperial 8vo, cloth, uncut. 'London, Major and Pickering, 1828 Large paper, only 50 copies printed, and extremely scarce. With 5 vignette plates. Proofs on India Paper in the text, and a loose plate of the " Salvator Mundi," after Guercino, to face the title. Rici's copy sold in 1870 for $67.50. 277 Dibdin. A'Kempis — Of the Imitation of Jesus Christ. Translated from the Latin Original ascribed to Thomas A'Kempis, by T. F. Dibdin, D.D. Frontispiece after Guercino, and rubricated title. Svo, purple morocco, gilt edges. London, W. Pickering, 185 1 Printed by " C. Whittingham, Chiswick." " This is the most excellent book which ever came from the hand of man : the Gospel being of Divine Original." - Fontenelle. 278 Dibdin. The Bibliomania; or Book Madness ; containing some account of the History, Symptoms, and Cure of this THE FARNUM LIBRARY. 93 fatal Disease. In an epistle addressed to Richard Heber, Esq. 8vo, boards, uncut. London, 1809 First Edition of this amusing and instructive book, now very RARE. The great value of this work is in the Notes, wrhich abound with anecdotes of books and book collectors, and an account of the rarer articles in their collections, and the prices at which they were sold. "I have not yet recovered from the delightful delirium into which your ' Bibliomania ' has completely thrown me. Your book, to my taste, is one of the most extraordinary gratifications I have enjoyed for many years. " — Isaac Disraeli. 279 DiBDiN. Bibliomania, or Book- Madness. Reprint of THE First Editon. 4to, sewed, uncut. London, 1809 Large paper, on heavy paper. " Privately reprinted for the Club of Odd Sticks, 1864," to the number of 40 quarto and 57 royal octavo, A most interesting supplement to any collection of Dibdiniana, and exhibiting the influence and progress of the disease in America. 280 DiBDiN. Bibliomania; or Book-Madness: A Bibliographical Romance, in Six Parts. Illustrated with Cuts. Thick 8vo, calf gilt, sprinkled edges. 'London, Printed for the Author, 181 1 Very rare Second edition, with MS. Notes at the end. ' ' It would now be useless to pass an encomium on this work, as its merits are so fully established as to have more than doubled the orig- inal price of a volume now with difSculty to be obtained. — Gentle- 281 DiBDiN. Bibhophobia. Remarks on the present languid and depressed state of literature and the book trade, in a letter addressed to the author of the " Bibliomania." By Mer- curius Rusticus. With notes by Cato Parvus. 8vo, boards. London, Henry Bohn, 1832 Large paper. One hundred copies only printed for "those whom it may concern." The above copy has a loose duplicate title-page. " Fear is the order of the day. To those very natural and long- established fears of Bailiffs and Tax-Gatherers, must now be added the fear of Reform, of Cholera, and of Books." — P. 6. 282 DiBDiN. Poems. Vignette. 8vo, half morocco, top edge gilt. London, Printed for the Author, iig-j Very scarce; having been suppressed by the author. This copy has Notes in John Allan's handwriting. He quotes — "The Duke of York's copy sold for i6j-. at Brockett's £1 2s., and Bindley's^fi iSj.'' In the first edition of the Bibliomania is a curious note respecting these Poems, from which it appears that 500 copies were printed, the major part of which were destroyed. "■ My only consolation is' (says the author), 'that the volume is exceedingly rare! ' " — Lowndes. 94 THE FARNUM LIBRARY. 283 DiBDiN. Bibliography. A Poem in six books. With pre- face and notes. 8vo, boards, uncut. London, 181 2 Very rare. Fifty copies only privately printed, not published, the greater part of which were destroyed by the author. " There is no title-page to this effusion from the pen of Dr. Dibdin." — Martin. 284 Dibdin. Specimen Bibliothecse Britannicse. Specimen of a Digested Catalogue of Rare, Curious, and Useful Books in the English Language all appertaining to British Literature and Antiquities. 8vo, half morocco, gilt edges. London, 1808 Forty copies only were privately printed, not published. 285 [Dibdin.] The Director. A Weekly Literary Journal, con- taining Essays on Subjects of Literature, the Fine Arts and Manners, Bibliographiana, &c. 2 vols, in i. Svo, calf. London, Longman, 1807 Contains essays on literature and the fine arts, bibliographiana, accounts of rare and curious books and book sales, sketches of modern writers, eminent ancient artists, &c., by T. F. Dibdin, Sir H. Davy, and Sir Thos. Bernard. With title-page to Vol. 2 supplied. 286 Dickens (Charles). A Christmas Carol in Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas. With illustrations by S. Ey- TiNGEj/n, engraved by A. V. S. Anthony. 4to, cloth, gilt. Boston, 1869 With letter inserted of Anthony, the engraver, to Mr. Famum respecting W. J. Linton, the celebrated British engraver. 287 Dickens. A Pickwickian Pilgrimage, by John R. G. Has- SARD. i6mo, cloth. Boston, 1881 John R. G. Hassard is a member of the " New York Tribune " edi- torial staff. He has written other captivating volumes. 288 Dictionary of Musicians from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time. 2 vols. 8vo, half russia gilt. London, 1825 Comprising — " the most important biographical contents of the works of Gerber, Choron, and Fayolle, Count Orloff, Dr. Burney, Sir John Hawkins, etc., etc., together with upwards of a hundred original memoirs of the most eminent living musicians and a summary of the history of music." THE FARNUM LIBRARY. 95 289 [DiLKS.] Old English Plays. Being a Selection from the Early Dramatic Writers. 6 vols. 8vo, half morocco, top edges gilt, others uncut. London, Whittingham and Rowland, 18 14 Large paper and a fine copy. A desirable addition to Dodsley's collection. 290 D'IsRAELi (Isaac). Amenities of Literature, consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature. New edition, edited by his Son, the Right Hon. B. D'Israeli. 2 vols. 8vo, half morocco, uncut, top edges gilt, Roxburghe style. Boston, 1864 Large paper. Only 100 copies privately printed at the Riverside Press, uniform with the following lot. " The nick-nacks of literature collected in Mr. Disraeli's cabinet were selected from sources not generally accessible to ordinary readers. These volumes are not only admirably adapted to minister to the amuse- ment of the lounger and refined trifler, but they have higher capacities, as curious and authentic pictures of the manners of ruder times, and records of the progress of letters from their rise in the dark middle ages to almost the present era. " 291 D'Israeli. Curiosities of Literature, with a View of the Life and Writings of the Author, by his Son. Portrait. 4 vols. 8vo, half Roxburghe morocco, uncut. Boston, Riverside Press, 1864 Large paper. Only 100 copies privately printed . 292 D'Israeli. Literary Character, or History of Men of Genius and Calamities and Quarrels of Authors. 2 vols, crown 8vo, cloth, uncut. London, 1859 293 [D'Israeli (I.).J Flim-Flams ! or. The Life and Errors of my Uncle and his Friends. Plates by Dagley. 3 vols, post 8vo, old calf. London, 1805 Printed by C. Whittingham. The above copy has the autograph signatures of Lord Charles Augustus Fitz-Roy on the titles. 294 DoDD (Charles R.). A Manual of Dignities, Privilege and Precedence : including Lists of the Great Public Function- aries from the Revolution to the Present Time. Cuts. Thick post 8vo, cloth, uncut. London, 1843 By the author of Dodd's Peerage. 29s DoDSLEY (R.). Old [English] Plays ; Select Collection of, with additional Notes and Corrections by Reed, Gil- christ [and J. P. Collier]. 8vo. Together 13 vols. 96 THE FARNUM LIBRARY. Uniformly bound in yellow sprinkled calf, gilt, contents lettered, marbled edges, with the 13th volume bound to match, and stilted to the same size as the large paper 12 vols. London, 1825-33 Best edition on large paper, with the rare thirteenth VOLUME. In a foot-note to his account of the Farnum Library, Mr. Horatio Rogers says : — "It is very difficult to pick up a perfect large paper copy of the edition of ' Dodsley's Old Plays' in twelve volumes, pub- lished by Septimus Prowett in 1825-27, with a supplemental volume issued by William Pickering in 1833. One reason is that, after it had become scarce, extra sets were made up, as far as possible, from sheets left over, lacking signatures being supplied by printing new ones, which but imperfectly matched the original. Another reason is that the time of issuing the set stretched over several years. Mr. Farnum in making up his set collected no less than three different copies before securing a perfect one. The writer experienced almost as much difficulty in making up an uncut copy on small paper. This edition will probably always continue to be highly prized . The edition recently issued, and edited by Hazlitt, will scarcely supplant it as Mr. Hazlitt has omitted some plays that have recently appeared in the collected works of their authors, but which are to be found in the Prowett edition : he has also added some plays not to be found in Dodsley." This valuable work contains sixty of our best and scarcest Early Plays, beginning with the first Dramatic performances, entitled ' ' Moralities or Mysteries.'' Interspersed with much valuable information respect- ing our early Drama and Poetry. 296 Donne (John, D.D., Dean of St. Paul's). Devotions with Two Sermons. To which is Prefixed his Life by Izaac Walton. Engraved front. i6mo, cloth. London, William Pickering, 1840 Printed by C. Whittingham. Dryden called Donne — "the greatest wit, though not the greatest poet, of our nation." 297 DoRAN (Dr.). Annals of the Stage, from Thomas Bet- TERTON to Edmund Kean. Actors, Authors, Audiences, with numerous portraits, etc. 2 vols, 4to, cloth, uncut. N. Y., /. Widdleton, 1865 Large paper ; only 161 copies printed, above being No. 2g. ' ' His [Doran's] literary bent was manifested at the age of fifteen, when he produced the melodrama of ' The Wandering Jew, ' which was first played at the Surrey Theatre in 1822, for Tom Blanchard's benefit.'' — AlXIBONE. THE FARNUM LIBRARY. 97 298 DoRB (Gustave). Adventures of Baron Munchausen. A New and Revised Edition, with an Introduction by T. Teignmouth Shore, M.A. Illustrated by Gustave Dor£. 4to, half scarlet morocco, gilt edges. London, n. d. Original Edition. Baron Munchausen not only told the most extraordinary stories in the body of his work, but concealed his name. It has been settled by recent investigations that the author was Pro- fessor F. E . Raspe, who ran away from Cassel because he had been caught in stealing articles from the cabinet of antiquities there. His famous tales were likewise generally abstracted from the old Greek story writers. 299 Dor^. Dante Alighieri. L'Enfer, traduction Francaise de Pier Angelo Fiorentino, accompagn^e du Texte Italien. Illustrated with the marvellous designs of Gustave DoR^. Large" 4to, half morocco, gilt, cloth sides, gilt edges. (A few pp. loose.) Paris, Hachette, 1862 Genuine first French edition, with brilliant impressions of the wood engravings illustrating this wonderful book. Full of the loftiest imaginative insight — the tenderest gaze of fancy. ' ' The most Dantesque work on Dante that was ever produced. " — London Times, 300 DoRE. Cervantes. L'Ingenieux Hidalgo Don Qui- CHOTTE DE LA MaNCHE PAR MiGUEL DE CeRV ANTES Saavedra. Traduction de Louis Viardot. Illustrated with upwards of 360 large illustrations and vignettes by DoR^, engraved by Pisan. Large 4to, cloth, uncut. Paris, Hachette, 1863 Original French edition, with the first impressions of the illustra- tions. These wonderful illustrations by Dore are distinguished by rich humor, startling Rembrandt-like effects of light and shade, bold deal- ings with form, and true studies of the human figure. 301 DoRE. La Sainte Bible selon la Vulgate. Traduction Nouvelle avec les Dessins de Gustave Dor^. Illustrated with original impressions of the wood engravings after the remarkable designs of Gustave DoRifi. 2 vols, large 4to, cloth, uncut. Tours, Alfred Mame et Fits, editeurs, 1866 Genuine First and French edition of Dore's magnificent Bible, with superb impressions of his illustrations to the Holy Scriptures. 302 DoRE. The Same. Specimen Part of the English Edition. 98 THE FARNUM LIBRARY. 303 DORE (J. R). Old Bibles, or an Account of the Various Versions of the English Bible. i6mo, cloth, uncut. London, Pickering, 1876 " The hole byble was long before Wydiffe's days by vertuous and well learned men, translated into the English tong ; and by good and godly people with devotion, and soberness, well and reverendly red." — Sir Thomas More. 304 Downing (A. J.). Treatise on Theory and Practice of Landscape Gardening, adapted to North America, with a View to the Improvement of Country Residences, etc. Illustrated. Royal 8vo, cloth. N. Y., 1844 With remarks on Rural Architecture. 305 Doyle (J. E.). Chronicles of England, from b. c. 55 to A. D. 1485. Written and illustrated by J. E. Doyle. Printed on thick-toned paper, and embellished with 81 colored engravings of remarkable events. Thick 4to, cloth, bevelled sides, gilt edges. London, Longmans, 1864 Very scarce. The designs were engraved and printed in colors by Edmund Evans. 306 Drake (Nathan). Essays and Literary Hours, being: — I. Drake. Essays, Biographical, Critical, and Historical, illustrative of the Rambler, Adventurer, and Idler. Portrait and view. 2 vols. London, 18 10 II. Drake. Essays illustrative of the Tatler, Spectator, and Guardian. Portraits, etc. 3 vols. London, C. Whittingham, 1805 III. Drake. Literary Hours. 3 vols. London, 1820 Together 8 vols, uniform half morocco gilt, top EDGES GILT, OTHERS UNCUT. London, 1805-2O Large paper. The copy of the " Literary Hours" is from the Library of J. G. Percival, and has his autograph signature. "If I ' were called to name the writer in the lighter walks of English litera- ture, who, by his essays and ingenious illustrations of our standard authors, is most calculated to refine the taste and to excite an ardent taste for reading and literary pursuits, I should name Dr. Nathan Drake . ' ' — Cleveland . 307 Drake. The Gleaner : A Series of Periodical Essays ; Selected and Arranged from Scarce or Neglected Volumes, with an Introduction and Notes. 4 vols. 8vo, half calf gilt. London, 18 11 The Gleaner is a collection of essays selected from authors not in- THE FARNUM LIBRARY. 99 eluded in the British Essayists. Dr. AUibone writes as follows respect- ing Nathan Drake's works — " We have been surprised and mortified to notice the shameful ignorance prevailing in America respecting the publications of this eminent writer." 308 Drake (Samuel G.). The History and Antiquities of Bos- ton, from its settlement in 1630 to the year 1770. With Notes, Critical and Illustrative. Engraved portraits, views, facsimiles, etc., with India proof portrait of the Author, maps, and numerous woodcuts of coats of arms. Folio, half morocco, cloth sides, marbled edge. Boston, published by the Author, 1857 Large paper. " Of this edition (in folio) only loi copies printed," The above copy is — " No. 63 (signed) Laura M. Crane." "One hundred copies only printed ; with the extra title-page, and the scarce and fine portrait of the author from a private plate. This splendid set contains one hundred and six additional illustrations, many of which are scarce, including several proofs on India paper."— _/i?j«^A J. Cooke Catalogue. 309 Drake. Book of the Indians ; or Biography and History of the Indians of North America, from its First Discovery to the Year 1841. Plates, portraits and maps. Royal 8vo, cloth, uncut. Boston, 1841 Very scarce. The best and eighth edition, with large additions and corrections. " It is the result of a lifetime of labor, by one who spared no pains to be at the same time faithful to the completeness and truthfulness of history." — Thomas W. Field Catalogue. 310 Drayton (Michael). Poetical Works complete, with Life, etc. Portrait. 4 vols. 8vo, calf gilt, citron edges, by Hayday. London, 1753 Very scarce and a splendid copy of the best edition of Drayton. Dibdin, on page 726 of the " Library Companion," says — "A third and now scarce impression is that of 1753, 8vo, 4 vols. . . . These editions contain notes upon the Polyolbion; notes full of curious and erudite matters relating to the history and topography of our country. " " In Drayton's works we may discern the liveliness of Spenser, the happy power of Shakspeare, and all the skill of Ben Jonson." 311 Drummond (William, of Hawthornden). Poetical Works, edited by Turnbull. Post 8vo, cloth, uncut. London, John Russell Smith, 1856 "The Sonnets of Drummond," says Hallam, "are polished and elegant, free from conceit and bad taste, and in pure unblemished EngHsh. " 100 THE FARNUM LIBRARY. 312 Dryden (John). Complete Works, now first collected. Illustrated with Notes, Critical, Historical and Explana- tory, and a Life of the Author by Sir Walter Scott. Fine portrait. 18 vols. 8vo, elegantly bound in calf gilt, sprinkled edges. London, 1808 A superb copy. " The public voice lias assigned to Dryden the first place in the sec- ond rank of our poets — no mean station in a table of intellectual pre- cedency so rich in illustrious names. It is allowed that even of the few who were his superiors in genius, none has exercised a more exten- sive or permanent influence on the national habits of thought and expression. His manner is almost perfect. Magnificent versification and ingenious combinations rarely harmonize with expressions of deep feeling ; in Juvenal and Dryden, alone, we have the sparkle and the heat together." — Macaulay. 313 DuYCKiNCK (Evert A. and George L.). Cyclopedia of American Literature; embracing Personal and Critical Notices of Authors, and Selections from their Writings. From the earliest period to the present day. With por- traits, autographs and other illustrations. 2 vols, royal 8vo, cloth. N. Y., 1856 This first edition is printed on thicker paper than that of a later date. The work contains personal and critical notices of authors and selections from their writings, with 225 woodcut portraits, 425 fac- simile autographs, and 75 views of colleges, etc. " It well deserves a place in every American library." — Allibone. 314 DuNCKER (Professor Max). The History of Antiquity, from the German, by Evelyn Abbott, M.A. Vols, i to 5 inclusive. 8vo, cloth, uncut. London, Bentley, 1877-81 Each volume of the above is sold separately by the. publishers at a guinea per volume. In the preface to his work Professor Duncker states : — ' ' My narrative embraces those independent civilizations of the ancient East which came to exercise a mutual influence on each other. First we follow the kingdom on the Nile and the kingdoms of Hither Asia as far as the point where the nations of Iran began to influence their destinies. Then I attempt to set forth the peculiar development of the Aryan tribes in the valleys of the Indus and the Ganges, down to the times of Chandragupta and Afoka. Then fol- lows the history of the Bactrians, the Medes, and the Persians, until the period when the nations of the table-land of Irana were united by Darius with the countries of Western Asia, when Aryan life and Aryan civilization have gained supremacy over the whole region from Ceylon to the Nile and the Hellespont. The forms of life among the king- doms of Asia are finally brought face to face with the more youthful THE FARNVM LIBRARY. loi civilization attained by the Hellenes in their mountain cantons. This new development we follow down to the first great shock when East and West met in conflict, and the Achaemenids sought to crush the Hellenes under the weight of Asia. With the failure of this attempt my history of the ancient world concludes." 315 DuNLOP (John). History of Fiction; being a Critical Account of the Most Celebrated Prose Works of Fiction from the Earliest Greek Romances to the Novels of the Present Age. Second edition. 3 vols, post 8vo, calf gilt (one back damaged). Edinburgh, 1816 Best edition. This pleasant and esteemed work gives an analyt- ical account of the principal romances and works of fiction of all ages and countries, from the earliest writers of Greece and Rome (Heliodo- rus, Longus, Apuleius, etc.), down to the age of Boccaccio and Ban- dello, in Italy ; Cervantes, in Spain ; Rabelais, Le Sage and La Fon- taine, in France ; and Fielding and Smollett, in England ; with especial attention to the ancient Romances of Chivalry, Heroic and Pastoral Romances and Fairy Tales. 316 DuNLOP. History of Roman Literature from Its Earliest Period to and during the Augustan Age. Elegant vignette heads. 3 vols. 8vo, calf, marbled edges. London, 1823-28 A iine copy of this very scarce and valuable edition, and including the now rare third volume. 317 DuRER (Albert). Passio Christi: the Little Passion of Albert Durer, edited by W. C. Prime. 37 wood engrav- ings by this celebrated master, exactly reproduced in facsimile from the rare originals, with portrait of Durer. Royal 4to, cloth, uncut. N. Y., J. W. Bouton, 706 Broadway, 1868 Printed on heavy, glazed paper, and a splendid example of J. W. Bouton's art publications. The Little Passion of Albert Durer, consisting of thirty-seven wood- cuts, has long been regarded as one of the most remarkable collections of illustrations known to the world. Complete sets of the entire series are excessively rare. The editions which have been published in modern times in Europe are defective, lacking more or less of the plates, and are of an inferior and unsatisfactory class of workman- ship. 318 Durer. His Life and Works, including Autobiographical Papers and Complete Catalogues, by W. B. Scott. Por- traits, etchings and woodcuts. Square 8vo, cloth, red edges. London, 1869 102 THE FARNUM LIBRARY. 319 DuRER. The History of the Life of Albrecht Durer, of Nurnberg. With a Translation of his Letters and Jour- nal and some Account of his Works. By Mrs. Charles Heaton. With numerous illustrations, full page. 4to, cloth, bevelled sides, gilt edges. London, 1870 Ten of the 31 illustrations in the above, and which are mostly speci- mens of Durer's works, are reproductions by the autotype process. 320 DwiGHT. History of the Hartford Convention: with a Review of the Policy of the United States Government, which led to the War of 1812. By Theodore Dwight, Secretary of the Convention. 8vo, cloth. N. Y., 1833 321 Dyce (Rev. Alexander). Specimens of English Sonnets, selected, with Notes. Square i2mo, cloth, uncut. London, Pickering, 1833 Scarce. Printed by C. Whittingham. " Mr. Dyce's notes are peculiarly delightful." — Literary Gazette. 322 Dyer (Thomas H., LL.D.). Pompeii: its History, Build- ings and Antiquities. Map, plan, and -^oo woodcuts. 8vo, pohshed calf extra, marbled edges. London, 1871 Third edition, and gives — "an account of the destruction of the city, with a full description of the remains, and of the recent excava- tions, and also an itinerary for visitors." THE FARNUM LIBRARY. 103 323 If^^^ASTLAKE (C. L.). History of the Gothic Revival; an Attempt to show how the Taste for Mediaeval Architecture has since been encour- aged and developed. With 48 beautiful engrav- ings on wood. 4to, cloth gilt, bevelled sides, top edge gilt. London, 1872 An attempt to show how the taste for mediseval architecture and sestheticism has been encouraged and developed, and of which Oscar Wilde is but a comparatively recent apostle. 324 Edgeworth (Maria). Works, i. e. : — I. Edgeworth. Tales and Novels. With highly finished frontispieces and vignettes. 18 vols, foolscap 8vo, yellow calf extra, contents lettered, gilt top edges, others uncut, by R. W. Smith. London, Baldwin &= Cradock, 1832 Best edition, including — Moral Tales, 2 vols ; Popular Tales, 2 vols; Belinda, 2 vols; Castle Rackrent and Irish Bulls; Tales of Fashion- able Life, 5 vols; Patronage, 3 vols; Ormond; Harrington and Thoughts on Bores; Leonard and Letters. II. Edgeworth. Helen, a Tale. 3 vols. 8vo, yellow calf extra, gilt top edges, others uncut and bound by R. W. Smith to match the " Tales and Novels." London, Bentley, 1834 Second Edition. Never published precisely to match the above set of eighteen volumes. III. Edgeworth. A duplicate set of the 36 frontispieces and vignette titles on India paper to the 1832 edition of the " Tales and Novels " (some foxed). Royal 8vo, calf gilt, top edge gilt, others uncut (not uniformly bound with the preceding). London, Bentley, 1832 Together 22 vols. Calf gilt, top edges gilt, others UNCUT. London, 1832-54 Very Scarce. A beautiful set of the best and elegant edition. " She [Miss Edgeworth] is the author of works never to be for- 104 "^^^ FARNUM LIBRARY. gotten; of works which can never lose their standard value as ' English classics,' and deserve their honorable name more than half the dull and licentious trash bound up in our libraries under that title." — Edward Everett. 325 Edwards (E., Librarimi). Libraries and Founders of Libraries. Royal 8vo, cloth, uncut. London, 1865 Large paper, and 50 copies only printed on thick paper. Now out of print, and scarce. This valuable bibliographical work is in a large measure based upon documents hitherto unused, and upon personal examination of the prin- cipal collections which are described. 325* Edwards. Memoirs of Libraries, including a Hand- book of Library Economy, with nwiterous engravings of early MSS. j facsimiles of types, bookbindings, etc. 2 vols, royal 8vo, half morocco, top edge gilt, Roxburghe style. Large and thick paper. Only 50 copies printed. This impor- tant work was in preparation during upwards of thirteen years. Neither France nor Germany can boast of a work treating the subjects with a similar comprehensiveness, and in England the work has cer- tainly had no predecessor. 326 Edwards (Edward). Anecdotes of Painters who have re- sided or been born in England (intended as a continuation of Walpole's Anecdotes of Painting). Illustrated with 34 plates, portraits, etc. Royal 4to, half calf. London, 1808 Large paper and very scarce. The author was teacher of Perspec- tive at the British Royal Academy. 327 Ellis (George). Specimens of Early English Metrical Romances, Chiefly Written During the Early Part of the XlVth Century, with an Historical Introduction, intended to Illustrate the Rise and Progress of Romantic Com- position in France and England. 3 vols, crown 8vo, calf. London, 1805 Large paper, cut down. With autograph of " Jas. Hamilton Stanhope " on the titles. Sir Walter Scott addressed the Fifth Canto of Marmion to EUis and in his "Diary" wrote : — "George Ellis was the first converser I ever saw. His patience and good-breeding made me often ashamed of myself, going off at once upon some favorite topic." THE FARNUM LIBRARY. I°S 328 Ellis, Percy and Southey's English Poetry, compris- ing :— I. Ellis (George). Specimens of Early English Poets, with Sketch of the Rise and Progress of Poetry and Lan- guage, and Glossary. Illuminated titles. London, 1845 II. Percy (T.). Reliques of Ancient English Poetry, Old Ballads, Songs, etc., with some of later date, Notes and Glossary. 3 vols. Illuminated titles. London, 1S47 III. SouTHEY (R.). Specimens of the Later English Poets, with Preliminary Notices. 3 vols. London, 1807 Together 9 vols, post 8vo, uniform half smooth MOROCCO gilt, top EDGES GILT, OTHERS UNCUT. London, 1807-47 A handsome uniformly bound set. Ellis's " Early English Poets " elicited Southey's Specimens and Percy's Reliques helps to make up a selection of early poetry which has no rival. 329 Ellis (Sir Henry). Original I/Etters illustrative of English History, with Notes and Illustrations. Portraits, plates and facsimiles. 11 vols. 8vo, calf, gilt, marbled edges (the third series stilted). London, 1824-46 The three series complete. ' ' With delight we recommend them for curious illustration ; for corrections of long-received historical theories ; development of famous characters ; discovery of new and important facts — in short, for everything that renders such a collection interesting in a country that is keenly alive to the value of such researches." 330 Emerson (George B.). A Report on the Trees and Shrubs growing Naturally in the Forests of Massachusetts. Nu- merous plates and illustrations. 2 vols, royal 8vo, cloth. Boston, 1878 Most of the illustrations in the above volumes are colored. ' ' Every page seems replete with interest, both of things old and new, rare and well known. We cheerfully recommend such a treatise as this to the friends of Horticulture, feeling that the style and manner in which the subject is treated will be pecuUarly interesting."— /<;«rKa/ (7/ Horticulture. 331 Emory (Wm. H.). Report on U. S. and Mexican Boundary Survey. Maps and plates, some colored. 2 thick vols. 4to, cloth. Washington, 1857-59 Contains some interesting particulars concerning the Pimo, Apache, Navajo and Maricopa Indians, with engravings of Indian Antiquities and portraits. lo6 THE FARNUM LIBRARY. 332 Enfield (William, LL.D.). History of Philosophy from the Earliest Times, drawn up from Brucher's Historia Critica Philosophise. Folded diagram [soiled). 2 vols. 4to, sheep. London, 1791 ' ' A most valuable abridged translation of a very learned and admir- able work." — Lowndes. 333 Engel (Carl). National Music : an Introduction to the Study of, with Researches into Popular Songs, Traditions and Customs. Frontispiece and music scores. 8vo, cloth, uncut. London, 1866 " As regards the plan which I have adopted, it will be seen that this volume is confined chiefly to the study of National Songs." — Author's Preface. 334 Erasmus ; His Life and Character as shewn in his Cor- respondence and Works, by R. B. Drummond. Portrait. 2 vols, crown Svo, cloth. London, 1873 ■ ' A thoroughly well-digested work. Mr. Drummond has spared no pains in thinking out his plan, and in the proper marshalling of his facts, and the result is that we have an interesting work, written in a clear and sensible manner." 335 Erasmus. In Praise of Folly, with Life and Epistle addressed to Sir Thomas More. Illustrated with many curious cuts, designed, drawn and etched by Hans Holbein, and portrait. i6mo, half bound, gilt top edge, others uncut. London, n. d. Reeves & Turner's Reprint. Isaac Disraeli states : — " Erasmus com- posed, to amuse himself when traveling, his panegyric on ' Moria ' or Folly, which was authorized by the pun he dedicated to Sir Thomas More." It is elsewhere stated, however, that he wrote " Laus Stulti- tise,'' of which the above is a translation, in eight days, while a guest of Sir Thomas More, in 1509. 336 Erskine (Rt. Hon. Lord). Speeches when at the Bar against Constructive Treason, with Memoir by Lord Brougham. Edited by James Ridgeway. Portrait. 4 vols. 8vo, calf. London, n. d. Best and third edition. " As an advocate in the forum I hold him (Erskine) to be without an equal in ancient or modern times." — Lord Campbell. 337 Evelyn and Pepys's Diaries, with North's Lives, i. e. : I. Evelyn (J.). Diary, to which are added a Selection from his Familiar Letters, and the Private Correspondence between K. Charles I. and Sir E. Nicholas, and between THE FARNUM LIBRARY. 107 Sir E. Hyde (afterwards Earl of Clarendon) and Sir R. Brown ; edited from the Original MSS. by William Bray, F.S.A. Portraits, views and sheet pedigree. 5 vols. London, 1827 II. Pepys (Samuel). Memoirs of, comprising his Diary from 1659 to 1669, with a Selection from his Private Cor- respondence. Edited by Lord Braybrooke. Fine por- traits by Kneller, Lely, etc. 5 vols. Best edition. London, Colburn, 1828 III. North (Roger). Lives of the Three Norths, with Historical and Biographical Illustrations and Notes by H. RoscoE. Fine portraits. 3 vols. London, 1826 Together 13 vols. 8vo, uniformly bound in half calf gilt. London, 1826-28 These are now scarce, and are the best editions of these delightful performances which give a rare insight into the manners and customs of the Courts of the Stuarts. The latter (Lives of the Norths) is ' ' one of the most delightful books in the world," and forms a continuation of Evelyn and Pepys's Diaries. They present a true and most interesting portraiture of the busy and important times of King Charles I., Oliver Cromwell, King Charles II., King James II. and King William. There are no books of their class in the language for which it is mpre desirable that the widest possible circulation should be obtained. 338 Everett (Edward). Orations and Speeches on Various Occasions. Portrait on India paper. 3 vols, imperial 8vo, cloth. Boston, Little and Brown, 1850-59 Large paper. " If Webster is the Michael Angelo of American oratory, Everett is the Raphael." — Tuckerman. 339 Everett (Edward). A Memorial of Edward Everett. 2 portraits and view of his library inserted. 4to, sewed, uncut. Boston, Printed for the Society, MDCCCLXV. Large paper, and printed on Whatman's drawing paper, of which there were only 4 printed, the above being No. 4. But 75 copies in all were printed, and of these only fifteen copies were left uncut, 340 EwALD (Heinrich). History of Israel to the Death of MosES, translated from the German ; edited with a Preface and an Appendix by Russell Martineau, M.A. 5 vols. 8vo, cloth, uncut. London, Longmans, 1869-74 The last three volumes are edited and translated by J. Estlin Car- penter, M.A. io8 THE FARNUM LIBRARY. 341 ||>-— »^ ilALCONER (William). Shipwreck : a Poem ; with a Life of the Author by J. S. Clarke. Il- lustrated with a series of engravings on steel, by FiTLER, after drawings by N. Pocock, the Marine 8vo, elegantly bound in Spanish calf extra, gilt edges on red and inside borders. London, 181 1 Large paper and printed on silk paper, of which only five copies were executed in this manner. S. C. Hall says — ' ' ' The Shipwreck ' has always been popular, and will remain so, while British sympathies are excited by those who ' Sweep through the deep, While the stormy tempests blow.' ' ' It contains several fine descriptions of scenery. The characters of the officers are drawn by a masterly pencil. The episode of Palemon and Anna is exquisitely wrought." 342 Fau (Dr. J.) a7id Knox (Robert, M.D.). Anatomy of the External Forms of Man intended for the Use of Artists, Painters and Sculptors, 8vo, with separate quarto atlas of 28 plates of nudes, from the life, anatomical studies, etc., mostly colored. Together 2 vols, cloth. London, Bailliere, 1849 Very scarce. The great value of these anatomical studies is that the nudes are copied and colored from life and are not fancy idealistic sketches. 343 Fairholt (F. W.). Tobacco : Its History and Associations. With 100 illustrations by the author. Crown 8vo, cloth, uncut. London, 1859 Including — "an account of the plant and its manufacture, with its mode of use in all ages and countries. '' THE FARNUM LIBRARY. 109 344 Farquhar. The Works of the late Ingenious Mr. George Farquhar: Containing all his Poems, Letters, Essays and Comedies. 2 vols. i2mo, elegantly bound in light yellow calf gilt, edges gilt. London, 1772 Tenth and best edition, corrected. "Farquhar is a light and gay writer, less correct and less sparkling, but he has more ease, and, perhaps, fully as great a share of the vis comica. The two best and least exceptionable of his plays are the ' Recruiting Officer ' and ' Beaux Stratagem ' I say the least excep- tionable ; for, in general, the tendency of both Congreve's and Farqu- har's plays is immoral." — Dr. Blair. 345 Felkin (W.). History of the Machine- Wrought Hosiery and Lace Manufactures. Folding plates. Thick royal 8vo, cloth, uncut. London, 1867 A handsome subscription book and of particular interest to collectors of fine laces. 346 Fenn (J.). Paston Letters. Original Letters written during the Reigns of Henry VI., Edward IV., and Richard III., by various persons of rank or consequence ; with Notes Historical and Explanatory, edited by John Fenn. A new edition by A. Ramsay. 2 vols, bound in i, square 8vo, half purple morocco gilt, top edge gilt, others uncut. London, Charles Knight Ss" Co., 1840 A inost singular and valuable work, containing many curious anec- dotes relative to this turbulent and bloody, but hitherto dark, period of history, and elucidating not only public matters of state, but likewise the private matters of the age, etc. ' ' A curious and unique collection of letters. They are an important testimony to the progressive condition of society, and come in as a. precious link in the chain of the moral history of England, which they alone at this period can supply. They stand indeed singly, as far as I know, in Europe." — Hallam. 347 Fergusson (James). Historical Inquiry into the True Principles of Beauty in Art, more especially with ref- erence to Architecture. Part the First (all published). Colored frontispiece and numerous fine plates and wood en- gravings. Thick imperial 8vo, half morocco, top edge gilt. London, 1849 Large paper. Only the above has ever been published of this valuable authority on art. 348 Fergusson. History of Architecture; in all Countries, from the earliest time to the present day, including Modern no THE FARNUM LIBRARY. Styles of Architecture, as well as Indian and Eastern Architecture. With nearly 1,500 engravings. 4 vols, thick 8vo, half bound, gilt tops, other edges uncut. London, 1873-76 Complete as far as published. " Mr. Fergusson's beautiful and most popular books have superseded all other Histories of Architecture. It is not only that the extraord- inary abundance of his illustrations gives him a special advantage over all his rivals or predecessors, but no other writer has ever had so firm a grasp of his subject, or has been so well qualified to deal with it in all its branches." — Saturday Review. 349 Fergusson. Rude Stone Monuments in all Countries, their Age and Uses. With 234 illustrations. 8vo, cloth, bevelled sides, uncut edges. London, 1872 " One gathers from the book a certainty that the author is profoundly acquainted with his subject, and a disposition to accept his theories. — Spectator. 350 [Ferrier (Mary).] Novels, i. ^.— Destiny, 2 vols. ; Marriage, 2 vols.; Inheritance, 2 vols. Together 6 vols. i6mo, fresh uniform cloth, uncut. London, 1881-82 AUibone tells us Miss Ferrier, — " was the daughter of James Fer- rier, of Edinburgh, one of Walter Scott's brethren of the clerk's table. She was the authoress of three excellent novels. . . . She was a favorite guest at Abbotsford, and her society tended to cheer the mel- ancholy hours which clouded the last months of the life of the great novelist." 351 Fichte (Johann Gottlieb). Popular Works — The Nature of the Scholar, the Vocation of Man and the Doctrine of Religion. 8vo, cloth. London, 1873 " His theoretic philosophy has already departed ; but the man, Fichte, will ever be cherished as one of the noblest of his race." 352 Fichte, by Robert Adamson, M.A. Portrait. i6mo, cloth. Phila., 1881 353 Fielding (Henry). Works ; with an Essay on his Life and Genius by Arthur Murphy. 10 vols. 8vo, half calf gilt. London, 1821 A very clean copy of this best and scarce edition. ' ' What a master of composition Fielding was ! Upon my word, I think the CEdipus Tyrannus, the Alchemist, and Tom Jones, the three most perfect plots ever planned ; and how charming, how wholesome Fielding always is! To take him up after Richardson is like emerging from a sick room heated by stoves into an open lawn on a breezy day in May." — Coleridge. THE FARNUM LIBRARY. m 354 FiGuiER (L.). World before the Deluge. Illustrated by 208 engravings and 25 full-page Ideal landscapes of the Ancient World by ^lo-ia. Cloth, uncut. London, 1865 Translated from the " Fourth French Edition " by " W. S. O." 355 FiGuiER. The To-Morrow of Death ; or, the Future Life According to Science. i2mo, cloth. Boston, 1872 Translated from the French by S. R. Crocker. 356 Fisher. Drawing-Room ScrapBook for the Years 1844 and 1845. With steel plates and engraved vignette titles. 2 vols. 4to, cloth (covers loose). London, Fisher, 1844-45 357 Fisher (George P., Z'.Z'.). The Reformation. 8vo, cloth. N. Y., 1874 This author is " Professor of Ecclesiastical History in Yale College." 358 Flaxman (John, Sculptor, R.A.). Compositions from the Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise of Dante, no outline engravings by T. Piroli, with quotations in Italian and English. Large oblong 4to, half morocco. London, 1807 " The publication of these great works, combining the richest variety of invention, with the most classical correctness, and all the grace of simplicity, has made the beauties of Art familiar in every library in the kingdom." — Quarterly Review. 359 Flaxman. Lectures on Sculpture, delivered before the Royar Academy, with Life. Fifty-two plates by Lane, etc., and portrait. Royal 8vo, cloth, uncut (title and front, foxed). London, 1829 Very scarce. " These Lectures, as literary compositions, con- taining a clear and commanding view of sculpture, ancient and mod- ern — abundant in just sentiments and wise remarks, and such profes- sional precepts as only experience can supply — merit more regard than they have as yet received. The account of the Gothic sculpture in England is as rich as a chapter of old romance, and infinitely more interesting. The whole of the ' Lectures on Beauty and Compo- sition,' ought to be familiar to the mind of every student." — Allan Cunningham. 360 Flint (Robert). Anti-Theistic Theories. Crown 8vo, cloth, uncut. Edinburgh and London, 1879 The Baird Lectures for 1877. 361 Foote (Samuel). The Dramatic Works of, to which is Pre- fixed a Life of the Author. 2 vols. i2mo, elegantly bound in light yellow calf gilt, edges gilt. London, 1797 Rare and a handsome copy. " As yet no complete edition of this 112 THE FARNUM LIBRARY. celebrated writer's dramatic pieces has appeared, but the plays, having been nearly all printed separately in 8vo, are sometimes collected." — Lowndes. 362 Ford (John). Works, with Notes Critical and Explanatory by William Gifford. New Edition carefully Revised with Additions to the Text and to the Notes by Rev. Alexander Dyce. 3 vols. 8vo, cloth, uncut. London, James Toovey, 1869 Large paper. " Ford has few equals. It is greatly to be de- plored that his taste was as bad as his genius was splendid, and that his licentiousness disgusts even while his imagination charms." — Allibone. 363 Ford. Dramatic Works of John Ford. With Notes Crit- ical and Explanatory by W. Gifford: to which is added Fame's Memorial and Verses to the Memory of Ben Jon- SON. 2 vols. 8vo, calf extra. London, 1827 Best edition and very scarce. "I know," says Gifford, "few things more difficult to account for than the deep and lasting impression made by the more tragic por- tions of Ford's poetry." 364 Ford. Fame's Memorial, an Elegy upon the Earl of Devonshire, Ob. 3d Ap. 1606, by John Ford. Ed- ited by Joseph Haslewood. 8vo, paper, uncut. Kent, Lee Priory, 181 9 Rare. Only 100 copies printed at Sir Egerton Brydges's — " private press of Lee Priory, by John Warwick." 365 Ford (R.). A Hand-Book for Travellers in Spain, and Readers at Home. With Notices on Spanish History, Maps. 2 vols. i2mo, cloth. London, Murray, 1845 Very scarce and original ediiion. " A cyclopaedia of learning in all matters pertaining to the Penin- sula, the Hand-Book (t. e. , the above) deserves my gratitude, not only as the most delightful of travelling companions, but as the principal pioneer of ray researches in the artistic history of Spain. . . . Yielding to the mistaken wish of his publisher that the volume should be rendered cheaper and more portable ' many are the Wild Iberian flowers,' says the author in his second edition (p. LVL), which has been rooted out and more are the old stones of antiquity which have been removed." — Stirling's " Artists of Spain." 366 Forrest (Edwin). Catalogue of the Library of, compiled by Joseph Sabin. 8vo, sewed, uncut. Phila., 1S63 Privately Printed, and 175 copies only. Fine proof Portrait by J. Sartain, and an interesting Autograph letter of Mr. THE FARNUM LIBRARY. 113 Forrest inserted, in which he writes, February 6, 1856, to Geo. W. Vesey, Esq. , saying — ' ' The Committee of the Forrest Light Guard, had no authority whatever to intimate to you that I would become re- sponsible in any sum for the use of the Ball Room. Respectfully, Edwin Forrest." 367 FoRSTER (John). Sir John Eliot, a Biography, 1590-1632. Fine portraits. 2 vols, thick 8vo, half calf, gilt marbled sides and edges. London, 1864 One of Forster's expensive books and — "of the very highest value to what we term our political literature." — London Morning Chronicle. 368 FoRSTER. Arrest of the Five Members by Charles the First. A Chapter of English History Rewritten. Crown 8vo, half calf, gilt. London, i860 A life-like account by an English political radical, of a few of the crimes which brought ' the head of the tyrant Charles Stuart to the headsman's block. 369 Foss (E.). Judges of England, with Sketches of their Lives, and Notices connected with the Courts of West- minster from the time of the Conquest to the Reign of Queen Victoria [1864]. 9 vols. 8vo, calf extra, marbled edges. London, 1848-64 Complete and best edition. "He [Foss] has written a book which has added more to our knowl- edge of legal history than any single book published since Madox's ' History of the Exchequer.' " — Gentleman! s Magazine. 370 Four Old Plays — Three Interludes: Thersyte's Jack Jugler and Heywood's Pardoner and Frere; and Jocasta, a Tragedy by Gascoigne and Kinwelmarsh. Crown 8vo, cloth, uncut. Cambridge, George Nichols, 1848 With an introduction and notes by " F. J. C." 371 Fox (Hon. C. J.). A History of the Early Part of the Reign of James the Second, with an Introductory Chapter; to which is added an Appendix. Portrait of Fox and /\h por- traits inserted. Royal 4to, morocco gilt, edges gilt. London, Bulmer, 1808 Unique and Royal Paper. Fifty copies only printed in this size. This handsome volume belonged to the late John Allan and has 46 extra portraits inserted, some very scarce, in illustration of the text. Fonthill, £^ 3J. ; White Knight's, £',, without extra plates. " The topmost step (of authorship) may be considered as the tender of the leading booksellers of the day to become purchasers 114 '^HE FARNUM LIBRARY. of Mr. Fox's Historical work, when Mr. Miller was the fortunate ad- venturer at the price of FOUR THOUSAND GUINEAS." ' ' Five thousand copies of a quarto volume, with five hundred more upon a larger paper, and yet another two hundred and fifty of an ele- phantine size It was doubtless the boldest experiment ever made with a large paper speculation; but it succeeded." — Dibdin's Rem iniscences. 372 Fox. Memorials and Correspondence of Charles James Fox. Edited by Lord John Russell. 4 vols. 8vo, half calf extra, marbled edges. London, 1853-7 The historical value and interest of this work cannot be overrated. It embodies a complete picture of the career of this celebrated states- man, chiefly given in his own words, with an abundance of anecdotes and recollections of his celebrated contemporaries. 373 Fox. Life and Times of Charles James Fox, by Lord John Russell (including many extracts from his Speeches). Portrait. 2 vols. Svo, cloth, uncut. London, 1859 In the history of the life of the great leader who took so prominent a part in the main discussions of the House of Commons, from 1775 to 1806, there is necessarily much that is instructive and interesting, and which throws additional light on this important period of our history. 374 Fox. Speeches of the Right Honorable Charles James Fox in the House of Commons. 6 vols. Svo, tree marbled calf extra, marbled edges a la Riviere. London, 1815 A beautiful copy of this now very scarce work. 375 Fox. The Early History of Charles James Fox. Svo, cloth, bevelled sides, top edges gilt, others uncut. N. Y., iSSo The distinguished author is a nephew of Lord Macaulay and the biographer of the great historian. 376 FoxE (John). Acts and Monuments of the Church, with Universal History of the same ; with Preliminary Disserta- tion by Rev. George Townsend. Edited by Rev. Ste- phen Reed Cattley. Portrait and engravings. 8 vols. Svo. Elegantly bound in tree marbled calf extra, gilt top edges, others uncut, d, la Riviere. London, 1837-41 An elegant copy, uncut, of this best and scarce edition of this great work. " The Book of Martyrs was, and yet is, one of the most extra- ordinary and Popular Church Histories in the world."— Dibdin. 377 FoxE. — Martyrologia ; or, Records of Religious Persecu- tion: being a New and Comprehensive Book of Martyrs of Ancient and Modern Times, compiled partly from the Acts THE FARNVM LIBRARY. "S and Monuments of John Foxe, and partly from other Genuine and Authentic Documents printed and in manu- script. Plates. 3 vols. 8vo, half calf gilt, marbled sides and edges. London, 1848-51 The best Library edition of this very Protestant work. 378 Franklin (Benjamin). Works, containing several Politi- cal and Historical Tracts not included in any former edi- tion, and many Letters, Official and Private, not hitherto published, with Notes, and a Life of the Author, by Jared Sparks. Portraits and facsimiles. 10 vols, imperial 8vo, half purple morocco gilt, marbled sides. Boston, 1836-40 Large paper and very scarce. This work is printed uniformly with the Writings of Washing- ton. The whole of the first volume is taken up with an original Life OF Franklin, containing many new particulars respecting the political transactions of Franklin in the course of his long residence in Europe. The researches of the editor in the public archives of England and France brought into his possession a mass of valuable materials on this subject which had not hitherto been published. No pains were spared to procure, from every source, whatever could give truth and interest to the narrative of his life. The work embraces a complete collection of Dr. Franklin's writings, methodically arranged, carefully revised, and illustrated with occasional notes and explanations. 379 Franklin. Political, Miscellaneous and Philosophical Pieces. Portrait and plates. 8vo, half morocco, cloth sides. London, J. Johnson, 1779 The Rare first edition of Franklin's "Miscellanies." " In 1779 another collection was published in London, consisting of ' Political, Miscellaneous and Philosophical Pieces.' These, few of which were in print before, were edited by Benjamin Vaughan, an intimate friend and correspondent of the author." — Allibone. 380 Franklin. Letters to Benjamin Franklin, from his Family and Friends, 1751-1790. 4to, calf gilt, top edge gilt. N. Y., C. B. Richardson, 1859 Large paper. Only 10 copies were printed in 4to, and 250 in royal 8vo. John Allan's copy, with three inserted portraits, and that of " S. Bache" on India paper. 381 Franklin. Charter, Laws, and Catalogue of Books of the Library Company of Philadelphia. 8vo, half morocco, top edge gilt, others uncut. Phila., printed by B. Franklin and D. Hall, 1764 Rare. A fine clean example of Benjamin Franklin's typography. n6 THE FARNUM LIBRARY. The last two pages (j. e., 149-50) are "A list of the present members of the Library Company of Philadelphia, February, 1765," the name of "Benjamin Franklin" standing at the head of the letter " F." 382 Franklin. — Parton (Jas.). Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin. Portraits on India paper — beautifully printed by Alvord. 2 vols, imperial 8vo, cloth, uncut. N. Y., 1865 Large paper. Only 100 copies printed. " A living and animated portrait of his great subject, full of interest and instruction." — North American Review. 383 Freeman (Edward A.). Works, i. e.: — I. Freeman. History of the Norman Conquest of England, Its Causes and Its Results. 5 vols, thick 8vo. Oxford, at the Clarendon Press, 1869-76 II. Freeman. Reign of William Rufus and the Accession of Henry the First. 2 vols. Oxford, 1882 , III. Freeman. Historical Geography of Europe, with colored maps in separate volume. 2 vols. London, 188 1 IV. Freeman. Comparative Politics with the Unity of History. N. Y. [London], 1874 Together 10 vols. 8vo, cloth. Oxford, etc., 1869-82 The historical works of Prof. Freeman must be considered in many particulars superior to those of either Macaulay or Froude. "He never touches a question without adding to our comprehension of it, without leaving the impression of an ample knowledge, and a clear and powerful understanding." — Saturday Review. 384 Fremont (J. C). The Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains in the Year 1842 and to Oregon and North Carolina in the Years 1843-44. Maps and plates. Thick 8vo, cloth. Washington, 1845 This report of the " Pathfinder of the Rocky Mountains" is now scarce. 385 Freneau (Philip). Poems, chiefly illustrative of the Events and Actors in the American War of Independence. Post 8vo, cloth, uncut. London, John Russell Smith, 1861 Reprinted from the rare edition printed at Philadelphia in 1786. Freneau enjoyed the friendship of Adams, Franklin, Jefferson, Madison and Monroe, and the last three were his constant correspon- dents while they lived. His patriotic songs and ballads, which were superior to any metrical compositions then written in America, were everywhere sung with enthusiasm. THE FARNUM LIBRARY. 117 386 Frere. The Works of John Hookham Frere in Verse and Prose, Memoir by Sir Bartle Frere. Portraits. 2 vols. 8vo, uncut. London, Pickering, 1872 Comprises his Contributions to the Microcosm and Anti-Jacobin, also Poems, Translations and miscellaneous pieces. " Frere is so perfect a master of the ancient style of composition, that I would rather have his suffrage than that of a whole synod of your regular antiquaries." — Sir W. Scott. 387 Froissart and Monstrelet's Chronicles, /. e. : I. Froissart (Sir John). Chronicles of France, England, Spain, etc., from the latter part of the Reign of Edward II. to the Coronation of Henry IV., translated by Thos. JOHNES. PVitA engravings traced from original illuminations, 12 vols. 8vo. Elegantly bound in half calf gilt, citron edges, to match the " Monstrelet" below. London, 1805 Best edition scarce. " I rejoice you have met with Froissart; he is the Herodotus of a barbarous age ; had he but had the luck of writing in as good a language he might have been immortal ! His locomotive disposition (for then there was no other way of learning things), his simple curiosity, his religious credulity, were much like those of the old Grecian." — Gray's Letters. Sir Walter Scott, in his " Tales of My Landlord," thus speaks of the above: — "Did you ever read Froissart? " " No," said Morton. "I have half a mind," said Claverhouse, "to contrive you should have six months' imprisonment in order to procure you that pleasure. His chapters inspire me with more enthusiasm than even poetry itself." II. Monstrelet (Enguerrand de). Chronicles; contain- ing an Account of the cruel Civil Wars between the Houses of Orleans and Burgundy; of the Possession of Paris and Normandy by the English; their Expulsion thence ; and of other Memorable Events that hap- pened in the Kingdom of France, as well as in other Countries, etc., and beginning at the Year 1400 where that of Sir John Froissart finishes. Translated by Thomas JOHNES. Numerous engravings traced from illuminations. 