X Reading.—William Smith & Son, 109-111 London Street. Catalogues of Old, Rare, and Curious, as well as some Modern Second-hand Books, also portraits, views, maps, &c., from the Collection of Lady Currie and other sources, A selection of Chap Books is included, and some Americana. Rochdale James Clegg, 124 Drake Street. - The Rochdale Catalogue of Secondhand Books, many Rare and Curious, also a Catalogue consisting entirely of Books from the Library of the late John Bright, M.P., of One Ash, Rochdale. All booksellers and librarians will recall with gratitude Mr. Clegg's invaluable International Directory of Booksellers. with its thousand and one items of information on points indispensable to all who have to do with books. Saffron Walden.-P. M. Barnard, 4 Mount Pleasant Road. -Catalogue of Secondhand Books, viz., Bibles, Biblical Commentaries, Patristic, Sermons, General Theological List, Miscellaneous List, Cheap Clearance Lists. Mr. Barnard is about to remove to more commodious premises at Tunbridge Wells. York. The Eclectic Book Co., 16 Stonegate.-Catalogue of Books of General Interest, comprising Travels, Theology, Science, Yorkshire Items, &c. The Eclectic Book Co. has one of the most picturesque old English houses possible to imagine for its premises, gabled timber and plaster work, and the catalogue has a view of the front. FOREIGN Amsterdam, Frederick Muller & Cie., 10 Doelenstraat.-Catalogue de Livres Rare et Curieux, Costumes et Uniforms, Militaria, Escrime, Sport, Entrées, Beaux-Arts, Gravures sur Bois, Incunables, Bibles, Recueils de Portraits, Livres Illustrés, Musique, Littérature, Réformation, Pères de l'église, Amérique, Australie, Afrique, Indes Orientales, Russie, Journaux, etc., etc. A catalogue of high importance, with an Index of Subjects, and 20 reproductions of illustrations from early-printed books, etc., including two blocks containing eight figures of American Indians, from Jacquard's work, Les Divers Pourtraicts et Figures faicts sur les moeurs des Habitants du Nouveau Monde, 1610. Chicago. Ill., U.S.A.-The Morris Book Shop. 171 Madison Street, and 152 Wabash Avenue-Catalogue No. 48, wherein is listed a most remarkable book, Queen Elizabeth's Bible, with her autograph, and the Mackenzie Queen Victoria's Bible, with recent purchases from London Sales, from the Libraries of Lady Currie, Sir W. M. Banks, Harrison Weir, and others; Angling, Early Printing, English 'Remainders," First Editions of Thackeray, Dickens, Lang, &c. Queen Elizabeth's bible is of course of overwhelming interest. It was purchased in Michigan, from the descendants of an old Presbyterian minister, and is supposed to have been taken from some English cathedral during one of the Cromwellian raids. Anyhow, Mr. Morris brought the volume to London, and submitted it for examination to the authorities of the British Museum, and states that he now has a document which absolutely bears out the authenticity of the signature. It is the only known book in which the Queen's signature appears, and the price asked is £1,000. Florence. Italy.-Leo S, Olschki, Lung 'Arno Acciaioli. Bulletin Mensuel des Derniers Achats, No. 56.-Section D to G is of the usual high character of Signor Olschki's catalogues. La Haye, Holland.-Martinus Nijhoff, Nobelstraat, 18. Livres Anciens et Modernes, Encyclopédies, Bibliographie Imprimerie, Editions de luxe, Reliure, Géographie, Ethnographie, Voyages (Afrique, Amérique, Asie, Australie, Cartographie, Colomb, Congo, Europe, Indes néerl., Madagascar, Phillipines.) Histoire Politique et Ecclésiastique, Biographie (Allemagne, Angleterre, Belgique, Bohème, . Croisades, Espagne, Finlande, France, Grèce, Italie, Jésuites, Pays-Bas, Portugal.) Paleographie. Généalogie et Héraldique. Numismatique, Sphragistique, Médailles. Droit. The catalogue consists of 715 important lots on 80 pages arranged in subjects. The section Amerique is an interesting one. Another of Mr. Nijhoff's catalogues is as follows:-Series Importantes de Périodiques et de Publications de Sociétés Savantes, 758 lots. Salt Lake City, Utah, U.S.A.-The Shepard Book Company, 272 South State Street. Send for Catalogues of Travels, Roycroft Books, Sports, Thackerayana, Dickensiana, Mary Queen of Scots, Napoleoniana, Elton Press, Association Books, Miscellaneous and Bibliography, Autograph and Association, Books with Autograph Letters, Poems, etc.. Histories and Books on the Rebellion, Rare Books and Magazines. From the book point of view the Company must be a shining light in the desert, for I know of no other dealers in rarities for many, many miles around. 