engravings of Marc Antonio, presumably by Bernard Solomon. 24mo, old red morocco, THE ARMS OF MADAME DE POMPADOUR on each cover, within border composed of crown and fleur-de-lys stamps, gilt edges, in a morocco case. Paris: Ianne de Marnef, 1546

93. APULEIUS. Les Metamorphoses, ou L'Asne d'Or. (Translation by J. de Montlyard.) Engraved title and 15 copperplates by Crispin de Pass and others. Ruled throughout with red ink. 8vo, old red morocco gilt, gilt edges, by Boyet. The Wodhull copy. Paris, 1631

*This edition (pp. 231-35) contains the best account of Bankes' famous horse Moraco.

94. APULEIUS. The Golden Ass of Lucius Apuleius of Medaura, reprinted from the scarce edition of 1709, revised and corrected. Frontispiece. 2 vols. 8vo, half morocco, uncut. (From the Pope Collection.) London, 1822

95. ARABIAN NIGHTS. The Arabian Nights Translated by the Reverend Edward Forster. gravings from pictures by Robert Smirke. 8vo, contemporary half morocco, gilt tops, uncut.

With en5 vols. royal

London: William Miller, 1802

* GEORGE DANIEL'S COPY on Large Paper. EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED with ten plates by Corbould, Kirk, etc., and a portrait of Smirke, in addition to the regular series of twenty-four illustrations.

96. ARDEN OF FEVERSHAM. The Lamentable And Trve Tragedy Of Master Arden Of Feversham In Kent: Who was most wickedly murdered by the meanes of his disloyall and wanton wife, who, for the love she bare to one Mosby, hired two desperate Ruffins, Blacke-Will, and Shakebag, to kill him, &c. Woodcut frontispiece on reverse of title. Third Edition. 8vo (small piece in blank margin of two leaves supplied), red levant morocco gilt, gilt edges, by Bedford.

London: Printed by Eliz. Allde, 1633 97. ARETINO (PIETRO). Capricciosi e Piacevoli Ragionamenti. FIRST ELZEVIR EDITION, including the supplementary tale " La Puttana Errante." The Pieters copy, with bookplate. 8vo, citron straight-grain morocco, broad gilt borders, gilt edges. Stampati in Cosmopoli.

[Leyde: John Elzevier], 1660

98. ARETINO (PIETRO). Sept Petites Nouvelles concernant le Jeu et les Joueurs traduites en français pour la première fois et précédées d'une étude sur l'auteur et sur divers conteurs Italiens par Philomneste junior. 12mo, half morocco, gilt top, uncut. (Only a few copies printed.) Paris, 1861

99. ARIOSTO (LODOVICO). Orlando Fvrioso, tvtto ricorretto, et di nvove figvre adornato. Con le Annotationi, gli A uuertimenti, & le Dichiarationi di Ieronimo Ruscelli. La

ita dell' Autore descritta dal Signor Giouan Battista Pigna. Gli Scontri de' luoghi mutati dall' Autore doppo la prima impressione. La Dichiaratione di tutte le Istorie, & Fauole toccate nel presente libro, fatta da M. Nicolò Eugenico. Dinvovo aggivntovi Li Cinque Canti, del medesimo Autore. Et una Tauola de' principij di tutte le stanze. Title-paye within an engraved border, and every Canto illustrated with a full-page woodcut, some repeated. Limp citron morocco, trefoil ornaments on the back, scroll panel and centre ornaments on the sides, overlap covers tooled on the edges, gauffred gilt edges, silk ties. A Venetian binding of the XVI century. Venice: Vincenzo Valgrisi, 1568

100. ARIOSTO (LODOVICO). Orlando Fvrioso, Nuouamente adornato di Figure di Rame da Girolamo Porro Padouano. Et Di Altre cose che saranno notate nella seg

ente facciata. Title within an architectural border, engraved on copper, 46 fine copperplates by Girolamo Porro, and an engraved tablet surrounding the argument of each Canto. 4to, contemporary Italian binding in red morocco, the sides tooled and gilt in compartments, the spaces richly ornamented with scroll and arabesque work, gilt back, gauffred gilt edges, in a case. Venetia F. de Franceschi, 1584

*A FINE COPY IN A BEAUTIFUL BINDING. Plate 34, which is a duplicate of 33, has two substitutes loosely inserted.

