96 Booke (A) of Christian Praiers, collected out

of the Ancient Writers, and best learned in our time. London, 1608.

Small 4° full crimson crushed levant morocco extra, by F. Bedford.

Black Letter. This handsome volume is commonly known as Queen Elizabeth's Prayer Book, in consequence of the large woodcut portrait of the Queen, on the reverse of the title, in the attitude of prayer. The work is elegantly printed within ornamental woodcut borders, in imitation of the French "Books of Hours," and is remarkable as being the only English book of the kind.

97 [Braithwait, Richard.]

B. Gent. London, 1650.

12° full morocco.

Pocula Castalia. By R.

With the two rare copperplate portraits by William Marshall.

98 Browning, Robert.

London, 1837.

Strafford: an historical tragedy.

8° original boards, uncut, in half morocco slip case.
First edition.

99 Browning, Robert.

La Saisiaz: the two Poets of

Croisic, 1878; - Ferishtah's Fancies, 1884. London.

2 vols. 12° full Spanish morocco extra, uncut edges, by RIVIÈRE & SON.

Presentation copies to "The Lord Chief Justice Coleridge, with the best regards of Robert Browning."

100 Bullen, A. H.

Musa Proterva: love-poems of the Restoration. Privately printed. London, 1889.

Square 12° full brown crushed levant morocco, beautifully tooled on back and sides, gilt on uncut edges, by RUBAN.

With beautiful aquarelle on the preliminary title by F. BOURDIN.

101 Bulwer, John. Chirologia: or the Naturall Language of the Hand. Composed of the Speaking Motions, and Discoursing Gestures thereof. Whereunto is added Chiromania: or the art of Manual Rhetoric. Frontispiece by Marshall. London, 1644.

Small 4° boards.

This very curious work gives an explanation of the actions, gestures, and movements of the hand and fingers.

102 Bulwer, John. Philocophus, or, The Deafe and Dumbe

Man's Friend.

1648.

Engraved title by Marshall.

16° calf, gilt edges.

First edition, with bookplate of Edward Hailstone.

London,

103 Bulwer, John. Anthropometamorphosis: Man transformed: or the changeling, shewing the various ways how divers People alter the natural shape of some part of their Bodies. Portrait and engraved title. London, 1650.

16° calf.

First edition of this curious and extravagant work.

104 Burns, Robert. Poems, chiefly in the Scottish Dialect. Kilmarnock: Printed by John Wilson, 1786.

8° full straight-grained morocco extra, gilt edges.
First edition of Burns's Poems.

105 Burns, Robert.

Second edition.

8° tree calf.

Poems, chiefly in the Scottish Dialect. Portrait by Bengo. Edinburgh, 1789.

First Edinburgh edition.

106 [Burns, Robert.] Elegiac Sonnets. By Charlotte

Smith. London, 1789.

12° original half calf binding.

Presentation copy from the author to Robert Burns, with a couplet written by Burns.

107 Burns, Robert.

Celebrated Poet. Autograph letter

to "Clarinda." I page 4° signed "Sylvander."

"You talk of weeping, Clarinda; some involuntary drops wet your lines as I read them. Offend me my dearest Angel! You cannot offend me, you never offended me. If you had ever given me the least shadow of offence, so pardon me my God, as I forgive Clarinda. I have read yours again: it has blotted my paper. Tho' I find your letter has agitated me into a violent headache, I shall take a chair and be with you about eight. A friend is to be with us at tea, on my account, which hinders me from coming sooner. Forgive my dearest, my unguarded expressions. For Heaven's sake, forgive me, or I shall never be able to bear my own mind.

108 Burns, Robert.

66

'Yours unhappy

"Sylvander."

Autograph letter to Clarinda, signed

"Sylvander." 2 pp. 4°.

"2 O'clock.

"I just now received your first letter of yesterday, by the careless negligence of the penny post.

"Clarinda, matters are grown very serious with us: then seriously hear me, and hear me Heaven!

"I met you, my dear Clarinda, by far the first of womankind, at least to me, I esteemed, I loved you at first sight, both of which attachments you have done me the honour to return. The longer I am acquainted with you, the more innate amiableness and worth I discover in you. You have suffered a loss, I confess, for my sake; but if the firmest, steadiest, warmest friendship; if

every endeavour to be worthy of your friendship; if a love, strong as the ties of nature, and holy as the duties of religion; if all these can make anything like a compensation for the evil I have occasioned you; if they be worth your acceptance, or can in the least add to your enjoyments, -so help Sylvander, ye Powers above, in his hour of need, as he freely gives these all to Clarinda!

"I esteem you, I love you, as a friend; I admire you, I love you, as a woman, beyond any one in all the circle of creation. "I know I shall continue to esteem you, to love you, to pray for you, nay, to pray for myself for your sake.

"Expect me at eight; and believe me to be ever, my dearest Madam, yours most entirely,

"Sylvander."

The two preceding letters are a part of the original correspondence between Burns and Clarinda, and are letters numbered 20 and 44 in the "Correspondence between Burns and Clarinda, with a memoir of Mrs. McLehose (Clarinda), arranged and edited by her grandson, W. C. McLehose. Edinburgh, 1843."