5 WILLIAM DOWNING DEALER IN RARE AND BEAUTIFUL BOOKS. TO ART, BIBLIOGRAPHY, THE CHAUCER'S HEAD LIBRARY Temple Row, Birmingham. GEORGE T. JUCKES & CO., The Ruskin Book Stores 85 ASTON STREET, CORPORATION ST., BIRMINGHAM. TELEGRAPHIC ADDRESS: "BOOKFINDER." WE BUY FOR CASH ANY: LARGE COLOURED SPORTING PRINTS. EARLY BOOKS ON MAGIC, PHALLICISM, etc. TELEPHONE 4737. THE ROMAN EMPRESSES, 2 vols. 1899. Please report any copies that come your way. ARUNDEL CHROMOS LARGE STOCK. MANY RARE ONES. Send stamp for this month's list, which gives size and shape of each. Complete Catalogue of ALL the publications of the Arundel Society--Chromos, Engravings, Books, Fictile Ivories, etc. ls net, post free. SAINT JUDE'S DEPOT, BIRMINGHAM. Report your THEOLOGY to W. D. WOODHOUSE 35, JOHN BRIGHT STREET BIRMINGHAM HE'S A BUYER! MIDDLETON & CO. 319, Broad Street, Birmingham. ENGLISH, FRENCH, GERMAN, SPANISH, ITALIAN DUTCH, LATIN, or GREEK books, and all books on the ARTS, and curious out-of-the-waysubjects, fully CATALOGUED, accurately DESCRIBED, and the INTEREST and VALUE well brought out. References to leading booksellers. NEGOTIATIONS for sales of special books made if desired. CORRESPONDENCE undertaken between English and foreign booksellers and bookbuyers. The following is an example of Messrs. Middleton's work, from a catalogue issued by Messrs. Wm. Brough & Son, 313, Broad Street, Birmingham: Justinian's Digesta or Pandects.-A Colossal Work, published in Paris just after the Sack of Rome, and bearing the title, QUINQUAGINTA LIBRORUM DIGESTORUM SEU PANDECTARUM; 5 fine large thick folio volumes, cum glossis, beautifully printed with Gothic Type, in red and black ink, with woodcut initials, in heavy oak boards, covered with old calf, bind tooled. EX INCLYTA PARRHISIORUM LUTETIA APUD CLAUDIUM CHEVALLONIUM, SUB SOLE AUREO IN VIA JACOBEA. IN A FINE STATE OF PRESERVATION. £15 155. (Paris), 1528-30 THE FIRST COMMERCIAL PRINTING OFFICE IN FRANCE was opened about the year 1473, at the sign of the "Golden Sun," in James' Street, Paris. To this house the FIRST THREE PRINTERS, who had been brought from GERMANY, went and set up business when their University patrons were about to leave France. How long the three pioneers stayed depended, of course, on the demand for the skill of the first craftsmen of their kind; but we find the "Golden Sun," nearly sixty years later, of such great importance as to be able to turn out under its master-CLAUDE CHEVALLONIUS-an enormous work of this sort, in a style such as the ordinary compositor of the present day would be incapable of approaching. Looking at the whole book-consisting, as it does, of nearly 4,000 BEAUTIFUL FOLIOS-it seems difficult to believe that it was the work of the men of the first half-century of the era of Printing. The EUROPE OF THAT TIME must have been a wild-man's land. ROME itself had, after a thousand years, again been sacked, and was lying much in the state that SAN FRANCISCO now is. CHARLES V., the ruler of Spain and her vast Colonies, and FRANCIS I., swayed the destiny of the "civilised" world. When this book was printed in his capital, FRANCIS had already earned the reputation of "PATRON OF LETTERS"; and whatever else flourished, it is plain from a volume of this sort that first-class printers were in demand. WHY this enormous work was actually required at this particular time, and how the MANUSCRIPT OF IT HAD BEEN PRESERVED SO well since the famous EMPEROR OF THE WEST had WRITTEN it all a THOUSAND YEARS BEFORE, are questions which others must solve. We need only note the very great BEAUTY of the old GOTHIC LETTERPRESS, page after page, in its red and black-most picturesque in aspect. Every paragraph has its initial in red; EVERY PAGE its HEADING, likewise in RED TYPE. Constantly we see charming little woODCUTS for initials; and one remarkably HANDSOME WOODCUT, about 7 by 6, of the Imperial Author of the book in Council; the borders of the title-page showing wonderful skill with birds, grotesque animals, and "mermen," with remarkably expressive faces. The day of beautiful MANUSCRIPTS had by no means faded out of memory, and their beauty had to be rivalled, but we still see here that men preferred to retain even the CONTRACTIONS. The fine old work is for the most part in a magnificent state of PRESERVATION, and is one of THE FIRST COLOSSAL BOOKS EVER PRINTED IN THE WORLD. MIDDLETON & CO. 319, Broad Street, Birmingham. Book-Auction Records This publication is now complete from the commencement in 1892 to the present date. Volume contains 19,594 Records for the Season 1902-3, and four Illustrations, including Portraits of the late Mr. J. W. Bouton, of New York, and Mr. W. D. Reeves, of Reeves & Turner, London. It is out of print, but is about to be reprinted in one alphabet (thus avoiding the necessity for an Index), and it will contain a view of John Keats' house at Hampstead, where he wrote the 'Ode to a Nightingale.' Volume 1, Part 2, contains 14.611 Records for the Season 1903-4, and an Unpublished Portrait of Thackeray, drawn by the late Sir Henry Thompson in 1857. It is believed to be the only portrait of Thackeray in profile, and was made without his knowledge. Sir Henry Thompson was Thackeray's surgeon, and was also a skilled portrait-painter. Volume 2 contains 15,751 Records for the season 1904-5, and four Volume 3 contains 15,200 Records for the Season 1995-6, and four Volume 4 is in course of publication. The First Part contains a Plate of the great Reference Library, Birmingham. Each Volume is published at £1 Is. ($5), and any volume or the whole will be sent on inspection, carriage free, on application, 'Book-Auction Records' has been received with great appreciation, and is subscribed for by booksellers and public libraries throughout the world. KARSLAKE & CO. 35, POND STREET, HAMPSTEAD, LONDON. |