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cording to the use of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America. Together with the Psalter or Psalms of David. Folio, vellum, front cover with an elaborate gilt design, gilt top, uncut. New York: Printed for the Committee, 1893

Limited Edition on LARGE PAPER, beautifully printed in red and black, each page within a woodcut border, at the De Vinne Press.

561. PRESCOTT (WILLIAM H.). Historical Writings. Frontispieces. 15 vols., 12mo, half red morocco, gilt tops, uncut (one or two backs a little scraped). Philadelphia, 1875-6

562. PRIMER (THE) Set Fvrth By the kinges maiestie & his Clergie, to be taught lerned, and red: & none other to be used thorowout all his Dominions. Printed in red and black. Woodcut plate and initials. Small 8vo, brown morocco, gilt top. London: Printed by Richard Grafton, 1546.

Reprinted [ca. 1700]

With an original drawing of the bookplate of Richard Grafton on blank leaf.

563. PROPERT (J. L.). A History of Miniature Art. With notes on collectors and collections. Elaborately illustrated with reproductions. Folio, uncut. London: Macmillan, 1887

564. PROPERTIUS. The Elegies of Propertius, the Satyricon of Petronius Arbiter, and the Kisses of Johannes Secundus. Edited by Walter K. Kelly. 12mo.

London: Bohn's Classical Library, 1880

565. PYLE (HOWARD). Otto of the Silver Hand. Profusely illustrated by the author. Square 8vo, half roan.

Fine copy of the FIRST EDITION. Scarce.

New York, 1888

566. RABELAIS (FRANCIS). Five Books of the Lives, Heroic Deeds and Sayings of Gargantua and His Son Pantagruel. Translated into English by Thomas Urquhart and Peter Motteaux. Illustrations by Louis Chalon. 2 vols., small folio, uncut. London: Lawrence & Bullen, 1892

LIMITED EDITION.

567. RACKHAM ILLUSTRATIONS. Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens. By J. M. Barrie. 50 colored illustrations by Arthur Rackham. New York, 1906

4to.

568. Rip Van Winkle, by Washington Irving, 1910; A Midsummer-Night's Dream (Shakespeare), 1911. Numerous plates in color by Arthur Rackham. 2 vols., royal 8vo.

London: Heinemann, 1910-11

569. RATTS RHIMED TO DEATH; or, the Rump-Parliament Hang'd up in the Shambles. Small 8vo, full crimson levant morocco, gilt fillet back and sides, gilt edges, by The Club BindLondon: Printed in the Year 1660

ery.

THE VERY RARE FIRST EDITION. Fine copy. The author of this curious piece, a production occasioned by the Rump Parliament, is unrecorded.

It is sometimes found bound up with "The Rump,' "that other rare and curious collection of the same period. With the Chew-Jones-Clawson bookplates.

570. RAWLING (C. G.). The Great Plateau, 1905; My Balkan Tour (Trevor), 1911; The Land of Teck (Baring-Gould), 1911; and others. Illustrated. 7 vols., 8vo.

571. RECLUS (ELISEE).

V. p., v. d.

The Earth and its Inhabitants.

Maps and illustrations. 5 vols., royal 8vo, half morocco.

New York, 1882

572. REPRINTS OF RARE BOOKS. Hariot's Narrative of the First Plantation of Virginia in 1585; The First Four Voyages of Amerigo Vespucci; Latin Letter of Columbus printed in 1493. 3 vols., small 4to, wrappers. London, 1893

573. REYNOLDS (SIR JOSHUA). Life and Times of Sir Joshua Reynolds: with Notices of Some of his Contemporaries. By Chas. R. Leslie and Tom Taylor. Portraits and illustrations. 2 vols., 8vo, half morocco, gilt tops, uncut. London, 1865

574. RICHARDSON (SAMUEL). Works. With a Sketch of his Life and Writings, by the Rev. Edward Mangin. Portrait (a little foxed). 19 vols., 12mo, crinkled calf, rebacked.

London, 1811

575. RILEY (JAMES WHITCOMB). The Flying Islands of the Night. Colored illustrations by Franklin Booth. Royal 8vo, half cloth and boards. Indianapolis, [1913]

576. RIVERSIDE PRESS. Warner (Charles Dudley). Backlog Studies. Illustrations by Edmund H. Garrett. 8vo, half cloth and boards, uncut. Cambridge: Riverside Press, 1899

One of 250 copies.