109 Burns, Robert.

Celebrated Poet. 2 verses of a Song.

Original manuscript, I page 4°.

(TUNE) "When I Sleep, etc."

"Lanely night comes on,

A' the house are sleeping,

I think on the bony lad

That has my heart a keeping,
Ay waukin, &c.

"Lanely night comes on,

A' the house are sleeping,

I think on my bony lad

An' I bleer my een wi' greetin'!

Ay waukin, &c."

(The chorus of this tune was)

Ay waukin O, waukin ay and wearie,

Sleep I canna get, for thinking O' my dearie."

110 [Burton, Robert.] Anatomy of Melancholy. London,

III

1621.

First edition.

Small 4° full brown crushed levant morocco extra, by LORTIC.

Byron, Lord.

Hours of Idleness: a Series of Poems,

Original and Translated. First edition. Newark, Printed by S. & J. Ridge, 1807.

Small 8° morocco, uncut, gilt top.

With presentation inscription on fly leaf inserted: "Juliana M. Parker, the gift of her cousin, George Byron, 1807."

112 Chalkill, John. Thealma and History in smooth and easie verse.

Clearchus; a Pastoral

London, 1683.

8° full crimson crushed levant morocco, by RIVIÈRE.

First edition, edited, with Preface, by Izaak Walton, and with Prefatory Verses, by Flatman.

France.

113 Chants et Chansons populaires de la Illustrated with exquisitely engraved titles by Nargeot, after Trimolet, and hundreds of plates in the text after the charming designs of Daubigny, Meissonier, Grandville, and others, and with the music engraved. Paris, 1843. 3 vols. royal 8° orange-colored levant morocco super extra, doublé of blue polished morocco, broad inside borders, gilt edges, by DAVID.

Beautiful copy and first issue of the Original Editions, with brilliant impressions of the plates and the original illuminated covers bound in.

114 Coppée, François. L'Exilée. Poésies. Paris, 1877. Only 25 copies printed on Whatman Paper.

Small 4° full pebbled morocco extra, corner ornaments, by F. P. HATHAWAY.

Beautifully illustrated with 17 water-color vignettes on the margins, also head and tail pieces.

115 Corbet, Richard.

Poetica Stromata: or a collection

of Sundry pieces in Poetry. (N. p.) Anno 1648.

8° calf gilt by RIVIÈRE.

First authorized edition. A rare book, apparently printed abroad, containing interesting allusions to Burbage's Impersonations of Richard III.

116 Corbet, Richard.

The Troublesome and Hard Adventures in Love. Written in Spanish, by that Excellent and Famous Gentleman, Michael Cervantes, and exactly Translated into English. London, 1652.

Small 4° full crimson crushed levant morocco, Janseniste, by LORTIC, FILS.

117 Cruikshank, George. A Fireside-Book; or, a Christmas spent at Old Court. Frontispiece. London, 1828.

8° full green crushed levant morocco, by RIVIÈRE.

With the original pen-and-ink sketch of the frontispiece by George Cruikshank inserted.

118 Cruikshank, George. The Humorist, a collection of entertaining Tales, Anecdotes, Epigrams, Bon Mots, etc. London, 1819.

4 vols. 12° original boards, uncut, in slip cases.

First edition, with the beautiful colored etchings by George Cruikshank.

119 Cruikshank, George. German Popular Stories. Collected by M. M. Grimm. Illustrations by George Cruikshank. First edition. London, 1823.

2 vols. 12° full green crushed levant morocco extra, by RivIÈRE & SON.

120 Cruikshank, George. Life of Sir John Falstaff. With a biography of the Knight from authentic sources by Robert B. Brough. Illustrated by George Cruikshank. London, 1858.

Royal 8° sprinkled calf extra by ZAEHNSDORF.

With extra set of the plates, India proofs, inserted.

121 Daniel, Samuel.

Certaine Small Poems lately printed
Device on title. London,

with the Tragedie of Philotas.

1605.

Small 8° brown morocco.

Third collected edition, containing Philotas for the first time.

122 Donne, John. Poems, by J. D., with Elegies on the author's death. London, 1633.

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123 Drayton, Michael. The Battaile of Agincourt: The Miserie of Queen Margarite, Nimphidia, Elegies, etc. Engraved portrait by Hole. London, 1627.

Small folio, full crimson morocco extra, by BEDFORD.

First edition.

124 Dryden, John and John Hoddeson. Sion and Parnassus; or, Epigrams on severall texts of the Old and New Testament, to which are added a Poem on the Passion. London, 1650.

Small 8° morocco extra, by RIVIÈRE.

First edition, with a brilliant impression of the rare portrait of Dryden, engraved by T. Cross.

125 Eliot, George. Agatha. London, 1869.

Small 8° full light polished calf extra, uncut, by TOUT.

First edition, and the rarest of George Eliot's works. This poem was first printed in the Atlantic Monthly.

126 Etch'd Thoughts. By the Etching Club. 60 etchings. London, Printed for the Etching Club, 1844.

Imperial 4° full smooth morocco, blind tooled, gilt edges.

The London Etching Club was established in 1838 and last work printed in 1857.