Part II
. containing the history and description of water birds.] [cut] Newcastle: printed by Edward Walker, . . . for T. Bewick . . . 1821. _8vo, green levant morocco, gilt back, gilt top, uncut edges, by Bedford._
Thick paper copy of the first edition, with final leaf of advertisement of "History of Quadrupeds" and "Fables of AEsop."
BEWICK, THOMAS.--A Supplement to the History of British Birds. 1821. _8vo, green levant morocco, gilt back, gilt top, uncut edges, by Bedford._
Another copy, printed upon somewhat thinner paper.
BEWICK, THOMAS.--A Supplement to the History of British Birds. 1821. _Royal 8vo, bound with Volume II of "British Birds," on page 47._
Another copy, printed upon large paper.
BEWICK, THOMAS.--Select Fables: with cuts, designed and engraved by Thomas and John Bewick, and others, previous to the year 1784: together with a Memoir; and a descriptive Catalogue of the Works of Messrs. Bewick. Newcastle: printed by S. Hodgson . . . M.DCCC.XX. _Royal 8vo, red levant morocco, gilt back and sides, gilt top, uncut edges, by Matthews._
Large paper copy, with a portrait of Thomas Bewick, proof on India paper.
BEWICK, THOMAS.--Select Fables; 1820. _Imperial 8vo, green levant morocco, gilt back and side panels in the manner of Roger Payne, gilt edges, by Bedford._
Another copy, printed upon largest paper, with proof portrait of Bewick added.
BEWICK, WILLIAM.--See Landseer, Thomas.
BIBLIOGRAPHICA Volume I [23 plates] London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Truebner & Co. . . . 1895. _Imperial 8vo, four parts, paper, uncut edges._
BICKERDYKE, JOHN.--The Book of the All-Round Angler. A comprehensive treatise on angling in both fresh and salt water. By John Bickerdyke. With over 150 engravings. London: L. Upcott Gill . . . 1888. _8vo, half brown Roxburghe morocco, gilt top, uncut edges._
Large paper copy, two hundred and one printed.
BICKERSTAFFE, ISAAC.--The Romp. A musical entertainment in two acts. Altered from Love in the City, By Mr. Bickerstaff. As it has been acted at The Theatres Royal in Dublin and York, and now performed at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane. London: Printed for W. Lowndes, . . . and J. Barker, . . . 1786. [Price One Shilling.] _8vo, half blue levant morocco, gilt top, uncut edges._
First edition. A-D in fours, title on A1. Portrait of Dora Jordan in the character of Priscilla Tomboy, engraved by Angus after a drawing from life by Stothard.
"Love in a City" was printed in 8vo, 1767.
BIERSTADT, OSCAR A.--The Library of Robert Hoe a contribution to the history of Bibliophilism in America by O. A. Bierstadt . . . with one hundred and ten illustrations taken from manuscripts in the collection. New York Duprat & Co, . . . 1895. _8vo, citron levant morocco, back and sides elaborately tooled in fleurs-de-lys ornaments, etc., gilt top, uncut edges, by The Club Bindery._
No. 322 of three hundred and fifty copies printed on Japan paper. Extra plates and facsimiles added.
BIERSTADT, OSCAR A.--The Library of Robert Hoe. 1895. _8vo, green levant morocco, back and sides richly tooled, an original design with monogram, doubled with red morocco, floral border, gilt top, uncut edges, by The Club Bindery._
Another copy. No. 100 of three hundred and fifty printed on Japan paper.
BIGELOW, JOHN.--Some Recollections of the late Edouard Laboulaye by John Bigelow Privately printed [New York, 1889]. _16mo, cloth, uncut edges._
Presentation copy from the author.
BIJOU.--The Bijou; or Annual of Literature and the Arts. London William Pickering, . . . 1828--MDCCCXXIX MDCCCXXX. _Post 8vo, three volumes, red levant morocco, gilt back, gilt top, uncut edges, by Riviere._
Proof copies, with the plates on India paper. See CAMEO.
BINNS, R. W.--A Century of Potting in the City of Worcester being the history of the Royal Porcelain Works, from 1751 to 1851, to which is added A short account of the Celtic, Roman, and Mediaeval Pottery of Worcester. By R. W. Binns, . . . second edition. Illustrated. London: Bernard Quaritch, . . . MDCCCLXXVII. _8vo, half olive morocco, gilt top, uncut edges._
BINNY, JOHN.--See Mayhew and Binny.
BIOGRAPHICAL MIRROR.--The Biographical Mirrour, comprising a series of ancient and modern English Portraits, of eminent and distinguished persons, from original pictures and drawings. [vignette] London: Published by S. and E. Harding, . . . 1795-98. _4to, three volumes in one, half russia, gilt back, gilt top, uncut edges._
One hundred and fifty-one portraits. Volume III was printed for Silvester Harding, n. d.