12 vols. 8vo. Uniformly bound in half calf, citron edges, with the above described copy of " Froissart " and of which it is the continuation. London, 1810 Best edition, and it should be noted that although the title-page states " complete in thirteen volumes," it is really so in twelve, vide Lowndes. Thomas Johnes, the translator of Froissart and Monstrelet, was a Il8 THE FARNUM LIBRARY. bibliophilistic friend of T. F. Dibdin, who gives a most eulogistic account of liis grand library. Allibone says — " In 1807 the splendid mansion of Col. Johnes with much of its valuable contents was destroyed by fire: the loss amounted to ;if70,ooo. The energetic Bibliomaniac was not, however, to be discouraged, and built and adorned a new edifice. Evelyn would have been delighted with the colonel, for he planted above three millions of trees on his Cardigan- shire estates." III. [Froissart.J Illuminated Illustrations to Froissart. Selected from the MS. in the Bibliotheque Royale, Paris, and from other Sources. By H. N. Humphreys, Esq. Being 74 illustrations beautifully illuminated in gold AND colors. 4to, 2 parts in i vol. half crushed red levant morocco, gilt top edge, others uncut. London, W. Smith, 1844-45 Very SCARCE. This set of "Illuminated Illustrations" con- tains beautiful impressions of the seventy-two Illuminations in GOLD AND COLORS, of the FIRST ISSUE of 1844-45; published at twelve guineas. In consequence of the wear of the stones the subsequent issues are defaced and undesirable. These superb illuminations to Froissart have now become very scarce, in consequence, of the greater part of the edition having been destroyed by fire in London. Together 25 vols. 4T0 and 8vo, handsomely half BOUND. London, 1805-45 A most desirable set, with the rare illuminated plates which should always accompany the best edition of Froissart's Chronicles. 388 Froude (James Anthony). History of England from the Fall of WoLSEY to the Death of Elizabeth. 12 vols. 8vo, cloth, uncut (6), and half calf (6). London, 18587-70 Rufus Choate's copy and with his autograph. " Mr. Froude is no common writer; his style is vivid and emphatic; he touches some of the most secret springs of the heart's passions; he enchains our sympathies. " — John Bull. 389 Fuller (Thomas). Church History of Britain, from the Birth of Jesus Christ until 1648. A new edition by the Rev. J. S. Brewer, M.A. Eiigravings of arms, etc. 6 vols. 8vo. Bound by Hayday in polished calf extra, mar- bled edges. Oxiovd, at the University Press, 1845 A beautiful copy and a fine specimen of Hayday's binding. The works of this eminent writer are remarkable as having been written by him during twenty years of continual removal from place to place forced upon him by the cruel severity of the times. The " Church History " contains many interesting memorials, thf THE FARNUM LIBRARY. 119 result of long, active and extended research. It is a book never yet superseded and no well-finished library of English History is complete without it. 390 Fuller. History of the Holy War, and Fuller's Holy and Profane States. 2 vols, post 8vo, cloth, uncut. London, Pickering, 1840 Printed by Charles Whittingham at the Chiswick Press. " Fuller was incomparably the most sensible, the least prejudiced, great man of an age that boasted a galaxy of great men. . . In all his numerous volumes on so many different subjects, you will hardly find a page in which some one sentence out of every three does not deserve to be quoted for itself as a motto or as a maxim." — S. T. Coleridge. 120 THE FARNUM LIBRARY. AIMAR (Geoffrey). The Anglo-Norman Met- rical Chronicle of. Printed for the First Time in its entirety, from the MS. in the British Museum. 8vo, cloth, uncut. London, J. Russell Smith, 1850 Scarce. The only complete edition of the Chronicle of this dis- tinguished trouvere of the reign of King Stephen, and published at I2J. by the Caxton Society, whose publications were limited to 110 copies, and which were only sold in sets. This edition of ' ' Gaimar's Chronicle " was edited by Thomas Wright, with illustrative notes and an appendix containing the " Lay of Havelok," the " Legend of Ernulf " and the " Life of Her ward." 392 Garrick. (David). Private Correspondence of, with the most celebrated Persons of his Time, both natives and foreigners ; now first published from the Originals, with Notes and Memoir. 2 vols, royal 4to, cloth, uncut. London, 183 1-2 Large paper. This interesting work, edited by James Boaden, contains upwards of two thousand letters, comprising much of the secret history, scandal, etc. , of the time in which Garrick lived. This is a different work to the life of the great actor by Thomas Davies, the discontented bookseller who foolishly turned actor, and whom Church- ill's unmerciful, yet just ridicule, drove from the stage : — " With him came mighty Davies ; — on my life That Davies has a very pretty wife ! Statesman all over, — in plots famous grown, — He mouths a sentence as curs mouth a bone.'' 393 Gay (John). Fables, with Life. Stockdale's fine edi- tion, printed in large eype. 10 plates, iJ)' Blake, Audinet, Wilson, etc., and inserted portrait. 2 vols, in i, imperial 8vo, calf. London, 1793 Largest paper. Very clean, and with proof impressions of the plates. "Gay's Fables are certainly a work of great merit, both as to the quantity of invention implied and as to the elegance and facility of the execution. "■ — H azlitt. THE FARNUM LIBRARY. 121 394 Gay (John). Fables, with the Life of the Author. Em- bellished with seventy elegant engravings. i6mo, calf. 'London, printed by C. Whittingham, 1808 " Jolie edition," — Brunet. 395 Gell (Sir Wm.) and Gandy (John P.). Pompeiana. The Topography, Edifices, and Ornaments of Pompeii, with beautiful line engravings by Goodall, Cooke, Heath, Pye, etc. Royal 8vo, cloth gilt. London, 1852 " I leave Topography to classic Gell." — Byron's " English Bards." This is the most satisfactory work ever published on Pompeii. It gives in a small compass the result of the excavations for many years, from the commencement of operations in 1748. 396 Gems of European Art, the Best Pictures of the Best Schools, with Descriptions by S. C. Hall. 90 large and beautiful line engravings by first-rate artists. 2 vols., imperial 4to, half morocco. London, George Virtue, 1846 Large paper. A beautiful drawing-room table book of a superior class, comprising the finest pictures by Wilkie, Cal'lcott, Delaroche, and other modem painters, as well as by Murillo, Claude, and other old masters. 397 Gent. Life of Thomas Gent, Printer of York, written by himself. Fine portrait, engraved by K\jG.Yoyi. 8vo, cloth. London, 1832 Large paper. The author of this curious and hitherto unpublished piece of Autobiography is well known by the several works of which he was the author as well as printer. The narrative is full, written in an easy and unaffected style, interspersed with several pieces of Poetry ; and from the number of adventures he went through in early life, and the characters and stories incidentally introduced, is extremely amusing. His occupation as a printer necessarily introduced him to the acquaint- ance of many literary men, and his book abounds with notices of Authors, Printers, etc. , of the times in which he lived ; among others occur the names of Bishop Atterbury, with whom he relates a singular interview ; Brown Willis, and Dr. Drake, the historian of York, etc. The book requires no encomium to those who have read Sou they 's " Doctor." 398 Gessner (S.). The Death of Abel : a Poem in Five Cantos from the German, with Occasional Notes by W. C. Oul- ton. With engravings by Kennerley, after the exquisite designs of R. W. Satchwell {some foxed). Royal 8vo. Curiously bound in russia gilt, panelled sides, marbled edges. London, 1811 Lowndes does not mention this translation of Gessner's " Death of Abel," but he states — " the works of this distinguished German poet have been translated into almost every European tongue." 122 THE FARNUM LIBRARY. 399 Gesta Romanorum ; or, Entertaining Moral Stories, in- vented by the Monks as a Fireside Recreation. Translated and edited from the Latin by Charles Swan. 2 vols, post 8vo, calf, uncut. London, 1824 Shakespeare, Chaucer, and others, are said to have taken many of their plots from this celebrated work. " They [the Monks] might be disposed occasionally to recreate their minds with subjects of a light and amusing nature ; and what could be more innocent or delightful than the stories of the Gesta Romanorum ?" — Douce. 400 Geste (Edmund, S. T. P.). Life and Character of, by Henry Geast Dugdale. Portrait [foxed, also title). 8vo, cloth, uncut. London, W. Pickering, 1840 Bishop Geste was the principal compiler of the liturgy of the Church of England. 401 Gibbon (Edward). Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, with Notes by Milman and Guizot. Edited by William Smith, LL.D. Portrait and maps. 8 vols. 8vo, cloth, uncut. London, Murray, 1862 ' ' Gibbon's History is such an assemblage of merits that it must always be considered as one of the most extraordinary monuments of the literary powers of a single mind." — Prof. Smyth's Lectures on Modern History. 402 Gibbon. Miscellaneous Works ; with Memoirs of his Life and Writings, by himself ; and Notes and Narration by Lord Sheffield. Portraits and plates. 5 vols, royal 8vo. London, 1814 Large and thick paper. Best edition. Scarce. Includes Gib- bon's Correspondence with many eminent persons, journal of his studies, remarks on the books read, antiquities of the house of Brunswick, and numerous dissertations, historical, geographical, and critical. 403 GiFFORD (WiUiam). The Baviad and Maeviad. i2mo, half calf gilt. London, 181 1 Best edition of this famous satire, with the trial for libel of the author on John Williams, ' ' Anthony Pasquin, " who was nonsuited, as the big majority of all bringers of such suits should be, and who, as a rule, only do so to court advertisement and obtain notoriety as pabulum for their bumptious conceit. The alleged libelled one was himself not only a champion Munchausen and slanderer, but a libeller also, for after he left England for his country's good, and came like many an- other of his tribe to America, Anthony Pasquin grossly abused Alex- ander Hamilton and others in cold type. THE FARNUM LIBRARY. 123 404 Gladstone (W. E.). Studies on Homer and the Homeric Age. 3 vols. 8vo, cloth, uncut. Oxford, 1858 This valuable work of the Prime Minister of Great Britain is now very scarce. 405 Gladstone. Juventus Mundi, the Gods and Men of the Heroic Age. Vignette on title by Jeens, and colored plan. Crown 8vo, cloth, uncut. London, 1869 406 Godwin, (W.). History of the Commonwealth of En- gland from its (!)ommencement to the Restoration of Charles II. 4 vols. 8vo, calf gilt. London, 1824 Scarce. By the author of " Political Justice,'' the husband of Mary Wolstonecraft, and father-in-law of Percy Bysshe Shelley. ' ' I cannot but consider the author of Political Justice as a philoso- phical reasoner of no ordinary stamp or pretensions. That work, what- ever its defects may be, is distinguished by the most acute and severe logic, and by the utmost boldness of thinking, founded on a love and conviction of truth." — Hazlitt. 407 Goethe (Johann Wolfgang von). Faust, a Tragedy. Translated in the Original Metre by Bayard Taylor. 2 vols. 4to, half morocco, bevelled sides, top edges gilt, others uncut. Boston, 1871 With original MS. letter inserted from the distinguished translator. In Faust, Goethe has embodied the results of his mature and infinitely varied experience, with his ripest, richest, and profoundest thoughts ; the whole being wrought out with admirable skill, and everywhere illu- mined, so to speak, with passages of the most exquisite poetry, touch- ing in turn every chord of the human heart. " It can be safely maintained that the rich and varied music of ' Faust ' has never before been as faithfully represented to English ears." — Saturday Review. 408 Goethe. Reynard the Fox, after the German Version of Goethe, by Thomas James Arnold, Esq. With illustra- tions after Kaulbach, including " the Priest's Catastrophe." 4to, cloth, gilt edges. N. Y. [London], i860 Eaulbach has portrayed the expression of brute physiognomy with a force and felicity hitherto unequalled in design as unsurpassed in excel- lence. His series of engravings, illustrating Reynard, very far surpass anything before achieved of a similar nature. In Vedder's Preface, these illustrations are yet more highly praised: " Even the German Shakespeare, Goethe," he says, " has made it the subject of a great poem ; and kindred genius, in the person of Kaulbach, has illustrated the work by the finest series of pictorial embellishments with which a book was ever adorned." 124 ^-^^ FARNUM LIBRARY. 409 Goethe. Reynard the Fox, after the German Version of Goethe, by Thomas James Arnold, Esq. With elegant steel plates, after Joseph Wolf's spirited designs, and en- graved title. 4to. Tree marbled calf extra, marbled edges by Riviere. London, Nattali and Bond, 1855 This copy has the engraved title-page of— " William Pickering, 1853." 410 Goethe. Life and Works, with Sketches of his Age and Contemporaries, by G. H. Lewes. Portrait. 8vo, cloth. London, 1864 Second edition, partly rewritten. Each of the most powerful im- pulses by which, in turn, the social and intellectual life of Germany in turn was governed, found in Goethe its earliest and also its most striking representative ; and while he interpreted the tendencies of the age with felicitous intuition, and prefigured their results with wonder- ful richness of imagination, he gained a firm hold on popular feeling through that very coldness and practicality of moral sentiment which always kept him, from an ethical point of view, on a level with the world around him. 411 Goethe. Life and Times, by Hermann Grimm. Trans- lated by Sarah Holland Adams. Portrait. 8vo, cloth. Boston, 1880 412 Goldsmith (Oliver). Complete Works. Edited by Peter Cunningham. Vignette titles and frontispiece. 4 vols. 8vo, cloth, uncut. London, Murray, 1854 Best and Library edition. " In point of elegance and brilliancy of type all that the most luxuri- ous bibliomaniac can wish, and just such books as the lover of good literature would wish to put upon his shelves." — Literary Gazette. " Mr. Cunningham, whose scrupulous exactness is generally known, has furnished the first complete and accurate reprint of Goldsmith. Numerous errors which had crept into previous editions are corrected, omitted passages are restored, and entire pieces have been added." — Quarterly Review. 413 GoLOWNiN (Capt, R.N.). Recollections of Japan. 8vo, boards, uncut. London, 1819 Comprising — ' ' a particular account of the religion, language, govern- ment, laws, and manners of the people." 414 GowER (J.). CoNFESSio Amantis. Edited and collated with the best MSS. by Dr. Pauli. Finely printed in large antique type by Whittingham. 3 vols. 8vo, calf antique, bevelled sides, red edges. London, Bell and Daldy, 1857 A beautiful edition of these famous old metrical tales which delighted the readers of the Middle Ages. The first edition was printed by Caxton. THE FARNUM LIBRARY. 125 415 Grahame (James, LL.D.). The History of the United States of North America, from the Plantation of the British Colonies till their Revolt and Declaration of Inde- pendence. Portrait. 4 vols. 8vo, cloth (two leaves Vol. 4 wanting). Boston, 1845 " Mr. Graham has published the best book that has anywhere ap- peared upon the History of the United States. He has corrected the mistakes, whether of error or malignity, which his predecessors in the same labors had committed." — North American Review. 416 Granger (Rev. J.). Biographical History of England, from Egbert the Great to the Revolution, enlarged with more than 400 additional Lives, by Caulfield. Illustrated by several hundred fine portraits, including Richardson's ex- tensive series, many portraits and autographs from Thane's work, and other engravings. 6 vols, royal Svo, half calf, top edges marbled, others uncut. London, 1824 Best edition. Fine impressions of the portraits. That erudite literary authority and book lover, S. Austin Allibone, speaks as follows respecting the results of ' ' Grangerism," which among us is, in these days, known as the " demoralizing " habit of " Nassau- ing ": — " The publication of Granger's work excited an eager compe- tition for portraits, and, unfortunately, many of his disciples carried their zeal to the highly censurable extreme of mutilating valuable works for the sake of the portraits which they contained. Rowes Mores, in his criticism upon Ames's ' Catalogue of English Heads,' is loud in his complaint of these mutilators, often depredators — ' If this gou( for prints and thieving continues, let private owners and public libraries look well to their books, for there will not remain a valuable book un- garbled by their coinnoseuring villainy, for neither honesty nor oaths restrain them.' " 417 Grattan (Rt. Hon. Henry). Life and Times, by his Son, Henry Grattan, M.P. Portraits. 5 vols. Svo, cloth, uncut. London, Colburn, 1839 Published at £3 10s. " He was a man of singular candor, and of great moderation ; and, from his entrance into public life to the close of his illustrious career, gave signal proofs of his moderation, of his extreme forbearance, nay, of his gentleness." — Brougham. 418 Gray (Thomas). Poetical Works. Fcap. Svo, calf gilt, top edge gilt, others trimmed. London, 1S5S A beautiful copy of the Chiswick reprint of Pickering's Aldine edi- tion, edited by Mitford, which is the most complete edition, containing many pieces never before printed. " Had Gray written nothing but his ' Elegy,' high as he stands, I am not sure that he would not stand higher. " — Byron. 126 THE FARNUM LIBRARY. 4T9 Gray. Six Poems of, printed with large type on one side only, with fine engravings from the designs of R. Bentley — fine impressions {some foxed). Impl. 4to, old calf gilt. London, Dodsley, 1753 Large and thick paper. Bentiey was the friend of Horace Wal- pole. "The poems and the plates recommended each other so well that the whole impression was soon bought up." — Dr. Johnson. 420 Greene. Life of Nathaniel Greene, Major-General in the Army of the Revolution. By George Washington Greene. Portrait and map. 3 vols, cloth. N. Y., 1867-71 The author's grandfather was the subject of this valuable work. 421 Greene (Robert). Dramatic Works, to which are added his Poems, with some Account of the Author, and Notes by the Rev. Alexander Dyce. 2 vols, crown 8vo, tree calf extra, by Riviere. London, W. Pickering, 1831 Very scarce, and a beautiful copy. Only 250 copies printed and by C. Whittingham. AUibone says — " Greene was a boon companion with the dissipated wits of the day, deserted a lovely wife, lived a profligate life, occasion- ally chequered with partial repentance, and died of a surfeit of pickled herrings and Rhenish wine," but adds — " as an author, Greene's merits are undoubtedly considerable, and it is greatly to be regretted that he was not always in the moral vein, which presents so striking a contrast to his loose habits." 422 Grenville Papers. Correspondence [and Diaries] of Rich. Grenville, Earl Temple, and of the Rt. Hon. G. Grenville, their Friends and Contemporaries, edited from the original MSS. by W. J. Smith. 4 vols. 8vo, cloth, uncut. London, 1852-3 ' ' In the third volume will be found some matter offered as evidence that Lord Temple was the author of ' Junius.' " — Allibone. 423 Greville Memoirs. A Journal of the Reigns of King George IV. and King William IV. By the late Charles C. F. Greville, Esq., Clerk of the Council to those Sovereigns. Edited by Henry Reeve. 3 vols. 8vo, cloth, uncut. London, 1874 " No equally important contribution to the political history of the last generation has been made by any previous writer. As a man of rank and fashion, Mr. Greville associated, on terms of equality, with all the statesmen of his time." — Saturday Review. THE FARNUM LIBRARY. 127 424 [Griffiths (A. F.).] Bibliotheca Anglo-Poetica ; or a Descriptive Catalogue of a rare and rich Collection of Early English Poetry ; in the Possession of Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown. Illustrated by Occasional Extracts and Remarks, Critical and Biographical. 8vo, half morocco, top edge gilt. London, 1815 Unique. Very rare, large paper, and of which only 50 copies were printed. John Allan's copy and sold at his sale for |ioo. Nassau's copy, without plates, brought £'}, 5j. The above is illustrated with 50 inserted portraits, many of which are very rare. This extraordinary collection of Old English Poetry formed part of the extensive Library of Thomas Hill, and was sold by him to Messrs. Longman & Co. , who employed A. F. Griffiths to make out the Cata- logue. The initial at the beginning of each letter have very neat wood- cuts of the poets from rare prints. Thomas Hill was the " Hull " of Theodore Hook in his " Gilbert Gurney.'' ' ' Deserving a place in every good library, from the interest- ing information which it affords of the works of our early poets." — LovirNDES. 425 Griswold (R. W.). The Republican Court, or American Society in the Days of Washington. By Rurus Wilmot Griswold. With twenty-one portraits of Distinguished Women, engraved frorn Original Pictures by Woolaston, Copley, Gainsborough, Stuart, Trumbull, Pine, Malbone, and other contemporary painters. 4to, morocco elegant, bevelled sides, gilt edges. N. Y., D. Appleton &• Co., MDCCCLV. A superb copy, with broad, wide margins, almost the appearance of a large paper copy, and with excellent impressions of the handsome plates. ' ' In this sumptuously printed and richly illustrated work, a view of American society in the days of the Father of the Republic is presented for the most part from original materials consisting of private cor- respondence, etc. " — Allibone. 426 [Grose (F.).] Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. 1785. i2mo, half morocco, gilt top edge, others uncut. [London, 1869] This is a genuine unmutilated reprint of the much-sought-after First Edition oi Capt. Francis Grose's "Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue," and contains words and explanations which in the later editions have been either omitted or softened. It is said of the author that his literary acquirements were far exceeded by his good humor, his conviviality and his friendship . 128 THE FARNUM LIBRARY. 427 Grote (George). History of Greece, from the Earliest Period to the Close of the Generation Contemporary with Alexander the Great. Maps and plans, and fine por- trait. 12 vols. 8vo, half calf extra. London, 1846-56 RUFUS Choate's copy, with his autograph. "A great literary undertaking, equally notable, whether we regard it as an accession to what is of standard value in our language, or an honorable monument of what English scholarship can do." — Athe- nautn. 428 Grote. Plato, and other Companions of Socrates. 3 vols. 8vo, elegantly bound in vellum extra gilt, bevelled sides and red edges by Hayday. London, John Murray, 1865 Intended as a supplement and sequel to the History of Greece by the same author. "He has composed an Encyclopaedia of Platonic Erudition, adapted for the English reader, and put together with so much ani- mation as to make the whole a fascinating book." — Reader. 429 Grote. Personal Life of George Grote compiled from Family Documents, Private Memoranda and Original Let- ters to and from Various Friends, by Mrs. Grote, portrait and facsimile; — -also Minor Works of George Grote, with Critical Remarks on his Intellectual Character, Writings and Speeches, by Alexander Bain, portrait. Together 2 vols. 8vo, uniform cloth, uncut. London, Murray, 1873 430 Gruner (Lewis). The Good Shunammite (II. Kings, Chap. iv., v., viii.). Exquisitely illuminated in gold and colors on every page, with six miniatures after medieval examples. Small 4to, elegantly bound by Hayday in smooth maroon morocco, bevelled sides, gilt edges. London, Longmans, 1847 An elegant volume and thoroughly in the spirit of the old Monkish illuminators. 431 Guest (Edwin, M.A). A History of English Rhythms. 2 vols. 8vo, half morocco, top edge gilt, others trimmed. London, W. Pickering, 1838 Very scarce. 432 GuiLLEMiN (A.). The Heavens. An Illustrated Hand- book of Popular Astronomy, edited by J. N. Lockyer. With ^() plates and numerous woodcuts. Royal 8vo, cloth, uncut. London, Bentley, 1868 THE FARNUM LIBRARY. 129 433 GuizoT (F.). History of Civilization. Translated by William Hazlitt. Portraits. 3 vols, post 8vo, half calf gilt (one cover loose). London, 1846 434 GuizoT (F.). Memoirs of a Minister of State from the year 1840. 8vo, cloth, uncut. London, 1864 435 GuizoT. Monk, or the Fall of the Republic and the Resto- ration of the Monarchy in England in 1660. Portraits. Crown 8vo, cloth, uncut. London, 1866 Translated from the French by Andrew R. Scoble. To this vol- ume is added — " Biographic Studies on the English Revolution; or, Monk's Contemporaries." 436 GuRNEY. — Mrs. Gurney's Apology [for her adultery] in Justification of Mrs. 's Friendship. Royal 8vo, boards, uncut. Phila., Brotherhead, i860 Very rare. " Mrs. Gurney is thus allied by descent and marriage with families of the first note, both in Europe and America, and holds in her own right an almost princely fortune After thirteen years of married life she voluntarily renounced her husband, her children and her family, not in any moment of passion, but through a calm conviction of reason, as she herself states, and left England the mistress of a common groom from her stables." — Preface. 437 Gutenberg (J.). John Gutenberg, First Master Printer, His Acts, and most remarkable Discourses, and his Death. From the German, by C. W. 4to, half olive morocco, gilt top, other edges uncut. London, Triibner &• Co., i860 Privately Printed, and only 100 copies. " Only a few copies allowed to be sold by the book-loving amateur who has produced this beautiful volume for presentation to his friends." 130 THE FARNUM LIBRARY. ADLEY (James). Introduction to Roman Law. i2mo, cloth. N. Y., 1873 This valuable little volume gives a good account of the Code of Justinian. 440 Hall (Rev. Robert). Works complete, with Life by Dr. O. Gregory, and Observations on his Character as a Preacher, by John Foster. Portrait. 6 vols. 8vo, calf gilt, marbled edges. London, 1853 Best edition. " Mr. Hall, like Bishop Taylor, has the eloquence of an orator, the fancy of a poet, the acuteness of a schoolman, the profoundness of a philosopher, and the piety of a saint." — Parr. 441 Hall (S. C). Book of Gems ; or, the Poets and Artists of Great Britain. Elegantly illustrated with exquisite engrav- ings after Turner, Landseer, Maclise, Roberts, etc. 3 vols. 8vo, elegantly bound in crushed purple morocco extra gilt, bevelled sides, leather joints, handsome inside tooling, top edges gilt, by Matthews. London, 1836-8 The scarce first edition. The above is claimed to be the finest piece of binding ever turned out by Matthews. A perfect gem in illustration, and one of the books issued at the time when steel engraving (at its zenith) was diffusing its charms through such works as Rogers's Italy and Poems, Campbell's Poems, Watts's Lyrics, Byron's Childe Harold. 442 Hall. Book of British Ballads. Illustrated by several hun- dred beautiful woodcut engravings on every page by the first Artists. Morocco elegant, gilt edges. London, 1853 Early edition, very scarce. It is scarcely possible to imagine a more attractive volume. The decorations are of the very highest class from designs by Creswick, Gilbert, Franklin, Corbould, etc. 443 Hall (Mrs. Matthew). Queens before the Conquest. Fronts. 2 vols, small 8vo, cloth, uncut. London, 1854 What Miss Strickland has achieved for English Queens since the Norman era, has been accomplished by Mrs. Hall on behalf of the royal ladies who, as wives of Saxon Kings, have influenced the des- tinies of Britain. THE FARNVM LIBRARY. 131 444 Hall (Mr. and Mrs. S. C). Ireland, its Scenery, Legends, Tales, etc. With 500 beautiful engravings on steel and wood by Creswick, Harvey, etc. 3 vols. 4to, tree calf gilt extra, marbled edges by Riviere. London, How and Parsons, 1841 A handsome copy of the first issue. " The Irish sketches of this lady [Mrs. S. C. Hall] resemble Miss Mitford's beautiful English Sketches in 'Our Village,' but they are far more vigorous and picturesque and bright." — Blackwood' s Maganine. 445 Hall (Mrs. S. C). Pilgrimages to English Shrines. With notes as well as many illustrations by F. W. Fairholt, F.S.A. 2 vols. 4to, half morocco gilt. London, Hall, Virtue &= Co., 1850-53 Very scarce, both the first and second series. 446 Hallam (Henry). Works, i. e. — I. Introduction to Litera- ture of Europe, 3 vols. ; II. Constitutional History of Eng- land, 3 vols.; III. State of Europe during Middle Ages, 3 vols. Together 9 vols. Svo, bright new uniform half calf gilt, contents lettered, marbled sides and edges. Boston and London, 1853-54 " Mr. Hallam is, on the whole, far better qualified than any other writer for the office which he has undertaken. He has great industry and great acuteness; his knowledge is extensive, various and pro- found; his mind is equally distinguished by the amplitude of its grasp, and by the delicacy of its tact. " — Macaulay. 447 Halliwell (J. O.). Dictionary of Archaic and Pro- vincial Words, Obsolete Phrases, Proverbs, and Ancient Customs, from the XlVth Century. 2 vols. 4to, half mor- occo. Brixton 'H\\\, printed for private circulation only, 1852 Large paper, only 112 copies printed for Students and Collectors of Old Words and Provincialisms. An indispensable book to the reader of our old Poets, Dramatists, Theologians, and other writers, whose works abound with allusions of which explanations are not to be found in ordinary dictionaries. 448 Halliwell. A Dictionary of Old English Plays, exist- ing either in print or in manuscript, from the earliest times to the close of the Seventeenth Century; including also Notices of Latin Plays written by English Authors, during the same period. Svo, cloth, uncut. London, John Russell Smith, i860 Large and thick paper. This work was — ' ' not intended to sup- 132 THE FARNUM LIBRARY. ply the place of the valuable introductions of Gifford, Dyce or Collier; but rather to furnish brief, useful notes respecting the miscellaneous early English dramas.'' 449 Hamconius. — Martini Hamconii | Frisia | sev | de viris rebvsqve | Frisiae illustribvs | libri dvo | opus ab Authore recognitum, auctum, et Imaginibus Re- | gum Potesta- tum, ac Principum exornatum | etc. Illustrated with nu- merous portraits, on the corners of which are heraldic bear- ings. 4to, old calf. Frankerse, 1620 Rare. From the Towneley library, with the armorial book-plate of " John Towneley, Esq." Not mentioned in Brunet, who, however, gives an account of his curious poem on Catholicity and Calvinism, in which every word in the goo verses commence with the letter " C." 450 Hamerton (P. G.). The Graphic Arts. A Treatise on THE Varieties of Drawing, Painting, and Engraving, in comparison with each other and with Nature. With 54 illustrations after Ancient and Modern Masters — Raphael, Maclise, Turner, Leigh, Mulready, Harding, Hol- bein, DuRER, Bewick, Titian, Hollar, Rembrandt, Holt, Hurst, Delanne, Visscher, Strange, etc., repro- duced in facsimile. Thick 4to, vellum gilt, uncut. N. Y., Macmillan [London], 1882 Large paper, uncut, and limited edition of 350 copies, printed on THICK PAPER, with the plates on India paper. Mr. Hamerton has enjoyed exceptional opportunities for gathering the experience and information necessary to a work like the above. Aided by the confidence of the most distinguished artists of his time, Mr. Hamerton does not write from the limited experience of one man, but expresses what may be fairly considered to be the state of existing knowledge. Besides this, his peculiar work as Editor of The Portfolio has brought him into the closest contact with black and white art in all its reproducible forms, and made him minutely acquainted with various processes of reproduction, and their respective merits. Such a work as ' ' The Graphic Arts " necessarily required illustration. The pubHshers spared neither trouble nor expense in illustrating it as com- pletely as the present very advanced state of the printed arts would permit. All kinds of engraving, and most kinds of drawing, are represented, either by the best living masters or by the most able of their younger brethren ; and with regard to the dead, their best works are reproduced in very close facsimile. 451 Hamerton. The Unknown River, an Etcher's Voyage of Discovery. With 37 illustrations on India paper, etched from nature by the author . 410, cloth gilt, edges gilt. London, Seeley, 187 1 THE FARNUM LIBRARY. 133 452 Hamerton. The Sylvan Year. Leaves from the Note- book of Raoul Dubois, with 20 etchings by the author and other artists. 4to, new cloth, gilt, bevelled sides, gilt edges. Boston [London], 1876 453 Hamerton. Chapters on Amimals. Illustrated by 20 ex- quisite etchings by J. Veyrassat and Karl Bodmer. Square 8vo, cloth extra. Boston [London], 1874 454 Hamilton (Alexander). Works, comprising his Corres- pondence, and his Political and Official Writings, exclusive of the Federalist, published from the Original Manuscripts deposited in the Department of State. Edited by John C. Hamilton. Portrait. 7 vols. 8vo, cloth. N.Y., 1850-51 Very scarce. ' ' The name of Hamilton would have honored Greece in the age of Aristides. May Heaven, the guardian of our liberty, grant that our country may be fruitful of Hamiltons, and faithful to their glory." — Fisher Ames. 455 Hamilton. The Life of, by his son John C. Hamilton. Portrait. 2 vols. 8vo, cloth, uncut. N. Y., 1834-40 "A national work." — Hawks. 456 Hamilton, Madison and Jay. Fcederalist (The). A Collection of Essays, written in favor of the New Constitu- tion, as agreed upon by the Fcederal Convention, Septem- ber 17, 1787. Reprinted from the Original Text, with an Historical Introduction and Notes, by Heney B. Dawson. Vol. I. Portrait on India. FAF^R. Imp. 8vo, paper, uncut. Morrisania, 1864 Large paper. No. 115, of which 250 copies were issued. The second volume is not yet published; but the text of the work is com- plete in this volume. "It ought to be familiar to the statesmen of every nation. " — De TOCQUEVILLE. 457 Hamilton, Madison and Jay. Federalist (The). A Commentary on the Constitution. Edited by John C. Hamilton. 2 vols. imp. 8vo, cloth, uncut. Phila., 1865 Large paper. One hundred copies only printed in this size. 458 Hamilton (County Anthony). Fairy Tales and Romances. Portrait. Post 8vo, cloth, uncut. London, 1849 The ' ' Memoirs of Grammont " are universally admitted to be among the most witty and entertaining that have ever been written. It was described by Gibbon as " a classic work, the delight of every man and woman of taste," praised and edited by Sir Walter Scott, printed in 134 THE FARNUM LIBRARY. almost every language and every form, and found in every good his- torical library. Some have said that it is too much imbued with the spirit of Charles II.'s days to suit the severer code of the present age. But the reasons which would keep these volumes away from the great mass of readers would be equally applicable to nearly all writers of Charles II.'s period, and to Pepys as well as Ariosto, La Fontaine, Beaumont, Fletcher, Massinger, Hope, and even Shakespeare. 459 Hamor (Raphe). A Trve Discovrse of the Present Estate of Virginia; and the Successe of the Affaires there till the i8 of lune, 1614. . . . Written by Raphe Hamor the yonger, late Secretarie in that Colony. 4to, sewed, uncut. [London, 1615.] Albany, Reprinted, i860 Large paper, and of which only 200 copies were reprinted for Dr. Charles G. Barney, of Richmond, Va. A beautiful and accurate reprint. 460 Hampden (John). Memorials of, His Party and His Times. By Lord Nugent. 12 steel portraits. Post Svo, cloth. London, i860 This work occasioned Lord Macaulay's grand Essay on Hampden. Robert Southey also reviewed this work in the Quarterly Review. 461 Hand-Book of Proverbs ; comprising Ray's English Proverbs, with Index, etc., by Bohn. Post Svo, cloth, uncut. London, 1855 Compiled by Henry G. Bohn^ the London second-hand bookseller, who was proud of the honor of having been a " bookseller's salesman." He had no arrogant conceit. 462 Hansard (G. A.). The Book of Archery, being the com- plete history and practice of the art, ancient and modern, interspersed with numerous interesting anecdotes. Numerous steel plates and vignette title, after Stephanoff. Svo, green calf extra, top edge gilt, others uncut. London, Bohn, 1841-45 The best work on this interesting sport. " The pictorial embellishments are some of the most beautiful we have ever seen." — Art Union. 463 Harington (Sir J.). Nugae Antique, being a Miscellaneous Collection of Original Papers in Prose and Verse, written in the Reigns of Henry VIIL, Edward VI., Mary, Eliza- beth and James I. Selected from Authentic Remains by the late Henry Harington, M.A., and Newly Arranged THE FARNUM LIBRARY. 135 with Illustrative Notes by Thomas Park, F.S.A. 2 vols. 8vo, calf. London, 1804 Best edition of this valuable work for the Shakespearean studeilt. Allibone says Sir John Harington — " was a great favorite with his god- mother Queen Elizabeth, although temporarily banished from Court for writing a witty work upon an objectionable theme, entitled ' The Metamorphosis of Ajax,' London, 1596, 8vo. A license was refused for printing the work, yet it nevertheless went through three impres- sions." 464 Harris (Thaddeus William). A Treatise on Some of the Insects injurious to Vegetation. A new Edition, Enlarged and Improved, with Additions from the Author's Manu- scripts and Original Notes. Edited by Charles L. Flint. Illustrated by colored plates and numerous wood engrav- ings drawn from nature under the supervision of Professor Agassiz. Royal 8vo, cloth, red edges. Boston, 1862 Large paper. 500 copies printed. ' ' The late Dr. Thaddeus William Harris was one of the commis- sioners appointed for the Zoological and Botanical Survey of Massa- chusetts while I was Governor of the State, in 1837. The entomo- logical department was entrusted to him ; and in this country he had, at the time, no superior, if he had an equal, which I doubt." — Edward Everett. 465 Harris (Capt. William Cornwallis). The Wild Sports of Southern Africa ; being the Narrative of a Hunting Expe- dition from the Cape of Good Hope. Illustrated with numerous colored plates. 4to, cloth, gilt edges. London, 1852 ' ' The Zoologist will find in this book many valuable accounts of the habits of animals of the greatest rarity ; and the sportsman will read of scenes of the most stirring description, and of shots which leave nothing more to be wished from " eye, hand, lead and gunpowder.' " — London Quarterly Review. 466 Harleian Miscellany ; a Collection of Scarce, Curious, and Entertaining Pamphlets and Tracts, as well in Manu- script as Print, selected from the Library of the Earl OF Oxford, with the Supplement and large Additions and Notes by T. Park. 10 vols, royal 4to, calf, gilt, marbled ends and edges. London, 1808-13 Best edition. Scarce. Rufus Choate's copy bearing his auto- graph on the fly-leaves. Gough asserts that the number of pamphlets in the Harleian Library was computed to be 400,000, From this vast treasure the jndefatiga- 136 THE FARNUM LIBRARY. ble Oldys extracted between 600 and 700, which were published as the ' ' Harleian Miscellany. " ' ' This valuable political, historical and antiquarian work, an indis- pensable auxiliary in the illustration of the Literature, Manners, etc. , of the British, contains between 600 and 700 rare and curious tracts." — Lowndes. " To the importance of this collection of Tracts and Papers for elucidating many historical occurrences, no person who feels inter- ested in the discovery of truth can be inattentive. I hardly know of any one collection, or set of volumes, likely to be productive of more varied entertainment, especially if the reader have a philological turn."— Dr. Dibdin. 467 Haslewood (Joseph). Reprints, i. e. : — I. Painter's Palace of Pleasure, beautified, adorned, and furnished with Pleasant Histories, and excellent Novels, edited by Haslewood. 3 vols. London, 18 13 Only 165 printed ; published at ;f 10 lOs. each set. The Palace of Pleasure is, without doubt, not only one of the earUest, but one of the most valuable selection of tales published during Queen Elizabeth's reign. " The favorite book of the immortal Shakespeare." II. Mirror for Magistrates, edited with Historical Notes, etc., by Haslewood. 3 vols. London, 1813 Only 150 copies printed. The popularity of this work, and its influence on English National Poetry throughout the reigns of Eliz.abeth and James I. were very con- siderable. The excellent notes of the editor render this edition most valuable and interesting. " 'This work,' says Wharton, 'suggested scenes to Shakespeare, and was the origin of our historical plays. ' It is the joint production of William Baldwin, Thomas Sackville and George Ferrars. Baldwin, a schoolmaster and divine, is the chief author. (For George Ferrars, see page 41.) Thomas Sackville, Earl of Dorset, born 1536, died 1608, ' was not more distinguished for his high official position — Lord High Treasurer of England — than for the excellence of his poeti- cal composition. ... Of this grand work, which ' illuminates with no common lustre that interval of darkness which occupies the annals of Enghsh poetry from Surrey to Spencer,' we had intended to give an account, but to do justice to the subject requires far more space than we can afford." — S. Austin Allibone. Together 6 vols. 4T0. Elegantly bound by Riviere in CRUSHED levant MOROCCO EXTRA, GILT EDGES ON MARBLE. London, 1813 Large paper. A splendid set, and believed to be the finest copy in America. THE FARNUM LIBRARY. 137 468 Haslewood. Ancient Critical Essays upon English Poets and Poesy, containing reprints of the Rare Works of Puttenham, Gascoigne, Harvey, Spenser, K. James, Webb, Harington, Meres, Campion, Daniel and Bol- ton, edited by Joseph Haslewood. 2 vols. 4to, half morocco, uncut. London, 1811-15 Fine, uncut copy. Only 200 copies were printed of the first volume and 220 of the second. Most of the copies of the second volume were destroyed by fire. Published at £fi bs. 469 Haweis (H. R.). Music and Morals. \\. Philosophical : Music, Emotion and Morals ; 2. Biographical : Ambrose to Mendelssohn ; 3. Instrumental . Violins, Pianofortes and Bells ; 4. Critical : Music in England.] Illustrations. 8vo, cloth, uncut. London, 187 1 " Mr. Haweis writes not only fearlessly, but with remarkable fresh- ness and vigour. In all that he says we perceive a transparent honesty and singleness of purpose." — Saturday Review. 470 Hawkins (Sir John). General History of the Science and Practice of Music. With 5 1 portraits, and numerous en- gravings of musical instruments^, many pieces of old music, etc. 5 vols. 4to, calf. London, 1776 A very esteemed work. The above copy belonged to H. R. H. Princess Sophia of England, and has her book-plate. Harwood's copy fetched, 1858, at Sotheby's, £b ^s. dd. 471 Hawkins (Thomas). Origin of the English Drama, illus- trated in its various Species, viz. : — Mystery, Morality, Tra- gedy and Comedy by Specimens from our Earliest Writers, with Explanatory Notes. 3 vols, crown 8vo, elegantly bound in yellow calf gilt, gilt edges. Oxford, 1773 Very scarce. A catalogue of the contents of these volumes — also of ' ' Dodsley's Collection of Old Plays — will be found in Harris's ' Cata- logue of the Royal Institution.'" 472 Haydon (Benjamin Robert, historical painter). Life of, from His Autobiography and Journals. Edited and compiled by Tom Taylor. Second edition. 3 vols, crown 8vo, half morocco gilt, top edges gilt, others uncut. London, 1853 A remarkable book relative to a remarkable man, who, like Chattertoa, perished in his pride. 138 THE FARNUM LIBRARY. 473 Hazlitt (William). Works, viz. : — I. Hazlitt. Table Talk, Original Essays on Men and Manners. 2 vols. London, 1845-46 II. Hazlitt. Criticisms on Art, and Sketches of Picture Galleries of England. 2 vols. London, 1843-44 III. Hazlitt. Plain Speaker, Opinions on Books, Men and Things. 2 vols. London, 185 1 With autograph of " Richard Grant White." IV. Hazlitt. Criticisms and Dramatic Essays on the En- glish Stage. London, 1851 V. Hazlitt. Characters of Shakespeare's Plays. London, 1848 VI. Hazlitt. Lectures on the Dramatic Literature of the Age of Elizabeth. London, 1840 VII. Hazlitt. Lectures on the English Poets. London, 1841 VIII. Hazlitt. Lectures on the Comic Writers. London, 1841 IX. Hazlitt. Round Table, Literature, Men and Manners. London, 1841 X. Hazlitt. Winterslow — Essays and Characters. London, 1850 Together 13 vols. i6mo, cloth, uncut. London, 1840-51 A desirable set of the best editions of Hazlitt's works, collected and edited by his son- Hazlitt — ' ' possessed in a very eminent degree what we are inclined to believe the most important requisite for true criticism, — agreat na- tural relish for all the phases of intellectual life and action." — TuCKER- MAN. 474 [Hazlitt. j Liber Amoris; or, the New Pygmalion [by William Hazlitt.] Engraved with vignette head (loose and soiled). i2mo, boards. London, John Hunt, 1823 Rare. This little volume is an account of the strange love infatu- ation of William Hazlitt, which eventually caused his death. Hazlitt had formed a strong attachment to the housekeeper's daughter at the house in which he had his chambers, and by whom he was deceived. The title of this extraordinary work is adorned with a medallion portrait of the individual. It was rigidly suppressed by the author's friends. ' ' Hazlitt had published a little book which was universally laughed at, but which in one view of it greatly raised him in my opinion by showing him to be capable of stronger and more agitating passions than THE FARNUM LIBRARY. 139 I believed to be within the range of his nature — his ' Liber Amoris, or the Modern Pygmalion' It bore upon its title-page an engraved copy of a female figure, by what painter I forget at this mo- ment, but I think by Titian — which, as Hazlitt imagined, closely re- sembled the object of his present adoration." — De Quincey, " Recol- lections of Charles Lamb." 475 Hazlitt (Wm. Carew, grandson of the preceding). English Proverbs and Proverbial Phrases collected from the Most Authentic Sources, Alphabetically Arranged and Annotated by W. Carew Hazlitt. Royal 8vo, cloth, uncut. London, John Russell Smith, 1869 Printed at the Chiswick Press. "The impression of this book is limited to 350 copies, of which 50 are on large paper. Whittingham and WiLKlNS." 476 Hazlitt. Hand-Book to the Popular, Poetical and Dra- matic Literature of Great Britain, from the Invention of Printing to the Restoration. By W. Carew Hazlitt. Thick 8vo, half morocco, all edges uncut. London, John Russell Smith, 1867 A thick volume of 704 pages, including the " Post-Prsefatio." This bibliographical work, which was an eight or nine years' labor of love to the author, brings together a large variety of fresh information and very numerous and important notices of undescribed works and editions in early English and Scottish literature. One branch of early English literature which, in existing works of refer- ence, has been very superficially treated, receives peculiar attention, and a new prominence to which it was fairly entitled. The author stated before the publication of this work; — " I refer to our popular literature in the strict sense of that term, and to our folk lore, which are bound together by very intimate ties. I shall not scruple to give a large space to Tom Thumb and Robin GooDFELLOVif; for my purposes, these two heroes are worth more than a cart-load of tracts, political and polemical. I purpose to enter at large into the bibliographical history of all our romances of chivalry, all our jest- books, all our drolleries, and all our old story-books." 477 Hazlitt. Remains of the Early Popular Poetry of England, with Notes, etc., by W. C. Hazlitt. Crown 8vo, cloth, uncut. London, Russell Smith, 1864 Large paper. ' ' The largest and most important assemblage of the early popular poetry of England which has ever been submitted to the public." — Preface. I40 THE FARNUM LIBRARY. 478 Hearne (Thomas, M.A.). Chronicles, comprising— Robert OF Gloucester's Metrical Chronicle of England, with a Preface, Notes, Glossary, and an Appendix by Hearne, 2 vols.; and Peter Langtoft's Metrical Chronicle of England, to which are added a Preface, a Glossary, and other curious Papers, by Hearne, 2 vols. Together 4 vols, royal 8vo, calf. London, Bagster, 18 10 Containing tlie most extensive glossary of early English literature extant. It not only refers to the work itself, but gives many long extracts from unpublished contemporary manuscripts. 479 Heaton (Mrs. Charles). A Concise History of Painting. With illustrations in permanent photography. Crown 8vo, cloth. London, 1873 480 Heine (Heinrich). Poems Complete — Translated in Original Metre with Life by E. A. Bowring. Post 8vo, cloth. London, 1861 Regarding Heine as a wit and humorist alone, his sayings and opinions have a charm unrivalled in the history of literature. We believe it was M. Thiers who said that he was the wittiest Frenchman since Voltaire, and, in his power of the application of wit, and in his readiness with it, he certainly was as universal as that extraordinary spirit; while, as respecting his humor, he could be in tones as tender as Sterne, and as savage and grave as Swift. 481 Helps (Arthur). The Spanish Conquest in America and its Relation to the History of Slavery and to the Govern- ment of Colonies. 4 vols. 8vo, cloth, uncut. London, 1855-61 " The whole of this noble work is devoted to a history of the rela- tions of the Indians of America to its Spanish invaders; and the effect of their occupation and conquest upon the population, religion and manners of the aborigines. The various narratives and histories, which describe the awful destruction of many Indian nations by the Spaniards, are criticized with true philosophical acumen, and the veracity and capability of their authors fairly examined." — T. W. Field. 482 Helps. Friends in Council. 2 vols, post 8vo, purple morocco elegant, edges gilt by Westleys. London, Wm. Pickering, 1851 Scarce. A beautiful copy of Pickering's edition. Handsomely printed by C. Whittingham at Chiswick. " A more pleasant book we have never read." — British Quarterly Review. THE FARNUM LIBRARY. 141 483 Hemans (Mrs.). Poetical Works, complete, with Life by her Sister. Portraits and vignettes. 7 vols, foolscap 8vo, half morocco elegant, gilt edges. Edinburgh, 1840-44 Best EDITION. " By far the most popular of our poetesses, alike at home and beyond the Atlantic." — MoiR. 484 Herbert (G.). Works in Verse and Prose. Pickering's handsome library edition, printed in large antique type, by Whittingham. With fine portrait. 2 vols. 8vo, purple morocco antique bevelled sides and gilt edges. London, Pickering, 1853 Large paper. Only an edition of 250 copies was printed. This edition contains the Proverbs, and many pieces never before printed, with Notes by S. T. Coleridge, and Life by his first biographer, Barnabas Oley. ' ' I pored over him all day long ; and, though I found not here what I might have found, — a cure for my malady, — yet it never seemed so much alleviated as while I was reading him." — Cowper. 485 Herculaneum et PoMPjfii ; Recueil g:en£ral des Pein- tures, Bronzes, Mosaiques, etc., d^couverts jusqu'a ce jour et reproduits, d'apres tous les ouvrages publics jusqu'a present, avec un Texte explicatif par M. Barre. With 700 fine engravings by H. Roux, aine. 8 vols, imperial 8vo, half red morocco gilt, top edge gilt, other edges uncut. Paris, Didot, 1861-62 This is the most complete work on the discoveries at Herculaneum and Pompeii, exhibiting all the paintings, bronzes, miniatures, etc., hitherto published in rare or expensive works, with the addition of many others which have not previously appeared. The eighth volume, containing the " Musee Secret," is curious and uncommon ; exhibiting the lascivious indulgences of the ardent Pompeians as depicted upon the walls of their baths and private apartments. ' ' We need not regret the departure of those times when modesty had no cloak ; when, like the brute, man and woman stood before each other unabashed at their nakedness . The facility of enjoyment gave birth to satiety and disgust. A frightful corruption of morals was the inevitable consequence of this state of things, for excess of debauchery could alone reanimate desire, the prime mover of enjoyment. Eternal glory to the religion which, overturning these impure idols into the mire, and unrolling the code of chastity before our eyes, has made our sensa- tions purer and our pleasures keener." — Fanin. 486 Herndon (W. L.) and Gibbon (L.). Exploration of the Valley of the Amazon. Plates, maps, etc. 2 vols. (Parts i and 2) 8vo, cloth. Washington, 1854 Of this popular work 40,000 copies were printed. 142 THE FARNUM LIBRARY. 487 Herrick (R.). Hesperides, or the Works both Humane and Divine of Robert Herrick, Esq. Portrait. 2 vols, post 8vo, half morocco. London, Wm. Pickering, 1846 Very scarce. Printed by C. W. Whittingham, Chiswick. " Horace He was but a sour ass, And good for nothing but lyric ; There's but one to be found In all English ground Writes so well, who is bright Robert Herrick." —Notes upon Parnassus. 1658. 488 HiLDRETH (Richard). History of the United States of America to the End of the Sixteenth Congress. 