With the exception of two subjects, this work is taken from the
thirty-seven original blocks drawn upon by Duerer for the engraver.
DUeRER, ALBRECHT.--The Passion of our Lord Jesus Christ. 1844. _8vo, red
velvet, overlapped and doubled with silk, the sides decorated with brass
ornaments, center showing the monogram of Duerer, clasp, gilt edges._
Printed entirely on vellum.
DUSIMITIER, PIERRE EUGENE.--Portraits of the Generals, Ministers,
Magistrates, Members of Congress, and others, Who have rendered
themselves Illustrious in the Revolution of the United States of North
America. Drawn from the life, By M. Dusimitier, Painter, And Member of
the Philosophical Society of Philadelphia. and engraved by the most
eminent artists in London. London: Published by R. Wilkinson, . . . and
J. Debrett, . . . MDCCLXXXIII. _4to, half russia, gilt back._
Twelve portraits, brilliant original impressions, engraved by B. B. E.,
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announced.
DWIGHT, TIMOTHY.--The Conquest of Canaean; a poem, in Eleven Books. By
Timothy Dwight . . . Hartford: Printed by Elisha Babcock. M.DCC.LXXXV.
_12mo, brown levant morocco, gilt back, gilt edges, by Riviere._
Portrait of the author by Leney after Trumbull.
DYCE, ALEXANDER, _editor_.--Specimens of British Poetesses; selected and
chronologically arranged, by the Rev. Alexander Dyce. London: T. Rodd,
. . . 1825. _Crown 8vo, half brown morocco, gilt back, gilt top, uncut
edges._
DYCE, ALEXANDER.--Remarks on Mr. J. P. Collier's and Mr. C. Knight's
editions of Shakespeare. By the Rev. Alexander Dyce. . . . London:
Edward Moxon, . . . M DCCC XLIV. _8vo, cloth, uncut edges._
DYCE, ALEXANDER.--See Sonnets.
DYER, CHARLES GEORGE.--Biographical Sketches of the Lives and Characters
of illustrious and eminent Men. By Charles George Dyer. Illustrated with
whole length portraits. . . . London: published by C. G. Dyer, &c . . .
1819. _8vo, boards, uncut edges._
Forty-eight plates by J. Romney and T. Priscott after Reynolds,
Bartolozzi, Zoffany, Vandyke, Vertue, and others.
DYER, JOHN.--The Fleece: a poem. In four books. By John Dyer, LL.B.
[vignette] London: Printed for R. and J. Dodsley, in Pall-Mall. M.
DCC. LVII. _4to, blue levant morocco, gilt back and sides, gilt top,
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EASTLAKE, SIR CHARLES LOCK.--Materials for a History of Oil Painting. By
Charles Lock Eastlake . . . London: printed for Longman, . . . 1847.
[-1869] _8vo, two volumes, original cloth, uncut edges._
EASTLAKE, SIR CHARLES LOCK.--A History of the Gothic Revival An
attempt to show how the taste for mediaeval architecture which lingered
in England during the two last centuries has since been encouraged and
developed by Charles L. Eastlake . . . London Longmans, Green, and Co.
. . . 1872. _8vo, cloth, gilt top._
Thirty-six full-page woodcuts, and twelve illustrations in the text.
EASTLAKE, SIR CHARLES LOCK.--See Kugler, Franz Theodor.
EASTLAKE, LADY, _editor_.--Life of John Gibson, R. A. Sculptor. Edited
by Lady Eastlake. London: Longmans, Green, and Co. 1870. _8vo, cloth,
uncut edges._
Portrait of Gibson engraved by Adlard.
EATON, CHARLOTTE A.--Rome, in the nineteenth century; . . . By Charlotte
A. Eaton. Fifth edition. To which is now first added a complete index,
and thirty-four engraved illustrations. . . . London: Henry G. Bohn, . . .
1852. _Post 8vo, two volumes, cloth, uncut edges._
EBSWORTH, J. W.--Cavalier Lyrics: 'for church and crown'. By J. W.
Ebsworth, . . . London and Hertford: Stephen Austin and Sons: now first
imprinted, for private circulation. 1887. _8vo, paper, uncut edges._
No. 51 of one hundred and fifty copies printed; with woodcut
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EDGEWORTH, MARIA.--Tales and Novels by Maria Edgeworth. London: printed
for Baldwin and Cradock: . . . 1832. _Post 8vo, eighteen volumes, cloth,
uncut edges._
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EDWARDS, CHARLES LINCOLN.--Bahama Songs and Stories A contribution to
folk-lore by Charles L. Edwards, . . . [4 illustrations] Boston and
New York Published for The American Folk-Lore Society by Houghton,
Mifflin and Company . . . 1895. _8vo, cloth, gilt top._
EDWARDS, EDWARD.--Memoirs of Libraries; Including a Hand Book of Library
Economy. By Edward Edwards. London: Truebner & Co. 1859. _8vo, two
volumes, blue levant morocco, gilt back, gilt top, uncut edges, by F.
