26, 28 and 30, making 27 pp. in all, 4to. (399), Oct. 22, Puttick Myers, £21 Meredith (G.) Diana of the Crossways, holograph MS. of 50 pp., various, commencing at Chapter xxviii., pp. 661 to 691, and pp. 957 to 974 and 976, 4to. (398), Oct. 22, Puttick Spencer, £32 Meredith (G.) Beauchamp's Career, first ed., 3 vol., orig. cl., 1876 (119), Dec. 22, Dowell £2 4S. Meredith (G.) Diana of the Crossways, a Novel, first ed., 3 vol., orig. brown cl., a clean copy, 1885, (233), April 29, Hodgson E. Mathews, £5 17s. 6d. Meredith (G.) Evan Harrington, first ed., pres. copy from the Author to a friend, with his autograph presentation inscription on the title-page of Vol. i., 3 vol., cl., uncut, London, Bradbury & Evans, 1861, 12mo. (545), Feb. 5, American Art Association $180 [See also Hodgson, Mar. 11, £2 28.] Meredith (G.) Farina, a Legend of Cologne, first ed., pres. copy, with inscription on title in the handwriting of the Author, "Dan! from his friend George," 16 pp. of advts. at end dated July, 1857, orig. cl., uncut, back soiled, 1857, 8vo. (66), Feb. 23, Sotheby Spencer, £20 Meredith (G.) Letters to Alice Meynell, 1896-1907, boards, canvas back, Nonesuch Press, 1923 (185), April 1, Hodgson Porter, I IOS. [See also Jan. 14, 1 12s.; Feb. 25, 1 11S.; May 13, 1 128.; July 23, £1 18s.; Sotheby, July 6, £1 10s. ; American Art Association, Feb. 5, $10.] Meredith (G.) Lord Ormont and his Aminta, first ed., 3 vol., orig. cl., 1894 (117), Dec. 22, Dowell £1 12S. Meredith (G.) Modern Love and Poems of the English Roadside, with Poems and Ballads, first ed., orig. green cl., very fine copy, Chapman & Hall, 1862, 8vo. (463), Nov. 10, Sotheby Tregaskis, £3 15s. Meredith (G.) The Ordeal of Richard Feverel, first ed., 3 vol., orig. cl., uncut (label removed from front covers), 1859, 8vo. (65), May 28, Hodgson Bain, £4 IOS. Meredith (G.) Poems, first ed. of the author's first book, with the half-title and slip of Errata, orig. cl., uncut, London, John W. Parker & Son, 1851, 12mo. (542), Feb. 5, American Art Association $370 [Presentation copy from the Author to his mother of his first book, with his autograph presentation inscription on the title-page "Mary Meredith, from George." See also Sotheby, Feb. 23, £57.] Meredith (G.) Poems and Lyrics of the Joy of Earth, blue cl., uncut, London, Macmillan & Co., 1883, 12mo. (548), Feb. 5, American Art Association $130 [Presentation copy from the Author to his sister, with his signed autograph presentation inscription on the halftitle "To Dearest Betty, from her brother & friend, George M."] Meredith (G.) The Shaving of Shagpat, first ed., orig. cl. (soiled and joints torn), uncut, 1856, 8vo. (65), Feb. 23, Sotheby Pease, £2 2s. Meredith (G.) The Tale of Chloe, pres. copy, inscribed by the Author "To John Sargent from George Meredith," orig. cl., uncut, 1894, 8vo. (71), July 29, Christie Maggs, £25 Meredith (G.) Works, 10 vol., hf. wine-col. levant mor., gt. backs and tops, by Bradstreet's, London, Chapman & Hall, Ltd., 1886-87, 12mo. (1005), Mar. 30, American Art Association $20 Meredith (G.) Works, port. and rubricated titles, edition limited to 1,025 sets, of which this is No. 568, 32 vol., three-quarter green levant mor. gt., gt. backs and tops, uncut (backs slightly faded), Westminster, Archibald Constable, 1896-98, 8vo. (424), April 28, American Art Association $72.50 [See also Sotheby, Nov. 10, £9 10s.; Hodgson, Nov. 26, £9 10s.; Dowell, Oct. 20, ed. 1897-1911, 37 vol., £12; Mar. 23, 27 vol., £8: Sotheby, Feb. 2, 27 vol., £6; Hodgson, Nov. 5, 27 vol., £8 158.] Meredith (G.) Collected Set of Works by and relating to Merrick (Leonard). Violet Moses, first ed., 3 vol., orig. cl., a [See also April 22, ex lib., £4 4s.] Merritt (Percival). An Account of Descriptive Catalogues of Strawberry Hill and of Strawberry Hill Sale Catalogues, together with a Bibliography, with 7 fine full-page plates and a facsimile, edition limited to 75 copies, privately printed, decorated boards, linen back, uncut, Boston, 1915, 8vo. (553), May 4, American Art Association $42 Mesnardière (Jules de