Notes and Queries, Number 70, March 1, 1851

On Sale at 43. Chandos Street, Trafalgar Square

THIS SERIES OF CATALOGUES For 1851, CONTAINS

No. 1.

Books on Architecture, Painting, and Fine Arts Generally, Heraldry, Family History, Poetry, and the Drama.

No. 2.

Classics, Coins, Ireland, Language, Phrenology, Sports and Games.

No. 3.

Bibles and Bible Prints, Manuscripts, Banking & Currency, London, Shakspeare, History, Chronicles and Divinity.

No. 4.

(The present list)

Comprises Books on all the previous enumerated subjects, besides some highly interesting Pictorial Works, Antiquarian Publications, Club Books, and an extensive Collection of Miscellanies.

Post Office Orders should be made payable at the Charing Cross Office

A Catalogue is Published Monthly with occasional Supplemental Sheets, and can be had GRATIS by any Book-buyer, on application to the Publisher. It will be found to comprise a judicious selection of works in every department of Literature, in various Languages, Ancient and Modern. Each Year's Series of Catalogues embrace upwards of 10,000 Distinct Works.

AMERICA. Being the Latest and most Accurate Description of the New World, and the Remarkable Voyages thither, with the Conquest of Mexico and Peru, by Ogleby, folio, calf, gilt, illustrated with upwards of 120 fine engravings, maps, and port., 18s. 6d.   1671.

AN ANALYSIS of the Picture of the Transfiguration of Raffaello Sanzio D'Urbino, the Letterpress in English, atlas folio, half russia, fine portrait of Raphael, plate of the Transfiguration, and 17 beautiful mezzotinto heads, the size of the original picture traced by M. Gauband, engraved by Godby, 1l. 5s.   1817.

ANNUAL REGISTER (The New), a General Repository of History, Politics, and Literature from the commencement in 1780 to 1817, 38 vols. 8vo. half russia, neat, 2l. 2s.   1784-1817.

Comprises the most eventful period of European history.

ARCHÆOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION, The Journal of, from its commencement to January 1850, 20 parts, 8vo. numerous engravings of antiquities, 2l. 2s.   1845-50.

CAMDEN'S (Wm.) Britannia, or a Chorographical Description of Great Britain, and Ireland, together with the adjacent Islands, Revised and Digested, with Large Additions, by Edmund Gibson, Bishop of Lincoln, 2 vols. folio, calf, neat, maps of the counties, prints of coins, and port. by White, 1l. 4s.   1753.

CATROU and ROUILLE, Roman History, with Notes, Historical, Geographical, and Critical, 6 vols. folio, calf, gilt, fine copy, illustrated with numerous copperplates, maps, and medals. 1l. 10s.   1737.

CHAUCER (Geffrey). The Works of our Ancient and Learned English Poet, with many Additions, folio, cf. neat, black letter, port., 1l. 5s.   Islip, 1598.

DART'S History and Antiquities of Westminster Abbey: an Account of its Ancient Building, Altar, Reliques, Customs, Saxon Charters, &c., Lives of the Abbots, &c., 2 vols. folio, nearly 200 fine engravings, with all the arms of the subscribers, calf, gilt, fine copy, 1l. 11s. 6d.   1720.

DART (J.) History and Antiquities of the Cathedral Church of Canterbury, and the once Adjoining Monastery, folio, calf, neat, fine plates, 1l. 1s.   1726.

DAVENANT (Sir William), The Works, now first collected and published from the Original Copies, folio, calf, gilt, fine copy, port., 14s. 6d.   1673.

DRYDEN'S (J.) Comedies, Tragedies, and Operas, 2 vols. folio, calf, neat, good copy, with the fine portrait engraved by Edelinck, 12s. 6d.   1701.

ENGRAVINGS after the Best Pictures of the Great Masters, with Descriptions in French and English. Large atlas folio, elegantly half bound, morocco, gilt edges. 20 fine plates, 2l. 12s. 6d.   1844.

FAULKNER'S Account of Chelsea, 2 vols. 8vo. large paper, proof plates, each leaf separately and neatly inlaid in royal 4to. for illustrating, only 1l. 5s.   1820.

QUARTERLY JOURNAL of Science and Art, edited by Brande, at the Royal Institution of Great Britain, from its Commencement in 1816, to its Conclusion in 1831, complete in 32 vols. 8vo. bound in 16, half calf, very neat, numerous engravings, 2l. 15s.   1816-32.

ROY'S (Le) Military Antiquities of the Romans in Britain, and their Particular System of Castramelation, illustrated from Vestiges of the Camps of Agricola, &c., published by the Society of Antiquaries, imp. folio, 51 fine plates, half bound, morocco, 1l. 10s.   1793.

SHAKSPEARE, The Works of, collated and corrected by the Former Editions by Mr. Pope, 6 vols. 4to. calf, gilt, a very neat copy, port., 2l. 2s.   1725.

TRANSACTIONS OF THE SOCIETY OF ARTS, from its Commencement in 1768 to 1831, forming 44 vols. very neatly half bound in calf, uniform, the rest unbound, in all 48 vols., illustrated with numerous portraits and plates, 2l. 12s. 6d.   1768-1826.

WALPOLE'S (Horace) History of the Royal and Noble Authors of England, Scotland, and Ireland, with a List of their Works, enlarged and continued to the present Time by T. Park, 5 vols. 8vo. 150 fine original and very brilliant impressions, elegantly bound in russia, marble edges, 3l. 3s.   1806.

notes

1

I need not remind you how favourable an opportunity is presented by this year.

2

Mr. Dryden.

3

A famous satyrical poem of his.

4

A copy of verses called, An essay on satyr, for which Mr Dryden was both applauded and beaten, tho' not only innocent but ignorant, of the whole matter.

5

A poem call'd, The hind and panther.

6

Sherard, 1738.