away, and it can be asserted with confidence that during the season that has drawn to its close the prices obtained for books of a really important character ruled higher than they have ever done before in this country. Reference is made, of course, in general terms to books of a very desirable kind, and not necessarily to individual volumes, which may or may not maintain their value according to circumstances prevailing at the time.

Kingston-on-Thames,
Surrey,

J. H. SLATER.

November, 1918.

CONTENTS,

Comprising a

TABLE OF THE SALES BY AUCTION

REPORTED IN THIS VOLUME.

The Reference appended to each entry throughout the following
pages is to the first day of the undermentioned sales :-

The contractions used are few in number, and, generally speaking,
familiar, though the following may be incidentally mentioned :—