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BUTLER'S Hudibras, Annotations and Preface by Grey, PLATES BY HOGARTH, AND WOODCUTS BY NESBIT (Pupil of BEWICK), 2 vols, royal 8vo, calf, 35s-BENSLEY'S EDITION, 1801 (209 Large paper copy, very rare in this size.

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BUTLER'S Hudibras, with Notes from Grey and others, NEW EDITION, WITH 12 HUMOROUS PLATES BY CLARK, in the style of Rowlandson, 2 vols, 8vo, FINE COPY, green morocco gilt, gilt edges, £2-1822 BUTLER (Samuel) The Genuine Remains, with Notes by Thyer, also a Selection from the Author's Characters in Prose, illustrated with humerous woodcuts and portraits of Butler and Thyer, 8vo, newly bound, half calf, gilt top, UNCUT, 12s 6d-1827 [211 BRYAN'S Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, with their Cyphers, Monograms, and Marks, NEW EDITION, with 1,000 additional memoirs and new plates, by George Stanley, imperial 8vo, cloth, £1 15s-1873

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BYRON (Lord) English Bards and Scotch Reviewers, a Satire, 12mo, tall copy, half bound, £1 10s—J. Cawthorn, 1809 BYRON (Lord) Works, the scarce original editions, bound in 9 vols, 8vo, contemporary tree calf gilt, in excellent condition, from the "Meek Library," £C Gs-V.Y.

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The following amongst them are all First Editions: Deformed Transformed; The Island; Age of Bronze; Parliamentary Speeches; Hebrew Melodies; Prisoner of Chillon; Bowles' Strictures on Pope; The Waltz (1st 8vo); Werner: Sardanapalus; Childe Harold, Cantos III. and IV., Mazeppa; Doge of Venice; and Hours of Idleness (the 2nd edition); also Don Juan complete.

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AIRO. Illustrations of Cairo, by Robert Hay, 30 fine large lithographic plates, drawn on stone by J. C. Bourne, under the superintendence of Owen B. Carter, imperial folio, half morocco, £1 15s-Tilt and Bogue, 1840

Every plate a perfect figure of Egyptian landscape and scenery, introducing famous Buildings, Mosques, Temples, Street Scenes, and in a lifelike manner the Customs, Ceremonies, Costume, &c., of the various classes of society.

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CAMPBELL (J. F.) Popular Tales of the West Highlands, orally collected, with a Translation, 4 vols, post 8vo, half morocco gilt, gilt tops, £3 38-1860 CANTABS. Sketches of Cantabs by John Smith (of Smith-Hall), Gent., the FIRST EDITION, 18mo, original cloth, 5s-

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[216 CARELESS (John) The Old English Squire ("A Jovial Gay Fox Hunter, Bold, Frank, and Free"), a Poem in ten Cantos, portrait of the Squire, and 20 humorous coloured plates, LARGE PAPER, imperial 8vo, original boards, UNCUT, rare, £4 10s-1821 [217 CARNET d'un Mondain, Gazette parisienne, Anecdotique et Curieuse, par Etincelle, illustrations en noir et planches en couleurs par A. Ferdinandus, 2 vols, post 8vo, artistic covers, 10s 6d -1881-82

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CATNACH Press. A Collection of the Books and Woodcuts of James Catnach, of the Seven Dials, full of cuts, post 8vo, FINE PAPER, only 175 printed, Roxburghe binding, 7s Ed

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CHAP Books. A Curious Collection of Twelve
Juvenile Chap Books, all with crud woodcuts and original paper
crappers inserted, in 3 vols, 32mo, leather bindings, 18s-Printed at
Dundalk at beginning of Century.

Comprise: The Wonderful Travellers; Happy Villagers; Travels of a
Bible, 2 copies; Master Henry and Miss Louisa Bountiful, 2 copies; Robinson
Crusoe; The Present; Poverty and Riches; The Hermit and the Wandering
Infants; The Truant Reclaimed.

