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149 Morris (W.) The Water of the Wondrous Isles, 1897, folio (631) Bickers, £5 10S. 150 Caxton (W.) The Recuyell of the Histories of Troye, 2 vol., 1892, folio (632)

Tregaskis, £5 15s.

151 Caxton (W.) The Golden Legend, 3 vol., 1892, folio (634)

Tregaskis, £8

152 The Tale of Beowulf, Englished by Morris and Wyatt, 1895, folio (633) Dobell, £3 35. 153 Morris (W.) Love is Enough, 1897, folio (635) Shepherd, £7 154 Chaucer (Geoffrey). Works, edited by F. S. Ellis, 1886, folio W. Ward, £58

(636) 155 King (E.) Munimenta Antiqua, 4 vol., plates, russia, 1799, folio (901) Bull, £14s. 156 La Fontaine (J.) Contes et Nouvelles en Vers, 2 vol. in I, plates by R. De Hooge, morocco, gilt edges, Amsterdam, 1685, 8vo. (688) Sotheran, £1 125. 157 Lavater (J. C.) Essays on Physiognomy, translated by H. Hunter, 3 vol. in 5, plates, russia gilt, 1789-98, royal 4to. (266) Hill & Son, £3 IS. 158 Lippmann (Dr. F.) Engravings and Woodcuts by Old Masters, xvth to xixth centuries, reproduced in facsimile by the Imperial Press of Berlin, under the direction of Dr. F. Lippmann, 8 parts, facsimiles, many in colours, half bound, uncut, 1889-97, folio (568) Quaritch, £18 10s. The Heptameron, 5 vol., plates after Freudenberg, cloth gilt, 1894, 8vo. (663) H. R. Hill, £1 7s. 160 Masuccio. The Novellino of Masuccio, translated by W. Waters, 2 vol., plates by E. R. Hughes, printed on Japanese vellum paper (250 copies), half vellum, 1895, 4to. (858)

159 Margaret of Navarre.

161 Molière.

Thorpe, £2 16s. Dramatic Works, translated by Van Laun, 6 vol., plates by Lalauze, cloth, Edinburgh, 1875, 8vo. (442)

J. Brown, I IS. 162 Morier's Adventures of Hajji Baba, edited by C. Wills, illustrations, cloth, 1897, 8vo. (813) Hornstein, £135. 163 Muratorius (L.) Rerum Italicarum Scriptores, 25 vol. in 28-The Continuation, 2 vol., together 30 vol., half russia gilt, Mediolani et Florentiæ, 1723-70, folio (307)

Bull, £28

164 Napoleon. Illustrated Records of Events in the Battle of Waterloo, coloured folding plates, half morocco, 1815, folio (905) Rimell, £2 18s. 165 Nash (T.) History of Worcestershire, 2 vol., plates, half calf, uncut (sold not subject to return), 1781-82, folio (335) W. Daniell, I 195. 166 Plato's Dialogues, by Jowett, 5 vol., cloth, Oxford, 1875, 8vo. (659) H. R. Hill, £2 4s. 167 Psalms. Tne whole Booke of David's Psalmes both in Prose and Meeter, with apt notes to sing them withal, old silk binding embroidered with silver thread, curious engraved clasps, Printed by R. C. for the Company of Stationers, 1643, 12m0. (206) Pickering, £1 12s.

168 Ratzel's History of Mankind, vol. 1 and 2, coloured plates and woodcuts, half morocco gilt, 1896-97, 8vo. (422) Phillips, £1 169 Rogers (S.) Poems, 2 vol., portrait after Lawrence, and woodcuts morocco extra, gilt edges, Moxon, 1845, 8vo. (441) Sotheran, £2 [Presentation copy from the Author to Giulia, Viscountess Villiers, with autograph inscription by the poet.-Catalogue.] 170 Ruskin (J.) Modern Painters, 6 vol., 1888, imperial 8vo. (655) Maggs, £3 12s.

