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beginning, hf. green mor., g.t., 1694, 8vo. (939), April 3, Sotheby Dobell, £2 6s. Waller (E.) Workes, title within a woodcut border, Thos. Park's copy, with his signature in margin of title, old hf. cf. (hole in G I), Printed for Thomas Walkley, 1645, 8vo. (692), Feb. 6, Sotheby Pickering, £42

["This pirated edition is of rare occurrence. Mosely, who printed, or rather published the first genuine edition of Waller's Poems, 1645, pronounces the present to be an adulterate copy, surreptitiously and illegally imprinted, to the derogation of the author and the abuse of the buyer."-MS. note on fly-leaf by T. Park.] Waller (E.) Workes, title within a woodcut border, orig. sheep, For T. Walkley, 1645, 8vo. (531), Nov. 24, Sotheby Quaritch, £70

Waller (E.) Some Songs and Verses, decorations printed in colours, one of 25 copies printed, blue mor., gt. tooled ornaments at angles of upper cover and on the back, inside borders, t.e.g., by Rivière, Pear Tree Press, 1902, 4to. (308), Dec. 19, Sotheby Hollings, £3 5s. Waller (E.) and Godolphin (Sidney). The Passion of Dido for Aeneas, as it is incomparably exprest in the Fourth Book of Virgil, a front. of Dido on the funeral pyre inserted, signature of W. Godolphin on the title (wants F 4 blank), limp vell., Printed for Humphrey Moseley, 1658, 8vo. (693), Feb. 6, Sotheby Quaritch, £40 Wallich (N.) Planta Asiatica Rariores: Descriptions and Figures of East Indian Plants, 300 coloured plates, 3 vol., russ. ex., m.e., 1830-32, imp. folio (1660), Nov. 14, Sotheby Quaritch, £19 Wallis (H.) The Godman Collection. Persian Ceramic Art, the XIII. Century lustred vases, plates (many coloured), one of 200 copies, cl., Printed for private circulation, 1891, folio (987), May 29, Sotheby Batsford, £5 5s.

[See also March 20, £3 5s.]

Wallon (H.) Histoire du Tribunal Révolutionnaire de Paris, 5 vol., hf. mottled cf. gt., g.e., Paris, 1880-81 (456), May 10, Hodgson £4 Walpole (Horace). Anecdotes of Painting in England, first ed., plates, 5 vol. (some leaves foxed), dark blue mor., gt. ornamental borders, gt. back, g.e., Strawberry-Hill, 1761-3, 4to. (907), Dec. 12, Sotheby Edwards, £7

[See also Lot 666, 5 vol. in 3, £1.] Walpole (H.) Anecdotes of Painting in England, second ed., plates, 5 vol., orig. cf., gt. backs, Strawberry Hill, T. Kirgate, 1765-71 (1088), July 17, Sotheby Hollings, £2 [See also May 29, £3; April 3, 4 vol. only, £1 4s.] Walpole (H.) Anecdotes of Painting, enlarged by J. Dallaway, plates, India proofs, 5 vol., boards (broken), uncut, 1826, 8vo. (161), Dec. 15, Puttick Rimell, I IOS.

[See also Sotheby, Nov. 14, 1828 ed., £3 3s.]

[Walpole (H.)] The Castle of Otranto, translated by W. Marshal, from the Italian of U. Muralto, LARGE PAPER, plates, blue mor. gt., g.e., Parma, 1791 (698), Oct. 19, Sotheby Edwards, £8 15s.

[See also Hodgson, Nov. 30, 1796 ed., £7; Sotheby, Dec. 12, 1795 ed., £1 4s.] Walpole (H.) Catalogue of the Royal and Noble Authors of England, Scotland, etc., enlarged by T. Park, Library ed., numerous stipple portraits by Bocquet, 5 vol., polished cf., 1806, 8vo. (77), March 22, Hodgson £4

[See also Sotheby, July 31, £3 15s.; Nov. 14, ₤3; American Art Association, Jan. 26, $22.50.]

