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edges uncut), by Rivière, Newcastle, 1818 (2), Jan. 25, Sotheby Lewis, £4 10S. [See also Jan. 25, £2 5s.; Feb. 8, mor., £6 10s.; July 5, with Select Fables, £4 18s.; Hodgson, Jan. 13, bds., £4 10S.; June 23, £4; June 23, ed. 1820, £3 17s. 6d.] Esop. Esop's Fables, with an Introduction by G. K. Chesterton, illustrations in colour by Arthur Rackham, signed by the artist, cl., g.t., 1912, 4to. (130), Jan. 25, Sotheby Brewster, £1 12S.

[See also April 19, £2 10s.; Hodgson, Dec. 9, £1 198.] Æsop and Gay. The Fables of Esop, engraved plates by Grainger and others, 2 vol.-Fables, by John Gay, engraved plates by William Blake and others, 2 vol., together 4 vol., pol. blue cf., gt. backs, gt. panelled sides, with the arms of John, Earl of Clare, on sides, g.e., fine copies, London, printed for John Stockdale, 1793, roy. 8vo. (4), Feb. 8, Anderson Galleries $110 Affo (Ireneo). Saggio di Memorie su la Tipografia Parmense del Secolo XV., padded with blanks, old straight-grained mor. gt., g.e., with the Syston Park bookplate, 1791, 4to. (607), July 29, Sotheby Maggs, £6 5s. Agar (Ben.) Clericus Mercati, &c., concerning the generall Clarke of the Market, and the Legal proceedings thereof, 8 l., 1641-The Lost Sheepe is found, under a New Disguise of a Yong-raw-scull'd Wit, &c., 8 11., partly in verse, 1642, together, sewed, 4to. (1), Dec. 14, Sotheby Thorp, £6 5s.

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[The second tract is a scheme for founding at Kingstone upon Thames, in the County of Surrey, a private Schoole or Nursery, for the generall education of female youth only, at, or from the age of eight yeares. . . teaching ... Latine, French, and writing... Needle-work, Tentworke, or the like, Musicall instruments, and Dancing."] Agricola (Georgius). De Re Metallica, numerous woodcut illustrations, cf., Basil, 1657 (615), Mar. 24, Hodgson Edwards, f1 IOS. Agrippa (Henry Cornelius). La Clavicule Magique et Cabalistique du Sage Roy Salomon, MS. on paper, 210 ll. (247mm. by 214mm.), vellum, XVII. Cent., 4to. (288), Feb. 15, Sotheby Lumsden, £4 5S. Agrippa (H. C.) Three Books of Occult Philosophy, translated by J. F., engraved portrait, hf. sheepskin, 1651, 4to. (4), Mar. 8, Sotheby McLeish, £4

[See also Hodgson, Nov. 25, £5 10s.; Nov. 25, ed. 1727, broken, £2 12S.] Agrippa (Henry Cornelius). Of the Vanitie and Vncertaintie of Artes and Sciences, Englished by Ia. San[ford] Gent., black letter, border round title, top and side margin of title cut away, head-line of one leaf of Preface cut into, margin of last leaf very slightly defective and repaired (just touching the text), hf. cf., London, H. Bynneman, 1575, 4to. (3), Mar. 8, Sotheby Barnard, £6 158.

Ahlberg (A.) Swedish Architecture of the Twentieth Century, with Preface by Yerbury, numerous collotype plates and plans, buckram, 1925, sm. folio (603), Dec. 2, Hodgson [See also Mar. 24, £2 18s.] Batsford, £2 14s. Aiken (Conrad). Priapus and the Pool, bds., uncut, Cambridge, Dunster House, 1922, sm. 4to. (304), Jan. 18, Anderson Galleries

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[One of 425 copies. With Bruce Rogers' Father Time device on last page.]

Aikin (L.) The Life of Joseph Addison, illustrated by the insertion of about 70 engraved portraits, views, etc., inlaid, blue mor. gt., g.t., 1843, cr. 8vo. (231), June 14, Sotheby Dobell, £2 15s. Aikin (Lucy). The Court of Queen Elizabeth, James I., Charles I., and George II., in all 8 vol., cf. gt., 1826 (1452), April 27, Hampton £3 15s. Ainslie (Sir R.) and Mayer (L.) Views in Egypt, Palestine, and the Ottoman Empire, 96 col. aquatint plates, 3 vol. in 1, hf. mor. gt., 1803-05 (302), June 30, Hodgson

Edwards, £3 5S.