Bedford._
Large paper copy, with numerous illustrations.
EDWARDS, EDWARD.--Libraries and Founders of Libraries. By Edward
Edwards. London: Truebner and Co. 1865. _8vo, blue levant morocco, gilt
back, gilt top, uncut edges, by F. Bedford._
Large paper copy, thirty printed.
EDWARDS, EDWARD.--The Life of Sir Walter Raleigh based on contemporary
documents preserved in the Rolls House, the Privy Council Office,
Hatfield House, the British Museum, and other manuscript repositories,
British and foreign. Together with his letters: now first collected. By
Edward Edwards. . . . Macmillan and Co. 1868. . . . _8vo, two volumes,
half green morocco, gilt back, gilt top, uncut edges._
Portrait by C. H. Jeens after Francis Zucchero, armorial bearings,
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EFFIGIES POETICAE.--See Proctor, B. W.
EGAN, PIERCE.--Life in London; or, the Day and Night Scenes of Jerry
Hawthorn, Esq. and his elegant Corinthian Tom, accompanied by Bob Logic,
the Oxonian, in their Rambles and Sprees through the Metropolis. By
Pierce Egan, . . . Dedicated to His most Gracious Majesty King George
the Fourth. [woodcut] Embellished with thirty-six [coloured] scenes
from real life, designed and etched by I. R. & G. Cruikshank; And
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Artists. London: printed for Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, . . . 1821.
_Royal 8vo, green levant morocco, gilt back, gilt top, uncut edges, with
the original covers bound in, by Riviere._
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EGLESFIELD, FRANCIS.--Monarchy Revived; being the Personal History of
Charles the Second, from his earliest years to his restoration to the
throne. Reprinted from the edition of 1661. With fourteen portraits.
London: printed for Charles Baldwyn . . . MDCCCXXII. _Royal 8vo, red
calf, gilt top, uncut edges, by Matthews._
Large paper copy. The portraits, engraved by R. Cooper, are proofs on
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ELIOT, GEORGE.--Scenes of Clerical Life by George Eliot . . . William
Blackwood and Sons Edinburgh . . . MDCCCLVIII. _8vo, two volumes,
calf, gilt back, gilt top, uncut edges, by Riviere._
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ELIOT, GEORGE.--Adam Bede by George Eliot William Blackwood and Sons
Edinburgh . . . MDCCCLIX. _Crown 8vo, three volumes, calf, gilt back,
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ELIOT, GEORGE.--The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot William
Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh . . . MD CCC LX. _Crown 8vo, three
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ELIOT, GEORGE.--Silas Marner: the Weaver of Raveloe by George Eliot
William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh . . . MDCCCLXI. _8vo, calf, gilt
back, gilt top, uncut edges, by Riviere._
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ELIOT, GEORGE.--Romola by George Eliot London: Smith, Elder and Co.
MDCCCLXIII. _Crown 8vo, three volumes, calf, gilt back, gilt top, uncut
edges, by Riviere._
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ELIOT, GEORGE.--Romola by George Eliot with illustrations by Sir
Frederick Leighton, . . . London. Smith, Elder, and Co., . . . 1880.
_Imperial 8vo, two volumes, buckram, uncut edges._
No. 752 of one thousand copies printed, with twenty-four plates and
numerous vignettes on India paper.
ELIOT, GEORGE.--Felix Holt the Radical by George Eliot William
Blackwood and Sons Edinburgh . . . MDCCCLXVI. _Crown 8vo, three
volumes, calf, gilt back, gilt top, uncut edges, by Riviere._
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ELIOT, GEORGE.--The Spanish Gypsy, a Poem, by George Eliot. William
Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh . . . MDCCCLXVIII. _8vo, calf, gilt back,
gilt top, uncut edges, by Riviere._
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ELIOT, GEORGE.--Middlemarch; a Study of Provincial Life by George Eliot
William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh . . . MDCCCLXXI-II. _Crown 8vo,
four volumes, calf, gilt back, gilt top, uncut edges, by Riviere._
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ELIOT, GEORGE.--The Legend of Jubal and other Poems by George Eliot
William Blackwood and Sons Edinburgh . . . MDCCCLXXIV. _Post 8vo,
calf, gilt back, gilt top, uncut edges, by Riviere._
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ELIOT, GEORGE.--Daniel Deronda by George Eliot. A new edition . . .