6 vols, royal 8vo, cloth, top edges gilt. N. Y., 1^49-52 "I write undistorted by prejudice, uncolored by sentiment, neither tricked out in the gaudy tinsel of meretricious rhetoric, nor stretched, nor shortened, to suit the purposes of any partial political theory." — HiLDRETH. " By all competent critics in France, England and America, this careful and laborious work is now regarded as the only trustworthy and serious attempt yet made to tell the story of the rise and progress of the great Republic with historic dignity and honesty. '' —N. Y. World. 489 Hindley (Charles). Old Book Collector's Miscellany ; or, a Collection of Readable Reprints of Literary Rarities, illustrative of the History, Literature, Manners, and Biog- raphy of the English Nation during the i6th and 17th Centuries. Facsimiles, etc. 4 vols. 8vo, half morocco, top edges gilt, others uncut, Roxburghe style. London, 1871-73 " To carry out our term of 'Readable Reprints,' and, as no real service is being rendered to literature by retaining the orthography of the period at which the works were first published, the modern standard of spelling will be used throughout, with the exception of such words as would suffer by being altered, or the original sense in which they were used destroyed ; in these cases the primitive spelling will be retained. " — Preface. 490 Historic Illustrations of the Bible, with Descriptions, EngUsh, French and German. The Four Series com- plete. With upwards of 120 highly-finished engravings. 4 vols, in two. 4to, half morocco. London, Fisher, n. d. These volumes contain many of the finest Pictures of the Old and Modern Masters. 491 Historical Magazine, and Notes and Queries concerning the Antiquities, History, and Biography of America. Plates. Vols, i to 8 inclusive. 4to, half morocco, cloth sides. Boston and N. Y., 1857-64 THE FARNUM LIBRARY. 143 492 Hitchcock (E.). Religion of Geology and Its Connected Sciences. Colored front. i2mo, cloth. Boston, 1851 493 HoBBES (Thomas, of Malmesbury). English and Latin Works complete, collected and edited by Sir W. Moles- worth. Portrait. 16 vols. 8vo, cloth, uncut. London, 1839-45 The only complete edition of the works of this celebrated writer, who will ever be regarded aj one of the master spirits of English lit- erature. ' ' Thomas Hobbes, in language more precise and luminous than has ever been employed by any other metaphysical writer." — Macaulay. 494 Hogarth (William). Works, being 79 plates, engraved by Hogarth himself, and many of which are early proofs and original impressions, including the Harlot's Progress, Be- fore and After, etc., etc. (a few slightly damaged on the margins). Folio, old purple morocco gilt, edges gilt. London This copy belo iged to David Roberts, the artist and President of the British Royal Academy. It has his visiting card with address inserted. This is an original set of Hogarth of extreme scarcity, and very different to the modern touched-up copies. The collection consists of the engravings, genuine impressions, sold by Mrs. Hogarth imme- diately after the death of her husband. ' ' The anchor which held Hogarth fastest to the public favor was the sincere and deliberate belief — prevalent among the more serious of the substantial orders — that his works were in the highest degree moral, and that they contributed to the inculcation of virtue and piety The philosopher who ever preached the sturdy English virtues that have made us what we are." — Comhill Magazine, 495 Hogarth. Biographical Anecdotes of, with a Catalogue of his Works, etc. [by John Nichols]. Engraved title front. 8vo, calf. 'LanAovi, John Nichols, x'j?>'-) " Best edition, with a knife-and-fork vignette on the title-page." — Lowndes. 496 Hogarth. Five Days' Frolic ; or, Peregrinations by Land and Water. Illustrated by tinted drawings made by Hogarth and Scott during the journey. 4to, cloth gilt. London, n. d. A graphic and most extraordinary picture of the hearty English times in which these merry artists lived. 144 THE FARNUM LIBRARY. 497 Hogarth (George). Memoirs of the Musical Drama. Por- traits. 2 vols. 8vo, half calf, cloth sides. London, Bentley, 1838 Best edition. From the library of the late W. E. Burton. The author was Charles Dickens's father-in-law. "He brings general scholarship and cultivation to his task, and has produced a very instructive as well as entertaining book." — Athe- ncBum. 498 Hogarth. Musical History, Biography and Criticism. 2 vols. i6mo, half calf, cloth sides. London, Parker, 1838 From the W. E. Burton Library. 499 Hogg (Thos. Jefferson). Life of Percy Bysshe Shelley. Portrait. 2 thick vols, crown 8vo, cloth, uncut. London, Moxon, 1858 Never completed, owing to the objections of the Shelley family. The book has become quite scarce, in consequence of its suppression in Great Britain. Shelley will be found to stand immeasurably higher than Byron. Whatever may have been the errors of his head, his heart appears, by the testimony of all who knew him, to have been eminently kind, gene- rous and unselfish. And if his conduct seems occasionally to contradict this view, it was a rare exception to the general rule ; while with Byron the reverse was true, pride and selfishness was the rule, disinterested- ness the exception. 500 Holbein (Hans). Account of the Life and Works of, by R. N. WoRNUM. With steel portrait, fine wood engravings and 2 photographic portraits from the drawings by Holbein. Imperial 8vo, cloth, bevelled sides, all edges uncut. London, 1867 With appendix containing Inventory of Pictures, Carvings, Embroid- eries, etc. , belonging to King Henry VIII. at the time of his decease, 1517, and a Catalogue of Portraits by Holbein of English lords and ladies of the Court of King Henry VIII., in Her Majesty's collection at Windsor. 501 Holbein and His Time. By Dr. Alfred Woltman, trans- lated by F. E. Bunnett. Handsomely printed on toned paper, and illustrated with upwards of c,o fine engravings on wood from original pictures by Holbein. Thick square 8vo, cloth gilt, bevelled sides, gilt edges. London, Bentley, 1872 A charming biography. THE FARNUM LIBRARY. 145 502 Holbein. Icones Veteris Testamenti, with English Text. Illustrations of the Old Testament, engraved on wood from designs by Hans Holbein. i2mo, cloth, uncut. London, Wm. Pickering, 1830 "Instead of figures of Venus and Diana, and libidinous forms of other goddesses, which only injure the mind by error, or poison it by depravity, [he has exhibited] subjects connected with holy writ, which point, finger-like, to the penetralia of Hagiography." — Frellon. 503 Holbein. Dance of Death, with an Historical and Literary Introduction. 32 plates on India paper. Crown 8vo, cloth (pages loose). London, John Russell Smith, 1849 *' The Grave's the Market Place where all men meet, Both rich and poor, as well as small and great, If life were merchandize that gold could buy, The rich would live, the poor alone would die." 504 Holmes (Abiel, D.D.). The Annals of America, from the Discovery by Columbus in the year 1492 to the year 1826. Second Edition. 2 vols. 8vo, cloth. Cambridge, Hilliard and Brown, 1829 Clean copy of the Best Edition. " One of the best works of the kind ever published. Everything of importance in the history of America is related in a concise manner, with copious and interesting notes and references to the original author- ities. It is out of print and scarce." — Rich. " Holmes's 'Annals' has now (1856) become a liber rarissimus, and can rarely be purchased." — Allibone. " It is the best repository of historical, chronological and biograph- ical knowledge respecting America that can be found embodied in one work." — Jared Sparks. 505 Holy Bible, Old and New Testaments. Macklin's Mag- nificent Edition. Printed with exceedingly large and beautiful type by Bensley, and illustrated with the splendid series of engravings by the best English Artists {some slightly foxed). Fine impressions. 7 vols, royal folio, russia, gilt edges. London, Bensley, 1800 This splendid edition, printed by the famous Bensley, was published at nearly £\oo without the binding. 850 copies only were printed and for subscribers. It exhibits the utmost perfection of both the arts of printing and engraving. " Thorpe, 1824, £yi ; Rivington, 1824, .,£■45." 506 Homer. Works. I., The Iliad, translated by A. Pope, with the exquisite series of illustrations by Stothard, Fu- SELi, Westall, etc., 6 vols.; and II., Odyssey, translated by Pope, with the beautiful plates by Burney, Fuseli, 146 THE FARNUM LIBRARY. Smirke, Singleton and Howard, 6 vols. Together 12 vols, royal 8vo, elegantly bound in green morocco extra, gilt edges. London, 1805-06 Large paper. Du Roveray's edition, printed by T. Bensley, and published at £,(i 6s. " But (thanks to Homer) since I live and thrive Indebted to no prince or peer alive." — —Pope. 507 Homer. The Iliad, Odyssey and Batrachomyomachia, of Homer, Prince of Poets, never before in any language truly translated with a Comment on some of his Chief Places ; done according to the Greek by George Chap- man, with Introduction and Notes by Richard Hooper, A.M. Portrait and engraved facsimile titles. 5 vols, post 8vo, cloth, uncut. London, 1857-65 Printed by Whittingham at the Chiswick Press. Second and best edition. " Chapman, when he lays aside the gravity of the philosopher and poet, discovers an unexpected comic vein distinguished by equal truth of nature and lively good humor. " — William Hazlitt. 508 Homer. Iliad. Translated into English Accentuated Hex- ameters, by Sir John F. W. Herschel. 4to, cloth, uncut. London, 1866 The author was the celebrated English astronomer and the only son of his more distinguished father. Sir William Herschel. 509 Homer. Odyssey and Iliad, Translated into English by W. C. Bryant. 4 vols. 4to, cloth, bevelled sides, gilt top edges. Boston, 1870-2 510 Homer. Burlesque Translation of Homer. Numerous en- gravings. 2 vols, in I. 8vo, half calf. London, 1797 " A work full of humor, written by Thos. Bridges, but which often transgresses the bounds of decency. " — Lowndes. 511 Homer. Iliad, Odyssey and Hymns. Literally Translated with Notes by Buckley. Portrait. 2 vols, post 8vo, cloth, uncut. London, 1857-60 512 Homes of American Authors; comprising Anecdotal, Personal, and Descriptive Sketches, by Various Writers. Illustrated with views of their residences from original drawings, portraits, vignettes and facsimiles. 4to, cloth, top edge gilt, others uncut. N. Y., Putnam, 1853 Scarce. First edition. THE FARNUM LIBRARY. 147 513 Hone (William). Popular Works, viz.: — Every-Day Book, 2 vols.; II., Table Book; III., Year Book. With several hundred woodcuts of old customs, remarkable characters, curiosities, etc. 4 vols. 8vo, half morocco, marbled sides and edges. London, 1826-32 A fine set of the scarce original editions. " Reader, did you ever see Hone's Every-Day Book ? You cannot do better than buy it directly. . . You will meet with . . spirit telling descriptions of old customs, delightful woodcuts of old buildings, as well as many a fine secret learned among the woods and fields, and whispered by the ' season's difference. ' . . He has deserved well of the naturalist, the antiquarian, and the poet, by his Every-Day Book, and also by his Table Book." — Christopher North. 514 Hone. Ancient Mysteries Described. Especially the En- glish Miracle Plays, founded on Apocryphal New Testa- ment Story, including Notices of Ecclesiastical Shows, the Festivals of Fools and Asses, the English Boy-Bishop, the Descent into Hell, the Lord Mayor's Show, the Guildhall Giants, Christmas Carols, etc. Copper and wood engrav- ings. 8vo, calf gilt. London, 1823 Scarce. Original copy of the first edition, with colored ' ' Gog and Magog " plate. " Is it possible that the spells of apocrypha should juggle men into such strange mysteries ?" — Shakespeare. 515 Hood (T.). Hood's Own; or, Laughter from Year to Year. Both series. With several hundred cuts from his own designs. 2 vols. 8vo, cloth, uncut. London, 1846-61 This popular work contains some of the humorist's best productions, including articles from his " Comic Annuals," and a graphic portrait of himself in his " Literary Reminiscences." 516 Hooker (Sir W.). Journal of a Tour in Iceland, with Ap- pendix containing an Icelandic Flora, etc. Engravings and colored front. 8vo, half morocco, gilt. Yarmouth, " not published," 18 11 Very scarce. Printed for private circulation only. " The travels of this author [Hooker], Mackenzie and Henderson would seem to leave nothing to be desired on the subject of this extra- ordinary island and its inhabitants." — Stevenson. 148 THE FARNUM LIBRARY. 517 HoRNE (T. Hartwell). Introduction to the Study of Bib- liography, with Memoir on the PubHc Libraries of the Ancients. Engraved facsimiles. 2 vols. 8vo, cloth, hand- somely bound in brown russia gilt, edges gilt. London, 18 14 Extremely scarce. Large paper, of which 50 copies were printed. This is one of the few copies printed on Whatman's vellura paper. The second volume contains a most complete list and description of works on bibliography and literary history. " On page 92, et seq., is a chapter on Mexican and North American picture writing. Prefaced is a memoii on the public libraries of the ancients. The most useful work of the kind in the English lan- guage.'' — Saein's Dictionary. 518 HoRNE. Introduction to the Critical Study and Knowl- edge of the Holy Scriptures. Edited by Horne, Ayre and Tregelles. Facsimiles of Biblical MS. and maps. 4 vols. 8vo, cloth, uncut. London, 1872 This is a copy that should find a place on the shelves of the New York Thirteen Club library. It is the ' ' thirteenth (and best) edition." 519 HowiTT (William). Homes and Haunts of the most Eminent British Poets. Second Edition. Wood en- gravings. 2 vols. 8vo, calf gilt, marbled edges. London, 1847 " An indissoluble sign of their existence has stamped itself on the abodes of all distinguished men, a sign which places all kindred spirits in communion with them." — The Citizen of Prague. 520 HowiTT. Visits to Remarkable Places ; Old Halls, Battle Fields, and Scenes Illustrative of Striking Passages in English History and Poetry. Both Series. With numerous illustrations by Samuel Williams. 2 vols. 8vo, half mo- rocco, top edges gilt, others uncut. London, 1840 Scarce. First edition of both series. "' A rich treat for all genuine lovers of literature, historical antiqui- ties, and natural scenery." — United Service Gazette. " His strength lies in a fresh and hearty appreciation of nature, of costume, and of character." — London Athenaum. 521 HowiTT. Student Life of Germany. Numerous cuts and steel frontispiece. 8vo, calf gilt, marbled edges. London, 1841 Scarce. First edition, many plates, woodcuts, music, etc. The best work on the subject. THE FARNUM LIBRARY. 149 522 HuBER (V. A.). English Universities from the German. Ed- ited by Francis W. Newman. Portraits, views, plates and maps, some colored. 3 vols. 8vo, cloth, uncut. London, Wm. Pickering, 1843 Some plates are generally wanting in this work. This copy is per- fect. 523 HuisH (Robert). The Public and Private Life of his late Excellent and Most Gracious Majesty George the Third, With portraits and other illustrations, with numerous added plates s in all, 121 portraits and 2 1 views. 2 vols. 4to, red morocco gilt. London, 1821 Unique. With 142 plates in all, including the inlaid and inserted portraits and views. This copy was purchased at the John Allan sale. It contains many scurrilous anecdotes of the British court and courtiers. " His work is most exact, and contains much solid information." — Athenaum. 524 Hume (David.) Philosophical Works. Including all the Essays and Exhibiting the more Important Alterations and Correction in the Successive Editions published by the Author. Portrait. 4 vols. 8vo, elegantly bound in tree marbled calf extra. Edinburgh and Boston, 1854 Best edition. " With the single exception of Bayle, he has carried the sceptical mode of reasoning farther than any other modern philosopher.'' — DuGALD Stewart. 525 Humboldt. Life of Alexander von Humboldt, com- piled in Commemoration of the Centenary of his Birth. By J. Lowenberg, Robert Ave-Lallenant and Alfred Dove. Edited by Professor Karl Bruhus. Trans- lated from the German by Jane and Caroline Lassell. Portraits. 2 vols. 8vo, cloth, uncut. London, 1873 '■ My only conception of biography is that of historical truth." — William von Humboldt. 526 Humphreys (H. Noel). History of the Art of Print- ing; Its Invention, and Progress to the Middle of the Sixteenth Century. With 105 plates, comprising fac- similes frotn the most remarkable Block-Books, and from all the important Typographical Monuments of Germany, Hoi- Ijo THE FARNUM IJBRARY. land, Italy, France, England, etc., including 44 facsimiles of the press of Caxton, Wynkyn de Worde, Pynson, and of the Earliest English and Foreign Bibles and Prayer- Books. Imperial 4to, cloth gilt, uncut. London, Bernard Quaritch, 1867 No. 14 of the first issue of the limited edition of 300 numbered copies. The illustrations to this work, unlike facsimiles produced by hand, must necessarily be absolute reproductions of their originals. They exceed one hundred in number, and frequently consist of represent- ations of entire pages from many of the most interesting books pro- duced by the early printers. Among them may be mentioned an entire folio page from the first printed Bible, the magnificent work of Gut- enberg, richly adorned with ornamental borderings by a contemporary German illuminator. An entire page from the celebrated Psalter of Schosffer, in which the large capitals are printed in colors, in rivalry with the illuminators of the time. Pages from the first books printed in Italy, France, Spain, Flanders and Holland, accompany the account of the introduction of the printing-press to those countries; and several such entire pages in facsimile illustrate the description of the works of William Caxton, the founder of the printing press in England. In addition to these and many illustrations of other kinds, vrill be found a very interesting and an abundant series of examples from the most richly decorated of the French " HoR^," and from the profusely illustrated German books produced in the first half of the sixteenth century. "No such book for typographical collectors and all interested in the progress of literature has ever appeared." — Welford. 527 Hunt (Charles Havens). Life of Edward Living- ston, with an Introduction by George Bancroft. Por- trait on India paper. Imperial 8vo, cloth, uncut. N. Y., 1864 Large paper; only 50 copies printed at the Riverside Press. "Few have discharged more fully than Mr. Livingston that debt which Bacon holds every one owes to his profession." — GiLPlN. 528 Hunt (Leigh). Stories from the Italian Poets, with Lives of the Writers. 2 vols. i2mo, cloth, uncut. London, 1846 Large paper. " Gossiping, graceful and searching." — Allan Cunningham. " He is, in truth, one of the pleasantest writers of his time — easy, colloquial, genial, humane, full of fine fancies and verbal niceties, possessing a loving if not a ' learned spirit,' with hardly a spice of bit- terness in his composition." - Whipple's Essays and Reviews. THE FARNUM LIBRARY. 151 529 HusKissoN (Rt. Hon. Wm.). Speeches, with a Biographical Memoir. Portrait. 3 vols. 8vo, cloth, uncut. London, John Murray, 1831 " The speeches of Mr. Huskisson ought to be the manual of finan- ciers.'' — London AthencEum. 530 Huxley (T. H., LL.D.). Lay Sermons, Addresses, and Reviews. 8vo, cloth, uncut. N. Y,, 1870 152 THE FARNUM LIBRARY. 53^ ||^l!fr<*;l|HNE (W., Ph.D). Researches into the History of the Roman Constitution with an Appendix upon the Roman Knights. 8vo, cloth, trimmed. London, Wm. Pickering, 1853 Printed by C. Whittingham. 532 ILLUMINATED MiSSAL. A FRAGMENT of an ILLUMINATED Missal executed in the middle of the Fourteenth Century. Being 54 pages of exquisite illuminations in gold and COLORS ON VELLUM — the gold of all the capital letters highly burnished and every page adorned with floriated borders. i6mo, calf. Scec, XIV. From the John Allan collection and with MS. notes on the fly- leaf by that bibliophile. An EXQUISITE specimen o£ the art of illumination in the 14th cen- tury. In a recent catalogue issued by a Broadway firm, the sum of ONE THOUSAND dollars is asked for a 15th century Flemish missal, with seven full-page miniatures and 13 elaborately illuminated letters. Other " Horse," or Hours, in the same catalogue, range from $800 to $125, and it is therein truthfully stated that — "the difficulty of pro- curing choice specimens of this sort is increasing very much, and prices will continue to advance." 533 Imitations of Celebrated Authors, or Imaginary Reject- ed Authors. Crown Svo, cloth. London, Colburn, 1844 Includes imitations of Lamb, Leigh Hunt, Jeffrey, Cobbett, Byron, Hazlitt, etc. 534 Incidents of the Apostolic Age in Britain. i6mo, cloth, uncut. London, Wm. Pickering, 1844 A handsome specimen of the press of " C. Whittingham, Chis- wick. " THE FARNUM LIBRARY. 153 535 Inman (Thomas, M.D). Ancient Faiths Embodied in Ancient Names; or, an Attempt to trace the Religious Belief, Sacred Rites, and Holy Emblems of certain Nations, by an Interpretation of the Names given to Children by Priestly Authority, or assumed by Prophets, Kings, and Hierarchs. Profusely illustrated with engravings on wood. 2 vols, thick 8vo, cloth, uncut. London, 1872-3 "Dr. Inman's present attempt to trace the religious belief, sacred rites, and holy emblems of certain nations, has opened up to him many hitherto unexplored fields of research, or, at least, fields that have not been over-cultivated, and the result is a most curious and miscellaneous harvest of facts. The ideas on phallism developed in a former volume receive further extension in this. " — London Book- seller. 536 Irving (Washington). Life of George Washington. Copiously and beautifully illustrated by the addition of very numerous plates. 5 vols. 4to, half red morocco, gilt top. N. Y., Putnam, 1855-59 Unique. Large paper copy. No. i of the i 10 copies printed IN quarto. This was the John Allan copy and was lot No. 1560 of that cata- logue, the compiler of which was the late eminent bibliographer, Joseph Sabin, and who was so overwhelmed with its unique BEAUTIES that he stated in a note — " It is impossible to do justice to this fine work in the limits of this Catalogue. It must be seen to be appreciated." The FIVE volumes are copiously and beautifully illus- trated BY the addition OF 25O PORTRAITS AND PLATES, BESIDES THOSE ISSUED WITH THE VOLUMES AND WHICH ARE INDIA PROOFS. The PORTRAITS INCLUDE ABOUT gO DIFFERENT PORTRAITS OF Washington, many of which are exceedingly rare. Most of the engravings in these volumes are of great rarity, many are India proofs and where necessary have been care- fully INLAID TO QUARTO. 537 Irving. The Life and Letters of Washington Irving. By his Nephew Pierre M. Irving. Profusely illustrated with numerous inserted engraved portraits and views, also photo- graphs. 4 vols. 4to, half morocco, uncut. N. Y., G. P. Putnam, 1862-64 Unique and large paper copy, of which only 50 were printed. The inserted plates, portraits, etc., added to this extensively illustrated copy of the " Life of Washington Irving" were collected by the late John Allan. Among them are included many portraits and views of great rarity. 154 THE FARNUM LIBRARY. 538 Irving. Works. Complete, with his Life and Letters. Revised Edition. With all the celebrated illustrations by Darley, etc. 27 vols, square 8vo, half morocco, gilt, top edges gilt, others uncut. N. Y., 1860-63 Large paper, Mount Vernon edition, of which size only 100 were beautifully printed, on tinted paper. This set includes — Life and Letters of Irving, 4 vols. ; Washington Irving [Memorial], vrith extra plates inserted, i860; Life and Voyages of Columbus, 3 vols. ; Life of Washington, 5 vols. ; Mahomet and His Successors, 2 vols. ; Bonneville's Adventures; Alhambra; Oliver Gold- smith; Astoria; Bracebridge Hall; Salmagundi; Crayon Miscellany; Tales of a Traveller; Knickerbocker's New York; Conquest of Granada; Sketch-Book; Wolfert's Roost. "The delight of childhood, the chivalric companion of refined womanhood, the solace of life at every period, his writings are an im- perishable legacy of grace and beauty to his countrymen." 539 Irving. The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. i2mo, cloth. N. Y., 1850 540 Ives (J. C). Colorado River of the West. Maps and plates. 4to, cloth. Washington, 1861 Scarce. This river, flowing between perpendicular walls a mile and a quarter in altitude, is not the only development of this exploration which excites our interest. Lieutenant Ives was the first to give us the results of an intelligent observer of the celebrated, yet almost mythical, fortified villages of the Moquis Indians. 541 Italian Tales. Tales of Humor, Gallantry and Romance, Selected and Translated from the Italian. With sixteen illustrative drawings by George Cruikshank. Crown 8vo, half russia, gilt, marbled sides and edges. London, Charles Baldwyn, 1824 Rare. First edition of the celebrated Italian Tales with the rare plate by George Cruikshank at page 58, and which was afterwards suppressed. This relates to a very nasty theme and was properly with- drawn. THE FARNUM LIBRARY. ISS ' ACKSON (Andrew). Life of, by James Parton. Portraits. 3 vols, royal 8vo, cloth. N. Y., i860 Large paper. " He neither enriched himself by plunder or peculation, nor engrossed office for his family, or waged a moment' s war for ambition or conquest ; nor exercised a single new power, or betrayed an old one, nor filled station an hour but from the will of the people, or in conformity to the charter of their liberties." 543 Jackson (J.). Treatise on Wood Engraving, Historical and Practical. With upwards of 300 illustrations engraved on W(?(7(/^ John Jackson. Imperial 8vo, half morocco, gilt top, uncut edges. London, Charles Knight, 1839 Scarce. This is the original edition of this capital book and the above is a fine copy of this exceedingly beautiful and valuable work. The illustrations are very brilliant, and include the ' ' Map of Jeru- salem '' and the ' ' View on the Canal at Venice, " both in tint and not in all copies. " The history of Wood Engraving is a noble volume, unique in its way, and no library will be complete without it. Mr. Jackson's reputa- tion rests upon a firm basis — his name is attached to some of the brightest and best of modem engravings. He is one of the few living pupils of Bewick — and one who follows in the steps and supports the reputation of his celebrated master." — Polytechnic Journal. 544 Jameson (Mrs. Anna). Beauties of the Court of Charles II. With a series of twenty-one portraits illustrating the Diaries of Pepys, Evelyn, Clarendon, and other contemporary writers, and after Sir Peter Lely, and other eminent Painters. Imperial 8vo, cloth gilt, edges gilt. London, 185 1 India proofs of the charming series of engravings, including por- traits of Nell Gwyne, Duchess of Portsmouth, Lady Denham, Duchess of Devonshire, etc. , etc. Third edition enlarged . This interesting volume gives us many piquant ghmpses into the life and manners of the " Merry Monarch" and his courtiers, not to be 156 THE FARNUM LIBRARY. obtained elsewhere. It forms an admirable companion to the diaries of Pepys and Evelyn, and all the contemporary historians. ' ' An exquisite volume. It is the first time these lovely portraits have been produced in a style worthy of the beauty and interest of the sub- jects." — New Monthly Magazine. 545 Jameson (Mrs. Anna). Art Works, viz.:— I. Legends of the Madonna, as represented in the Fine Arts. With 55 drawings by the author and 152 woodcuts. London, 1857 Second and best edition. IL Legends of the Monastic Orders. Second edition enlarged. With 11 etchings by the author and 88 woodcuts. London, 1852 Second and best edition. IIL Sacred and Legendary Art. Illustrated with 16 etchings and numerous woodcuts. 2 vols. London, 1857 Third and best edition. Together 4 vols. 4to. Uniformly and handsomely bound in morocco elegant, gilt inside tooling and gilt edges. London, 1852-57 The best editions of Mrs. Jameson's works. These are the final forms they took in all cases. Eastlake, in his preface to " Kugler's Handbook of Italian Painting," truly remarks : — Some acquaintance with the legends and superstitions of the Middle Ages is necessary to the intelligence of many of the Italian and German works of art as the knowledge of heathen mythology is to explain the subjects of Greek vases and marbles. By a fortunate com- bination of artistic talent and appreciation with precision of thought, and a power of setting forth the older legends in poetical language, Mrs. Jameson was singularly qualified for the task she had undertaken. She at once succeeded in arousing an interest, and in supplying informa- tion in a condensed and agreeable form. " Mrs. Jameson's work would deserve a high place regarded only as a book of antiquarian inquiry. With admirable taste and judgment, both of pen and pencil, she has opened a curious branch of learning well-nigh forgotten among us — the vestiges of which, nevertheless, surround us on every side." — Edinburgh Review. 546 Jameson. History of our Lord, as exemplified in Works of Art with that of His Types ; St. John Baptist and other Persons of the Old and New Testament. Continued and Completed by Lady Eastlake. With 31 etchings and THE FARNUM LIBRARY. 157 281 wood engravings from paintings, mosaics and ancient ivory carvings. 2 vols. 4to, new morocco extra, gilt edges. London, 1865 Best edition. " One of the most eloquent of our female writers; full of feeling and fancy ; a true enthusiast, with a glowing soul." — Christopher North. 547 Jameson. Commonplace Book of Thoughts, Memorials and Fancies, Original and Selected. With illustrations and etchings, some tinted. 8vo, cloth, uncut. London, 1854 Large paper and best edition. In two parts— l. Ethics and Character; 2. Literature and Art. 548 Jameson. Characteristics of Women : Moral, Poetical and Historical. With highly-finished illustrations after the author's designs. 2 vols. i2mo, half russia, gilt. London, 1833 Second and best edition — corrected and enlarged. The later edition has only poor impressions and less than one-half the plates in this volume. "Mrs. Jameson's Essays on the Female Characters of Shakespeare are among the best. It was right that this province of illustration should be reserved for a woman's hand." — Hallam. 549 Jameson. The Same. 2 vols. 8vo, cloth, uncut. London, 1858 Large paper, uncut. " Two truly delightful volumes." — Christopher North. 550 Jameson. Memoirs of the Early Italian Painters and of the Progress of Painting in Italy from Cimabue to Bassano — Revised. Numerous portraits and other illustrations. i2mo, cloth, uncut. London, 1859 Uniform with Crowe and Calvacaselle's " Early Flemish Painters." "This useful work comprises upwards of thirty biographies." — Allibone. 551 Jamison (D. F.). The Life and Times of Bertrand du GuESCLiN : a History of the Fourteenth Century, by D. F. Jamison, of South Carolina. 2 vols. 8vo, cloth, uncut. Charleston, John Russell, 1864 The author was president of the convention in Charleston, S. C, which passed the ordinance of secession. This work was printed in London, and published during the blockade of the Southern Ports. 552 Jardine (Sir W.). Naturalists' Library. With 1,200 colored plates, and numerous portraits and memoirs of Eminent Naturalists. 40 vols. fcap. 8vo, uniform half calf gilt, top edges gilt, others uncut. London, 1833-43 Original edition. Sir W. Jardine's coadjutors in this admirable 158 THE FARNUM LIBRARY. series were Swainson, Selby, Macgillivray, Waterhouse, Duncan, Hamil- ton, Smith and others. The work is divided as follows: — Mammalia, 13 vols.: Icthyology, 6 vols.; Ornithology, 14 vols.; and Entomology, 7 vols. An extremely desirable copy of this standard work, being an original subscription copy, with very early impressions of the beautifully colored plates before the erroneous numberings on some of the plates were cor- rected. ' ' We could hardly have thought that any new serial would have obtained our approbation so entirely as the ' Naturalists' Library!' but the price is so low, the colored plates so elegant, and the descriptions so very scientific and correct, that we cannot withhold from it our warmest praise ; the whole is a perfect bijou, and as valuable as pretty. " — Literary Gazette. 553 Jarves (James Jackson). Art Studies: the Old Masters of Italy, Painting, etc. Beautifully printed on heavy toned paper, with 43 outline engravings of Altar Pieces, Groups, etc., selected from the Old Masters, 1200 to 15 17. Thick 8vo, cloth. N. Y., 1 86 1 Includes the Byzantine and best periods of art in Italy. The art works of Mr. Jarves have been commended in the highest terms by the London Atkenceum, the North American Review, and other high-class authorities of that order. 554 Jefferson (Thomas). Writings: being his Autobio- graphy, Correspondence, Reports, Messages, Ad- dresses and other Writings, Official and Private. With Explanatory Notes, Tables of Contents and Indexes, by H. A. Washington. Portraits, views, facsimiles, etc. 9 vols. 8vo, half morocco, bevelled sides, marbled edges. Phila., 1854 The above work was compiled from the MSS. bequeathed to Thomas Jefferson Randolph, the author's grandson, and purchased by Congress in 1848. " After Washington and Franklin, there is no person who fills so eminent place among the great men of America as Jefferson." — Brougham. 555 Jennings (Geo. Henry). An Anecdotal History of the British Parliament, from the Earliest Periods to the Present Time. 8vo, cloth. N. Y., 1881 With — " Notices of eminent parliamentary men and examples of their oratory." 556 Jenyns (Soane). Works, including Several Pieces never before Published, to which are prefixed Short Sketches of THE FARNUM LIBRARY. 159 the History of the Author's Family, and also of his Life, by Charles Nalson Cole, Esq. Steel portrait engraved by Heath after Reynolds. 4 vols, small 8vo, tree marble calf gilt, marbled edges. London, Cadell, 1793 Very scarce. The history of Soane Jenyns's family given in this work may perhaps clear up the mystery of ' ' the millions of pounds sterling" waiting for the American and British Jenningses. 557 Jerdan (William). Autobiography of, with Literary and Social Reminiscences, etc. Portraits and vignette titles. 4 vols, post 8vo, cloth, uncut. London, 1852 Mr. Jerdan was the editor of the " National Portrait Gallery," the author of the "Voyage to Isle of Elba," etc. Comprising the most interesting anecdotes, sketches and corres- pondence of the principal statesmen, poets, authors, artists, etc., of the age. 558 Jesse (John Heneage). Historical and Biographical Writings, comprising: — I. Jesse. Memoirs of the Court of England from the Revo- lution in 1688 to the Death of George the Second. Plates. 3 vols. London, 1843 ■ ' This work presents in an agreeable form facts which have hitherto been known only to the laborious few." — London Times. II. Jesse. Memoirs of the Court of England during the Reign of the Stuarts, including the Protectorate. Plates. 4 vols. London, 1840 " One of the most interesting works that has issued from the press for many seasons." — London Atlas. III. Jesse. George Selwyn and his Contemporaries, with Memoirs and Notes. Plates. 4 vols. London, 1843 " We do not know a more entertaining book than this." — London Examiner. IV. Jesse. Memoirs of the Life and Reign of King George THE Third. 3 vols. London, 1867 This work will propably remain for a long time the most desirable life of George III. V. Jesse. Memoirs of King Richard III. and some of his Contemporaries ; with an Historical Drama on the Battle of Bosworth. Fine portrait of 'Rich Avm. 8vo. London, 1862 Should be of great interest to Shakespearean students and collectors. l6o THE FARNUM LIBRARY. VI. Jesse. Memoirs of the Pretenders and their Adherents. Memoirs of the Chevalier, Prince Charles Edward, and their Adherents. Plates and facsimiles. 2 vols. London, 1845 VII. Jesse. London and its Celebrities, and Literary and Historical Memoirs of London. Both series complete. Plates. 4 vols. London, 1847-50 With the above is bound up the very scarce—" London: a Fragmen- tary Poem, by J. Heneage Jesse, London, 1847." " Full of curious matter, and will always be read and valued." — John Bull. The above making together 21 vols. 8vo. Elegantly and uniformly bound in yellow calf extra gilt, edges gilt by Zaehnsdorf. London, 1840-67 A magnificent set of the above works by Mr. Jesse, and which have become very scarce. " We know of no series of books, that of Horace Walpole perhaps excepted, in which so much information is conveyed in so agreeable a manner as in this series of historical, anecdotical works.'' 559 Jesse (Edward). Anecdotes of Dogs. Numerous beautiful steel engravings. 4to, uncut. London, ^^^Afey, 1846 ' ' Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.'' — Pope. ' ' The excellent, interesting and instructive volume before us. " — Gentleman's Magazine. 560 John Bull and his Wonderful Lamp ; a new Reading of an Old Tale, by Homunculus. With illustrations designed by the author. Small 4to, boards, uncut. London, 1849 The nom-de-plume " Homunculus " is neither given by Prof. John Edward Haynes in his valuable "Pseudonyms of Authors," nor by " Olphar Hamst " in the " Handbook of Fictitious Names." 561 Johnson (Samuel). Life of, including a Journal of his Tour to the Hebrides. By James Boswell. — Croker's edition. To which are added Johnsoniana, or Anec- dotes by Hawkins, Piozzi, Reynolds and others. With Notes by various hands. Numerous steel portraits and plates {some foxed). 10 vols, post 8vo, half morocco. London, 1835 Best and first edition of Murray's pretty issue. ' ' We place Boswell's Johnson in our libraries as an enthusiast hangs up his Gerard Dow in his cabinet — to be gazed at again and again, to feed upon, and to devour." — Dibdin. THE FARNVM LIBRARY. i6i 562 Johnson. Lives of the most Eminent English Poets, with Critical Observations on their Works. With Notes Cor- rective and Explanatory by Peter Cunningham, F.S.A. 3 vols. 8vo, cloth, uncut. London, John Murray, 1854 Best library edition. " Johnson strips many a leaf from every laurel; still Johnson's is the finest critical work extant, and can never be read without instruction and delight."— Byron. 563 Johnson. Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. Including a Journal of the Tour to Hebrides by James Boswell, Esq. A New Edition with Numerous Additions and Notes by John Wilson Croker, LL.D., F.R.S. Four portraits, one on India paper [some foxed). 5 vols. 8vo, tree marbled calf, extra, marbled edges. London, 1831 Published at £'i- 564 JoHNSONiANA ; or. Supplement to Boswell, being Anec- dotes and Sayings of Dr. Johnson [not included in Bos- well] . 45 highly-finished portraits, engravings, and auto- graphs by Finden. India proofs. 4to, elegantly bound in calf extra, marbled edges. London, John Murray, 1856 Large paper, India proofs. Best edition, containing many hun- dred Anecdotes collected from a great variety of sources, edited by J. W. Croker. Some of the plates are slightly foxed. 565 '^oiLHSon {]., Printer of the Lee Friory books). Typographi- cal and Literary Antiquities of Great Britain, including an Account of the Origin of Printing, Biographies of the English Printers from Caxton to the Seventeenth Cen- tury, Descriptions of Early-Printed Books, Ancient and Modern Alphabets. Portraits and printers' marks. 2 vols. Svo, half morocco extra, gilt top edges. London, 1824 Largest paper and Roxburghe edition, of which 36 copies only were printed. Very scarce, with portraits of author and Caxton, also title-pages on India paper. Published at £/^ 4J-. Contains the essence of Dibdin's Typographical Antiquities, and other valuable works; the Printer's Instructor, etc. Allibone states that the author was assisted in its compilation by Drs. Dibdin, Wilkins, and Fry, the Rev. H. Baker, and others. He adds — " It is a valuable work." "This valuable work is too often regarded merely as a book for printers, whereas it contains more information respecting early printed books than is to be found in any other and more costly volumes. Its real compiler was Mr. Richard Thomson, Librarian of the London Institution, who was assisted by Dibdin, Wilkins, Baker, and other i62 THE FARNUM LIBRARY. well-known bibliographers. It was issued in three different sizes, the largest being known as the Roxburghe Edition with India paper por- traits.'' — Sabin, 566 Johnson (Capt. Charles). History of the Lives and Ac- tions of the Most Famous Highwayman, Street Robbers, Pirates, etc., etc. Engraved frontispiece and plates. 8vo, half morocco gilt, top edge gilt, others uncut. London, 1839 Scarce. A tall copy. " This singular work." — Lowndes. 567 JoiNViLLE (Sire de). Saint Louis, King of France. Trans- lated by James Hutton. Vignette title. i8mo, cloth, gilt edges. N. Y. [London], 1869 Printed at the Chiswick Press by Whittingham. " A King, a Hero, and a Man." — Gibbon. The title of " DE JoiNVlLLE " is used by one of the Orleans princes, but the real heir to the honors and dignities of this ancient family is a direct and Uneal descendant of the brother of the Lord de Joinville and Vaucolour. The heir male to the titles of this noble house is a New York journalist, who, although Baron de Genneville, and Lord of Col- molyn by right, is contented to remain a comparatively unknown American citizen and litterateur, not believing in the pomp of heraldry or the boast of power. 568 Jonson (Ben). Works. Complete, best Edition, with a Biographical Memoir and Notes, critical and explanatory, by William Gifford. Portrait. 9 vols, royal 8vo, yel- low calf gilt, and stamped on the sides with the arms — " Oxoniensis Academia." London, 1816 Very rare. Large paper. This fine copy was an Oxford prize. It is the best edition, and is very scarce. " Best edition, by the ablest of modern commentators, through whose learned and generous labors Old Ben's forgotten works and injured character are restored to the merited admiration and esteem of the world." — ^J. Philip Kemble. " His parts were not so ready to run of themselves, as able to answer the spur ; so that it may be truly said of him, that he had an elaborate wit, wrought out by his own industry. — He would sit silent in learned company, and suck in {besides wine) their several humors into his ob- servation. What was ore in others, he was able to refne himself. ' ' He was paramount in the dramatic part of poetry, and taught the stage an exact conformity to the laws of comedians. His comedies were above the Volge (which are only tickled with downright obscenity), and took not so well at the first stroke as at the rebound, when beheld the second time ; yea, they will endure reading so long as either inge- nuity or learning are fashionable in our nation." — Fuller's Worthies of England. THE FARNUM LIBRARY. 163 569 JosEPHUs (Flavius). Genuine Works. Translated by Whis- TON and Revised by Burder. Portrait and plates (some foxed). 2 vols. 4to, sheep. Boston, 1821 Whiston did his work so thoroughly that no other translator ever essayed the task. 570 JossELYN (John). New England's Rarities Discovered : in Beasts, Birds, Fishes, Serpents, and Plants of that country, with Introduction and Notes by Edward Tuckerman, M.A., woodcuts J — also, Josselyn's Account of Two Voyages to New-England, wherein you have the setting out of a ship with the charges, the prices of all necessaries for furnishing a Planter and his Family at his first coming; a Description of the Country, Natives, and Creatures, etc., Lend. 1674. Together 2 vols. 4to, cloth,uncut. Boston, 1865 Only 75 copies reprinted, medium quarto, of which the above are signed — " No. 8, Wm. Veazie." Not merely reprints. The copious, interesting, and valuable anno- tations lend a new value to the works . " The relation is curious and faithful ; when the author makes his own remarks, they are in the oddest uncouth expressions imaginable." — John Locke. 571 Junius : Including letters by the same writer under other signatures, to which are added his confidential cor- respondence with Mr. Wilkes, and his private letters to Mr. WooDFALL, with a Preliminary Essay, Notes Fac- similes, etc., and loose inserted portraits. 3 vols. 8vo. Ele- gantly bound in russia extra gilt, edges gilt. London, 1812 Best edition. Printed by H. Woodfall. ' ' The style of Junius is a sort of metre, the law of which is a balance of thesis and antithesis. When he gets out of his aphorismic metre into a sentence of five or six lines long, nothing can exceed the sloven- liness of the English. Home Tooke and a long sentence seem the only two antagonists that were too much for him. Still the antithesis of Junius is a real antithesis of images or thought ; but the antithesis of Johnson is rarely more than verbal." — Coleridge. 572 Joe Miller's Jests ; or, the Wit's Vade-Mecum. Being a Collection of the most Brilliant Jests, the Politest Repar- tees, etc. 8vo, half morocco, gilt top edge, others uncut. 'Lond.or\., printed by T . Read, 1739. [London, 1865] Only a very few copies have been reproduced. A remarkable facsimile. The veritable Jirst edition of Joe Miller is one of the rarest books in the English language. It is to be regretted that the author did not employ expressions a little less coarse than he has done ; his wit and pungency, however, it is impossible to deny. 164 THE FARNUM LIBRARY. ANE (E. K.). Arctic Explorations — the Second Grinnell Expedition in Search of Sir John Franklin. Illustrated by upwards of 300 en- gravings from sketches by the author. 2 vols. 8 vo, cloth. Phila., 1856 " With a less energetic leader, the whole party would have perished. " —Sir John Richardson. 574 Kant (Immanuel). Critique of Pure Reason in Commemo- ration of the Centenary of its First Publication. Trans- lated into English by F. Max Muller. 2 vols. 8vo, cloth, uncut. London, 1881 With an historical introduction by Ludwig Noir£. 575 Kant. The Metaphysics of Ethics, translated with an Intro- duction and Appendix by J. W. Semple. 8vo, boards, uncut. Edinburgh, 1836 576 Kant. Critick of Pure Reason, translated from the Origi- nal of Immanuel Kant. 8vo, cloth, uncut. London, Wm. Pickering, 1838 577 Kay (J.). A Series of Original Portraits and Carica- ture Etchings by the late John Kay, Miniature Painter, Edinburgh, with Biographical Sketches and Anecdotes. Upwards of over 350 very curious copper-plate engravings of portraits and caricatures of the principal celebrated and noto- rious characters, chiefly of Edinburgh, who lived during the latter part of the last and beginning of the present century. 4 vols, imperial 8vo, half red morocco gilt, top edges gilt, others trimmed. Edinburgh, 1842 Includes a complete collection of the original engravings issued by Kay, with others added, and which make, together with the letter- press, a remarkable, valuable and very interesting work. "The Works of the late John Kay illustrate an interesting epoch in THE FARNUM LIBRARY. 165 the history of the Scottish Capital. Throughout the greater part of half a century this artist devoted himself with enthusiasm to his novel undertaking ; and while he contributed in no common degree to gratify and amuse the public of his own day, his graphic productions form a record which can not fail to prove acceptable in after times.'' — Vide " Introductory Notice " to the work. 578 Keats (John). Poetical Works of John Keats, with a Memoir by Richard Monckton Milnes [Lord Hough- ton]. Illustrated by 120 designs, original and from the antique, drawn on wood by George Scharf, Jun., F.S.A., F.R.S.L., and steel portrait on India paper. 4to. Ele- gantly bound in turkey morocco extra, beautiful inside and outside hand tooling. London, Moxon, 1854 Large paper, only 100 copies printed. ' ' Time alone was wanting to complete a poet who already far sur- passed all his contemporaries in this country in the poet's most noble attributes. " — Landor. 579 Keightley (T.). Fairy Mythology, illustrative of Romance and Superstition of Various Countries. Front, by Geo. Cruikshank [foxed). Post 8vo, cloth, uncut. London, 1850 Allibone considers Keightley's preface to the above and to his " Life of Milton " among — " the most curious chapters of literary history." 580 Kemble (J. M.). The Saxons in England: a History of the English Commonwealth, till the Period of the Norman Conquest. 2 vols. 8vo, polished calf extra, by F. Bed- ford. London, 1849 John Mitchell Kemble, a nephew of John Philip Kemble the great English actor and the only brother of Frances Ann Kemble, celebrated both as an actress and as a poetess, was, according to Allibone — ' " one of the most eminent of Anglo-Saxon scholars. De Vericour in his "Historical Analysis of Christian Civilization '' claims the above volumes to be — "the best work, we believe, on the Anglo-Saxon period." 581 King. Selections from the Early Ballad Poetry of England and Scotland. Edited by Richard John King, B.A. i6mo, elegantly bound in morocco, extra gilt, edges gilt. London, Wm. Pickering, 1842 Scarce. A very choice specimen of binding and of printing by Charles Whittingham of Chiswick. l66 THE FARNUM LIBRARY. 582 King (Thomas Starr). The White Hills ; their Legends, Landscape and Poetry. With 60 illustrations engraved by Andrew from drawings by Wheelock. 4to, cloth. Boston, i860 First edition, and bright impressions of the illustrations. 583 KiNGSLEY (Charles). The Roman and the Teuton, a Series of Lectures delivered before the University of Cambridge. 8vo, cloth, uncut. Cambridge and London, 1864 " Mr. Kingsley has established himself among the finest prose writers of his age and country." — London Spectator. 584 KiLiAN-DuFFL^us (Comelius). Prosopogrophia, | sive Vir- tvtvm, I Animi Corporis, Bo | norvm Externorvm | Vit- orvm et Affec | tvvm Variorvm | Delineatio | imaginibvs accvrate | expressa a Philippo Gallaeo | et Monochro- mate ab | eodem edita: | Distictus a Cornelio | Kiliano DuFFL^o I illustrate | . Being a collection of allegorical plates illustrative of the virtues and vices also of the four quarters of the globe, that of America being very curious. 4to, calf gilt. [? Antwerp circa, 1570] Very Rare. To the above is added a collection of portraits by Philip Galle. Neither " Prosographia " nor these portraits are men- tioned by Brunet. 585 KiLiAN (Lucas). Septem | Artivm | Liberalivm | Icones | a LucA Kiliano Aug. | Vind. aere | incisse | . Seven ex- quisite plates by Lucas Kilian representing the seven arts together -with engraved title — all mounted. 4to, bound in green morocco, gilt edges. Ex officina Dominici Custodis, 1606 Very rare and not given by Brunet. 586 [KiRBY (R. S.).J Wonderful and Scientific Museum; or, Magazine of Remarkable and Eccentric Characters ; in- cluding all the Curiosities of Nature and Art, etc. Pro- fusely illustrated 'with portraits of celebrated characters, etc., etc. 6 vols. 8vo, half calf gilt, marbled edges. London, 1803-20 Fine Copy; scarce in such fine condition. An extraordinary collection illustrated with numerous curious plates of curious biographies, including those of the most remarkable misers, criminals, persons laboring under bodily deformity, or celebrated for extreme longevity, dwarfs, giants, etc. There are also many curious narratives of credulity and superstition. THE FARNUM LIBRARY. 167 587 KisTLER (P. RoMANUS, O.S.B.). BasiHca das ist Herliche Kirchen des Frey Reichs Klosters St. Ulrich und Afra in Augsburg. Profusely illustrated with engravings., many full page and folded, engraved title, etc. Folio, vellum. Augsburg, 17 1 2 Rare and not mentioned by Brunei. A volume of great interest to the student of ecclesiastical history, architecture, and decoration. 588 Kit-Cat Club. Memoirs of the celebrated Persons com- posing the Kit-Cat Club; with a prefatory Account of the Origin of the Association. Illustrated with 48 portraits from the original paintings by Sir Godfrey Kneller. Folio, half russia (back broken). London, 1821 Copies of this work are of extreme rarity. The biographies of the members of the Kit-Cat Club fill up a wide gap in the history of Eng- land in the i8th Century. All the portraits are guaranteed likenesses of the most eminent pohtical and literary persons of that time. The celebrated Association called the Kit-Cat Club was instituted about the year 1700, and consisted of the principal noblemen and gentry who opposed the arbitrary measures of Jame^ the Second and conduced to bring about the Revolution of 1688. " The Kit-Cat Club, generally mentioned as a set of wits, were, in reality, the Patriots that saved Britain." — Horace Walpole. 589 Knapp (Samuel L.). Biographical Sketches of Eminent Lawyers, Statesmen and Men of Letters. 8vo, old calf. Boston, 182 1 The author was a native of Massachusetts, editor of the ' ' Boston Monthly Magazine'' and wrote several other volumes besides the above, one of which was a defence of the Masonic order. 590 Knight (Charles). Pictorial History oe England. Being a History of the People as well as a History of En- gland, from B. c. 55 to 1820, with the rare Index, by C. Knight, Prof. Craik, C. Macfarlane, etc., 9 vols.; also — Martineau's History of England During the Peace, 1800-1846, 2 vols. Upwards of 2,000 engravings. To- gether II vols. Imperial 8vo, uniform half morocco gilt, with the exception of the rare " Index " in cloth. London, 1837-50 RuFUS Choate's copy, with his autograph signature. Original copy, scarce. The impressions of the engravings in this lot are far superior to those usually seen. It is a different work from the Popular History. Hume, Smollett, Macaulay, etc. , are only par- tial — this is a complete, connected and readable History of England. "No topic that concerns the history of the English people has been 1 68 THE FARNUM LIBRARY. omitted; that book of Mr. Knight's being, let us say here by the way, the best History extant, not only for, but also of, the People." — C. Dickens. 591 Knight. London. [Being a Pictorial History of that City, ancient and modern.] With nearly 700 engravings of Buildings, Antiquities, Costumes, Curiosities, etc. 6 vols, imperial 8vo, half calf. London, Charles Knight, 184-144 Original edition. A work of never ending interest from the varied information it contains. It consists of a series of 150 papers by the cleverest writers of the day, profusely illustrated. 