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171 Ruskin (J.) Notes on his Collection of Drawings by Turner, plates, half morocco, 1878, 4to. (873) 172 Scott (Sir W.) Waverley Novels, Abbotsford edition, 12 vol., plates, calf gilt, 1842-47, 8vo. (74) McMinn, £3 18s. 173 Scott (Sir W.) Illustrations to the Waverley Novels, 3 vol. (should be four), plates, half morocco, Tilt, 1834 (831) Sotheran, £1 35. 174 Shakespeare (W.) Works, by Irving and Marshall, 8 vol., illustrations, cloth gilt, 1892, 4to. (845) McMinn, £1 1IIS. 175 Sowerby (J.) English Botany, 4 vol., coloured plates, cloth, 1863, 8vo. (169) George, £2 25. 176 Studio (The), vol. 7 to 13, illustrations, half calf, 1896-98The Art of 1897, half calf, 1897, 4to. (560) G. H. Brown, £28s. 177 Walpole (H.) Anecdotes of Painting in England, portraits, 3 vol., cloth, 1862, 8vo. (101)

George, £1 16s. 178 Walpole (H.) Letters, by Cunningham, portraits, 9 vol., cloth, Bohn, 1861, 8vo. (102)

George, £4 25.

179 Waring (J. O.) Masterpieces of Industrial Art, 3 vol., coloured plates, 1863, folio (892)

McMinn, £2 25.

[OCTOBER 30TH AND THREE FOLLOWING DAYS, 1899.]

SOTHEBY, WILKINSON, & HODGE.

A PORTION OF THE LIBRARY OF THE LATE DR. BENDELACK HEWETSON; A SET OF THE KELMSCOTT PRESS PUBLICATIONS, AND A NUMBER OF BOOKS FROM VARIOUS SOURCES.

(No. of Lots, 1413; amount realised, £1,927 15s.)

(a) The portion of Dr. Hewetson's Library.

180 Audubon (J. J.) The Birds of America, a portion of the work only, containing 259 large coloured plates (a few mounted), bound in 6 thin vol., half morocco, with printed title to each vol. (sold not subject to return), 1827-30, double elephant folio (448) Quaritch, £30

[This sumptuous work consists, when complete, of 4 vol., double elephant folio, 1827-38, containing 435 coloured plates, size of life. There are several 8vo. editions notably

those of 1840-44 and 1856, each in 7 vol. See BOOK-PRICES CURRENT, vol. vi., No. 2607, and vol. iv., No, 5334.-ED.] 181 Audubon (J. J.) Ornithological Biography: an account of the Habits of the Birds of America, woodcuts, 5 vol., original boards, uncut, Edinburgh, 1831-9, imperial 8vo. (403) Maggs, £3 182 Bewick (T.) Select Fables, with cuts designed and engraved by Thomas and John Bewick and others, with Memoir and Descriptive Catalogue, portrait and cuts, original boards, uncut, Newcastle, 1820, 8vo. (390) Burman, £1 17s. 183 Blake (Wm.) A Critical Essay, by A. C. Swinburne, with illustrations from Blake's designs in facsimile, uncut, Hotten, 1868, 8vo. (355) Rimell, £175. 184 Blake (Wm.) Life, with Selections from his Writings, by A. Gilchrist, new and enlarged edition, illustrated from Blake's own works, 2 vol., emblematic cloth gilt, uncut, 1880, 8vo. (354) Sotheran, 1 6s. 185 Butler (Dr. A. G.) British Birds, illustrations by Frohawk, 6 vol., cloth gilt, n.d., 4to. (418) E. Parsons, £1 18s. 186 Couch (J.) History of the Fishes of the British Islands, 252 coloured plates, 4 vol., uncut, 1862-7, royal 8vo. (377) Hatchard, £2 25. 187 Da Vinci (Leonardo). Work, from the French of Eugène Müntz, 48 plates and 252 text illustrations, 2 vol., art cloth, uncut, 1898, 4to. (405) Edwards, £1 18s. 188 Gould (John). Birds of Australia, parts iv., vi., ix., coloured plates, original issue, 1841-2, imperial folio (437) Roche, £1 25. 189 Gould (John). Monograph of the Trochilidae or Humming Birds, coloured plates, original issue, parts i.-x., 1849-55, imperial folio (438) Roche, £1 16s. 190 Gould (John). Birds of Europe, coloured plates, original issue, parts i.-xii., in 6 parts, 1832, etc., imperial folio (439) Sotheran, £3 191 Gray (Rob.) The Birds of the West of Scotland, including the Outer Hebrides, plates, Glasgow, 1871, 8vo. (398)