BIRCH, JONATHAN.--Fifty-One Original Fables, with Morals and Ethical Index, written by J. C. [Job Crithannoh, anagram of Jonathan Birch] Embellished with eighty-five Original designs by R. Cruikshank, engraved on wood by Slader, D. Dodd, S. Williams, Bonner, and others. Also a Translation of Plutarch's Banquet of the Seven Ages, revised for this work London: printed for Hamilton, Adams and C^{o}. . . . M.DCCC.XXXIII. _8vo, blue levant morocco, Janseniste, gilt edges, by Louise Reymann._
BIRCH, SAMUEL.--History of Ancient Pottery. By Samuel Birch . . . Egyptian, Assyrian, and Greek [Etruscan and Roman] Illustrated with coloured plates [12] and numerous engravings [207] London: John Murray . . . 1858. _8vo, two volumes, cloth._
Autograph letter of the author inserted.
BIRCH, SAMUEL.--History of Ancient Pottery, Egyptian, Assyrian, Greek, Etruscan, and Roman. By Samuel Birch, . . . new and revised edition. With coloured plates and woodcuts. London: John Murray, . . . 1873. _8vo, cloth, uncut edges._
BIRCH, WALTER DE GRAY.--The History, Art and Palaeography of the manuscript styled the Utrecht Psalter: by Walter de Gray Birch, . . . [3 folded plates] London: Samuel Bagster and Sons, . . . M.DCCC.LXXVI. _8vo, cloth._
BIRDWOOD, GEORGE C M.--The Industrial Arts of India. By George C. M. Birdwood, . . . with maps and woodcuts. . . . Published for the Committee of Council on Education by Chapman and Hall, . . . [1880]. _Post 8vo, two volumes in one, cloth, uncut edges._
BIRRELL, AUGUSTINE.--Life of Charlotte Bronte by Augustine Birrell London Walter Scott . . . 1887. _Crown 8vo, cloth, gilt top, uncut edges._
BLACK, CHARLES CHRISTOPHER.--. . . Michael Angelo Buonarroti Sculptor, Painter, Architect the Story of his Life and Labours by Charles Christopher Black, . . . [20 plates] London Macmillan and Co. 1875. _Royal 8vo, decorated cloth, gilt edges._
BLACKBURN, CHARLES F.--Rambles in Books by Charles F. Blackburn [portrait] . . . London: Sampson Low Marston & Company . . . M DCCC XCIII. _Post 8vo, cloth, gilt top, uncut edges._
No. 282 of five hundred copies printed.
BLACKER, WILLIAM.--Blacker's Art of Fly Making, &c, comprising Angling & Dyeing of Colours, with engravings of Salmon & Trout Flies, shewing the process of the gentle craft as taught in the pages. With Descriptions of Flies for the Season of the Year as they come out on the water. Rewritten and revised by the author Blacker, himself, fishing tackle maker of 54 Dean St. Soho, London 1855. _18mo, green levant morocco, Janseniste, gilt top, uncut edges, by Trioullier._
Frontispiece, engraved title, seventeen coloured plates of artificial flies, and three plates of tackle.
BLACKIE, JOHN STUART.--On Self-Culture. Intellectual, Physical, and Moral . . . by John Stuart Blackie . . . Second edition. Edinburgh Edmonston and Douglas 1874. _Post 8vo, cloth, uncut edges._
BLACKIE, JOHN STUART.--Life of Robert Burns by John Stuart Blackie London Walter Scott . . . 1888. _Crown 8vo, cloth, gilt top, uncut edges._
BLACKMORE, RICHARD D.--Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor. By R. D. Blackmore, . . . London: Sampson Low, Son, & Marston, . . . 1869. . . . _Crown 8vo, three volumes, blue cloth, uncut edges._
First edition. Blackmore's own copy.
BLADEN, MARTIN.--Solon: or, Philosophy No Defence against Love. A tragi-comedy. With the Masque of Orpheus and Euridice. Written by Captain Martin Bladen. . . . London: Printed for R. Smith, . . . and sold by J. Nutt . . . 1705. . . . _4to, blue morocco, gilt edges, by The Club Bindery._
Never acted, and printed without the author's knowledge.
BLADES, WILLIAM.--The Life and Typography of William Caxton, England's first printer, with evidence of his typographical connection with Colard Mansion, the printer at Bruges. Compiled from original sources by William Blades. Published by Joseph Lilly . . . London 1861 [-1863]. _4to, two volumes, green levant morocco, gilt back, gilt edges, by Bedford._
Fifty-seven plates, specimens of Caxton's types, etc.
BLADES, WILLIAM.--The Life and Typography of William Caxton. 1861-63. _4to, two volumes, half morocco, gilt top, uncut edges._
Another copy, with portrait and fifty-nine facsimile plates on India paper.
BLADES, WILLIAM.--A List of Medals, Jettons, Tokens, &c. in connection with Printers and the Art of Printing by William Blades. London. 1869. _Foolscap 8vo, cloth, uncut edges._
Ninety-three plates, including three double ones.
One of one hundred copies printed. Presentation copy from the author.
BLADES, WILLIAM.--How to tell a Caxton with some hints where and how the same might be found. By William Blades, . . . [16 plates] London: Henry Sotheran & Co., . . . 1870. _Foolscap 8vo, boards, uncut edges._
BLADES, WILLIAM.--The Enemies of Books. By William Blades, Typograph. . . . Truebner & Co., . . . 1880. _Post 8vo, green levant morocco, gilt back, side corners, centre ornaments, gilt over uncut edges, by Katherine Adams._
Frontispiece portrait of John Bagford and six other plates.