592 Knight. Pictorial Half-Hours, or Miscellanies of Art, with Illustrative Description. Profusely illustrated. 4 vols, in 2. 4to, cloth, uncut. London, Charles Knight, n. d. Charles Knight may be placed in the front rank of the literary bene- factors of the nineteenth century. 593 Knight (Samuel, D.D., Prebendary of Ely"). Lives of Co LET AND Erasmus, /. e.: — I. Knight. Life of Dr John Colet, Founder of St. Paul's School, with an account of the masters and scholars of that Foundation. Portrait and plates by Vertue. London, 1724 II. Knight. Life of Erasmus, particularly that part spent in England. Portraits by Vertue and numerous plates. Cambridge, [1726] Together 2 vols. Svo. Superbly bound in red russia, gilt, bevelled sides, leather joints, dead gilt edges. Very rare; priced in a recent English catalogue at £'i i6s. Remarkably fine copies of these valuable books, which were com- mended by Dibdin in his " Library Companion'' for — "their embel- lishments ." 594 Knowles (Jas. Sheridan). Dramatic Works. Portrait. 3 vols. i2mo, cloth, uncut. London, Moxon, 1841 " His dramas are full of impressive groupings, domestic incidents, the bustle of business, the activity of life: he subdues subject, scene, and language to the purpose and aim of his play." — Allan Cunning- ham. 595 Koran (The). With Explanatory Notes. To which is pre- fixed a Preliminary Discourse. Translated by George THE FARNUM LIBRARY. 169 Sale. A New Edition with a Memoir of the Translator. View and folded pedigree. 2 vols. 8vo, cloth. London, 1825 " The learned Sale, who first gave to the world a genuine translation of the Koran." — Disraeli. ' ' The Koran contains the most sublime poetical passages, far sur- passing European poetry." — Byron. 596 KuGLER. Hand-Book OF PAINTING. German, Flemish, and Dutch Schools, enlarged by D. Waagen, 2 vols.; the Italian Schools, edited by Sir Charles Eastlake, 2 vols. Profusely illustrated with outline plates. Together 4 vols. Svo, yellow calf gilt, marbled edges. London, Murray, 1855-60 Fine uniform copies of these very beautiful books. " By far the best manual we are acquainted with." — London Eccle- siastic. 170 THE FARNUM LIBRARY. ACROIX ET SERE. Le Moyen Age et la Re- NAissANCE,Histoire et Description des Mceurs et Usages, du Commerce et de I'lndustrie, des Sciences, des Arts, des Litteratures et des Beaux- Arts en Europe, A.D. 500-1600. Illustrated with upwards of 300 fine plates, many of which are executed in gold, sil- ver, AND COLORS, from curious, exquisitely beautiful, and singular objects of Middle- Age Art, illustrative of Ancient Costumes, Manners, Designs in Fresco Painting, Stained Glass, Missal, and other Illuminations, Furniture, Jewelry, Armor, etc. 5 vols. 4to, half red morocco gilt, top edges gilt. Paris, 1848-51 Rare and a genuine original subscription copy of this most magnificent work and from the library of Thomas Willement, the writer on heraldry, stained glass, etc. , etc. It was published at 400 francs, always maintained its price and now being entirely out of print and very scarce has rapidly risen to much greater value. The inferior reissue in two volumes imperial octavo has raised the price of the original. The engravings exhibit specimens of curious and beauti- ful objects in Mediaeval Art from all parts of Europe. There is, in- deed, no other publication giving such a faithful picture of everything connected with the Middle Ages, while as a drawing-room book none could surpass it in beauty and interest. Lacroix and Sere's " Moyen Age " is undoubtedly one of the most interesting as well as splendid works yet published on the Arts of the Middle Ages, to which it serves as a sort of encyclopedia. It exhibits choice specimens of architecture, sculpture, painting, furniture, stained glass, arms and armor, manuscripts, missals, tapestry, gold and silver work, etc. , etc. Referring to the works in Mr. Farnum's Library, with copies of Medieval illustrations, Mr. Horatio Rogers says : ' ' They are gor- geous volumes, and have the reputation of being some of the finest books ever issued. Not unlike in character are the original edition of Le Moyen Age by Lacroix, and Shaw's books relating to the Middle Ages, on large paper, viz. ; Illuminated Ornaments ; Dresses and Deco- rations ; Decorative Arts, Ecclesiastical and Civil, etc. The attractive- THE FARNUM LIBRARY. 171 ness of this style of works, by reproducing the ornamentation of even old books alone, whether of letter or illustration, can well be under- stood by those not familiar with them by the following, which we take from an English writer, who, in speaking of a Gothic story of the fourteenth century, ' before the press vulgarized wonders, ' thus describes the class to which it belonged ; — ■' The scribe, the artist, and the binder, lavished their time and skill. Six years were not unfrequent- ly spent upon the internal decorations. The margin, in the place of canvas, was enriched with portraits, magnificent dresses, flowers and fruits. Letters of silver shone on a purple ground. Golden roses studded a covering of crimson velvet; the clasps of precious metal, richly chased, shut up the adventurous knights, and the radiant dam- sels in their splendid home.' " 598 La Fontaine (Jean de). Fables. Translated by Elizur Wright. With the entire series of illustrations by Grand- viLLE, and with the fronts, and titles on India paper {one print mended). 2 vols, royal 8vo, calf extra, gilt edges. Boston, 1 84 1 Tall copy. Very scarce, and sold in Fowle's sale for $36. ' ' We have now read the entire work and are prepared to award it high praise." — North American Review. 599 Laing (S.). Chronicle of the Kings of Norway, or Heimskringla, from the Earliest Period to the Twelfth Century, from the Icelandic of Snorro Sturleson. 3 vols. 8vo, cloth. London, 1844 " We owe all that is rational, certain, and connected in the ancient history of these vast countries to the writings of Snorro Sturleson." 600 Lamartine (A. de). History of the Girondists. Transla- ted by H. T. Ryde. 3 portraits. 3 vols, post 8vo, cloth, uncut. London, 1847-48 " Chez lui, en effet, c'est dans le poete que I'historien, Torateur, le pubhciste, le revolutionnaire se confondre. De la sa faiblesse et sa force.'' 601 Lamb (Charles). Essays of Elia. Steel portrait. Thick 8vo, cloth, top edge gilt, others uncut. Boston, Wm. Veazie, i860 Large paper. " Shakespeare himself might have read them and Hamlet have acted them ; for truly was our excellent friend [Lamb] of the genuine hue of Yorick."— Leigh Hunt. 602 Lamb. Works. With portrait engraved by Yvm^s. 4 vols. post 8vo, half morocco gilt, marbled sides, top edges gilt. London, Edward Moxon, 1850 With life and letters, edited by Talfourd. " Lamb's works will go down to the latest posterity by the side of 172 THE FARNUM LIBRARY. Addison, Steele, Johnson, or still greater names, and so at length count more heads and hearts influenced than many works at first more widely popular. " — London Quarterly Review. 603 Landon (Letitia Elizabeth). Poetical Works of. Fronts, by FiNDEN, Heath, etc. (two foxed slightly). 4 vols, post 8vo, morocco, gilt edges, by Hayday. London, 1844 "The poems of L. E. L., of surpassing sweetness and pathos, rivalling those of Mrs. Norton herself in heart-rending sentiment, will long survive their unhappy author, and speak to the heart of generations to which her premature fate will be a lasting subject of commiseration." — Sir Archibald Alison. 604 Landor (William Savage). Works, including the Imagin- ary Conversation, Poems, etc. 2 vols. 8vo, polished calf extra, marbled edges. London, Moxon, 1846 Scarce and out of print. From the library of ' ' Henry Thomas Buckle,'' and with his armorial book-plates. " The difficulty of selecting from his works is the abundance; but I prefer the Hellenics, that charming volume, because few — very few — have given such present life to classic subjects." — Mitford. 604* Landor. Walter Savage Landor, a Biography by John FoRSTER. Portraits and vignette fronts. 2 vols thick 8vo, cloth, uncut. London, 1869 ' ' Landor is strangely undervalued in England, usually ignored and sometimes savagely attacked in the Reviews .... but year after year the scholar must go back to Landor for a multitude of elegant sen- tences, for wisdom, wit and indignation that are unforgettable." — Emerson. 60s Lanman (Charles). Dictionary of the United States Con- gress, compiled as a Manual of Reference for the Legisla- tor and Statesman. 8vo, cloth. [Washington], 1864 606 La Perouse (J. F. de). A Voyage round the World, per- formed In the Years 1785, 1786, 1787 and 1788. Under the Command of J. F. G. de la Perouse. Illustrated. 2 vols. 4to, with separate large 4to volume of maps and charts. Together 3 vols, boards. London, 1799 The narrative of the enterprising but ill-fated La Perouse is full of interest in all portions, but his relations of the peculiarities he observed in the natives of the northwest coast of North America are especially valuable in portraying their manners at that early day. 607 Larwood (Jacob) and Hotten (John Camden). The His- tory of Signboards, from the Earliest Times to the Present THE FARNUM LIBRARY. 173 Day. With colored front, and one hundred illustrations. 4to, half morocco, Roxburghe style, gilt top edge, others uncut. London, 1867 Large paper edition of too copies only and with 72 extra illustra- tions. The most curious illustrations on wood are given, showing the various old signs which were formerly hung from taverns and other houses. The frontispiece represents the famous sign of " The Man loaded with Mischief," in the colors of the original painting said to have been exe- cuted by Hogarth. 608 Lathbury (Thomas, A.M.). History of the Nonjurers, their Controversies and Writings, with Remarks on some of the Rubrics of the Book of Common Prayer. Svo, cloth, uncut. London, Wm. Pickering, 1845 With autograph letter of the author inserted. Lathbury wrote some nine volumes of an historical and controversial character. 609 Layard (A. H.). Nineveh and its Remains, with an Ad- count of a Visit to the Chaldean Christians of Kurdistan and the Yezidis or Devil Worshipers, and an Enquiry into the Manners and Arts of the Ancient Assyrians, 2 vols.; also — Discoveries among the Ruins of Nineveh and Baby- lon by the same, 2 vols. Together 4 vols. Profusely illustrated with maps, plans and illustrations. 8vo, uniform half calf gilt. N. Y., 1849-53 " The researches of no antiquary or traveller of modern times have excited so profound an interest as those of Austin Henry Layard, who has summoned the kings and people of Nineveh through three thousand years to give their testimony against the sceptics of our age in support of Divine Revelation." 610 Lecky (W. E. H., M.A.). History of European Morals from Augustus to Charlemagne. 2 vols. 8vo, cloth, uncut. London, 1869 Lecky's writings and Buckle's should be read side by side. 611 Lee (Major-General). Proceedings of a General Court Martial, held at Brunswick, in the State of New Jersey, by order of General Washington. Svo, half morocco, uncut. N. Y., 1864 Only 100 copies privately printed and in Svo, of which the above is No. 81. 612 Le Grand. Fabliaux ; or. Tales abridged from French Manuscripts of the 12th and 13th Centuries, Selected and Translated into EngUsh Verse by the late G. L. Way, with 174 THE FARNUM LIBRARY. Preface, Notes and Appendix by the late G. Ellis, Esq. Woodcuts by Bewick. 2 vols, in i, 4to, russia, gilt. London, 1796-1800 Rare. Large paper, first edition and brilliant impressions of Bewick's cuts. " Many of these tales have been translated in the happiest manner by the late Mr. Lewis Way.'' — Mitford. "The Fabliaux are as frequently revolting for their naked grossness, as they are interesting for the lively pictures which they present of life and manners. Yet these were the chosen literary pastimes of the fair and gay during the times of Chivalry." — SiR. W. Scott. 613 Le Keux (J.). Memorials of Cambridge, its Universities and Public Buildings, with Descriptions by T. Wright and the Rev. H. L. Jones. Upwards of 150 highly-finished engravings of the Colleges, Halls, and Public Buildings, GOOD IMPRESSIONS. 2 vols. 4to, cloth, uncut. Oxford, 1845 Large paper. A clean copy. One plate is, however, cut. The Cambridge Memorials are much scarcer than the Oxford . 614 Le Keux. Memorials of Oxford, historical and descrip- tive accounts of the Colleges, Halls, Churches, etc., by James Ingram, D.D. With i^^ beautiful and highly- finished engravings by Le Keux, from drawings by Mackenzie, besides many fine woodcuts. 3 vols. 4to, green morocco extra, with tooled sides and gilt edges. London, 1834-7 Large paper copy, with brilliant impressions of the plates. Very scarce in this size. A splendid copy of these handsome volumes. 615 Le Sage (Alain Rene). Histoire de Gil Bias de Santillane. Illustrated with 24 engravings on India paper after Smirke's designs. 4 vols. 4to, half green morocco, mar- bled sides and edges. A Londres, 1809 A Large paper copy of this elegant edition with the plates on India paper and which were afterwards used for Malkin's translation. Very scarce. " The fancy, the lightness, the spirit and the vivacity of the enchanting pen of Le Sage." — Walter Scott. 616 Le Sage. Asmodeus; or, The Devil on Two Sticks, with Biographical Notice of the Author, by Jules Janin, trans- lated by Joseph Thomas— Original edition. Illustrated by Tony Johannot. Royal 8vo, cloth, gilt edges. London, n. d. THE FARNUM LIBRARY. 175 617 Lessing (G. E.). Laocoon, with Preface and Notes by Sir Robert Phillimore, D.C.L. With Woodbury-type illus- trations. 8vo, cloth, uncut. London, 1874 The second title of Lessing's great work is " The Limits of Poetry and Painting.'' 617* Lessing. Laocoon, with Remarks Illustrative of Various Points in the History of Ancient Art. Translated by Ellen Frothingham. i6mo, cloth. Boston, 1874 618 Lewes (George Henry). The History of Philosophy from Thales to CoMTE. Third Edition. 2 vols, thick 8vo, cloth, uncut. London, 1867 George Henry Lewes was one of the husbands of " George Eliot." 619 Lewin (Thomas). Life and Epistles of St. Paul. Profusely illustrated by numerous full-page engravings and maps, also a large number of illustrations in the text. 2 vols. 4to, cloth gilt, bevelled sides. N. Y., 1875 A rival work to that of Conybeare and Howson. 620 Lewis (Right Hon. Sir George Cornewall). Works, /. e. : — I. Inquiry into Credibility of Early Roman History. 2 vols, cloth. Scarce. London, 1855 II. Essays on Administrations of Great Britain, 1 783-1 830. Portrait. Cloth. London, 1864 III. Letters to Various Friends, edited by his brother. Portrait. Cloth. London, 1870 IV. Influence of Authority in Matters of Opinion. Boards. Very scarce. London, 1849 V. Methods of Observing and Reasoning in Politics. 2 vols, boards. Very scarce. London, 1852 VI. Use and Abuse of Political Terms. Boards. Very scarce. London, 1832 Together 8 vols. 8vo, cloth and boards. London, 1832-70 Sir George Cornewall Lewis was the editor of the " Edinburgh Review," and also Chancellor of the Exchequer of Great Britain and Ireland. 621 Lichtenstein. The History of Holland House. By the Princess Marie Lichtenstein. Illustrated with 5 steel portraits on India paper, 60 woodcuts and -^6 full-page photographs s embracing views of grounds and landscape sur- 1^6 THE FARNUM LIBRARY. roundings, interior decorations, rare and curious miscellanea, etc., etc., contained in this magnificent mansion. 2 vols, 4to, half morocco, gilt tops, cloth sides. London, 1874 Large paper, with many illustrations not in the small paper copies. A beautiful and entertaining work, founded on authentic information; giving not only an account of this celebrated House and its treasures of art, etc., but anecdotes of the many celebrated guests, both male and female, whose connection with it made it for a long series of years the headquarters of wit and beauty. 622 Life of Man Symbolised by the Months of the Year in their Seasons and Phases ; with Passages selected from Ancient and Modern Authors, by R. Pigot. 25 full-page illustra- tions and many hundred marginal devices, decorative initial letters and tail-pieces, beautifully engraved on wood by John Leighton. 4to, morocco super extra, gilt edges, by T. AiTKEN. London, Longmans, 1866 Richard Pigot also edited Cats and Fairlie's " Moral Emblems,'' an equally interesting and handsome volume. 623 LiLLO (George). Dramatic Works {George Barnwell, with the Ballad, etc.), with Memoir of the author by Thomas Davies. 2 vols. i2mo, yellow calf extra, gilt edges. London, Wm. Lowndes, 1810 Scarce. "He [Lillo] is a master of terrific but not of tender impressions. We feel a harshness and gloom in his genius, even while we are compelled to admire its force and originality." — Campbell. 624 Lilly (John). Dramatic Works, with Notes and some ac- count of his Life and Writings, by F. W. Fairholt. 2 vols. crown 8vo, cloth, uncut. London, John Russell Smith, 1858 Large paper, scarce and only 100 copies printed. " ' Lilly was a pedantic and affected writer with considerable talents, not indeed for the drama, but for the rude, verbose romance ' of those days, and which had a striking influence not only on our colloquial but written lan- guage.' — GiFFORD. His works are, however, valuable as exhibiting the manners of the age." — Lowndes. 625 Lindley (John, Ph.D., F.R.S.). Pomologia Britannica ; or, Figures and Descriptions of the most important Varieties of Fruits cultivated in Great Britain. 152 most beauti- fully COLORED engravings by Mrs. Withers. 3 vols, royal 8vo, half morocco, gilt edges. London, 1841 A very beautiful work, and published at ;^io loj-. The plates have all the appearance of highly-finished drawings. Lindley — " has published many very valuable botanical works which stand at the head of the literature of this department. "—Allibone. THE FARNUM LIBRARY. 177 626 Lindsay (LorJ.). Sketches of the History of Christian Art. 3 vols. 8vo, cloth, uncut. London, John Murray^ 1847 Extremely scarce- "As a contribution to the history of art, his work is unquestionably the most valuable which has yet appeared in England. His research has been unwearied." — London Quarterly Review. 627 Linton (E. Lynn). Witch Stories. Crown Svo, cloth, uncut. London, 1861 " Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live." — Exodus, xxii., 18. 628 Lite (Henry, , 13^-. bd. in cloth. ' ' Delicacy, tenderness, and a sacred feeling of the highest order mark the effusions of Montgomery's highly cultivated muse." — Dibdin. 196 THE FARNUM LIBRARY. 708 Moore (Thomas). Poetical Works. Collected by himself. Portrait, plates and vignette titles by Heath. 10 vols. fcap. 8vo, purple morocco, gilt edges by Hayday. London, Longmans, 1853 A charming copy of Moore's Poems, and uniformly printed with the favorite editions of Byron, Scott, Cowper, etc. "Ah, mourn not for Anacreon dead ; Ah, weep not for Anacreon fled ; The lyre still breathes he touch'd before, For we have an Anacreon Moore." — Erskine. 709 MooRE. Memoir, Journal and Correspondence. Edited by Lord John Russell, complete, with Copious Index. Portraits and vignettes. 8 vols, crown 8vo, cloth, uncut. London, 1853-56 An exceedingly interesting work, abounding with anecdotes and sketches of the principal literary and political persons of the present century. 710 Moore. Irish Melodies. Illustrated by 'M.a.c'li?,^; every page ornamented with exquisitely beautiful engravings and borders. Small 4to, levant morocco extra, gilt sides and bevelled edges. London, Longmans, n. d. First issue. The entire text of this very elegant edition is engraved and printed on thicker paper than the later editions. 711 Moore. Letters of Thomas Moore to his Music Pub- lisher, James Power (the publication of which was sup- pressed in London), with Letter from T. C. Croker, Esq. Steel plates. i2mo, cloth. N. Y., Redfield [1854] A copy of this book sold at Daniel's sale for £1. gj-. , it being asserted that not more than 20 copies existed. 712 Moore. Songs and Ballads, and Sacred Songs. i2mo, smooth morocco, bevelled sides, gilt edges, by Hayday. London, 1849 713 Moore. History of Ireland from the Earliest Kings down to its Last Chief. Vignette titles by Finden. 4 vols. fcap. 8vo, half calf, gilt. London, 1845 "It is full of instruction and amusement, — an entertaining and melancholy volume, which Englishmen ought to be ashamed and Irish- men afraid to read. " — London Magazine. 714 Moore. Paradise and the Peri. Exquisitely illuminated in gold and colors on stone by Albert Warren from the designs of Owen Jones and Henry Warren. Folio, cloth gilt, bevelled sides, gilt edges. London, Day and Son, n. d. A splendid specimen of printing in gold and colors. THE FARNUM LIBRARY. 197 715 Moore (S. S.) and Jones (T. W.). The Traveller's Direc- tory from Philadelphia to New York and Washington. 8vo, sheep, yellow edges. Phila., 1802 With — ' ' an account of such remarkable objects as are generally inter- esting to travellers." 716 MooRE. Songs of the Soldiers. Arranged and Edited by Frank Moore. Vignette title. 32010, half roan. N. Y., 1864 The larger portion of the songs in this collection were submitted to the editor by soldiers in the Union Army. 717 MoRDECAi (Major Alfred). Military Commission to Europe in 1855 and 1856. Plates. \\.o, cloth. Washington, i860 " These books are beginning to be appreciated now that they are not so easily obtained and that they are beyond the misfortune of gratui- tous Congressional distribution." 718 More (Hannah). Works, with a Memoir and Notes. En- graved titles and frontispieces. 1 1 vols, post 8vo, tree marble calf extra, marbled sides and edges by Riviere. London, 1853 ' ' How many have thanked God for the hour that first made them acquainted with Hannah More. She did perhaps as much real good in her generation as any woman that ever held the pen. It would be idle to dwell here on her works, so well known. They have established her name as a great moral writer, possessing a masterly command over the resources of our language, and devoting a keen wit and a lively fancy to the best and noblest of purposes." — Quarterly Review. ■Jig Morley (Henry). Memoirs of Bartholomew Fair. IVit^ upwards of 80 curious woodcuts, many facsimile drawings on wood by the Dalziels. 8vo, cloth, uncut, red top edge. London, 1859 Out of print and scarce. A book full of curious information, not only on Bartholomew Fair, Smithfield, and its vicinity, but on old English sports, customs, etc. 720 MoRLEY. Rousseau. 2 vols. 8vo, cloth, uncut. London, 1873 721 Morris (Gouverneur). Life of. With Selections from his Correspondence and Miscellaneous Papers, by Jared Sparks. Portrait. 3 vols. 8vo, boards. Boston, 1832 ' ' Mr. Sparks has brought to his task so much of intelligent re- search, so much historical anecdote and rich and various illustration, that his work is of real as it will be of lasting value." — Peabody. igS THE FARNUM LIBRARY. 722 Motley (John Lathrop). Historical Works, comprising : I. Motley. Rise of the Dutch RepubUc, a History. 3 vols. London, 1869 " To all who speak the English language, the history of the great agony through which the Republic of Holland was ushered into life must have peculiar interest, for it is a portion of the records of the Anglo-Saxon race." II. Motley. History of the United Netherlands, from 1584 to 1619, with a detailed Account of the Spanish Armada. • Portraits {some inserted). 4 vols. London, 1867-68 III. Motley. Life and Death of John of Barneveld, Advocate of Holland, with a View of the Primary Causes and Movements of the Thirty Years' War. With illus- trations. London, 1874 Together 9 vols. 8vo, cloth, uncut. London, 1867-74 Handsome English library edition. " Mr. Motley's work is an important one, the result of profound research, sincere convictions, sound principles, and manly sentiments; and even those who are most familiar with the history of the period will find in it a fresh and vivid addition to their previous knowledge. It does honor to American literature, and would do honor to the litera- ture of any country in the world." — Edinburgh Review. 723 Muller (K. O.). Ancient Art and Its Remains, a Manual of the Archaeology of Art. Translated from the German by John Leitch. 8vo, cloth. London, 1852 The best edition of this valuable work, with the numerous additions by F. G. Welcker. 724 Muller and Donaldson (J. W.). A History of the Litera- ture of Ancient Greece by K. O. Muller, and continued after the Author's Death by John William Donaldson. Portrait on India paper. 3 vols. 8vo, cloth, uncut. London, 1858 " We close the volumes in admiration of the author's unwearied in- dustry and great knowledge." — London Monthly Magazine. 725 Muller (Max, M.A.). Chips from a German Workshop. 3 vols. 8vo, cloth, uncut. London, 1868-70 726 Munsell's Historical Series, viz. : — I. Commissary Wilson's Orderly Book. Expedition of the British and Provincial Army, under Maj.-Gen. Amherst, against Ticonderoga and Crown Point, 1759. Map. Albany, 1857 THE FARNUM LIBRARY. 199 II. Narrative of the Causes which led to Philip's Indian War, of 1675 and 1676, by John Easton, of Rhode Island ; with other Documents concerning this Event in the Office of the Secretary of State of New York. Col- ored map. Albany, 1858 III. Orderly Book of the Northern Army, at Ticonderoga and Mount Independence, from Oct. 17, 1776, to Jan. 8, 1777, with Biographical and Explanatory Notes. Portrait. Albany, 1859 IV. Diary of the Siege of Detroit in the War with Pontiac. Also, a Narrative of the Principal Events of the Siege by Maj. Robert Rogers ; a Plan for conducting Indian Affairs by Col. Bradstreet. Albany, i860 V. Obstructions to the Navigation of Hudson's River ; em- bracing the Minutes of the Street Committee appointed by the Provincial Convention of New York, July 13, 1776, and other Original Documents relating to the Subject. Map. Albany, i860 VI. The Loyal Verses of Joseph Stansbury and Dr. Jona- than Odell, relating to the American Revolution. Now First Edited by Winthrop Sargent. Albany, i860 VII. Orderly Book of Lieut.-Gen. John Burgoyne, from his Entry into the State of New York until his Surrender at Saratoga, loth Oct., 1777. Map and portraits. Albany, i860 VIII. Early Voyages Up and Down the Mississippi, by Cave- lier, St. Cosme, Le Sueur, Gravier and Guignas. With an Introduction and Notes by J. G. Shea. Albany, 1861 IX. & X. Proceedings of the Commissioners of Indian Affairs, appointed by Law for the Extinguishment of In- dian Titles in the State of New York. . . . With an In- troduction and Notes, by F. B. Hough. 3 maps. 2 vols. Albany, 1861 Together 10 vols. 4T0, uniform half red morocco, top edges gilt, others uncut, by Matthews. Albany, J. Munsell, 1857-61 A very choice set, bound by Matthews. These handsome volumes have rubricated titles and many initial letters in red. THE FARNUM LIBRARY. 5 727 ll^fPkWllAPIER (Sir W. F. P.). History of the War IN THE Peninsula, and in the South of France, from 1807 to 1814. Portrait, plans of battles, etc. 6 vols. 8vo, elegantly bound in tree marbled calf extra, by Riviere. London, 1835-40 A beautiful copy of this now very scarce work and including the jus- tificatory pieces in reply to Gurwood, Alison, Sir Walter Scott, Lord Beresford, and the Quarterly Heview. ' ' He has produced a work which for vivid beauty of narrative may vie, I have heard good judges say, with Caesar or Tacitus." — Allan Cunningham. 728 Napoleon. — History of the Captivity of Napoleon at St. Helena; from the Letters and Journals of the Late Lieut. - Gen. Sir Hudson Lowe, and official Documents not before made Public. JVi't/i portrait and map. 3 vols. 8vo, cloth, uncut. London, John Murray, 1853 This work contains a large number of curious facts relating to Na- poleon hitherto unknown, and endeavors to disprove many of the state- ments and accusations of the Emperor and his companions in exile. 729 Napoleon. — Memoirs of Napoleon, His Court and Family by the Duchess D'Abrantes (Madame Junot). With 16 steel portraits. 2 vols. 8vo, half calf, gilt. London, Bentley, 1836 730 Napoleon. — Life of Napoleon Buonaparte, Emperor of the French, with a Preliminary View of the French Revo- lution by Sir Walter Scott. Portrait. 2 vols. 8vo, full bound, gilt. Exeter, 1827 731 Napoleon. — Abbott (John S. C). History of Napoleon Bonaparte. Illustrated edition, with several hundred engravings. 2 vols, imperial 8vo, cloth. N. Y., 1855 This historical romance may be read with advantage as a counterpoise to Sir Walter Scott's Life of Napoleon, for though the facts are dis- torted, the style is attractive. 732 Napoleon. — Memoirs of the Life, Exile, and Correspondence of the Emperor, by Count de Las Casas. Portraits, etc. 4 vols. i2mo, cloth. N. Y., 1855 THE FARlSrUM LIBRARY. 201 733 Nares (Robert). Glossary, or Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and Allusions to Customs, Proverbs, etc., which re- quire Illustration, in the Works of English Authors, par- ticularly Shakespeare and his Contemporaries. 2 vols. 8vo, cloth, uncut. London, 1859 The Glossary of Archdeacon Nares is by far the best and most use- ful work we possess for explaining and illustrating the obsolete language and the customs and manners of the i6th and 17th Centuries, and it is quite indispensable for the readers of the literature of the Elizabethan period. The additional words and examples in this new edition are distinguished from those in the original text by a f prefixed to each. The work contains between five and six thousand additional examples, the result of original research, not merely supplementary to Nares, but to all other compilations of the kind. 734 Narragansett Club. Publications of the Narragan- SETT Club. First Series, Vols. I. to VI. [all pub- lished], i. e.: — I. Bibliographical Introduction to the Writings of Roger Williams, by Reuben Aldridge Guild, A.M.; A Key into the Language of America, edited by James Hammond Trumbull, A.M.; Letter of John Cotton, Mr. Cotton's Letter Examined and Answered, edited by Reuben Ald- ridge Guild, A.M., " Club Copy, No. 28," MDCCCLXVI. II. John Cotton's Answer to Roger Williams, edited by Rev. J. Lewis Dim an; [Also:] Queries of Highest Con- sideration, edited by Reuben Aldridge Guild, A.M., " Club Copy, No. 24," MDCCCLXVII. III. " The BLOUDYTenent of Persecution. Edited by Samuel L. Caldwell, "Club Copy, No. 25," MDCCCLXVIL IV. The Bloody Tenent yet more Bloody. Edited by Samuel L. Caldwell, " Club Copy, No. 6." MDCCCLXX. V. George Fox Digg'd out of his Burrowes. Edited by Rev. J. Lewis Diman, " Club Copy, No. 20," MDCCC- LXXII. VI. Letters of Roger Williams, 1652 to 1632. Now first collected. Edited by John Russell Bartlett. MDCCCLXXIV. Together 6 vols. 4T0, half bound, uncut. Providence, 1866-74 Large paper. "It is asserted in the Menzies Catalogue, "pre- 202 THE FARNUM LIBRARY. pared by Joseph Sabin," that there were— " 25 copies only printed, excepting as respects Vol. VI., of which 150 copies were struclc off." The above, however, are numbered as specified, and on the reverse of the title of Vol. 6 it is called " Subscriber's Edition, one hundred and sixty copies.'' 735 National Portrait Gallery of Illustrious and Emi- nent Personages of the Nineteenth Century : with Me- moirs by Wm. Jerdan. Proofs on India paper. Vols. I, 2 and 3. Half morocco, top edges gilt, others uncut. London, 1830-32 Uniformly printed with and forming a most desirable continuation to Lodge's Portraits. 736 National Portrait Gallery of Distinguished Americans, 33 parts {i. e., 1-17, 19-23, 25-35) containing 39 fine por- traits, engraved by A. B. Durand, J. W. Paradise, J. B. Longacre, etc. 8vo, sewed. Phila. and N. Y., v. d. The complete set, with 144 portraits, was published in numbers at $50. 737 Naunton (Sir Robert). Fragmenta Regalia, or Observa- tions on the late Queen Elizabeth, her Times and Favorites. 8vo, calf gilt, top edge gilt, others uncut. London, 1824 Large paper, of which only 50 copies were printed. This interesting volume commences with an account of Queen Eliza- beth, followed by those of Dudley Earl of Leicester, Earl of Sussex, Lord Burleigh, Sir P. Sidney, Sir F. Walsingham, Lord Willoughby, Sir Nicholas Bacon, Lord Norris, Sir John Packington, Sir Walter Raleigh, Sir Fulke Greville, the Earl of Essex, Lord Buckhurst, the poet ; Lord Mountjoy, Francis Vere, Earl of Oxford, Marquess of Worcester, and others. — See Retrospective Review, v. 303-14. " A fruit of his younger years ; yet was it in such high esteem, as an authentic collection of curious remarks, by the generality of men in place and business, that it was the constant practice of divers clerks, in parliament and term time, to transcribe copies of it for the use and ser- vice of the lovers of antiquity and state ; and these copies had the honor afterwards of being treasured up among the choicest manu- scripts. " — Fuller. 738 Nelson. — Memoirs of the Life of Vice-Admiral Lord Vis- count Nelson, K.B., Duke of Bront£, etc., etc. By Thomas Joseph Pettigrew, F.R.S., F.S.A. Portraits, facsimiles, etc. 2 vols. 8vo, cloth, uncut. London, Boone, 1849 " The arm of Nelson casts its thunderbolts on every shore, and pre- served unscathed in the deep the ark of European freedom." — Alison. THE FARNUM LIBRARY. 203 739 New England. Reprints of early New England Tracts : I. Mather. Early History of New England, being a rela- tion of hostile passages between the Indians and European Voyagers and First Settlers. By Increase Mather. With Notes by S. G. Drake. Boston, 1864 II. Mather. The History of King Philip's War, by In- crease and Cotton Mather. With Introduction and Notes by S. G. Drake. Albany, 1862 III. Church. The History of King Philip's War. By Benj. Church. With Introduction and Notes by Henry Martin Dexter. 2 vols. Boston, 1865 Copy No. 29 of edition of 250 copies small 410 and 35 royal 4to. IV. Hubbard's History of the Indian Wars in New Eng- land. With Extensive Notes by Samuel G. Drake. 2 vols. Roxbury, 1865 Copy No. 103, of edition of 350 copies, of which 50 are on large paper. V. Mourt's Relation or Journal of the Plantation at Ply- mouth, with an Introduction and Notes by Henry Mar- TYN Dexter. Boston, 1865 Copy No. 29, of edition of 250 copies foolscap 4to and 35 royal 4to. VI. Church's History of Eastern Expeditions of 1689, 1690, 1692, 1696 and 1704, against the Indians and French. With Introduction and Notes by H. M. Dexter. Map. Boston, 1867 Edition of 250 copies small 4to and 35 royal 4to. VII. Lechford's Plain Dealing or News from New En- gland. With Introduction and Notes by J. Hammond Trumbull. Boston, 1867 Copy No. 119 of edition of 285 copies, of which 35 are royal 410. Together 8 vols. 4T0, uniform half morocco gilt, uncut. v. p., V. d. Mostly large paper copies of these rare New England reprints. In- cluded in the above are a portion of the " Library of New England History." These volumes are the most elegant of their class. They are not mere reprints of the rare and valuable works whose titles they bear, as each work has a copious introduction, and is profusely annota- ted by an eminent New England scholar. 204 THE FARNUM LIBRARY. 740 New Testament in English, Translated by John Wycuffe circa MCCCCLXX now first printed from a Contemporary Manuscript Formerly in the Monastery of Sion, Middlesex, late in the Collection of Lea Wilson. Facsimile front, and handsomely printed, mostly in black letter. Small 4to. Divinity calf, bevelled sides, red edges. Printed at Chiswick by Charles Whittingham, for William Pickering, MDCCCXLVIII. Very rare. The version hitherto known as Wychffe's is of later date than this and differs greatly from it. This edition is most beauti- fully printed in old English black letter type, by Whittingham, and is a fine specimen of the Chiswick Press. It has an illuminated title and ornamental capitals. The above is not only the earliest version in English of the entire New Testament, but it is of much philological importance as illustrating the formation of our own mother tongue. ' ' Wycliffe's Bible as translated from the Vulgate, had not so entirely shaken off the Latinity as our later versions . . .It was constantly striving to be English, and by striving became so, more and more." — MiLMAN. 741 New Testament, translated from the Greek Text of Tis- CHENDORF. By George R. Noyes, D.D. 4to, cloth, gilt top edge. Boston, 1869 Large paper. Published by the— "American Unitarian Association." 742 New Testament. 8vo, sheep. Boston, 1809 An improved version upon the basis of Archbishop Newcome's translation. 743 Newton (Charles Thomas). Essays on Art and Archaeology. 8vo, cloth, uncut. London, 1880 The author is the Keeper of the Greek and Roman Antiquities at the British Museum. 744 Newton (Sir Isaac). Memoirs of the Life, Writings and Dis- coveries of Sir Isaac Newton, by Sir David Brewster. Portraits and cuts. 2 vols, 8vo, cloth. Edinburgh, 1855 " Nature and Nature's laws lay hid in night ; God said ' Let Newton be,' and all was light." — Pope. 745 Nichols (John, F.S.A.). Progresses, Processions, Festiv- ities AND Pageants of Queen Elizabeth, collected from Original Manuscripts, Corporation Records, and scarce Tracts, and illustrated by Historical Notes by John Nichols, F.S.A., assisted by Richard Gough and George Steevens, F.S.A., Second edition, chronologically ar- THE FARNUM LIBRARY. 205 ranged, with additional Notes, Translations of the Latin, and Indexes of Places and Persons visited, Remarkable Events, etc., 3 vols., with 47 plates. Also — Progresses, Processions, Festivities and Pageants of King James I., his Queen, Family and Court, comprising Forty Masques and Entertainments, Six Pageants, numerous Original Let- ters, annotated Lists of the Peers, Baronets, and Knights during this Reign, etc., illustrated by Notes, Historical, Topographical and Biographical, and General Indexes, by John Nichols, F.S.A., assisted by several eminent Literary Antiquaries, plates, 4 vols. Together 7 vols. 4to, uniform tree marbled calf gilt. London, 1823-28 Of these two indispensable works for an English Historical Library, only 250 copies were printed. The first edition of the Progresses of Queen Elizabeth, less complete than the above, had become so extremely scarce, that copies were repeatedly sold by public auction for upwards of ;^40. The Progresses of King James have only been once printed. The two works include the republication of rare historical and poetical tracts, the originals of which, if they could be bought, would be worth more than five thousand dollars. No library into which the English Chronicles, State Papers, the Harleian Miscellany, and Lord Somers's Collection of Tracts are admitted, should be without these important volumes, which form a con- nected History of the Courts of Elizabeth and James, and afford a lively picture of the manners of England, , its pursuits and its amuse- ments, for three-quarters of a Century (1553 to 1625). 746 Nichols. Literary Anecdotes of the Eighteenth Century, 9 vols. ; and Illustrations of the Literary History of the Eighteenth Century, 8 vols. Numerous fine portraits. Together 17 vols. 8vo, elegantly bound in sprinkled calf extra, marbled edges. London, 1812-58 It is impossible in a small space to give anything like an adequate idea of the vast amount of curious information which these volumes contain. The hundreds of literary celebrities who are brought forward, not merely by passing anecdotes, but by highly valuable memoirs and sketches, and the extensive bibliographical and literary matter which it contains, render it one of the most permanently interesting set of books ever published. 747 NicoL (John). Death of Themistocles and other Poems. i6mo, cloth, uncut. Glasgow, 1881 Presentation copy, with MS. inscription — " From the Author. " 2o6 THE FARNUM LIBRARY. 748 Nicolas (Sir Nicholas Harris). History of the Orders of Knighthood of the British Empire ; with an Account of the Medals, Crosses, and Clasps, which have been con- ferred for Naval and Military Services ; together with a History of the Order of the Guelphs of Hanover. 4 vols, imperial 4to, splendidly printed and illustrated by numerous fine wood-cuts of badges, crosses, collars, stars, medals, ribbons, clasps, etc., and many large plates, illuminated IN GOLD AND COLORS, INCLUDING FULL-LENGTH POR- TRAITS OF Queen Victoria, Prince Albert, the King OF Hanover, and the Dukes of Cambridge and Sus- sex. Half green levant morocco, cloth sides, gilt edges. London, William Pickering, 1842 A splendid copy of this superb work, and wliich contains the Supplementary leaves by Sir Harris Nicolas, completing the Catalogue of Knights to 1846. This, a copy of the original EDITION, having the plates beautifully illuminated in gold and colors. It was printed at the Chiswick Press, "Sir Harris Nicolas has produced the first comprehensive History of the British Orders of Knighthood; and is ONE OF the most elab- orately prepared and splendidly printed works that ever issued from the press. The Author appears to us to have neglected no sources of information, and to have exhausted them, as far as re- gards the general scope and purpose of the inquiry. The Graphical illustrations are such as become a work of this character upon such a subject, at, of course, a lavish cost. The resources of the recently re- vived art of wood-engraving have been combined with the new art of printing in colours, so as to produce a rich effect, almost rivalling that of the monastic illuminations. Such a book is sure of a place in every great library. It contains matter calculated to interest ex- tensive classes of readers, and we hope by our specimen to excite their curiosity." — Quarterly Review. 749 Nicolas. A History of the Royal Navy, from the Earliest Times to the Wars of the French Revolution. Steel fronts, and cuts. 2 vols. 8vo, cloth, uncut. London, Bentley, 1847 " Left unfinished. At this work, and in arranging the papers of Sir Hudson Lowe, the author was employed until within a few days of his death. " — Allibone. 750 NiEBUHR (B. G.). History of Rome, translated by Julius Charles Hare and Connop Thirwall. Portrait and map. 3 vols. 8vo, tree marbled calf, extra gilt, marbled end papers and edges by Hayday. London, 1855-60 " A thousand points in the History of Ancient Nations, which have hitherto been either overlooked or accepted without inquiry, are here treated with sound criticism and placed in their true light." THE FARNUM LIBRARY. 207 750* NiEBUHR. Lectures on Ancient Ethnography and Geo- graphy, 2 vols., 1853 ; Lectures on Ancient History of Rome, 3 vols., portrait, 1853 ; Lectures on the History of Rome, 3 vols, front., 1852. Together 8 vols. 8vo, yellow- calf, extra. London, 1852-53 751 NoRTHCOTE (James). Fables. Both Series. Upwards of Two Hundred Fables, illustrated with 560 very beautiful wood engravings by Harvey, and with extra portrait on India paper. 2 vols imperial 8vo, one bound in half green morocco, top edge gilt, and the other cloth, uncut. London, 1828-33 Largest paper and Original edition. The Second Series is printed entirely on India paper. Proofs of tlie woodcuts. These beautiful compositions were the fruit of the leisure hours of Northcote, the celebrated painter. The wood engravings are among the chefs (Vceuvre of English skill. "His thoughts bubble up, and sparkle like beads of an old wine. " — Hazlitt. 752 Northcote — Fables. Proof Illustrations to. A complete set of the celebrated woodcuts by Branston, White, Jackson, Moses, Nesbitt, Williams, Bonner, Mason, Sears, DoDD, Slader, and other celebrated wood engravers, many of whom were pupils of Thos. Bewick ; iticludes all the initial letters, vignettes, etc. Beautifully printed on India paper. Royal 8vo, half morocco, uncut. London, Geo. Lawford, 1828 Very rare. Only 25 copies printed. From the Bewick collection of the Rev. Thos. Hugo. 753 Norton (Andrews). The Evidences of the Genuineness of the Gospels. 3 vols. 8vo, half morocco. Boston, 1837 Presentation copy from the author to ' ' Geo. S. Hillard, " with auto- graph inscription. With cancelled slip in Vol. 2, " Additional Notes," p. clvii. and with following MS. note by the author — " This leaf was reprinted for the purpose of altering the note; but the original leaf has been inserted by mistake in this and some other copies. A. N." This is one of those copies vrith both the original and the cancel. 754 Norton (Charles Eliot). Historical Studies of Church Build- ing in the Middle Ages — Venice, Siena, Florence. Royal 8vo, cloth, bevelled sides, top edge gilt, others uncut. N. Y., 1880 Limited edition on thick paper. A work fully equal and a companion to John Henry Parker's architectural voltw^es, 2o8 THE FARNUM LIBRARY. 755 Notes and Queries: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. From commencement in November, 1849, to December, 1859, with Index to "Vols. 1-12. Together 21 vols, small 4to, of which 20 vols, are bound in half calf and one in cloth {i. e., the Index volume). London, 1849-59 Rufus Choate's copy. This set includes the whole of the first series and Vols. I to 8 inclusive of the second series. Very scarce in this fine condition. A work of constantly-increasing value and importance and that no library should be without. Sets are now difficult to pro- cure complete, and are daily enhancing in value; the earlier series and several of the indexes have been for some time out of print. " Notes and Queries" was established for the purpose of furnish- ing to all lovers of Literature a Common-place Book, in which they might, on the one hand, record for their own use and the use of others those minute facts — those elucidations of a doubtful phrase, or disputed passage — those illustrations of an obsolete custom — those scattered biographical anecdotes, or unrecorded dates — which all who read occa- sionally stumble upon; and, on the other, of supplying a medium through which they might address those Queries, by which the best informed are sometimes arrested in the midst of their labors, in the hope of receiving solutions of them from some of their brethren. The success which attended this endeavor to supply a want long felt by literary men, was manifested shortly after its first being published by the necessity of permanently enlarging the size of the paper; by the increase in the circulation, and by the rising up of contributors and subscribers in all quarters of the globe, which enables the guild of litte- rateurs to waft their Queries ' ' from Indus to the Pole. '' 756 Novum Testamentum Greece. Ed. Hahn. i2mo, half morocco. N. Y., 1842 Published by Leavitt and Trow. THE FARNUM LIBRARY. 209 •CALLAGHAN (E. B.). A List of editions of the Holy Scriptures, printed in America previous to i860 ; with Introduction and Bibliographical Notes. 4to, half morocco, uncut. Albany, Munsell &= Rowland, 1861 Large paper. A well-executed work, of which only one hundred and fifty copies were printed. It contains Facsimiles of the title-pages to Eliot's Indian Bible. " The author [O'Callaghan] is one of the most thorough historians.'' — Historical Magazine. 758 O'Flanagan (J. R.). Lives of the Lord Chancellors and Keepers of the Great Seal of Ireland, from the Earliest Times to the Reign of Victoria. 2 vols. 8vo, cloth, uncut. London, 1870 A desirable accompaniment to Campbell's Lives. 759 O'Keeffe (John, Dramatist). Recollections of his Life. By Himself. Portrait. 2 vols. 8vo, cloth, uncut. London, Colburn, 1826 Scarce. Printed on hot-pressed paper. "O'Keeffe commenced writing plays before he was sixteen. " — Allibone. 760 Old English Drama. A Selection of Plays from the Old English Dramatists. Vignettes. 2 vols. 8vo, half morocco, gilt tops. London, 1825 Large paper. Very scarce and fine copy. 761 [Oldys (William).] The British Librarian: Exhibiting a Compendious Review or Abstract of our most- Scarce, Useful, and Valuable Books, in all Sciences, as well in Manuscript as in Print: with many Characters, Historical and Critical, of the Authors, their An- tagonists, etc., in a manner never before attempted, and Useful to all Readers. 8vo, half morocco, top edge gilt. London, Printed for Thomas Osborne, in Gray's Inn, M.DCC.XXXVIII. Very rare. ' ' Oldys's British Librarian was published in six numbers, during 2IO THE FARNUM LIBRARY. the first six months of the year 1737; forming, with the Index, an octavo volume of 402 pages. It is difficult to say, from the conclu- sion (pp. 373-4), whether the work was dropped for want of encour- agement, or from the capriciousness or indolence of the author. . Meanwhile, the reader is informed that the British Librarian is a work of no common occurrence or mean value. It is rigidly correct in bibliographical information. I once sent three guineas to procure a copy." — Diedin. The following ingenious anagram was found in one of Oldys's MSS. : " In word and will i am a friend to you, And one friend old is worth a hundred new." ' ' Mr. Oldys, a man of eager curiosity and indefatigable diligence, who first exerted that spirit of inquiry into literature of the old English writers, by which the works of our great dramatic poet have of late been so signally illustrated. His bibliographical talents were not eclipsed by those of any contemporary." — Boswell's Life of Johnson. 762 OoRT (Dr. H.), HooYKAAS (Dr. I.) and Kuenen (Dr. A.). Bible for Learners. Colored maps. 3 vols. i2mo, cloth. Boston, 1878-79 763 OssiAN. The Poems of, in the Original Gaelic, with a Literal Translation into Latin by the late Robert Mac- FARLAN, A.M. Fine portrait and facsimile. 3 vols, royal 8vo, tree marbled calf extra, marbled edges and ends. London, 1807 Rare. A fine copy of the edition of Ossian, printed by Bulmer and under the sanction of the Highland Society. It contains a dis- sertation on the authority of the poem by Sir John Sinclair, and a translation of Cesarotti's dissertation on the Ossianic controversy by John M'Arthur, LL.D. '* Ossian, sublimest, simplest bard of all. Whom English infidels Macpherson call." — Churchill. 764 OsBURN (W.). Monumental History of Egypt, as recorded in the Ruins of her Temples, Palaces and Tombs. Up- wards of 1200 hieroglyphics and engravings, some colored. 2 vols. 8vo, cloth, uncut. London, 1854 Scarce. " These Egyptian discoveries are likely to be one of the greatest wonders of the age." — Thomas Arnold. 765 Ottley (WiUiam Young). Collection of One Hundred and Twenty-nine Facsimiles of Scarce and Curious Prints by the Early Masters of the Italian, German and Flem- ish Schools, illustrative of the History of Engraving, with Introductory Remarks and a Catalogue of the Plates. 129 THE FARNUM LIBRARY. 211 finely engraved plates on India paper, with the Niellos exe- cuted in SILVER (some slightly foxed'). Folio, russia extra . gilt edges. \.oxiAQVi, published for the Proprietor, iM?, Very scarce. A fine Large paper copy of this splendid work, which was published atj^is 15J. The first issue, dated 1826, contains 100 facsimiles only; the second issue has 129, with a corresponding additional text (pp. 21-26). The above is complete in every respect. The facsimiles of the Niello engravings, formerly in the possession of Sir Mark Sykes, are executed on silver, in exact imitation of the originals, besides which an impression of each plate is given on India paper. Very few copies were printed. This beautiful work may be faiily stated to be unpublished, as very few copies were ever distributed, and those chiefly as presents by the late proprietor. The accurate knowledge of the late Mr. Ottley in this peculiar department of the fine arts is here displayed. It would be impossible for the collector to have more faithful copies of the rare specimens contained in the present elegant volume. 766 Ottley. Inquiry into the Origin and Early History of Engraving upon Copper and in Wood; with an Account of the Engravers and their Works, from the invention of Chalcography by Maso Finiguerra to the time of Marc Antonio Raimondi. Illustrated with numerous facsimiles of ancient, rare and curious engravings. 2 vols. 4to, russia, gilt marbled edges. London, 1816 Very scarce. A fine copy of this magnificent book, which is printed uniformly with Dibdin's Ames, and which, with that work forms a grand series of the History of Printing and Engraving. " Mr. Ottley is the first among us who has treated of the early art of Engraving in a manner in which it deserves to be treated; and the embellishments which he has introduced are equally distinguished for their felicity and fidelity. " — Dibdin. " See Ottley's excellent History of Engraving." — Lord Lindsay. 767 Ottley. An Inquiry concerning the Invention of Printing. With an Introduction by J. Ph. Berjeau. Illustrated with 37 engravings upon copper and wood, besides numerous wood engravings on the letter-press, executed under the care of the author. 4to, handsomely bound in yellow calf gilt, by Pratt. London, Lilly, 1863 Large paper. Only 200 copies of this very learned and interesting work were printed . In the author's preliminary observations on the method pursued in this work he says: — " The following work contains an account of researches, prosecuted at intervals during the last twenty years, upon the Origin of Printing, with a view to ascertain, 212 THE FARNUM LIBRARY. if possible, whether the claims of Holland to the honor of that invention be really well or ill founded. In further prosecuting this inquiry I have endeavored to bring to bear on the subject various kinds of evidence not resorted to, and perhaps not thought of, by previous writers; and I flatter myself that, in consequence, I have been enabled, in not a few instances, to clear up doubtful points; to prove the falsehood of opinions until now generally held to be true ; and to establish incontrovertibly the truth of some facts, at least, which have heretofore been denied or contested." It contains a most minute analysis and particulars of all the argu- ments brought forward by those who favor either the claims of Hol- land or Germany, including the systems of Meerman, Heinecken, San- tander, aud Koning; the early use of wood engraving in Europe; an accurate collation of the various editions of the early block- books, viz.; the Biblia Pauperum; Historia seu Providentia Virginis Marife ex Cantico Canticorum; Speculum Humanse Salvationis; etc., etc. 768 Otway (Thos.). Dramatic and Poetical Works, with Life, and Explanatory Notes, by Thos. Thornton. Por- trait and frontispieces. 3 vols. 8vo, handsome yellow calf extra, gilt edges. London, 1813 Large paper, best edition, and very scarce. ' ' The work of a man not attentive to decency, nor zealous for virtue, but of one who conceived forcibly, and drew originally, by consulting nature in his own breast." — Samuel Johnson. 