William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh . . . MDCCCLXXVI. _Crown 8vo, four
volumes, calf, gilt back, gilt top, uncut edges, by Riviere._
ELIOT, GEORGE.--Impressions of Theophrastus Such by George Eliot
William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh . . . MDCCCLXXIX. _Crown 8vo,
calf, gilt back, gilt top, uncut edges, by Riviere._
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ELIOT, GEORGE.--George Eliot's Life as related in her Letters and
Journals. Arranged and edited by her husband J. W. Cross William
Blackwood and Sons Edinburgh . . . MDCCCLXXXV. _Post 8vo, three
volumes, calf, gilt back, gilt top, uncut edges, by Riviere._
First edition. Three portraits, proofs on India paper, and eight woodcut
illustrations.
ELLIOTT, GRACE DALRYMPLE.--Journal of my Life during the French
Revolution. By Grace Dalrymple Elliott. London: Richard Bentley, . . .
1859. _8vo, cloth, uncut edges._
Three portraits after Cosway, Sir Joshua Reynolds, etc.
ELLIS, EDWIN J.--Fate in Arcadia and other poems by Edwin J. Ellis with
[33] illustrations by the Author London 1892. Ward & Downey. . . .
_Imperial 8vo, cloth, gilt top, uncut edges._
ELLIS, GEORGE.--History of the Late Revolution in the Dutch Republic
London, printed for Edwards . . . 1789. _4to, red morocco, gilt back,
silk linings, by H. Walther, with his ticket._
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ELLIS, HENRY.--Original Letters illustrative of English History;
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and one or two other collections. With notes and illustrations by Henry
Ellis, . . . London printed for Harding, Triphook, and Lepard.
MDCCCXXV. [-MDCCCXLVI.] _Crown 8vo, eleven volumes, half brown morocco,
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ELMES, JAMES.--The Arts and Artists, or Anecdotes and Relics of the
Schools of Painting, Sculpture, & Architecture, by James Elmes
[vignette] London: John Knight & Henry Lacy . . . MDCCCXXV. _Post 8vo,
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edges, by Allo._
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ELMES, JAMES.--Sir Christopher Wren and his times. With illustrative
sketches and anecdotes of the Most distinguished Personages in the
seventeenth century. By James Elmes . . . London:--Chapman & Hall, . . .
MDCCCLII. _8vo, cloth, uncut edges._
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ELTON, CHARLES ISAAC, AND MARY AUGUSTA.--The Great Book-Collectors . . .
London Kegan Paul, &c . . . MDCCCXCIII. _8vo, half vellum, uncut
edges._
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ELWOOD, ANNE KATHARINE.--Memoirs of the Literary Ladies of England, from
the commencement of the last century. By Mrs. Elwood . . . London: Henry
Colburn . . . 1843. _12mo, two volumes, half citron levant morocco, gilt
top, uncut edges._
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ELZE, KARL.--Lord Byron a biography with a critical essay on his place
in literature By Karl Elze translated with the author's sanction, and
edited with notes With Portrait and Facsimile. London. John Murray, . . .
1872. _8vo, cloth, uncut edges._
EMBLEMS OF MORTALITY; representing, in upwards of fifty cuts, Death
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well for the Information of the Curious, as the Instruction and
Entertainment of Youth. To which is prefixed A copious Preface,
containing an historical Account of the above, and other Paintings on
this Subject, now or lately existing in divers Parts of Europe.
London: Printed for T. Hodgson, . . . M DCC LXXXIX. _12mo, blue
straight-grain morocco, gilt back and side corners in the manner of
Roger Payne, gilt edges, by Bedford._
First edition. Woodcut frontispiece and fifty-one cuts of Holbein's
Dance of Death, modernized and engraved by Bewick. After the third
edition, the blocks were destroyed by fire.
EMBLEMS, for the Entertainment and Improvement of Youth: containing
Hieroglyphical and Enigmatical Devices, relating to all Parts and
Stations of Life; together with Explanations and Proverbs, in French,
Spanish, Italian, and Latin, alluding to them, and Translated into
English: The Whole curiously Engrav'd on 62 Copper Plates. Sold by R.
Ware . . . [n.d.] _8vo, old blue calf, gilt back, side borders, panels
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15 compartments. Plates xli and xlviii are transposed, but not the text.