BLADES, WILLIAM.--The Pentateuch of Printing, with a Chapter on Judges. By William Blades. With a Memoir of the Author, and List of his Works, by Talbot B. Reed. [59 illustrations] London: Elliot Stock, . . . 1891. _4to, half brown morocco, gilt top, uncut edges._
Large paper copy.
BLAIR, ROBERT.--The Grave, a poem. By Robert Blair. Illustrated by Twelve Etchings executed [by Louis Schiavonetti] from Original Designs, [by William Blake] London: printed by T. Bensley, . . . 1808. _Folio, brown levant morocco, uncut edges, by The Club Bindery._
Proof copy of the first edition, most of which was printed in quarto. Besides the twelve designs are a portrait on India paper after T. Phillips, and an engraved title.
BLAIR, ROBERT.--The Grave, a poem. By Robert Blair. Illustrated by Twelve Etchings [by Lewis Schiavonetti] executed from original designs, [by William Blake] To which is added a Life of the Author. [also Biographical Sketches of Schiavonneti and Robert Hartley Cromek.] London: printed by T. Bensley, . . . for the proprietor, R. Ackermann, . . . &c . . . 1813. _Royal 4to, half brown levant morocco, gilt back, gilt top, uncut edges, by Allo._
Portrait by Schiavonetti after T. Phillips.
BLAKE, WILLIAM.--Songs of Innocence 1789 The Author & Printer W Blake _Post 8vo, light brown levant morocco, gilt and mosaic back, side borders in floral mosaic design of citron, blue and green morocco on a red ground, doubled with red morocco, corner ornaments in floral mosaic, gilt over uncut edges, by The Club Bindery._
Coloured by Blake and presented by him to his physician.
The plates are arranged as follows, by pages:
Page 1. Blank. 2. Frontispiece of Piper. 3. Title of "Songs of Innocence," as above. 4. Blank. 5. Introduction, "Piping down the valleys wild," etc. 6. Blank. 7. The Shepherd. 8. Infant Joy. 9-10. Cradle Song. 11. Laughing Song. 12-13. The Little Black Boy. 14. The Voice of the Ancient Bard. 15-16. The Ecchoing Green. 17. Nurses Song, "When the voices of children are heard on the green, And laughing is heard on the hill." 18. Holy Thursday, "'T was on a Holy Thursday." 19. On Anothers Sorrow. 20-21. Spring. 22. The School Boy. 23. A Dream. 24-25. The Little Girl Lost, "In Futurity I prophetic see." 25-26. The Little Girl Found, "All the night in woe." 27. The Blossom. 28. The Lamb. 29. The Little Boy lost. 30. The Little Boy found. 31-32. Night. 33. The Chimney Sweeper, "When my mother died," etc. 34. The Divine Image.
BLAKE, WILLIAM.--Songs of Innocence. 1789. _Post 8vo, original calf, gilt back, side borders, centre ornaments._
Another copy, also coloured by Blake, and more delicately than the preceding, pale green and blue predominating.
The plates are the same as in the preceding copy. On the basis of the numbers in that copy, their arrangement is as follows: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 12-13, 14, 9-10, 27, 24-25, 25-26, 28, 17, 8, 19, 29, 30, 33, 20-21, 22, 11, 23, 18, 34, 15-16, 31-32.
John Linnell's copy.
BLAKE, WILLIAM.--The Marriage of Heaven and Hell. [1790] _Royal 8vo, Spanish calf, gilt back, side borders._
The arrangement is as follows, by pages:--
1. Title-page. 2. Blank. 3. The Argument. 4. Blank. 5. "As a new heaven is begun," with two drawings. 6. The voice of the Devil, with one drawing. 7-8. "Those who restrain desire," with one drawing. 8-9. A Memorable Fancy, "As I was walking among the fires of hell." 9-12. Proverbs of Hell, one drawing. 13. "The ancient Poets," etc., two drawings. 14-15. A Memorable Fancy, "The Prophets Isaiah and Ezekiel." 16. "The ancient tradition," etc., one drawing. 17. A Memorable Fancy, "I was in a Printing house in Hell," one drawing. 18-19. "The Giants who formed this world," one drawing. 19-22. A Memorable Fancy, "An Angel came to me," one drawing. 23-24. "I have always found," etc., one drawing. 24-26. A Memorable Fancy, "Once I saw a Devil," one drawing. 27-29. A Song of Liberty. 30. Blank.
BLAKE, WILLIAM.--The Marriage of Heaven and Hell. _4to, half morocco, gilt top, uncut edges._
One hundred copies reproduced from the original in the collection of Lord Houghton.