[See also Jan. 13, ed. 1804, 2 vol., hf. cf., £3; Sotheby, June 28, ed. 1804, 3 vol. in 1, cf., £3.]

Ainslie (Sir Robert) and Mayer (L.) Views in the Ottoman Dominions, 71 col. plates, red mor., with emblematic tooling on the upper cover and on back panels, g.t., a fine copy, 1810, folio (317), Dec. 14, Sotheby

Thorp, £4 10S. [See also Dec. 7, rubbed, £3 5s.; Feb. 1, rubbed, £2 18s. Ainsworth (William Harrison). Original Autograph Manuscript Draft of his Novel, "Tower Hill," 379 PP., 4to., bound in a 4to vol. of full red straight-grain mor. gt. (4), Mar. 13, Amer. Art Assoc. $230

[With a great number of corrections, deletions, and cancellations. This draft comprises about two-thirds of the completed book, differing from the version that was published. Some of the pages have been rewritten four times, and many at least twice.} Ainsworth (W. H.) Auriol, being the Supplement to Colburn's New Monthly Magazine, edited by W. H. Ainsworth, July 1, 1845, plates by Phiz, and a portrait, olive mor., panelled gt. back, inside dentelles, wrappers bound in, g.t., by Rivière, 1845, 8vo. (13), Feb. 8, Sotheby

[See also June 14, £4.] Spencer, £5 15S. Ainsworth (W. H.) Beatrice Tyldesley, first ed., with 14 loose plates from the only illustrated edition, 3 vol., orig. cl., Tinsley Brothers, 1878, 8vo. (625), June 14, Sotheby Gibbs, £2 10S. Ainsworth (W. H.) Cardinal Pole, first ed., 3 vol., orig. brown cloth gt., Chapman & Hall, 1863, 8vo. (613), June 14, Sotheby Hollings, £2 Ainsworth (W. H.) The Constable of the Tower, first ed.,

plates by Sir John Gilbert, 3 vol., orig. cloth gt., fine copy, Chapman & Hall, 1861, 8vo. (611), June 14, Sotheby Ellis, £4 5s. Ainsworth (W. H.) Crichton, first illustrated ed., plates by H. K. Browne, orig. cloth gt., fine copy, Chapman & Hall, 1849, 8vo. (601), June 14, Sotheby Ellis, £8

[See also Feb. 8, £5 15s.; June 14, ed. 1853, £1 15s.] Ainsworth (W. H.) Guy Fawkes, or the Gunpowder Treason, an Historical Romance, first ed., illustrated by G. Cruikshank, 3 vol., orig. cloth, uncut, a remarkably clean copy, 1841, 8vo. (255), May 5, Hodgson Spencer, £12 5s.

[See also Sotheby, Feb. 8, cf., £10 10s.; June 14, ed. 1844, rebacked, £2 5s.] Ainsworth (W. H.) Jack Sheppard, a Romance, first ed., portrait and plates by G. Cruikshank, 3 vol., orig. cloth, uncut, 1839, 8vo. (94), July 29, Sotheby Dobell, £10 IOS.

[See also Feb. 8, cf., £9; April 19, cf., rubbed, £2 15s.; June 14, cl., £8; Hodgson, Oct. 14, cl., £9; Mar. 31, cl., fine, 14 Puttick, May 12, cl., £6; Dowell, May 25, £1 48.; Sotheby, June 14, ed. 1840, mor., £2 158.; June 11, ed. 1854, cl., £2.]

Ainsworth (W. H.) James the Second, first ed., fronts. by
R. W. Buss, and the series of plates issued in Ainsworth's
Magazine inserted, 3 vol., pol. cf. gt., orig. labels pre-
served, g.t., by Rivière, Henry Colburn, 1848, 8vo. (16),
Feb. 8, Sotheby
Maggs, £8 5s.

[See also June 14, bds., £8 5s.]
Ainsworth (W. H.) The Lancashire Witches, first ed., 3
orig. cloth, 1849 (232), Mar. 24, Hodgson

vol.,

Export Book Co., £2 [See also ed. 1854, Sotheby, Feb. 8, illus. ed., inscribed, £4 June 14, illus. ed., inscribed, £4 15s.]

