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Fielding, Esq. author of Tom Jones, etc. London: Printed for T. Cadell, . . . M DCC LXXVIII. (Price One Shilling and Six Pence.) 8vo, sprinkled calf, gilt back, some edges uncut.

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First edition. A-P in fours, title on A1. years before Fielding's death, and mentioned by him in the preface to his Miscellanies, 1743, as "The Good Natured Man." Dedication by John Fielding to the Duke of Northumberland, Prologue and Epilogue by Garrick.

FIELDING, SIR JOHN. See Jest-Books.

FIELDING, SARAH.-The Lives of Cleopatra and Octavia. By The Author of David Simple. London: Printed for the Author, And Sold by Andrew Millar, R. and J. Dodsley, . and J. Leake,

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M. DCC. LVII. 4to, blue levant morocco, gilt back, side borders, gilt edges.

FIELDING, THEODORE HENRY ADOLPHUS. - The Theory and Practice of Painting in Oil and Water Colours, for landscape and portraits; including the preparation of colours, vehicles, varnishes, etc., method of painting in wax, or encaustic; remarks on the chemical properties and permanency of colours, etc.; and a Manual of Lithography. Illustrated with [18] plain and coloured plates. By T. H. Fielding, . . . Fifth edition. London: David Bogue,... M DCCC LII. Royal 8vo, half green levant morocco, gilt back, gilt top, uncut edges.

FIELDS, JAMES THOMAS.-Poems by James T. Fields. Boston: William D. Ticknor & Company. MDCCC XLIX. 12mo, original cloth, uncut edges.

First edition.

FILSON, JOHN. - The Discovery, Settlement And present state of Kentucke: and An Essay towards the Topography, and Natural History of that important

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Country. To which is added, An Appendix, Containing, I. The Adventures of Col. Daniel Boon, one of the first Settlers, comprehending every important Occurrence in the political History of that Province. II. The Minutes of the Piankashaw Council, held at Post St. Vincents, April 15, 1784. III An Account of the Indian Nations inhabiting within the Limits of the Thirteen United States, their Manners and Customs, and Reflections on their Origin. IV. The Stages and Distances between Philadelphia and the Falls of the Ohio, from Pittsburg to Pensacola, and several other Places.-The Whole illustrated by a new and accurate Map of Kentucke and the Country adjoining, drawn from actual Surveys. By John Filson. Wilmington: Printed by James Adams. 1784. Svo and 4to, green levant morocco, gilt top, uncut edges; the book by Bradstreet's, the map by Joly.

The excessively rare Map, for many years believed to be a mistaken promise of the title-page, is found with this copy, though bound separately. Manuscript by Daniel Boone and portrait inserted.

FIRDUSI (FIRDAUSI: ABUL KASIM MANSUR). The Epic of Kings Stories retold from Firdusi by Helen Zimmern with two etchings by L. Alma Tadema, —and a prefatory poem by Edmund W. Gosse London T. Fisher Unwin M DCCC LXXXII. 4to, decorated cloth, gilt top, uncut edges.

Large paper copy.

FISHER, JOSEPH.-Eighty-four Etched Fac-similes, on a reduced scale, after the Original Studies by Michael Angelo and Raffaelle in the University Galleries, Oxford. Etched and published by Joseph Fisher . . . Second Series. Oxford, M DCCC LXII. 8vo, cloth, uncut edges.

FISHER, RICHARD.— - Catalogue of a Collection of Engravings, Etchings, and Woodcuts. [with sixty-five illustrations] 1879. [Printed by John C. Wilkins.] Royal 8vo, half maroon morocco, gilt top, uncut edges.

FISHER, RICHARD. - Introduction to a Catalogue of the Early Italian Prints in the British Museum by Richard Fisher London printed at the Chiswick Press 1886. Royal 8vo, cloth, uncut edges.

FISHER'S GARLAND.-A Collection of Right Merrie Garlands for North Country Anglers. Newcastle : printed for Emerson Charnley MDCCCXXXVI. 8vo, half green morocco, gilt top, uncut edges.

Woodcuts by Bewick.

These "Garlands" begin with the "Tyne Fisher's Farewell to his Favourite Stream," 1824, followed by the Fisher's Garland from 1821 to 1832, and end with "The Angler's Progress; a Poem" [by Herman Boaz], each with a separate title and woodcut, the dates from 1820 to 1832.