Potter, £1 6s. 192 Jameson (Mrs. A.) Legends of the Madonna, Legends of the Monastic Orders, Sacred and Legendary Art, numerous illustrations, 4 vol., uncut, 1872-79, 8vo. (359)

Sargent, £1 135. 193 Lewis (J. F.) Sketches of the Alhambra, 26 lithographs, coloured and mounted like drawings, loose in morocco case, 1835, atlas folio (428) Sotheran, £3 IOS. 194 Morris (Rev. F. O.) Natural History of British Moths, third edition, and British Butterflies, sixth edition, coloured plates, 5 vol., Nimmo, 1891, royal 8vo. (379) Roche, £1 16s. 195 Newton (A.) Ootheca Wolleyana: an Illustrated Catalogue of the Collection of Birds' Eggs of John Wooley, part i,, Accipitres, coloured plates and lithographs, half bound, Van Voorst, 1864, royal 8vo. (397) Walford, £1

196 Poynting (Frank). Eggs of British Birds, with an Account of

their Breeding-Habits: Lunicolae, 54 coloured plates, exhibiting numerous figures, 300 copies printed, half morocco, t. e. g., R. H. Porter, 1895-6, 4to. (419) Quaritch, £2 12s. 6d. 197 Seebohm (H.) Coloured Figures of the Eggs of British Birds, edited by R. B. Sharpe, portrait and coloured plates, Sheffield, 1896, imperial 8vo. (384) Pitcher, £2 198 Sharpe (Dr. R. Bowdler). Monograph of the Paradiseidae : or Birds of Paradise, coloured plates, parts i., ii., iii., v., 1891-5, imperial folio (440) Sotheran, £2 199 Shelley (G. E.) Handbook to the Birds of Egypt, coloured plates, Van Voorst, 1872, royal 8vo. (402) Quaritch, £1 19s. 200 Stevenson (H.) The Birds of Norfolk, plates, 2 vol., Van Voorst, 1866, 8vo. (389) Lewine, I IIS. 201 Titian, His Life and Times, by Crowe and Cavalcaselle, second edition, illustrations, 2 vol., Murray, 1881, 8vo. (353)

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[The first edition was published in 2 vol., 8vo., 1877.— ED.] 202 Turner (J. M. W.) The Harbours of England, with illustrative text by J. Ruskin, 12 plates engraved by T. Lupton, original issue, cloth gilt, Gambart, 1856, folio (423)

R. Ward, £1 14S. Views in Richmondshire, with Descriptions by Whitaker, 32 plates, half bound (loose in cover), J. B. Nichols, 1843, folio (431) Auglier, 1 6s. 204 Yarrell (Wm.) History of British Birds, second edition, numerous woodcuts, 3 vol., Van Voorst, 1845, 8vo. (381)

203 Turner (J. M. W.) and J. Buckler.

[The woodcuts number 535.-ED.]

Walford, £1 8s.

(B) A Set of the Kelmscott Press Publications, original bindings as issued, 8vo. et infra unless otherwise described.

