BOOKSELLERS' CATALOGUES.-DECEMBER. MR. G. H. BROWN'S Catalogue 54 opens with Ackermann's Colleges,' 4to, calf, 1816, 251.; and Westminster Abbey,' 2 vols., 4to, morocco, 1813, 47. 108. Adam's Architecture,' 2 vols., folio, 1900, is 71. 10s. Under Ainsworth is the first edition of Jack Sheppard,' 3 vols., 1839, original cloth, uncut, 61. 158. Under Blake is Swinburne's essay, original cloth, 1868, 21. 28. The 1757 edition of Boccaccio is 71. 10s. Under Bookbinding is Fletcher's Foreign Bookbindings in the British Museum,' 21. 108. The original edition of Brookshaw's 'Pomona,' folio, morocco, 1812, is 7l. 108. Under Costumes is Bounard's work, 3 vols., 4to, morocco, 1860, 41. 108. There is a complete set of Edwards's Botanical Register. Under Heraldic is Dunn's Visitations of Wales,' 2 vols., 4to, 1846, in the original cloth, 131. 108.; and under India, Forrest's Ganges,' 4to, 1824, 31. 108. There are choice copies of La Fontaine. Under Charles Lamb is the Edition de Luxe, 12 vols., 1899, 6l. 10s. ; under Lavater, Hunter's Translation, 5 vols., 4to, Stockdale, 1810, 37. 108. ; and under Lytton the Edition de Luxe, 32 vols., 151. There is a fine library set of Jesse's Historical Works, 30 vols., half-calf, with full indexes, illustrations on Japan paper, 1901, 151. Among French works are Lacroix's Moyen Age et la Renaissance,' 5 vols., 4to, Paris, 1848, 61. 10s.; Pottier's Monuments Français,' 2 vols., folio, morocco, 1839, 71. 108. ; and Racinet's La Costume Historique,' 6 vols., folio, Paris, 1888, 221. 10s. Under Kent are the works of Harris, Greenwood, and Ireland. Mr. Charles F. Sawyer's List 23 contains an extra-illustrated copy of the Library Edition of Jesse's London,' extended to 6 volumes inlaid to 4to size, 571. Other works extra-illustrated are Jesse's Celebrated Etonians,' 2 large handsome volumes, 91. 108.; Braybrooke's Pepys,' presentation copy, 4 vols., 107. 108.; Nollekens and his Times,' 81. 8s. ; and Thornbury's 'Turner,' 71. 108. All these are handsomely bound. Under the Kit Cat Club is the complete set of 48 portraits, early copy, 751. Boydell's own copy of The River Thames,' 1794, is 211. Under Versailles is the historical series of French Court Memoirs, 18 vols., 7. 12s. 6d. (only 800 sets issued). There is a collection of nearly 1,400 playbills, 127. 128. ; and a handsome set in full calf of Inchbald's 'British Theatre,' 42 vols., 1808-15, 77. 12s. 6d. Under Eikon Basilike' is a fine tall copy of the first edition, 1649, 21. 78. 6d. ; and under Gibbon the best edition of the Decline and Fall,' 8 vols., levant, 5l. 178. 6d. There is a fine set of Grote's Greece' from the library of Dr. Hornby, 12 vols., calf, 61. 68. Under Oxford is Malton's series of aquatints, picked impressions, folio, 1802-3, 61. 108. Under Dickens is the large-type Library Edition, 30 vols., original green cloth, 77. 108. Some relic-hunter may like to be possessed of the author's gun for 451. It has his name engraved, also that of J. Forster; and inside the case Dickens has written his first Christian name and A humorous reference to this gun is to be found in a letter of his to Wilkie Collins, 24 Oct., 1860. Dickens, who was but a cockney sportsman," exclaimed on one occasion, having missed again: "All the demned rabbits are two inches too small." surname in full. Mr. D. Webster's Leeds Catalogue contains a series of hand-coloured engravings of cities and towns of Spain and her Colonial possessions in the sixteenth century, many bearing dates of that period; each measures 23 inches by 19 inches. The colouring is brilliant; the plates are in a fine state, and can be had separately. The books include Spedding's Bacon,' 7 vols., cloth, 21. 