gravings, two col., some with movable figures, 4 vol., hf. cf., 1764-81, 8vo. (166) Quaritch, £8 5s. 7445 Berry (W.) Pedigrees of the Families in the County of Kent, cuts of arms, with additions in MS., 2 parts, bds., 1830, folio (610) Bolleter, £4 7446 British Museum. Subject Index, 1885-1895, by G. K. Fortescue, 2 vol., 1891-7, and one other, together 3 vol., cl., 8vo. (54)

£3 7s. 6d.

7447 British Poets, by Samuel Johnson, ports., 75 vol., cf. gt., contents lettered, 1790, 8vo. (500)

G. H. Brown, £7 12s. 6d. 7448 Boydell's Views on the Thames, map, and 76 col. plates by Stadler, with 3 extra plates, also col., 1796, folio (951) J. Rimell, £10 12s. 6d. 7449 Buckler (W.) Larvæ of British Butterflies and Moths, ed. by Stainton, col. plates, 9 vol., cl., t.e.g., Ray Society, 1886-1901, 8vo. (408) Hill, £6 2s. 6d. 7450 Byron (Lord). Astarte, a Fragment of Truth concerning George Gordon Byron, recorded by his Grandson, Ralph Milbanke, Earl of Lovelace, ports. and facs., bds., Chiswick Press, printed for private circulation, 1905, 8vo. (126) Quaritch, £13 IOS. 7451 Carey (D.) Life in Paris, col. plates by G. Cruikshank (some plates foxed and binding rubbed), cf., J. Fairburn, 1822, 8vo. (429) Bumpus, £12 2s. 6d. 7452 Dampier (Capt. W.) A Collection of Voyages, folding maps and plates, 4 vol., contemp. cf., 1729, 8vo. (527) G. Calvert, £4 IOS. 7453 Daniell (W.) and Ayton (R.) A Voyage Round Great Britain, 308 col. plates, 8 vol. in 4, hf. mor., g.e., 181426, folio (208) J. Bain, £53 [A few plates discoloured, lists of plates wanted in all the volumes except vol. ii.-Catalogue.] 7454 Desaguliers (J. T.) The Constitution of the Free-Masons, front. by Pine, and music, cf., 1723, sm. 4to. (462)

Quaritch, £8 7455 Dickens (C.) Speech at the Meeting of the Administrative Reform Association at Drury Lane, June 27, 1855, 6 pages, stitched, E. Wilson, 1855, 8vo. (444) Maggs, £2 7456 Dickens (C.) Nicholas Nickleby, in the 20 orig. numbers, with all the wrappers and advertisements (name on wrapper of No. 1 and a few plates foxed), 1838-9, 8vo. (507) £9 15s. 7457 Drayton (Michael). Poems, woodcut device on title-page, first ed. printed under the general title Poems [containing commendatory verses by Thomas Greene, Sir William Alexander, and others], orig. vell. (a few leaves at each end water-stained), London, printed for N. Ling, 1605, 12mo. (542)

7458 Farnham (T. J.) Travels in the Great and in the Oregon Territory, 2 vol., cl.,

Quaritch, £32 Western Prairies 1843, 8vo. (844) Stevens, £2 12S.

7459 Fellows (C.) Narrative of the Ascent to the Summit of Mont Blanc, on July 25, 1827, litho. plates, autograph presentation copy, bds., uncut, Privately printed, 1827, 4to. (271) Slocock, £2 7460 French Revolution. Iconographie des Contemporains, over two hundred litho. ports. of distinguished persons, 2 vol. in 1, Paris, 1833, imp. 8vo. (153) £3 7461 [Gaskell (Mrs.)] Cranford, first ed., orig. cl., 1853, 8vo. (457) Spencer, £2 18s. 7462 [Hardy (T.)] Under the Greenwood Tree, first ed., 2 vol., orig. cl., 1872, 8vo. (456) Maggs, £7 7463 Harris (W. C.) Wild Sports of Southern Africa, col. plates, cl., g.e. (defective), 1844, roy. 8vo. (422)

Joseph, £1 11S. 7464 Hasted (E.) History of Kent, maps, views, etc., best ed. (last leaf of additions and corrections in vol. ii. defective), 4 vol., bds., uncut, 1778-99, folio (608)

Bolleter, £12 12S.