EMERSON, RALPH WALDO.--Nature . . . Boston: James Munroe and Company.
MDCCCXXXVI. _12mo, original cloth._
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EMERSON, RALPH WALDO.--(I.) Essays: by R. W. Emerson. Boston: James
Munroe and Company. MDCCCXLI. (II.) Essays: second series. By R. W.
Emerson. Boston: James Munroe and Company. MDCCCXLIV. _12mo and 16mo,
two volumes, red levant morocco, gilt back, gilt over untrimmed edges,
by David._
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EMERSON, RALPH WALDO.--Poems. By R. W. Emerson. Boston: James Munroe and
Company. 1847. _16mo, green levant morocco, back and sides covered with
trefoil and star ornaments, gilt over uncut edges, by the Doves Bindery.
1894._
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EMERSON, RALPH WALDO.--Poems by Ralph Waldo Emerson. London: Chapman,
Brothers, . . . M.DCCC.XLVII. _12mo, citron levant morocco, Janseniste,
gilt top, uncut edges, by Alfred Matthews._
English copyright edition.
EMERSON, RALPH WALDO.--Representative Men: seven lectures. By R. W.
Emerson. Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Company, . . . 1850. _12mo,
maroon morocco, gilt back, gilt top, uncut edges, by Stikeman._
First edition.
EMERSON, RALPH WALDO.--Miscellanies; embracing Nature, Addresses, and
Lectures. By R. W. Emerson. Boston: Phillips, Sampson, and Company.
M.DCCC.LVI. _12mo, red morocco, gilt back, gilt top, uncut edges, by
Stikeman._
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EMERSON, RALPH WALDO.--English Traits. By R. W. Emerson. Boston:
Phillips, Sampson, and Company. 1856. _12mo, green morocco, gilt back
and side panels, gilt top, uncut edges, by Stikeman._
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EMERSON, RALPH WALDO.--The Conduct of Life. By R. W. Emerson. Boston:
Ticknor and Fields. M DCCC LX. _12mo, original cloth._
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EMERSON, RALPH WALDO.--Society and Solitude. Twelve Chapters. By Ralph
Waldo Emerson. Boston: Fields, Osgood, & Co. 1870. _12mo, original
cloth._
First edition.
EMERSON, RALPH WALDO.--Letters and Social Aims. By Ralph Waldo Emerson.
Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, . . . 1876. _12mo, original cloth._
First edition.
EMERSON, RALPH WALDO.--See Carlyle and Emerson.
ENGINEERS.--Personal Recollections of English Engineers, and of the
introduction of the railway system into the United Kingdom. By a Civil
Engineer, author of the "Trinity of Italy." London: Hodder and
Stoughton, . . . M DCCCLXVIII. _8vo, cloth, uncut edges._
ENGLISH DRAMA.--The New English Drama, [113 Comedies, Tragedies, Operas,
Farces, and Melodramas] with prefatory remarks, biographical sketches,
and notes, Critical and Explanatory; Being the only Edition existing
which is faithfully marked with the stage business and stage directions,
As Performed At the Theatres Royal. Edited By W. Oxberry, Comedian. . . .
London. Published for the Proprietors by W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, . . .
C. Chapple, . . . and sold by W. and J. Lowndes, . . . 1818. [-1824]
_12mo, twenty-two volumes, half red levant morocco, gilt back, gilt top,
uncut edges, by Pratt._
Large paper copy, with portraits of celebrated players.
ENGLISH LYRICS London Kegan Paul, Trench & Co., . . . MDCCCLXXXIII.
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ENGLISH ODES selected by Edmund W. Gosse London C. Kegan Paul &
Co., . . . MDCCCLXXXI. _Crown 8vo, original covers, uncut edges._
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ENGLISH POETS.--Passages from Modern English Poets. Illustrated by the
Junior Etching Club. Forty-seven etchings. [by Tenniel, Whistler,
Millais, &c.] London: published by Day & Son, . . . [1862] _4to, cloth,
gilt edges._
ENGRAVINGS.--India Proofs from the Annuals. Literary Souvenir, &c.
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&c. London 1827. _Folio, half red levant morocco, gilt back, gilt
top, uncut edges, by R. W. Smith._
EPICTETUS.--The Works of Epictetus. Consisting of his Discourses, in
four books, the Enchiridion, and Fragments. A translation from the Greek
based on that of Elizabeth Carter, by Thomas Wentworth Higginson.
