BOOKSELLERS' Catalogues.

PLEASANT it is to leave the daily press for a while, with its accounts of wars and rumours of wars, and quietly to turn over the pages of these new catalogues.

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Mr. Cleaver, of Bath, has the original issue of Punch, 1841-1902, 251.; The Royal Military Chronicle,' 1811-15, with portraits, 27. 108.; The Battle Abbey Roll,' 1889; Costumes,' 1802-18, 6 vols.; Shelley's Essays,' Moxon, 1840; several sets of the Antiquarian Itinerary'; and a number of works on Somerset, Hampshire, Berkshire, and Scotland. From Mr. Dobell's good general list we pick out the following:-A folio Shakespeare, 135., Thos. Cotes for Robert Allot, 1632; Fleay's London Stage'; 'Omar Khayyam, Edward FitzGerald's fourth (and final) version, 41. 48., 1879; FitzGerald's Poems,' 31. 38., presentation copy; FitzGerald's 'Literary Remains, édition de luxe, 41. 48.; Coleridge's paper the Friend, Nos. 1 to 27 (all published), and The Plot Discovered,' original edition, very rare; Dr. Syntax in Paris,' 1820; and 'Life of Blake,' first edition.

We have from Mr. Francis Edwards one of his "short lists," in which we find Adam's work on 'Architecture' (1778-1822), price 107. 10s.; New France,' by Charlevoix, translated by Dr. Shea; Dumas's Celebrated Crimes,' 8 vols., 1895; Fletcher's English and Foreign Bookbindings'; Foster's Miniature Painters'; Garnier's 'Soft Porcelain of Sèvres'; Perrot and Chipiez's History of Ancient Art'; Roberts's' Memorials of Christie's'; Racinet's Le Costume Historique,' 20.; and Fauna Japonica' (Leyden, 1833-50), 377. 108.

Messrs. George's Sons, of Bristol, have a list in cluding Dr. Grosart's private issues, works on ceramics, architecture, and drama.

Mr. Charles Higham's catalogue dated the 20th inst. contains a large collection of theological works, those specially Roman Catholic occupying eighteen pages.

Mr. Macphail, of Edinburgh, has a first edition of Kay's 'Original Portraits, 1837. This is a good sound copy and contains upwards of 400 portraits, price 41. 178. 6d. There is also Nisbet's Heraldry, in perfect condition, 77. 15s.; this has the full complement of the rare 53 large full-page plates. Slezer's Theatrum Scotia,' 1814, a very choice copy, is 6 guineas. A complete set of the Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, from its commencement in 1851 to 1900, 34 vols., is 107. 10s.; and Archeologia, from 1800 to 1844, 27. 158. There are also many interesting items classed as Jacobite, Edinburgh, Highland, Occult, &c.

Messrs. Maggs, of the Strand, have a list of engraved portraits and decorative engravings in mezzotint, stipple, and line.

Messrs. James Rimell & Son have an interesting catalogue of engravings after many well-known artists, including Lawrence, Reynolds, Morland, and Stothard, also chromolithographs by the Arundel Society, at low prices.

Messrs. Sotheran's list is dated the 10th. In this the Times reprint of the Encyclopædia Britannica' is offered for 217., 35 vols., including index, as new. A note informs us that the Times cash price is 57. net. Another copy is to be had for 26. This is half-morocco extra. The Times price for this is given at 797. net. We notice a copy of Pickering's

exquisite Diamond Edition of Shakespeare, 9 vols., 48mo, calf extra, 1825, 37. 3s., scarce. The catalogue also includes a choice set, to 1897, of the Shropshire Archæological Society's Transactions, 201.; Alesius, Responsio ad Cochlæi Calumnias,' 16. 16s. (this is excessively rare, and there is no copy in the British Museum); and Transactions of the Biblical Archeological Society, 21 vols. A large portion of the catalogue is devoted to works on theology and philosophy, some of them very rare. Under Political and Social Economy we find John Bright, Canning, Cobden, Grattan; the Economic Journal, 13 vols.; Mayhew's 'London Labour and the London Poor'; an extensive collection of Remarkable Trials,' 68 vols., 1757-1857, 557. General Literature includes Milton's Paradise Lost,' the rare first edition, S. Simmons, 1668, 307.; Stow's 'London,' 1720, and another copy, 1754-5; George Smith's Household Furniture,' 1808, very scarce; Bon Ton Magazine, 6 vols., 1818-21; the first English translation of Seneca, 1581, very rare, 77. 10s. ; a choice copy of Stirling-Maxwell's Annals of the Artists of Spain,' first edition, 1848; Life of Stothard.' with personal reminiscences, by Mrs. Bray, 200 engravings, 1851; Thackeray's Vanity Fair, first edition, 1848, scarce, 67. 158.; Tuer's History of the Hornbook'; and The Turner Gallery,' 1859-61. Not the least interesting item is Charles Molloy Westmacott's The English Spy,' 1825-6, 2 vols., bound in crushed crimson Levant morocco extra by Riviere, 307.

Mr. Winter, Charing Cross Road, has a collection of Latin, French, and Italian MSS. among his recent purchases. His catalogue contains a good general list-among other items, first edition of Ingoldsby; The Social Day,' by Peter Cox, with water-colour painting on the fore edges; Martin Chuzzlewit,' first edition, &c.

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