plate. The printed page or engraving being saturated with diluted nitric acid, which does not affect the part covered with printing ink, a transfer is taken on a plate of zinc, which is soon corroded or eaten away by the acid from the non-printed parts of the page, leaving the printed portion in slight relief. A further application of acid deepens the corroding, and heightens the relief to the extent necessary to enable the subject to be printed in the ordinary manner.-Imp. Dictionary, Supp. ANONYM.-Book without a name on the title.-O. H. ANONYMOUS.-Book printed without the author's name on

the title.

APOCONYM (bibliography).—Name deprived of one or more initial letters.-O. H.

APOCRYPHAL (bibliography).—Book whose author is uncertain.

APOSTROPHE (printing).—French, l'apostrophe; German, apostrophe. A sign of abbreviation (') used for letters or syllables omitted at the commencement or end of words, as shou'd, 'bate, 'prentice, tho', and in the genitive case singular number, ending with s, as James'. James'. "The apostrophe is not used for abbreviation in the Holy Scriptures, nor in Forms of Prayers, but everything there is set in full and at length. To this even the Latin law-language had regard, and did not shorten the word DOMINUS, when it had reference to God; whereas Dom. Reg. is put where our Lord the King is understood.-SAVAGE's Dictionary of Printing.

ARISTRONYM (bibliography).—Title of nobility converted into or used as a proper name.-0. H.

ARMARIAN.-An officer in the monastic libraries who had charge of the books to prevent them from being injured by insects, and especially to look after bindings. He had also to keep a correct catalogue.-Chambers' Journal, No. 276, p. 239. ASCETONYM (bibliography).—The name of a saint used as a proper name: as Saint Jean (la mère Angélique de), (i.e., Angélique d'Arnauld d'Andilly).—0. H.

ASTERISK (bibliography).—Greek, asteriskos. The figure of a star, thús (*), used in writing, either to denote an omission, an addition, or some remarkable passage in a book.

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AUDUBON AND BACHMAN. The Birds and Quadrupeds of North Io vols., imperial 8vo, new,

America. Birds, 7 vols.; Quadrupeds, 3 vols. gilt edges. New York, V. G. Audubon : 1856.

$225.00 An early issue of this, the complete 8vo Aubudon, and vastly superior to the Lockwood reprint. BAIRD, BREWER, AND RIDGWAY. History of North American Birds. 64 Plates and 593 Woodcuts. 3 vols., imperial 8vo, cloth. Boston, 1874. Plain Plates, $30.00; colored by hand, $60.00. An entirely new work. The volumes are gotten up in the best taste, and form a new and fine work on the ornithology of North America. Possessors of Audubon and Wilson should secure this book. Only 100 colored copies are printed. BRYDGES, SIR E. Archaica and Heliconia. A Reprint of Scarce Old English Prose Tracts. With Prefaces Critical and Biographical. Vignettes. 5 vols., 4to, newly and beautifully bound in light polished calf, gilt edges. London, 1815.

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BURNEY, CHARLES. A General History of Music from the Earliest Ages to the Present Period. Vignettes by Bartolozzi, and Explanatory Plates. vols., 4to, polished calf, gilt tops, uncut. Fine copy. London, 1789. $60.00 Except Hawkins, the only fine work on the History of Music. Very scarce. D'ARBLAY, MADAME. Diary and Letters. Best edition. 7 vols., 12mo, tree calf.

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DRYDEN, JOHN. Works. Edited, with a Life, by Sir Walter Scott. Second and best edition. Portrait. 18 vols., 8vo, newly bound in light polished calf elegant, gilt edges. Beautiful set. Edinburgh, 1821.

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Spenser, Edmund. Poetical Works. Uniform with the above.

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Poetical Works.

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Roscoe, Thomas. German Novelists. 4 vols.,
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German Romance; Specimens of its Chief Authors.
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Life of Leonardi da Vinci. With an Account of his Works.
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Lays of the Minnesingers and Troubadours. With Notices and Engravings. 8vo. London, 1825.

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LAMB, CHARLES. Complete Correspondence and Works. With an Essay on his Life and Genius by Thomas Parnell. Frontispiece. 4 vols., 12mo, calf, new. Best edition. London, 1870. $18.50 LODGE, EDMUND. Portraits of Illustrious Personages of Great Britain. With Biographical and Historical Memoirs. 12 vols. in 6. The magnificent large paper 4to edition, bound in crimson crushed levant morocco, gilt edges. A sumptuous copy, with proof impressions of the Portraits on India paper. London, 1835. $250.00

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