266 Walford (Edward). Tales of Our Great Families. 2 vols. Post
8vo. 1/2 blue levant morocco extra, gilt tooled backs, gilt
tops. London, 1877. =$7.50=
First Edition, fine copy.
Contents: The Two Fair Gunnings; The Three Miss Walpoles; The
Bad Lord Stourton; The Witty Duke of Wharton; An Eccentric
Lady, etc., etc.
267 Walford (Edward). Chapters from Family Chests. 2 vols. Post
8vo. 1/2 red levant morocco extra, raised bands, gilt tops,
uncut. London, 1887. =$7.50=
First Edition. Very fine uncut copy.
Contents: The Bad Lord Byron; The Escape of Lady Ogilvy; A
Romance of the House of Audley; An Incident in the House of
Montgomery; Bess of Hardwicke; Three Very Fair Seymours, etc.
268 Curiosa. The Case of the Unfortunate Bosavern Penlez.
London. Printed for T. Clement, 1749. Bound in same volume.
A True State of the Case of Bosavern Penlez, who suffered
on account of the late Riot in the Strand, in which the Law
regarding these Offences, and the Statute of George the First,
commonly called the Riot Act, are fully considered. By Henry
Fielding. First Edition. Post 8vo., boards, green leather back.
London: printed for A. Miller, 1749. =$10.00=
A scarce Fielding item, in very fine condition.
269 Curiosa. Henry the Eighth, and George the Fourth; or,
the Case Fairly Stated. By Thomas Harral. Second Edition,
with additions. Frontispiece containing four finely engraved
portraits. 12mo., old half calf, board sides. London, 1820.
Scarce. =$7.50=
Contents: Strictures, historical and illustrative, on the
English Law of Divorce; with a General View of the Modes of
Adultery in the Ecclesiastical Courts, etc.; Historical Sketch
of the Trials of Henry the Eighth's Queens--Catharine of
Arragon, Anne Boleyn and Catharine Howard; Narrative of the
Proceedings Against Her Majesty, Caroline Amelia Elizabeth,
whilst Princess of Wales, etc., etc.
270 Johnson (Samuel). The Life of. Comprehending an Account of
his Studies and Numerous Works. By James Boswell. Illustrated.
4 vols. Johnson's Lives of the British Poets. Compiled by
William Hazlitt. Illustrated. 4 vols. The Journal of a Tour
to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson. By James Boswell.
Illustrated. Together 9 vols. Post 8vo., half blue polished
calf, leather labels, gilt tops, uncut. London, n. d. =$20.00=
A well printed handy edition of the Life of Johnson, and his
Lives of the British Poets, including his Tour to the Hebrides.
271 Apuleius, the Works of. Comprising the Metamorphoses, or
Golden Ass, the God of Socrates, the Florida, and his Defence,
or a Discourse on Magic. A new translation, to which are added
a Metrical Version of Cupid and Psyche, and Mrs. Tighe's
Psyche. Finely engraved frontispiece. 12mo. New three-quarter
red levant morocco extra, gilt tooled back, gilt top. London,
1889. =$7.50=
An expurgated edition with additional notes.
272 A'Beckett (G. A.). The Comic History of England. With
20-full-page hand-colored etchings and 200 woodcuts, by John
Leech. 2 vols. bound in one. 8vo., full polished claret calf
extra, full gilt-back (slightly rubbed), marbled edges. London:
Bradbury, Agnew & Co., n. d. =$10.00=
An exceptionally fine copy with early impressions of Leech's
best work--finely colored by hand.
273 Carlyle (Thomas). A History of the First Forty Years of His
Life, 1795-1835. 2 vols. Also, A History of his Life in London.
1834-1881. 2 vols. Portrait. By James Anthony Froude. Together
4 vols. 8vo., original cloth. New York: Scribners, 1882-84.
=$7.50=
This is scarce First American Edition.
274 Homer. The Iliad of. Translated by Alexander Pope. With
Observations on Homer and His Works, and Brief Notes, by J. S.
Watson. With portrait and complete series of outline engravings
by Flaxman. Thick 12mo. New three-quarter maroon morocco extra,
gilt tooled back, gilt top, uncut. London, 1873. =$6.00=
A fine printed edition with clear impressions of Flaxman's
designs.
275 London. Saunterings in and About London. By Max
Schlesinger. With numerous illustrations by McCullough. Post
8vo. Half blue polished calf, leather labels, gilt tops, uncut.
London, 1853. =$3.50=
276 London. Picturesque Sketches of London, Past and Present.
By Thomas Miller. Numerous illustrations. Post 8vo. Half green
polished calf, leather labels, gilt top, uncut. London, n. d.
=$3.50=
277 Myths and Folk-tales, of the Russians, Western Slavs, and
Magyars. By Jeremiah Curtin. 8vo., original cloth, uncut.
Boston, 1890. =$3.00=
Fine copy of the First Edition.
278 Ruskin (John). Poems by. Collected and edited by James
Osborne Wright. With finely etched frontispiece. Royal 8vo.,
original cloth, uncut. N. Y., 1882. =$5.00=