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CHATTERTON (T.) Poetical Works, with Notices

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of his Life, The Rowley Controversy, and Notes illustrative of the Poems, 2 vols, post Svo, cloth, 15s-Cambridge, 1842 [220 CHESS. A Complete Guide to the Game of Chess, from the Alphabet to the Solution and Construction of Problems, by H. F. L. Meyer, illustrations, 8vo, cloth, 5s-1882 (221 CHICARD (Count) The Bal Masque, humorous illustrations by Cham and Henning, FIRST EDITION, newly bound, half green levant morocco, gilt top, UNCUT, 10s 6d--Bogue, 1848 CHRYSAL, or the Adventures of a Guinea, by an Adept (Charles Johnson), illustrated with 10 plates, 3 vols, 12mo, boards, UNCUT, 15s-1822 CLEAVELAND (John), The Works of, containing his Poems, Orations, Epistles, FIRST COLLECTED EDITION with the portrait, small 8vo, FINE COPY, polished calf gilt, gilt edges, 15s-1687 [224 CLEMENT Marot and other Studies, by Henry Morley, 2 vols in 1, post 8vo, cloth, 38 6d-1871 CLARKE (Mrs.), Authentic Memoirs of, in which is pourtrayed the Secret History and Intrigues of many Characters in the First Circles of Fashion and High Life, and containing the whole of her Correspondence whilst living under the protection of H.R.H. the Duke of York, the Gallant Duke's Love Letters, and other Interesting Papers never before published (by Miss E. Taylor), pretty coloured portrait, 12mo, new half calf gilt, £1 5s-1809. Ditto, polished calf, gilt top, £1 10s COCKING. The Royal Pastime of Cock Fighting, or the Art of Breeding, Feeding, Fighting, and Curing Cocks of the Game, to which is prefixed a Treatise wherein Cocking is proved not only Ancient and Honourable, but also Useful and Profitable, by R. H. a Lover of the Sport, curious frontispiece of the Cock-pit, small Evo, old binding, £4 4s-London, for D. Brown & T. Ballard, 1709 (237 **This rare little volume has brought as much as nine pounds under the

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COLLIER (John Payne) A Book of Roxburghe Ballads, edited by John Payne Collier, small 4to, UNCUT, 15s-1847

[228 COLLIER (J. Payne) History of English Dramatic Poetry to the Time of Shakespeare, and Annals of the Stage to the Restoration, 3 vols, 8vo, half red morocco, gilt tops, UNCUT, £2 25-1831 (229

COLLINS (Wilkie)

post 8vo, cloth, 9s-1860

The Woman in White, 3 vols, (230

COBBETT (Wm.) History of the Regency and Reign of George the Fourth, 2 vols, 12mo, boards, UNCUT, 15s-1830 [231 COLERIDGE. The Wild Wreath, Original Poems by Monk Lewis, Robert Southey, Mary Robinson (Perdita), and others, edited by M. E. Robinson, pretty vignette engravings, post 8vo, russia neat, £1 1s-1804 [232

Includes an original poem, "The Mad Monk," by S. T. Coleridge, to be found nowhere else, with contributions by Southey and other esteemed writers. (Portrait of Mrs. Robinson inserted.)

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COLERIDGE (Hartley) Poems, portrait, 2 vols., and
Essays and Marginalia, portrait, 2 vols, together 4 vols, 12mo,
original cloth, UNCUT, £1 14s-1851
COMICALITIES. Dinners and Diners, by Blanchard;
The Comic Pronunciation; Comic Geography; Comic Etiquette;
Comic Almanack for 1848; Comic Magazine, 1834; Tragyke
Lamentacyonne for Lorde Mayor's Daye; Whist (Illustrated by
Kenny Meadows); Art of Dress (coloured plates); Life of General Tom
Thumb; A Shilling's Worth of Nonsense, 1850; The Illuminated
Magazine, 1845, together 12 vols, with humorous illustrations, £1 5s