la). Poesies, pres. copy with inscription on fly-leaf, engraved title, red mor. plain, inside dentelles, g.e., by Petit, Paris, 1656, folio (303), Feb. 2, Sotheby Thorp, £3 Messisbugo (Christoforro). Banchetti, Compositioni di Vivande, et Apparecchio Generale, woodcut port., 2 full-page woodcuts, and printer's device (repeated), crushed levant mor, gt. panelled sides, g.e., In Ferrara per Giovanni De Buglhat Et Antonio Hucher Compagni, 1549, sm. 4to. (898), Dec. 8, Sotheby Dobell, £5 5S. Metastasio (Pietro). Opere, plates, 12 vol., hf. vell., Paris, 1780-2-La Fontaine. Euvres port., 6 vol., mor., g.e., ib., 1827-and others, 8vo. (427), June 22, Sotheby Marks, £2 Metcalf (Samuel L.) A Collection of some of the most Interesting Narratives of Indian Warfare in the West, containing an Account of the Adventures of Colonel Daniel Boone . . . to which is added, an Account of the Expeditions of Genl's. Harmer, Scott, Wilkinson, St. Clair, and Wayne, full contemp. sheep (joints weak, corner of one leaf supplied), Lexington, Ky., 1821, 8vo. (351), Jan. 15, American Art Association $75 [Signed autograph presentation copy from Edward E. Ayer, the well-known collector of works on the Indians, with the following inscription, "To my devoted friend Geo. Manierre. Edward E. Ayer. Chicago, Dec. 16, '98." Field 1061; not in Ayer nor De Puy.] 18s. Metcalfe (Theophilus). Short Writing the most Easie Exact lineall and speedy Method that hath ever yet been obtained or taught by any in this Kingdome, sixt edition (8 printed and 20 engraved 1., besides the port. and engraved title by Cross), the rules or pagination on several 11. shaved, bookplate of Peter Thompson on verso of title, crushed blue mor., line tooling round sides, g.e., by Holloway, Heber copy, London, printed for Io: Hancock, 1646, 8vo. (514), Mar. 30, Sotheby Dobell, 11 IOS. Meteyard (Eliza). Life of Josiah Wedgwood, first ed., illus., 2 vol., 1865-66 (104), Feb. 23, Dowell Methodius. Episc. Lyri (Sanctus). Revelationes, gothic letter, woodcuts, boards, Bâle, M. Furter, 1516, 4to. (556), Mar. 17, Sotheby Davis & Orioli, £7 [Meun (Jean de)]. Le Plaisant Iev dv Dodechedron de Fortune, non moins recreatif, que subtil & ingenieux, mottled cf. gt., La Vallière arms on sides, Paris, Ñ. Bonfons, 1577, 8vo. (335), April 6, Sotheby Tregaskis, 10 Meyer (A. B.) & Wiglesworth (L. W.) The Birds of Celebes, 7 maps and 42 plates, all coì., and 3 uncol. plates, 2 vol., hf. green mor. gt., t.e.g., orig. wrappers bound in, Berlin, 1898, 4to. (707), June 29, Sotheby Edwards, £7 Meyer (H. L.) British Birds and their Eggs, numerous col. plates, 7 vol., hf. mor., g.e., 1842-50, 8vo. (415), Nov. 26, Hodgson Bumpus, £6 [See also Sotheby, June 22, ed. 1853-7, £4 5S.; June 29, £3 10s.; Oct. 27, £7 15s.; Hodgson, Feb. 11, £3 10s.] Meynell (Alice). Poems, first ed., LARGE PAPER, signed by the Author, one of 50 copies, orig. buckram, 1893, 8vo. (94), June 11, Hodgson Maggs, £2 85. Meyrick (Sir Samuel Rush). A Critical Enquiry into Antient Armour, first ed., col. plates, 3 vol., orig. hf. roan (worn), uncut, 1824, folio (549), Nov. 3, Sotheby David, £3 3s. [See also Feb. 9, 46 5s.; June 22, £4 10S.; Puttick, May 27, £4; Sotheby, July 20, ed. 1842, £2 5s.; Nov. 3, £3 18s.] Meyrick (Sir S. R.) A Critical Inquiry into Ancient Armour, col. plates (one loose), 3 vol., panelled red mor. gt., inside dentelles, g.e., 1842-Engraved Illustrations of Ancient Armour, plates by J. Skelton after drawings by the Author, 2 vol., hf. red mor. gt., g.e., 1854, 4to. (465), Nov. 10, Sotheby Hopkins, £7 158. Michael Angelo. Vita di Michelagnolo Buonarroti raccolta per Ascanio Condivi da la Ripa Transone, first ed., old red mor. ex., very rare, Roma, Antonio Blado, 1553, sm. 4to. (107), Oct. 27, Sotheby Quaritch, £6 5s. Michaelis (Sebastian). The Admirable Historie of the Possession and Conversion of a Penitent Woman, sedvced by a Magician that made her to become a Witch... Whereunto is annexed a Pnevmology, or Discourse of Spirits Translated into English by W. B., wants sig. A I (? cancelled), 2 or 3 rules shaved, a small hole in z 