205 Morris (W.) The Story of the Glittering Plain, which has been also called the Land of Living Men, or the Acre of the Undying, woodcut borders and initials, vellum, 1891 (758) Thorp, £25

206 Morris (W.) Poems by the Way, woodcut border and initial letters, vellum, 1891 (759) Thorp, £12 207 Blunt (W. S.) The Love Lyrics and Songs of Proteus, with the Love Sonnets of Proteus, now reprinted in their full text, with many Sonnets omitted from the earlier editions, the numerous woodcut initials printed in red, vellum, 1892 (760) Leighion. £11 IOS. 208 Caxton (W.) The Golden Legend, edited by F. S. Ellis, 3 vol., woodcuts the full size of the page, borders and initial letters, 1892, folio (761) J. Bumpus, £8 209 Caxton (W.) The History of Reynard the Foxe, woodcut borders and initial letters, vellum, 1892, folio (762)

Simmons, £6

210 Caxton (W.) The Recuyell of the Historyes of Troye, 3 vol. in 2, numerous woodcut borders and initial letters, vellum, 1892, folio (763) Shepherd, £6 15s.

211 Mackail (J. W.) Biblia Innocentium being the Story of God's Chosen People before the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ upon Earth, woodcut border and initials, vellum, 1892 (764) Cornish, £24 212 Morris (W.) A Dream of John Ball and a King's Lesson, woodcut frontispiece, borders and initial letters, vellum, 1892 (765) Tregaskis, £5 5s. 213 Morris (W.) News from Nowhere or an Epoch of Rest, being some Chapters from a Utopian Romance, woodcut frontispiece, borders, etc., vellum, 1892 (766) Thorp, £5 5s. 214 Morris (W.) The Defence of Guenevere, and other Poems, woodcut border and initial letters, vellum, 1892 (767)

Tregaskis, £7 10s. 215 Ruskin (J.) The Nature of Gothic, a chapter of the Stones of Venice, woodcut border and initial letters, vellum, 1892 (768) J. Bumpus, £4 4s. 216 The Order of Chivalry, with Translations by W. Morris, 2 parts in I vol., woodcut frontispiece, borders and initial letters, vellum, 1892-3 (769) Thorp, £5 217 Cavendish (G.) The Life of Thomas Wolsey, Cardinal Archbishop of York, from a MS. in the British Museum, woodcut borders and initial letters, vellum, 1893 (770)

Tregaskis, £4 15s. 218 Caxton (W.) The History of Godefrey of Boloyne and of the Conquest of Jherusalem, woodcut borders and initial letters, vellum, 1893, folio (771) Sotheran, £6 5s. 219 Meinhold (W.) Sidonia the Sorceress, translated by Francesca Speranza Lady Wilde, printed in red and black, woodcut borders and initial letters, vellum, 1893, folio (772)

Tregaskis, £9 220 More (Sir Thomas). Utopia, revised by F. S. Ellis, woodcut border and initial letters, vellum, 1893 (773) Tregaskis, £8 221 Morris (W.) Gothic Architecture for the Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society, woodcut initial letters, 1893 (774)

Thorp, £I IOS. 222 Rossetti (D. G.) Ballads and Narrative Poems, woodcut borders and initial letters, vellum, 1893 (775) Maggs, £8 5s. Poems: Venus and Adonis, 1593-The Rape of Lucrece, 1594-Sonnets, 1609-The Lover's Complaint, edited by F. S. Ellis, woodcut borders and initial letters, vellum, 1893 (776)

223 Shakespeare (W.)

Shepherd, £15

224 Tennyson (Lord A.) Maud, a Monodrama, woodcut borders and initial letters, 1893 (777)

Maggs, £2 178.

Thorp, £6

225 The Tale of King Florus and the Fair Jehane, woodcut title and borders, 1893 (778) 226 Keats (John). The Poems of, edited by F. S. Ellis, borders and woodcut initial letters, vellum, 1894 (779) Thorp, £23 10s. 227 Morris (W.) The Story of the Glittering Plain, which has been also called the Land of Living Men, or the Acre of Undying, ornamented with 23 pictures by Walter Crane, woodcut borders and initial letters, 1894, folio (780) Broome, £8

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