BLAKE, WILLIAM.--Songs of Experience 1794 The Author & Printer W Blake. _Post 8vo, maroon straight-grain morocco, gilt back, side panels, corner ornaments, gilt edges._
The plates are arranged as follows, by leaves, the versos being blank:
1. Title-page. 2. Introduction. 3. Earth's Answer. 4. The Clod & the Pebble. 5. The Chimney Sweeper, "A little black thing among the snow." 6. A Poison Tree. 7. Infant Sorrow. 8. The Tyger. 9. The Fly. 10. The Sick Rose. 11. The Human Abstract. 12. A Little Girl Lost, "Children of the Future Age." 13-14. The Little Girl Lost, "In futurity I prophetic see" [found also in both copies of "Songs of Innocence"]. 14-15. The Little Girl Found, "All the night in woe" [found in "Songs of Innocence"]. 16. The Garden of Love. 17. The Angel. 18. My Pretty Rose Tree, Ah! Sunflower, and The Lilly. 19. A Little Boy Lost, "Nought loves another as itself." 20. To Tirzah. 21. London. 22. The Little Vagabond. 23. Holy Thursday, "Is this a holy thing to see." 24. Nurses Song, "when the voices of children are heard on the green, And whisperings are in the dale" [a different version from that in "Songs of Innocence"]. 25. The School Boy, "I love to rise in a summer morn."
BLAKE, WILLIAM.--Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience by William Blake London: R. Brimley Johnson. Guildford: A. C. Curtis. M DCCC I. _Square 16mo, red levant morocco, side border of mosaic in green and blue morocco, doubled with red morocco, wide floral borders of gilt and green mosaic, the intervals filled with dots, vellum guards, gauffred gilt top, uncut edges, by the Guild of Women-Binders._
Aquatint frontispiece after Blake.
BLAKE, WILLIAM.--Songs of Innocence and Experience with other poems By W Blake London Basil Montagu Pickering . . . 1866 _Foolscap 8vo, cloth, uncut edges._
First issue, printed without the name of the Editor, Richard Herne Shepherd. Fifty copies were printed containing the cancelled lines on pages 89 and 100, where the asterisks occur in this copy.
"Long John Brown and Little Mary Bell" is here printed for the first time. It was omitted in the Appendix to Gilchrist's "Life of Blake," for the reasons stated there.
The present copy was the Editor's, and contains the substance of the preceding notes, in his handwriting.
BLAKE, WILLIAM.--Milton, a Poem in 12 Books. The Author & Printer W. Blake 1804. To Justify the Ways of God to Men. _4to, original calf binding._
Forty-five pages, ten being entirely illustration, thirteen partly so, and the rest in script text with background in many colours.
In all probability the best of three copies of this book known to exist, though it is said that Blake made twelve copies in all. The other known copies are in the British Museum and Lenox Library. Mr. Muir, who reproduced the copy in the British Museum, places this example as better than either of the others, the scheme of colour being more perfect.
BLAKE, WILLIAM.--Illustrations of The Book of Job Invented & Engraved by William Blake 1825 London Published . . . March 8: 1825, by William Blake. . . . _Folio, half red morocco, uncut edges, by The Club Bindery._
Large paper copy. Engraved title and twenty-one proof plates on India paper.
BLAKE, WILLIAM.--Poetical Sketches By William Blake now first reprinted from the original edition of 1783 edited and prefaced by Richard Herne Shepherd London Basil Montagu Pickering . . . 1868. _Post 8vo, cloth, uncut edges._
BLAKE, WILLIAM.--The Poems of William Blake comprising Songs of Innocence and of Experience together with poetical sketches and some copyright poems not in any other edition London Basil Montagu Pickering . . . 1874. _Post 8vo, cloth, uncut edges._
BLAKE, WILLIAM.--Volume I. (I.) Number 31 Songs of Innocence. W. Blake 1789 [rep. 1885] (II.) Number 6. Songs of Experience. W^{m} Blake 1794 [rep. 1885] (III.) Number 33. The Book of Thel. W^{m} Blake 1789 [rep. 1885] (IV.) Number 35. Visions of the Daughters of Albion. W Blake 1793 [repr. 1885] (V.) Number 12. The Marriage of Heaven and Hell. Will^{m} Blake. 1790 [rep. 1885]
Volume II. (I.) Copy No. 15. Milton, a poem in 2 books, By Wm. Blake, 1804, facsimiled at Edmonton, anno 1886, By Wm. Muir, J. D. Watts, H. T. Muir, and E. Druitt. For whom Bernard Quaritch, . . . is agent. (II.) No. 2. The Gates of Paradise, by Wm. Blake, Lambeth, 1793. Facsimiled at Edmonton, anno 1888, By Mary Hughes and Wm. Muir. Bernard Quaritch, . . . (III.) No. 5. The First Book of Urizen, by Wm. Blake, Lambeth, 1794. Facsimiled at Edmonton in 1888 by Wm. Muir, H. T. Muir, J. D. Watts, and A. F. Westcott, from the splendid original belonging to Mr. Macgeorge, of Glasgow. . . . Blake calls this the "First" Book, but he composed no Second. . . . Bernard Quaritch, . . . (IV.) Copy No. 1. There is no Natural Religion. By Wm. Blake. Facsimilied at Edmonton Anno 1886 by Wm. Muir, E. Druitt, H. T. Muir, and J. D. Watts. . . . _4to, two volumes, half green straight-grain morocco, uncut edges, with the original covers bound in, by The Club Bindery._
BLAKE, WILLIAM.--Facsimile of what is believed to be the last replica of The Songs of Innocence and of Experience executed by William Blake With an Introduction By Edwin J. Ellis . . . London Bernard Quaritch, . . . 1893. _Royal 4to, half brown morocco, uncut edges._
No. 28 of fifty copies in water-colours, on printed outlines, touched with gold, in exact imitation of Blake's own work.