101. ARIOSTO (LODOVICO). Orlando Fvrioso. Con gli Argomenti in ottaua Rima di M. Lodouico Dolce, Et con le Allegorie à ciascun Canto, di Thomaso Porcacchi da Castigione Aretino. 51 woodcuts. 8vo, brown levant morocco gilt, gilt edges, by Bedford. Venetia, 1617

Por

102. ARIOSTO (LODOVICO). Orlando Furioso. trait engraved by Ficquet after Eisen and 46 fine plates by Bartolozzi, Choffard, Duclos, de Ghendt, Helman, Henriquez, De Launay, De Longueil, Martini, Massard, Moreau, Ponce, Prévost and Simonet after Cipriani, Cochin, Eisen, Greuze, Monnet and Moreau. 4 vols. royal 8vo, full citron crushed levant morocco gilt, gilt tooled backs and inside dentelle borders, gilt tops, OTHER EDGES UNCUT, by Chambolle-Duru. Birmingham: G. Baskerville, 1773

* EXTRA ILLUSTRATED by the insertion of the portrait and 46 plates engraved by Delaunay, Lingée and Ponce after Cochin, also a series of 46 proofs by Duclos, Quervedo, and others.

103. ARIOSTO (LODOVICO). Orlando Fvrioso in English heroical verse, by Iohn Haringtō. FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH. Engraved title (containing portrait of Harrington) by Cockson and numerous fine plates. Folio, brown levant morocco, embellished with a rich scroll design in mosaic black

and white, doublure of white vellum, gilt borders, gilt edges, by The Club Bindery.

[Colophon] Imprinted at London by Richard Field, 1591

*The engraved title and the illustrations in this edition, are very similar to those originally engraved by Girolamo Porro of Padua, which first appeared in an edition of Ariosto published at Venice. An entirely re-engraved set was prepared for the English Edition.

The Osterley Park copy, since rebound.

104. ARISTOPHANES. Aristophanis Comœdiæ novem græce (cum scholiis et prefatione græca Marci Musuri). 348 unnumbered leaves (including the blanks 90 and 248), with signatures; 31 lines to the page. Ornamental woodcut heading and initials. Folio, full red levant morocco, gilt inside borders, gilt edges, by Duru. (Margin of title skilfully supplied, and small upper portion of leaf 230 restored with little damage to the text.) Venetiis: apud Aldum, 1498 *EDITIO PRINCEPS. From the Libri and Sir Edward Sullivan collections, with bookplate of the latter. Hain-Copinger, 1656; Proctor, 5566; Renouard, p. 16, No. 3.

Plutus:

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105. ARISTOPHANES. The Worlds Idol. Comedy Written in Greek. By Aristophanes, Translated by H. H. B. Together with his Notes, and A Short Discourse upon it. Some dare affirm that Comedies may teach More in one hour than some in ten can preach. 12mo, half brown morocco, by The Club Bindery.

London: Printed by W. G. and are to be sold by Richard Skelton, Isaac Pridmore, and H. Marsh at the Princes Arms in Chancery-lane. 1659.

106. ARISTOTELES. Opera, Græce. Numerous woodcut ornamental and interlaced headings and initials. Greek character, 30 to the page. Vol. I: 234 unnumbered leaves; Vol. II: 32 unnumbered leaves and 268 numbered (including the blank 88); Vol. III: 457 numbered leaves, 2 unnumbered leaves (of which one is blank) between leaves 400 and 401, a blank, and 8 unnumbered leaves containing a fragment of the book X. "De historia animalium"; Vol. IV: a leaf numbered 1, 226 (a blank between 8 and 9), 116, 42, 12, 121 numbered leaves and unnumbered; Vol. V: 316 numbered leaves (leaf 94 blank), 1 unnumbered and 13 unnumbered leaves (of which the first blank) between 209 and 210. 5 vols. in 6, folio, full russia, gilt panelled sides, fleurons in the corners. Some pages slightly wormed.

Venetiis: Aldus Manutius Romanus, 1495-98

A very

* EDITIO PRINCEPS OF THE WORKS OF ARISTOTLE. large copy, with the rare quire of 2 leaves signed PP in Vol. III and the 8 leaves of "Historia Animalium" at the end of the same volume, which are to be found only in a few copies, Aldus having printed them after the volume was in circulation. Numerous marginal notes in Greek and Latin by a scholarly hand of the early part of the XVIth century. Hain-Copinger, 1657; Proctor, 5547, 5553, 5555-56 and 5565.

107. ARISTOTELES. Poetica, per Alexandrum Paccium in latinum conversa, græce et latine. 8vo, full brown morocco extra, gilt edges, by F. Bedford.

Venetiis: in ædibus hæredum Aldi, et Andreæ Asulani, 1536

108. ARISTOTELES. Les Politiques d'Aristote, esqulles est monstrie la science de gouuerner le genre humain en toutes espèces d'estats publics. Traduictes de grec en francois, auec expositions prises des meilleurs aucteurs . . . . par Loys le Roy dict Regius. Thick 4to, contemporary limp vellum gilt, gilt edges. Name on title.

....

