other illustrations, buckram gt., 1899, 8vo. (496), May 3, son [See also May 3, £2 128.] Spencer (Herbert). First Principles, etc., authorized ed., 14 vol., hf. mor., New York, 1899-1900 (24), Oct. 19, HodgCork, £1 128. Spencer (H.) Autobiography, first ed., one of 6 copies printed for private circulation, plates, 2 vol., with MS. corrections, and A.L. from the Author to Edmund Sydney Williams explaining the conditions under which his friends were allowed to read the book, hf. mor., t.e.g.. Not published, 1894-1889 (638), May 10, Hodgson Lee, £9. Spencer (Walter T.) Forty Years in my Bookshop, first ed., illustrations, pres. copy, buckram, 1923, 8vo. (862), Jan. II, Hodgson Spencer, 1 5s. [See also Anderson Gall., Oct. 10, $4.} Spenser (Edmund). Colin Clovts Come Home Againe, first ed., printer's device on title-page, and title printed within ornamental border, red straight-grain mor., gt. borders, g.e., by Lewis (one or two headbands trimmed into), in a red levant mor. solander case, nice copy, London, printed for William Ponsonbie, 1595, sm. 4to. (434), Jan, 17, Anderson Gall. $625 [See also Jan. 10, $975.] Spenser (E.) Complaints, containing sundrie small Poemes of the Worlds Vanitie, first ed., 4 titles, each within a woodcut border, head-lines of a few ll. shaved, has the original blank leaf at end, red mor. gt., g.e., by Lewis, Vernon copy, London, printed for William Ponsonbie, 1591, 4to. (861), Mar. 26, Sotheby Sawyer, £260 [See also Anderson Gall., Jan. 1, $1,000; Jan. 7, $775.] Spenser (E.) The Epithalamion, No. 28 of 150 copies, printed on vellum, hand-coloured frontispiece, rubricated, and initials in gold and colours, orig. vellum, Essex House Press, 1901, 8vo. (439), April 16, Sotheby Moray, £4 [See also Oct. 31, £3; Amer. Art Assoc., April 2, $15.] Spenser (E.) The Faerie Queene, disposed into twelue books, fashioning XII. Morall Vertues, first ed. of the first three Books, and first issue, the spaces left blank for the Welsh words at p. 332, with contemporary inscription on title "Ex dono dni Edwardi Hobbii, Milititis' [Sir Edward Hoby, 1560-1617], several head-lines and a few catchwords cut into, and some stained, crushed mor., silk linings, g.e., Printed for William Ponsonbie, 1590 (164), June 6, Hodgson Spencer, £42 Spenser (E.) The Faerie Qveene, disposed into twelue books, fashioning XII. Morall Vertues, first ed., woodcut of St. George slaying the Dragon at the end of Book I., the Welsh words on p. 332 supplied, a minute flaw in sig. c 3 and G 7, a tear in sig. мm 2 repaired, a few slight stains. a very good copy, from the collections of the Duke of Grafton and Lord Vernon, bound by Roger Payne, russia,. broad gt. border round sides, gt. back, g.e. (one joint cracking), London, printed for William Ponsonbie, 1590The Second Part of the Faerie Queene, containing the Fovrth, Fifth and Sixth Bookes, first ed., name of a 17th century owner on title "Eliz. Osborne," and of a later owner "J. Denne C.C.C.C." [John Denne, 1693-1767, antiquary, fellow of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge}, bound in russia by C. Lewis uniformly with the preceding, a fine copy, from the Vernon collection, Imprinted at London for William Ponsonby, 1596, 4to. (Vol. i., 7% by 5 in.; Vol. ii., 78 by 5 in.), (863), Mar. 26, Sotheby Sawyer, £500 [See also July 1, cut into, £15; July 