158.; Copinger's Bible and its Transmission,' 1897, 31. 108. (presentation copy to Archbishop Maclagan with his book-plate); and Early English Prose Romances,' ornamented by Harold Nelson, 3 vols., as new, 10s. (limited to 500 copies on hand-made paper). Under Pater are first editions, including Appreciations,' 11. 68. There is a set of The Anglo-Saxon Review, 10 vols., super-royal 8vo, full morocco, 1899-1901, 37. 158. Messrs. Henry Young & Sons' Liverpool Catalogue CCCCXVII. contains choice coloured plate books, including a collection of original caricatures by Gillray, 951. Under Rowlandson are first editions of Dr. Syntax,' 281., and 'Sketches of Scarborough,' 71. 78. Among many choice items under Cruikshank is Napoleon,' by Combe, 15l. 15s. Other works are the first edition of Bacon's Henry VII.,' tall clean copy, 91. 98. ; and original subscription copies of Bewick's Fables, and Select Fables,' 2 vols., 12. 128. (these contain Bewick's receipt). There is a beautiful set of Byron, with Life by Moore and the first edition of the Finden plates, 17 vols., calf, 1832-3, 127. 128. Much of interest will be found under London, including a unique copy of Shepherd's World's Metropolis,' the 105 views being painted by hand, vols., half-morocco, 1851, 57. 58. Under Painters is the first edition of Walpole's Anecdotes,' all the plates proofs on India paper, 5 vols., calf, 1828, 16. 16s. There is a set of Scott, 100 vols., half-morocco, 1829-39, 251. Under Tennyson are the first editions of Poems,' 1830, 1833, and 1842, 4 vols., green levant, 217. There are bargains for book-collectors, and some fine old portraits. [Notices of other Catalogues held over.] Notices to Correspondents. We must call special attention to the following notices: ON all communications must be written the name and address of the sender, not necessarily for publication, but as a guarantee of good faith. WE beg leave to state that we decline to return communications which, for any reason, we do not print, and to this rule we can make no exception. EDITORIAL Communications should be addressed to "The Editor of Notes and Queries '"-Adver tisements and Business Letters to "The Publishers"-at the Office, Bream's Buildings, Chancery Lane, E.C. INDEX. ELEVENTH SERIES.-VOL. II. [For classified articles, see ANONYMOUS WORKS, BIBLIOGRAPHY, Books RECENTLY PUBLISHED, A. (B. H.) on royal tombs at St. Denis, 449 A. (H.) on Christopher Moore, 88 A. (J.) on slavery in Scotland, 374 A. (M.) on Epitaphiana, 524 Onion, its pronunciation, 14 Rush (Sir W. B.), Bt., 49 Abbé Se...., c. 1720, book collector, 47, 173 Abbreviations in writing, scheme of, 429 Abrahams (Aleck) on Apsley House, 486 66 Bibliography of London, 53, 191 Haydon (B. R.) and Shelley, 53 Moving pictures in Fleet Street, 456 Railways and motor-cars in 1838, 284 'St. James's Chronicle,' 475 St. Pancras Church: engraving, 56 Stone in Pentonville Road, 156 Tygris, a London subterranean river, 209 Addleshaw (Percy) on scissors and jaws, 497 Advertisements, early, from London Gazette,' 203 Aislabie (William), Westminster scholar, 429, 473 Aldermen of London, dates of death, 27 Aldgate, Thomas Percy, Prior of Holy Trinity, 85 Aldworth (Geoffry), King's musician, 268 Alexander III. (Pope), and King Henry II., Alexandrines in Shakespeare, 309, 417 Alfieri (Count Vittorio), visit to England, c. 1771, Alford (Dean Henry), edition of his poems, 108, 159 Allen (Archdeacon Fifield), his marriage, 449, 517 Alleyn (Sir John), d. 1545, his biography, 88, Allport on Falkland Islands: Capt. Durie, 288 Altham (James), Westminster scholar, 1713, 429 'Alumni Oxonienses,' conjectural amendments, 25 Hunter (Governor) of