769 OvERBURY (Sir Thomas). Miscellaneous Works, edited by E. F. RiMBAULT, LL.D. Portrait. Post 8vo, cloth, un- cut. London, John Russell Smith, 1856 Sir Thomas Overbury was poisoned in the Tower of London, and, it is asserted, by the Earl and Countess of Essex. Fuller says that Overbury — " Attained to be a most accomplished gentleman, which the happiness of his pen doth in poetry and prose both declare. In the latter he was the first writer of character of bur nation, so far as I have observed." 770 OvERSTONE (Lord, Samuel Jones Lloyd). Tracts and other Publications on Metallic and Paper Currency. 8vo, calf gilt, red edges by Leighton. London, 1857 Privately printed and not published. Presentation copy, with au- thor's MS. inscription — " Matthew James Higgins, Esquire etc etc etc With Lord Overstone's compliments." The above was edited by J. R. McCuUoch. "The luminous clearness of Lord Overstone's style." — Saturday Review. THE FARNUM LIBRARY. 213 771 OxBERRY (W.). The New English Drama. With Biograph- ical Sketches and Notes. Consisting of upwards of 100 of the most celebrated Comedies, Tragedies, Operas, Farces, and Melodramas. With finely-engraved portraits of cele- brated performers. 27 vols. 8vo, half calf, uncut, and in- terleaved with blank paper. London, v. d. Fine clean copy. One of the best collections of Dramatic pieces. The portraits are admirably executed. It is the only edition existing in which are faithfully marked the Stage Business and Stage Directions at the Theatres Royal. 772 Oxford English Classics. A handsome set of these valuable and finely-printed editions, including Bacon's Works, and comprising : — I. Bacon (Francis, Lord Chancellor of England). Works. A New Edition, edited by Basil Montagu, Esq., with a new Life, Preface, and copious Notes. With portraits, views and facsimiles. 17 vols. London, Wm. Pickering, 1825-34 IL Gibbon (Edward). History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. Portrait. 8 vols. Oxford, Talboys &= Wheeler, and London, W. Pickering, 1827 III. Robertson (William, D.D.). Works, complete, with Life. Portrait. 8 vols. London, W. Pickering, 1825 IV. Boswell (James). Life of Samuel Johnson, with additional Notes and Illustrations by E. P. Walesby. Portrait of Boswell. 4 vols. Oxford and London, Pickering, 1826 V. Johnson (Samuel, LL.D.). Works, including the Parlia- mentary Debates. Portrait. 11 vols. London and Oxford, W. Pickering, 1825 VI. Hume (David) and Smollett (T., M.D.). History of England. With fine series of the portraits of the Kings of England. 13 vols, Oxford and London, W. Pickering, 1826-27 Together 61 vols. Svo, uniformly and handsomely BOUND IN polished CALF EXTRA, MARBLED EDGES, by W. NuTT. Oxford and London, W. Pickering, 1825-34 A superb set, bound in the best style by one of the best European binders. 214 THE FARNUM LIBRARY. 773 Oxford Sausage (The), or Select Poetical Pieces, written by the most Celebrated Wits of the University of Oxford. A New Edition, adorned with the original woodcuts. Calf, gilt back, carmine edges. London, 1815 Rare. Illustrated with cuts from the original designs by Thomas Bewick, and a portrait of " Mrs. Dorothea Spreadbury, invent- ress of the Oxford Sausage. " " Adorned with cuts engraved in a new taste, and designed by the best masters. " — Lowndes. THE FARNUM LIBRARY. 215 774 [F^^^lACIFIC RAILROAD. Reports of Explorations and Surveys, to ascertain the most practicable and economical route for a railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean, made under the direction of the Secretary of War in 1853-5. Profusely illustrated with plates of natural history, views, archmology, etc., as well as maps, plans, etc. 13 vols. 4to, cloth. Washington, 1855-60 The title fails to give an idea of the value of this great work, which is an elaborate report upon the natural and physical history of the vast country traversed by this great railroad. The work is copiously and elaborately illustrated. In the volumes relating to the natural history of the birds the plates are beautifully colored. 775 Palfrey (John G.). History of New England during the Stuart Dynasty. Maps, etc. 4 vols, royal 8vo, cloth, uncut edges. Boston, 1858-75 Palfrey's work should be read before Bancroft's. 776 Palfrey. Academical Lectures on the Jewish Scriptures and Antiquities. 2 vols, (all published) royal 8vo, cloth, uncut. Boston, 1838-40 777 Palgrave (Sir Francis, K.H.). The History of Normandy and of England. Vols, i to 4 inclusive. Thick 8vo, cloth, uncut. London, Parker, 1851-64 Vols. I and 2 are VERY SCARCE. " Sir Francis has the rare merit of giving interest even to dull sub- jects, and of rendering additionally brilliant those that are confess- edly attractive." — London AthentBum. 778 Palgrave (W. G.). Narrative of a Year's Journey through Central and Eastern Arabia. Portrait and large map. 2 vols. 8vo, half morocco extra. London, 1865 One of the most remarkable and best books of travels in the En- glish language. " A model of what its class should be." — Fortnightly Review. 2i6 THE FARNUM LIBRARY. 779 Palgrave. Essays on Eastern Questions. 8vo, cloth, un- cut. London, 1872 780 Paintings. Nine Catalogues of collections of paintings, medals, coins, autographs, etc. 9 pieces. 781 Panofka (Theodor). Manners and Customs of the Greeks. Translated from the German. With illustrations by George Scharf, taken chiefly from Greek fictile vases. 4to, boards. London, T. C. JVewby, 1849 " Mr. Scharf is our best antiquarian art critic." — London Athenaum. 782 Pardoe (Julia). Historical Works, i. e. : — I. Pardoe. Life of Marie de Medicis, Consort of Henry IVth of France, and Regent of that Kingdom under Louis Xlllth. Second Edition. Fine portraits and facsimiles. 3 vols. London, 1852 IL Pardoe. Louis the Fourteenth and the Court of France in the XVIIth Century. Second Edition. Por- traits and woodcuts. 3 vols. London, 1847 in. Pardoe. Court and Reign of Francis the First, King of France. Portraits. 2 vols. London, 1849 Together 8 vols. 8vo, cloth, uncut. London, 1847-52 Nice, clean uncut copies. " In these works Miss Pardoe has shown herself capable of charm- ingly lively, and, at times, gorgeously colored narrative, and of giving an attractive and novel exposition of history." — Jeaffreson. 783 Parker (John Henry, C. P.). Archaeology of Rome, i. e.: — I. Primitive Fortifications of the City of Rome. Second Edition, Revised and Enlarged. Oxford, 1878 II. Aqueducts of Ancient Rome. Oxford, 1876 III. The Catacombs. Oxford, 1877 IV. The Egyptian Obelisks. Oxford, 1876 V. Tombs in and near Rome, Sculpture among the Greeks and Romans, Mythology in Funereal Sculpture and Early Christian Sculpture. Oxford, 1877 VI. The Forum Romanum. Oxford, 1876 VII. Flavian Amphitheatre, commonly called the Colos- seum. Oxford, 1876 THE FARNUM LIBRARY. 217 VIII. Medieval Church and Altar Decorations in Rome and Mosaic Pictures. Oxford, 1876 Together 8 vols, [all published]. Illustrated with numer- ous plates, plans, maps, etc. 8vo, uniform cloth. Oxford, 1876-78 Best edition and complete as far as issued. "He [John Henry Parker] has done more perhaps to popularize a knowledge of ardhitec- ture in this country than any other Englishman." — London Bookseller. 784 Parker. Glossary of Terms Used in Grecian, Roman, Italian and Gothic Architecture, 2 vols.; also — Companion to the Same, containing 400 additional examples. Pro- fusely illustrated with YjI 00 wood engravings. Together 3 vols. 8vo, cloth, uncut. Oxford, 1850 Last and best edition enlarged and improved. This is by far the most comprehensive and explicit work on the subject ; indispensable to the master and amateur, and equally adapted to the comprehension of the workman. 785 Partington (C. F.). National History and Views of Lon- don and Its Environs ; embracing their Antiquities, Modern Improvements, etc., etc. Illustrated with 600 steel engravings from original drawings by eminent artists. 2 vols. 8vo, half calf, gilt. London, Geo. Virtue, n. d. " A good work." — ^Allibone. 786 Pascal (Blaise). Provincial Letters, with a View of the History of the Jesuits. 8vo, boards. Washington, 1831 The "Provincial Letters" were originally published under the name of Louis de Montalte. 787 Pascal. Pens^es de, sur la Religion et sur quelques autres Sujets. 24mo, calf, gilt. Paris, 1686 788 Peabody (George). Account of the Proceedings at the Dinner Given by Mr. George Peabody to the Americans connected with the Great Exhibition at the London Coffee House, Ludgate Hill, on the 27th of October, 1851. Ru- bricated title and cut. 4to, cloth, gilt edges. London, Wm. Pickering, 1851 Large paper. Only a limited number "printed for private distri- bution" by Whittingham at the Chiswick Press. With autograph of the great philanthropist in this presentation copy. 789 Peele (Geo.). Dramatic Works. Collected and edited, with some account of his Life and Writings, by the Rev. Alex. Dyce. Second edition, with additions, and 2i8 THE FARNUM LIBRARY. THE SUPPLEMENTARY VOLUME. Together 3 vols, crown 8vo, tree marbled calf extra. London, Pickering, 1829-39 Large paper. Very rare. Most sets of Pickering's collection of Dramatists have the original edition in 2 vols. ' ' Peele and Marlowe were the contemporaries of Shakespeare ; both had exquisite feelings for poetry, and excelled in description, to which the former lent beauty, the latter sublimity." — GiFFORD. 790 Percy (Bp.). Reliques of Ancient English Poetry. Old Heroic Ballads, Songs, etc. Front., and vignette illus- trations by Grignion. 3 vols, foolscap 8vo, tree calf gilt. London, Dodsley, 1765 First edition, with a few poems not inserted in later editions. Prefixed is an essay on the " Ancient English Minstrels," some copies of which were struck off separately. " But, above all, I then first became acquainted with Bishop Percy's ' Reliques.' The first time, too, I could scrape a few shillings together, I bought unto myself a copy of these beloved volumes ; nor do I be- lieve I read a book half so frequently or with half the enthusiasm." — Sir W. Scott. 791 Percy. Folio Manuscript ; Old English Ballads and Romances ; with Introductions, Glossary, etc., by Hales and Furnivall, assisted by Child, Chappell, etc. Fac- simile of a page of the MS. 3 vols. 8vo, half Roxburghe ; also — Loose and Humorous Songs, one vol. sewed. To- gether 4 vols. London, 1867-68 Out of print. This copy contains the Loose and Humorous Songs which were vrithdrawn from circulation, and are found in but few copies. It forms a separate volume. This is a faithful reprint (and fortunately not an expurgated one) of the celebrated Manuscript which formed the foundation of Bp. Percy's famous Reliques of Ancient English Poetry, but the value of which work is lessened by numerous alterations and supposed improvements by that eminent scholar in many of the originals. But beyond this, the Manuscript contains much valuable matter nowhere else to be found. For a hundred years, the real text of Bishop Percy's MS. has been kept from the reading public, notwithstanding the interest excited by the Ritson controversy, and by the efforts of Jamieson, Dr. Dibdin, Sir F. Madden, etc., to make that text known. The long hidden MS. has at length been printed faithfully in full ; Percy's alterations and falsifications of his originals have been made known, and the print of the MS. has become an indispensable addition to every English library, not only by reason of the connection of the book with the Reliques, but on account of much other unique and valuable matter which it contains. " This precious Manuscript contains 196 Pieces (some Fragments) THE FARNUM LIBRARY. 219 in nearly 40,000 lines, and is in a hand of James I.'s reign. The list of its contents shows how many unprinted Ballads and Romances it contains — for what Percy printed of the manuscript must be considered unprinted for our purpose." — Editor's preface. 792 Percy Society and Warton Club's Publications, i. e.: — I. Percy Society's Publications, complete, comprising an extraordinary Collection of Early and Rare Specimens of English Poetry, edited by eminent Literary Men. 30 vols. London, 1840-52 A beautiful copy, scarce. From the very limited number of copies printed, and those for members, and not for sale, these works will always be very difficult to procure ; the above contains all the publica- tions of the Society. II. Warton Club Publications. 4 vols. London, 1855-56 After the Percy Society was dissolved in 1852 the Warton Club en- deavored to take its place. It expired, however, in 1856. Together 34 vols, post 8vo, uniform, half green morocco gilt, top edge gilt, others trimmed. London, 1840-56 793 Percy Anecdotes, Original and Select. By Sholto and Reuben Percy, Brothers of the Benedictine Abbey, Mount Benger. Portraits. 20 vols. 24mo, half calf gilt. London, 1823 Published under the pseudonymes of Reuben and Sholto Percy. Reuben Percy was Thomas Byerley of Mount Benger, in Scotland, editor of the Star. Sholto was Joseph Clinton Robertson, editor of the Mechanic and Railway Record, and of Tilloch's Philosophical Magazine. 260,000 parts were sold during the four years of its first publication. , " No man that has any pretensions to figure in good society can fail to make himself familiar with the Percy Anecdotes. " — Lord Byron. 794 Perkins (C). Tuscan Sculptors; their Lives, Works and Times, with i^i, full-page tinted etchings, and 28 beauti- ful woodcuts from original drawings and photographs, 2 vols. 1864 ; — also, Italian Sculptors ; being a History of Sculpture in Northern, Southern and Eastern Italy with 2^ full-page etchings on India paper, a«^ 13 engra- vings on wood from drawings and photographs, 1868. To- gether 3 vols. 4to, cloth, uncut. London, Longmans, 1864-68 SUBERB IMPRESSIONS OF THE ILLUSTRATIONS. This is an entirely new and carefully executed work, and has received universal commendation. " Our verdict on this admirable work (Italian Sculptors) is given with pleasure, not only on account of the taste, tact, learning, and compre- 220 THE FARNUM LIBRARY. hensive views of the author, but because his literary style is clear, his research large, and his illustrative power rich." — Athenauin. " Books upon Italian painting abound; while the available works upon Italian sculpture, including those which treat of it in conjunction with painting, are few." 795 Perry (Commodore). Narrative of Expedition of Ameri- can Squadron to the China Seas and Japan. Compiled by Francis L. Hawks. Numerous plates {some tinted) and wood engravings. 3 vols. 4to, sheep, Washington, 1856 In this valuable scientific work the first successful attempt at pro- ducing a colored lithograph, in imitation of a drawing, is introduced. Vol. I. contains the narrative of the expedition, illustrated by 8g fine hthographic plates, 78 woodcuts, and 4 maps. Vol.11. — A collection of reports, by various naval officers, on the agriculture, botany, natural history, meteorology, topography, ethnography and geology of the places visited by the expedition. Vol. III. — Observations on the Zodiacal light. 796 Pettigrew (T. J.). Chronicles of the Tombs, a Select Col- lection of Epitaphs. Post 8vo, cloth, uncut. London, 1857 797 Phillips (Henry, Jr.). Continental Paper Money. His- torical Sketches of American Paper Currency. First and Second Series. Together 2 vols. 4to, morocco, uncut. Roxbury, Mass., 1866 No. 36 of Hmited — " edition of 250 copies and 3 on drawing paper — 50 copies on LARGE PAPER." 798 Piers Ploughman's Vision. — Visio Willi de Petro Plouh- MAN, item Visiones ejusdem de Dowel, Dobet et Dobest, or the Vision of William concerning Piers Plouhman. Finely printed in Gothic types, in black and red inks, from the edition '■'■imprinted at London by Reynold Wolfe, 1553." With Introductory Discourse, a Perpetual Commentary, Annotations and a Glossary by Whittaker. Thick 4to, mor- occo, bevelled sides, gilt edges. London, Bensley, 1813-14 Rare. A limited edition of 150 copies handsomely printed on thick paper in black and red. The above is a superb copy of this sump- tuous typographical marvel. Piers Ploughman's ' ' Vision " is a religious allegorical satire in which the vices of almost every profession are attacked. It is generally attributed to Robert Langland or Longland, who flourished about the beginning of the XlVth century. " This poem (of Peirs Ploughman) is not only extremely scarce and has almost the rarity of a Manuscript, but it is a curious and lively picture of an order of men (the Monks) who once made a conspicuous figure in the world." — Warton. THE FARNUM LIBRARY. 221 799 Piers Ploughman.— The Vision and the Creed of Piers Plouhman newly Imprinted, with Notes and a Glossary by Thomas Wright, M.A., F.R.S., etc. Colored plates. 2 vols. i6mo, morocco, gilt edges. London, William Pickering, 1832 Scarce. Printed by Whittingham at the Chiswick Press. " The Vision of ' Piers Ploughman ' is one of the most precious and interesting monuments of the Enghsh language and literature, and also of the social and political condition of the country during the fourteenth century Its author is not certainly known, but its time of composition can, by internal evidence, be fixed at about the year 1362. On this and on all matters bearing upon the origin and object of the poem, Mr. Wright's historical introduction gives ample information." — Literary Gazette. 799* Piers Ploughman. — The Vision and Creed of Piers Ploughman. Edited by Thomas Wright ; a new edition, revised, with additions to the Notes and Glossary. Colored frontispiece. 2 vols, post 8vo, cloth, uncut. London, 1856 800 Pitt (Right Honorable WilHam). Life of, by Earl Stan- hope. Portraits and facsimiles. 4 vols. 8vo, calf gilt, marbled edges. 1861-62 " Pitt was the idol of the whole European aristocracy." — Napoleon Bonaparte. 801 Pitt. Speeches of Rt. Hon. William Pitt in the House of Commons. 4 vols. 8vo, half morocco, gilt. London, 1806 Original and best edition. 802 Plutarch's Lives. The Translation called Dryden's Cor- rected from the Greek and Revised by A. H.Clough. 5 vols, imp. 8vo, half cloth, uncut. Boston, Little, Brown &^Ci9.,i865 Large paper; 100 copies printed. The handsomest edition of Plu- tarch extant, and very scarce. " When I write I care not to have books about me; but I can hardly be without a Plutarch." — Montague. ' ' Plutarch's ' Lives ' cannot be spared from the smallest hbrary ; first, because he is readable, which is much; then, that he is medicinal and invigorating." — Emerson. 803 Poems on Affairs of State, from 1620 to 1707. Written by the Greatest Wits of the Age and by the most eminent Hands. 4 vols. 8vo, old calf. London, 1703-7 Best edition. Fine copy, with the curious caricature plates in Vol. IV. , which are generally wanting. The largest and fullest collection of the Satirical, Facetious and Comic Poetry of the time of Charles the 2d, by Lord Rochester, Tom Brown, Andrew Marvel, the Duke of Buckingham, etc. 2 22 THE FARNUM LIBRARY. 804 Poor (Henry V.). Money and Its Laws: embracing a His- tory of Monetary Theories, and a History of the Curren- cies of the United States. Thick royal 8vo, cloth, uncut. N. Y., 1877 " He knoweth not the law who knoweth not the reason thereof." — Coke. 805 Pope (Alexander). Works, with Notes and Illustrations, edited by Wm. Roscoe. Portrait. 8 vols. 8vo, calf, gilt. London, 1847 Printed in large type and by far the best edition of this esteemed author. "As a whole, the edition before us is certainly the most agreeable of all we possess. The fidelity of Mr. Roscoe to the interests of Pope's reputation contrasts pleasingly with the harshness at times of Bowles and the reckless neutrality of Warton Mr. Roscoe's own notes are written with a peculiar good sense, temperance and kind feeling." — De Quincey. 806 Porter (Major Whitworth). A History of the Knights of Malta or the Order of the Hospital of St. John of Jeru- salem. Frontispiece and map. 2 vols. 8vo, green calf extra, marbled edges. London, 1858 " Treated with the fullness aud clearness which so great a subject demands. " — London Globe. 807 Portraits of the British Poets from Chaucer to Cow- PER AND Beattie. Illustrated by Notes, Biographical, Critical and Poetical. Illustrated by 140 highly-finished en- gravings by FiNDEN, Warren, Pye, etc. 2 vols, small folio, half green morocco, gilt, cloth sides, gilt tops. London, James Carpenter &" Son, 1824 Rare. Large paper and very fine India proof impressions. Copies like the above are almost impossible to obtain. Only 25 copies of this size were executed, all of which were subscribed for at 50 guineas each. Ordinary copies were published at no less a sum than £2,2. It is the only complete series in an elegant form, and is adapted to illus- trate all editions of the Poets from octavo to folio size. 808 Praed (Winthrop Mackworth). Poems (containing all his graceful Poetical Pieces, celebrated Charades, etc., now first collected) with a Memoir by Rev. Derwent Cole- ridge. Portrait on India paper. 2 vols. 8vo, half mo- rocco, top edges gilt, others uncut. London, Edward Moxon, 1864 Large and thick paper, with India paper proof portrait. Praed's fancy was airy, bright and arabesque. It enabled him, with THE FARNUM LIBRARY. 223 his easy command of poetical expression, to produce picturesque sketches with equal grace and facility His prose is almost as quaintly and pensively playful as his verse." — London Atheneum. 809 Prescott (William H.). Works — Including History of Conquest of Mexico and of Peru, 6 vols.; Critical and Historical Essays. Maps. Together 7 vols, post 8vo, half calf, gilt. London, 1850-52 Prescott's works have not only been printed and reprinted in America, in England and France, but have been translated into Spanish, Italian, and German, and are familiar as ' ' classics for the whole world " where- ever history is studied. 810 Prescott. History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isa- bella, the Catholic, of Spain. By William H. Prescott. Portraits. 3 vols. 8vo, half calf. Boston, 1838 811 Prynne (Wm.). The Defence of Stage-Play; or, a Retrac- tation of a former Book of his called Histrio-Mastix. 4to, Roxburghe, uncut. London, 1649 100 copies. Reprinted and not for sale, 1822. The " Histrio- Mastix," of which the above is a "retractation," is one of the most extraordinary works ever written. For its publication, it is well known, the author was sentenced by the Star-Chamber to pay a fine of ;^5,ooo to the King, to be degraded from his profession of the law, and to lose his ears in the pillory. The severity of this sentence has been accounted for from the fact that Prynne, in his severe strictures against ' ' Women Actors," is supposed to have reflected on Queen Henrietta, who it appears had performed in some Court Masque. In it he quotes 55 Synods and Councils, 71 Fathers, 150 Catholic and Protestant authors, 40 Heathen Philosophers, besides very numerous other writers. 812 PucKLE (James). The Club: a Dialogue between Father and Son. Printed on Yellow Chinese Paper. Imp. 8vo, green morocco extra. London, 181 7 Seven copies only printed in this style. Sold at Sotheby's, 1821, for £t. igj. This was the Allan copy and has the following MS. Note — "Only seven copies of this impression printed. — J no. Allan." 813 PuCKLE Club. A Gray Cap for a Green Head: a Dialogue between a Father and a Son, by James Puckle. Beautiful woodcut illustrations. Post 8vo, cloth, uncut. London, 1834 Printed by C Whittingham at the Chiswick Press. Although a small paper, it is a beautiful and clean one for extra-illustration. 2 24 '^^^ FARNUM LIBRARY. iJUARLES (Francis). Emblems, Divine and Moral. Profusely illustrated. 24mo, full morocco, top edge gilt, others uncut. London, Chiswick Press, 1825 Fine uncut copy. It is very rarely such a fine copy of this quaint and curious book occurs. The best proof of Quarles's merit is the rarity of copies in good condi- tion. He possesses much genuine fire, uses happy similes, admirable epithets, compound words, smooth versification, and keeps one in per- petual alarm. " His visible Poetry (I mean his Emblems) is excellent, catching therein the eye and fancy at one draught, so that he hath out-Alciated therein in some men's judgment. " — Fuller. 815 QuARLES. The School of the Heart ; with the Learning of the Heart ; and Hieroglyphics of the Life of Man {in Verse). With 64 curious emblematical woodcuts. 32mo, cloth, uncut. London, 1845 816 QuARLES. Enchiridion. Portrait. Post 8vo, cloth, uncut. London, John Russell Smith, 1856 " Had this little book been written at Athens or Rome, its author would have been classed with the wise men of his country. " — Headley. 817 QuEVEDO (Francis). The Comical Works of. i2mo, calf (rebacked). London, 1742 Best edition, very scarce and fine paper. Quevedo was one of the most celebrated Spanish writers. He was born in 1580, and died 1643. 818 QuiNCY (Josiah). The History of Harvard University by Josiah Quincy, LL.D., President of the University. Steel fronts., facsimile and cuts. 2 vols, royal 8vo, cloth, uncut. Cambridge, John Owen, 1840 First and most desirable edition. ' ' We acknowledge great obliga- tions to President Quincy for the pleasure and instruction derived from his volumes." — J. G. Palfrey. THE FARNUM LIBRARY. 225 3i9 QuiNCY. The Memory of the late James Grahame, the Historian of the United States, Vindicated from the Charges of " Detraction " and " Calumny " preferred against him by Mr. George Bancroft, and the Conduct of Mr. Bancroft towards that Historian stated and exposed. By Josiah Quincy. 8vo, half calf. Boston, Crosby &" Nichols, 1846 Very scarce. See Mr. Bancroft's explanatory rejoinder to this pamphlet, in the " Memorandum'' forming pages 27 and 28 of the ninth volume of his " History of the United States." 226 THE FARNUM LIBRARY. 820 It: :wk. .B!A;:v:|| ABELAIS (Francis). Works, translated from the French by Sir Thomas Urquhart and MoTTEAUx, with Explanatory Notes by Du- CHAT, OzELL, and others. 4 vols. 8vo, calf. London, 1807 Large paper and very scarce. " I could write a treatise in praise of the moral elevation of Rabe- LAls's work which would make the church stare, and the conventicle groan. ... I class Rabelais with the great creative minds of the world, Shakespeare, Dante, Cervantes, etc." — Coleridge. 821 Racine (Jean). CEuvres Completes de J. Racine avec les Notes de tous les Commentateurs. Cinquifeme Edition publi^e par L. Aim6-Martin, avec des Additions Nouv- elles. Steel portrait and exquisite plates. 6 vols, royal 8vo, half red morocco gilt, top edges gilt, others uncut. Paris, 1844 Large paper. A fine copy. Racine — "contests with his immediate predecessor, Corneille, the glory of being the greatest among the French tragic dramatists. His grace and melody of diction are exquisite; and his refined tenderness of feeling, often melting into profound pathos, breaks out through all the barriers imposed by the unities, and the simple plots and the mo- notony of the rhymed Alexandrine verse." 822 Raleigh (Sir Walter). Life of, based on Contemporary Documents preserved in the Rolls House, etc., together with his Letters, now first collected by Edward Edwards. Illustrated by portrait, facsimiles of writing, etc. 2 vols, thick 8vo, cloth, uncut. London, 1868 Vol. I. contains the "Life," and Vol. II. the "Letters," among which are a large number never before printed. Of all the great characters that figured in the history of England Raleigh is one of the greatest. 823 Ramsay (Allan). The Gentle Shepherd: a Pastoral Com- edy; to which is prefixed a New Biographical Memoir, Glossary, etc. With portrait and 12 plates from original THE FARNUM LIBRARY. 227 designs iJy Allan and with bo additional illustrations inserted. 4to, bluemor. extra, gilt sides and edges. Edinburgh, 1808 Unique and lot 2,449 fi'oi" John Allan's Library. Many rare por- traits and plates were inserted in this copy. Most of them are inlaid and very carefully. Some of the portraits are India proofs and others are excellent examples of mezzotints. 824 Ramsay. Poetical Works complete, with copious Glossary and Life. Portrait and facsimile of writing. 2 vols. Svo, half calf gilt (2 pages mended and some slightly water- stained). London, 1800 Best edition, scarce. Edited by G. Chalmers and Lord Woodhouselee. " Green be the pillow of honest Allan, at whose lamp Burns lighted his brilliant torch."— SIR Walter Scott. 825 Ranke (Leopold). History of the Popes. 3 portraits. 3 vols, post 8vo, cloth, uncut. London, 1853-56 " It is hardly necessary for us to say that this is an excellent book excellently translated. " — Macaulay. 826 Raphael. The Cartoons of, with Descriptive Text. 1 plates engraved by G. Greatbach from the originals at Hampton Court Palace. Folio. Loose, in cloth cover. London, n. d. 827 Rawlinson (George). Five Great Monarchies of the Ancient Eastern World, or. The History, Geography, and Antiquities of Chaldea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, and Persia, maps and several hundred woodcuts, 3 vols., London, Murray, 1862-67; also — Sixth Great Oriental Mon- archy, or, The Geography, History, and Antiquities of Parthia, frontispiece, etc., and maps, London, 1873. To- gether 5 vols. 8vo, cloth, uncut. London, 1862-73 Original edition of the " Five Great Monarchies," and ex- tremely scarce. One of the most difficult modern books to find. 828 Rawlinson. — Herodotus — A New English Version, edited, with Notes and Appendices, illustrating the History and Geography of Herodotus, by G. Rawlinson, assisted by CoL. Sir H. Rawlinson and Sir J. G. Wilkinson. With maps and illustrations on wood. 4 vols. Svo, cloth, uncut. London, 1862 Original edition. 829 Reade (W. Winwood). The Veil of Isis; or the Mysteries of the Druids. 8vo, half morocco, cloth sides, gilt top. London, 1861 Scarce and curious. Winwood Reade is best known as the author of the " Martyrdom of Man," a work that has had an immense circulation in Europe and this country. 2 28 THE FARNUM LIBRARY. 830 Reclus (Elisee). The Earth, a Descriptive History of the Phenomena on the Life of the Globe — Continents. Trans- lated by B. B. Woodward and edited by Henry Wood- ward. Illustrated by 230 maps inserted in the text and 24 page maps, printed in colors. 2 vols. 8vo, cloth, top edges gilt. London and N. Y., 187 1 831 Reed and Cadwalader Pamphlets. A Reprint of, with an Appendix. 4to, sewed, uncut. [Phila.], 1863 igg copies only printed and all for subscribers. 832 Reid (Thomas, D.D.). Works, now Fully Collected, with Selections from his Unpublished Letters. Preface, Notes and Supplementary Dissertations by Sir William Hamil- ton, Bart. Thick 8vo, cloth, uncut. Edinburgh, 1852 "Text collated and revised; useful distinctions inserted; leading words and propositions marked out; allusions indicated; quotations filled up; prefixed Stewart's Account of the life and writings of Reid, with Notes by the Editor. Copious indices subjoined." 833 Retrospective Review, and Historical and Antiquarian Magazine. [Consisting of Criticisms upon, Analyses of, and Extracts from, Curious, Valuable, and Scarce Old Books.J 18 vols. 8vo, of which 16 vols, are bound in half calf and 2 in half morocco, gilt top. London, 1820-54 Scarce. The Three Series Complete and with loose MS. list of contributors. " An excellent review of early English literature. The criticisms in the First Series were written by Geo. Robinson, Esq., W. Gray, Esq., Mr. Sergt. Talfourd, Joseph Parkes, Esq., etc., under the superintendence of H. Southern, Esq. The Second Series was edited by Henry Southern, and Nicholas Harris Nicolas. The papers in the Third Series were chiefly written by Thomas Wright, Esq., J. O. Halliwell, Esq., and M. A. Lower, Esq." — Lowndes. 834 Retz (Cardinal de). Memoirs. Portrait. 4 vols. i2mo, calf, gilt. London, 1774 " The best memoirs that I know of are those of Cardinal de Retz. . . . . You will, in every page of that book, see that strange, inconsistent creature, man, just as he is." — Lord Chesterfield. 835 R^VEiL. Museum of Painting and Sculpture; or. Col- lection of the Principal Pictures, Statues, and Bas-Reliefs in the Public and Private Galleries of Europe. With Descriptive, Critical and Historical Notices in French and English, by Duchesne, senior. With full-page illustra- THE FARNUM LIBRARY. 229 tions beautifully drawn and etched by R^veil ; — also, Les Loges du Vatican sujets peints \ fresque par Raphael. Together 17 vols, small 8vo, half morocco gilt, gilt top edges, others uncut. Paris and London, 1829-34 Reveil's most interesting work contains 1200 outline engravings, executed in a masterly style, and they will be found extremely useful as a book of reference to the amateur and print collector. Annexed to each engraving is a carefully-written descriptive notice. 836 Reynard the Fox, a renowned Apologue of the Middle Ages, reproduced in Rhyme [by S. Naylor]. Elegantly printed on thick paper, with colored and floriated capitals. Small 4to, half morocco, uncut. London, Longmans, 1845 This handsome volume is printed on heavy paper, and is embellished throughout with scroll capitals in colors from wood-block letters after designs of the 12th and 13th centuries. 837 Reynolds (Sir Joshua). Life and Times of (1723-1792), with Notices of some of his Contemporaries, by C. R. Leslie, R.A. and Tom Taylor. Portraits and illustra- tions. 2 vols, thick 8vo, cloth, uncut. London, John Murray, 1865 Beyond the immediate subject of Reynolds and his works the volumes treat liberally of the world of wisdom, wit, beauty and folly, which surrounded the painter, sat to him, paid him, dined with him, and loved him. This was the world of our grandfathers, so compre- hensive as to include nearly every man and woman of note; near enough to ourselves to have vital warmth even in ashes, and to those who look on the work of the artist, instinct with life that cannot perish while they remain. 838 Reynolds. Discourses of Sir Joshua Reynolds, illustrated by Explanatory Notes and Plates by John Burnet, F.R.S. Engraved title and tinted plates. 4to, cloth, uncut. London, James Carpenter, 1842 Rare. Original edition and large paper. ' ' For these excellent and universally admired discourses, the author received from the Empress of Russia a gold snuff-box, adorned with her profile in bas- relief, set in diamonds." — Lowndes. 839 Rhode Island. Records of the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, in New England 1636, 1792. Printed by order of the Legislature. Transcribed and Edited by John Russell Bartlett, Secretary of State. 10 vols. 4to, half morocco, uncut {i. e.. Vols, i to 5 bound 230 THE FARNUM LIBRARY. in half green levant morocco gilt, bevelled sides, gilt top, and Vols. 6 to 10 in half smooth brown morocco). Providence, 1856-1865 Large paper. A clean, handsome, but not uniformly bound copy, as the last six volumes are in the original Roxburghe binding as issued. 840 Rhode Island. Historical Society's Collections. 6 vols. 8vo, half calf, lettered contents (5) and cloth (i). Providence, 1827-67 Including — Roger Williams's Key to the Indian Language, with facsimile ; Gorton's Simplicity's Defence, edited by Staples ; Pot- ter's Early History of Narragansett; Callender's Civil and Religious Affairs of Rhode Island ; Staple's Annals of the Town of Providence; Stone's Invasion of Canada in 1775 and Capt. Simeon Thayer's Journal. 841 . The Same. Vol. 4, being Callender's Civil and Religious Affairs of Rhode Island. 8vo, cloth. Providence, 1838 842 Rhode Island. Celebration of the One-Hundredth Anni- versary of the Founding of Brown University, September 6th, 1864. Portrait on India paper. 4to, sewed, uncut. Providence, 1865 Large paper copy, printed on thick laid paper. 843 RiBOT (Th.). English Psychology. Crown 8vo, cloth, uncut. London, 1873 844 Richardson (S.). Works, with a Sketch of his Life and Writings, by E. Mangin. Portrait by ^c^iv^n. ig vols, crown 8vo, calf. London, 1811 This favorite and best edition of Richardson's complete works is now becoming very scarce. " His personages have all the reality possible, his incidents are realized in the manners of all polished nations. What fertility in the invention of personages ! What variety in the delineation of char- acter ! " — Diderot. "The power of Richardson's painting, in his deeper scenes of tragedy, never has been, and probably never will be, excelled." — Sir Walter Scott. Richardson " was a printer and bookseller, a joiner's son, who at the age of fifty, and in his leisure moments, wrote in his shop parlor; a laborious man who, by work and good conduct, had raised himself to a competency and sound information. . . . No one in this age has equalled him in detail and comprehensive conceptions." — Taine. THE FARNUM LIBRARY. 231 845 RiCRAFT (Josiah). A Survcy of England's Champions. With the lively portraitures of the severall commanders. Portraits. 8vo, calf. London, 1647 Thomas Rodd's reprint 1818, and of which only 50 copies were printed. The above is copy No. 25 and belonged to the Rev. John Mitford. It bears the autograph signature of the author-bibliopolist " Tho. Rodd." mitsoniana— AN extraordinary collection. "as bitter as gall and as sharp as a razor, And feeding on herbs, as a Nebuchadnezzar, His diet too acid, his temper too sour. Little Ritson came out with his two volumes more." — Walter Scott. 846 Ritson (Joseph). Antiquarian and Poetical Works, COMPLETE. Best Editions, " with all the cancelled LEAVES AND SUPPRESSED PASSAGES " AND WITH ENGRAV- INGS BY Stothard, Bewick, etc , comprising the fol- lowing WORKS : — I. Ritson. The English Anthology. With vignettes by Stothard. 3 vols, crown 8vo. London, T. &" J. Egerton, 1793-94 II. Ritson. Scottish Songs with the Musick (and an His- torical Essay). 2 vols, crown 8vo. Very scarce. London, J. Johnson &' J. Egerton, 1794 III. Ritson. Ancient English Metrical Romances, with a Dissertation on Romance and Minstrelsy. 3 vols, crown 8vo. London, Bulmer, 1802 With the rare cancelled leaf giving the infidel attacks made by Rit- son on the Jewish and Christian religions. IV. Ritson. Bibliographia Poetica; a Catalogue of En- glish Poets of the twelfth, thirteenth, fourteenth, fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, with a short account of their Works. Crown 8vo. London, G. &' W. Nicol, 1802 V. Ritson. Northern Garlands. The Bishopric Garland, a Choice Collection of Excellent Songs; the Yorkshire Garland, a Curious Collection of Old and New Songs; the Northumberland Garland, or Newcastle Nightingale : the North Country Chorister. 4 vols, in one, crown 8vo. London, 1810 232 THE FARNUM LIBRARY. VI. RiTSON. Gammer Gurton's Garland, or the Nursery Parnassus. Crown 8vo. Very scarce. London, R. Triphook, 1810 VII. RiTSON. Annals of the Caledonians, Picts and Scots, and of Strathclyde, Cumberland, Galloway and Murray. Introduction and Notes. 2 vols, crown 8vo. London, Payne &= Foss, 1828 VIII. RiTSON. Ancient Songs and Ballads, from the Reign of King Henry the Second to the Revolution. 2 vols, crown 8vo. London, Payne &= Foss, 1820 IX. Ritson. Fairy Tales, to which are prefixed Disserta- tions on Pigmies and Fairies. Edited by Mr. Frank from a MS. copy. Crown 8vo. London, W. Pickering, 1831 X. RiTSON. Robin Hood. First Edition. 2 vols, crown 8vo. London, 1795 XI. RiTSON. Ancient Songs, from the time of Henry III. to the Revolution (with Observations and Dissertations by Ritson). Etchings by ^TOT-KPi^T). Crown 8vo. London, 1790 The most curious and interesting of all Ritson's works. XII. Ritson. Pieces of Ancient Popular Poetry, from Authentic MSS. and old printed copies, with Preface and Notes. With cuts by Bewick. Crown 8vo. London, Egerton, 1791 XIII. Ritson. A Select Collection of English Songs, with Preface and Historical Essay on the Origin and Progress of National Song. 3 vols, crown 8vo. London, 1813 XIV. Ritson. The Caledonian Muse, a Chronological Selection of Scottish Poetry from the Earliest Times. Vignettes. Crown 8vo. London, 1785 With new title-page and preface dated 1821 — no portrait. This vol- ume, the second poetical work edited by Ritson, was nearly ready for publication in 1785, when a fire in the printer's warehouse destroyed the introduction, and its completion was abandoned. XV. Ritson. Poems by Laurence Minot. Crown 8vo. London, 1795 XVI. Ritson. The Life of King Arthur, from Ancient Historians and Authentic Documents. With Preface, Notes and Appendix. Crown 8vo. London, Payne 6^ Foss, 1825 THE FARNUM LIBRARY. 233 XVII. RiTSON. Memoirs of the Celts or Gauls, with an Appendix, in which will be found a Dictionary of Celtic Words and a Bibliotheca Celtica. Crown 8vo. London, Payne b" Foss, 1827 XVIII. RiTSON. The Letters of, Edited chiefly from Originals in the Possession of his Nephew (Joseph Frank), to which is prefixed a Memorial of the Author by Sir Harris Nicolas. 2 vols, crown 8vo. London, W. Pickering, 1833 Contains a collection of Ritson's letters from an early part of his life, comprising a period of nearly thirty years. XIX. RiTsoN. Remarks Critical and Illustrative on the Text and Notes of the last edition of Shakespeare (Stevens). Inserted portrait. 8vo. London, 1783 XX. RiTSON. Haslewood (J.). Some account of the Life and Publications of Joseph Ritson. Portrait. Crown 8vo. London, 1824 XXI. Ritson (Joseph). Abstinence from Animal Food a Moral Duty. 8vo. London, 1802 XXII. Ritson. The Quip Modest : a few words by way of Supplement to Reed's Edition of Shakespeare, by (Joseph Ritson), with the rare cancelled leaf of preface. 8vo. London, 1788 XXIII. Ritson. Observations on the History (Wharton's) of English Poetry. 4to, half sheep gilt. London, 1782 XXIV. Ritson. Cursory Remarks on the Edition of Shakespeare published by Edmond Malone. 8vo. London, 1792 XXV. Ritson. Jurisdiction of the Court Leet. 8vo. London, 1791 XXVI. Ritson. Letters from Joseph Ritson, Esq., to Mr. George Paton, to which is added a Critique by John Pinkerton, Esq., upon Ritson's Scottish Songs. Crown 8vo. Edinburgh, 1829 XXVII. Ritson. Office of Bailiff of a Liberty. 8vo. London, 18 11 XXVIII. Ritson. Office of Constable. 8vo. London, 1791 XXIX. Ritson. Practical Points or Maxims in Convey- anqing. 8vo. London, 1804 The above extraordinary, singularly beautiful and COMPLETE collection OF RiTSONIANA (siZES AS NOTED above), is SUPERBLY BOUND IN 40 VOLS. IN POLISHED 2 34 THE FARNUM LIBRARY. TREE MARBLE CALF EXTRA, GILT EDGES AND CONTENTS LETTERED, BY RiVIBRE, WITH THE EXCEPTION OF ONE QUARTO VOLUME, WHICH IS BOUND IN HALF SPRINKLED CALF. London, 1788-1833 Very rare. The most complete set in America, elegantly bound. The last set of Ritson as nearly complete as the above which came under the hammer was in the ' ' Gems from the Library of a Biblio- maniac," Part 2, but it only had 37 vols, and three of those were duplicates, being second as well as first editions. These were sold at Clinton Hall in 1878. The above has the cancelled leaf to the " Quip Modest " with an attack on Stevens, the Shakesperean commentator, and which Mr. Ritson's friends forced him to suppress. There is also a cancelled leaf to the "English Metrical Romances," shovping that the author had become imbued vnth the infidelity of Tom Paine and Voltaire. " Ritson cannot be named without respect for his industry, and pity for the unfortunate irritability which placed him throughout his life in a state of bitter and unremitted warfare — with beefsteaks and Rev- elation ; Pinkerton and Snorro ; vdth his best friends and half the let- ters in the alphabet." — Quarterly Review. " In Theron's form, mark Ritson next contend ; Fierce, meagre, pale, no commentator's friend." — " Pursuits of Literature." " Ritson is the oddest but most honest of all our antiquarians." — SOUTHEY. 847 RiTTER (Dr. Heinrich). The History of Ancient Philoso- phy. Translated from the German by Alexander J. W. Morrison. 4 vols. Svo, cloth, uncut (one cover loose). Oxford, D. A. Talboys, 1838-46 Scarce. "A good work, well translated." — Allibone. 848 Roberts (David, R.A.). Life of ; compiled from his Jour- nals and other sources by James Ballantine. Portrait, ■with etchings and facsimiles of pen and ink sketches by the great artist. Royal 4to, cloth. Edinburgh, Adam and Charles Black, 1866 Large paper, and No. 63 of 100 copies printed, with India paper PROOF impressions of the plates. List of Illustrations :— Portrait of Roberts after picture by Sir J. W. Gordon; Etchings of Falkland Palace; Ruins of St. Andrew's Cathedral; Ruins of the Monastery of Blackfriars, St. Andrew's; Chan- cel of lona Cathedral, near the great Altar; St. Mary's Church, lona; Caerlaverock Castle, Durafrieshire; Melrose Abbey, and Leuchars Church; also 27 facsimiles of pen and ink sketches of pictures from Roberts's Journal, produced by a new process which makes them most perfect counterparts of the originals. THE FARNUM LIBRARY. 235 849 Roberts (Mrs. Martyn). The Spiritual Creation, or Soul's New Birth. A Poem in Seven Books. i6mo, cloth. London, 1843 Printed by Whittingham and published by Pickering. 850 Roberts (WilliamJ. History of Letter-Writing from the Earliest Period to the Fifth Century. Thick 8vo, cloth, uncut. London, Wm. Pickering, 1843 Printed by C. W. Whittingham. This author was the editor of the British Review, but he is best known as the biographer of Hannah More. His own life was written by his son, the Rev. Arthur Roberts. 851 Robin Hood. Garland and Ballads. A Lytell Geste of Robin Hood, with other Ancient and Modern Ballads and Songs, with his History and Character. Edited by J. M. GuTCH. Portrait and numerous woodcuts by Fairholt. 2 vols, square 8vo, half morocco gilt, top edges gilt. London, Longmans, 1850 An elegant work. Appended are "Dissertations upon the Morris Dance and Maid Marian, &c., by Mr. Hone and F. Douce, Esq." 852 Robinson (E.) ««(/ Smith (E.). BibHcal Researches in Pal- estine and in the Adjacent Regions : a Journal of Travels in the Year 1838 and of Later Researches in 1852. Maps and plans. 4 vols. 8vo, cloth. Boston, 1856-60 The separate maps to the above, in cloth, were drawn by Heinrich Kiepert. 853 Robinson (Henry Crabb). Diary, Reminiscences, and Correspondence. Selected and edited by T. Sadler, Ph.D. Second edition, elegantly printed on toned paper. With por- trait. 3 vols. 8vo, cloth, uncut edges. London, 1869 " Irresistible, to be attended to whether you will or no; and worth the attention, because brimful of anecdote, incident, learning, quaint talk, profound thought, sublime philosophy, childlike fun, bold specu- lation, and religious feeling, lovely in its conception and practice." 854 Robinson (W., F.L.S.). Parks, Promenades, and Gardens of Paris, described and considered in relation to the wants of our own Cities and of Public and Private Gardens. With upwards of 400 illustrations. Thick 8vo, cloth. London, 1869 Scarce. "And trade is art, and art's philosophy in Paris." — Aurora Leigh. 855 RoDD (Thomas). Ancient Spanish Ballads relating to the Twelve Peers of France, mentioned in Don Quixote, Spanish and English on opposite pages, the Translations 236 THE FARNUM LIBRARY. in Verse by T. Rodd. Vignette titles. 2 vols, in i. 8vo, half morocco, top edge gilt, others uncut. London, 181 2 Thomas Rodd, we are lold by AUibone — "was known for many years as an eminent London bookseller and was the author of a num- ber of works." His son Horatio was also a well-known author and a dealer in books and engravings in London. He was a resident later on of Philadelphia. 856 Rodd (T. and H.). Rare Portraits to Granger and Noble's Histories of England. 51 fine and interesting portraits of famous and notorious personages, from rare pictures and prints. 2 vols, in i. 4to, half morocco, top edge gilt, others uncut. London, 1820 Large paper, beautiful impressions of the plates and veky scarce. A highly curious collection, forming an indispensable companion to Richardson's series, all the portraits being different, and suitable for illustrating Noble's Continuation to Granger's History. The por- traits are accompanied by biographical notices. 857 Rogers (Samuel). The Pleasures of Memory. 8vo, inlaid to 4to, and illustrated with 10^ portraits, views, etc., many of them proofs on India paper, with Autograph Letter of Rogers. 4to, richly bound in morocco extra, full gilt sides, and broad borders of gold, and colored inlaid leathers inside, by A. Tarrant. London, n. d. This magnificent and unique volume was lot 2533 in John Allan's library. It was considered one of the finest books in his coHection. 858 Rolliad (The), in Two Parts; Probationary Odes for the Laureatship; and Political Miscellanies: with Criticisms and Illustrations. Front, and vignette title. 8vo, calf, gilt. London, 1799 Best edition and a fine library copy. This is the famous political satire on Wm. Pitt and his adherents, written by ' ' all the talents" of the Whig party, viz.. General Fitzgerald, Dr. Frank Law- rence, Tickell, etc. It includes the famous parodies the "Probation- ary Odes for the Laureatship," etc. 859 RoLLiN (M.). Ancient History of the Egyptians, Cartha- ginians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Medes and Persians, Grecians and Macedonians. Maps and plates. 8 vols. i2mo, sheep. N. Y., 1820 " His historical productions have enchanted mankind. His is the heart which finds an echo in every breast. We feel a secret pleasure ill listening to his voice — to the voice of virtue. RoUin may be truly called L'Abeille de la France." — MoNTESQt;iEU. .THE FARNUM LIBRARY. 237 860 RossETTi (Dante Gabriel). Poems. i6mo, cloth, bevelled sides, top edge gilt. Boston, 1870 The poet and artist Dante Gabriel Rossetti's brother was the dis- tinguished art critic William Michael Rossetti. Their sister, Christina Rossetti, is one of the best poetesses of this century. 861 RoscoE (William). Life and Pontificate of Leo the Tenth, Fourth Edition, Revised by his Son, Thomas Roscoe, illustrations, 2 vols.; also — Roscoe's Life of Lorenzo de Medici, called the Magnificent, Revised by Thomas Roscoe, portraits and other illustrations. To- gether 3 vols. 8vo, uniform half morocco, gilt. London, 1846 Rufus Choate's copy and with his autograph signature. In Italy they (the above) have been translated, are now cited as authorities, and have received the most encomiastic notices from sev- eral eminent scholars. These facts afford conclusive testimony of their merits." — Prescott. 862 Roscoe (Thomas). Novelists. Spanish, Italian, and German Novelists Translated from the Originals, with Critical and Biographical Notices. 4 vignette titles by Fin- den. II vols, crown 8vo, uniform yellow calf, gilt, marbled edges, by H. Stamper. London, 1825-32 Large paper. Exceedingly scarce. Complete set : — Spanish Novelists, 3 vols. ; Italian Novelists, 4 vols. ; German NoveUsts, 4 vols. A fine series, and without doubt the best collection of tales from foreign tongues. 863 Rose (H. J.). A New General Biographical Dictionary. 12 vols. 8vo, half calf gilt, cloth sides. London, 1853 A more ample English Biographical Dictionary is a desideratum, but Rose's is perhaps the most satisfactory and useful of those yet pub- lished. " In no other publication of a character purely literary are instruction and entertainments so blended as in a Biographical Dictionary.'' This dictionary comprises no fewer than 2,700 names. 864 Rowe (Nicholas). The Works of, a New Edition, to which is Prefixed a Life of the Author. Portrait and plates. 2 vols. i2mo, bright yellow calf extra, gilt edges. London, 1792 A very nice copy, with all the plates. ' ' Rowe's ' Jane Shore ' I maintain to be perfectly moral .... if you vrill compare with Shakespeare, I must say that ' Cleopatra ' is immoral and ' Jane Shore ' is not." — Sir James Mackintosh. 238 THE FARNUM LIBRARY. 865 Rows Roll with Armorial Bearings ; this Roll was laburd and finished by Master John Rows of Warrewyk ; with Introduction by W. Courthope. 3 2 plates of arms, armor, costume, etc., beautifully illuminated in gold and COLORS BY HAND AND ELEGANTLY PRINTED BY WhITTING- HAM. Royal 4to, half morocco, top edge gilt. London, Pickering, 1845 (published 1859) Only 100 copies of this splendidly printed and highly curious Pictorial History of the Earls of Warwick were first published in 1859 from the original MS. Roll of the XVth Century, with historical introduction and description of the plates by W. Courthope of the Heralds' College. This magnificent work was projected by William Pickering, who died before its completion, when Henry G. Bohn carried out the design. Of the 100 COPIES ONLY A VERY FEW HAVE THE PLATES FINISHED BY HAND IN THE SUMPTUOUS STYLE OF THIS COPY. 866 RoxBURGHE Library. Edited by W. Carew Hazlitt. COMPRISING : I. The Romance of Paris and Vienne, from the Unique Copy printed by W. Caxton, in 1485. With a Preface, Glossary and Notes. Facsimile page. II. The Complete Works or William Browne, of Tavi- stock, Author of " Britannia's Pastorals," now first collected. With a Memoir and Notes. Facsimiles. 2 vols. III. Inedited Tracts (1579-1618) ; Illustrating the Man- ners, Opinions and Occupations of Englishmen during the 1 6th and 17th Centuries, now first republished from the Original Copies. With a Preface and Notes. IV. The English Drama and Stage under the Tudor and Stuart Princes, A. D. 1543 to A. D. 1664, illustrated by a Series of Documents and Treatises, chiefly inedited. With an Introduction and Index. V. The Poems of George Gascoigne, now first collected. With Memoir and Notes. Portrait, plates and facsimiles. Two thick volumes. VI. The Poems of Thomas Carew, now first collected, and Edited with a Memoir of the Author, and fine portrait after Varin. Together 8 vols, small 4x0, half morocco, top edges trimmed, others uncut, Roxburghe style. London, 1868-70 A fine series, all beautifully printed by Whittingham. Edition limited to 170 copies on Small, and 30 copies on Large Paper. THE FARNUM LIBRARY. 239 867 RoxBURGHE Ballads. Edited by Charles Hindley. Fac- simile illustrations. 2 vols, royal 8vo, half morocco, gilt top edges, others uncut. London, 1873 Nearly all the Ballads contained in this interesting collection are unique. The originals are in the extraordinary collection which belonged to the Duke of Roxburghe. " What hast here ? Ballads ? I love a ballad in print, or a life, for then we are sure they are true." 868 Rule (William Harris, D.D.). History of the Inquisition from its Establishment in the Twelfth Century to its Extinc- tion in the Nineteenth. Portraits and views. 