30, £195; Dec. 12, £150.] [Spenser (E.)] The Faerie Queene, disposed into Twelve Bookes, fashioning XII. Morall Vertues, Two Parts, first complete ed., the Second Part being the first ed., old cf., a sound copy (but a few ll. a little stained), W. Ponsonbie, 1596, sm. 4to. (495), Dec. 14, Hodgson Nicholls, £50 [See also April 18, repd. and rubbed, £9.] Spenser (Edmund). The Faerie Qveen, The Shepheards Calendar, together with the other Works of England's Arch-Poët, first collected ed. (A, 6 and 2 ll., title and dedication inserted before A 2; B-Q 4, R-Ii 4 in sixes, A 1 and 11 4 blank; A-F 4 in sixes, F 4 blank; A, 8 11.; A-M 2 in sixes; ¶, 8 11., 8 blank), woodcuts, II separate titles, of which nine are dated 1611, "Prospopoia" dated 1613, "Colin Clout" undated, the date 1601-2 at end of "Faery Queen," orig. cf., gt. centre-pieces, with ties (two missing), Printed for H. L. for Mathew Lownes, Anno Dom. 1611, folio (416), Feb. 13, Sotheby Dobell, £30 [Fine copy, with all the blank leaves. On the recto of A I is written in a contemporary hand : " ffayre ladyes deigne to reade theise well pennd layes And aeternize them with yo' iuditious prayse." See also July 16, £40; July 23, impft., £1; Anderson Gall., Jan. 10, $70; Ed. 1617-Hodgson, Feb. 22. £7 and £2; June 6, ₤11 10s.] Spenser (E.) The Faerie Queene, with a New Life [by Dr. Birch] and a Glossary, plates by Kent, 3 vol., light brown mor., 1751, 4to. (166), June 6, Hodgson [See also Sotheby, Mar. 26, £2.] Galloway, £3 7s. 6d. Spenser (E.) The Faerie Queene, woodcut decorations by L. Fairfax Mickley, 2 vol., cloth gt., J. M. Dent, 1897, sm. 4to. (765), May 16, Hodgson Stoneham, I IOS. [See also Jan. 30, ed. by T. J. Wise, £7 15s.; Mar. 5, 1 12s.; Anderson Gall., Jan. 19, $17.50; Ed. 1898— Sotheby, Mar. 5, bound by Chivers, £8; Ed. 1923, Ashendene Press-Anderson Gall., Jan. 23, $250.] Spenser (E.) Fowre Hymnes, first ed., fine copy, London, printed for William Ponsonby, 1596. [On sig. G 2 is a new title: "Daphnaida. An Elegie vpon the Death of the Noble and Vertvovs Dovglas Howard, daughter and heire of Henry Lord Howard . . . and wife of Arthur Gorges Esquier." This is a second edition, having first appeared in 1591.]-Colin Clovts come home againe, first ed, title within border, fine copy, London, printed for William Ponsonbie, 1595; bound together in 1 vol., red mor. gt., g.e., by C. Lewis, from the Vernon collection, 4to. (7 by 5 in.), (862), Mar. 26, Sotheby Sawyer, £620 Spenser (E.) Minor Poems, limited to 200 copies, printed in double columns in black, blue and red, vellum bds., cf. back, raised bands, wholly uncut, Chelsea, Ashendene Press, 1925 (298), Nov. 24, Hodgson Parker, £20 [See also June 6, 23; Dec. 14, £21; Anderson Gall., Jan. 23. $140.] Spenser (E.) The Shepheardes Calender conteining twelue Aeglogues proportionable to the twelue Monethes, second ed., black letter, a woodcut for each month, title within border, a wormhole (repaired) through 10 11. (sig. E-G 2) rather large through two or three of them, but affecting the text very slightly, except on sig. F 2, where several words are defective), the side-margins of a few ll. in sheets E-F very slightly defective and mended, in one or two cases affecting a letter or two of text, a tiny hole through two or three ll., red mor. gt., g.e., by C. Lewis, from the Vernon collection, ¶ Imprinted