7465 Higgins (G.) Anacalypsis, cuts, presentation copy, 2 vol., orig. cl., 1836, 4to. (296) Quaritch, £10 7466 Hennepin (L.) Aenmerkelyke Voyagie Gedaan na't Gedeelte van Noorder America, 2 folding maps and 6 plates-Benzo (H.) De Gedenkwaardige West-Indise Voyagien Gedaan door Christoffel Columbus, 5 plates, bound in I vol., orig. wrapper, entirely uncut (wormed throughout and stained), Leyden, 1704, sm. 4to. (531) Miles, £9 9s. 7467 Holy Bible (Job to Song of Solomon)-Sternhold and Hopkins' Psalms, in I vol., contemp. embroidered binding, in col. silks and silver wire (worn), gilt and gauffered edges, 1632-3, 24mo. (868) Pickering, £10 7468 Jackson (Lady). Old Paris, first ed., ports., 2 vol., orig. cl. (binding slightly ink-stained), 1878, 8vo. (413) Zaehnsdorf, £6 5s. 7469 Monkhouse (Cosmo). History of Chinese Porcelain, 24 col. plates and other illustrations, cl., t.e.g., 1901, 8vo (86) Bumpus, £8 7470 Palairet (J.) A General Atlas of N. America, col. in outline, hf. bd., Carington Bowles, 1775, imp. folio (215) H. Stevens, £4 7s. 6d. 7471 Portalis et Béraldi. Les Graveurs du Dix-Huitième Siècle, 3 vol., wrappers, Paris, 1880-2, 8vo. (104)

Quaritch, £3

7472 Punch, or The London Charivari, complete from the commencement in 1841 to 1911, and 21 nos. of 1912, illustrations, 139 vol., orig. publishers' cl., in clean condition, 1841-1912, 4to. (303) Bailey, 16 5s.

7473 Rabelais (F.) Euvres, ed. variorum, with the grotesque figures for the "Songes Drolatiques," ro vol., hf. bd., Paris, 1823-52, 8vo. (144) Walker Bros., £I 175. 7474 Richardson (W.) Monastic Ruins of Yorkshire, litho. plates, col. copy, on white mounts, with text, mounted

£5 IOS.

throughout on linen guards, 2 vol., hf. mor., 1842, atlas folio (644) 7475 Schloss's English Bijou Almanac for 1839, 6 ports., orig. leather gt., g.e., in case, with magnifying glass (463) Bumpus, £3 7s. 6d. 7476 [Surtees (R. S.)] Analysis of the Hunting Field, col. vignette title and 6 col. plates by H. Alken, first ed., hf. cf., R. Ackermann, 1846, 8vo. (426)

Bumpus, £7 17s. 6d. 7477 Switzerland. Promenade par les Lieux les plus interessants de la Suisse, front. and 50 col. views by Weber and Bodmer, orig. binding, morocco back, g.e., in case, Zurich, Keller et Fuseli, n.d., oblong 4to. (286) Parsons, 18 IOS. Celebrated Trials and Cases of Criminal Jurisprudence, plates, 6 vol., bds., uncut, 1825, 8vo. (418) Bain, £6 15s.

7478 Trials.

7479 Victoria History of the Counties of England: Hampshire and the Isle of Wight, illustrations, 5 vol., cl., t.e.g., 1900-8, folio (387) Thorp, £3 5s. 7480 Villon Society. The Poems of Hafiz, from the Persian, by John Payne, 3 vol., t.e.g., Privately printed, 1901, 8vo. (466) Hill, £2 75. 7481 Walker (Sir H.) Journal of the late Expedition to Canada, old cf., 1720, 8vo. (530) H. Stevens, £3 7482 Widener Collection. Catalogue of Paintings forming the Collection of P. A. B. Widener, plates on Japanese vell. (limited to 250 copies), 2 vol., mor., g.e., 18851910, folio (307) Quaritch, £4

[MAY 2ND, 1913.]

SOTHEBY, WILKINSON & HODGE.

THE BROWNING COLLECTIONS (MANUSCRIPTS).

(No. of Lots, 304; amount realised, £15,514 IS.)

[This collection was sold on instructions received from the Administrators of the Estate of the late Mr. R. W. Barrett Browning. It consisted mainly of autograph letters not within the scope of BOOK-Prices Current.—ED.]

7483 Barrett (Miss E. B.) Glimpses into my own Life and Literary Character, auto. MS., 80 pages, sm. 8vo. (1821) (109) Sabin, £47 7484 Barrett (Miss E. B.) Pocket Diary for 1823, with some Auto. Notes for reading in that year—A Pocket Note Book, 1824-5, with many notes and criticisms on books

read, in all over 200 pages, bound in russ., with clasp (110) Quaritch, £10 IOS. 7485 Barrett (Miss E. B.) Three small Note Books, 1842-4, containing in all about 60 pages of her writing, including Rough Notes for Passages in "A Drama of Exile " -Notes on Italian artists-Translations from Petrarch, etc. (III) Quaritch, £29 7486 Barrett (Miss E. B.) Two Note Books, containing about 125 pages, folio and 8vo., including portions of an early Draft of the translation of "Prometheus Bound Notes for the Preface to the Essay on Mind ”—A Note in French on Swedenborg, etc., one of the books is dated 1824 (113) Spencer, £50 7487 Barrett (Miss E. B.) Note Book, with Auto. Poems, about 58 pages, 4to., mostly fair copies, entitled MSS. by Elizabeth B. Barrett (114) Sabin, £72 7488 Barrett (Miss E. B.) Note Book, containing copies of Letters addressed to the Rev. Dr. Adams, Master of Pembroke College, Cambridge-Various Auto. MSS. of Miss Barrett-And her collection of Autograph Letters, mor., gilt and blind tooled, g.e., with clasp, 4to. (115) Meynell, £24 10S.