New York, 447 Antiquities,' 282 Picturesque Daniel Robert Mackenzie), novelist, 167 'Letters by an American Spy,' 427 Mathematical periodicals: C. and G. Hut- Municipal records printed, 530 Oatcake and whisky as Eucharistic element 3, Peters (Father) and Queen Mary, 107 Shaving Them,' by Titus A. Brick, 27 Anglo-Spanish author in Borrow's' Bible in Spain,' Anonymous Works:- Arno Miscellany, 1784, 148, 234, 293 Jane Shore, 1836, 66, 116, 238 Julian's Vision, 189 Lay of St. Aloys, 388 Notes from the Diary of a Coroner's Clerk, Old Wishart's Grave, story in verse, 327 Reverberations, 68, 111, 134 Shaving Them, 27 Tit for Tat, American novel, 1855, 489 World, poem, 1835, 408 Anscombe (A.) on Edward = Iorwerth, 34 Unecungga: Ynetunga, 143, 272, 473 Ansgar, Master of the Horse to Edward the Apperson (G. L.) on Sir John Ivory, 195 Municipal records printed, 287 Apple tree flowering in autumn, 149, 199 Apps (G. J.), oil picture Returning from Church,' 329 Apsley House, date of its purchase, 486 Arabian horses in pre-Mohammedan days, 71 Aravamuthan (T. G.) on ‘Pride and Prejudice,' 147 Archæology, excavations in the Sudan, 108, 235 Archer (H. G.) on Alfieri in England, 421 Archibald (R. C.) on Col. T. Condon: Capt. T. Mellish, 127 Ladies and University degrees, 247 Ardea on battle of Dunbar, 301 Audley (Sir Henry). See Dudley. Austen (Canon G.) on St. Hilda: St. John del Austen (Jane), calendar mistake in Pride and Austin (H. D.) on Artephius, ' De Characteribus Austin (Roland) on Sir Robert Atkyns, 474 Katherine Parr (Queen), 359 Windsor stationmaster, 114 Avenger, H.M.S., lost 1847, its crew, 130, 239, 294 pioneer airmen, 385, 437 deaths of Axon (W. E. A.) on Amulet against Sickness,' 521 De Quincey and Coleridge, 228 Shorthand teacher in A.D. 155, 285 Shropshire newspaper printed in London, 26 B. on Sydney Smith and Spencer Perceval, 267 B. (C. C.) on Dean Alford's poems, 159 Bael: Bhel: Bel, 426 Gale," 417 Clergy retiring from the dinner table, 136 Merluche, 92 Moses and Pharaoh's daughter, 152 Peony-royal, 308 Shakespeariana, 77 Staple in place-names, 192 Tennyson: oorali, 453 curious rimes to "joy," 426 Wordsworth: variant readings, 294 B. (E. A.) on The Buccaneer,' 308 Arden of Feversham,' emendations in, 226, 337, B. (E. G.) on sparrow-blasted, 392 417 Aristophanes, music to, in Greek MS., 7, 76 Arlette and Robert, Duke of Normandy, 347, Armada, Sir A. Standen on its preparation, 33 Artephius, De Characteribus Planetarum,' 407 Arundel (Earl of), brother and uncle arrested, Ashton (James), Westminster scholar, 1739, 449 Astarte on corpse bleeding in presence of the "Storm in a teacup," 131 Astley (Sir Jacob), Royalist, his portrait, 307 Atkinson (E.) on Corio arms, 89 Atkyns (Sir Robert), K.B., his marriage, 429, 474 Attár on 46 Fern to make malt," 279 B. (G. F. R.) on Godfreys at Westminster School, B. (W. C) on Queen Elizabeth and 17 November, Goulands in Ben Jonson, 533 Guest (Sir Lyonell), 509 Hare (Thomas), 509 Jamineau (Isaac), 509 Man (George), 49 Thames Water Company, 91 Thomson, R.A., 114 Trelawny (Sir William), 449 Vernon (Dorothy), her elopement, 497 Warmestry (Gervase), 109 Wetenhall (Bishop Edward), 88 B. (H.) on Erlkönigs Tochter,' 89 B. (H. A.) on authors of quotations wanted, 449 B. (H. I.) on Edward = Iorwerth, 35 Holy crows, Lisbon, 155 Myddelton: Dref: Plas, 131 Traherne (Philip), 383 B. (J.) on saint's cloak on a sunbeam, 357 B. (J. B.) on St. Catharine's College, Cambridge, B. (J. E. C.) on oatcake and whisky as Eucharistic B. (M. W.) on Doge's hat, 8 B. (R.) on Amaneuus as a Christian name, 88 Bath and Henrietta Maria, 198 Day with Cromwell,' 189 Mensen the courier, 246 Rupert (Prince), 56 Usona