at London for John Harison the younger [colophon] Imprinted at London by Thomas East for Iohn Harrison the younger, 1581, 4to. (860), Mar. 26, Sotheby Rosenbach, £600 Spenser (E.) The Shepheards Kalendar, newly augmented and corrected, black letter, woodcuts, the Kalendar printed in red and black, leaf o 2 wanting, cf., w.a.f., R. Ibbitson, 1656, sm. folio (808), Mar. 21, Hodgson H. W. Wright, £6 5s. [See also Ed. 1617-Sotheby, July 23, torn, £4 18s.; Ed. 1896, Kelmscott-Feb. 13, 10 10s.; Hodgson, Feb. 8, £9 15s.; Amer. Art Assoc., April 2, $80.] Spenser (E.) Works, first collected ed., wants general title, dedication (title to Colin Clout inserted), I leaf, sig. R I, some 11. from a shorter copy, one sheet (sig. 2) loose, small tear in 2 ll., modern mor., 1611-13, folio (79), July 2, Sotheby Last, £1 15S. [See also Ed. 1679-June 18, 3; Hodgson, April 18, £4 15s.; June 13, £3 5s.; Ed. 1715-Feb. 8, £1 15s.; Sotheby, Mar. 26, L.P., £17 10s.; June 11, £3 10s.; Ed. 1805-Mar. 26, 11 10s.; April 16, £3 148.; June 25, £9 Nov. 28, £4 15s.; Dec. 19, £6; Ed. 1862-Dec. 19, £2 Ed. 1873-Mar. 5, £2.] Spenser (E.) Complete Works, in Verse and Prose, edited by Rev. A. B. Grosart, limited to 150 copies, 9 vol. (all pub.), orig. cloth, Privately printed, 1882-4 (174), Nov. 21, Sotheby Quaritch, £6 [See also Aug. 2, £5 15s.; Hodgson, Aug. 1, 3 12s. 6d. ; Ed. 1905-Sotheby, Dec. 19, £3.] Spenser (E.) Poetical Works, engraved vignette titles and portrait (two or three a little foxed), 6 vol., vellum, g.e., 1810, 8vo. (858), Mar. 26, Sotheby Marks, 18s. [See also Ed. 1825—Mar. 26, £8; Anderson Gall., Jan. 17, $45; Hodgson, May 10, £4; Ed. 1839-July 18, I 12S.; Ed. 1859-Anderson Gall., Oct. 19, $12.50; Amer. Art Assoc., Feb. 14, $17.50.] Speroni (S.) Dialogi, ruled in red, contemp. French dark green mor., border round sides, the interior decorated with an interlacing fillet to a geometrical design, back tooled with intersecting diagonal lines within compartments, g.e., Venice, Aldus, 1543, 8vo. (761), Dec. 5, Sotheby Baer, £60 [See also Lot 762, £55.] Spielmann (Sir M. H.) British Portrait Painting, No. 107 of 300 copies on handmade paper, 131 plates on India paper, 2 vol., hf. vellum, t.e.g., 1910 (293), Dec. 19, Sotheby Banks, ₤2 10S. [See also Mar. 26, 4 10s.; April 16, £5; Hodgson, Nov. 16, £1 16s.]. Spielmann (Sir M. H.) and Layard (G. S.) ed.-de-luxe, with an original sketch by col. plates and facsimiles, orig. stamped Dec. 19, Sotheby Kate Greenaway, [See also Hodgson, Mar. 7, £5 7s. 6d. ; Amer. Art Assoc., Dec. 12, $6.] Spiera (Ambrosius de). Quadragesimale de floribus sapientiae [Hain-Copinger *920=Copinger 408, Pellechet 600, Proctor *4749], gothic letter, 343 11., wants fol. 13 (blank), two columns, stain in top margin of table and in a few bottom margins at end, otherwise a fine copy, vellum, Venice, Antonius de Stanchis, Jacobus Britannicus & Co., 24 Mar., 1481, folio (293 by 203 mm.), (348), July 16, Sotheby [The only book known from this press.] Leo, £8 10s. Spinola (George). Rules to get Children by with handsome Faces, &c., 4 ll., top margins cut close, wrappers, 1642, 4to. (518), June 25, Sotheby Barnard, £2 IOS. Spinoza (Thomas de). Heroicos Hechos, y vidas de varones yllustres asy Griegos, como Romanos, woodcut on title and 52 portraits, with ornamental borders throughout, smooth mor., line borders