It shows to what extent an idea that obsesses you may get on your brain when I tell you that one night I dreamt that the Association was having a big banquet somewhere in London, with Abraham Lincoln in the chair! And I distinctly remember him taking me aside before the proceedings commenced, and asking to prompt him as to the line he ought to take in his opening speech. Was it the salmon or the cucumber, I wonder, that was the more indigestible on the evening that preceded that dream! In the article on Exeter Mr. Harry Manley was omitted from the list of book. sellers of that city. This omission was caused by the fact that Mr. Manley had to remove from his shop to temporary premises which possess no shop window. The business was established 28 years ago, and is at present at 3 St. Mary Arches Street. Mr. Manley adds that one of the conveniences of having no open shop is that he now has the opportunity of becoming acquainted with the inside as well as the outsides of the old, out-of-the-way, and curious books in which he deals. Books to keep a sharp look-out for (vide The Athenaeum, Aug. 3, 1907):- Gorton (Sam.) Antidote against the Common Plague of the World, 1657. Henry Pelham's Map of Boston, published in London in 1777. The Bellman of Mar. 14 contains an account of the bookshop of Mr. Edmund D. Brooks, 89 Tenth Street South, Minneapolis, U.S.A. Mr. Brooks being a "live' bookseller he of course subscribes to B.A.R., and all other subscribers should send their catalogues to him, and when he sends orders they need not wait for a reference. The article in question is a highly-appreciative one, but the most eloquent testimony of all consists of two plates of Mr. Brooks's book-rooms. They are as far removed from an ideal English bookshop as is Alpha from Omega. They might well represent the interiors of libraries of wealthy men of culture in old English houses. On the floors are handsome carpets. In the centre are long and heavy oaken tables. The ceilings are supported by cross-beams. Round the walls are both glazed and open book cases. Easy chairs dot the open spaces. Over the quaint brick fireplace is hung a portrait of Tennyson. There is, in fact an air of quiet and repose which must tempt booklovers to linger and examine the treasures which abound. means send Mr. Brooks your catalogues. He will buy what is worth having. * * By all Errata to Vol. 4 :-Page 10. Baines (E.) Lancashire and Cheshire, 2 vols, n. d. The price should be 7s. instead of £7. * There is just room to squeeze in something apart from business. It is a curious sensation that is caused by turning out old drawers and lighting upon some reminiscence of events that had sunk into the limbo of the Past. I had such an experience the other day, and came across some lines written from California to a friend who was a wholesale chemist, and whose catalogue of drugs had been sent me. I had not seen the effusion for 14 years, and as it made me laugh perhaps it will make you laugh also, if only at my folly in printing it. Here it is : CHEMICAL CACCHINATION Hydro-bromides or Vibronas, Itrosyls or other drugs! Shall we talk about Cinchonas, grown in land that once bred Thugs ? Autometric-stopper (this is just enough to kill a cat !) Centigrade and Fahrenheit scales; Ethel's Nitrite (Oh! my eye!) Hydroclorics, Liquid Extracts and Sulphurics; (what a lark !) What's the good of living if you can't laugh sometimes? 35, Pond Street, Hampstead, London, N.W. FRANK KARSLAKE BOOKSELLERS' CATALOGUES N.B.-All Booksellers should put us on their list of names, as one never knows where, in any part of the world, a notice of a catalogue attracts attention and leads to business. In addition, we constantly make purchases ourselves of prints, portraits, etc. (GREAT BRITIAN AND IRELAND) Birmingham-Edward Baker's Great Book Shop, 14-16, John Bright Street.-Catalogue William Downing, 5, Temple Row.—The Chaucer's Head Book Catalogues, etc. H. E. Heynes, 30, Edgbaston St.-Catalogue No. XVI. An Interesting List Bristol. William George's Sons, 89, Park St.--Catalogues Nos. 305, 306, 307; Africa, Alpine, America, Art, Australia, China, Gloucestershire, India, etc., also Certain Old and Curious Books (XVth to XVIIIth Centuries), many of great rarity and interest, such as the Falles of Princes, 1554; The Mirror for Magistrates, 1619; and Bacon's Proficience and Advancement of Learning, and Essayes, first editions, 1605-32. Burnley.-Lupton Bros., 38-40, Manchester Road.--Catalogues 98, 99; Recent Purchases, including a portion of the library of the late James Ogden, Esq., Rochdale; Purchases from the Ross Hall Collection, and other sources. Alpine, America, Architecture, Art, Ballads, Botany, Chronology, Civil War, Costume, Dictionaries, Drama, Egypt, Ireland, Kelmscott Press, Lancashire, London, Norway and Sweden, Old Maps, Pen and Pencil Series, Scotland, Shakespeariana, Spain, Sports and Sporting, Tobacco, Wales, Yorkshire, also Popular and Choice Books for General Book-buyers, Collectors and Public Libraries, with a picturesque block of Whalley Abbey Gateway. Cambridge. Galloway & Porter, 30, Sidney Street.