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COMICAL History of Francion, The, wherein the Variety of Vices that abuse the Ages are satirically limn'd in their native colours, interwoven with many Pleasant Events, fitted for the gravest Head and the lightest Heart, by Mon. de Moulines, Sieur de Parc, done into English by a person of honor, small folio, old binding, 15s-1655 [235 COMIC Library. Smith's Natural History of the Gent, Smith's Natural History of Evening Parties, Reach's Natural History of Humbugs, Reach's Natural History of Bores, Hine's Natural History of Tuft Hunters and Toadies, cuts, together 5 vols, 24mo, newly bound, half calf extra, gilt tops, UNCUT, WITH ORIGINAL COVERS, £2 2s-1847-9

*.* Albert Smith and those who surrounded him have earned a reputation not easily to be lost, as being mortal enemies to snobs. They hated all follies, but especially those which are exhibited by what are called the mushroom gentry.

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COMICAL Works of Mon. Scarron, containing
Romance of a Company of Stage-players, all his Novels and Histories,
Select Letters, Characters, &c., a great part of which never before in
English, translated by Tom Brown, Savage and others, plates, 8vo,
half bound, 10s-1712
CONTE de l'Archer, Le, parAmand Silvestre, AQUARELLES

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DE A. POIRSON, GRAVÉES PAR GILLOT, impression chromotypographique par A. Lahure, FULL OF CHARMING LITTLE COLOURED ILLUSTRATIONS, large 8vo, publisher's illustrated wrapper, UNCUT, 18s-1883 COOPER (T., the Chartist) The Purgatory of Suicides, a Prison Rhyme, 12mo, cloth, 5s-1845

COSTUME.

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Costumes Francais de 1200-1715, illustrated by ONE HUNDRED AND ONE COLOURED PLATES, bearing date on each, drawn by G. Scharf, thick 12mo, half bound, UNCUT (Original Edition), £1 1s - Rodicell and Martin

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COSTUME. The Lady's Monthly Museum, or Polite Repository of Amusement and Instruction for the British Fair, from its Commencement in 1796 to 1816, together 16 vols, post 8vo, calf gilt, £3 158 (241

Contains about 240 coloured plates of Fashions of the Day, and about 60 portraits of famous ladies by the most eminent artists.

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COSTUME. Twenty-four Subjects exhibiting the Costume of Paris, the Incidents taken from Nature, designed and drawn on -tone by J. J. CHALON, 24 COLOURED PLATES OF INCIDENTS IN EVERY-DAY PARISIAN LIFE, folio, £1 103-1820 COWPER. Original Poems on various Occasions, by a Lady (Madame Guion), revised by William Cowper, THE FIRST EDITION, 12mo, calf, 1792; Another Edition, with some Poems of Cowper not in his Works, 1801; Third Edition, 1810: Corry (J.) Life of Cowper, portrait, 1803; Cowper's Task, Westall's designs, 1828; together 5 vols, 17s 6d CRANIOLOGICAL Physiognomy, Three Lectures on, very humorous, coloured front and plates, 8vo, boards, UNCUT, 7s 61— 1816 244

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CROQUILL (Alfred) The Pictorial Grammar, profusely illustrated with woodcuts in Croquill's most humorous style, FIRST EDITION, small 8vo, newly bound, half calf, gilt top, UNCUT, 128 6d-Harvey and Darton

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CROWQUILL and Palmer's Wanderings of a Pen and Pencil, profusely illustrated with pretty woodcuts, imperial 8vo, cloth, gilt edges, 18s--J. Howe, 1846 CRUIKSHANK.

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A Comic Alphabet, designed, etched, and published by George Cruikshank, COLOURED COPY, clean, in the original boards, very scarce, £2 5s-Pentonville, 1837

CRUIKSHANK.

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Barker's (Capt.) Tough Yarns to please all Hands, a Series of Naval Tales, by the Old Sailor, plates by G. Cruikshank, 12mo, half calf gilt, gilt top, £1 5s-1835 CRUIKSHANK. Basile (G.) The Pentamerone, or the Story of Stories, translated from the Neapolitan by J. E. Taylor, plates by G. Cruikshank, THE FIRST EDITION, post 8vo, original cloth, UNCUT, £1 5s--1848

CRUIKSHANK.

