De Vinne (Theodore L.) The Invention of Printing, first ed., illustrated with facs. of early types and woodcuts, hf. red levant mor., gt. top, uncut, wrappers of the orig. parts bound in, New York, 1876, thick 8vo. (414), Oct. 25, Anderson Galleries $10.25 [Dewes (Giles).] An Introductorie for to lerne to rede, to pronounce and to speake French trewly, compyled for the ryghte hygh, excellent and moste vertuous lady, the lady Mary of Englande, doughter to our mooste gracious souerayne lorde Kynge Henry the eight, black letter (2 types), 2 titles within woodcut borders, royal arms on reverse of first title, woodcut initials, contemp. English cf., border on sides composed of a roll of a classical design containing medals, heads, storks, masks, vase ornaments, etc. in centre, within a shield, the binder's initials, M. D., separated by an interlacing cord (top of back defective and two corners slightly defective), [colophon] Thus endeth the second and laste boke of this introduction, Printed at London by John waley [circa 1540], sm. 4to. (652), June 15, Sotheby Quaritch, £60

[On title, Janvier 1554.

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Je suis a marie bridges Le dixme iour de Copies recorded in BOOK-PRices Current for 1897 and 1912 give Nicholas Bourman_as printer. Collation of above copy: A-V in fours, Aa-Dd in fours and Ee 6 11.]

D'Hozier. Armorial Général de la France, ou Registres de la Noblesse de France [1738-68], numerous cuts of arms, Io vol., well bound in hf. mor., t.e.g., Paris, Firmin Didot -Indicateur du Grand Armorial Général, par L. Paris, with additions and corrections, 2 vol. in 1, hf. mor., 1865, together II vol., roy. 4to. and 8vo. (591), July 27, Hodgson L. J. Symes, £8 8s.

Dial (The), edited by C. Shannon and C. Ricketts, with lithographic and other illustrations by the editors, etc., and Contributions in prose and verse by John Gray, Laurence Housman and others, a complete set of the 5 numbers (the first foxed and the wrapper defective), wrappers, 1889-1897, 4to. (98), June 10, Hodgson Danielson, £8 5s. Dialogues in Englysshe (The) bytwene a Doctour of dyvynyte and a student in the lawes of Englande, newly corrected and imprinted with newe addycyons, bds., cf. back, London, Wyllyam Myddylton, 1543, sm. 8vo. (155), Dec. 6, Anderson Galleries

$105

Dialogue. I Pray you Be not Angry: For I will make you merry, a pleasant and merry Dialogue between Travellers, as they met on the Highway, black letter [A to B in fours] (hole in в 1, making some words defective, and the top portion of 5 11. defective), unbd., 4to. (396), June 28, Sotheby De Ricci, £100

[Possibly unique. We are unable to trace the existence of another. The heading to the first page describes the

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dialogue, which is between Fabiano and Fernunio, as touching their Crosses, and of the Virtue of Patience."] Dialogues. The Dialoges of Creatures moralysed. Applyably and edificatyfly to euery mery and iocund mater, of late trālated out of Latyn into our Englysshe tonge right profitable to the gouernaunce of man. And they be to sell upō Powlys churche yarde, black letter, numerous curious woodcuts, contains 123 ll. only (some defective), inlaid throughout, title in fac., not subject to return, old russ. (rebacked), Absque nota, 4to. (392), June 28, Sotheby Leighton, £7

Dialogus Creaturarum, gothic letter, 102 printed 11., 34 long lines to a page, without numeration or catchwords, 124 outline woodcuts and a fine arabesque border on the first page of text, initials in red, red mor., g.e. [H.-C. 6124], Gouda, Gerard Leeu, 1480, folio (407), May 25, Sotheby Maggs, £88

[First ed., and the first illustrated book produced by Leeu.]

Dialogus creaturarum moralisatus jucundis fabulis plenus (by Nicole de Pergame ?), gothic letter (104 11., including blanks), long lines, 34 to a page, numerous woodcuts throughout (one leaf slightly torn, damaging the text, a few woodcuts col. and some stains, damaging a few words, not subject to return), cf., In opido Goudensi, Gerardus Leeu, 1482, folio (91), Nov. 9, Sotheby Tregaskis, £37 Diaz del Castillo (Bernal). Historia verdadera de la Conquista de la Nueva-España, first ed. (a few 11. stained, a few small slits and tears rather roughly mended), old Spanish cf., gt. back, Madrid, 1632, folio (621), March 1, Sotheby Quaritch, £7 Dibdin (Charles). Songs . . . with Characteristic Sketches by G. Cruikshank, cl. gt., 1850, 8vo. (369), July 20, Sotheby Crosby, £1 Dibdin (Charles). The High-Mettled Racer, to which are added many interesting anecdotes of the Race-Horse, illustrated by 10 first-rate engravings on wood by Robert Cruikshank, polished cf., gt. back, gt. top, by Rivière, London, 1831, 12mo. (415), Oct. 25, Anderson Galleries

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$17

[With a double set of the plates, one col. and one plain.] Dibdin (T. F.) A_Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, plates and woodcuts, engravings in text on India paper (some plates foxed and some 11. discoloured by set-off from plates), 3 vol., mor. gt., panelled back, g.e., 1821, imp. 8vo. (166), Dec. 2, Sotheby Rutbeck, £7 15S.