U.S.A., 197 B-r (R.) on American words and phrases, 132 Cowes family, 58 Teart, its meaning, 59 Tenement-house, 495 B. (R. S.) on John Latham, 209 Municipal records printed, 532 Pelf, its early meanings, 286 Wetenhall (Bishop Edward), 434 B. (R. W.) on Gulston Addison's death, 210, 289 B. (S.) on Bath and Henrietta Maria, 198 Limerick glove in a walnut shell, 297 401 Fea (James), Orkney author, 458 Heworth, its etymology, 75 Kipling and the swastika, 338 Lecturage, use of the word, 266 Pitfield (Rev. Sebastian), his ghost, 510 St. Leodegarius and St. Leger Stakes, 112 Scissors and jaws, 448 Shakespeare: chronological edition, 348 "Sovereign" of Kinsale, 256 Staple in place-names, 192 Tailors, itinerant, 505 Turcopolerius, 337 Wasps, their pesent scarcity, 285 Westminster Cathedral, alphabet ceremony, 110 Wetenhall (Bishop Edward), 434 B. (W. G.) on snuff-box inscription, 93 Baddeley (St. Clair) on Prinknash, 313 Venice and its patron saint, 54 English sepulchral monuments, 1300-50, 199 Excelsior' in Pigeon English, 357 Banks, telephones in, 169, 258, 297 Banks (Sir John Thomas), place of his birth, 467 B. (W.) on Matthew Arnold on eloquence, 229, 318 Bar" sinister," early use of the term, 485 Barabbas, a publisher, the comparison, 29, 92 Barnaby Rudge,' by Charles Dillon, comedian, Barnes (Barnaby), his 'Parthenophil and Parthe- Barwell (Richard), 1741-1804, his parentage, 368 Bath King of Arms, the title, 32 Batsford (B. T.) on tradesmen's cards, 348 Bayley (A. R.) on Adrian IV.'s ring and Emerald All Souls College, Oxford, 355 Arundel (Earl of), brother and uncle arrested, Canons, Middlesex, 374 Crests, taxes on, 511 Cromwell (Richard), his daughter, 330 Edward I. and Henry VIII.'s queens, 464 Folly, 158 Gordons at Westminster School, 437 Islington historians, 239 Jones (Sir William) and Oxford University, 3 Classicly, use of the word, 449 Gale," Bense (J. F.) on smouch, term for a Jew, 292 Bensly (Prof. E.) on arabis: thlaspi, 11 Birds falling dead at soldiers' shouts, 393 Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy,' 146 'Heroinæ,' 355 King's Classical Quotations,' 123, 402 "Make 66 'Pride and Prejudice,' 434 Proverb quoted by Bishop Fisher, 46 Thackeray at the British Museum, 472 Ulysses and Pulci, 514 Women carrying their husbands, 452 Benton (Jay) on Carlyle on singing at work, 494 Bermuda, inscription in cemetery, 1783, 525 'If you ask for salt, you ask for sorrow," 198 Bernau (C. A.) on All right, McCarthy," 358 Jonson (Ben), 174 Names terrible to children, 194 King in place-names, 192 Old-time English dancing, 257 Onion, its pronunciation, 14 Rain-smir, use of the word, 415 Transcendant, the spelling, 305 Wordsworth: variant readings, 294, 476 Beaven (A. B.) on Aldermen of London, 27 Browne (Sir Richard), Bt., 443 Grierson, Grereson, or Greir family, 38 Latour (Peter de), 287 Percy (T.), Prior of Holy Trinity, 85 Philip (Sir Matthew), 24, 133 Poll-books of the City of London, 77 Robinson (Sir John), Bt., 74 Rush (Sir W. B.), 94 Secretaries to the Lords Lieutenant, 187 Beaver-Lea, place-name derived from beavers, Beazant (H.) on minister: verger v. sacristan, 274 Beke (Dr. Charles), his diary, 1841-3, 74 Cromwell (Richard), his daughter, 330 Vavasour surname, its derivation, 233 Bible, history of, published in Shropshire, 26, 78; Artephius, De Characteribus Planetarum,' Astrologiæ ratione et experientia refutatæ Bell's edition of the poets, 188, 319 Blake (William), 241 Bookbinding, first English book on, 403 Book-covers: " yellow-backs," 189, 237, 274, Goldsmith (O.), his Deserted Village,' 41, 194 Hibgame (Edward South) his library, 306 Hudibras,' 142, 211 King's Classical and Foreign Quotations," |