BLAKE, WILLIAM.--The Poems of William Blake edited by W. B. Yeats. London: Laurence & Bullen, . . . 1893. _Post 8vo, half vellum, gilt top, uncut edges._
Portrait. No. 53 of two hundred copies printed on large paper.
BLAKE, WILLIAM.--Selections from the Writings of William Blake with an introductory essay by Laurence Housman London C. Kegan Paul, Trench, Truebner & Co. Ltd. MDCCCXCIII. _Crown 8vo, original covers, uncut edges._
Large paper copy, fifty printed, with a frontispiece.
BLAKE, WILLIAM.--[Illustrations to Dante's "Inferno."] _Oblong 4to, half cloth, gilt top._
Seven plates on India paper.
BLAKE, WILLIAM.--See Blair, Robert.
BLAKEY, ROBERT, _editor_.--The Angler's Song Book. Compiled and Edited by Robert Blakey . . . London: George Cox . . . 1855. _8vo, green morocco, gilt back and side panels, gilt edges, by Matthews._
Presentation copy from the author to Octave Delepierre. Printed on paper of various colours and tints.
BLAKEY, ROBERT.--Historical Sketches of the Angling Literature of all Nations. By Robert Blakey . . . to which is added A Bibliography of English Writers on Angling London: John Russell Smith . . . MDCCCLVI. _12mo, calf, gilt and inlaid back, gilt edges._
BLEECKER AND FAUGERES.--The Posthumous Works of Ann Eliza Bleecker, in prose and verse. To which is added, A Collection of Essays, prose and poetical, by Margaretta V. Faugeres. New York: Printed by T. and J. Swords . . . 1793. _12mo, red calf, gilt back and sides, gilt edges, by Pratt._
Portrait by Tiebout.
BLENNERHASSETT, LADY.--Madame de Stael her friends, and her influence in politics and literature. By Lady Blennerhassett. With a portrait of Madame de Stael. . . . London: Chapman and Hall . . . 1889. _8vo, three volumes, cloth, uncut edges._
A slightly abridged translation by J. E. Gordon Cumming.
"BLINKINSOP, VICESIMUS."--See Hook, Theodore.
BLOEMART, ABRAHAM.--Twenty-five Etchings by Abraham Bloemart, original impressions, depicting Beggars, Soldiers, &c. _12mo, red morocco, gilt top, uncut edges, by Stikeman._
BLOODGOOD, S. DEWITT.--The Sexagenary: or, Reminiscences of the American Revolution. . . . Albany, . . . J. Munsell, . . . 1866. _8vo, half blue morocco, gilt top, uncut edges._
One of fifty copies printed upon large paper, with three inserted portraits.
BLOOMFIELD, ROBERT.--(I.) The Farmer's Boy; a rural poem. By Robert Bloomfield. . . . [vignette] London: printed for Vernor and Hood, . . . by T. Bensley, . . . MDCCC. (II.) Rural Tales, Ballads, and Songs: By Robert Bloomfield, . . . London: printed for Vernor and Hood, . . . and Longman and Rees, . . . By T. Bensley, . . . 1802. _4to, two works in one volume, green levant morocco, gilt back and sides, gilt edges, by Bedford._
First editions. In addition to the woodcuts by Bewick, over one hundred engravings have been inserted, including nine portraits of the author, also forty-five views and sixty miniature vignettes, for the greater part proofs on India paper.
BLOOMFIELD, ROBERT.--The Farmer's Boy. 1800. _4to, green levant morocco, gilt back and sides, gilt edges, by The Club Bindery._
Another copy, with the title on India paper.
BLOOMFIELD, ROBERT.--The Farmer's Boy; a rural poem. By Robert Bloomfield. The fourteenth edition. London: printed for Longman . . . 1820. _12mo, half green levant morocco, gilt back, gilt top, uncut edges._
Nine woodcut illustrations by Bewick.
BLOOMFIELD, ROBERT.--May Day with the Muses. By Robert Bloomfield, . . . [vignette] London: printed for the author; and for Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy. 1822. _12mo, boards, uncut edges._
Eight woodcut vignettes.