Boston: Little, Brown, and Company. [University Press] 1866. _8vo,
cloth, uncut edges._
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EPICTETUS [Reprinted from the translation of George Long] London
Arthur L. Humphreys 1897. _4to, two volumes, original paper wrappers,
uncut edges._
ERASMUS, DESIDERIUS.--Proverbs, chiefly taken from the Adagia of
Erasmus, with explanations; and further illustrated by corresponding
examples from the Spanish, Italian, French & English Languages. By
Robert Bland . . . London: printed for T. Egerton . . . 1814. _Crown
8vo, two volumes in one, blue morocco, back and sides richly gilded,
embossed gilt edges, by J. Wright._
ESTCOURT, RICHARD.--The Fair Example: or the Modish Citizens. a
Comedy. As it was Acted at the Theatre Royal in Drury Lane. By Mr.
Estcourt. [One line in Latin, four in English] London, Printed for
Bernard Lintott . . . 1706. Price 1s. 6d. _4to, blue calf, gilt back,
gilt edges, by Zaehnsdorf._
First edition. A-K in fours, title on A1, A2 misprinted H2. Dedicated to
Christopher Rich, Chief Patentee, Governor and Manager of the Theatre
Royal.
EVANS, ABEL.--Vertumnus. an Epistle to Mr. Jacob Bobart, Botany
Professor to the University of Oxford, and Keeper of the
Physick-Garden. By the Author of The Apparition. [Two lines from
Virgil] Oxford: Printed by L. L. for Stephen Fletcher Book-seller:
. . . 1713. _8vo, red straight-grain morocco, gilt edges, by The Club
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the Earl of Danby, celebrated in the poem (page 21) as the generous
patron who planted while Bobart tilled.
Title and A-D in fours.
EVANS, JOHN.--The Progress of Human Life: Shakspeare's Seven Ages of
Man; illustrated by a series of extracts in prose and poetry. . . . By
John Evans, . . . Second Edition. [cut] Chiswick: Printed by Charles
Whittingham; . . . 1823. _Crown 8vo, half cloth, uncut edges._
EVELYN, ALEXANDER JOHN.--English Alice, a poem in five cantos, by
Alexander John Evelyn, Esq. London: William Pickering. 1852. _Post 8vo,
cloth, uncut edges._
EVERETT, EDWARD.--The Life of George Washington. By Edward Everett. New
York: Sheldon and Company . . . 1860. _8vo, cloth, uncut edges._
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[EYTON, JOSEPH WALTER KING.]--Catalogue of the Library of Joseph Walter
King Eyton . . . London 1848. _4to, blue levant morocco, gilt back and
sides, gilt edges, by Riviere._
Large paper copy, fifty printed, with coloured frontispiece and seven
book-plates of the owner, a facsimile of one of Roger Payne's remarkable
bills for binding, and India proof impressions of portraits of Bishop
Andrews, Thomas Frognall Dibdin, and Thomas Sharpe.
FACETIAE: being a general Collection of the Jeux d'Esprits which have
been illustrated by Robert Cruikshank . . . containing nearly sixty
engravings. London: William King . . . M.DCCC.XXXI. _12mo, two volumes,
brown levant morocco, gilt back, gilt edges, by Rousselle._
Some of the thirteen separate titles bear the date 1830. The series
includes "The Devil's Walk," by Coleridge and Southey; "The Real Devil's
Walk"; "The High-Mettled Racer," by Charles Dibdin; and "Monsieur
Tonson," by John Taylor.
FACTION.--An Essay on Faction . . . London, Printed for J. Peele . . .
MDCCXXXII. _Folio, red levant morocco, by The Club Bindery. Bound with
ten other works._
FAGAN, LOUIS.--The Life of Sir Anthony Panizzi, K. C. B., late Principal
Librarian of the British Museum, Senator of Italy, &. &c. by Louis
Fagan, . . . With an Etching and other Illustrations by the Author. . . .
London: Remington & Co., . . . 1880. . . . _8vo, two volumes, half
green levant morocco, gilt back, gilt top, uncut edges, by Zaehnsdorf._
FAGAN, LOUIS.-- . . . The Art of Michel' Angelo Buonarroti as
Illustrated by the various Collections in the British Museum. By Louis
Fagan. . . . With [18] illustrations and a frontispiece [portrait] by
the author. London: Dulau & Co., . . . M. DCCC. LXXXIII. _Royal 8vo,
half green morocco, gilt top, uncut edges._
FAGAN, LOUIS.--Collectors' Marks by Louis Fagan . . . With Frontispiece
[etched portrait of Thomas Earl of Arundel] by the Author. London: Field
& Tuer . . . 1883. _Square 8vo, vellum, uncut edges._