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Brough (R. B.) The Life of Sir John Falstaff, 20 ETCHINGS BY GEORGE CRUIKSHANK, royal 8vo, half calf neat, £5 10s-1858 CRUIKSHANK. Combe (W.) The Life of Napoleon, a Hudibrastic Poem, in fifteen Cantos, 30 FINE SPIRITED PLATES BY G. CRUIKSHANK, roy. 8vo, fine copy, polished calf, super extra, gilt edges, £5 5s 1251 CRUIKSHANK. Gammer Grethel's German Fairy Tales and Popular Stories, from the German of Grimm, by Edgar Taylor, illustrations by G. C. and Ludwig Grimm, post 8vo, new polished alf extra, gilt top, £1 10s-Cundall, 1846

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CRUIKSHANK. Ireland's (W. H.) Life of Napoleon
Buonaparte, THE FIRST EDITION, 3 PORTRAITS AND 23 LARGE FOLDING
COLOURED PLATES BY GEORGE CRUIKSHANK, OF THE MOST FAMOUS OF
NAPOLEON'S EXPLOITS, from the designs of Horace Vernet and Duplessi,
Bertaux, VERY FINE COPY, 4 vols, 8vo, calf, £5 103-1823-25 253
CRUIKSHANK. Jack and the Beanstalk, edited and
illustrated with 6 etchings by Geo. Cruikshank, A COLOURED COPY OF
THE FIRST EDITION, very rare, in the original fancy wrapper, £1 59-
Bogue.
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CRUIKSHANK. Maxwell's History of the Irish
Rebellion in 1793, with Memoirs of the Union and Emmett's
Insurrection in 1803, plates by George Cruikshank, and portraits, THE
FIRST EDITION, FINE COPY, green levant morocco, gilt edges, £4 4s--
Baily Bros., 1845

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CRUIKSHANK. Scourge, The, or Monthly Expositor of Imposture and Folly, A COMPLETE SET, including THE EXCESSIVELY RARE CONTINUATION, ENTITLED THE "SCOURGE AND SATIRIST," WITH ALL THE LARGE FOLDING COLOURED CARICATURES BY GEORGE CRUIKSHANK, GILLRAY, &c., 12 vols, 8vo, in the publisher's binding, boards, half calf backs, vellum corners, £25-1811-16 257

*.* One of the rarest and greatest of Cruikshank's works, containing upwards of 70 large caricatures which when offered separately for sale realise from 15s to £1 is each.

CRUIKSHANK'S Sunday in London, illustrated in 14 cuts by G. C., the FIRST EDITION, post 8vo, half calf, £1 1s-1833 [258 CRUIKSHANK. The British Dance of Death, in a Series of Engravings from Drawings by Van Essen, with Explanatory and Moral Essays, WITH VERY SPIRITED COLOURED PLATES BY R. CRUIKSHANK, 8vo, fine copy, polished calf gilt, gilt top, UNCUT EDGES, £2 2s-Hodgson 1259 CRUIKSHANK. Wight (John) Mornings at Bow Street, 21 plates by G. C.; More Mornings at Bow Street, 25 plates by G. C., together 2 vols, post 8vo, boards, UNCUT, £4 10s-1824-7 (260 . Both FIRST EDITIONS; very rarely are the two works found together, especially in this uncut state.

AGLEY (R.) Takings, or the Life of a Collegian, illustrated by 26 humorous tinted plates, royal 8vo, FINE COPY, POLISHED CALF EXTRA, gilt top, UNCUT, £1 15s-1821

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DANIEL (George) Love's Labour Not Lost, 12mo, clean in cloth, 5s-Pickering, 1863

DASENT (Sir Geo. Webbe)

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Popular Tales from the Norse, with an Essay on the Origin and Diffusion of Popular Tales, FIRST AND UNEXPURGATED EDITION, 8vo, cloth, UNCUT, £1 108-1859

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DALYELL (John Graham) The Darker Superstitions of Scotland, 8vo, boards, UNCUT, £1 18-Glasgow, 1835

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