577. ROBERTS (CHARLES G. D.). Poems, 1901; The Masque of Judgment (Moody), 1900; Lucifer (Santayana), 1899; The Man with the Hoe and other Poems (Markham), A. L. s. from Mrs. Markham and Willis Brooks Hawkins laid in, 1899; and others. 16 vols., various sizes and bindings. V. p., v. d.

578. ROMAN CONTEMPORAIN. Chefs d'ŒŒuvre du Roman Contemporain. Translated by Burnham, Ives, Chestershire, etc. Illustrated with etchings in two states by Muller, Le Sueur, Masse, etc. 10 vols., 8vo, green levant morocco, gilt and inlaid backs, gilt. edges. Philadelphia, [1897]

One of a limited edition printed on Japan paper. Comprises: Mlle. de Maupin, A Love Page, Cardinal Family, Lady of the Camellias, Germinie Lacerteux, Sapho, and Madame Bovary.

579. ROSSETTI (CHRISTINA G.). A Pageant and Other Poems. 12mo, uncut. London: Macmillan, 1881

FIRST EDITION.

580. Goblin Market, the Prince's Progress and other Poems. 4 designs by D. G. Rossetti, 1875. Verses, 1893. 2 vols., 12mo.

581. ROSSETTI (DANTE GABRIEL). Collected Works. Edited with a preface and notes by W. M. Rossetti. Portrait. 2 vols., 8vo, uncut. Boston, 1887

582. Plates.

Pictures & Poems. Arranged by FitzRoy Carrington.
New York, 1899

Folio.

583. ROUSSEAU (J. J.). Eloisa: Or, A Series of Original Letters. Collected and published by J. J. Rousseau. Translated out of the French. Frontispieces by Gravelot. 4 vols., 12mo, half mottled calf. London: Printed for T. Becket, 1776

RARE.

584. ROWLANDSON COLORED PLATES. The Pleasures of Human Life in a Dozen Dissertations. By Hilaris Benevolus and Co. Frontispiece, engraved title and five colored plates by Rowlandson (cut close). 12mo, polished calf, gilt, gilt edges, by Riviere. FIRST EDITION. By John Britton. London, 1807

585. The Beauties of Sterne: comprising his humorous and descriptive Tales, Letters, etc. Two colored caricatures by Rowlandson from original drawings by Newton. 12mo, polished calf, gilt, gilt top, uncut, by Zaehnsdorf.

FINE COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION. London: Thomas Tegg, 1809

586. Journal of Sentimental Travels in the Southern Povinces of France, shortly before the Revolution. 17 colored engravings from designs by T. Rowlandson. 8vo, uncut.

FIRST EDITION.

London: R. Ackermann, 1821

587. ROYCROFT PRESS. The Book of Job. As translated from the Original by Rabbi Abraham Elzas. Illuminated initials and tail-pieces. 12mo, red levant morocco, gilt top, uncut, by Blackwell. East Aurora: Roycroft Shop, 1897

One of 350 copies. Signed by Elbert Hubbard.

588. [RUSSELL (GEORGE W.).] Homeward Songs by the Way. By A. E. 16mo, original wrappers, uncut. Dublin, 1894

Fine Copy of the RARE FIRST EDITION of A. E.'s first book.

589. [pers, uncut.

590.

The Hero in Man. By A. E.

12mo, original wrapLondon, [1909]

FIRST EDITION.

The Dublin Strike. By A. E. Portrait of the author on cover. 12mo, original wrappers.

FIRST EDITION.

Dublin: "Irish Worker" Press, [1913]

591. SACROBOSCO (JOHANNES DE). Sphera Mundi ; Gerard Cremonensis, Theorica Planetarum. Roman type, 48 unnumbered leaves, with signature marks, 25 long lines to a full page,

marginal notes, woodcut diagrams, (one colored), in the text, woodcut initials. Small 4to, blue morocco, gilt edges, by Wallis. [Colophon] Impressa Venetijs per Franciscu renner de Hailbrun M.CCCC.LXXVIII

The

Hain 14108. Fine copy with wide margins. Splendid condition. diagrams used in this work are some of the earliest woodcuts used for scientific purposes. Contemporary manuscript notes on the margins.

592. SAINTSBURY (GEORGE). Essays on the French Novelists, 1892; General Survey of American Literature (Fisher), 1899; French Fiction of To-Day (Madame Van de Velde), 2 vols., 1891; and others. 7 vols., various sizes and bindings.

V. P., V. d.

593. SCARRON (PAUL). The Comical Romance, and Other Tales. Done into English by Tom Brown, John Savage, etc. Introduction by J. J. Jusserand. Illustrated from designs of Oudry. 2 vols., 8vo, half vellum, uncut.