BLOOMFIELD, ROBERT.--Poems by Robert Bloomfield, the Farmer's Boy. With thirteen illustrations, designed and drawn by T. Sidney Cooper, J. Callcott Horsley, J. Frederick Tayler, and Thomas Webster, . . . engraved by Thurston Thompson. London: John Van Voorst, . . . M DCCC XLV. _Post 8vo, cloth, uncut edges._
BLUNDERELLA: or, the Impertinent. A tale. . . . To which is Added The Beau Monde, or, the Pleasures of St. James's. A new ballad. To the Tune of, Oh! London, is a fine Town, &c. London: Printed for A. Dodd, . . . M DCCXXX. _Folio, cloth, uncut edges, by The Club Bindery._
BLUNT, WILFRID SCAWEN.--The Love Songs of Proteus with frontispiece by the author. London C. Kegan Paul & Co. . . . MDCCCLXXXI. _Foolscap 8vo, cloth, uncut edges._
BLUNT, WILFRID SCAWEN.--The Love Lyrics & Songs of Proteus by Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, with the Love Sonnets of Proteus by the same author. Now reprinted in their full text with many Sonnets omitted from the earlier editions [Reeves & Turner] London MDCCCXCII. _Small 4to, parchment covers, uncut edges._
Three hundred copies printed by William Morris at the Kelmscott Press.
BLUNT, WILFRID SCAWEN.--In Vinculis. By Wilfrid Scawen Blunt. London Kegan Paul, Trench & Co. . . . MDCCCLXXXIX. _Crown 8vo, original covers, uncut edges._
Large paper copy, fifty printed, with etched portrait of the author, Japan proof.
BOADEN, FORSTER, AND OTHERS.--(I.) An Inquiry into the Authenticity of various Pictures and Prints, which, from the decease of the poet to our own times, have been offered to the public as Portraits of Shakspeare: containing a careful examination of the evidence on which they claim to be received; by which the pretended portraits have been rejected, the genuine confirmed and established. Illustrated by accurate and finished engravings, by the ablest artists, from such originals as were of indisputable authority. By James Boaden, . . . London: printed for Robert Triphook, . . . 1824. (II.) A Few Remarks by Henry Rumsey Forster on the Chandos portrait of Shakspeare, recently purchased at Stowe, for the Right Hon. The Earl of Ellesmere. And a letter upon the Same, by H. Rodd. London: [No. 28 of] fifty copies printed for private distribution, 1849. (III.) On the Principal Portraits of Shakspeare. (From "Notes & Queries," April 23, 1864). By George Scharf. (IV.) An Inquiry into the History, Authenticity, and Characteristics of the _Shakspere_ Portraits; the death mask Martin Droeshout's engraving, the Chandos picture, the Janssen, and others of that period; together with the Stratford monument, Roubiliac's, and the one in Westminster Abbey. _Royal 4to, four works in one volume (the last three inlaid to 4to), half red levant morocco, gilt back, gilt top, uncut edges, by Bradstreet's._
Large paper copy. Besides the seven portraits published with the first work, there are inserted five views, one facsimile, and ten other portraits, including those engraved by R. Cooper, Neagle, Scriven, J. Cochran, Lud. Du Guernier, W: Sharp, and W. Holl.
The second and fourth works contain woodcuts.
BOADEN, JAMES.--The Life of Mrs. Jordan; including original private correspondence, and numerous anecdotes of her contemporaries. By James Boaden . . . London: Edward Bull . . . 1831. _8vo, two volumes, boards, uncut edges._
First edition. Portrait of Mrs. Jordan by Worthington after Romney, another (inserted) in the character of the Country Girl, and a facsimile.
BOCCACCIO, GIOVANNI.--The Decameron; or, ten days entertainment of Boccaccio. Translated from the Italian. To which are prefixed, Remarks on the life and writings of Boccaccio; and an advertisement, By the Author of Old Nick [Edward Dubois] . . . London: printed for . . . all Booksellers. 1845. _8vo, calf, gilt back, citron edges, by Bedford._
Portrait and ten plates by Stothard inserted.
BOCCACCIO, GIOVANNI.--The Decameron or Ten Days' Entertainment of Boccaccio. A revised translation, by W. K. Kelly. London: Henry G. Bohn . . . M DCCC LV. _Post 8vo, half blue morocco, uncut edges._
Portrait of Boccaccio by Hinchliff after Van Dalen.
BOCCACCIO, GIOVANNI.--The Decameron of Giovanni Boccacci (Il Boccaccio) now first completely done into English Prose and Verse by John Payne . . . London: M DCCC LXXXVI: printed for the Villon Society by private subscription and for private circulation only, _4to, three volumes, vellum boards, gilt top, uncut edges._
Large paper copy, No. 23.
BOCCACCIO, GIOVANNI.--A translation of Giovanni Boccaccio's Life of Dante with an introduction and a note on the portraits of Dante by G. R. Carpenter. The Grolier Club of the City of New York MDCCCC. _8vo, original boards, uncut edges._
Three hundred copies printed, with portrait of Dante, and folded plate of Florence.
BOCCACCIO, GIOVANNI.--A translation of Giovanni Boccaccio's Life of Dante. 1900. _8vo, brown levant morocco, rich gilt back and side borders, doubled with vellum, gilt borders, vellum guards, gilt over uncut edges, by The Club Bindery._
Another copy. One of three printed upon vellum.
BOHN, HENRY G.--The Biography and Bibliography of Shakespeare. By Henry G. Bohn. [1863] _4to, red levant morocco, doubled with russia, russia guards, gilt top, uncut edges, by Zaehnsdorf._
Nineteen plates. Published by the Philobiblon Society, and dedicated to its members. The author's own copy.