7 affecting a word or two of text, cf., At London, Imprinted for William Aspley, 1613, 4to. (515), Mar. 30, Sotheby Quaritch, £8 10s. Michel (André). François Boucher, with a great number of exceedingly fine plates, many being in colour, edition limited to 500 copies on papier vélin vergé, this being No. 218, white cl., g.t., uncut, Paris, n.d., thick sm. folio (82), Nov. 10, American Art Association $20 Michel (Emile). Rembrandt, his Life, his Work, and his Time from the French by Florence Simmonds, edited by F. Wedmore, 2 vol., No. 51 of 100 copies on Japanese vell., with an extra set of plates in portfolio, orig. quarter cl., 1894, 4to. (679), Dec. 18, Sotheby Sawyer, £2 28. ... [See also Mar. 2, £1 16s.; May 18, 1 6s.; Hodgson, Jan. 28, 1 5s.; Oct. 20, ed. 1893, £1 11S.; American Art Association, Jan. 20, 2 vol ext. to 4, $220; Nov. 10, $10; Anderson Galleries, Jan. 12, $22.50.] Michel (E.) Rubens, his Life, his Work, and his Time, translated by Elizabeth Lee, numerous full-page plates and many illustrations in the text, 2 vol., uncut, London, 1899, 4to. (1219), Mar. 30, American Art Association $12 Michel (MM. Marius). La Reliure Française, plates of famous bindings, and text illustrations, hf. levant mor., g.t., by Wood, 1880, 4to. (724), July 29, Sotheby Arthur, £2 10s. Michelet (J.) Histoire de France, nouvelle ed., revue et corrigée, 17 vol., full crimson levant mor. (Jansenist), inner gt. borders, gt. over marbled edges, by Brétault, Paris, 1861-67, 8vo. (428), April 28, American Art Assoc. [Inserted in the first vol. is an A.L.s. by A. Michelet.] $95 Middleton (C.) History of the Life of Cicero, vignette port. on title-pages, 3 vol., contemp. dark blue mor. gt., gt. back, g.e., sold as a binding, 1741, 8vo. (781), Dec. 8, Sotheby Thorp, £4 IOS. Middleton (C. H.) Descriptive Catalogue of the Etched Work of Rembrandt, plates, pres. copy, hf. roan, 1878, roy. 8vo. (49), Oct. 22, Hodgson Hollings, £3 5S. Middleton (Thomas). The Inner-Temple Masque, or Masqve of Heroes, presented (as an Entertainment for many worthy Ladies :) by Gentlemen of the same Ancient and Noble Hovse, first ed., title slightly soiled, third leaf slightly defective, some head-lines cropped and first line of one page just touched, unbound, London, printed for Iohn Browne, 1619, 4to. (185), July 27, Sotheby Pickering, £5 Middleton (T.) The Trivmphs of Honor and Vertue, a Noble Solemnitie, performed through the City, at the sole Cost and Charges of the Honorable Fraternitie of Grocers, at the Confirmation . . . of their worthy Brother . . . Peter Proby, in the high Office of . . . Lord Maior and Chancellor of the Famous City of London . . . the 29. of October, 1622, some head-lines cropped, unbound, London, printed by Nicholas Okes, 1622, 4to. (186), July 27, Sotheby Weeks, £24 Middleton (T.) Works, now first collected, with some Account of the Author, and Notes, by Rev. A. Dyce, port., 5 vol., orig. boards (broken), 1840, 8vo. (327), Nov. 3, Sotheby Maggs, £2 8s. [Leigh Hunt's copy, with his autograph signature on the title of Vol. i. See also Feb. 23, £3 5s.; June 29, L.P., £8; Feb. 23, ed. 1885, £4 155.; Anderson Galleries, Jan. 5, $8.] Middleton (T) and Rowley (W.) The Changeling, as it was Acted (with great Applause) at the Privat house in DruryLane, and Salisbury Court, first ed., a few head-lines cut into, hf. roan, London, printed for Humphrey Moseley, 1653, sm. 4to. (155), Feb. 23, Sotheby Pickering, £17 [See also Mar. 3, ed. 1668, £3.] Miles (Henry Downes). Pugilisitica: the History of British [See also Dowell, Nov. 24, stained, 18s.; Sotheby, June 29, ed. 1826, 8s.] Mill (Humphrey). The Second Part of the Nights Search: Discovering the Condition of the various Fowles of Night, engraved title from a smaller copy mounted and loosely inserted, small hole in one leaf, some 11. stained, orig. sheepskin (worn), London, printed for Henry Shepheard, and William Ley, 1646, sm. 8vo. (411), Mar. 23, Sotheby Dobell, £3 Millais (Sir John Everett). Life and Letters, by his Son, special ed., No. 196 of 390 copies, plates, facsimile letters |