2652 BRITISH ARCHEOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION. A Report of the Proceedings and Excursions of the Members of the British Archæological Association, at the Canterbury Session, Sept. 1844. By A. J. DUNKIN, thick 8vo. with many engravings, cloth, £1. 1s

"The volume contains most of the papers entire that were read at the Meeting, and revised by the Authors. It will become a scarce book as only 150 were printed; and it forms the first yearly volume of the Archæological Association, or the Archæological Institute.

2653 HISTORY of the Origin and Establishment of Gothic Architecture, and an Inquiry into the mode of Painting upon and Staining Glass, as practised in the Ecclesiastical Structures of the Middle Ages. By JOHN SIDNEY HAWKINS, F.A.S., royal 8vo. eleven plates, bds. 38 6d (pub. at 128) 2654 ACCOUNT of the Sextry Barn at Ely, lately Demolished. With Architectural Illustrations by PROFESSOR WILLIS, 4to. plates, 38 (Camb. Antiq. Soc.) 2655 ARCHITECTURAL Nomenclature of the Middle Ages. By PROFESSOR WILLIS, 4to. 3 plates, 78 (ibid.) 2656 REPORT of the First, Second, and Third General Meetings of the Cambridge Antiquarian Society, 8vo. 18 each (ibid.) 2657 EPITAPHS. A Collection of Epitaphs and Monumental Inscriptions, chiefly in Scotland, 12mo. bds. 58

The most extensive collection ever published relating to Scotland; it contains an entire reprint of the rare work entitled "Monteith's Theatre of Mortality, 1704."

NUMISMATICS.

2658 COINS of the Romans relating to Britain, Desscribed and Illustrated. By J. Y. AKERMAN, F.S.A., Secretary to the Numismatic Society, &c. Second edition, greatly enlarged, 8vo. with plates and woodcuts, cloth, 10s 6d

The Prix de Numismatique' has just been awarded by the French Institute to the author for this work.

"Mr. Akerman's volume contains a notice of every known variety, with copious illustrations, and is published at a very moderate price: it should be consulted, not merely for these particular coins, but also for facts most valuable to all who are interested in the Romano-British history."-Archæological Journal.

2659 ANCIENT Coins of Cities and Princes, Geographically arranged and described, HISPANIA, GALLIA, BRITANNIA. By J. Y. AKERMAN, F.S.A., 8vo. with engravings of many hundred coins from actual examples, cloth, 188

2660 A LIST of Tokens issued by Wiltshire Tradesmen, in the 17th Century. By J. Y. AKERMAN, 8vo. plate, containing 13 specimens, ls 6d

2661 ARIANA ANTIQUA; A Descriptive Account of the Antiquities and Coins of Affghanistan, with a Memoir on the buildings called Topes. By C. MASSON. Edited by H. H. WILSON, Sanscrit Professor at Oxford, 4to. many plates of antiquities, and many hundred coins, cloth, £2. 28

A very handsome and cheap volume. Printed at the expense of the East India Company. 2662 ESSAY on the Numismatic History of the Ancient Kingdom

of the East Angles. By D. H. HAIGH, royal 8vo. 5 plates, containing numerous figures of coins, sewed, 68 2663 LECTURES on the Coinage of the Greeks and Romans, delivered in the University of Oxford. By EDWARD CARDWELL, D.D., Principal of St. Alban's Hall, and Professor of Ancient History, 8vo. cloth, reduced from 8s 6d

to 48

A very interesting historical volume, and written in a pleasing and popular manner.

2664 A HAND-BOOK of English Coins from the Conquest to Victoria. By L. JEWITT, 12mo. 11 plates, cloth, is

2665 NUMISMATIC Chronicle and Proceedings of the Numismatic Society, 5 vols. and 3 Nos. to Oct. 1843; a subscriber's copy, many plates, cloth, £2. 12s 6d (pub. at £3. 178)

LITERARY HISTORY, CRITICISM, AND

BIBLIOGRAPHY.

2666 LECTURES on Dramatic Art and Literature. By AUGUSTUS WILLIAM SCHLEGEL, translated from the German by JOHN BLACK, Esq., Editor of the Morning Chronicle,' 2 vols. foolscap 8vo. SECOND EDITION, cloth, 12s

"The present work contains a critical and historical account of the ancient and modern drama-the Greek, Latin, Italian, German, Spanish, and English. The view which the author has taken of the standard productions, whether tragic or comic, is ingenious and just, and his reasonings on the principles of taste are as satisfactory as they are profound. The acute and sensible remarks-the high tone of moralityare very admirable and exemplary; and we refer those who desire to elevate their understandings to a guide so learned and philosophical as the author of these volumes."-Edinb. Rev.