BOHN, HENRY G.--The Biography and Bibliography of Shakespeare. [1863] _Small 4to, red levant morocco, back and sides blind tooled, gilt top, uncut edges, by Alfred Matthews._
Another copy.
BOHN, HENRY G., _editor_.--A Dictionary of Quotations from the English Poets. By Henry G. Bohn, . . . London: printed for private distribution. 1867. _4to, red levant morocco, doubled with russia, russia guards, gilt top, uncut edges, by Zaehnsdorf._
BOOKBINDING.--A Collection of Facsimiles from examples of historic or artistic bookbinding, illustrating the history of binding as a branch of the decorative arts. [111 coloured plates] London: Bernard Quaritch, . . . 1889. _Royal 8vo, half red straight-grain morocco, gilt back, gilt top, uncut edges, with the original covers bound in, by Stikeman._
BOOKBINDING.--Catalogue raisonnee Works on Bookbinding practical and historical Examples of Bookbindings of the XVIth to XIXth centuries from the collection of Samuel Putnam Avery, A. M. exhibited at Columbia University Library M DCCCC III [Compiled by Charles Alexander Nelson] Privately printed [at the De Vinne Press] New York [1903]. _12mo, cloth, gilt top, uncut edges._
Frontispiece on Japan paper from a water-colour drawing and autograph note by Maurice Leloir.
One of one hundred copies printed for Mr. Avery, with Addenda and frontispiece not in the first edition. Presentation copy.
BOOK OF FUN.--The Book of Fun. London J. Gilbert. _12mo, red levant morocco, gilt back, gilt top, uncut edges, by Riviere._
This volume comprises: "The Illustrated English Grammar; or, Lindley Murray Simplified"; "The Comic Speaker"; "Illustrated Arithmetic; or, Cyphering made Comical"; and "The Comic History of Rome." Lithographic title-page, numerous woodcut illustrations, and the original cloth covers.
BOOK OF GEMS.--The Book of Gems. The Poets and Artists of Great Britain. Edited by S. C. Hall. London: Saunders and Otley . . . 1836-'7-'8. _8vo, three volumes, calf, gilt back and sides, gilt top, uncut edges, by Riviere._
First edition. One hundred and forty-nine vignette illustrations engraved on steel by Finden, Greatbach, Goodall, Cousins, etc., after the designs of Mulready, Eastlake, Lawrence, Etty, Prout, Beechey, Stanfield, Wilkie, Reynolds, Maclise, Turner, Stothard, Flaxman, Leslie, Constable, Gainsborough, Landseer, and others.
BOOSEY, THOMAS.--Piscatorial Reminiscences and Gleanings by an Old Angler and Bibliopolist [T. Boosey]. To which is added a Catalogue of Books on Angling [by William Pickering] London William Pickering 1835. _16mo, cloth, uncut edges._
Frontispiece. The Catalogue of Books on Angling has a separate title, dated 1836.
BOOTH, EDWIN.--Excerpts from the many good words uttered in honor of Edwin Booth At the Supper given on Saturday Night, March 30, 1889, by Augustin Daly and A. M. Palmer. Printed for The Players. New York 1889. _4to, cloth, uncut edges._
BOOTH, MARY L.--History of the City of New York by Mary L. Booth . . . Illustrated . . . New York W. R. C. Clark . . . 1867. _Imperial 8vo, two volumes, boards, uncut edges._
First edition. No. 49 of one hundred large paper copies printed.
BORROW, GEORGE.--Faustus: his Life, Death, and Descent into Hell. Translated from the German. . . . London: W. Simpkin and R. Marshall. 1825. _Post 8vo, half russia, gilt top, uncut edges._
First edition. Coloured frontispiece.
BORROW, GEORGE.--Romantic Ballads, translated from the Danish; and Miscellaneous Pieces; by George Borrow. Norwich: printed and published by S. Wilkin . . . 1826. _8vo, half red morocco, gilt top, uncut edges._
First edition. Original autograph poems of Borrow and Allan Cunningham inserted.
BORROW, GEORGE.--Targum. or Metrical Translations from thirty languages and dialects. By George Borrow . . . St. Petersburg. Printed by Schulz and Beneze. 1835. _8vo, blue levant morocco, gilt back, gilt top, uncut edges, by Riviere._
First edition.
BORROW, GEORGE, _translator_.--The Talisman. From the Russian of Alexander Pushkin. With other Pieces. St. Petersburg. Printed by Schulz and Beneze. 1835. _8vo, brown levant morocco, gilt back, gilt top, uncut edges, by Riviere._
BORROW, GEORGE, _translator_.--Embeo e Majaro Lucas. Broto-boro randado andre la chipe griega, acana chibado andre o Romano, o chipe es zincales de Sese. El Evangelio segun S. Lucas, traducido al Romani, o dialecto de los Gitanos de Espana. 1837. _16mo, blue levant morocco, gilt back, gilt top, by Riviere._
First edition.
BORROW, GEORGE.--The Zincali; or, an account of the Gypsies of Spain. With an original collection of their songs and poetry, and a copious dictionary of their language. By George Borrow, . . . London: John Murray, . . . 1841. _Crown 8vo, two volumes, cloth, uncut edges._
First edition.