Ainsworth (W. H.) Mervyn Clitheroe, first ed., front., engraved title and plates by H. K. Browne, hf. cf., orig. cloth covers bound in, g.t., George Routledge & Co., 1858, 8vo. (609), June 14, Sotheby Hollings, £3

See also Feb. 8, £5; Hodgson, Nov. 25, £1.] Ainsworth (W. H.) The Miser's Daughter, first ed., plates by G. Cruikshank, 3 vol., pol. cf. gt., g.t., by Rivière, Cunningham & Mortimer, 1842, 8vo. (11), Feb. 8, Sotheby Sotheran, £11

[See also Jan. 25, £1 18s.; May 17, £1 8s.; June 14, £2 10s.] Ainsworth (W. H.) Old Saint Paul's, first ed., pres. copy, with inscription by the Author on title of Vol. 1, plates by J. Franklin, a few slight thumb-marks, 3 vol., hf. mor., g.t., Hugh Cunningham, 1841, 8vo. (10), Feb. 8, Sotheby Newton, £14 IOS.

[See also Dec. 7, cl., £1 15s.; Hodgson, Feb. 24, cl., £2; May 5, cl., £7 7s.; Ed. 1847-Amer. Art Assoc., Nov. 18, $32.50; Hodgson, Nov. 4, 2 12s.; Sotheby, Nov. 2, orig. cl., £6 10s.; Feb. 8, £6 5s.; May 17, £5; June 14, £5.]

Ainsworth (W. H.) Ovingdean Grange, first ed., plates by
H. K. Browne, pol. cf. gt., an orig. cover and back strip
bound in, g.t., Routledge, Warne, etc., 1860, 8vo. (22),
Feb. 8, Sotheby
Hollings, £2 12s. 6d.

[See also June 14, cl., £2 10s.] [Ainsworth (W. H.)] Rookwood, a Romance, first ed., 3 vol., cloth, uncut, 1834, 8vo. (150), Oct. 14, Hodgson

West, £3 IOS.

[See also Sotheby, Feb. 8, ed. 1836, £8 10s.; June 14, £2 10s.; June 14, ed. 1851, £9 10s.; June 14, ed. 1857, £2 58.] Ainsworth (W. H.) Saint James, first ed., plates by G. Cruikshank, including five which appeared only in Ainsworth's Magazine, 3 vol., three or four lower blank margins defective, pol. cf. gt., g.t., John Mortimer, 1844, 8vo. (12), Feb. 8, Sotheby

Foyle, £5 IOS.

[See also ed. 1846, £1 14s.] Ainsworth (W. H.) The Star-Chamber, first illustrated ed., plates by Phiz, pol. cf. gt., an orig. cover bound in, g.t., G. Routledge, 1857, 8vo. (19), Feb. 8, Sotheby [See also June 14, £3 10s.]

Foyle, £3 15s. Ainsworth (W. H.) The Tower of London, first ed., in the 12-13 parts, with nearly all the advts., plates by George Cruikshank, some in the earliest state, orig. wrappers, except Part 2, name "Ann Ainsworth" on front wrapper of Part 4, Part II is a pres. copy from Mr. Ainsworth with the receiver's name cut off, the whole enclosed in padded cloth case, Richard Bentley, 1840, 8vo. (444), May 17, Sotheby Adair, £24

[See also Nov. 16, mor., £3 3s.; Dec. 7, cl., £2 2s.; Jan. 25, cl., £6 10s.; Feb. 8, cl., 13; April 19, cl., £1 2s.; June 14, cl., £8 10s.; Hodgson, April 21, cl., £16 10s.; Puttick, Nov. 4, cf., £3 3s.; May 12, 2; Amer. Art Assoc., Mar. 3, $100; Anderson Galleries, Mar. 23, $37.50.] Ainsworth (W. H.) Windsor Castle, first 8vo ed., portrait, plates by G. Cruikshank and T. Johannot, orig. cloth gt., Henry Colburn, 1843, 8vo. (446), May 17, Sotheby Robson, £7 5s. [See also June 14, cf., £2 5s.; June 14, cl., £3 5s.; Hodgson, Oct. 21, cl., £1 12s.; Dec. 9, cl., £1 12s. 1844-Sotheby, Dec. 7, mor., 1 12s.; Hodgson, June 10, cl., £I IOS. Ed. 1845-Sotheby, Feb. 8, cf., £7 5s.; May 17, cf., £3 5s.}

Ed.