Walpole (H.) A Description of the Villa of Mr. Horace Walpole, at Strawberry Hill, with an Inventory of the Furniture, Pictures, Curiosities, etc., numerous plates and 2 large folding plates inserted, also engraved card of admittance to view, uncut, Strawberry-Hill, Thos. Kirgate, 1784, 4to. (176), Nov. 28, Sotheby Maggs, £9

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[Inserted, Bishop Bonnor's Ghost," vignette on title, Strawberry Hill, T. Kirgate, 1789. (This was written by Hannah More.)]

Walpole (H.) Essay on Modern Gardening, traduit en François par M. le Duc de Nivernois, vignette of StrawberryHill on title, presentation copy from the author, with inscription in his handwriting attached to reverse of title, hf. cf. (worn and joints broken), Strawberry-Hill, 1785, 4to. (526), May 8, Sotheby Dobell, £2 12S.

[See also May 15, £1 2s.; March 13, £1 5s.] Walpole (H.) Fugitive Pieces in Verse and Prose, first ed., engraved vignette on title, one of 250 copies printed, red mor., gt. ornamental borders on sides, gt. back, with crest in top compartment, g.e., Strawberry-Hill, 1758, 8vo. (672), May 1, Sotheby Quaritch, £5 Walpole (H.) Letters, 6 vol.-Letters to Sir Horace Mann, portraits, 4 vol., polished cf. gt., g.t., by Rivière, uniform -Letters addressed to the Countess of Upper Ossory, portraits, 2 vol., orig. cl., 1848, 8vo. (325), June 19, Sotheby Griffin, £8 Walpole (H.) Letters, edited by P. Cunningham, Library ed., fronts., 9 vol., hf. mor. ex., t.e.g., roan sides, 1857-9, 8vo. (361), Jan. 11, Hodgson Joseph, £4 7s. 6d. [See also Sotheby, March 20, £2 5s.; Anderson Galleries, Jan. 18, $42.50; American Art Association, Jan. 26, $45.]

Walpole (H.) Letters, edited by Peter Cunningham, portrait, 9 vol., cl., 1861, 8vo. (122), July 31, Sotheby

Bumpus, £3 18s. [See also Lot 385, 1880 ed., £2 8s.; May 8, 1891 ed., £2 10s.; Hodgson, March 22, 1861 ed., £7; Puttick, June 14, 1866 ed., £2 5s.]

Walpole (H.) Letters, edited by Mrs. Paget Toynbee, por

traits and facs., 16 vol., cl., t.e.g., 1903-5, 8vo. (52), July 19, Hodgson Shipton, £4 7s. 6d. [See also July 12, £4 2s. 6d.; Feb. 22, £6 5s.; Sotheby, March 13, ₤4 4s.; American Art Association, March 15, $18.] Walpole] (H.) The Magpie and her Brood, a Fable, from the Tales of Bonaventure des Periers, Valet de Chambre to the Queen of Navarre, addressed to Miss Hotham, 2 l., unbound, Strawberry Hill Press [1764], 4to. (493), June 19, Sotheby Hoare, £5 IOS.

[See also July 31, £4 5s.] Walpole (H.) Memoirs of George the Third, by Sir D. Le Marchant, 4 vol., and Supplement, by Dr. Doran, 2 vol., together 6 vol., Library eds., numerous portraits, polished cf., 1845-59, 8vo. (76), March 22, Hodgson

Arthurton, £9 2s. 6d. Walpole (H.) Works, original ed., portraits and plates, 5 vol., tree-marbled cf., full gt. backs, 1798, 4to. (940), April 3, Sotheby Carling, 1 5s. Walpole Society, containing over 450 photogravure and other plates, Vol. i.-ix., 9 vol., hf. cl., Oxford, 1912-21, 4to. (278), June 8, Christie