Robert Roxby and Thomas Doubleday wrote the Fisher's Garland for 1821-3-4-5-6-'30, and '32, William Gill Thompson, 1822, '31 (and the "Tyne Fisher's Farewell"), William Green in 1827, Thomas Doubleday, 1828 and '29.

FISHER'S GARLAND. —A Collection of Right Merrie Garlands for North Country Anglers. Edited by Joseph Crawhall and continued to this present year Newcastle-on-Tyne: George Rutland 1864. 8vo,

half Roxburghe morocco, gilt top, uncut edges.

Woodcuts by Bewick, etc.

The authors were Herman Boaz, Robert Roxby, Thomas Doubleday, William Gill Thompson, William Green, Robert Nichol, and William Andrew Chatto.

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FISHING. The Whole Art of Fishing. Being A Collection and Improvement of all that has been written upon this Subject: with many New Experiments. Shewing The Different Ways of Angling, and the beft Methods of taking Fresh-water Fish. To which is added, The Laws of Angling. [Twelve lines from Pope] London, Printed for E. Curll, . . . 1714. Price 2s. or 2s. 6d. Small 8vo, panelled calf, gilt back.

Frontispiece by H. Halsbergh.

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FITZGERALD, EDWARD. - Euphranor a dialogue on youth London William Pickering 1851. 16mo, cloth.

First edition.

FITZGERALD, EDWARD.-See Omar Khayyám.

FITZGERALD, PERCY. - The Life of David Garrick; from original family papers, and numerous published and unpublished sources. By Percy Fitzgerald . . . [two portraits] London: Tinsley Brothers... 1868. 8vo, two volumes, cloth, uncut edges.

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FITZGERALD, PERCY. - The Romance of the English Stage. By Percy Fitzgerald . . London: Richard Bentley & Son . . . 1874. 1874. 8vo, two volumes, half green morocco, gilt top, uncut edges.

FLAUBERT, GUSTAVE. - Bouvard and Pécuchet authorised edition translated from the French with an introduction by D. F. Hannigan, . . illustrated with nine original designs after S. Gorski London H. S. Nichols... 1896 . . . 8vo, decorated green satin, gilt top, uncut edges.

One hundred copies printed upon Japan paper, with illustrations in two states, blue and bistre.

FLAXMAN, JOHN. - Compositions from the Tragedies of Æschylus designed by Iohn Flaxman engraved by Thomas Piroli London Published for I. Flaxman Jun! Jan. 12. 1795, by J. Matthews . . . Oblong 4to, boards, uncut edges.

Engraved title and thirty other outline plates.

FLAXMAN, JOHN. - Lectures on Sculpture. By John Flaxman with a brief memoir of the author.

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London: John Murray

.. MDCCCXXIX. Royal

8vo, red morocco, gilt and blind-tooled, gilt edges.

Portrait of Flaxman on India paper and fifty-one plates. The plates are numbered from one to fifty-two, but plate eighteen was cancelled.

From the library of Sir Thomas Lawrence, with his autograph.

1829.

FLAXMAN, JOHN. - Lectures on Sculpture. Royal 8vo, calf, gilt back, gilt top, uncut edges, by Bedford.

Another copy.

FLAXMAN, JOHN. - See Homer.

FLETCHER, WILLIAM YOUNGER. - English Bookbindings in the British Museum illustrations of sixty-three examples selected on account of their beauty or historial interest with introduction and descriptions by William Younger Fletcher . . . The plates printed in facsimile by W. Griggs... London Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner and Company, . . . 1895. 4to, cloth, gilt top, uncut edges.

No. 137 of five hundred copies printed.
Sixty-six plates in colour.

FLETCHER, WILLIAM YOUnger. Foreign Bookbindings in the British Museum illustrations of sixty-three examples selected on account of their beauty or historical interest with introduction and descriptions by William Younger Fletcher . . . The plates printed in facsimile by W. Griggs ... London Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner and Company, . . . 1896. 4to, cloth, gilt top, uncut edges. No. 71 of five hundred copies printed. Sixty-five coloured plates.

FLETCHER, WILLIAM YOUNGER. - English Book Collectors by William Younger Fletcher . London

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