BORROW, GEORGE.--The Bible in Spain; or, the journeys, adventures, and imprisonments of an Englishman, in an attempt to circulate the scriptures in the Peninsula. By George Borrow, . . . London: John Murray, . . . 1843. _Crown 8vo, three volumes, brown levant morocco, gilt back, gilt top, uncut edges, by Riviere._
First edition.
BORROW, GEORGE.--Lavengro; the Scholar--the Gypsy--the Priest. By George Borrow, . . . London: John Murray, . . . 1851. _Crown 8vo, three volumes, blue levant morocco, gilt back, gilt top, uncut edges, by Riviere._
First edition. Portrait by W. Holl after H. W. Phillips.
BORROW, GEORGE.--The Romany Rye; a sequel to "Lavengro." By George Borrow, . . . London: John Murray, . . . 1857. . . . _Crown 8vo, two volumes, maroon levant morocco, gilt back, gilt top, uncut edges, by Riviere._
First edition.
BORROW, GEORGE, _translator_.--The Sleeping Bard; or Visions of the World, Death, and Hell, by Elis Wyn. Translated from the Cambrian British by George Borrow, . . . London: John Murray, . . . 1860. _8vo, brown levant morocco, gilt back, gilt top, uncut edges, by Riviere._
First edition.
BORROW, GEORGE.--Wild Wales: its people, language, and scenery. By George Borrow, . . . London: John Murray, . . . 1862. . . . _Crown 8vo, three volumes, light brown levant morocco, gilt back, gilt top, uncut edges, by Riviere._
First edition.
BORROW, GEORGE.--Romano Lavo-Lil: Word-book of the Romany; or, English Gypsy Language. With many pieces in gypsy, illustrative of the way of speaking and thinking of the English gypsies; with specimens of their poetry, and an account of certain gypsyries or places inhabited by them, and of various things relating to gypsy life in England. By George Borrow, . . . London: John Murray, . . . 1874. _Crown 8vo, green levant morocco, gilt back, gilt top, uncut edges, by Riviere._
First edition.
BOSWELL, JAMES.--The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, with Samuel Johnson, L.L.D. By James Boswell, Esq. containing some Poetical Pieces by D^{r} Johnson, relative to the Tour, and never before published; a Series of his Conversation, Literary Anecdotes, and Opinions of Men and Books: with an Authentick Account of the Distresses and Escape of the Grandson of King James II, in the Year 1746 London: printed by Henry Baldwin, for Charles Dilly . . . M.DCC.LXXXV. _8vo, original russia binding, gilt back panels, edges entirely untrimmed._
Boswell's own copy, with manuscript corrections and additions in his autograph.
BOSWELL, JAMES.--The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. comprehending an account of his studies and numerous works, in chronological order; a series of his epistolary correspondence and conversations with many eminent persons; and various original pieces of his composition, never before published. The whole exhibiting a view of literature and literary men in Great-Britain, for near half a century, during which he flourished. . . . By James Boswell, Esq. . . . London: printed by Henry Baldwin, for Charles Dilly, . . . M DCC XCI. _4to, two volumes, blue levant morocco, gilt back, gilt top, uncut edges, by The Club Bindery._
First edition. Portrait by J. Heath after Sir Joshua Reynolds, to whom the work is dedicated. Inserted is an autograph letter from William Forbes to Miss Boswell.
BOSWELL, JAMES.--The Life of Samuel Johnson, L.L.D. By James Boswell, Esq. Oxford, Published by Talboys and Wheeler; and William Pickering, London M DCCC XXVI. _Royal 8vo, four volumes, blue levant morocco, gilt back, gilt top, uncut edges, by Bedford._
One of the fifty large paper copies. Portrait of Boswell by Worthington after Reynolds, proof on India paper, and a facsimile.
BOSWELL, JAMES.--The Life of Samuel Johnson, 1826. _Royal 8vo, four volumes, red levant morocco, gilt back, gilt over uncut edges, by Bedford._
Another copy. One of fifty printed on large paper, illustrated by the insertion of three hundred and fifty-eight engravings, comprising thirty-two portraits of Johnson. One hundred and twenty-five are either proofs on India paper or before letters. Two original drawings by Harding, etc., and fifteen views and facsimiles are among the illustrations.
BOSWELL, JAMES.--The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. including a Journal of his Tour to the Hebrides; by James Boswell, Esq. To which are added, Anecdotes by Hawkins, Piozzi, Murphy, Tyers, Reynolds, Steevens, &c. and notes by various hands [also Johnsoniana] London: John Murray . . . M DCCC XXXV. _Foolscap 8vo, ten volumes, cloth, uncut edges._
Forty-five portraits, views, and facsimile autographs engraved on steel.
BOTTA, ANNE CHARLOTTE LYNCH.--Memoirs of Anne C. L. Botta written by her friends with selections from her correspondence and from her writings in prose and poetry . . . [portrait] New-York J. Selwin Tait & Sons . . . M DCCC XC IV. _12mo, cloth, gilt top, uncut edges._
BOURNELLE.--Annotations on the Tatler. Written in French By Monsieur Bournelle; and Translated into English By Walter Wagstaff, Esq;
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