£8 [See also Sotheby, Nov. 28, Vol. i.-viii., £8.] [Walsh (Father Peter).] A Prospect of the State of Ireland from the year of the world 1756 to the year of Christ 1652, written by P. W., orig. sprinkled cf., gt. back, marbled edges (breaking at joints), in cl. folder, [London], printed for Johanna Broom, 1682, sm. 8vo. (36), Jan. 26, American Art Association $210

[With the autograph signature, "Ik Walton, 1683-4," on first fly-leaf, and the following note, entirely in Walton's autograph, Izaak Walton, given me June 28 by the author, Mr. Peter Welch," facing title, and the author's name also filled out on title by Walton. A number of corrections in the text are in the author's autograph. With pencil note, "Sale of Pickering's Books, August 19, 1859," on inside of front cover, and recorded in Lowndes as having been sold in that collection; autograph signature of "J. F. Russell" (John Fuller Russell), clergyman and book collector, and armorial bookplate of Rev. Herbert Hawes, Salisbury.]

[Walsh (W.)] A Dialogue concerning Women, being a defence of the Sex, first ed. (some leaves cut close at the foreedge), unbound, 1691, 8vo. (4851), Nov. 7, Sotheby

[With a preface by John Dryden.] Arthur, £2 12s. 6d. Walter (William). The spectacle of Louers, hereafter foloweth a lytell contrauers dyalogue bytwene loue and councell, with many goodly argumentes of good women and bad, original ed., in verse of 7-line stanzas, black letter, 16 ll., L'Envoy by William Copland, two woodcut figures on title-page, labelled Councell and Loue" respectively, printer's Caxton device on last page, dark blue mor. ex., (897)

XXXVI.

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g.e., by C. Lewis, from the Heber collection, Wynkyn de Worde, n.d., sm. 4to. (694), Feb. 6, Sotheby

Rosenbach, £580

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[Apparently only one other copy is known.] Walton (Izaak). The Compleat Angler, first ed., an early issue, with the misprint "contention" for contentment in the penultimate line of the song on p. 245, engravings of fish (attributed to Lombart) in the text, music to The Angler's Song" by H. Lawes, the last page of which is printed upside down, wants title (supplied in fac.), some headlines, pagination of some leaves and foreedges of a few leaves cut into, one leaf (sign. M4) slightly defective at bottom (size 5 in by 3 in.), Printed by T. Maxey for Rich. Marriot, 1653-Cotton (Charles). The Compleat Angler, being Instructions how to angle for a Trout or Grayling in a clear Stream, Part ii., first ed. [collation: A4, B8-H8, sign. A1, license leaf, dated April 5, 1676], engraved monogram on title, imprint shaved, removing date, some headlines cut into, 2 or 3 ll. slightly shaved at bottom or fore-edge, Printed for Richard Marriott and Henry Brome, 1676, and another, in 1 vol., old cf., 8vo. (391), July 27, Sotheby Quaritch, £150 Walton (I.) The Compleat Angler, or the Contemplative Man's Recreation, being a Discourse of Fish and Fishing, not unworthy the perusal of most Anglers, first ed., vignette on title, vignette engravings in text and 2 pp. of music (wanting first and last blank leaves and 7 II., Q5R3, some leaves wormed in top margins, in some cases affecting the headlines, and several leaves stained in the margins), contemp. cf., London, printed by T. Maxey for Rich. Marriot, in S. Dunstans Church-yard, Fleet Street, 1653, sm. 8vo. (171), June 22, Hodgson

£80

[See also Sotheby, Dec. 9, imperfect, £40.] Walton (I.) The Compleat Angler, the second ed., much enlarged, vignettes on title and engravings of fish (some margins cut close and a few letters cut into, otherwise perfect, clean and genuine throughout), purple mor., by F. Bedford, T. M. for Rich. Marriot, 1655, sm. 8vo. (13), Feb. 27, Sotheby Pickering, £86 [A-Q in twelves. The second edition is certainly rarer than the first. Measures 5 in. by 3 in.] Walton (I.) The Compleat Angler, etc., third ed., dolphin device on title and engraved vignettes of fish, old polished cf., London, J. G. for Rich. Marriot, 1661, 12mo. (320), Oct. 26, Anderson Galleries

$145 Walton (I.) The Compleat Angler, fourth ed., engraving on title and engravings in the text (small hole in title, repaired, and in sign. K1), crushed brown mor. gt., g.e., by Rivière, R. Marriot, 1668, 8vo. (392), July 27, Sotheby [See also Nov. 24, £11.] Maggs, £12 15s.