2 vols. 8vo, cloth, uncut. London, 1874 869 Rush (R.). The Court of London, 1819-1825. Second series. 2 vols. 8vo, cloth, uncut. London, Bentley, 1845 This work is one of permanent value as including interesting notices of many of the most eminent men and women of the age with whom the author came in contact. This journal of Richard Rush, who was Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at the Court of London, from 1817 to 1825, was, says the Edinburgh Review, — " the evident fruit of a sensible, a virtuous mind, a mind loving truth, and desirous of being pleased." 870 Russell (William). History of Modern Europe, with Con- tinuation by William Jones. Vignette titles. 3 vols. 8vo, sheep. N. Y., 1841 "His [Russell's] narrative is always free from languor ; and his reflections are conveyed in a lively and elegant style." — Encyclopcedia Britannica. 871 Rye (W. B.). England as seen by Foreigners in the days of Elizabeth and James I., comprising Translations of the Journals of the two Dukes of Wirtemberg in 1592 and 1610; both illustrative of Shakespeare, with Extracts from the Travels of Foreign Princes and others, copious Notes and an Introduction. With etchings. Thick 4to, half morocco, uncut. London, John Russell Smith, 1865 Large paper, with MS. note. " Twenty-five copies printed, No. II. J. R. S." " A book replete both with information and amusement." — Notes and Queries. 872 Ryan (Richard). Dramatic Table Talk. Vignette titles and frontispieces. 3 vols. i6mo, half calf. London, 1825-30 Being — "scenes, situations and adventures — serious and comic — in theatrical history and biography," 240 THE FARNUM LIBRARY. JoJjn Musfetn's ^rt assorfts. "To Mr. Ruskin art has a deep moral and religious significance, BOTH IN ITS USES AND IN ITS CONNECTION WITH THE CHARACTER AND CONDITION OF THE ARTIST. EvERY TOUCH IS, FOR HIM, THE THOUGHT OF A HUMAN INTELLECT AND THE VOICE OF A HUMAN HEART. He SEEMS TO KISS the very footsteps of that art of which he is the great expositor." — London Times. 873 Ruskin (John). Modern Painters, i. e. : — I. Containing Parts I. and II. — " Of General Principles, and of Truth." Sixth Edition. London, 1857 II. Containing Part III. — " Of the Imaginative and Reflec- tive Faculties." Fourth Edition. London, 1856 III. Containing Part IV. — "Of yidarj 'Y\i\ng^" with eighteen illustrations, drawn by the Author, and engraved on steel. London, 1856 IV. Containing Part V. — "Of Mountain Beauty." London, 1856 V. Containing Part VI.—" Of Leaf Beauty." Part VII.— "Of Cloud Beauty." Part VIII.— "Of Ideas of Rela- tion:" I. "Of Invention Formal." Part IX.— "Of Ideas of Relation :" 2. " Of Invention Spiritual." With an In- dex to the whole five vols. London, i860 Together 5 vols. Illustrated with numerous CHARMING steel AND WOOD ENGRAVINGS AFTER THE author's designs. Imperial 8vo, original cloth BINDING, UNCUT. London, Smith, Elder Ss' Co., 1856-60 Very scarce. A choice early copy, far superior to those subse- quently placed on the market, the plates of which are very much worn. The third, fourth and fifth volumes are the original editions published by Smith, Elder & Co., of London, and not the later English edi- tions or pirated and mediocre-printed American republications. A noticeable feature in the set is that Vol. V. of the " Modern Painters " — the one most eagerly sought for by collectors on account of the charming and very delicately engraved plates that it contains — THE FARN-UM LIBRARY. 241 is In this case the original issue, having the plates in their earliest and most satisfactory state. The earlier editions of Vol. I. do not contain any plates, and the later edition of 1857 is therefore preferable, as the author made im- portant additions. In the preface he states: "Something I have added .... to supply gross omissions, answer inevitable objections, and give some substance to passages of mere declamation." 874 RusKiN. The Stones of Venice. I. The Foundations (1851). II. The Sea-Stories (1853). III. The Fall (1853). By John Ruskin. With illustrations drawn by the author. 3 vols, imperial 8vo, cloth, uncut. London, Smith, Elder &= Co., 1851-53 First editions, with beautiful impressions of the 53 plates, some of which are colored, and of the numerous woodcuts by the author. The first editions of the " Stones of Venice" are even more scarce than the ' ' Modern Painters. " ' ' Mr. Ruskin is of opinion that the first (edition of the ' Stones of Venice ') will always command a high price. The plates, he tells us, were not only etched, but bitten by himself, the last of them in a wash-hand basin in his room at the Hotel La Cloche, in Dijon. This last precious item about the wash-hand basin excepted, most of what he says about the plates was known before. As for the text, he has left it, all spangled and overshot with exuberant riches as it is, in its primitive state, save that he has cut out both from text and notes the foolishly false Protestantism heretofore to be found there. He has also printed the essential principles, summaries of doctrine, and aphorisms scattered through the book, in full-faced type — much to the detriment of the pages where this emphatic appeal to the reader's eye occurs. The impecunious admirer of Ruskin will no more be able to buy this new edition than the others." ' ' No one who has visited Venice can read this book without having a richer glow thrown over his remembrances of that city ; and for those who have not, Mr. Ruskin paints it with a firmness of outline and vividness of coloring that will bring it before the imagination with the force of reality. His descriptions are the perfection of word- painting, and there is this additional charm in them, that the intellect and heart are sure to be gratified by profound thoughts and noble sentiments." — Literary Gazette. 87s Ruskin. The Seven Lamps of Architecture. By John Ruskin. With [14] illustrations drawn by the author. Im- perial 8vo, cloth, uncut. London, Smith, Elder &= Co., 1855 Very scarce. Second edition. This is one of the scarcest of Ruskin's works. A number of newspaper cuttings relative to the author go with this volume. 242 THE FARNUM LIBRARY. 876 RusKiN. Notes by Mr. Ruskin on his Collection of Draw- ings. By the late J. M. W. Turner, R.A. Exhibited at the Fine Arts Society's Galleries ; also — a List of the En- graved Works of that Master shown at the same time. Illustrated with thirty-five plates and a map indicative of the places in the British Isles illustrated by him. 4to, half mor- occo, cloth sides, uncut. London, Printed at the Chiswick Press for the Fine Art Society, 1878 Illustrated large paper edition. Only a limited number printed . Each copy bears the stamp of the Fine Art Society, as a guarantee of its having been carefully examined before being issued to the public. The plates were destroyed on the completion of the work. List of Plates: — i, Thun; 2, Isola Bella; 3, Turin; 4, Florence; 5, Nami; 6, Terni; 7, Rome; 8, Nemi (La Riccia); 9, Vesuvius (Angry)'; 10, Heysham ; II, Eggleston ; 12, Richmond ; 13, Dudley; 14, Rich- mond Bridge ; 15, Winchelsea ; 16, Louth ; 17, Devonport ; 18, Gos- port ; 19, Salisbury ; 20, Langhame ; 21, Carnarvon ; 22, Flint ; 23, Okehampton; 24, Leicester; 25, Bolton ; 26, Staffa ; 27, Lochmaben ; 28, Rouen; 29, Fountains; 30, Plains of Troy; 31, Corinth; 32, Jeru- salem; 33, Rouen; 34, Bonneville; 35, Zug. ■'A limited edition, illustrated, for subscribers only, has been pre- pared of Notes on The Turner Drawings, by John Ruskin. It forms a beautifully printed quarto volume, embellished with nearly forty im- pressions from the finest engravings from Turner's works, besides much valuable supplementary matter, as a list of all the plates executed from his paintings, a map of the various localities in England and Scotland illustrated by his pencil, etc. , forming a complete manual for amateurs or collectors of his designs. The volume has charm enough to make it eagerly sought for, and it is no longer obtainable in London ; all the copies being subscribed for, a few were secured for the American mar- ket that are certain to command an equally ready sale. American buyers are already in search of the Liber Studiorum, the famous series of mezzotinto engravings published by Turner, and the price of fine impressions is constantly advancing. There were recently two superior copies for sale in London, valued at ;£'5oo each ; but, to secure a copy with all the various proofs taken of the plates, etchings, etc. , four or five times that sum would be hardly sufficient, even should the oppor- tunity occur. " — The Book Buyer. 877 Ruskin. Works — Revised Series, z. ^.: — I. Sesame and Lilies. Three Lectures, with New Preface. I, Of Kings' Treasuries; 2, Of Queens' Gardens; 3, Of the Mystery of Life. ($13.50.) II. Munera Pulveris. Six Essays on the Elements of Political Economy. (I13.50.) THE FARNUM LIBRARY. 243 III. Aratra Pentelici. Six Lectures on the Elements of Sculpture. Illustrated. Given before the University of Oxford, in Michaelmas Term, 1870. ($2 2.50.) IV. The Eagle's Nest. Ten Lectures on the Relation of Natural Science to Art. Given before the University of Oxford in Lent Term, 1872. ($13.50.) V. Time and Tide. By Weare and Tyne. Twenty-five Letters to a Workingman of Sunderland on the Laws of Work. ($13.50.) VI. The Crown of Wild Olive. Four Essays on Work, Traffic, War and the Future of England. With added Article on the Economies of the Kings of Prussia. ($13.50.) VII. Ariadne Florentina. Six Lectures on Wood and Metal Engraving and Appendix. Illustrated. Given before the University of Oxford. ($22.50.) VIII. Val d'Arno. Ten Lectures on Art of the 13th Cen- tury in Pisa and Florence. With twelve plates. ($22.50.) IX. Queen of the Air. Being a Study of the Greek Myths of Cloud and Storm. ($13.50.) X. The Two Paths. Being Lectures on Art and its Appli- cation to Decoration and Manufacture. ($13.50.) XI. A Joy for Ever. Together ii vols. 8vo, full antique calf, gilt edges by Mansell, being the Binding selected by the Author. Published by George Allen, Sunnyside, Orpington, Kent, for the Author, etc., 1871-80 The prices given with the above were those of Scribner to import when they were originally issued. " Being now fifty-one years old, and little likely to change my mind hereafter on any important subject of thought (unless through weak- ness of age), I wish to publish a connected series of such parts of my works as now seem to me right, and likely to be of permanent use. In doing so I shall omit much, but not attempt to mend what I think worth reprinting. A young man necessarily writes otherwise than an old one, and it would be worse than wasted time to try to recast the juvenile language; nor is it to be thought that I am ashamed even of what I cancel; for great part of my earlier work was rapidly written for temporary purposes, and is now unnecessary, though true, even to truism. What I wrote about religion was, on the contrary, painstak- ing and, I think, forcible, as compared with most religious writing; especially in its frankness and fearlessness; but it was wholly mistaken; 244 ^^-^ FARNVM LIBRARY. for I had been educated in the doctrines of a narrow sect, and had read history as obliquely as sectarians necessarily must. ' ' Mingled among these either unnecessary or erroneous statements, I find, indeed, some that might be still of value; but these in my earlier books, disfigured by affected language, partly through the desire to be thought a fine writer, and partly, as in the second volume of ' Modern Painters,' in the notion of returning as far as I could to what I thought the better style of old English literature, especially to that of my then favourite, in prose, Richard Hooker. " For these reasons, though, as respects either art, policy, or moral- ity as distinct from religion, I not only still hold, but would even wish strongly to re-affirm the substance of what I said in my earliest books. I shall reprint scarcely anything in this series out of the first and second volumes of 'Modern Painters;' and shall omit much of the ' Seven Lamps ' and 'Stones of Venice;' but all my books writ- ten within the last fifteen years will be republished without change, as new editions of them are called for, with here and there perhaps an additional note, and having their text divided, for convenient refer- ence, into paragraphs, consecutive through each volume. I shall also throw together the shorter fragments that bear on each other, and fill in with such imprinted lectures or studies as seem to me worth pre- serving, so as to keep the volumes, on an average, composed of about a hundred leaves each. " The Volumes will each contain, on the average, two hundred pages of text : and those which are illustrated, never more than twenty-one plates, rarely so many. They will all be clearly printed and well bound. "I find the trouble and difficulty of revising text and preparing plates much greater than I expected. " Some will be worth a little less than others; but I want to keep my business simple, and I do not care that anybody should read my books who grudges me a doctor's fee per volume. "Also I find, in the present state of trade, that when the retail price is printed on books, all sorts of commissions and abatements take place, to the discredit of the author, and, I am convinced, in the end, to every one else's disadvantage. " I mean, therefore, to sell my own books at a price from which there shall be no abatement." — From the author's preface to Vol. i. 878 RusKiN. FoRS Clavigera. Letters to the Laborers and Workers of Great Britain. First Series, Nos. 1 to 84 in- clusive ; Second Series, Nos. i to 3 inclusive ; also Indexes for 1871-74. Together 9 vols, uniformly bound in half morocco, uncut. Printed for the author by Smith, Elder 6" Co., and sold only by Mr. G. Allen, Heathfield Cottage, Keston, Kent, [1871-78J. A complete set, including the Indices and up to the issue of No. 3. THE FARNUM LIBRARY. 245 of the Second Series, since when none have been published, and when it was announced by the publisher — "Professor Ruskin, who is at present seriously ill — from prostration, caused by overwork — will not, until further notice, be able to issue ' Fors,' his medical advisers hav- ing ordered absolute rest for some time. Sunnyside, Orpington, Kent, February 26th [1878]." A complete set, bound as above, was priced by Scribners at $52.50 in half morocco, with the Second Series |i.8o, unbound. ' ' Whatever may be said of the extravagance of some of Mr. Ruskin's views, or of his manner of stating them, it is undeniable that he tries hard to do good. We may expect to get from him some fresh lectures tinged with exaggeration, no doubt, but certain to contain noble and elevating thoughts and suggestions. Such a man as Mr. Ruskin is a true benefactor of his species, and well deserves all the honor he is likely to receive." 879 Ruskin. Elements of Drawing ; in three Letters to Be- ginners. With illustrations drawn by the author. Crown 8vo, cloth, uncut. London, 1857 Original Edition. Very rare. There are some verbal alterations in the text of the Second Edition, published the same year. Priced $14 in a recent catalogue. 880 Ruskin. Political Economy of Art ; being the sub- stance (with additions) of two Lectures, delivered at Man- chester, July loth and 13th, 1857. Post 8vo, cloth. London, 1857 881 Ruskin. Queen of the Air ; being a study of the Greek Myths of Cloud and Storm. Post 8vo, cloth, uncut. London, 1869 882 Ruskin. Mornings In Florence. 6 vols, post 8vo, limp roan, gilt edges. Sunnyside, 1875-77 Comprises— I, Santa Croce; 2, The Golden Gate; 3, Before the Soldan; 4, The Vaulted Book; 5, The Strait Gate; and 6, The Shepherd's Tower. 883 Ruskin. Notes on Some of the Principal Pictures Exhibited in the Rooms of the Royal Academy, Nos. i, 2, 3, 4 and 5 (i. e., 1855-59). Together 5 pamphlets. 8vo, sewed. London, 1855 Nos. 2 and 3 include Society of Water Colors; and 4 and 5, the Society of British Artists and French Exhibition as well. 884 Ruskin. Catalogue of the Sketches and Drawings of J. M. W. Turner, exhibited 1857-58, with Illustrative Notes. 8vo, sewed, uncut. , London, 1858 Very scarce, suppressed and destroyed as far as the author found it possible. 246 THE FARNUM LIBRARY. 885 RusKiN. Notes on the Turner Collection, 1856-57. Fifth Edition Revised. 8vo, sewed, uncut. London, 1857 886 RusKiN. Catalogue of Drawings and Sketches by J. M. W. Turner at present exhibited in the National Gallery. Special Edition. 8vo, sewed. Sunnyside, G. Allen, 1882 " The most unique Art Exhibition of the last London season was composed of Mr. Ruskin's collection of the drawings of J. M. W. Turner, supplemented by a selection of ' his own hand)rwork' illustrative of his great master's principles. Like everything from his pen, the Catalogue or ' Notes' on these drawings formed a work of very great interest. Apart from its profound criticisms, it contained much auto- biographical matter relating to Mr. Ruskin's own drawings and studies in art, and many valuable reminiscences of the painter whose merits it has been the business of his life to develop and proclaim. '' 887 RusKiN. Notes on the Construction of Sheepfolds. Second edition. 8vo, sewed. London, 185 1 888 RusKiN. Relations between Michael Angelo and Tinto- ret. 8vo, sewed. Sunnyside, G. Allen, 1879 889 RusKiN. Ethics of the Dust — Ten Lectures to Little House- wives and the Elements of Crystallization. Crown 8vo, boards, uncut. Sunnyside, G. Allen, 1877 890 RusKiN. Pre-Raphaelitism, by the author of " Modern Painters." 8vo, sewed, uncut. London, 185 1 Presentation copy with author's autograph — ' ' Paul J. Frazer from J. J. Ruskin." This shows that the eminent author did not always sign his name with one " J. " But he was always a good orthographer, and needed no alleged editing in that particular. 891 RusKiN. Notes by Mr. Ruskin on Samuel Prout and William Hunt illustrated in a Loan Collection of Draw- ings. 8vo, sewed. [London], 1879-80 THE FARNUM LIBRARY. 247 ABINE (Lorenzo). Biographical Sketches of Loyalists of the American Revolution, with An Historical Essay. 2 vols. 8vo, boards, uncut. Boston, 1864 Best edition. ' ' Treats with admirable candor a theme as likely to enlist passion and prejudice as any that could employ the pen of an American writer. " — Ellis. 893 Sackville (Thomas, Lord Buckhurst). Works, Edited by R. W. Sackville West. Portrait. Post 8vo, cloth, uncut. London, John Russell Smith, 1859 " The brilliancy of his imagination." — Walpole. 894 Salem Witchcraft : Comprising More Wonders of the Invisible World, Collected by Robert Calef ; and Won- ders of the Invisible World, by Cotton Mather. To- gether with Notes and Explanations by Samuel P. Fowler. Portrait on India paper. 4to, cloth, uncut. Boston, Wm. Veazie, MDCCCLXV. Large paper. 100 copies only printed. For a severe critique on this reproduction, see Deane's "Spurious Reprints, &c." No. 539. 89s Sampson. The Female Review — Life of Deborah Sampson, the Female Soldier in the War of the Revolution, with an Introduction and Notes by John Adams Vinton. Por- trait. 4to, half morocco, uncut. Boston, J. K. Wiggin and Wm. Parsons Lunt, 1866 The above is " No. 93, W. & L." (signed) of edition of 250 copies small quarto and 35 copies royal quarto. This remarkable woman was twice severely wounded in action, was pensioned by Congress, and received a compensation from the State of Massachusetts, in consideration of her military services. 896 Sanderson (John). Biography of the Signers to the Decla- ration of Independence. Portraits and engraved titles. 9 vols. 8vo, boards, uncut (two covers loose). Phila., 1820-27 Fowle's copy sold for $81. " He (Sanderson) was not less brilliant in his conversation than in his writings ; but he never summoned a shadow to any face, or permitted a weight to lie on any heart." — R. W. Griswold. 248 THE FARNUM LIBRARY. 897 Sargent (Mrs. John T.). Sketches and Reminiscences of the Radical Club of Chestnut Street, Boston. Front. i2mo, cloth. Boston, 1880 898 Savage (James). The Librarian, being an Account of Scarce, Valuable, and Useful Books, Manuscripts, Public Records, etc. 3 vols, 8vo, calf, gilt. London, 1808-9 A fine copy, Complete, including the fragment of Vol 4, and being all published. ' ' Should be in every bibliographical collection. " — Alli- BONE. 899 Savage (W.). Practical Hints on Decorative Printing. With 50 tinted and colored plates, exhibiting all the varieties of decorative and colored printing. Folio, half red morocco gilt, top edge gilt. London, 1822 Largest paper, published at;^ii lu. and but a very limited number printed. Very scarce in this fine state. The above copy has the illus- trations on India paper, including the handsome colored frontispiece of the arms of Earl Spencer. There is nothing necessary to be known in the noble art of typography that is not contained in this book. Interesting articles on electrotyping, printing machines, and other subjects equally important, render this one of the most useful books on these subjects that has issued from the press. 900 Scarron (Monsr.). Whole Comical Works of. Containing his Comical Romance of a Company of Stage Players ; all his Novels and Histories; his Select Letters, Charac- ters, etc. Translated by Tom Brown, Savage and others. Facetious frontispiece. 8vo, sprinkled calf, gilt, citron edges by Cecil and Larkins. London, 1712 Best edition and very scarce. " Scarron is among the French writers what Butler is amongst our own; as a burlesquer he has great merit. " — D'Israeli. ' ' Scarron, a man deformed and diseased, but endowed with vast gaiety, has the credit of having struck out into a new path by his Roman Comique." — Hallam. 901 ScHLiEMANN (Dr. Henry). Mycenae: a Narrative of Re- searches and Discoveries at Mycenae and Tyrius— the Preface by W. E. Gladstone. With maps, plans and other illustrations, some colored, representing more than 700 types of the objects found in the excavations. 4to, cloth gilt, bevelled sides, gilt top. N. Y., 1878 902 ScHLiEMANN. Ilios. The City and Country of the Trojans, including an Autobiography of the Author, with a Preface, THE FARNUM LIBRARY. 249 Appendices and Notes by Virchow, Max Muller, Sayce, etc. Illustrated with maps, plans and about 1,800 illus- trations, some tinted. 4to, cloth gilt. N. Y., 1881 903 ScHLiEMANN. Troy and its Remains. ^2 plates and many hundred woodcuts. Royal Svo, cloth, uncut, gilt top edge. London, 1875 . Edited by Philip Smith, B.A. 904 ScHLOssER (F. C). History of the Eighteenth Cen- tury, and of the Nineteenth till the Overthrow of the French Empire, with particular reference to Mental Culti- vation and Progress. Translated, with a Preface and Notes, by Davison. 8 vols. Svo, cloth. London, 1843-52 The above edition, which is scarce and out of print, was pubhshed at £^ i6j-. It is one of those works which combine profound research with a lively and interesting mode of narrating. 904* ScoTT (Wm. B.). Half-Hour Lectures on the History and Practice of the Fine and Ornamental Arts. With 50 illus- trations by Linton. i6mo, cloth, uncut. N. Y., 1875 Third edition, revised by the author. 905 ScHNiTZLER (J. H.). Secret History of Russia: the Courts and Government of Russia under the Emperors Alexander and Nicholas. 2 vols. Svo, cloth, uncut. London, Bentley, 1847 A delicious "blue blood" feast. This work should have been named — "Why does Nihilism exist in Russia? " Published at £1. 8j. 906 Schoolcraft (H. R.). Historical and Statistical Informa- tion respecting the History, Antiquities, Language, Eth- nology, Pictography, Rites, Superstitions and Mythology of the Indian Tribes of the United States. 6 parts. Complete in 6 thick vols., imperial 4to. With about 500 plates, most of them colored, of views, portraits, ancient pot- tery, cooking utensils, picture writing, written music, alphabets, etc., of the Indians. Cloth. Phila., 1852-57 Original edition — large paper, and 3 of the volumes uncut. The most important work ever written on the subject of the aborigines of America. It embodies almost all the existing authentic information concerning their religions, traditions, languages, art, ethnology and history. It has performed a very important service for Indian history, in col- lecting and preserving an immense amount of historic data. Vocabu- laries of Indian languages, grammatical analysis, legends of various tribes, biographies of chiefs and warriors, narratives of captivities, his- 250 THE FARNUM LIBRARY. tones of Indian wars, emigrations and theories of their origin, are all re- lated and blended in an extraordinary and perplexing manner. A very large number of beautiful steel engravings, representative of some phase of Indian life and customs, are contained in the work, but the most valu- able of its illustrations are the drawings of weapons, domestic uten- sils, instruments, on gunning and amusement, sorcery and medicine, objects of worship, their sculptures, paintings and fortifications, picto- graph writing, dwellings, and every form of antiquities which have been discovered. The six volumes contain 336 plates, representing thousands of the scenes and objects named. 907 Scott (Lieut-Gen. Winfield). Memoirs of, by Himself. Portrait. Royal 8vo, cloth, uncut. N. Y., 1864 Large paper copy. Only 100 printed. ' ' One, the great events of whose life are parts of the history of his country, should have been willing to trust his memory to his coun- try's keeping." — North American Review. 908 Scott (Sir Walter). The Waverley Novels, the Splen- did Abbotsford Edition. With the finest impressions of the 2,000 woodcuts and early impressions of the 120 steel plates. 24 vols, imperial 8vo, half green morocco, top edge gilt, others uncut. London, 1842 A splendid copy of the original subscription edition, and bound from the numbers, one novel to a volume . This edition, the largest and handsomest in existence, now has become scarce. The illustrations comprise portraits and views from the designs of Stanfield, Nasmyth, Sir D. Wilkie, Turner, Martin, Allom, Leitch, etc. , with many facsimiles of autographs. ' ' Single pages of these works are worth whole volumes of common inventions." — Mrs. Brunton. 909 Scott. Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border : consisting of Historical and Romantic Ballads, collected in the Southern Counties of Scotland. 3 vols. 8vo, half morocco, gilt, cloth sides, gilt edges (somewhat foxed). Edinburgh, 1821 " Scott is a poet truly national and heroic." — Allan Cunningham. 910 Scott. Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart., by J. G. LocKHART. Portrait and facsimile. 7 vols. 8vo, half calf gilt. Edinburgh, Cadell, 1837-38 "What a good gentleman ! What a friendly soul, what a generous hand, what an amiable life, was that of the noble Sir Walter !" — Thackeray. 911 ScoTisH Pasquils. a Book of Scotish Pasquils, 1568-1715. Vignette cuts. 3v0ls.ini. 8vo, full morocco extra, gilt edges, by Andrew Grieve. Edinburgh, Win. Pater son, 1868 Large paper. A limited edition of 60 copies printed, now out of THE FARNUM LIBRARY. 251 print and scarce. The above are the entire series complete, including the " Packet of Pasquils " privately printed. Vide " Introductory Observations . " The above collection of ' ' Scottish Pasquils and Lampoons " serve to explain many personal allusions and minor historical events referred to by historical writers, and illustrate in a marked degree the habits and morals of the people of Scotland during the reigns of Charles I. and his descendants. "This BEAUTIFUL BOOK IS a Corrected reprint of the three volumes edited by Maidment and published in 1827-28 with large additions. Several Pasquils omitted from the reprint for indehcacy were subse- quently privately printed in the same elegant style as the above. Only ' a very few copies ' of this last was struck off under the title ! A Packet of Pestilent Pasquils.' This copy contains this rare tract bound in at the end, and therefore presents this noted collection in the very best attainable shape and is exceedingly rare." — Note by Mr. Farnum. 9 12 Se AFIELD (Frank). Literature and Curiosities of Dreams. 2 vols. 8vo, cloth, uncut. London, 1865 Being — " a commonplace book of speculations concerning the mys- tery of dreams and visions, records of curious and well-authenticated dreams and notes on the various modes of interpretation adopted in ancient and modem times. " 913 Secret Proceedings and Debates of the Convention assem- bled at Philadelphia in the year 1787, for the purpose of forming the Constitution of the United States, izmo, cloth. Richmond, 1839 Including — ' ' the genuine information " laid before the Legislature of Maryland by Luther Martin. 914 Selden (John). Table-Talk, with Biographical Preface and Notes, by S. W. Singer. Portrait. Crown Svo, cloth, uncut. London, Russell Smith, i860 Large paper copy. Only 100 printed. " Coleridge thus emphatically expresses himself: ' There is more weighty bullion sense in this book than I ever found in the same number of pages in any uninspired writer. ' .... Its merits had not escaped the notice of Dr. Johnson, though in politics opposed to much it inculcates, for in reply to an observation of Boswell in praise of the French Ana, he said, ' A few of them are good, but we have one book of that kind better than any of them — Selden's Table- Talk.'"— Singer. 915 Shadwell (Thos.). Dramatic Works. Portrait. 4 vols. foolscap, Svo, yellow calf extra, gilt edges. London, 1720 Very scarce. " Shadwell was an accomplished observer of human nature; . . , a man of sense and information, and in the midst of 252 THE FARNUM LIBRARY. much indecency, coarseness, and whimsical folly, we find numerous valuable remarks, and many dialogues of pointed, able discussion." — Retrospective Review. 916 Shaftesbury (Earl of). Characteristics of Men, Man- ners, Opinions, Times. Portrait and vignettes by Gribelin. Baskerville's Edition, 3 vols, royal 8vo, old calf, gilt. Birmingham, John Baskerville, 1773 Large paper. ' ' It has often been remarked that the Character- istics are unjustly neglected in our days. For Lord Shaftesbury, with all his pedantry, was a man of great talents." — De Quincy. 917 Shairp (John Campbell, LL.B). Aspects of Poetry, being Lectures dehvered at Oxford. 8vo, cloth. Oxford, 1881 Uncut, and printed on heavy paper at the Clarendon Press. 918 Sharp (Thomas). Dissertation on the Pageants or Dramatic Mysteries Anciently Performed at Coventry by the Trading Companies of that City; chiefly with Reference to the Vehicle, Characters, and Dresses of the Actors, compiled in a great degree from sources hitherto unexplored. To which are added the Pageant of the Spearman and Taylor's Company and other Municipal Entertainments of a Public Nature. Wiik numerous plates, anti several engraved leaves of music. 4to, cloth, uncut. Coventry, 1825 Very scarce, and only 260 copies printed. The " Coventry Antiquary, " Thomas Sharp was for many years a hatter in Coventry, England, but about 1831 removed to Leamington, where he continued his literary pursuits until his death. A manuscript volume of "Ancient Mysteries" by this author was sold at the Strawberry Hill Sale for ;£'250 10s. 919 Shaw (Henry). Dresses and Decorations of the Mid- dle Ages, from the Seventh to the Seventeenth Centuries; consisting of 94 beautifully colored full- page ENGRAVINGS, a profusion of initial letters, and examples of curious ornaments, with an historical Introduc- tion, and descriptive Text to every Illustration by Thomas Wright. 2 vols, folio, half morocco, uncut, Roxburghe style. London, W. Pickering, 1843 Large paper, with the plates \'S,Vi highly finished in colors by HAND and nearly all the initial letters, woodcuts and full-page illus- trations illuminated WITH GOLD. One of the twelve extra finished and magnificent copies produced out of the original large paper issue of fifty copies. " No more than 25 copies have been executed in this expensive THE FARNUM LIBRARY. 253 manner and but a few of these remain unsubscribed for." — H. G. BoHN, in 1847. This splendid book of Medii-eval costume, one of the best worlcs on the inner life and costumes of our rude but splendor-loving ancestors, includes ecclesiastical costume, portraits of historical celebrities, alle- gorical representations, masques, tournaments, games, religious ceremonies, art, workmanship, weapons, jewels, etc. 920 Shaw. Specimens of the Details of Elizabethan Architec- ture. With 60 plates on India Paper. Imperial 4to, half morocco gilt, edges gilt. London, W. Pickering, 1839 Large paper with India proofs and several colored. This was Thomas Willement's copy, with his autograph, armorial book-plate and monogram in gold on the side. " The great accuracy of Mr. Shaw's pencil stamps the highest value upon this work." — Gentleman's Magazine. 921 Shaw. Illuminated Ornaments, Selected from Manuscripts and Early Printed Books of the Middle Ages. Carefully Colored from the Originals, with Descriptions by Sir Frederick Madden, K. H. Imperial 4to, half morocco gilt, uncut, Roxburghe style. London, Wm. Pickering, litu Large paper. 50 copies printed. The plates highly finished with opaque colors, and heightened with gold. " The design of this work is unique, and its execution beautiful. The elaborate richness of decoration, and splendor of the combinations of color and blazonry, which render illuminated missals so curious and valuable, afford many useful hints for embellishment, both in color and design." — Spectator. This very beautiful volume (in which the art of engraving is carried to its highest conceivable excellence) is enriched by facsimiles of the Illuminations and Initial Letters found in many choice Books of Hours, Bibles and Psalters, chiefly in the British Museum, dating from the IXth to the XVIth Centuries. 922 Shaw. Encyclopedia of Ornament. 59 fine plates, beautifully colored, comprising several hundred exam- ples of stained glass, wood carving, tapestry and needle- work, designs for gold and silversmith' s work, etc. Folio, half morocco, Roxburghe style. London, W. Pickering, 1842 Large paper, of which 50 copies were printed. A very fine copy, with all the plates, initial letters, etc., beautifully colored. 923 Shaw. Decorative Arts of the Middle Ages, Ecclesi- astical and Civil, exhibiting beautiful specimens of Ancient Enamel, Metal Work, Wood Carvings, Paintings on Stained 254 ^^^ FARNUM LIBRARY. Glass, etc., etc. With i^i fine plates, cox.O'bced. Folio, half mor., uncut, Roxburghe style. Lend., Wm. Pickering, 185 1 Large paper, with the plates richly colored and heightened WITH gold, and numerous woodcuts. Only 50 copies were printed in large paper and only a few of those were finished in gold and colors by hand, together with the initial letters and woodcuts in the same sumptuous manner. It is difficult to overstate the beauty of these illuminated works of Mr. Shaw. They are, of course, in such magnificent condition excessively rare. " Of all Mr. Shaw's beautiful and interesting works this must be allowed the crowning effort." 924 Sheridan (Rt. Hon. Richard Brinsley). Works, edited by T. Moore, 2 vols. London, 1821; also — Life of Sheri- dan, by T. Moore, fine portrait after Reynolds, 2 vols. London, 1827. Together 4 vols. 8vo, uniform yellow pol- ished calf extra, citron edges, by Riviere. London, 1821-27 A remarkabably fine copy and uniformly bound by Riviere of Moore's edition of Sheridan and Life. " Mr. Sheridan has been justly called ' a dramatic star of the first magnitude ' ; and, indeed, among the comic writers of the last century he ' shines like Hesperus among the lesser lights. ' " — Hazlitt. 925 Sheridan. The Speeches of the Right Honorable Rich- ard Brinsley Sheridan. With a Sketch of his Life. Portraits. 3 vols, 8vo, cloth, uncut. London, 1842 " They [Sheridan's speeches] were marked by glowing eloquence and not unfrequently by brilliant wit." — Lord John Russell. 926 Sheridaniana ; or, Anecdotes of the Life of R. B. Sheri- dan ; His Table-Talk and Bon-Mots. Portrait. i2mo, half calf gilt, marbled edges. London, 1826 927 Shirley (Jas.). Dramatic Works, edited by William GiFFORD, with additional Notes and an account of his Writings, by the Rev. Alex. Dyce. Portrait. 6 vols, imperial 8vo, calf gilt, marbled edges. London, 1833 Large paper. Very scarce. Best edition. " Shirley was the last of our good old dramatists." — Campbell. 928 Sidney (Sir Phillip). Works, complete, in Verse and Prose, with Life. Inserted portrait. 3 vols. 8vo, sprinkled calf extra, leather joints and gilt edges on red. London, 1725 Superb copy of this very scarce, best edition and which includes the THE FARNUM LIBRARY. 255 " Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia " of which Gabriel Harvey wrote : — " Live ever, sweet book ! the silver image of his gentle wit, and ever notify unto the world that he who wrote thee was the Secretary of Eloquence, the breath of the muses, and the honey bee of the daint- iest flowers of wit and art." 929 Sidney. Miscellaneous Works. With Life and Illustra- ted Notes by William Gray. Beautifully printed on thick paper at the Riverside Press, with rubricated title, etc. 8vo, cloth, top edge gilt, others uncut. Boston, i860 Large paper. " This is that Sidney, who as Providence seems to have sent him into the world to give the present age a specimen of the ancients, so did it, on a sudden, recall him, and snatch him from us, as more worthy of heaven than earth." — Camden. 930 Sidney (Samuel). The Three Colonies of Australia — New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia — Their Pastures, Copper Mines and Gold Fields. With numerous wood engravings. 8vo, cloth, uncut. London, 1852 ' ' The best and most complete picture of Australia, past and present, that we know." — London Athenceum. 931 Silvestre (M. J. B.). Universal Paleography, or a Col- lection of Facsimiles of the Writings of every Age, taken from the most authentic Manuscripts existing in the Libra- ries of France, Italy, Germany, and England, by M. Sil- vestre, accompanied by an Historical and Descriptive Text and Introduction by Champollion Figeac and Amie Champollion, Fils. Translated from the French and edited with Corrections and Notes by Sir Fred- eric Madden, K.H., F.R.S., M.R.I.A. Containing upwards of 300 large and most beautifully executed facsim- iles, taken from missals and other MSS. most richly illu- minated in the finest style )pf art. 2 vols, atlas folio, the text in 2 vols, royal 8vo. Together 4 vols, elegant half morocco extra, gilt edges (binding a little damaged). London, 1850, etc. Quite uncommon and rarely offered for sale. The best work on the manuscript literature of ancient and mediaeval times. The finest possible specimens are given of MSS. in every European and Oriental language; of such languages as Greek and Latin many specimens of every century and every style are represented. The number of reproductions of Italian, French and German Minia- tures is very considerable. This is, perhaps, the finest book in the world, and the most interest- ing to the scholar and the man of taste. Three hundred facsimiles of 256 THE FARNUM LIBRARY. the choicest manuscripts in Europe, need no other recommendation than to state the fact. The French edition of this work cost nearly twenty thousand pounds in getting up. Only 250 copies were printed, of which the King of France took 66 for libraries in the various depart- ments, and the remainder were subscribed for in Russia and Germany. 932 Singer (S. W.). Researches into the History of Playing Cards, with illustrations of the origin of Printing and Engraving on Wood. 19 plates, many of them colored and on India paper, and a large number of woodcuts. 4to, calf gilt, marbled edges. London, Printed by Bensley, 181 6 Rare. " Of this valuable and interesting work only 250 copies were printed." — Lowndes. " It is seldom the public have seen a more beautifully planned and executed work. The facsimile engravings upon wood cannot be sur- passed . . . the curious will not fail to secure copies whenever they make their appearance." — T. F. Dibdin. 933 Singer. Wayland Smith — a Dissertation on a Tradition of the Middle Ages, from the French of G. B. Depping and Francisque Michel. With additions by S. W. Singer and the Amplified Legends by Oehlenschlager. i6mo, cloth, uncut. London, Wm. Pickering, 1847 Beautifully printed by C. Whittingham at the Chiswick Press. 934 Sismondi (J. C. L. S. De). Historical View of the Liter- ature of the South of Europe, translated with Notes and Life of Author, by Thomas Roscoe. Portraits. 2 vols, post 8vo, calf gilt. London, 1846 ' ' A work that will yet always be read for the beauty of its style, and the richness and wisdom of its recollections." — TiCKNOR. 935 SiSMONDi. History of the Italian Republics. Vignette title. Foolscap 8vo, cloth, uncut. London, n. d. "The publication of Sismondi's ' Republiques Italiennes ' has thrown a blaze of light around the most interesting of European coun- tries during the Middle Ages." — Hallam. 936 Skelton (J.). Poetical Works, with Notes and Account of the Author and his Writings, by the Rev. A. Dyce. Curious woodcuts. 2 vols. 8vo, calf extra, with gilt top edges, others trimmed. London, 1843 Skelton was Poet Laureate to Henry VIIL " A curious, able, and remarkable writer. " — Retrospective Review. An admirable edition (with the scarce leaf of " Addenda," p. 483), in which, for the first time, the whole of Skelton's Poetical Works are THE FARNUM LIBRARY. 257 brought together. They are illustrated with a body of valuable notes, and also an outline of the life of Skelton separating from it as far as practicable the calumnies with which it had come to be overlaid. 937 Sketches of Popular Tumults ; illustrative of the Evils of Social Ignorance. i2mo, cloth. London, 1837 938 Slang Dictionary; or, the Vulgar Words, Street Phrases and " Fast " Expressions of High and Low Society. Many with their Etymology and a Few with their Plistory Traced. Facsimile " cadger's map" facing title. Crown 8vo, cloth, uncut. London, 1865 This is a collection of what South called — " rabble-charming words, which carry so much wild-fire wrapt up in them." 939 Smiles (Samuel) . Lives of Engineers, with an Account of their Principal Works ; comprising also a History of In- land Communication in Britain. With portraits and nu- merous illustrations. 3 vols. 8vo, cloth, uncut. London, John Murray, 1862 ' ' No more interesting books have been published of late years than those by Mr. Smiles." — Sir Stafford Northcote. 940 Smith (Adam). Inquiry into Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations. Edited by James E. Thorold Rog- ers. Portrait. 2 vols. 8vo, cloth, uncut. Oxford, at the Clarendon Press, 1869 Best edition. ' ' Adam Smith contributed more, by the publication of this single work, toward the happiness of man, than has been effected by the united abilities of all the statesmen and legislators of whom history has preserved an authentic account. " — Buckle. 941 Smith (Charles John, F.S.A.). Historical and Literary Curiosities. 100 colored and other curious plates of auto- graphs, historical events, old houses, missal ornaments, etc., with Descriptions. 4to, half morocco, top edge gilt, others uncut. London, 1852 An amusing and interesting repertory. The autograph letters, chiefly of a literary character, include important ones by Coverdale, Sir Christopher Wren, Sir Isaac Newton, Cowley, Pope, Addison, Gray, Milton, Prior, Smollett, Sterne, Locke, Bums, Steele, Hume, Dr. Johnson, Benjamin Franklin, William Penn, etc. 942 [Smith (Horace and James).] Rejected Addresses. Thirteenth Edition. 8vo, half morocco. London, 1813 Large paper. ' ' I think the ' Rejected Addresses ' by far the best thing of the kind since the ' Rolliad'." — Lord Byron. 258 THE FARNUM LIBRARY. 943 Smith (Capt. John). The True Travels, Adventures, and Observations of Captaine John Smith, in Europe, Asia, Africke, and America, with the Generall Historie of Vir- ginia, New England and the Summer Isles. Portraits and engravings from the London edition of 1629. 2 vols, royal 8vo, boards. Richmond, 1819 Extremely rare in such condition It is in the original boards entirely uncut, with all the curious plates and maps complete. Smith's "Virginia" needs no commendation; it will always be re- garded as one of the most interesting of the numerous works relative to the Colonic. Lest the authorship might be disputed, the valiant captain has in several parts of the work stated — " John Smith writ this with his own hand." Thackeray makes Henry Warrington in the " Virginiaiis " say — "I made acquaintance with brave Captain Smith as a boy in my grandfather's library at home, where I remember how I would sit at the good old man's knees, with my favorite volume on my own, spelling out the exploits of our Virginian hero." 944 Smith. A Description of New England; or. Observations and Discoveries in the North of America in the Year of our Lord 1614, facsimile of the original map ; also — Ad- vertisements for the Unexperienced Planters of New En- gland or Anywhere; or, The Pathway to erect a Plantation, by Captain John Smith, London, 163 1. Together 2 vols. 4to, cloth, uncut. Boston, 1865 Only 75 copies reprinted — medium quarto, of which the above are signed — "No. 8. Wm. Veazie.'' 945 Smith (J. Jay) and Watson (John F.). American Histor- ical and Literary Curiosities ; consisting of facsimiles of original documents relating to the events of the Revolution, etc. With a variety of reliques, antiquities, andmodern autographs. 4to, cloth, gilt. Phila., 1847 This valuable and interesting publication is entirely out of print and difficult to find. 946 Smith (Sydney). Works. Portrait. 3 vols. 8vo, calf gilt. London, 1848 The witty Canon of St. Paul's, who, when the first editor of the Edinburgh Review, proposed as its motto: " We cultivate literature upon a little oatmeal." 947 Smith. Memoir of Rev. Sydney Smith, by his daughter Lady Holland, with a Selection from his Letters edited by Mrs. Austin. Fourth edition. 2 vols. 8vo, cloth. London, 1855 THE FARNUM LIBRARY. 259 948 Smith (William), Classical Dictionaries, i. e.: — I. Smith. Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography AND Mythology. Numerous woodcut illustrations. 3 vols, thick 8vo, half calf, cloth sides. London, 1849 II. Smith. Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. Maps and woodcuts. 2 vols, thick 8vo, half calf, cloth sides. Boston (London), 1854 III. Smith. Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiqui- ties. Numerous woodcut illustrations. Thick 8vo, half calf. Boston (London), 1859 Together 6 vols, thick 8vo, half calf. " One of our first English scholars, — one who deals with the history and philosophy of the ancient classics, as well as with the technicalities of their language." — London Literary Gazette. 950 Smith (W. Robertson, M.A.). Old Testament in the Jewish Church. 8vo, cloth. N. Y., 1881 Twelve lectures on biblical criticism. 951 Smollett (Tobias). Works. With Memoirs, and View of the Commencement and Progress of Romance, by John Moore. Edited by J. P. Browne. Portrait. 6 vols. 8vo, calf, gilt. Dublin, 1816 ' ' I have been Tom Jones (a child's Tom Jones, a harmless creature) for a week together. I have sustained my own idea of Roderick Ran- dom for a month at a stretch, I verily believe." — Charles Dickens's David Copperfield. Outside of his " Peregrine Pickle" and " Humphrey Clinker," and which are contained in the above edition, Smollett was an enthusiastic worker in other domains of literature than fiction. He wrote numerous articles in the British Magazine, and opposed that ' ' cock-eyed son of destiny," John Wilkes, in a weekly paper called The Briton. He was the founder of the Critical Review, and translated Don Quixote, Gil Bias, Voltaire, Fenelon, Telemachus, and other European classics. 952 Smyth (Prof.). Lectures on Modern History, from the Ir- ruption of the Northern Nations, 2 vols. ; and Lectures on the French Revolution, 3 vols. Together 5 vols. 8vo, half bound. London, Pickering, 1848 No historical works have ever given more enlightened and perspicu- ous views of the course of great events than these celebrated Lectures. 953 Smyth. Evidences of Christianity, by William Smyth. Small 4to, cloth, uncut. London, Wm. Pickering Printed in beautiful type on thick paper by C. Whittingham, Chis- wick. 26o THE FARNUM LIBRARY. 954 Smyth (C. Piazzi). Our Inheritance in the Great Pyramid. With photograph, map and plates. Crown 8vo, cloth, uncut. London, 1864 What John Taylor left undone in his book on the "Great Pyramid; Why was it Built and who Built It?" is fully discussed and covered in this volume. 955 SoMERS (Lord). Collection of Scarce and Valuable Tracts on the most interesting Subjects relating to En- ghsh History, etc. Edited by Sir Walter Scott. 13 vols. 4to, half russia gilt, cloth sides, marbled edges. London, 1809-15 Best edition ; with considerable additions by the Editor. " In no collection of the least historical pretence let these Tracts be found wanting." — DiBDiN. 956 Somerville (William), The Chase, a Poem, Bulmer's edi- tion, 1796; [Maurice's] Grove Hill, a Descriptive Poem, with an Ode to Mithra, London, Bensley, 1799 ; Gold- smith & Parnell's Poems, London, Bulmer, 1795. 3 vols, in I. Illustrated by additional proof etchings and variations. 4to, calf extra, gilt edges, by Hering. London, 1795-99 Unique. From the Library of the late John Allan. It is stated on page 185 of the Allan Catalogue that this handsome volume (lot 2337) was previously in Mr. Baker's Collection. In addition to Bewick's and Anderson's wood engravings, there are a large number of inserted proof etchings, steel engravings, variations, portraits, etc., etc. Bulmer, the publisher of " Somerville 's Chase," states in the preface respecting the younger Bewick's deathbed connection with this work — "He [Bewick] had prepared and indeed finished on wood, the whole of the designs, except one, which embellish the ' Chase ' ; they may there- fore be literally considered as the last efforts of this ingenious and much to be lamented Artist." 957 Songs, Madrigals and Sonnets. A Gathering of some of the most Pleasant Flowers of Old English Poetry. Set in borders of colored ornaments and vignettes. 32mo, cloth (cover loose). London, 1849 Printed by Charles Whittingham, Chiswick. The colored orna- mental borders in this very handsome little volume were printed by means of wood blocks. " I had rather than forty shillings I had my book of songs and son- nets here. " — Merry Wives of Windsor. 958 Sotheby(S. Leigh). Principia Typographic a: the Block- Books, or Xylographic Delineations of Scripture History issued in Holland, Flanders and Germany during The THE FARNUM LIBRARY. 261 Fifteenth Century, exemplified in connection with the Origin of Printing, with Notices on the Paper-Marks of the Period. Illustrated with 120 large engravings, some in colors, in exact similitude of the very rare Original Block- Books. 3 vols, imperial 4to, half morocco, uncut. 'London, printed for the Author, 1858 Only 215 copies of this work out of the 250 printed were sold. The remainder were presented to public libraries and otherwise specially reserved, but not for sale. The above copy was " collated and bound by Charles Tuckett, Jr., British Museum, 1858." One of the most important works ever produced upon the history of early printing, on which it throws great additional light. It contains an extended examination of the various editions of the block-books (or books printed from wooden blocks), the earliest productions of the art, issued in Holland, Flanders, and Germany, such as the Apoca- lypsis S. Johannis, Biblia Pauperum, Ars Moriendi, Cantica Cantico- rum, Liber Regum, Temptationes Daemonum, Ars Memorandi, End- krist, Quindecim Signa, De Generatione Christi, Miribilia Romse, etc. It is not, however, confined to a history of block-books, for it gives minute accounts, accompanied by exact facsimiles, of some of the most interesting and rare works printed with movable type in the infancy of the art, such as the Donatusis, Doctrinale, Catonis Disticha, Horarium, Faceti^ Morales, Speculum Humanse Salvationis, Barto- lomteus van de Proprietaten der Dinghen, Exhortatio contra Turcos, LiterEe Indulgentiarum, etc. An essay upon early paper marks, illustrated by numerous cuts, concludes the work, which contains upwards of 120 plates, many of them colored, and more than 200 engravings on wood. 959 SouTHERNE (Thomas). Plays. With an account of the Life and Writings of the Author. 3 vols. i2mo, yellow calf gilt, edges gilt. London, 1774 Best edition, and scarce. Southerne was born at Oxmantown, County of Dublin, 1660, and died in 1746 — "the oldest and richest of his dramatic brethren." He came of an Anglo-Norman family which had settled in Ireland at an early date and had previously lived on the borders of Yorkshire, England, where they were Lords of Mit- ton and Colmolyn, Of the same stock was John Soothern, who wrote " Pandora," published in 1584, and which he dedicated to " Edward Dever, Earl of Oxenford." 960 SouTHEY (Robert). Common-place Book, containing Choice Passages from English Authors [translations of interesting extracts from Portuguese and Spanish Authors], Analytical Readings, Original Memoranda, etc., systemat- 262 THE FARNUM LIBRARY. ically arranged. Edited by his son-in-law, J. W. Warter. Portrait. 4 vols, thick square 8vo, calf gilt, marbled edges. London, 1849-51 "An English worthy, doing his duty for fifty noble years of labor; day by day storing up learning; day by day working for scant wages; most charitable out of his small means; bravely faithful to the calling which he had chosen; refusing to turn from his path for popular praise or prince's favor; — I mean Robert Southey. " — Thackeray. 961 Southey. Life and Correspondence. Edited by his Son, CuTHBERT SouTHEY. Portraits, views and engraved titles. 6 vols, crown 8vo, cloth, uncut. London, 1849-50 Fine, tall uncut copy. " The value and variety of its contents can hardly be indicated within any reasonable limits." 961* Southey. The Doctor, etc. Rubricated titles, colored front. 7 vols. 1 2mo, half morocco gilt, top edges gilt, others uncut. London, 1834-47 Original edition and very scarce. " You have my full authority to affirm that my husband is the author of ' The Doctor. ' " — Mrs. Southey. 962 Southey. Sir Thomas More; or. Colloquies on the Progress and Prospects of Society. Engravings from drawings by Westall (^foxed). 