Ainsworth (W. H.) Novels, library ed., illustrated by G. Cruikshank and others, 16 vol., uniform hf. dark green mor., t.e.g., G. Routledge, n.d., 8vo. (520), Mar. 31, Hodgson Thorp, £9 10S.

[See also Oct. 14, £4 10s.; Nov. 4. £12 5s.; Dowell, June 28, £5 5s. Ed. 1901-Amer. Art Assoc., Dec. 10, $22; Hodgson, Feb. 10, £2.]

Ainsworth (W. H.) [Works], first issue of the 8vo. Novels,

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plates by Cruikshank and Phiz, orig. cloth, one stained, G. Routledge [1872-77], 8vo. (580), June 14, Sotheby Maggs, £6 Ainsworth (W. H.) The Writings of W. H. Ainsworth author's copyright ed., with illustrations by George Cruikshank, Hablot K. Browne, and others, 16 vol., hf. red cf., gt. backs and tops, fine set, London, George Routledge & Sons, 1898, 8vo. (2), Nov. 4, Amer. Art Assoc. $32.50 Ainsworth's Magazine, Vol. 1 to 8, edited by William Harrison Ainsworth, illustrated by George Cruikshank and Hablot K. Browne (few plates slightly foxed), 8 vol., hf. mor. (some joints cracked), London, 1842-5, 8vo. (6), Feb. 22, Anderson Galleries Airy (Osmund). Charles II., front. portrait of Charles II. in colours, and numerous fine plates, full crimson levant mor., with richly gt. emblematic tooling on sides and back, inner gt. borders, g.t., uncut, orig. wrappers and backbone bound in, by Durvand, London, Goupil & Co., 1901, roy. 4to. (97), Nov. 4, Amer. Art Assoc. $40

$25

[Edition limited to 1,250 copies on fine paper, of which this is No. 200. See also Dowell, Oct. 26, £1 148.] A'Kempis (Thomas). De Imitatione Cristi et de contemptu omnium vanitatum mundi, etc., old vell., with clasp, no title [Hain 9093], [Ulm, Zainer], anno 1487, 12mo. (779), Dec. 7, Sotheby Zwemmer, £5 IOS.

[See also Mar. 25, £4 5s.; Feb. 1, ed. 1580-1, £5 10s.; Dec. 14, ed. 1585, orig. vell., £31; Anderson Gall., Feb. 15, ed. 1589, orig. vell., from Q. Eliz. library, $950; Sotheby, July 26, ed. 1793, £15 10s.]

A'Kempis (T.) Opera et Vita, lit. goth, double column, painted initials, some lower margins a little stained [Hain *9769), mor. (rubbed), Nuremberg, Caspar Hochfeder, 1494, folio (100), Mar. 25, Sotheby Ellis, £9 10s. A[kerman] (John Yonge). Italian Tales. Tales of Humour, Gallantry, and Romance, first ed., first issue, plates on India paper by George Cruikshank, blue mor., panelled gt. back, g.t., by Rivière, fine copy, Charles Baldwyn, 1824, 8vo. (263), Feb. 8, Sotheby Brewster, £7 5S.

[See also July 5, cf., £1 8s.; Hodgson, Feb. 24, cf., £3 4s.; Feb. 24, ed. 1827, bds., £6 10s.] Akerman (J. Y.) Tales of Other Days, first ed., plates by G. Cruikshank, orange mor. gt., panelled gt. back, publisher's list of books bound in, g.t., fine copy, Effingham Wilson, 1830, 8vo. (26), Feb. 8, Sotheby Maggs, £3 10S. Alabaster (William). Roxana Tragædia. A plagiarii unguibus vindicata, aucta, & agnita ab Authore Gvlielmo Alabastro, first ed., engraved title-page by Gaywood, ornamental band on printed title-page, cf. antique (repair on one corner), Londini, excudebat Gulielmus Jones, 1632, sm. 8vo. (1), May 20, Anderson Galleries

$75

[See also Hodgson, May 20, orig. vellum, £13 10s.]

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