London: Lawrence and Bullen, 1892

One of 150 copies on Japan paper.

594. SCHIMMELPENNINCK (M. A.). Select Memoirs of Port Royal. Taken from original documents. Fourth Edition. 2 vols., 8vo, half calf, gilt backs (slightly rubbed). London, 1835 SCARCE. Vol. 1 has no title-page.

uncut.

595. [SCOTT (SIR WALTER).] Guy Mannering; or, The Astrologer. By the Author of "Waverley." 3 vols., 12mo, boards, Edinburgh: Printed by James Ballantyne & Co., 1815 THE EXCESSIVELY RARE FIRST EDITION. The Frederick Locker Copy, with his Jester Bookplate in each volume. Also the bookplate of W. T. Wallace. On the fly-leaf of Vol. 1. Locker has written-"It is probable that Scott gave this book to his great friend Morrit of Rokeby, because Morrit's grand-daughter married a Corbett." On the half-title is inscribed "Robert Corbett to Harriet Corbett." At the end of Vol. 3 is the rare separate leaf of Errata, seldom found.

596. Miscellaneous Prose Works. Portraits, frontispieces, vignette titles, and maps, landscape designs by J. M. W. Turner. 28 vols., 16mo, paper labels, uncut (a few hinges torn).

597.

Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1834-6

Waverley Novels.

Engraved titles and plates. 25

Edinburgh: A. and C. Black, 1853

vols., 8vo, tree calf, gilt edges.

598.

FINE SET.

Journal, from the Original Manuscript at Abbotsford. 2 portraits. 2 vols., 8vo, half red morocco, gilt tops.

Edinburgh, 1890

599. SCOTT (WILLIAM BELL). Poems. With 17 etchings by the author and L. Alma Tadema. 12mo, uncut. London, 1875 FIRST COLLECTED EDITION. Inserted is an A. L. s. of the author, relating to the volume.

600. SELLON (EDWARD). Annotations on the Sacred Writings of the Hindus. 8vo, wrappers, uncut.

London: Printed for Private Circulation, 1902

One of 150 copies. Scarce.

601. SERVIEZ (J. R. DE). The Lives and Amours of the Empresses, Consorts to the first Twelve Cæsars of Rome. Translated by George James. 8vo, old calf (worn). London: Abel Roper, 1723 SCARCE.

602. SEVIGNE (MADAME DE). The Best Letters of Madame de Sévigné. Edited by Edward P. Anderson. Portraits on Japan paper. 8vo, boards, cloth back, gilt top, uncut.

LARGE PAPER. One of 150 copies.

Chicago: McClurg, 1896

603. SHAKESPEARE (WILLIAM). Plays and Poems. With a Life, Glossarial Notes, etc. With 170 illustrations from the plates in Boydell's Edition. 15 vols., 12mo, half green morocco, gilt tops, London, 1832-3

uncut.

Fine set of this desirable edition.

604. Shakespeare's Library. A Collection of the Ancient Novels, Romances, Legends, Poems, and Histories, Used by Shakespeare. With introductory notices by J. Payne Collier. 2 vols., 8vo, calf (rubbed).

London, 1850

605. Works. Edited, with a scrupulous revision of the text, by Charles and Mary Cowden Clarke. With 66 illustrations selected from the "Boydell Gallery," and reproduced in Woodburytype. 2 vols., 8vo, tree calf (one side scraped).

606.

London, 1874

Poems. 12mo, cloth, morocco back, gilt top, uncut.
London, 1885

Line-for-line reproduction of the 1640 edition. One of 250 copies.

607. Some 300 Fresh Allusions to Shakespeare from 1594 to 1694. Edited by Fredk. J. Furnivall. 4to, half crimson calf, gilt back, gilt top, uncut, by Zaehnsdorf. London, 1886

608. Complete Works. Edited by Alexander Dyce. Essays on Shakespeare by Henry Irving, George Brandes, Richard Grant White, etc. Colored frontispieces and numerous illustrations on Japan paper. 10 vols., 8vo, uncut.

London: Merrill and Baker, n. d.

One of the limited Beaux Arts Edition.

609. SHANACHIE (THE). An Irish Miscellany. With nummerous illustrations by Hugh Thomson, J. B. Yeats, Elinor Monsell and others. 6 numbers, small 4to, original wrappers, uncut.

Dublin, 1906-7

Ail the unsold copies having been destroyed in the recent fires, sets of this magazine have become very scarce. Contains contributions by Bernard Shaw, W. E. Yeats, Lord Dunsany, Seumas O'Sullivan, Lady Gregory, George Russell, Stephen Groyner, etc.

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