2 vols. 8vo, calf, gilt. London, 1829 963 Southey.— Moraes (Francisco de). Palmerin of England. Corrected by Robert Southey from the original Portu- guese. 4 vols. 1 2mo, half morocco gilt, top edges gilt. London, 1807 This abridged translation was made from the Lisbon edition of 1786. 964 Southey. — Chronicles of the Cid, from the Spanish, by Robert Southey. Royal 8vo, cloth, uncut. Lowell, 1846 Scarce. " One of the most interesting productions of the Spanish mind. " — Annual Review. 965 Southwell (Robert). Poetical Works, edited by Turn- BULL. Post 8vo, cloth, uncut. London, John Russell Smith, 1856 966 Sowerby (G. B.). Conchological Manual, with an In- troduction explaining the General Principles of Conch- ology. Nearly 700 engraved illustrations, beautifully col- ored. 8vo, cloth, uncut. London, 1852 Fourth edition, considerably improved. THE FARNUM LIBRARY. 263 967 Swift (Jonathan). Life of, by John Forster. Vol. I. (1667-1711). Portrait. 8vo, cloth, gilt top edge, others uncut. N. Y., 1876 " The apostate politician, the ribald priest, the perjured lover." — Macaulay. 968 Speculum Human^e Salvationis; le plus ancien monu- ment de la Xylographie et de la Typographic reunies, re- produit en facsimile, avec Introduction Historique et Bib- liographique par J. Ph. Berjeau. d/^ facsimiles, with 116 figures. Royal 4to, cloth, uncut. Londres, 1861 Rare. Only 155 copies printed for subscribers of this admirable facsimile of this early block book, printed long before the invention of movable types, and claims to be the iirst printed work extant. 969 Spedding (James). Evenings with a Reviewer; or, Macau- lay and Bacon, with a Prefatory Notice by G. S. Vena- BLES. 2 vols. 8vo, cloth. London, 1881 970 Spence (Rev. Joseph). Anecdotes, Observations and Char- acters of Books and Men, collected from the conversa- tions of Mr. Pope and other eminent persons of his time. With Notes and a Life of the author by Samuel Weller Singer. Crown Bvo, cloth, uncut. London, 1858 Large paper and 100 copies printed. "One of the most entertaining volumes of Literary Anecdotes imaginable ; the materials of which furnished Johnson with much of the Biography of Pope and his Contemporaries." — Dibdin. 971 Spence. A Parallel in the Manner of Plutarch : between a Most Celebrated Man of Florence ; and one, scarce ever heard of, in England. Vignette portrait. 1 2mo, calf, gilt. Strawberry Hill, 1758 Very scarce. Printed by Horace Walpole's Private Press " at Strawberry Hill, by William Robinson ; and sold by Messieurs Dods- ley, at TuUy's Head, Pall Mall ; For the benefit of Mr. Hill." With MS. notes and cutting inserted. The celebrated Florentine was Signor Magliabechi, and the " one scarce heard of " was Robert Hill, "the learned taylor" and staymaker, remarkable for his knowledge of languages. Vide Allibone. 972 Spenser (Edmund). Poetical Works, complete, edited with Life and Glossary by J. P. Collier. Portrait and hand- somely printed in large antique type by Whittingham. 5 vols. 8vo, magnificently bound in green morocco extra, gilt edges, by Riviere. London, 1862 A superb edition printed by Whittingham, and uniform with Picker- 264 THE FARNUM LIBRARY. ing's Milton. ' ' Mr. Collier's text is incomparably the best which has yet been produced. He has carefully collected all the materials which are capable of throwing light on Spenser's biography, and these materials he has discussed with elaborate care and great legal ability."- — Westminster Review. 973 Spurzheim (J. G.). Phrenology; or, The Doctrine of Men- tal Phenomena. Frontispiece. 2 vols, royal 8vo, cloth. Boston, 1833 Second American edition, greatly improved by the author. 974 Stanley (Arthur Penrhyn, D.D., Dean of Westminster). Works, comprising : — I. Stanley. Lectures on the Eastern Church. Fourth Edition. London, 1869 II. Stanley. Sinai and Palestine in Connection with their History. With maps and plans. London, 187 1 III. Stanley. Historical Memorials of Westminster Abbey. Third and Revised Edition. With illustrations. London, 1869 IV. Stanley. Sermons during the Prince of Wales' Tour in the East. London, 1863 V. Stanley. Lectures on the History of the Church of Scotland. London, 1872 VI. Stanley. Lectures on the History of the Jewish Church. Maps and plans. 2 vols. (Part i. Fifth Edition, and Part 2, Third Edition.) London, 1870 Together seven vols. 8vo, uniformly and hand- somely bound in purple calf gilt, marbled edges. London, 1863-71 "The popular but elaborate history of a liberal and erudite scholar." — London Athenceum. "The style of Dr. Stanley is a very pleasant one ; warm, rich and genial. " — Krauth. 974* Stanley. Christian Institutions — Essays on Ecclesiastical Subjects. 8vo, cloth, bevelled sides, gilt top edge. N. Y., 1881 "Vigour of thought and purity of s\.y\e."— London Globe. 975 Stanley (William). The Faith and Practice of a Church of England Man ; with Notes and an Introductory Essay THE FARNUM LIBRARY. 265 on the Leading Principles of the Church of England, by the Rev. Robert Eden. i2mo, cloth, trimmed. London, Pickering, 1848 Printed by C. Whittingham, Chiswick. On account of the loud tones of his voice, Wm. Stanley, Dean of St. Asaph, was satirized as " Stentor" in the " Tatler." 976 St. Augustine. Confessions. i6mo, cloth. Oxford, 1868 977 Steinmetz (Andrew). The Romance of Duelling in all Times and Countries. 2 vols. 8vo, cloth, uncut. London, 1868 *' Ay ! me ! what perils do environ The man who meddles with cold iron." — HUDIBRAS. 978 Stephens (H. L.). A Frog he would a-Wooing Go. 16 tinted lithographic plates by Bien, with gold borders, and letterpress beneath the illustrations. 4to, cloth gilt, edges gilt. N. Y., 1864 Proofs. Only 100 proof copies printed for subscribers. 979 Sterne (Lawrence). Complete Works. With Life. Por- trait and vignettes by Thurston. 4 vols. 8vo, calf gilt. London, 1819 Best edition. Sterne's wit is poignant though artificial, and his characters have yet invaluable original differences, though the groundwork of some of them had been laid before ; and the spirit of the execution, and the master- strolces constantly thrown into them, are not to be surpassed. 980 Stevens (Henry). Historical Nuggets : Bibliotheca Ameri- cana, or a Descriptive Account of My Collection of Rare Books relating to America. 2 vols. fcap. 8vo, cloth, uncut. London, 1858 Henry Stevens is one of the best modern expert bibliographers. He is no mere plagiaristic book-cataloguer. The above is dedicated ' ' To the diligent biblioscoper," and on his title is the line from Shakespeare — "I will buy with you, sell with you. " " Printed in the best style of the Chiswick Press, regardless of time; it comprises 2954 titles given in full, with the collation and price of each work. It was intended, as far as it went, to be a manual for col- lectors of this expensive class of books. But it did not go very far, containing as it does not a selection, but only such books as the author happened to possess at that time. It was intended to supply the defi- ciencies by additional volumes, but these have never appeared, and probably never will in this form." — Author. 266 THE FARNUM LIBRARY. 981 Stevens. Bibliotheca Historica ; or, a Catalogue of Books and Manuscripts relating to America. 8vo, paper, uncut- Boston, 1870 Beautifully printed, and profusely annotated. One of the few bib- liographical works which unites instruction with amusement. The erudite author, who now resides in London, is a son of the late Henry Stevens of Vermont, the founder and first President of the Vermont Historical Society. 982 Stevens (J. A.). Yorktown Centennial Handbook. Cuts. i2mo, cloth. N. Y., 1881 Being an— " historical and topographical guide to the Yorktown Peninsula, Richmond, James River and Norfolk.'' 983 Stevenson (John Hall). Works. Crazy Tales, Fables for Grown Gentlemen, Makarony Fables, Monkish Epitaphs, etc. Corrected and Enlarged, vyith Explanatory Notes. 2 plates. 3 vols. 1 2mo, calf gilt. London, 1795 Fine copy of this curious and facetious work, from the George Daniel library. Every endeavor was made to suppress the Tales written by John Hall Stevenson. No author has been more abused. The Monthly Review in 1762 asserted — ' ' We can safely aver that they are full of obscenity, whether ' evidently designed ' or not ; and apparently calculated to inflame the passions." Sir Walter Scott styles his work a — "witty and indecent collection," and Tom Moore stigmatizes them as — -"clever but licen- tious productions. " Stevenson was a kinsman of Laurence Sterne, and endeavored to rival that celebrated Protestant parson in facetiousness, which caused Bishop Warburton to call him — " a monster of impiety and lewdness." 984 Stirling (William, M. A., /. e., Sir William Stirling Max- well). Annals of the Artists of Spain. With illuminated fronts., portraits and other illustrations of buildings, paintings, etc. 3 vols. 8vo, cloth, uncut. London, John Ollivier, 1848 Very rare. This very beautiful book has carmine initial letters, rubricated titles, etc. A copy in a recent catalogue of Sotheran of London is priced £\b \ts. " No new edition is ever likely to appear." — Quaritch. " Discursive and ornate, he enriches his pages with curiosities of literature, bearing upon the manners and spirit of different epochs, larding the dry details of inferior artists now with grave history, anon with court gossip and anecdote." — London Quarterly Review. " A work honorable to its author for the familiarity it shows, not only with the state of the arts in that country, but also with its litera- ture." — W. H. Prescott. THE FARNVM LIBRARY. 267 985 Stirling. Cloister Life of the Emperor Charles V. Second edition, enlarged. Vignette portrait, izmo, half morocco gilt, top edge gilt, others uncut. London, 1852 Original edition, out of print and scarce. "A work of remarkable interest." — English Cydopadia. 986 Stone (W. L.). The Poetry and History of Wyoming ; con- taining Campbell's Gertrude, with a Biographical Sketch of the Author, by Washington Irving ; and the History of Wyoming, from its Discovery to the Beginning of the Present Century. 8vo, cloth, uncut. Albany, 1864 Large paper, and but a few printed, Allibone says 50. 987 Strickland (Agnes). Lives of the Queens of England, from the Norman Conquest. 8 vols. 8vo, calf extra, marbled edges. London, i860 Scarce and best edition. This most readable and original work is as interesting as a novel, and is far more reliable than the generality of professed " Histories." 988 Strutt (Joseph). Sports and Pastimes of the People of England, from the Earliest Period to the Present Time. Edited by William Hone. With 140 illustrations of the shows, mummeries, pageants, etc., colored by hand. Royal 8vo, cloth, uncut. London, Tegg, 1845 Very rare. Large paper, with the wood engravings colored by hand after the original MSS., and of which only the large paper were so finished. This includes the rural and domestic recreations, May-games, mummeries, pageants, processions and pompous spectacles from the earliest period to the present time. " The amusing pages of Strutt entitle his memory to great respect; and, borrowing the idea of Dr. Johnson; I will boldly aflirm that he who wishes to be informed of the curious and interesting details con- nected with Ancient Manners and Customs, Costume, Regal and Ecclesiastical Antiquities, ' must devote his days and his nights ' to the volumes of Strutt." — Dibdin's Decameron. 989 Strutt. The Same. 8vo, calf extra gilt, edges gilt. London, Tegg, 1831 990 Strutt. Regal and Ecclesiastical Antiquities of England, containing the most authentic Representa- tions of all the English Monarchs from Edward the Confessor to Henry the Eighth; together with many of the Great Personages that were eminent under their sev- eral reigns, taken from coeval authorities preserved in the Public Libraries and Cathedrals of Great Britain. New 268 THE FARNUM LIBRARY. and greatly improved edition, with Critical and Explana- tory Notes, by J. R. Planch^, Esq., F.S A. With 72 colored engravings, carefully copied from ancient manuscripts, monuments, etc. Royal 4to, cloth, uncut. London, 1842 Scarce. The illuminations contained in these magnificent works are from choice examples of ancient art existing in missals, and illumi- nated manuscripts preserved in the British Museum, the Bodleian and other public libraries. 991 Strutt. Dresses and Habits of the English, from the Establishment of the Saxons in Britain to the Present Time. With an Historical and Critical Inquiry into every branch of Costume, and a General Description of the Ancient Habits in use amoug Mankind. New and greatly improved edition, with Critical and Explanatory Notes, by J. R. Planch^, Esq., F.S. A. With 153 engravings richly colored, taken from the most authentic sources, preserved in the British Museum, the Libraries of Oxford and Cambridge, the Archiepiscopal Library at Lambeth, etc., etc. 2 vols, royal 4to, cloth, uncut. London, 1842 992 Strype (John, M.A.). Works, comprising : — I. Annals of the Reformation. 4 vols, in 7. IL Lives of Bishop Aylmer, Sir John Cheke and Sir Thomas Smith, t, portraits. 3 vols, in i. HI. Memorials of Cranmer. Portrait. 2 vols. IV. Life of Bishop Grindal. Portrait, V. Life of Archbishop Parker. Portrait. 3 vols. VI. Ecclesiastical Memorials. 3 vols, in 6. VII. Life and Acts of Archbishop Whitgift. Portrait. 3 vols. VIII. General Index to Strype's Works. 2 vols, in i. Together 24 vols. Svo, calf, gilt. Oxiord, at the University Press, 1820-40 ' ' The painful and laborious collector, who never omits the most trivial matter." — Hume. 993 Stuart (I. W.). Life of Jonathan Trumbull, Sen., Gov- ernor of Connecticut. Colored portraits. Royal Svo, cloth. Boston, 1859 " A long and well-spent life in the service of his country places Gov- ernor Trumbull among the first of patriots." — Washington. THE FARNUM LIBRARY. 269 994 Stubbs (W., M.A.). Constitutional History of England, in its Origin and Development. 3 vols, crown 8vo, cloth, uncut. Oxford, at the Clarendon Press, 1874-78 995 Suckling (Sir John). The Works of Sir John Suckling, containing his Poems, Letters and Plays. Portrait. 8vo, yellow calf gilt, edges gilt. London, 1709 Very SCARCE. Comprises his facetious poems (see "A Candle," page 62) ; Letters ; Account of Religion by Reason ; his plays of " Aglaura," " The Gk)blins," " Brennorath," " The Sad One," etc. "His ' Ballad on a Wedding ' is his masterpiece, and is indeed unrivalled in that class of composition for the voluptuous delicacy of the sentiments and the luxuriant richness of the images."— Hazlitt. 996 Sue (Eugene). The Mysteries of Paris Several hun- dred illustrations by Heath. 3 vols. 8vo, half calf extra. London, 1845-46 This popular work has become very scarce. 997 Sue. The Wandering Jew. Profusely illustrated by H^XTn. 3 vols. 8vo, cloth, trimmed. London, 1844-45 998 Sully (Duke of). Memoirs. Translated by Charlotte Lennox, with Notes, etc. [attributed to Sir Walter Scott]. Numerous fine portraits {foxed). 5 vols, royal 8vo, tree marble calf gilt. London, 1810 Large paper copy. It was not only as a financial reformer that the Due de Sully served King Henry the Fourth of France and his country. He was the King's counsellor in all the great measures of the reign with regard to foreign affairs, and also in those by which belief of conscience and full rights of citizenship were guaranteed to the Huguenots ; and by which the effective administration of the law and the maintenance of order and tranquillity were secured. " The Memoirs of Sully finish the portrait of these times, in finish- ing for us, not only the portrait of Henry IV. , but in giving us many curious particulars respecting the practical government of France, its finances, factions and the whole state of its constitution and interests. His work is authentic and particularly valuable, and must be read." — Prof. Smyth. 999 Sumner (Wm. G.). A History of American Currency Crown 8vo, cloth. N. Y., 1878 With — ' ■ chapters on the English Bank Restriction and Austrian Paper Money, to which is appended ' The Bullion Report. ' " 1000 Surrey and Wyatt. Poetical Works [complete, edited with original Memoirs by Sir Harris Nicolas]. Por- 270 THE FARNUM LIBRARY. traits. 2 vols, crown 8vo, yellow calf, bevelled sides, marbled edges. London, Pickering, 1831 Large paper and printed by C. Whittingham. An elegant copy. " The graces of the Italian muse which had been taught by Surrey and Wyatt." — Warton. looi [SuRTEES (R. S.).] Sponge's Sporting Tour and Handley Cross. With colored plates and many woodcuts from the in- imitable designs of Leech and H. K. Browne. 2 vols. 8vo, cloth, uncut. London, 1853-54 Original octavo edition and now scarce. The best sporting novels that English literature has produced. The illustrations to these interesting volumes are inimitable. 1002 SwEDENBORG (Emanucl). His Life and Writings. By William White. Portraits. Thick 8vo, cloth, uncut. London, 1868 Second Edition. " The case against me runs thus — ' You admit that Swedenborg kept a mistress, went mad, told cock and bull stories, and didn't wash his face. Yet you say he was a Divine Messenger.'" — Preface. 1003 Swift (Dean). Works, containing additional Letters, Tracts, and Poems, not hitherto published; with Notes and a Life of the Author by Sir Walter Scott. Portrait. 19 vols. 8vo, calf extra, gilt edges. Edinburgh, 1824 The rare Second Edition. "No author in the British language has enjoyed the extensive popu- larity of the celebrated Dean of St. Patrick's. Neither the local and temporary nature of the subjects on which his pen was frequently en- gaged, nor other objections of a more positive nature, have affected the brilliancy of his reputation. " — Scott. 1004 Symonds (John Addington). Renaissance in Italy. 5 vols. 8vo, cloth, uncut. London, 1880-81 Comprising — I., Age of the Despots; II., the Revival of Learning; III., the Fine Arts; IV. and V., Italian Literature. THE FARNUM LIBRARY. 271 " Triumph, my Britaine, thou hast one to showe, To whom all Scenes of Europe homage owe. He was not of an age but for all time! And all the Muses still were in their prime, When, like Apollo, he came forth to warme Our eares, or, like a Mercury, to charme! Nature her selfe was proud of his designes. And ioyed to weare the dressings of his lines! Which were so richly spun, and woven so fit, As since, she will vouchsafe no other Wit." — Ben Jonson. 1005 Shakespeare. A Reprint of his Collected Works as put • forth in 1623. Part i containing the Comedies, Part 2 the Histories, and Part 3 the Tragedies. Published according to the True Original Copies. 3 vols. 4to, trimmed. London, Printed by Isaac laggard, and Ed. Blount, 1623; and Reprinted for Lionel Booth, 1864 Lionel Booth's careful facsimile reprint of the far-famed Text of the First Edition of Shakespeare, "intact as it was put forth in 1623," with an elaborate collation of the first folio. That distinguished American bibliophile Charles W. Frederick- son, the Shelleyan enthusiast, thus writes of the ever-living home of the immortal Bard of Avon in Irving and Fairholt's " Shakespeare's Home," N. Y., 1877: — " Shakespeare's real home, where is it? As far as human foot has trod, either in the Arctic or the torrid zone, his voice and influence have been heard and felt. The tattered leaves of his much read volume are carefully cared for by the trapper of the West and the wandering emigrant of New Zealand. It cheers the lagging hours of the prisoner in his cell, and forms the text for universal con- versation. The schoolboy spouts his lines, the lover copies his verses, the soldier is fired by his enthusiasm, the justice tempers his sentences by a quotation, the lean and slippered pantaloon pores over his tome, and the last stage of all finds hope and consolation in his ever-living lines." 272 THE FARNUM LIBRARY. 1006 Shakespeare. The Works of William Shakespeare. The Plays edited from the Folio of MDCXXIII., with Various Readings from all the Editions and all the Com- mentators, Notes, Introductory Remarks, A Historical Sketch of the Text, An Account of the Rise and Progress of the English Drama, A Memoir of the Poet, and An Essay upon his Genius. By Richard Grant White. Portraits on India paper and woodcuts. 1 2 vols. 8vo, half olive mo- rocco, gilt top edges, others uncut, by W. Matthews. Boston, Little, Brown &• Co., 1857-66 Very scarce. Large paper ; only 48 copies printed, and of which a number was destroyed at Richardson's fire. ' ' After such conscientious examination of his work as the importance of it demands; after a painful comparison, note by note, and reading by reading, of his edition with those of Messrs. Knight, Collier, and Dyce, our opinion of his ability and fitness for his task has been heightened and confirmed. Not that we always agree with him ; but Mr. White has generally shown so just a discrimination, that there are few instances where we dissent. We have subjected his volumes to a laborious exam- ination, such as few books receive, because the text of Shakespeare is a matter of common and great concern, and they have borne the trial, except in a few unimportant particulars, admirably. Mr. Dyce and Mr. Singer are only dry, common-place books of illustrative quotations ; Mr. Collier has not wholly recovered from his ' corr. fo.' madness; Mr. Knight (with many eminent advantages as an editor) is too diffuse; and we repeat our honest persuasion, that Mr. White has thus far given us the best extant text, while the fullness of his notes gives his edition almost the value of a variorum ; and we think that a careful collation justifies us in saying that in acute discrimination of aesthetic shades of expression, and often of textual niceties, Mr. White is superior to any previous editor." — ^J. R. Lowell. 1007 Shakespeare's Scholar : being Historical and Critical Studies of his Text, Characters, and Commentators, with an Examination of Mr. Collier's folio of 1632. By R. Grant White. 8vo, cloth, gilt top edge, others uncut. N. Y., 1854 Very scarce. "Mr. Grant White in his entertaining and suggestive book called ' Shakespeare's Scholar,' " etc. — Howard Staunton. 1008 Shakespeare. Dramatic Works. Poems, Doubtful Plays, and Biography. Charles Knight's splendid Pictorial Edition. Illustrated with over 1,200 beautiful engravings on wood, of views, costumes, old buildings, por- THE FARNUM LIBRARY. 273 traits, etc. 8 vols, imperial 8vo. Elegantly bound, from THE SHEETS, in half morocco gilt, top edge gilt, others uncut. London, Charles Knight &= Co., n. d. Unique. Original pictorial edition, now very scarce. With 36 extra India proof plates from designs by Smirke and others inserted. This ably-edited work ranges in size and character with the elegant Abbotsf ord edition of the Waverley Novels, and is indisputably the most beautiful of the modern illustrated octavo editions of Shakes- peare. In this splendid edition the text is derived from a most laborious and careful collation of the early editions, with all that the best and most extensive modern Shakesperean criticism has discovered. The notes are copious and thoroughly elucidatory of obscure words and phrases, and of the sources of the plays, the historical characters, etc. The engravings are mostly from actual things, and are not mere fancy pictures. The biography of Shakespeare is the best yet written of him, and the studies of the characters of the plays and the accounts of the plots are written with feeling as well as with critical acumen. 1009 Shakespeare. The Works of William Shakespeare. Cambridge Edition. Edited by William George Clark, M.A., Fellow and Tutor of Trinity College, and Public Orator in the University of Cambridge, and John Glover, M.A., Librarian of Trinity College, Cambridge. 9 vols, 8vo, cloth, uncut. Cambridge and London, England, 1863-66 Fine, clean copy of this most valuable edition of Shakespeare. Now out of print and exceedingly scarce. loio Shakespeare. Comedies, Histories, Tragedies and Poems of William Shakspere, with a Biography and Studies of his Works by Charles Knight. Pictorial and Na- tional Edition. Profusely illustrated. 8 vols. 8vo, cloth, uncut. Boston [London], 1853 The National Edition is now very scarce and is one of the best edi- tions for use. ion Shakespeare. The Plays of Shakespeare, Edited by Howard Staunton. Portrait and numerous illustrations by John Gilbert, engraved by the Brothers Dalziel. 3 vols. 4to, half morocco, uncut on all edges. London, George Routledge &= Co., 1858 A splendid copy of Staunton's Pictorial Shakespeare, original edition, with bright impressions of the celebrated wood-engravings by the Dalziels, after Sir John Gilbert's spirited designs. 2 74 "^HE FARNUM LIBRARY. 1012 Shakespeare. Supplement to the Plays of ; comprising the Seven Dramas which have been ascribed to his Pen, but which are not included with his Writings in modern editions. With Notes, and an Introduction to each Play, by William Gilmore Simms. Illustrations on wood. Royal 8vo, cloth, uncut. N. Y., 1848 First American edition. Scarce. The seven plays are— The Two Noble Kinsmen; The London Prodigal; Thomas, Lord Cromwell; Sir John Oldcastle; The Puritan, or the Widow of Watling Street; The Yorkshire Tragedy and the Tragedy of Locrine. 1013 Shakespeare. Hamlet, by William Shake-speare, 1603; Hamlet, by William Shakespeare, 1604. With a Bibliographical Preface by Samuel Timmins. 8vo, cloth, uncut. London, i860 Limited edition, published at lis. 6d. , of this interesting volume. " Being exact reprints of the first and second editions of Shakespeare's great drama, from the very rare originals in the possession of His Grace the Duke of Devonshire; with the two texts printed on oppo- site pages and so arranged that the parallel passages face each other." 1014 Shakespeare. Sonnets ; reproduced in facsimile by the New Process of Photo-Zincography in use in Her Ma- jesty's Ordnance Survey Office. Small 4to, half morocco, edges uncut, Roxburghe style. London, 1862 Facsimiled — "from the unrivalled original in the Library of Bridgewater House, by permission of the Right Hon. the Earl of EUesmere.'' 1015 Shakespeare Society's Publications. Consisting of Works illustrative of Shakespeare, Old Plays, Poems, Curious Tracts, Memoirs, etc., either now printed for the first time, or, from their rarity, difficult to be procured. 47 parts in 19 vols. 8vo, half calf, gilt, contents lettered. London, 1841-53 A COMPLETE and fine set of these valuable and scarce works. The Shakespeare Society has been dissolved, and the compara- tively few sets of their publications dispersed. They consist of nearly fifty different works illustrative of Shakespeare, and comprise Old Plays, Poems, Curious Tracts, Memoirs, etc., either printed for the first time, or from their rarity difficult to be procured ; they are edited by eminent literary men. Among their distinguished Editors were J. P. Collier, J. O. Halliwell, Rev. A. Dyce, and P. Cunning- ham. The above set in 19 vols, is lettered as follows; — Dramatic Works of Thomas Heywood, 2 vols. ; Supplement to Dodsley's Old Plays, 4 THE FARNUM LIBRARY. 275 vols. ; Early Prose and Poetical Tracts, 2 vols. ; Henslowe and Al- leyne, 2 vols. ; Registers of the Stationers' Company ; Plots of Shakespeare and Shakespeare's Henry IV. ; Life of Inigo Jones and Ben Jonson's Conversations ; John A. Kent and John A. Comber — Lodge's Defence of Poetry, etc. ; Fairy Mythology of Shakespeare — Oberon's Vision ; Original Actors in the Plays of Shakespeare ; Revels at Court — Tarleton's Jests ; Early Treatises on the Stage ; Papers of the Shakespeare Society. ioi6 Shakespeare's Library: a Collection of the Romances, Novels, Poems, and Histories, used by Shakespeare as the Foundation of his Dramas, now first collected and accu- rately reprinted from the Original Editions, with Introduc- tory Notices, by J. Payne Collier. 2 vols. 8vo, calf gilt. London, Thomas Rodd, n. d. " This valuable work places in the hands of the reader, for a few shillings, matter that could before have been purchased only by an out- lay of hundreds of pounds, and which was in many cases altogether inaccessible. " — Allibone. 1017 Collier (J. Payne, F.S.A.). Notes and Emendations to Text of Shakespeare's Plays, from Early Manuscript Corrections in a Copy of the Folio, 1632, in the possession of J. Payne Collier, F.S.A., forming a Supplemental Volume to the Works of Shakespeare by the same editor in eight volumes, octavo. 8vo, cloth, uncut. London, 1853 ' ' The corrections which Mr. Collier has here given to the world, we venture to think, of more value than the labors of nearly all the critics on Shakespeare's text put together." — London Literary Gazette. The three following lots relate to the " terrible excitement " created among the antiquaries and Shakesperean critics by the publication of the above. 1018 Hamilton (N. E. S. A.). An Inquiry into the Genuine- ness of the Manuscript Corrections in Mr. J. Payne Col- lier's Annotated Shakespere, Folio, 1632, and of certain Shakesperean Documents likewise published by Mr. Col- lier. Facsimiles. Small 4to, cloth, uncut. London, i860 "It cannot be fairly alleged that Mr. Hamilton has strained the facts, or gone out of the way to apply them." — Manchester Guardian. 10 1 9 Dyce (Rev. Alexander). Remarks on Mr. J. P. Collier's and Mr. C. Knight's Editions of Shakespeare. 8vo, half calf gilt. London, Moxon, 1844 " The acknowledged reputation of Mr. Dyce as a reformer of cor- rupt texts is too widely extended to be increased by our eulogy." — Literary Gazette. 276 THE FARNVM LIBRARY. 1020 Singer (Samuel Weller). The Text of Shakespeare Vindi- cated from the Interpolations and Corruptions Advocated by John Payne Collier, Esq., in his Notes and Emenda- tions. 8vo, cloth, uncut. London, William Pickering, 1853 Singer quotes on his title the line from the ' ' Rape of Lucrece " — " To blot old books and alter their content," and beneath Malone's reference to it — ' ' Shakespeare probably little thought, when he wrote this line, that his own compositions would afford a more striking example of this species of devastation than any that has appeared since the first use of type." 102 1 Ireland. Miscellaneous Papers and Legal Instru- ments, under the Hand and Seal of William Shakes- peare ; including the Tragedy of King Lear and a small Fragment of Hamlet, from the Original MSS. in the pos- session of Samuel Ireland. Curious facsimiles. 4to, half russia, cloth sides. London, 1796 Very rare and fine copy in quarto, of which " Only 138 copies printed. " — LoWNDES. Although the name of Samuel Ireland appears on the title-page of the above volume, the real author was his son, W. H. Ireland. 1022 Ireland (William Henry). The Confessions of, containing the Particulars of his Fabrication of the Shakespeare Manuscripts ; together with Anecdotes and Opinions (hitherto unpublished) of many Distinguished Persons in the Literary, Political and Theatrical World. Facsimiles. 1 2 mo, half russia gilt. London, 1805 " Confessions as false as the forgeries they profess to expose." This copy is one of the 138 saved from destruction of the book upon the confession of the younger Ireland ; and even of these, the greater part were subsequently lost by fire. See Catalogue Raisonne, p. 98. Samuel was really the given name of this forger. 1023 Ingleby (C. Mansfield). The Shakespeare Fabrications; or, the MS. Notes of the Perkins Folio shown to be of Recent Origin. Facsimile frontispiece. i6mo, cloth, uncut. London, John Russell Smith, 1859 With — " an appendix on the authorship of the Ireland forgeries." 1024 Heard (Franklin Fiske). The Legal Acquirements of William Shakespeare. 4to, paper, uncut. Boston, John Kimball Wig-gin, 1865 Very rare. No. 3 of four copies on drawing paper, out of an entire edition of sixty. A beautiful piece of printing, and with rubricated title. The farnvM UbrarV. 277 1025 Halliwell (James O.). Historical Account of the New Place, Stratford-upon-Avon, the last residence of Shaks- peare. Illustrated by upwards of sixty woodcuts, comprising views, antiquities, facsimiles of deeds, etc. Folio, cloth, uncut. London, 1864 " Presented to the Subscribers to the Folio Shakespeare.'' This is a most important work for the Shakespearean student. The great researches of the author have enabled him to bring to light many facts hitherto unknown in reference to the "great bard." AH the documents possessing any real claim or importance are inserted at full length, and many of them are now printed for the first time. 1026 Drake (Nathan, M.I).). Shakespeare and his Times: including the Biography of the Poet; Criticisms on his Genius and Writings; a New Chronology of his Plays; a Disquisition on the Object of his Sonnets, and a History of the Manners, Customs and Amusements, Superstitions, Poetry and Elegant Literature of his Age. Portrait and facsimiles. 2 vols. 4to, half morocco, gilt, cloth sides (some pages foxed and cover of Vol. 2 loose). London, Cadell Ss' Davies, 18 17 Unique, large paper. This very scarce work is enhanced by the insertion of a number of colored plates- ' ' It may be considered as a magnificent temple dedicated to the genius of Shakespeare. Its publication will form an epoch in the Shakespearean history of the country." — Gentleman's Magazine. 1027 Green (Henry, M.A.). Shakespeare and the Emblem Writers : an Exposition of their Similarities of Thought and Expression, preceded by a View of Emblem-Literature down to A. D. 1616. Frontispiece and vignette title, and numerous illustrated devices from the original authors. 4to, cloth gilt, bevelled sides, edges uncut. London, 1870 This work, which has been printed with great care, abounds in orna- mental, illustrative, facsimile woodcuts and photo-lithographs, taken from the works of authors with several of whom Shakespeare was per- sonally acquainted. The students and scholars of the great dramatist will here find illustrations, until now unquarried, from his marvellous writings. And in the first three chapters of the work bibhophilists will discover information, once lying widely scattered, now brought into compass and order. Also to every one of the Teutonic race, by whom Shakespeare is reverenced, there is offered further insight into the course which his genius pursued in elevating and refining its own powers . 278 THE FARNUM LIBRARY. 1028 Shakespeare Jest-Books, being reprints of Early and very Rare Jest-Books supposed to have been used by Shakes- peare. Edited, with Introduction and Notes, by W. C. Hazlitt. 3 vols, thick foolscap Bvo, half morocco, Rox- burghe style, edges uncut. London, Willis &= Sotheran, 1864 This is a reprint of tiie early and very rare jest-books which Shakes- peare is supposed to have plagiarized pretty freely from. The orig- inals of the works included in these three volumes are so excessively rare, that, however ardent in his search, or prodigal of his money, the book-collector would find it next to impossible to procure even a portion of those assembled here. Contents: A Hundred Mery Tayls, from the only known copy; Mery Tales and Quicke Answeres, from the rare editions of 1530 and 1567; Merie Tales of Skelton; Jests of Scogin; SackfuU of News; Tarlton's Jests; Merrie Conceited Jests of George Peele; Jacke of Dover; Merie Tales of the Mad Men of Gotham; Twelve Mery Jests of the Wydow Edyth; Pasquils Jests with Mother Bunches Merriments; The Pleasant Conceits of Old Hobson; Certayne Conceyts and Jeasts; Taylor's Wit and Mirth; Conceits, Clinches, Flashes, and Whimsies. " This carefully edited series of Elizabethan Jest-Books is a valua- ble contribution to our knowledge of the wit and humor of the time when Shakespeare flourished, and a curious example of the books popular in the sixteenth century. To the English philologist and antiquary they are likewise extremely interesting. They are very handsomely printed, and are altogether among the daintiest volumes of the modern press." 1029 Brough (Robert B.). The Life of Sir John Falstaff, with a Biography of the Knight from Authentic Sources by Robert B. Brough. With 20 very fine full-page etch- ings by George Cruikshank. Royal 8vo, cloth, top edge gilt, others uncut. London, 1858 A splendid addition to a collection of Cruikshankiana or Shakes- pearean literature. In the words of the author — "no pains have been spared by the artist (the immortal George) to make his work con- scientiously complete.'' 1030 Falstaff. Original Letters, etc., of Sir John Falstaff, selected from Genuine Manuscripts which have been in the possession of Dame Quickly and her Descendants near Four Hundred Years. 32mo, half morocco. Phila., 1813 Rare, curious, and ' ' Dedicated to Master Samuel Irelaunde and Patrick Lyon." THE FARNUM LIBRARY. 279 1031 More (Sir Thomas). The History of King Richard the Third. New edition, revised and corrected. Portrait. 8vo, mottled calf extra, citron edges, by Bedford. Rare. Chiswick, Whittingham, 1821 Large paper. A beautiful copy of this little classic which was written before Shakespeare was born. 1032 DouCE (F.). Illustrations of Shakspeare, and of Ancient Manners. With Dissertations on the Clowns and Fools of Shakspeare; on the collection of Popular Tales entitled Gesta Romanorum; and on the English Morris Dance. By Francis Douce, illustrations on wood by J. Ber- RYMAN. 2 vols. 8vo, half russia. London, Longmans, 1807 Best edition. Very scarce. "Of this literary writer, notices are copiously strewed over the three volumes of the Bibliographical Decameron. " — Wrangham. " I look upon this work as a sort of Hortus Shakespearianus; the research and learning bestowed on it are immense." — DlBDlN. 1033 Book of Shakespeare Gems, a Series of Landscape Il- lustrations of the most interesting localities of Shakes- peare's Dramas ; with Historical and Descriptive Ac- counts, by Washington Irving, Jesse, W. Howitt, Wordsworth, Inglis and others. With 45 highly-finished steel engravings, by Radcliffe, Woods, Hinchliff, Var- RALL, Winckles, and other eminent artists. Red cloth, gilt, uncut. London, 1850 Admirably adapted for illustrating Shakespeare. Published at £1 IIJ. td. 1034 BoYDELL. Graphic Illustrations of the Dramatic Works of Shakespeare. Comprising 100 large and beau- tiful engravings by Schiavonetti, Heath, Noble, Sharpe, etc., from designs by Smirke, Hamilton, West- all, Northcote, etc. (some foxed). Folio, half morocco extra, gilt edges. London, 1802 Fine original impressions. The above is a totally distinct series from the large set, and was published with the Text in 9 vols, folio. This is one of the very few sets taken off and sold separately from the text. There are two different plates of Opie's " Romeo and Juliet," Act 4, Scene V., one engraved by J. P. Simon, the other by W. Blake. The second is marked " variation." In 1804, the year of his death, Boydell estimated his expenditures on his great Shakespeare Gallery's art works at ;^350.ooo, which 28o THE FARNUM LIBRARY. ruined him. Mr. Tassie was more fortunate ; he drew the Boydell Gallery with a guinea lottery ticket, and profited by it, it is said, to the extent of more than ;^io,ooo. The first artists of the time were secured to paint the pictures, among them were Sir Joshua Reynolds, Benjamin West, Fuseli, Romney, Northcote, Smirke, Stothard and Opie. The first engravers of England were employed to transfer them to copper, and such artists as Sharp, Bartolozzi, Earlom, Thew, Simon, Middiman, Watson, Fittler, Wilson, and many others, exerted their talents for years on the great work. Dress, architecture, scen- ery, are all produced with perfect exactness of antiquarian and archae- ological research, and embodied with a skill which only the great masters could command. 1035 Retzsch, M. Illustrations to Shakespeare, complete, with Descriptions in English and German. Upwards of 100 fine outline engravings. Oblong 4to, cloth, gilt edges (binding slightly damaged). N. Y., 1853 Although the above is styled on the title — " Second American Origi- nal Edition," it is only a matter of title-page, as they are the original plates printed and published at Leipsic by Ernest Fleischer and his name appears on the bottom of every impression. These beautiful plates illustrate Hamlet, Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, Lear, The Tempest, Othello, Merry Wives of Windsor, and King Henry IVth. THE FARNUM LIBRARY. 281 ^°3^ ll^»5j(ip^:|AINE (H A.). History of English Litera- ture. Translated by Van Laun. 2 vols. 8vo, cloth, uncut edges. Edinburgh, 1871 Early copies with the imprint of " Edmonston and Douglas,'' are now scarce. Irrespective of its undoubted literary merit, this book is an ornament to any library. It is elegantly printed on heavy hand- made paper, and is a superb specimen of typography. 1037 Talfourd (Sir Thomas Noon, D.C.L.). The Dramatic Works of. Post 8vo, finely bound in red morocco, gilt edges by Hayday. London, Moxon, 1852 Eleventh edition — " to which are added a few sonnets and verses." "We give this writer full credit for the wish which he expresses, to advance the cause of religion and morality." — London Monthly Re- mew. 1038 Talleyrand (Prince). Correspondence of, and King Louis XVIIL, during the Congress of Vienna. Portrait. Thick 8vo, cloth. N. Y., 1881 Compiled from manuscripts preserved in the archives of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs at Vienna, with a Preface, Observations and Notes by M. G. Pallain, also Descriptive Index. 1039 Taylor (Bishop Jeremy). Whole Works ; with an Essay Bibliographical and Critical. Portrait. 3 vols, thick royal 8vo, cloth. London, 1862 "As long, probably, as Englishmen retain a. taste for elevated thought, pure aspiration, and quaint imagery clothed in rich and ornate diction, so long will Jeremy Taylor retain his high place in our literature." — Quarterly Review. 1040 Taylor. Worthy Communicant : a Discourse on the Nature, Effects, and Blessings consequent to the Worthy receiving of the Lord's Supper. 8vo, calf, antique, red edges. London, William Pickering, 1853 Scarce. Beautifully printed at the Chiswick Press by Whitting- ham. 282 THE FARNUM LIBRARY. 1041 Taylor. The Great Exemplar of Sanctity and Holy Life, described in the History of the Life and Death of the ever Blessed Jesus Christ, the Saviour of the World. 3 vols, foolscap, 8vo, calf, antique, red edges. London, W. Pickering, 1849 " Bishop Taylor has the eloquence of the orator, the fancy of the poet, the acuteness of the schoolman, the profoundness of the philo- sopher, and the piety of the saint." — Parr. 1042 Taylor. Rules and Exercises of Holy Living and Holy Dying. 2 vols, crown Bvo, cloth, uncut. Boston, 1864 Large paper and handsomely printed. "The writings of Bishop Jeremy Taylor are a perpetual feast to rae. His hospitable board groans under the weight and multitude of viands. Yet I seldom rise from the perusal of his works without repeating, or recollecting the excellent observation of Minutius Felix: Fabulas et errores ab imperitis parentibus discimus; et, quod est gravius, ipsis studiis et disciplinis elaboramus." — Omn. I., 188. 1043 Taylor (Henry). Philip Van Artevelde : a Dramatic Ro- mance in two Parts. Post 8vo, cloth, uncut. 1-,onAan, Moxon, 1852 " Henry Taylor's tragedies are of the very best kind."— Robert SOUTHEY. 1044 Taylor (Isaac). Words and Places ; or. Etymological Illustrations of History, Ethnology and Geography. With maps. i2mo, cloth. London, 1873 " The author is evidently a man of ardent piety, of a vivid im- agination, and of a vigorous and excursive understanding, and has a vast command of diction and imagery. He is never dull. Dullness, indeed, is at the very antipodes of his manner. There is an intensity about the composition which keeps our faculties perpetually upon the stretch. The man, beyond all question, is a very distinguished writer." — British Critic. 1045 Taylor (John). The Great Pyramid. Why was it Built ? and Who Built It ? Cuts. i2mo, cloth. London, 1864 " John Taylor, of London, whose modesty will leave the next gen- eration to know, better than his own age appears to do, how great a mind we have had amongst us." — Morgan. 1046 Taylor (E. S.). History of Playing-Cards; with Anec- dotes of their Use in Conjuring, Fortune-Telling, and Card- Sharping. Numerous illustrations. Thick post 8vo, cloth uncut. London, 1865 Illustrated with numerous facsimiles of early playing cards. "It THE FARNUM LIBRARY. 283 was edited and completed by Kenneth R. H. Mackenzie [nephew of Shelton Maclcenzie]. It was subsequently advertised as by Rev. Edward Taylor, and John Camden Hotten." — Allibone. 1047 Temple (Sir William). Works and Life, /. e. : — I. Temple. Works, complete, with Life. Best edition. 4 vols. London, 1814 n. Temple. Memoirs of the Life, Works and Correspon- dence of, by the Right Hon. Thomas Peregrine CouRTENAY. JVitA Steel portrait and folded pedigree. 2 vols. London, 1836 Together 6 vols. 8vo, half calf gilt. London, 1814-36 •" Sir W. Temple was the first writer who gave cadence to English prose." — Dr. Johnson. ' ' Next to Dryden, the second place among the polite writers of the period from the Restoration to the end of the century has commonly been given to Sir William Temple." — Hallam. 1048 Tennyson (Alfred). Poetical Works, complete. Portrait. 6 vols. 8vo, cloth, gilt tops, trimmed edges. London, 1872 Library edition, elegantly printed on ribbed paper, with initial letters and numerous ornamental head and tail pieces. " Tennyson's diction and melody are in perfect harmony with his imaginative faculty." — Bayne. 1049 Teuffel (W. S., Professor at Tubingen!). A History of Roman Literature. 2 vols, royal 8vo, cloth. London, 1873 Printed in English by " Ferd. Schlotke, Hamburg," and — "trans- lated with the author's sanction by Wilhelm Wagner, Ph. D. , of the Johanneum Hamburg." 1050 Thacher (James). A Military Journal during the Amer- ican Revolutionary War, from 1775 to 1783. With Bio- graphical Sketches of several General Officers, etc. 8vo, half russia. Boston, 1823 Scarce and a fine copy. The English bibliographer Lowndes says this American volume is — "a partial work." But Thacher was bom in Massachusetts and not in London. 1051 Thiers (M. A.). History of the French Revolution, Translated, with Notes and Illustrations, from the most authentic Sources, by F. Shoberl. With fine engravings on- steel by Greatbach, after drawings by Raffet. 5 vols. 8vo, calf, gilt, marbled edges, by Nutt and Son. London, 1838 " This great work deserves to be ranked as the foremost historical 2 §4 ^^^ ParatuM librarV. production of the age. M. Thiers indeed throws a fascination over every subject he touches. The translation is a perfect reflex of the original, and rendered with fidelity and spirit." — United Service Gazette. 1052 Thomas (Isaiah). The History of Printing in America. With a Biography of Printers, and an Account of News- papers. To which is prefixed a Concise View of the Dis- covery and Progress of the Art in other parts of the World. By Isaiah Thomas, Printer, Worcester, Massachusetts. Portraits and plates. 2 vols. 8vo, half calf, gilt. Worcester, From, the Press of Isaiah Thomas, Jun., rSio Very Scarce. " This valuable work, vreitten and published in advance of the time, met with no favour, and was qu'ckly forgotten. Shortly after its issue the remainder of the edition was purchased, on a venture, by the late W. Gowans and an associate, at twenty-five cents per volume in sheets, and an arrangement made with a bookbinder to put the stock into boards, the whole of which, with the exception of a copy that Mr. Gowans had retained for himself, was returned cut down almost to the head lines; an incident to which Mr. Gowans never referred without an emphatic expression of indignation." — Menzies's Catalogue. So far from this copy being in the condition described above, it is not only a fine one, but very tall. 1053 [Thomas (Ralph).] Handbook of Fictitious Names : being a Guide to Authors, chiefly in the Lighter Literature of the 19th Century, who have written under Assumed Names; and to Literary Forgers, Impostors, Plagiarists and Imita- tors. By Olphar Hamst, Esq. Royal 8vo, cloth, uncut. London, 1868 Large paper copy. No. 15 of a limited edition of 25, on thick paper, and signed by the publisher "J. R. Thomas." " A zealous and accurate bibliographer." — Allibone. 1054 Thoms. Early English Prose Romances, with Bibliographi- cal and Historical Introductions. Edited by William J, Thoms, F.S.A. 3 vols, royal 8vo, half morocco, uncut, RoxBURGHE STYLE. London, 1858 Large paper, of which only 50 copies were printed of this second enlarged edition. "The Waverley Novels of their day." — Retrospective Review. i°SS Thomson (Richard). Historical Essay on the Magna Charta of King John, to which are added various Old Charters, with Translations and Notes. Every page sur- THE FARNUM LIBRARY. 285 rounded by an elegant and differently designed border. Thick imperial 8vo, tree marble calf gilt, marbled edges. London, Major, 1829 Large paper and Original Edition. A splendid copy with India paper proof title, and illustrated with upwards of 600 heraldic and chivahic devices, 6g cuts of monumental effigies; also seals, emblems, etc. All within exquisite ornamental borders. " A book as beautifully and appropriately adorned as it is elaborately and learnedly compiled." — Southey. 1056 Thornbury (Walter). Haunted London. With illustra- tions by F. W. Fairholt, F.S.A. Thick 8vo, cloth, uncut. London, 1865 " When a man is tired of London he is tired of life, for there is in London all life can afford." — Boswell's Johnson. 1057 Thorpe (B.). Northern Mythology; the Popular Tradi- tions and Superstitions of Scandinavia, North Germany and the Netherlands, selected and translated. Frontis- piece. 3 vols, small 8vo, half morocco, gilt top edges, others uncut, Roxburghe style. London, 1852 Contains also a selection of the principal later popular traditions and superstitions of the countries above mentioned. 1058 TiCKNOR (George). History of Spanish Literature. [With Criticisms on particular works and Biographical Notices of prominent Writers.] 3 vols, royal 8vo, half calf extra (lacks title to Vol. 2). N. Y., 1849 ' ' You have laid the foundations of your work so deep that nothing can shake it; you have built it up with a care that renders it reliable in all its parts; and you have finished it with a grace and beauty that leave nothing to be desired. It is well worth a lifetime to achieve such a work." — Washington Irving to Ticknor. 1059 [TiGHE (Mrs. Henry).] Psyche; or, the Legend of Love. 32mo, elegantly bound in smooth morocco gilt, edges gilt, with violet silk ends and with tooled borders. London, 1805 Large paper, of which only 100 copies were beautifully printed by Whittingham for presents. With the autograph of the authoress — "To Lydia White, from her obliged, M. Tighe. Dublin, Jan. 31, 1806." " The 'Psyche' of Mrs. Tighe has a languid beauty, probably re- sembling that of her person." — Leigh Hunt. 2 86 THE FARNUM LIBRARY. ro6o Times (John). Club-Life of London; with Anecdotes of Clubs, Coffee-houses and Taverns of the Metropolis. Portraits. 2 vols, crown 8vo, cloth, uncut. London, 1866 Best edition. Scarce. ' ' Mr. Timbs possesses the rare faculty of clear and accurate con- densation. " — London Lancet. io6t Times. Anecdote Lives of the later Wits and Humorists. 2 vols, crown 8vo, cloth. London, 1874 Contains anecdotes of Canning, Capt. Morris, Curran, Coleridge, Lamb, Charles Mathews, Talleyrand, Jerrold, Rogers, Albert Smith, Hood, Maginn, Thackeray, Dickens, Poole, Leigh Hunt, Father Prout, etc. 1062 TiMPERLEY (C. H.). Encyclopaedia of Literary and Typo- graphical Anecdote; being a Digest of the most interest- ing Facts illustrative of the History of Literature and Printing; with Biographical Sketches of Eminent Book- sellers, Printers, Type-founders, Engravers, Bookbinders and Paper Makers, of all Ages and Countries. Including curious particulars of the First Introduction of Printing and of the Books then printed. Notices of Early Bibles. A History of all the Newspapers and an Account of the Origin and Progress of Language, Writing and Writing Materials, the Invention of Paper, etc. Second edition. Illustrations. Thick imperial 8vo, calf gilt by Hayday. London, Henry G. Bohn, 1842 " A reissue called ' Second Edition,' to which is added a continua- tion to the present time, comprising recent biographies, chiefly of booksellers, and a practical manual of printing." — Lowndes. Timperley's work is a comprehensive, instructive and entertaining omnium gatherum of whatever could be collected from known and authentic sources. It is one of the most accurate, laborious and volu- minous compilations ever made, and one to be gratefully remembered by all students of the History of English Literature and Typography. The author was in early life a soldier, had gone through many cam- paigns, had served at Waterloo, and had well earned his pension of a shilling per diem. He was at one time a bookseller, but had accepted bills to a large amount, and in order to pay the debts contracted he consigned his stock to an auctioneer, who, after disposing of it by auction, ran off with the proceeds. Broken down by misfortune, he accepted literary employment with Fisher & Jackson, the subscription book publishers, in whose service he died. 1063 TiscHENDORF (C). When were our Gospels Written ? i6mo, cloth. N. Y., n. d. With " A Narrative of the Discovery of the Sinaitic Manuscript." THE FARNUM LIBRARY. 287 1064 TiTE (William, M.P., etc.). Address delivered before the Society of Antiquaries of London at an Exhibition of Early Printed Books, to which is subjoined an Address at an Exhibition of Illuminated Manuscripts. Imperial 8vo, half morocco, uncut. London, 1862 "Not published," and only a limited edition printed for presenta- tion, of which this copy has the author's autograph: — " Dr. Markland, etc., etc., with the Kind Regards of the Author. March, 1862." 1065 TocQUEViLLE (A. dc). Democracy in America. By Alexis DE TocQUEViLLE. Translated by Henry Reeve, Esq. Edited with Notes. The Translation Revised and in great part Rewritten by Francis Bowen. 2 vols, royal 8vo, cloth, uncut. Cambridge, Sever and Francis, 1864 Large paper. One hundred copies only printed. " Let me earnestly advise your perusal of M. de Tocqueville's work. His testimony, as well from actual personal experience, as on account of freedom from prejudice, is above exception." — Sir Robert Peel. 1066 Todd (Alpheus). Parliamentary Government in the British Colonies. Thick royal 8vo, cloth. Boston, 1880 The author is the " Librarian of Parliament, Canada." 