[Anderson Galleries, Oct. 25, Lot 419, $35; Sotheby, May 9, Lot 432, £2; Jan. 24, Lot 425, £4 5s.; Hodgson, Dec. 16, Lot 127, £5 12s. 6d.; Dec. 1, Lot 460, £4; Sotheby, Dec. 20, Lot 806, £6 15s.]

Dibdin (T. F.) Bibliographical Tour in England, 2 vol.— Ædes Althorpianæ, etc., plates, 4 vol., mor. and cf., g.e., 1822-38, roy. 8vo. (143), Feb. 16, Hodgson Davey, £2 10s. Dibdin (T. F.) Bibliographical Decameron, first ed., illustrations, 3 vol., mor. ex., g.e., 1817, 8vo. (109), Feb. 9, Puttick Heffer, £5 5s. [Sotheby, July 27, Lot 112, £5 15s.; Hodgson, Oct. 27, Lot 894, £4 15s.; Anderson Galleries, Oct. 25, Lot 418, $25.] Dibdin (T. F.) Bibliotheca Spenceriana, a Descriptive Catalogue of the Books printed in the Fifteenth Century in the Library of Earl Spencer, with the Supplement, many facs., 4 vol., hf. red mor. gt., g.t., 1814-15, imp. 8vo. (431), May 9, Sotheby Heffer, £5

[May 9, Lot 14, £I 16s.; Anderson Galleries, Oct. 25, Lot 417, 7 vol., 1814-1823, $47.50; Sotheby, Oct. 25, Lot 643, 6 vol., 2 vol. ports., £7 10s.]

Dibdin (T. F.) Bibliomania, or Book Madness, extended to 7 vol. and extra illustrated by the addition of very many ports., views, col. plates, drawings, facs., tracings, etc., cf. gt., g.t., 1842, imp. 8vo. (409), May 25, Sotheby

Maggs, £23 Dibdin (T. F.) Library Companion, or the Young Man's Guide and the Old Man's Comfort in the Choice of a Library, LARGE PAPER, 2 vol. bound in 3 and illustrated with 400 ports. inserted, dark blue mor., gt. backs, broad gt. borders inside, joints gt., marbled edges, 1824, roy. 8vo. (16), April 25, Sotheby Edwards, £16 Dibdin (T. F.) Reminiscences of a Literary Life, LARGE PAPER, extended to 3 vol. and extra illustrated by the addition of numerous ports., views, autograph letters, woodcuts, orig. drawings, etc., green mor. gt., g.e., 1836, imp. 8vo. (408), May 25, Sotheby Edwards, 11 IOS. Dibdin (T. F.) Typographical Antiquities, or the History of Printing in England, Scotland and Ireland, containing Memoirs of our Ancient Printers, and a Register of Books printed by them, etc., 4 vol., brown mor., by Ringer, London, 1810, 4to. (416), Oct. 25, Anderson Galleries $39 Diccionario Enciclopédico Hispano-Americano, maps, plates and cuts, 25 vol. in 26, hf. mor., Barcelona, 1887-99, imp. 8vo. (688), March 2, Hodgson Quaritch, £12 Dickens (Charles). American Notes for General Circulation, 2 vol., orig. cl., uncut, in full mor. solander case, London, Chapman and Hall, 1842, 8vo. (84), Jan. 20, Anderson Galleries $700

[A fine copy of the rare first issue of the first ed., with the pagination 'xvi." on the second page of contents. On the hf.-title is the autograph inscription: "C. C. Felton, from his friend Charles Dickens, Nineteenth October, 1842." With the bookplate of Louisa Conway Felton.]

Dickens (C.) American Notes, first ed., 2 vol., orig. cl., uncut, a clean copy, 1842 (97), April 13, Hodgson Tregaskis, £2 6s. [Sotheby, Feb. 23, Lot 484, £1 10s.; Puttick, May 4, Lot 124, 1.] Dickens (C.) The Battle of Life, first ed., illustrations by Maclise and others, with the publishers' imprint on the vignette title, cl., g.e. (soiled copy and the binding broken), 1846 (471), Feb. 16, Hodgson Thorp, £28

[July 6, Lot 736, clean copy, £17.] Dickens (C.) Bleak House, first ed., plates by H. K. Browne, hf. mor., g.e., 1853, 8vo. (756), March 14, Sotheby

[Presentation copy to Peter Cunningham.] Maggs, £95 Dickens (C.) Bleak House, first ed., complete in the 19-20 orig. parts, with all the wrappers and advertisements, illustrations by H. K. Browne, enclosed in a mor. silklined case (lettered), Bradbury and Evans, 1852-3, 8vo. (188), June 9, Sotheby Sawyer, £10

[Early issue of first ed., with one plate only in Part ix., the printed slip explanatory of this, and 3 plates in Part x. Sotheby, Dec. 13, Lot 11, £4 15s.; April 25, Lot 149, defective, £3 10s.] Dickens (C.) Bleak House, first ed., in the orig. numbers, plates by "Phiz," with all the advertisements, in fine state, 1853, 8vo. (59), March 16, Hodgson

Spencer, £5 7s. 6d. [Sotheby, Jan. 24, Lot 729, £4 15s.; Dec. 20, Lot 811, £4 15s.] Dickens (C.) Bleak House, first ed., plates by H. K. Browne (wants printed title, engraved title and several plates a little stained or discoloured), hf. green mor., wrappers without advertisements bound in, g.t., 1853, 8vo. (118), Jan. 24, Sotheby Spencer, £1 14S.

