Our advertising columns already show some of the good results of the
_Exhibition of the Works of Ancient and Mediæval Art_. Mr. Williams
announced last week his _Historic Reliques_, to be etched by
himself. Mr. Cundall has issued proposals for _Choice Examples of Art
Workmanship_; and, lastly, we hear that an _Illustrated Catalogue
of the Exhibition_, prepared by Mr. Franks, the zealous Honorary
Secretary of the Committee, and so arranged as to form a _History of
Art_, may be expected. We mention these for the purpose of inviting
our friends to contribute to the several editors such information as
they may think likely to increase the value of the respective works.
The second edition of our able correspondent, Mr. Peter Cunningham's
_Handbook of London_, is on the eve of publication.
There are few of our readers but will be glad to learn from
the announcement in a previous column, that the edition of the
_Wickliffite Versions of the Scriptures_, upon which Sir Frederick
Madden and his fellow labourers have been engaged for a period of
twenty years, is just completed. It forms, we believe, three quarto
volumes.
Messrs. Puttick and Simpson lately disposed of a most select and
interesting collection of autograph letters. We unfortunately did not
receive the catalogue in time to notice it, which we the more regret,
because, like all their catalogues of autographs, it was drawn up with
amateur-like intelligence and care; so as to make it worth preserving
as a valuable record of materials for our history and biography.
We have received the following Catalogues of Books:--No. XXV. of
Thomas Cole's (15. Great Turnstile): No. 2. for 1850, of William
Heath's (29½ Lincoln's Inn Fields); and No. 15. of Bernard Quarritch's
(16. Castle Street, Leicester Square) Catalogue of Oriental and
Foreign Books.
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