1067 TooKE (Thomas). History of Prices, and the State of the Circulation from 1793 to 1839, with a Sketch of the Corn Trade in the last Two Centuries. 3 vols. 8vo, cloth, uncut. London, 1838-40 Very scarce and high-priced, even in Europe. " Secured for Mr. Tooke » place in the first rank of living eco- nomists." — Gentleman's Magazine. 1068 ToRREY (Joseph). A Theory on Fine Art. i6mo, cloth. N. Y., 1874 This author was Professor of Moral and Intellectual Philosophy in the University of Vermont for forty years. 1069 Trumbull (John). McFingal : An Epic Poem. With Introduction and Notes, by Benson J. Lossing. Portrait. Imperial 8vo, cloth, uncut. N. Y., G. P. Putnam, i860 Large paper copy, of which one hundred only were printed. " A poem which will live as long as Hudibras."— President John Adams. 1070 TucKERMAN (Henry T.). Book OF THE Artists. Ameri- can Artist Life, comprising Biographical Sketches of American Artists, preceded by an Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of Art in America ; with an Ap- 288 THE FARNUM LIBRARY. pendix, containing an account of notable Pictures and Pri- vate Collections. Fortrait on India paper. Royal 8vo, cloth, uncut. N. Y., 1867 Large paper. " One of the most imaginative and sympathetic of American critics, and a refined and elegant writer."— Chambers' Literature. 107 1 Turner (J. M. W.). Life of; founded on Letters and Papers furnished by his Friends and Academicians. By Walter Thornbury. With illustrations, facsimiles in colors. Crown 8vo, cloth, uncut. London, 1877 The standard biography of the great modern master of landscape and color. 1072 Turner (Sharon). History of the Anglo-Saxons, from the Earliest Period to the Norman Conquest. Seventh (and enlarged) edition. 3 vols. 8vo, cloth, uncut. London, 1852 ' ' So much new information was probably never laid before the pub- lic in any one historical publication." — SOUTHEY. 1073 Tyrwhitt (Rev. R. St. John). Christian Art and Sym- bolism. With illustrations. i6mo, cloth, top edge gilt. London, 1872 With — " some hints on the study of landscape." 1074 Tylor (Edward B.). Primitive Culture, Researches into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Art and Custom, 2 vols.; also — Researches into the Early His- tory of Mankind by the same author. Together 3 vols. 8vo, cloth. London, John Murray, 1870-71 THE FARNUM LIBRARY. 289 ^°7S Iwi'^-iF.'i PHAM (Charles W.). Salem Witchcraft; with an Account of Salem Village, and a History of Opinions on Witchcraft and Kindred Subjects. With maps, plates and facsimiles. 2 vols, im- perial 8vo, half green morocco, uncut, Roxburghe style. Boston, 1867 Largest paper. No. 19, and one of 50 copies printed. Wlien Wiggins and Lunt published this work they announced: — " In addition to the regular edition, one hundred copies only have been printed on rich laid-paper, small quarto, uniform with our ' Library of New-En- gland History,' and will be furnished to subscribers, in paper covers, at $15 ; also, fifty copies on large paper, royal octavo, price to sub- scribers, |20." 1076 Ure (Andrew, M.D.). Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures and Wines. With nearly 1600 wood engravings. 2 vols. thick 8vo, cloth. Boston, 1853 This celebrated work was the basis of the " Dictionnaire des Arts et Manufactures." It has been translated into several languages. U. S. Census, i860 — Agriculture. 4to, half russia. 1077 Washington, 1864 Select Pieces of Early Principally from Early 1078 (Utterson [Edward Vernon].) Popular Poetry ; re-published Printed Copies in the Black Letter. Facsimile block cuts. 2 vols, crown 8vo, half morocco, top edges gilt, others uncut. London, Wm. Pickering, 1825 Large paper. Limited edition of 250 copies in all. Contents — Syr Tryamour, Syr Isenbras, Syr Degore, Syr Zowghter, the Hye Way to the* Spyttel Hous, the Schole House of Women, the Defense of Women,'the^Proude Wyves of Pater Noster, the Wife lapped in morels skin and glossary. 290 THE FARNUM LIBRARY. 1079 ADE MECUM for Malt Worms : or, a Guide to Good Fellows. Illustrated with cuts. 8vo, cloth, uncut. London, n. d. A very limited edition of this reprint, "Dedicated to the Brewers," and being — "A description of the manners and customs of the most eminent Publick Houses, in and about the cities of London and Westminster, with a hint on the props (or principal customers) of each house in a method so plain that any thirsty person (of the meanest capacity) may easily find the nearest way from one house to another." 1080 Vanbrugh (Sir John). Plays. Fine portrait. 2 vols. i2mo, yellow calf gilt, edges gilt. London, 1776 Best edition. Large paper and extremely scarce. The language of the " Provoked Wife" in these volumes is very curious, as it gives the offensive original scenes, and also the new ones substituted for them, by Vanbrugh, when the play (which came out in 1697) was revised in 1725. 1081 Van Hammer (Chevalier Joseph). History of the Assassins, derived from Oriental Sources. Crown 8vo, half calf gilt. London, 1835 Scarce and interesting. Translated from the German by Oswald Charles Wood, M.D. 1082 Van Santvoord (George). Sketches of the Lives and Judicial Services of the Chief Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States. Portrait. 8vo, cloth. N. Y., 1856 This volume contains the lives of John Jay, John Rutledge, Oliver Ellsworth, John Marshall and Roger B. Taney. 1083 Vaughan (Robert Alfred, B.A.). Hours with the Mystics, Contribution to the History of Religious Opinion. 2 vols, crown 8vo, cloth, uncut. London, n. d. " On mystics generally, consult the interesting work of the lamented Rev, R. A. Vaughan." — Farrar, THE FARNUM LIBRARY. 291 1084 ViARDOT (Louis). Wonders of Sculpture. Illustrated with 62 engravings. 8vo, cloth, gilt, bevelled sides, gilt edges. London, 1872 1085 Views — " Select Views in England— Proofs." A collection of 'JO plates of views in England, some of which are proofs. I vol. 4to, half russia. London, 1804-5 From the Allan Library. 1086 Voltaire. Complete Works of M. de Voltaire. Trans- lated from the French. With Notes Historical and Criti- cal. By Smollett, Franklin, and others. Portraits and numerous plates. 37 vols. i6mo, tree calf, gilt. T-ondon, 1761-70 Scarce. A nice set, in good condition. Lowndes asserts that Smollett and Franklin were, for a valuable con- sideration, induced by the booksellers to suffer their names to appear as the translators, but they had no farther share in the concern. ' ' This Voltaire is a sort of malignant spirit, who came upon earth only to embitter the cup of life, and afterwards laugh at our wry faces. " 1087 Vyse (Col. Howard). Operations at the Pyramids of GiZEH, in 1837, and account of a Voyage into Upper Egypt, and an Appendix. 127 maps and plates. 3 vols, imperial 8vo, cloth, uncut. London, James Fraser, 1840-42 Rare. Large paper. Published at £/i, 4?. The third volume of this valuable work contains "A Survey of the Pyramids at Abou, Roash, the Faiyoum, etc., by J. S. Perring.'' 292 THE FARNUM LIBRARY. ACE. Master Wace, his Chronicle of the Nor- man Conquest, from the Roman de Rou: translated with Notes and illustrations by Ed- gar Taylor, Esq., F.S.A. Numerous illus- trations. 8vo, calf gilt, edges gilt. London, William Pickering, 1837 A beautiful copy, very scarce, and of which only 250 were printed. Master Wace, the early Anglo-Norman poet, was born A. D. 1 112 in the Island of Jersey, and died circa 11 84 in England. 1089 Walker (Alexander). Beauty chiefly illustrated by an Analysis of Beauty in Woman ; preceded by a Critical View of the general Hypotheses respecting Beauty, by Leonardo da Vinci, Mengs, Winckelmann, Hume, Hogarth, Burke, Knight, Alison, and others. Illus- trated by 22 beautiful plates, after drawings from life by H. Howard, by Gauci and Lane. Royal 8vo, green morocco gilt, edges gilt. London, Effingham Wilson, 1836 Large paper, with India proofs of the plates (some foxed). Original edition and very scarce. " In pursuing these most delicate inquiries, Mr. Walker's language and modes of expression are always calculated to impart knowledge of the fact or inference which he proposes to communicate, without awakening any feelings which may disturb the chaste sobriety of philo- sophical research. " — Birkbeck. 1090 Walker (Francis A.). Money. Thick 8vo, cloth. N. Y. 1878 This author is Professor of Political Economy and History in the Sheffield Scientific School of Yale College, and Lecturer in Political Economy in the John Hopkins University. 1091 Walpole (Horace, Earl of Orford). Catalogue of the Royal and Noble Authors of England, Scotland, and Ire- land, with a List of their Works ; enlarged and continued THE FARNUM LIBRARY. 293 to the Present Time by Thomas Park. With 150 plates of portraits. 5 vols. 4to, elegantly bound in smooth purple morocco gilt extra, with red satin ends and gilt edges London, John Scott, 1806 Large paper. Very scarce and presentation copy, elegantly bound. This new edition is enriched by the tasteful editor with speci- mens of the performances of each author — a task not contemplated by the original author. The editor also profited by the assistance of other highly competent scholars, e. g., Isaac Reed, George Ellis, Sir Egerton Brydges, R. Gough, etc. The beautiful portraits were expressly engraved for this book. " It is the fashion to underrate Horace Walpole; firstly, because he was a nobleman; and secondly, because he was a gentleman; but to say nothing of the composition of his incomparable letters, and of the Castle of Otranto, he is the " Ultimus Romanorum,'' the author of the Mysterious Mother, a tragedy of the highest order, and not a pu- ling love play. He is the father of the first romance, and of the first tragedy in our language, and surely worthy of a higher place than any living writer, be he who he may." — Byron. 1092 Walpole and Vertue (George). Anecdotes of Paint- ing in England, and Catalogue of English Engravers, with Lives and Notes. Fine impressions of the numerous beautiful portraits. 5 vols, small 4to, calf, neat. Strawberry Hill, 1762-71 Very scarce. Rare Strawberry Hill and First Edition. This fine set comprises the rare fourth volume of Anecdotes, which was also printed at Strawberry Hill nearly ten years subse- quently. 1093 Walpole. Anecdotes of Painting in England, with SOME Accounts of the Principal Artists — and Notes ON Engravings and other Arts. By Horace Wal- pole. Finest edition. Numerous steel plates, all proof s on India paper. 5 vols, royal 8vo, tree marbled calf extra, full gilt by Riviere. London, 1828 A SUPERB copy of Major's beautiful edition, with India proof plates. This Is beyond question one of the finest copies ever im- ported to America. The work is now rare, and the chances of pro- curing so fine a copy very remote. " In the good old times of the Bibliomania, this work would have walked ol its own accord into the mahogany book-cases of half the collectors in London." — Dibdin. 1094 Walpole. Anecdotes of Painting in England, with some Account of the Principal English Artists, and Inci- 294 THE FARNVM LIBRARY. dental Notices of Sculptors, Carvers, Enamellers, Archi- tects, Medallists, etc. Also a Catalogue of Engravers who have been born or resided in England, with Additions by the Rev. J. Dallaway, new edition revised, with ad- ditional Notes by R. N. Wornum. Upwards of 150 por- traits and plates. 3 vols. 8vo, mottled calf gilt, marbled edges. London, 1849 "An admirable publication; quite a treasure — beautiful alike in paper, printing and engraving, and truly excellent in everything which depended upon the talents and exertions of its editor." — Literary Ga- zette. 1095 Walpole. Historic Doubts on the Life and Reign of King Richard III. Portrait by \^'B.t\!'e.. 4to, calf. Lond., 1768 " The lively and curious acuteness of Walpole." — Gibbon. 1096 Walpole. Castle of Otranto, a Gothic Story. With Me- moir of the Author. Cuts. Post 8vo, yellow calf gilt, bevelled sides, gilt edges. London, 1840 A beautiful edition of this celebrated story. "This work was found in the library of an ancient Catholic family in the North of England, and it was printed at Naples in the black letter in the year 1529. How much sooner it was written does not appear. The principal incidents are such as were believed in the darkest ages." — Preface to the first edition. 1097 Walpole and his Contemporaries. Memoirs of, including numerous Original Letters chiefly from Strawberry Hill. By Eliot Warburton. Portrait. 2 vols. 8vo, cloth, uncut. London, Colburn, 1852 " Horace Walpole was the last surviving disciple of the School of St. Evremond, Chaulieu, etc., a tribe of philosophers, who united study with amusement, and sentiment with vivacity; but in him the . levity of the French epicureans was invigorated by the masculine strength of British character." — Wrangham. 1098 Walpole. Memoirs of the Reign of George II. Edited by Lord Holland. Fine portraits. 3 vols. 8vo, half calf, gilt. London, 1847 Second edition, revised with the original mottoes. 1099 Walpole. Journal of the Reign of King George the Third, from the Year 1771 to 1783. Now first published from the Original MSS. Edited, with Notes, by Dr. DoRAN. 2 portraits. 2 vols. 8vo, half calf, gilt. London, 1859 " Contains a large amount of very interesting and important informa- THE FARNUM LIBRARY. 295 tion concerning the American Revolution, and is written in Walpole's liveliest manner. An account of the treason of ' Gen. Arnold, the butcher's son,' and of the capture and execution of Major Andre will be found in Vol. II., p. 431. Twenty thousand pounds was the price of Arnold's treachery." 1 100 Walpole. Entire Correspondence, Chronologically arranged [with the Prefaces of Croker, Lord Dover and others, the Notes of all previous Editors, and Additional Notes]. By Peter Cunningham [with a General In- dex] . Numerous fine portraits engraved on steel. 9 vols. 8vo, cloth, uncut. London, 1861 Best edition. " Read, if you have not read, all Horace Walpole's Letters, wherever you can find them ; — the best wit ever published in the shape of letters." — Sydney Smith. " Posterity will know more of the manners, fashions, parties, politics, private anecdotes, gossip, scandal, and general history of the eight- eenth century, from Walpole's Letters than from all other sources together." — Quarterly Review. iioi Walpole. Lord Orford's Reminiscences. Written in 1788, for the amusement of Miss Mary and Miss Agnes B * * * Y. Vignette portrait on title {foxed). i6mo, calf gilt. London, 18 18 John Sharpe's elegant little edition. 1102 Walton (Izaak) and Cotton (Charles). Complete Angler; or, the Contemplative Man's Recreation: being a Discourse of Rivers, Fish Ponds, Fish and Fishing, written by Izaak Walton; and Instructions how to Angle for Trout or Grayling in a Clear Stream, by Charles Cotton; with Original Memoirs and Notes by Sir Harris Nicolas. Portraits, views and engravings of fish by Stothard and 1nsk.\w— proofs on India paper. 2 vols, imperial Svo, morocco extra, gilt edges. Very scarce. London, William Pickering, 1836 Large paper and beautiful impressions of the India paper plates. This is a superb copy of this magnificent Pickering edition. It is, without doubt, the most beautifully illustrated edition of " Honest Izaak's '' charming Pastoral ever published. To the late tasteful pub- lisher, Mr. Pickering, its production was literally a labor of love. Neither time nor expense were spared to render it worthy of the arts and the importance of the subject, and the result was a union of lite- rary and artistic talent which has rarely been equalled and never sur- passed. ' 'A work the most singular in its kind, breathing the very spirit of 296 THE FARNUM LIBRARY. contentment, of quiet and unaffected philanthropy, and interspersed with some fine relics of old poetry, songs and ballads." — Bowles. 1 103 Walton and Cotton. The Complete Angler; or, the Contemplative Man's Recreation of Izaak Walton and Charles Cotton. Edited by John Major. Numerous steel engravings on India paper and woodcuts. 8vo, boards, uncut. Boston, Little, Brown &> Co., 1866 Large paper; 100 copies only printed. The best and handsomest specimen of printing and illustration ever produced in America. It was Thomas Flatman, who died in 1672, that wrote of Walton: " Happy Old Man ! whose worth all mankind knows Except thyself, — who charitably shows The ready way to virtue and to praise, The way to many long and happy days." 1 104 Walton and Cotton. Complete Angler, with their Lives and Notes by Sir John Hawkins, with numerons engravings, London, Bagster, 1808 ; — Also — Walton's Lives of Donne, Wotton, Hooker, Herbert, and San- derson, with Memoir of Isaac Walton, and Illustrative Notes, by Thomas Zouch, illustrated with steel engravings, including portraits, facsimiles, views, etc., York, 1796. To- gether 2 vols, 4to. Uniform half green morocco, uncut. Large paper, with proof before letter impressions of the numerous beautiful plates in the " Complete Angler." The edition of Walton's Lives was printed at York, England, and printed for the London book- sellers, as well as those of "Old York," viz.: "Wilson, Spence and Mawman, J. Todd and H. Sotheran, York, Anno 1796. ' 1105 Walton and Cotton. The Complete Angler, with Notes, Biographical and Explanatory, and the Lives of the Authors [by Major]. Numerous plates and woodcuts [some foxed"). i2mo, half bound. London, Henry Washbourne, 1842 Washbourne's handsome reprint of Major's edition. 1 106 Walton and Cotton. Complete Angler, with Copious Notes for the Most Part Original, a Bibliographical Pref- ace, giving an Account of Fishing and Fish-Books and a Notice of Cotton and His Writings by the American Editor (Bethune), to which is added an Appendix, etc., also a General Index. Profusely illustrated with steel and wood engravings. Imperial 8vo, cloth. New York ««(/ London, 1847 Large paper, limited to 50 copies and edited by George W. Bethune, D.D. With duplicate proof impressions of the numerous woodcuts. THE FARNUM LIBRARY. 297 1 107 Walton and Cotton, Complete Angler, Pickering's Miniature Edition, beautifully printed in diamond type, portraits and woodcuts, London, Pickering, 1825 ;— also — Walton's Lives, the same edition, portraits, London, 1827. Together 2 vols. 48mo, cloth. 1 108 Wandering Jew. Chronicles selected from the Origi- nals of Cartaphilus, the Wandering Jew ; embracing a period of nearly XIX. Centuries ; now first revealed to, and edited by, David Hoffman. 2 vols, royal 8vo, cloth, gilt tops, uncut edges. London, 1853-4 Very scarce, and printed at the Chiswick Press ' ' These two volumes are all that were given to the world of a work which was to have been extended to six volumes." — Allibone. 1 109 Warwick (Eden). The Poets Pleasaunce: a collection of Poetical Extracts from the Old and Modern Poets, relating to Flowers. Every page surrounded by beautiful floriated •woodcut borders, besides other splendid wood engravings. Thick square 8vo, morocco bevelled sides, gilt edges. London, 1847 This beautiful volume was compiled by G. Jabet, of Birmingham, who assumed the nom-de-plume of " Eden Warwick." He also wrote a volume entitled ' ' Nasology ; or, Hints toward a Classification of Noses." 1 1 10 Washington (George). The Writings of George Wash- ington ; being his Correspondence, Addresses, Messages, and other Papers, Official and Private, selected and pub- lished from the Original Manuscripts, with a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations. By Jared Sparks. Portraits, plates, facsimiles, ete. 12 vols, imperial 8vo, cloth. Boston, Ferdinand Andrews, 1839 A desirable Large paper copy. Very scarce, with some origi- nal Washington manuscript inserted, and which was presented to its late owner by Jared Sparks. The Fowle copy, cut, brought $300. Uniform with the works of Adams, Franklin, Webster and Ban- croft, etc. " Aside from its intrinsic value and interest, as the production of the greatest and noblest hero whom the world has yet known, and to whom our country owes its existence, it is the most copious and by far the most reliable source for a history of the Revolution," — Courier and Enquirer. ' The literature of the Revolution was bold, direct, and without affec- 298 THE FARNUM LIBRARY. tation. If you take the orders and proclamations of Washington, the letters written by him in the exigencies of the moment, there will be found that strength and felicity of expression that is supposed to be the oflspring of care and leisure." — Chambers. 11 1 1 Washington. Life, compiled under the inspection of the Honorable Bushrod Washington, from Original Papers, etc., by John Marshall, 4 vols. With portraits, and the maps in separate \to volume. Together 5 vols, calf (4)> and half sheep (i). Phila., 1805-7 With the list of subscribers and maps frequently wanting. " Marshall and Sparks are very accurate. Whoever will read the ' Life' by Marshall and ' Correspondence' (Writings) by Sparks will have a good idea of Washington. "■ — ^Washington Irving. " It is a book that contains original information and should be read. It is chiefly compiled from Washington's correspondence, andv a Ufe of Washington is of course a history of the American war." — Prof. Smyth. 1 1 12 Washington. Memoirs of the Administrations of Washington and John Adams, edited from the Papers of Oliver Wolcott, Secretary of the Treasury, by George Gibbs. Portrait. 2 vols. 8vo, cloth. N. Y.jfor the subscribers, 1846 George Gibbs was the grandson of Oliver Wolcott. President King said that the above is "of inestimable value for its authentic ma- terials." 1 1 13 Washington's Political Legacies. To which is Annexed an Appendix, containing an Account of his Illness, Death, and the National Tributes of Respect paid to his Memory, with a Biographical Outline of his Life and Character. 8vo, sheep (water-stained). 'Ronton, John Jiussell and John West, 1800 Contains 14 pages of the names of subscribers. 11 14 Washington. Home of Washington and its Associ- ations: Historical, Biographical, and Pictorial. By B. J. LossiNG. Numerous illustrations by Lossing and Barrett. 4to, cloth, uncut. N, Y., W. A. Townsend, 1865 Large paper and limited to 100 copies. 1 1 15 Washington. Correspondence of the American Revo- lution ; being Letters of Eminent Men to George Washington from the Time of His Taking Command of the Army to the End of his Presidency. Edited from THE FARNVM LIBRARY. 299 the Original Manuscripts by Jared Sparks. 4 vols. 4to, cloth. Boston, Little, Brown 6- Co., 1853 Large paper. Only a very limited number printed These vol- umes contain a selection of about 1,000 letters (from about 190 writers) from several thousands not used in the Notes and Appendix to the Writings of Washington. The two collections should stand side by side on the shelf of the American historical library. 1 1 16 Washington. Facsimile of his Account with the United States from 1775 to 1783, as Written by Himself. Vignette portrait and 66 pages of facsimile. Folio, half morocco, cloth sides. Brooklyn, 1857 1117 Watt (R.). Bibliotheca Britannica; or General Index to British and Foreign Literature. 4 vols. 4to, half russia, gilt. Edinburgh, 1824 A work of great practical utility, from which later bibliographers have stolen most unmercifully without acknowledgment, like most of their modern sucQessors who ape originality in this plagiaristic trade and pseudo-profession. Watt's work consists of two divisions, in the first of which the books are ranged alphabetically, under the names of M«V Authors; and in the second the same materials are digested under the names of their several subjects. Notwithstanding its imperfections, it is the most complete work of the kind ever published except AUibone, which is confined to English writers. It was the fruit of twenty years of unremitting toil and study. Only a few of its sheets had been printed off when the author died, in i8lg. 1118 Watts (Alaric A.). Lyrics of the Heart; with other Poems. 41 engravings on steel. 8vo, morocco extra, bevelled sides, gilt edges. London, 185 1 Choice copy, of which only fifty copies as above were issued, with MARKED proof IMPRESSIONS of the beautiful engravings by Greatbach, Engleheart, Rolls, etc., after designs by Stothard, Leslie, Sir Thomas Lawrence, Stanfield, Roberts, and other eminent artists. " There is no living author to whom British art is so much indebted as to Mr. Alaric Watts." — Art foumal. 11 19 Watts (Isaac, D.D.). Divine and Moral Songs for the Use of Children. 30 illustrations. 8vo, cloth, red edges. London, 1850 The beautiful illustrations in this volume were drawn on wood by C. W. Cope, A.R.A. , and engraved by John Thompson. "Almost the inventor of hymns in our langirage. " — Montgomery. 1120 Weber (H.). Metrical Romances of the Thirteenth, Four- teenth and Fifteenth Centuries: published from Ancient 200 THE FARNUM LIBRARY. Manuscripts. With an Introduction, Notes, and a Glos- sary. By Henry Weber, Esq. 3 vols, small 8vo, half russia gilt, top edges gilt, others uncut. Edinburgh, Constable Sr Co., 1810 Scarce. This collection forms a desirable sequel to those of Rit- son, Percy and Ellis. This copy is from the library of Dr. Bliss, with MS. notes by him. It has inserted several leaves of additional matter. " The collection formed by the late industrious and accurate Mr. Weber."— Walter Scott. 1 1 20 Webster (Daniel). The Works of Daniel Webster. Portrait and view. 6 vols, imperial 8vo, cloth. Boston, Charles C. Little and James Brown, 1851 Large paper. Fifty copies only printed, with newspaper cuttings. Uniform with the following lot, together with which it forms a SPLENDID and COMPLETE SET of the writings of Daniel Webster, rang- ing in size with the works of Adams, Franklin, Washington and Bancroft, etc. 1 12 1 Webster. — The Private Correspondence of Daniel Web- ster. Edited by Fletcher Webster. Two portraits. 2 vols, imperial 8vo, cloth. Boston, Little, Brown and Company, 1857 Large paper. Only 50 copies printed. ' ' To test Webster's oratory, which has ever been very attractive to me, I read a portion of my favorite speeches of Demosthenes, and then read — always aloud — parts of Webster ; then returned to the Athenian; and Webster stood the test." — Francis Lieber. 1122 Webster (John). Dramatic Works, Edited, with Notes, etc., by Wm. Hazlitt. 4 vols, crown 8vo, cloth, uncut. London, John Russell Smith, 1857 Scarce. Large paper, and only 100 copies printed. ' ' An Author that liv'd in the Reign of King James the First and was in those Days accounted an Excellent Poet. He joyn'd with Decker, Marston, and Rowley in several Plays and was likewise author of others, which have even in our Agegain'd Applause." — Langbaine. 1 1 23 Webster. The Same. Now First Collected with some account of the Author and Notes by the Rev. Alexander Dyce, B.A. 4 vols, crown 8vo, elegant tree marble calf, gilt. London, William Pickering, 1830 Scarce and a beautiful copy. It contains the extremely scarce Supplement printed in 1838 and generally wanting. 11 24 Wedgwood (Josiah). Life of, from his Private Corres- pondence and Family Papers, and other Original Sources, THE FARNVM LIBRARY. 301 by Eliza Meteyard. Profusely illustrated by beautiful en- gravings. 2 vols. 8vo, gilt cloth, bevelled sides, uncut. London, 1865 Splendidly illustrated with a profusion of woodcuts. Very interesting and valuable. " A very accurate and valuable book. To give their fullest value to the engravings of works of art which largely enrich the volumes, the biography has been made by its publishers a choice specimen of their own art as book-makers. Neither care nor cost has been grudged. It is one of the handsomest books ever published. " — Examiner. 1125 Wellington (Duke of). Life of, by W, H. Maxwell. With plans of battles, illustrations on wood, and numerous highly-finished portraits and engravings on steel. 3 vols, royal 8vo, elegantly bound in green morocco extra, gilt edges. London, 1839 A VERY FINE LARGE PAPER copy with proof impressions of the plates on India paper. It is printed on heavy paper. ' ' In our opinion it has no rival among similar publications of the day." — London Times. 1126 Wesley (John) and the Evangelical Reaction of the Eighteenth Century. By Julia Wedgwood. Crown 8vo, cloth, uncut. London, 1870 11 27 Westcott (Brooke Foss, D.D.). A General View of the English Bible. Crown 8vo, cloth, uncut. London, 1872 Second edition, revised. 1128 Westwood, J. O., M.A.). Miniatures and Ornaments of Anglo-Saxon and Irish Manuscripts. Illustrated in a series of ^4 superb plates, most elaborately executed in exact fac- simile of the originals in gold and colours — drawn on stone by W. R. Tyman, and chromo lithographed by Day and Son. With a Descriptive Text to each Plate, serving as a His- tory of British Palaeography and Pictorial Art. Imperial folio, cloth, uncut. London, QuaritcA, 1868 The entire edition of this valuable work was limited to 200 copies, and the stones were then destroyed. The price to subscribers was ^17 ITS. and to non-subscribers £21.. This is one of the most sump- tuous works ever executed and illustrates a phase of art unique and absolutely wonderful. ' ' To most persons this ' dark age ' (i. c , from the Roman Occupation of England to the Norman Conquest), as it has been termed, will scarcely be supposed capable of affording materials for such a history; and indeed, with the exception of a very few examples given by Strutt, Astle, and Shaw, no opportunity has been afforded to the public of 302 THE FARNUM LIBRARY. judging of the marvellous beauty and excessive intricacy of the orna- mentation and designs of Anglo-Saxon and Irish Manuscripts, until the publication of my ' Palasographia Sacra Pictoria,' in which I devoted many plates to these marvels of art. The study of these Manu- scripts has, indeed, brought out the singular fact that, at a period when the fine arts may be said to have been almost extinct in Italy and other parts of the Continent — namely, from the fifth to the end of the eighth century — a style of art has been established, cultivated, and brought to a wonderful state of perfection in these islands, absolutely distinct from that of all other parts of the civilized world, and which was adopted and imitated in the schools founded on the Continent by Charlemagne, as well as in the monastic establishments founded or vis- ited by Anglo-Saxon and Irish missionaries, many of which subse- quently became the most famous seats of learning." — Westvi^ood. 1129 Westwood. PALiEOGRAPHiA Sacra Pictoria : a Series of Illustrations of the Ancient Versions of the Bible, copied from Illuminated Manuscripts executed between the Fourth and Sixteenth Centuries. 50 beautiful plates in GOLD, silver, and colors, painted under the direction of Owen Jones. Royal 4to, half morocco, top edge gilt. London, William Smith, 1845 Very clean and fine original copy of this splendid work. The coloring of the plates is- greatly superior to that of the reissue of this work by Bohn. This edition is VERY SCARCE. 1 130 Warton (Thomas). History of English Poetry, with Dissertations ; and numerous Additional Notes by Ritson, Dr. Ashby, Douce, Park, etc. Superintended by the late Richard Price from the edition of 1824, and now further improved by the Corrections and Additions of several Eminent Antiquaries. Portrait. 4 vols. 8vo, tree calf extra, marbled edges, by Riviere. London, 1840 Best edition; scarce. ' ' A most curious, valuable, and interesting history. " — Lowndes. 1131 Wheaton (Henry). History of the Northmen; or, Danes and Normans. 8vo, half morocco, cloth sides. Phila., 1 83 1 Very scarce. ' ' Evincing throughout the enthusiasm of an anti- quarian, the liberality of a scholar, and the enlightened toleration of a citizen of the world." — Washington Irving. 11 32 Whewell (WiHiam). History of the Inductive Sciences from the Earliest to the Present Times, 3 vols., and Phil- THE FARNUM LIBRARY. 303 osophy of the Inductive Sciences, Founded upon their History, 2 vols. Together 5 vols, boards, uncut. London, Parker, 1837-40 " The ablest historian of natural science." — Richard Owen. " We earnestly recommend it to our readers." — Edinburgh Review. "Mr. Whewell's learned work on the History of the Inductive Sciences." — Lord Brougham. 1 133 White (Rev. Gilbert). Natural History and Antiqui- ties of Selborne; with the Naturalists' Calendar; and Miscellaneous Observations Extracted from his Papers. A New Edition with Notes by Edward Turner Bennett and others. Numerous highly-finished woodcuts by Yi.k'&'^-£.\, T. Bewick, etc. 8vo, calf extra, gilt edges by Hayday. London, [1837] Scarce. A beautiful copy printed at the Chiswick Press, by C. Whittingham . ' ' Who can read without the most exquisite delight White's ' History of Selborne.' " — Blackwood's Magazine. 1 134 White (Rev. James). History of France, from the Earliest Times to 1848. Royal 8vo, cloth. N. Y., 1859 Lord Brougham presented this eminent author to a good church living in Suffolk, which he gave up to devote himself to literary pur- suits. 113s Whitelocke. Memoirs Biographical and Historical of BuLSTRODE Whitelocke, Lord Commissioner of the High Seal and Ambassador at the Court of Sweden at the Period of the Commonwealth. Portrait. 8vo, cloth, uncut. London, i860 A very valuable and interesting piece of history. The conversations of the author with Cromwell and the Swedish authorities are highly curious, and are reported in an easy, life-like style. 1 1 36 Whitman (Walt). Leaves of Grass. Portrait. lamo, cloth. Boston, 1860-61 A greatly enlarged edition. ' ' Mr. O'Connor's pamphlet [ubi supra) ' boldly pits Walt Whitman not only against all the poets of the day, but demands for him place and rank beside the great masters, vEschylus, Homer, Dante and Shakespeare.' It proclaims him the inspired bard and inspired prophet of his era." — Allibone. 1137 Whitman (Sarah Helen). Hours of Life, and other Poems. i2mo, cloth. Providence, 1853 Containing poems not in the next edition. 304 THE FARNUM LIBRARY. 1 138 Whittier (John Greenleaf). Poems, i.e. : I. Whittier. Maud MuUer. With illustrations by W. J. Hennessy. Boston, 1867 II. Whittier. Snow-Bound, a Winter Idyl. With illustra- tions. Boston, 1868 With inserted letter from W. J. Hennessy, the artist. III. Whittier. Ballads of New England. With illustra- tions. Boston, 1870 Together 3 vols. 8vo, cloth, gilt, bevelled sides, gilt EDGES. Boston, 1867-70 " His poetry bursts from the soul with the fire and energy of an ancient prophet. And his noble simplicity of character is the delight of all who know him." — William Ellery Channing. 1 139 Whole Duty of Man laid down in a Plain and Familiar Way for the Use of All, but especially the Meanest Reader, with Private Devotions for Several Occasions. A New Edition, with Preface by Hawkins. Illustrated title. i2mo, cloth, uncut. London, Wm. Pickering, 1842 Printed by Charles Whittingham, Chiswick. Allibone says that the question of who was the writer of the " Whole Duty of Man," like the authorship of the " Icon Basilike," and of the " Letters of Junius," may still be considered an open one. He quotes Isaac Disraeli : " The author still remains undiscovered. Millions of his books have been dispersed in the Christian world. " 1 140 Wightwick (G.). Palace of Architecture ; a Romance of Art and History, with Glossary, a Popular Introduction to all the varieties of Architecture, Ancient and Modern. With numerous fine engravings. 4to, cloth, uncut. London, James Fraser, 1840 Large paper, uncut. This handsome volume is illustrated with 67 page-plates and 143 wood engravings. 1 141 Wilkes (C.). Narrative of the United States Exploring Expedition. During the Years 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841 and 1842. By Charles Wilkes, U. S. N., Commander of the Expedition. Illustrated with 64 large and highly- finished line engravings, comprising scenery, portraits, manners, cus- toms, etc.; 47 large and fine vignettes engraved on steel ; 248 choice engravings on wood, and 9 tnaps. 6 vols. 4to, cloth, uncut. Phila., Lea b' Blaruhard, 1845 A Large paper, and original subscriber's copy. This great and truly national work will compare favorably with the best En- glish editions of similar works. THE FARNUM LIBRARY. 305 1 142 Wilkinson (Sir G-)- Ancient Egyptians, the Manners and Customs of. Both series complete. With numerous engravings, many of which are colored. 6 vols. 8vo, calf extra, gilt leaves. London, 1837-41 Best edition, very fine copy, and very scarce. With all the plates. " Indefatigable in research, full of learning, accurate in facts. Sir Gardiner Wilkinson has at the same time treated his subject with the enthusiasm of genius and liveliness of poetry." 1 143 Williams (Roger, of Providence in New England"). Ex- periments of Spirituall Life and Health and their Preserv- atives, in which the Weakest Child of God may get Assur- ance of his Spiritual Life and Blessednesse, and the Strayed may finde proportionable Discoveries of his Chris- tian Growth and the Means of It. 4to, boards. London, 1652 Only a limited edition of this facsimile reprint was published, with a four-page preface by " F. W.," and dated " Providence, December 1st, 1862." With inserted view of memorial monument to Roger Williams. 1 144 Williams. Life of Roger Williams, the Earliest Legis- lator and True Champion for a Full and Absolute Liberty of Conscience. By Romeo Elton, D D., etc. i6mo, cloth. Providence, 1853 "The ever- venerated Roger Williams, the great champion of toler- ation." — Archbishop Whately. 1 145 Willis (George, late of the firm of Willis and Sotheran). Current Notes. For years 1851 to 1857, inclusive. 7 vols, in 2, 4to, half morocco, top edge gilt. London, G. Willis, 1851-57 This valuable magazine mainly consists of articles on Antiquities, Biography, Heraldry, History, Language, Literature, Natural His- tory, Topography, etc. , selected from original letters and documents addressed to the editor, who was a man of considerable literary attain- ments—see AUibone's "Dictionary of Authors," article "George Willis," p. 2756. It contains many unpublished letters of Sir W. Scott, Coleridge, Byron, Theodore Hook, etc., and an immense num- ber of curious inedited articles on Literature and Antiquities by eminent literary men. George Willis was at one time a partner of Henry Sotheran, of London, the compiler's uncle and the head of the ' large publishing and bibliopolistic firm of Henry Sotheran and Co., of London and Manchester, England. In No. XL., p. 32, Mr. Willis makes the following allusion to Lawrence Sterne's Library in con- nection with his partner's great-uncle, Henry Sotheran : — "No sooner was he [Sterne] dead than his widow, to raise means, sold his books 3o6 THE FARNUM LIBRARY. to Todd and Sotheran, booksellers at York, and their shop catalogue, printed in 1768, ostentatiously announced in the title, it contained 'the library of Lawrence Sterne, M.A., Prebendary of York, and author of ' Tristram Shandy.' " This Henry Sotheran was a son of the Lord of the Manor of Oswaldkirk, Yorkshire — vide Joseph Fos- ter's "County Families of Yorkshire" — and was the father of the Henry Sotheran of York who is given in AUibone's valuable work as the author of a work on that city published in 1796. — C. S. 1146 Willis, N. P. American Scenery. Illustrated in a Series of Views by W. H. Bartlett {some foxed). 4to, half mo- rocco gilt, cloth sides, gilt edges. London, George Virtue, n. d. Early impressions of the picturesque plates. 1147 Wilson (James). The Rod and the Gun: being Two Treatises on Angling and Shooting. Plates and cuts (some foxed). i2mo, cloth, uncut. Edinburgh, 1841 This work was written by James Wilson, F. R.S.E., and by the author of " The Oakleigh Shooting Code." 1 148 Wilson (R. A.). A New History of the Conquest of Mexico, in which Las Casas's Denunciation of the popular Histo- rians of that War are fully Vindicated. Illustrated. Royal Svo, cloth. Phila., 1859 ' ' This work, written with zeal which often degenerates into vehe- mence, is an arraignment of the Spanish historians, from whom all the current notions of the Spanish invaders have been acquired." — Field. 1 149 Wilson (Prof.). Works. Edited by his Son-in-law, Prof. Ferrier. 12 vols, crown Svo, half calf gilt, contents lettered. Edinburgh, 1855-58 Comprises : Noctes Ainbrosianse, 4 vols. ; Essays, 4 vols. ; Recrea- tions of Christopher North, 2 vols. ; Tales, i vol. ; Poems, i vol. ' ' It (the Noctes) is a most singular and delightful outpouring of criticism, politics and description of feeling, character and scenery, of verse and prose, and maudlin eloquence, and especially of wild fun. It breathes the very essence of the BacchanaUan revel of clever men. And its Scotch is the very best Scotch that has been vmtten in modern times." — Lord Cockburn. 1 150 WiLLOUGHBY (Lady). Diaries. Both Series. With two coats of arms and splendidly printed with large antique type, on thick paper by C. Whittingham. 2 vols. 4to, tree marbled calf extra, marbled edges. London, 1844-48 Large paper and very scarce in this size. These curious Diaries, which were written by Hannah Mary Rath- bone, illustrate the Domestic History and the eventful and stirring THE FARNUM LIBRARY. 307 periods of the Reign of Charles I., the Commonwealth and the Restor- ation. " A work of Fiction of great interest and of great beauty." — Hood's Magazine. 1151 WiNCKELMANN (John). History of Ancient Art, translated from the German, by G. Henry Lodge, with the Life of WiNCKELMANN by the Editor. Steel portrait and plates. Vols. I and 2. Royal 8vo, cloth, uncut. Boston, 1849-56 Large paper. " Winckelmann has pointed out the true source of the study of antiquity, which is the knowledge of art, and which no writer had before successfully accomplished. " — Chalmers. 1152 WiNCKELMANN. The Same. 4 vols, in 2. Portrait and plates. 8vo, cloth gilt, top edge gilt. Boston, 1880 1153 Windham (Rt. Hon. William). Speeches in Parliament; with Life by Amyot. Portrait. 3 vols. 8vo, calf, gilt, marbled edges. London, 1812 With inserted autograph of WiNDHAM, whom Macaulay called — " the finest gentleman of the age," and Lord Jeffrey styled — " the most high-minded and incorruptible of living men." 1 154 WiNSOR (Justin). The Memorial History of Boston, in- cluding Suffolk County, Massachusetts, 1630-1880. Edited by Justin Winsor, Librarian of Harvard University. Issued under the Superintendence of the Projector. Pro- fusely illustrated with plates and wood engravings of por- traits and views, facsimiles, maps, etc. 4 vols, 4to, fresh half morocco, top edges gilt, others uncut. Boston, James R. Osgood, 1881 Subscriber's copy. "The scheme of this history originated with Mr. Clarence F. Jewett, who, towards the end of December, 1879, entrusted the further development of the plan to the Editor (Mr Justin Winsor). On the third of January following, about thirty gentlemen met upon invitation to give countenance to the undertaking, and at this meeting a committee was appointed to advise with the Editor during the progress of the work. This committee consisted of the Rev. Edward E. Hale, D.D., Samuel A. Green, M.D., and Charles Deane, LL.D."— Fi!,& Preface. 1 155 WiNTHROP (John). New England and Life and Let- ters, i. e.: — I. WiNTHROP. The History of New England from 1630 to 1849, by John Winthrop, from his Original Manu- scripts. With Notes to illustrate the Civil and Ecclesias- tical Concerns, the Geography, Settlement and Institu- 3o8 THE FARNUM LIBRARY. tions of the Country, and the Lives and Manners of the Principal Planters, by James Savage. Portrait. 2 vols. Boston, Little, Brown dr" Co., 1853 A new edition, with additions and corrections by the former editor. II. WiNTHROP. Life and Letters of John Winthrop, Governor of Massachusetts Bay Company at their Emi- gration to New England in 1630. By Robert C. Win- throp. Portrait. Boston, Ticknor &= Fields, 1864 Together 3 vols, royal Svo, uniform boards, uncut. Boston, 1854-64 "The elder Winthrop has left an imperishable monument in his an- nals, and the laborious and learned annotations of Mr. Savage have rendered that work, as published in 1825-6, and still more in the new edition of 1853, a complete storehouse of our early New England his- tory." 1156 Withers (George). Hymns and Songs of the Church and Hallelujah. Portraits. 2 vols, post Svo, cloth, uncut. London, John Russell Smith, 1856-57 Withers was committed to the Marshalsea for writing some spirited satires. He continued in prison for several months, and where he com- posed some of his best works; among others his "Shepherd's Hunt- ing." 1157 [WoLCOTT (John, M.D., Peter Pindar)^ The Works of Peter Pindar, Esq., to which are prefixed Memoirs of the Author's Life, with Copious Index. Fine portrait by Heath {foxed). 5 vols. 8vo, calf gilt. London, 181 2 Best edition of Peter Pindar, whom Scott called — " the most un- sparing calumniator of his age," and who was described by Giflord as — *' A bloated mass, a gross, blood-boltered clod, A foe to man, a renegade from God, From noxious childhood to pernicious age, Separate to infamy in every stage." 1 158 WoLSEY (Cardinal). Life of, by George Cavendish, with Notes and Illustrations by S. W. Singer. Portraits and plates by Scriven. 2 vols. 8vo, polished calf extra, marbled edges, by Riviere. Chiswick, from the Press of C. Whittingham, 1825 Very Scarce. First and best edition. Cavendish was Wolsey's gentleman usher. 1 159 WooLSEY (Theodore D.). Introduction to the Study of International Law. Crown Svo, cloth. N. Y., 1877 Designed as an aid in teaching and in historical studies. THE FARNUM LIBRARY. 309 1 160 Wood (Anthony k) Athene Oxonienses: an exact His- tory of all the Writers and Bishops who have had their education in the University of Oxford; to which are added the Fasti, or Annals of the said University; new edition with additions, and a Continuation by Dr. P. Bliss. 4 vols, royal 4to, calf gilt. London, 1813-20 A fine copy. "Anthony has sallies at times to which a dull man could not be subject; without the ardor of this hermit of literature, where would be our literary history." — Isaac D'Israeli. Dr. Bliss has added so much to this valuable work that it is doubled in interest and value. It is now very scarce. No copy has occurred for sale, during many years. "All hail to thee, old Anthony i Wood! May the remembrance of thy researches, amidst thy paper and parchment documents, stored up in chests, pews, and desks, and upon which, alas! the moth was ' feed- ing sweetly ' — may the remembrance of these, thy laborious researches, always excite sensations of gratitude towards the spirit by which they were directed! " His diction he himself describes as — " an honest plain English dress, without flourishes or affectation of style, as best becomes a history of truth and matter of fact." It is the first (work) of its nature that has ever been printed in our own, or any other, mother-tongue. 116 1 Woodburn's Gallery of Rare Portraits. 200 fine original portraits of celebrated English Personages, engraved by Els- TRAKE, Faithorne, Loggan, Hollar, White, etc. 2 vols, folio, red morocco extra, gilt edges. London, 1816 Large paper, and published at twenty guineas. This valuable and extensive collection is important for illustrating Granger, Clarendon, Burnet, Pennant, and other historical writers. 1162 Wood Engravings. — A collection of nearly 800 WOOD-ENGRAVINGS OF THE CHOICEST VARIETY BY THE BEST MASTERS OF THE ART OF WOOD-ENGRAVING, IN- CLUDING Anderson, Bewick, Geibitz, etc., among the MODERN ARTISTS ALSO RARE EARLY GERMAN WOOD- ENGRAVINGS BY DURER, BURGKMAIR AND OTHER ME- DIAEVAL ARTISTS, MANY OF WHICH ARE PROOFS AND MANY ARE ON India paper. They embrace all kinds of SUBJECTS and soMe ARE COLORED. Thick folio, russia, gilt (one cover nearly loose). A VERY REMARKABLE, VALUABLE, and INTERESTING UNIQUE COL- LECTION, giving examples of the works of the best-known engravers on wood and being an extraordinary selection suitable for the study of the history of the art. 3IO THE FARNUM LIBRARY. 1 1 63 [Woodward (W. E.).J Records of Salem Witchcraft, Copied from the Original Documents. 2 vols., 4to, half morocco, uncut.' Roxbury, Mass., 1864 No. 84 of limited — " edition 215 copies, of which 15 are on large paper." 1 164 Worcester. Life, Times, and Scientific Labors of the Marquis or Worcester, to which is added a Reprint of his Century of Inventions, with a Commentary thereon, by Henry Dircks, Civil Engineer, etc. Illustrated with fine portraits and numerous wood engravings. India Proofs before the letters of the portraits. 4to, half morocco, gilt, top edge gilt, others uncut. London, Quaritch, 1865 Large paper, and only 30 copies printed. The Marquis of Wor- cester was one of the most prominent historical characters among the adherents of Charles I., and at the same time the greatest engineer of his age. The Marquis of Worcester's ' ' Century of Inventions " has been for 200 years an English household book ; but, in spite of the many edi- tions, it has always been difficult to obtain a copy. In the above vol- ume the '^ Century of Inventions" is reprinted in facsimile from the first edition, with a running commentary. 1 165 Wordsworth (Christopher). Greece ; Pictorial, De- scriptive, AND Historical ; and a History of the Char- acteristics of Greek Art by George Scharf, F.S.A. Profusely illustrated, upwards of three hundred and fifty engravings on wood and twenty-eight on steel, by Fielding, Creswick, Harvey, Paul, Huet, Daubigny, etc., etc. 4to, calf extra, gilt edges. London, 1840 A FINE COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION With PROOF BEFORE LETTERS IMPRESSIONS of the very beautiful plates. "A standard work of Hellenic lore." ri66 WoRNUM (R. N.). Epochs of Painting; a Biographical and Critical Essay on Painting and Painters. With 40 en- gravings. Thick 8vo, cloth, uncut. London, 1864 " The writer of this book may fairly say that he has produced an opus magnum. It is crammed with matter, judicious in method and punctilious in detail." — London Reader. 1 167 Worth (Gorham A.). Random Recollections of Albany, from 1800 to 1808. Third edition with Notes by the Pub- lisher. Portraits and views. 4to, sewed, uncut. Albany, Munsell, 1866 Large paper, and of which only a limited edition was printed. THE FARNUM LIBRARY. 311 1 168 Wraxall (Sir N.William, ^d!/-/'.). Historical Memoirs of his Own Time, 1772-84. Portrait. 2 vols. 8vo, calf gilt, marbled edges. London, 1815 Very scarce. First edition of this most amusing and curious work, which was suppressed, containing particulars for which the author was prosecuted, which were omitted in the second edition. It is full of the most amusing anecdotes of the celebrities of the last century. 1169 Wright (Thomas, F.S.A.). Caricature History of the Georges, or Annals of the House of Hanover, compiled from the Squibs, Broadsides, Window Pictures, Lampoons and Pictorial Caricatures of the Time. With nearly 400 illustrations on steel and wood— front, colored. 4to, half mor., Roxburghe style, gilt top edge, others uncut. London, n. d. Large paper edition of loo copies only, with additional portraits of James Gillray, the caricaturist, and .Pitt, Earl of Chatham. " Emphatically one of the liveliest of books, as also one of the most interesting. Has the twofold merit of being at once amusing and edifying. " — Morning Post. 1 170 Wright. England under the House of Hanover: its History and Condition during the Reign of the Three Georges. Illustrated from the Caricatures and Satires of the day, engraved on wood by T. W. Fairholt. 2 vols. 8vo, cloth, uncut. London, Bentley, 1848 The original edition of this work, since reissued under the title of "Caricature History of the Georges," and is now very scarce. It abounds in curious and valuable information. 1 17 1 Wright. Womankind in Western Europe, from the Earliest Times to the Seventeenth Century. Illustrated by \x chromo-lithographic plates and numerous highly- finished woodcuts. Small 4to, cloth, bevelled sides, gilt edges. London, 1869 " The volume is quite an encyclopaedia on a special subject." ' ' An elaborate and careful summary of all that one of our most learned antiquaries, after years of pleasant labor on a very pleasant subject, has been able to learn as to the condition of women from the earliest period. " — London Times. 1 1 72 Wright. Biographia Britannica Litteraria, or Biography of Literary Characters of Great Britain and Ireland, in Chro- nological Order. 2 vols. 8vo, cloth, uncut. 1842-6 This valuable work, which comprehends the Anglo-Saxon and the Anglo-Norman periods, was published under the superintendence of the Council of the Royal Society of Literature. 312 THE FARNUM LIBRARY. 1 173 Wright. History of Caricature and Grotesque in Literature and Art. Handsomely printed, and illustrated with engravings on wood, drawn and engraved by F. W. Fairholt. Square 8vo, cloth, bevelled sides, red edges. London, 1865 "A learned, entertaining and instructive book." — London Art Journal. 1 174 Wright. Narratives of Sorcery and Magic, from the most Authentic Sources. 2 vols, crown Bvo, half red calf. London, 1851 ' ' This is one of the pleasantest books about witchcraft that we have ever read." — London Athenaum. 1 1 75 Wright. History of Domestic Manners and Sentiments in England during the Middle Ages. With illustrations from contemporary illuminations drawn and engraved by F. W. Fairholt. 4to, cloth, uncut. London. Chapman &= Hall, 1862 ' ' This book is one which is indispensable for an historical or archaeo- logical library. " — London Saturday Review. 1 1 76 Wright. Black Letter Series, viz.: — I. The Turnament of Totenham and the Fees — two early Ballads Printed from a Manuscript preserved in the Pub- lic Library in the University of Cambridge. IL The Nutbrowne Maid, from the earHest edition of Arnold's Chronicle. III. Songs and Carols, printed from a Manuscript in the Sloane Collection in the British Museum. IV. The Tale of the Basyn, and the Frere and the Boy. Two early Tales of Magic, printed from Manuscripts pre- served in the Public Library of the University of Cam- bridge. Together 4 vols, with prefaces by Thomas Wright and vignettes. 32MO, half morocco, uncut, Rox- burghe style. London, William Pickering, 1836 Extremely scarce. Elegantly printed in black letter by Whit- tingham, at the Chiswick Press. It is asserted in the Fowle Catalogue that only lOO copies of these beautiful little volumes were printed. 1 177 Wright (Thomas) ««