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VITIES

THE HUNDRED YEARS' MIND OF

THE FIRM.

THE beginning of the year 1916 may perhaps be noted here as completing the first hundred years' existence of the Firm. It was in 1816 that MR. THOMAS Sotheran, having come up in 1812 from the city of York, where his forebears had already been booksellers in the Eighteenth Century, to become an assistant to the old Quaker booksellers JOHN and ARTHUR ARCH in Cornhill, set up for himself at No. 2, Little Tower Street, the then narrow thoroughfare which led from Eastcheap to Tower Hill. Here in 1820 his son HENRY SOTHERAN was born, the father of the writer of these lines. As a boy he had walked over the London Bridge built by FATHER PETER OF COLECHURCH in A.D. 1176, he was present at the burning of the old Royal Exchange, and died in 1905.

The year of the founding of the firm was the morrow of Waterloo. Its Hundred Years' Mind finds England and nearly all civilized Europe fighting the battle of humanity against a criminal power infinitely more degraded than the Committee of Public Safety, whose victory would mean the end of a free and hopeful world for generations to come. As that long-prepared triumph of the German anti-God will never come about, it is both amusing and useful to mark its vain boasting at this time.

January 31st, 1916.

BIBLIOTHECA REUTERIANA :

CATALOGUE

OF

VERY SUPERIOR SECOND-HAND BOOKS

mostly in choice Bindings and in fine Condition,

THAT FORMED THE LIBRARY OF THE LATE

AUGUSTE JULIUS CLEMENS HERBERT BARON DE REUter, President of Reuter's Telegram Co., Ltd. :

OFFERED AT THEIR NETT PRICES BY

HENRY SOTHERAN & & CO.,

140, STRAND. W.C., AND 43, PICCADILLY, W.

To prevent disappointment, Customers are advised to address their orders to H. S. & Co. direct. Telegraphic and Cable Address: BOOKMEN, LONDON. Codes: UNICODE and A. B. C. Telephones: (STRAND), CENTRAL 1515. (PICCADILLY), MAYFAIR 3601.

CONTRACTIONS: Bp., bishop; C. M. H., Cambridge Modern History; cl., cloth; cr., crown; D. N. B., Dictionary of National Biography; fs., facsimile; g.e., gilt edges; o. p., out of print; p., published at; pr., priest; sm., small; sq., square; T. Č. D., Trinity College, Dublin; t. e. g., top edges gilt. Of books not otherwise noted, all in English bear the imprint of London, and all in French, of Paris.

PART I:

ART AND ARCHEOLOGY:

Į ADELINE (Jules) LEXIQUE des TERMES d'ART, nouvelle Édition; with numerous woodcuts, post 8vo. hf. purple calf neat, art-cl. sides (fine copy), 4s

3

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2 ANDERSON (William J., A.R.I.B.A.) The ARCHITECTURE of the RENAISSANCE in ITALY: a General View for Students and others, 2nd Edition, enlarged, with 64 plates, and 98 textillustrations, 8vo. buckram extra, uncut, t. e. g., 7s (p. 12s 6d nett) 1898 FOURTH [LATEST] EDITION, enlarged, with 70 plates and 110 text-illustrations, 8vo. handsomely bound in hf. black morocco, cl. sides, t. e. g. (as good as new), 10s 6d (p. 12s 6d nett in cl.) 1909 and Richard Phené SPIERS, F.S.A.: The ARCHITECTURE of GREECE and ROME: a Sketch of its Historic Development, with 179 illustrations (including numerous fine heliogravure plates), 8vo. cl., t. e. g. (fresh copy), 9s (p. 18s nett) 1902 SECOND [LATEST] EDITION, revised and enlarged by RICHARD PHENÉ SPIERS, with 25 illustrations (including numerous fine plates), 8vo. handsomely bound in half black morocco, cl. sides, t. e. g. (as good as new), 15s (p. 18s nett) 1907

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5

'As a comprehensive résumé of the history and characteristics of Greek and Roman architecture this must certainly be considered to be the best one-volume work of its kind in our language.'-The Builder. 6 ARCHITECTURAL PUBLICATION SOCIETY: A COMPLETE SET OF ITS PUBLIC. ATIONS, from its Foundation in 1848 to its Dissolution in 1892, viz, ESSAYS and ILLUSTRATIONS, with 99 plates (many COLOURED), by T. L. Donaldson, J. J. Scoles, Sydney Smirke, R.A., etc. etc, and 177 woodcuts: DICTIONARY of ARCHITECTURE [including the Biographical and Poliographical, as well as the Technical and other Portions of Architecture], with 152 plates (some finely COLOURED), and many hundred woodcuts, 8 vols. in 6-in all 9 vols. folio in 7, hf. brown calf extra, t. e. g. (fine set); rare, £13. 13s 1848-92 One of the rarest architectural sets, and the only adequate English treatise on the Mistress of the Arts. 7 ARTS (The) connected with BUILDING: Lectures on Craftsmanship and Design by R. W. SCHULTZ, C. F. A. VOYSEY, A. GUY DAWBER, L. A. TURNER, etc., edited by T. R. DAVISON, with 98 illustrations of old and modern work, large post 8vo. hf. parchment, buckram sides, 3s (p. 5s nett)

1909

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