and inside borders, by Trautz Bauzonnet, Paris, 1576 (470), Dec. 12, Sotheby Maggs, £8 Spirito (Lorenzo). Altro Marte [Hain 14960], gothic letter, hf. vellum, Stampata in Vicenza, 1489, folio (581), June 13, Hodgson Davis & Orioli, £15 10s. Spitzer Collection (La): Antiquité, Moyen Age, Renaissance, printed on papier vélin, plates (some col.), 6 vol., vellum, Paris, 1890-2, folio (867), Mar. 26, Sotheby Quaritch, £31 [See also June 4, £38; Nov. 7, £29; Amer. Art Assoc., Jan. 4, $225.] Spooner (Lawrence). A Looking-Glass for Smoakers ... col lected from the Author's Nine Years Experience, a Poem, a few margins shaved, cf. extra, g.e., with the Huth book-label, 1703, 12m0. (210), June 6, Hodgson Myers, £4 10S. Sport and Science. A Fifteenth Century English Manuscript on vellum, containing an English Poem on Hawking, a Book of Hunting in English dedicated to Henry Prince of Wales [Henry V., b. 1386, suc. 1413, d. 1422], a Treatise on Astronomy, English and Latin Recipes for the Diseases of Horses, Recipes for Cookery and Wine, Tales in Latin, and Miscellaneous Fragments, written in several hands on 86 11., a stain on first 2 ll., on the whole in very good condition, orig. rough leather binding (top corner of upper cover defective), English, 15th Century, folio (112 by 8 in.), (84), April 23, Sotheby Edwards, £780 [A most important and interesting English manuscript, chiefly in the vernacular. The poem on Hawking (fol. 125-134a) occupies 19 pp. The Book of Hunting preceded by a Table follows, occupying 89 pp. (fol. 134b-178). The prologue is addressed to my worshypfulle and drede lorde... eldest son and eyre vnto the hye excellent and cristen prince H. the IIII. . . .” The text begins on fol. 138b. The Treatise on Astronomy_occupies 20 pp. (fol. 103-112), beginning on fol. 103a. Latin recipes for diseases of horses, fol. 32-49, and English recipes for the same, fol. 50-55. An English treatise on cooking fills 42 pp. (fol. 56-76). The work of cooking ends on fol. 76b, and is immediately followed by an English treatise of 45 pp. (fol. 76b-99a) on the virtue of herbs in medicine. The beginning of the manuscript (fol. 1-14) is taken up by Latin stories like the Gesta Romanorum. Some English and Latin medical recipes and English recipes for wine and cooking are found at fol. 14 and 122-4. On fol. 16 a Latin treatise begins on the manner of holding Parliament. A Latin poem on the Exchequer in 126 hexameter verses occupies 6 pp. (fol. 29-31), the top and bottom of four of the pages decorated with a chequer board. Several English poems occur in the manuscript.] Sporting Anecdotes, including Characteristic Sketches of Eminent Persons who have appeared on the Turf, by an Amateur Sportsman, plates and woodcuts, some by T. Bewick, hf. cf. gt., t.e.g., uncut, 1804, 8vo. (287), Ápril 16, Sotheby Spencer, £4 IOS. Sporting Magazine (The), or Monthly Calendar of the Transactions of the Turf, the Chace, and every other Diversion interesting to the Man of Pleasure and Enterprize, from the commencement in 1792 to the conclusion in 1870 [the volumes ranging from 1850 to 1866 having titles of the New Sporting Magazine], engraved titles, portraits and numerous other illustrations, 156 vol., Vol. i to 75 bound in uniform light brown cf., the remaining 81 vol. bound in hf. green cf. (frontispiece to Vol. 7, title to the pen |