[There are about 30 pages in Miss Barrett's writing, all being apparently copies. Catalogue.] 7489 Barrett (Miss E. B.) Essay on Mind, two Auto. MSS. (neither quite complete), 165 pages. 4to., with Auto. MSS. of two other Poems published with it in 1826, and a written Criticism of the volume, 4 pages, 4to. (? by John Kenyon)-A copy of the Book, presented by Miss Barrett's father to John Kenyon, and by him to Robert Browning, with inscriptions, orig. bds., uncut (117) Hornstein, £192 7490 Barrett (Miss E. B.) A Drama of Exile, Auto. MSS. of portions of this dramatic Poem, about 50 pages, 8vo. (118) Maggs, £41 7491 Barrett (Miss E. B.) Poems, mostly early, believed to be unpublished, Auto. MSS. on 28 pages, folio and 4to., with some Poems, apparently not autograph, 6 pages, dated 1817 (119) Sotheran, £40

7492 Barrett (Miss E. B.) Poems, mostly early, believed to be unpublished, Auto. MSS. on about 40 pages, 4to. (120) Sotheran, £78 7493 Browning (Mrs. E. B.) Two Note Books, one presented by her sister Arabel, with inscription, containing the first very rough autograph drafts for Aurora Leigh," which was apparently at first to have been called "Aurora Vane," and other poems, in all about 470 pages, 8vo. (139) Sabin, £52

7494 Browning (Mrs. E. B.) Two Note Books. containing about 175 pages of her auto. poems and notes (140) Edwards, £33

7495 Browning (Mrs. E. B.)

Two small Note Books, one

containing about 60 pages of Auto. Notes, many in Greek, mostly on Greek literature; the other bears the inscription, "To my dearest Ba, from her affecte Arabel -to write her notes, preparatory to the great work on Italy! Feb. 19, '47," and two Pencil Portraits, one of " Penini," perhaps by Mrs. Browning (141)

7496 Browning (Mrs. E. B.) pages, 8vo. and 4to., portion of Horace's

Agnew, £50 Translations, Auto. MSS., 38 including an early version of a Ars Poetica" and translations of the first book of Dante's Inferno," the opening lines of the " Iliad," etc. (145) Sabin, £48 7497 Browning (Mrs. E. B.) Auto. MS. of Poems, apparently not included in the collected edition of her works, 28 pages, 8vo. and 4to., including several duplicates (146) B. F. Stevens, £38 7498 Browning (Mrs. E. B.) Two Note Books, containing rough drafts or fair copies of some of her latest poems and translations, about 60 pages, 8vo. and 4to. (147) Maggs, £23 IOS. 7499 Browning (Mrs. E. B.) Casa Guidi Windows," part ii.. Auto. MS., 31 pages, 8vo., and fragments of the Auto. MS. of part i., 36 pages (149) Sabin, £82 7500 Browning (Mrs. E. B.) Casa Guidi Windows, another, apparently an earlier MS., incomplete, 85 pages, 8vo., the first book being called " A Meditation in Tuscany (150) Sabin, £62 7501 Browning (Mrs. E. B.) Poems before Congress, Auto. MS. of the poems included in this, the last volume of poetry published by Mrs. Browning, the original MS. used by the printers, 43 pages (151) Sabin, £88

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[This MS. wanted the last five stanzas of The Dance."-Catalogue.]

7503 Browning (Mrs. E. B.)

7502 Browning (Mrs. E. B.) Sonnets from the Portuguese," Auto. MS. of Forty-three Sonnets, the original MS. from which they were printed (probably in 1850), with the printer's marks (152) Quaritch, £1,130 Catarina to Camoens, Auto. MS., early Draft, and Sonnets from the Portuguese, Auto. MSS. of 27 of the Sonnets, probably also early drafts, in all 29 pages, 8vo. (153) Sabin, £620 7504 Browning (Mrs. E. B.) Last Poems," Auto. MSS. of all the poems included under that heading in her Collected Works, except "The Best Thing in the World," North and South," and "My Heart and I," 79 pages, 8vo., of Mrs. Browning's MS. (154) Sabin, £190

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7505 Browning (Mrs. E. B.) Aurora Leigh," original Auto. MS. from which the poem was printed, about 410 pages, 8vo. (numbered up to 419, but pages 291-9 omitted), with the Browning coat-of-arms, t.e.g. (155) Quaritch, £930

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