-Clearance Catalogue of Books in all branches of Literature, upwards of 1,000 items:-Australia, Classics, Economics, History, Ireland, Science, Scotland, Wesley Books, etc. Heffer & Sons, 4, Petty Cury.--Catalogue No. 36. English Literature, Biographical, Bibliographical, Literary and Philological, including many Rare and Unique Items, Standard Sets, First Editions, Autographs and Manuscripts. A very fine Calalogue of nearly 2,500 entries, containing such items as Thackeray's The Snob, 1829-37; Wordsworth's Ode performed in the Senate House Cambridge, 1847; Goldsmith's The Good Natur'd Man, 1768, and She Stoops Derby. Frank Murray's Book Shop, 4 London Road.—The Derby Book List, No. 226. A Note of some Old Books, and the Low Prices at which they may be had, with some Modern Works, indispensable to the reader, the student, or the collector, including the rare first issue of The Loving Ballad of Lord Bateman, 1839; Tom Brown's Works, 1715; Foxe's Acts and Monuments, 3 vols., 1641 ; Gerarde's Herbal, fine, crisp copy, 1633, £8 8s. Od.; Raleigh's History of the World, 1614; Bacon's Essaies, 1612, £20; a Translation of Gil Blas, Dublin, 1730, of which no other copy is known to exist; and about 500 more ordinary books. Dublin.—Clery & Co., Ltd.—Catalogue of a Select Library recently acquired, chiefly Theological and Irish; upwards of 300 items, at very moderate prices, also a new and enlarged Catalogue of Books at exceptionally low prices; 95 pages of Books relating to Ireland; Devotional and Religious Works; Manuals of Catholic Philosophy, etc. Edinburgh. Richard Cameron, 1, St. David Street. Catalogue No. 221 of Scarce Books, 368 items, including a Complete Set of the Hunterian Publications, £6 10s. Od.; Maitland's History of Edinburgh, 1753; Lane's Telescopic View of the Great Exhibition (a curiosity); Lithgow's Adventures, 1640; Sheridan's The Critic, first edition, 1781; Pinkerton's Vitae Antiquae Sanctorum, 1789; etc.; also, a Clearance List at Reduced Prices. Hastings. Bateman & Kiddie, 37, Havelock Road. Catalogue No. 4 of Miscellaneous Second-hand Books, containing a special section of Books on Art and Illustrated Books (comprising Works illustrated by Birket Foster, Gilbert, Turner, and others; Books with Steel and Wood Engravings, Modern Process Reproductions, etc.). Special Catalogues of Books dealing with Kent and Sussex may be had on application. Lancaster. George S. West, 4, New St.-Catalogue of Books from the Libraries of Colonel Ridehalgh, Fell Foot; Henry Wilson, Esq., Kendal, and other sources. Principal contents: America, Architecture, Bibliography, Biography, Botany, Classics, Conchology, Cookery, Domesday Book, Education, Freemasonry, Gardening, German Literature, History, Meteorology, Military, Naval, Portraits, Scotland, Shakespeare, Smuggling, Sporting, Valentines (Old), Valentia's Voyages, Theology, Topography; altogether 682 items. Leeds. James Miles, 32, Guildford St.—Catalogue of a Collection of Superior Secondhand Books, many in Fine Bindings by Masters of the Craft, comprising Archæology, Bibliography, Costume and Coloured Plate Books, Illustrated French Books, Architecture, Fine Arts, Miniatures and Miniature Painters, Old English Literature, Sets of Standard Authors, Novelists, Historians, etc., Geology, Palæontology, and other Branches of Science. Amongst the items may be mentioned a particularly fine copy of Herculaneum et Pompe (including the "Musée Secret "); Goldsmith's Deserted Village, first edition; Syntax's Three Tours; Dryden's Comedies, first edition on large paper; Sir Thomas More's Dialogue of Comfort, the very rare first edition; Fielding and Walton's Tour to the Lakes, Roberts's Holy Land, coloured copy, etc., etc. The Scientific Portion includes a Selection from the Library (just purchased) of the late J. W. Davis, F. G.S., etc., the eminent Geologist and formerly Mayor of Halifax. Also, Catalogue No. 146 of an interesting Collection of Books in General Literature, including about one hundred items on Angling, a selection of Works on Ornithology, Sports, Illustrated Books, General Science Decoration, Travel, Biography, etc., etc., including the Somer's Tracts, 13 vols., £5 15s. Od.; Foxe's Acts and Monuments, 3 vols., 1596-7, £5 5s. Od.; Drake's Eboracum, 1736; Thornton's Sporting Tour, 2 vols., 1806; etc. Leeds.—Joseph Milligan, Welton Mount.