"In a few pages we reap the fruit of the labour of a whole life. Every opinion formed by the author, every epithet given to the writers of whom he speaks, is beautiful and just, concise and animated." Mad. de Stael's Germany. "A work of extraordinary merit."-Quarterly Review, Vol. XII. pp. 112-46.

2667 WHO WAS JACK WILSON the Singer of Shakespeare's Stage? An attempt to prove the identity of this person with John Wilson, Dr. of Music in the University of Oxford, A.D. 1644. By E. F. RIMBAULT, L.L.D., F.S.A., 8vo. sewed, 18

2668 ON THE CHARACTER OF FALSTAFF, as originally exhibited by Shakespeare in the two parts of King Henry IV. By J. O. HALLIWELL, 12mo. cloth, (only 100 printed), 28 2668*AN INTRODUCTION to Shakespeare's Midsummer Nights' Dream. By J. O. HALLIWELL, 8vo. cloth, (only 250 printed) 38

2669 FIRST SKETCH of Shakespeare's Merrie Wives

of

Windsor, with a collection of the Tales on which the Plot is supposed to have been founded. Edited by J. O. HALLIWELL, 8vo. cloth, 4s 6d (Shakespeare Soc.) 2670 AN ACCOUNT of the only known Manuscript of Shakespeare's Plays, comprising some important variations and corrections in the Merry Wives of Windsor, obtained from a Playhouse copy of that Play recently discovered. By J. O. HALLIWELL, 8vo. sewed, 1s

2671 SHAKESPERIANA, a Catalogue of the Early Editions of Shakespeare's Plays, and of the Commentaries and other Publications illustrative of his Works. By J. O. HALLIWELL, 8vo. cloth, 38

"Indispensable to everybody who wishes to carry on any inquiries connected with Shakespeare, or who may have a fancy for Shakespearian Bibliography."-Spectator.

"It ought to be placed by the side of every edition, It is the most concise, yet the most copious illustration of the subject which has been given to the public,"-Lit. Gaz. 2672 OBERON'S Vision in the Midsummer Nights' Dream.

Il

lustrated by a comparison with LYLIE'S Endymion. By the Rev. J. HALPIN, 8vo. cloth, 4s 6d (Shakespeare Soc.) 2673 THE SHAKESPEARE Society's Papers, being a Miscellany of Contributions Illustrative of the objects of the Society. Vol. I. 6s, Vol. II. 6s 8vo. cloth (ibid.) 2674 REPORT Extraordinary of a late Meeting of the Society of Antiquaries, in a letter to "PUNCH," occasioned by a remarkable Omission in that Gentleman's Account of the Metropolis, post 8vo. 6d

2675 ENGLISH MONASTIC. LIBRARIES. 1. Catalogue of the Library of the Priory of Bretton, Yorkshire. II. Notice of the Libraries belonging to other Religious Houses. By the Rev. JOSEPH HUNTER, F.S.A., 4to. very few printed, 58

2676 CATALOGUE of the Original Library of St. Catherine's Hall, Cambridge, 1475. Edited by Prof. CORRIE, 4to. 18 6d (Camb. Antiq. Soc.) 2677 CATALOGUE of the Contents of the Codex Holbrookianus. By J. O. HALLIWELL, 8vo. Įs

2678 DESCRIPTIVE Catalogue of the Manuscripts and Scarce Books in the Library of St. John's College, Cambridge, Part I. 4s 6d-Part II. 4s 6d, 4to.

(ibid.)

2679 MANUSCRIPT Rarities of the University of Cambridge. By J. O. HALLIWELL, 8vo. bds. 68

.

A companion to Hartshorne's "Book Rarities" of the same University. 2680 CATALOGUE of the Miscellaneous Manuscripts preserved in the Library of the Royal Society. By J. O. HalliWELL, 8vo. 28

2681 A FEW HINTS to Novices in Manuscript Literature. By J. O. HALLIWELL, 8vo. 18

2682 AN ACCOUNT of the European Manuscripts in the Chetham Library, Manchester. By J. O. HALLIWELL,

12mo. 1s

2683 BIBLIOTHECA SCOTO-CELTICA; or, an Account of all the Books which have been printed in the Gaelic Language, with Bibliographical and Biographical Notices. By JOHN REID, 8vo. bds. 5s (pub. at 10s 6d)

BIOGRAPHY, DIARIES, CORRESPONDENCE AND STATE PAPERS.

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2684 ENGLAND'S WORTHIES, under whom all the Civil and Bloody Warres, since Anno 1642 to Anno 1647, are related. By JOHN VICARS, Author of England's Parliamentary Chronicle," &c. &c., royal 12mo. reprinted in the old style, (similar to Lady Willoughby's Diary,) with copies of the 18 rare portraits after Hollar, &c. half morocco, 58

Copies of the original edition have been sold from £16 to £20.