Walton (I.) and Cotton (C.) The Complete Angler, edited by

J. Hawkins, 2 parts, plates and engravings, cf., 1760, 8vo. (219), Nov. 28, Sotheby Finch, £2

[See also July 3, £2 12s.; May 22, £2; Nov. 24, £1 14s.] Walton (I.) and Cotton (C.) The Complete Angler, with Lives and Notes by Sir J. Hawkins, seventh ed., LARGEST PAPER, II by 9 in., portraits, plates and vignettes after Wale and others and extra illustrated by the insertion of 130 portraits and views (some inlaid), green mor., uncut, monogram and motto within a circle on upper cover, Samuel Bagster, 1808 (739), March 13, Sotheby Lowe, £10 [See also Feb. 13, imperfect, £5 10s.; May 15, £5.] Walton (I.) and Cotton (C.) The Complete Angler, with Lives of the authors by Sir John Hawkins and present editor, Bagster's second ed., portraits, plates after Wale, straightgrained green mor. gt., line border round sides, with corner ornaments, g.e., a fine copy, 1815, 8vo. (217), March 13, Sotheby Lowe, £4 IOS.

[See also July 3, £2 5s.; May 15, £3.] Walton (I.) and Cotton (C.) Complete Angler, with memoirs and notes by Sir H. Nicolas, India proof plates, LARGE PAPER, 2 vol., green mor. ex., g.e., W. Pickering, 1836, imp. 8vo. (593), March 29, Hodgson

£8

[See also March 22, £5; Puttick, June 14, £4 IOS.; Sotheby, Nov. 14, £6 15s.; Oct. 19, £5 10s.; July 31, £4 15s.; American Art Association, Jan. 26, $62.50; Anderson Galleries, March 14, $150.]

Walton (I.) and Cotton (C.) Complete Angler, with original memoirs and notes by Sir H. Nicolas (proof copy, with an additional set of 61 plates by Stothard inserted), French mor., tooled backs and sides, by Rivière, 2 vol., Pickering, 1836, imp. 8vo. (111), Dec. 5, Dowell £19 10S. Walton (I.) and Cotton (C.) Compleat Angler, edited by G. A. B. Dewar, the Winchester ed., plates by Strang and Cameron, on Japanese vell., edition limited to 150 copies, 2 vol., hf. green mor. gt., uncut, g.t., 1902, 4to. (1147), Nov. 28, Sotheby Kolikman, £12 Walton (I.) and Cotton (C.) Compleat Angler, another copy, plates, on Japanese vell., 2 vol., cl., 1902 (1148), Nov. 28, Sotheby Danielson, £6 15s. [See also Hodgson, March 22, £7 10s.; April 26, £4 10s.] Walton (I.) Life of Dr. Donne, Sir H. Wotton, R. Hooker, G. Herbert, portraits, polished cf. gt., g.e., by Rivière, 1670, 8vo. (942), April 3, Sotheby Dobell, £4

[See also Dec. 12, £2 10s.; July 31, £3 5s.; Hodgson, April 26, £4; American Art Association, April 11, presentation copy, $100; Anderson Galleries, Feb. 20, $31.] Walton (I.) The Lives of Dr. John Donne, Sir Henry Wotton, Mr. Richard Hooker and Mr. George Herbert, fourth ed., with several alterations, corrections and notes in the autograph of the author (wanting the portraits and rebacked), old panelled cf., 1675, 8vo. (786), April 26, Hodgson Myers, £18

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