-Catalogue of Books in various Classes of Literature, including some on America, Chalcographical Society's Publications, Curious Books, Gerarde's Herbal ; Topsell's Four-Footed Beastes; Facsimile of the Early 4tos of Shakespeare, a set; some Kelmscott Press Publications, first editions of Thackeray, etc. Books illustrated by Bewick, Cruikshank, and Rowlandsor, etc., Finely Bound Sets. Works on Ireland, including a Set of Irish Ecclesiastical Record; Esquemeling's Bucaniers of America, 1684-85, £18; Catlin's North-American Indian Portfolio, coloured plates, £6 18s., and other rare Americana; Butler's Feminin Monarchi, 1634, £3; Purchas's Theatre of Politicall Flying Insects, 1657, £2 8s. 6d. ; Genest's Account of the English Stage, special copy, 1832, £8 15s. Od. ; and many other interesting items. Liverpool.-Edward Howell, 83, Church Street.-Catalogue of Rare and Valuable Books, including Works on Bibliography, English Literature, Fine Arts, Genealogy, Heraldry, and Topography, from various fine Libraries—including Purchases from the Library of the late T. H. Ismay, Esq., of Thurstaston, Cheshire, also a Valuable Collection of French Revolution and Napoleon Literature, Arundel Society's Chromolithographs, etc., including the Nuremberg Chrioncle, 1493 ; a number of Valuable Napoleonic Medals, a Collection of Rare Caricatures by Cruikshank, Gillray, etc, the supremely interesting Tableaux Historiques de la Révolution Française, 3 vols., £18; an ExtraIllustrated copy of Horne's History of Napoleon, £400; Unique Copy of the Campaigns of Napoleon in Italy, bound by the Guild of Women-Binders; Ormerod's History of Chester, extra-illustrated, £40 ; and other fine books. W. M. Murphy, 79, Renshaw Street. Catalogue No. 136 of Second-hand Books, in various branches of Literature, 563 items, including the rare first edition of Crealock's Deer-Stalking in the Highlands, 1892, £16 16s. ; Alpine Books and Americana; Angling, Australia, Botany; the fine Madrid edition of Don Quixote, 1780; Coloured Plate Books; Complete Set of Cruikshank's Comic Almanack; Economics; Ireland; Lamb's Adventures of Ulysses, first edition, 1808; Life of Merlin, 1641; Sporting Books, etc. London. Harold Brown, 1, Wimpole Street, Cavendish Square, W, Short List of John Buchanan, 49, Great Queen Street, W.C.-Catalogue No. 112 of Second- The John Jeffery, 115a, City Road, E.C.-Special Catalogue of Books, Pamphlets, Manuscripts, etc., to suit the Antiquarian and the Scholar, consisting of 774 items at very low prices, and including a considerable number of entries under America, London, etc., from the 17th Century downwards. An especially interesting items a Catechism of 1633, with the autograph" Ed. King," being probably Milton's friend, mourned by him in 'Lycidas,' price £3 3s. Od. Another item is 'A Sett of New Psalm Tunes,' by John Bishop, organist, of Chichester, 1724, £3 3s. Od. Also a MS. Rent-Book of the suppressed Monastery of Strata Florida, Cardiganshire, £12 12s., and Deeds relating to Romney Marsh, 14901708. London. Myers & Co., 59, High Holborn, W.C.-Catalogue of a Collection of Rare Engravings, comprising portraits of Celebrated Personages, Proof Impressions of Sir Robert Strange and J. W. M. Turner, Baxter Colour Prints, Political and Social Caricatures, Topographical Views, Americana, French Subjects, Views in Egypt and India, and Miscellaneous and Fancy Subjects. Neville & George, 39a, Harrington Road, S. W.-Catalogue of Books, comprising over 700 items; Sets of Valuable Standard and Desirable Works, Selections of Africana, Americana, Chemistry, Economics, Law, Sports and Pastimes (70 items), Theology (130 items); and Miscellanea, etc., with List of Clearance Theology. The firm allows 15 per cent discount to the trade. Pickering & Chatto, 66, Haymarket, S.W.—The Book-Lover's Leaflet, No. George Winter, 52, Charing Cross Road, W.C.-Catalogue No. 52 of Miscellaneous Books lately purchased, containing many Interesting Items relating to Art, Biography, Egyptology, Ornithology, Painters, Sculpture, etc., with Addenda; being 700 items of books in good condition, and including a few 18th century editions. The Fine Burlington Fine Arts Club Exhibition of Bookbindings is one of the items. Manchester.-Albert Sutton, 43, Bridge St.-Catalogues 159, 160, of Miscellaneous Books, Ancient and Modern, including Special Collections under the Headings of Africa, America, Cheshire, Cotton, Engineering, Furniture, Hall-marks, Lancashire, Pottery, Wales, also the Second Portion of the Library of the late Charles Skidmore, Esq., Stipendary Magistrate of Bradford, containing amongst many other interesting items, extensive collections of the works of Dickens, Thackeray, and the more Famous Authors of the 19th Century; together, 1,200 items, including a fine example of Fore-edge Painting, (of which a facsimile is given); a Manx Manuscript; complete sets of Punch, and of Fraser's Magazine, etc., etc. Newcastle-upon-Tyne.—Benjamin Rowland Hill, 49, Blackett Street.—Catalogue of Horser & Storey, 33, High Street.-Second General Catalogue of Second-hand |