Paris: Michel Vascosan, 1568

109. ARMSTRONG (ARCHIE). Archie Armstrong's Banquet of Jests. Reprinted from the original editions. Together with Archy's Dream, printed in the year 1641. Facsimile title and illustrations (2). 2 vols. 8vo, green levant morocco, broad lacework ornamentation, dentelle borders, vellum fly-leaves, gilt tops, uncut, by Grieve.

Edinburgh: William Paterson, 1872

* PRINTED ON VELLUM. ONLY TWO COPIES SO ISSUED.

110. ARNAULT (ANTOINE VINCENT). A. V. Arnault. Folded frontispiece by Boilly. levant morocco, gilt edges, by Thibaron.

...

Fables par 12mo, blue Paris, 1812

111. ARNAULT (ANTOINE VINCENT). Les Souvenirs et les Regrets du Vieil Amateur Dramatique ou Lettres d'un Oncle à son Neveu sur l'ancien Théâtre Français depuis Bellecour, Lekain . . . jusqu'à Molé, Larive. Ouvrage orné de 49 gravures coloriées, représentant en pied, d'après les miniatures originales, de Foëch de Basle et de Whirsker, ces différens acteurs dans les rôles. 8vo, half red levant morocco, gilt back, gilt top, uncut, by Petit.

Paris: Alphonse Leclere, 1861

112. ARNETT (JOHN ANDREWS). An Inquiry into the Nature and Form of the Books of the Ancients; with a History of the Art of Bookbinding, from the times of the Greeks and Romans. Illustrated. 12mo, cloth. London, 1837

113. ARNETT (JOHN ANDREWS). Bibliopegia; or, the Art of Bookbinding, in all its branches. Illustrated with engravings. 12mo, half red levant morocco, gilt top edges, by Rivière. London, 1835

114. [ARNOLD (MATTHEW).] The Strayed Reveller, and other Poems. By A. Post 8vo, cloth, uncut.

London, 1849

* FIRST EDITION. Only one hundred copies were printed, and withdrawn from circulation after a few had been sold.

115. ARNOLD (MATTHEW). 12mo, cloth, uncut.

Merope.

A Tragedy. London, 1858

116. ARS MEMORANDI. Rationarium Euangelistarum, omnia in se euangelia, prosa, versu, ymaginibusque mirifice complectens. 15 full-page woodcuts, evidently copied from those of the well-known xylographic edition printed in Germany about 1470. 4to, full green levant morocco extra, gilt tooled inside borders, gilt edges, by TrautzBauzonnet.

[Phorce (Phortzheim)] Thomas Badensis cognomento Anshelmi, 1505.

*The design of the book is, by emblematic illustrations, to provide helps to remember the order and the chief topics of the successive chapters of the Four Evangelists.

117. ART DE BIEN VIVRE. Le bien viure. Gothic characters, double columns. 72 unnumbered leaves, with signatures, 33 lines to the page. 29 woodcuts, several of which full page, royal arms of France on the back of title, and Verard device at the end, ALL BEAUTIFULLY ILLUMINATED IN GOLD AND COLORS by a contemporary hand. Small folio, old vellum gilt, gilt edges. In a straight-grained morocco slip case. Paris: pour Anthoine Verard, 1492 * FIRST EDITION. PRINTED ON VELLUM. The above work forms the second part of the "Livre intitulé l'art de bien vivre et de bien mourir," but it is sometimes found separately as here. Not in Hain. No copy in the British Museum.

118. ART DE RÉGNER ou le sage gouverneur (par Gillet de la Tessonnerie. Device of the "Sphère." 12mo, full red crushed levant morocco, gilt tooled inside borders, gilt edges, by Trautz-Bauzonnet.

(Leyde, B. & A. Elzevier.) Suivant la copie imprimée a Paris, 1649.

119. ART OF LIMNING. A very proper treatise, wherein is briefly sett forthe the arts of Limning, which teacheth the order in drawing & tracing of letters, vinets, flowers, armes, and Imagery, & the maner how to make sundry sises or grounds to laye siluer or golde uppon neuer put in print before this time. Small 4to, marbled calf, gilt edges, with bookplate of A. E. Vicars.

Imprinted at London . . . by Richard Tottill, An 1573

*One of the earliest English books on painting and drawing. A fine copy, with large margins.

120. ARTHUR (KING). The Most Ancient And Famovs History Of the Renowned Prince Arthur King of Britaine, Wherein is declared his Life and Death, with all his glorious Battailes against the Saxons, Saracens and Pagans.. As also, all the Noble Acts, and Heroicke Deeds of his ValiantKnights of the Rovnd Table. Woodcut frontispiece. Small 4to, with general title and two separate titles, russia, back tooled in gold, thickly studded with small dots,