The portraits comprise, Robert, Earl of Essex; Robert, Earl of Warwick; Lord Montague, Earl of Denbigh, Earl of Stamford, David Leslie, Gen. Fairfax, Sir Thomas Fairfax O. Cromwell, Skippon, Col. Massey, Sir W. Brereton, Sir W. Waller, Col. Langhorne, Gen. Poyntz, Sir Thos. Middleton, Gen. Brown, and Gen. Mitton.

2685 AUTOBIOGRAPHY of Joseph Lister, of Bradford, in Yorkshire, to which is added a contemporary account of the Defence of Bradford, and Capture of Leeds by the Parliamentarians in 1642. Edited by THOMAS WRIGHT, 8vo. only 250 copies printed, cloth, 48

"This volume is curious in several respects: 1st, as showing us the spirit, tenets, and manners of the nonconformists; 2dly, as minutely describing some remarkable affairs belonging to the civil wars; and 3rdly, as throwing a light upon the general habits of a particular class of the inhabitants of England two hundred years ago."-Lit. Gaz. "Several remarkable matters may be collected from its perusal, and such compositions are always valuable as pictures of character and manners."-Gent.'s Mag.

"The volume is a curious and interesting fragment of the history of those eventful times. It gives a welcome glimpse of the early nonconformists."-Bradford Observer.

2686 LOVE LETTERS of Mrs. Piozzi, written when she was Eighty, to the handsome Actor, William Augustus Conway, aged Twenty-seven, 8vo. sewed, 28

66

written at three, four, and five o'clock (in the morning) by an Octogenary pen, a heart (as Mrs. Lee says) twenty-six years old, and as H. L. P. feels it to be, all your own."-Letter V.3d Feb. 1820. "This is one of the most extraordinary collections of love epistles we have ever chanced to meet with, and the well known literary reputation of the lady-the Mrs. Thrale, of Dr. Johnson and Miss Burney celebrity--considerably enhances their interest. The letters themselves it is not easy to characterize; nor shall we venture to decide whether they more bespeak the drivelling of dotage or the folly of love; in either case they present human nature to us under a new aspect, and furnish one of those riddles which nothing yet dreamt of in our philosophy can satisfactorily solve."-Polytechnic Rev.

2687 COLLECTION of Letters on Scientific Subjects, illustrative of the Progress of Science in England temp. Elizabeth to Charles II. Edited by J. O. HALLIWELL, 8vo. cloth, 3s (Historical Society of Science.)

Comprising letters of Digges, Dee, Tycho Brahe, Lower, Harriott, Lydyat, Sir W. Petty, Sir. C. Cavendish, Brancker, Pell, &c.; also the autobiography of Sir Samuel Morland, from a MS. in Lambeth Palace, Nat. Tarpoley's Corrector Analyticus, &c. &c.

2688 LETTERS of James, Earl of Perth, to his Sister, the Countess of Errol, and other members of his Family, 1688 -1696. Edited by W. JERDAN, small 4to. cloth, 6s 6d (Camden Soc.)

Henry VIII.,
Edited by T.

2689 PLUMPTON CORRESPONDENCE; a Series of Letters written in the reigns of Edward IV. to by the Plumpton Family of Yorkshire. STAPLETON, Small 4to. pp. 450, cloth, 18s (Camden Soc.) 2690 MEMOIR of John Aubrey the Antiquary, embracing his Autobiographical Sketches, Review of his personal and literary merits, and Anecdotes of his Contemporaries. By JOHN BRITTON, 4to. engravings, very few printed, cloth, 158 (Wiltshire Topog. Soc.)

2691 THE WILL of Thomas Tusser, author of the "Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry," to which is added his Metrical Autobiography, 4to. only 100 privately printed by C. Clark, of Great Totham Hall Essex, ls

2692 DIARY of Dr. Thomas Cartwright, Bishop of Chester, Aug. 1686 to Oct. 1687, now first printed. Edited by the Rev. JOSEPH HUNTER, Sm. 4to. cloth, 4s 6d (Camden Soc.) Cartwright was one of James the Second's creatures for the purpose of furthering Popery in England, and also principal commissioner for depriving Dr. Hough of the Presidency of Magdalen College, Oxford. 2693 PRIVATE Diary of Dr. John Dee, and the Catalogue of his Library of MSS. now first printed. Edited by J. O. HALLIWELL, smail 4to. cloth, 5s

(ibid.)

It gives the reader a most curious insight into the "sayings and doings" of this celebrated man during his residence at Mortlake in Surrey.