[Jan. 24, Lot 116, £1 10s.]

Dickens (C.) A Child's History of England, first ed., front. by F. W. Topham, 3 vol., orig. cl., Bradbury and Evans, 1852-4, 12mo. (187), June 9, Sotheby Edwards, £4

[March 14, 2 6s.; Feb. 23, 2 10s.; Puttick, Feb. 9, £3 10s.; Anderson Galleries, Feb. 8, $14.] Dickens (C.) Chimes, The, a Goblin Story, first issue of the first ed., with publisher's name within the engraved portion of the title, full-page and other illustrations by Maclise, Leech and Stanfield, orig. cl., g.e., a fine copy, Chapman & Hall, 1845 (460), Feb. 23, Sotheby Eden, £3 Dickens (C.) Christmas Books, with illustrations by Leech, Maclise and others, 12 vol., all in orig. cl., g.e., enclosed in a sectional cl. case (lettered), by Rivière, a very fine set, 1843-8, 12mo. (182), June 9, Sotheby Thorp, £90

[The set comprises:-A Christmas Carol, first ed., title in blue and red, green end-papers and Stave i., 1843; The same, title in blue and red, yellow end-papers, Stave i., 1843; The same, title in red and green, green endpapers, Stave i., 1844 (this, according to Eckel, is rarer (289)

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than the copies dated 1843); The same, title in blue and red, yellow end-papers, Stave i., 1843; The same, second ed., title in blue and red, yellow end-papers, Stave i., 1843 (Mr. Alfred Wallis contends that this is a very rare ed., 1,000 copies only were printed); The Chimes, first issue of the first ed., with the publishers' name part of the engraved vignette title-page, 1845 (an autograph letter of Dickens to Maclise, I p., who designed the front. and vignette, inserted); The same, second issue, with imprint of Chapman & Hall below the vignette, 1845; The Cricket on the Hearth, first ed., 1846; The Battle of Life, first issue (or Eckel's second issue), with plain scroll on engraved title and publishers' name, 1846 (the later state of title inserted to show the alterations); The same, with altered title, the words “ A Love Story” borne by a cupid, and no publisher's imprint, 1846; The Haunted Man, first ed., 1848; The same, with the broken numeral on page 166, 1848.]

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Christmas Books. A Christmas Carol-The Chimes The Cricket on the Hearth-The Battle of Life -The Haunted Man, illustrations, together 5 vol., all in the orig. cl., g.e., in green mor. case, London, 1843-48 (137), Nov. 29, Anderson Galleries $260

[The Christmas Carol is first issue; The Chimes, first issue; The Cricket on the Hearth, also original issue; The Battle of Life is the scarce second issue; The Haunted Man, original issue.]

Dickens (C.) Christmas Carol, first ed., col. illustrations by J. Leech, 1843, etc., together 3 vol., 8vo. (525), April 25, Sotheby Thorp, £16 [Nov. 15, Lot 329, 15 10s.; July 20, Lot 178, £16 10s.; Dec. 13, Lot 78, £15 10s.; Puttick, May 4, Lot 314, £12; Sotheby, Jan. 17, Lot 667, £4.] Dickens (C.) David Copperfield, first ed., with illustrations by H. K. Browne, presentation copy from the author, with inscription by him on leaf of dedication, Peter Rackham, Esquire, from Charles Dickens, Fourth January, 1851," hf. mor., Bradbury and Evans, 1850 (942), April 25, Sotheby Hollings, £77 Dickens (C.) David Copperfield, first ed., illustrations by H. K. Browne, in the orig. 19-20 nos., wrappers, 1849-50, 8vo. (194), Dec. 1, Puttick

Dobell, £28

[Hodgson, Nov. 25, Lot 345, £21; June 2, Lot 474, £20 ; June 10, Lot 242, 18; May 4, Lot 51, £14 5s.; Anderson Galleries, Feb. 8, Lot 84K, $90; Nov. 20, Lot 140, $90; Sotheby, June 9, Lot 186, £24; July 20, Lot 613, 14 10s.; July 27, Lot 162, £8; April 25, Lot 147, £5 15s.; Puttick, June 15, Lot 104, £13.]

Dickens (C.) David Copperfield, first ed., plates by H. K. Browne, orig. cl., 1850, 8vo. (335), Nov. 15, Sotheby Bumpus, ₤2 IOS.