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NOTES AND QUERIES. 1.12 H. L MAB. 25. wie.
copy offered for 20Z. of the large folio * Histoire
Hie I'lmprimerie en France au XV e et au XVI 6
siecle,' published 1900-4. We shall by no
means have mentioned all the best French books
in Mr. Barnard's collection if we add to these
Jules Petit's ' Bibliographic des Principales
Editions Originates d'^crivains francais du
XV e au XVIII- siecle,' Paris, 1888 (1L 10s.) ; a
- Bibliographic des ouvrages relatifs a Jeanne
d'Arc,' Paris, 1888 (5s. Qd.) ; Nisard's ' Histoire des livres populaires ou de la litt^rature du colportage,' Paris, 1854 (16s.) ; and Benouard's ' Catalogue de la Bibliotheque d'un amateur,' Paris, 1819 {12s. Qd.). Mr. Barnard has besides three or four good examples of French binding.
Messrs. Dobell send us Part II. of the Catalogue of autographs which had been prepared by the late Bertram Dobell, and this contains, in the way of French items, a letter each of Francois d'Orteans, 1859 (3s. Qd.) ; Napoleon III., 1871 (8s. 6d.) ; M. Rodin, n.d. (II. Is.) ; and Zola, n.d. (7s. Qd.). A poem by " M. D. L. G." said to be M. de la Grange Chancel consisting of a " philip- pique " against the Regent during the minority of Louis XV., written out on 72 4 to pp. of fine manuscript, is offered for 15s. In view of the correspondence in our columns on Stuart, Count d'Albanie, we may mention that a letter of 2J pp. of John Sobieski Stuart's is here to be had for 3s. Qd.
Messrs. Sotheran & Co. whom we have to congratulate on having, as a firm, attained the .age of 100 years issue as their Catalogue No. 761 .a description of 532 works on Art and Archaeology, ^o which are added about 100 items in the
way of Cyclopaedias and Dictionaries, from the library of the late Baron de Renter. Here the number of French works offers an embarrassingly 'large field for selection, including a copy of the
splendid ' Musses Fran^ais et Royal,' published at 'the beginning of the last century (6 yols. atlas tfolio, 75Z.) ; a large-paper copy of Racinet's * Le
Costume Historique,' 1888 (211. 10s.) ; Prisse .d'Avennes's ' L'Art Arabe,' 1877 (22Z. 10s.) ; and
Lenormant and de Witte's ' Elite des Monuments <C6ramographiques ' (211.) ; as well as, in the
Dictionary section, a fine set of Larousse's ' Grand
Dictionnaire Universel,' 1864-1907 (211.). Not anterior in interest, if somewhat in price, are
Froehner's work, ' La Colonne Trajane,' 1872
(121. 12s.) ; Viollet-le-Duc's ' Dictionnaire Raisonn6 .de 1'Architecture Franchise,' 1873 (11. 10s.) ; and
Oarnier's ' La Porcelaine Tendre de Sevres,'
1889-91 (51. 10s.) ; while any one who turns these rpages over will be able to suggest several equally
good substitutes for those we have given.
The American Book Company of Birmingham, In their Catalogue IX., give details of a good number of attractive French items. The most considerable is the fine 3-vol. edition by Le Duchat, published in 1741 at Amsterdam, of the ' CEuvres ' of Rabelais for which SI. 10s. is asked ; but we marked fifteen or sixteen other works as worth a collector's notice, and may mention from among them a copy of Walckenaer's ' La Fontaine,' 1822 (31. 5s.), and one of the ' Contes et Nouvelles de La Fontaine,' in 2 vols. brought out in 1883 (31. 5s.).
Mr. James Miles of Leeds (Catalogue No. 201) lias three or four first-rate sets of important English publications, and a host of good minor -works, especially in the way of North- Country
interest. The French works he has, though
not numerous, are not unimportant. Here are
' Catherine de Me*dicis ' (4Z. 4s.), ' La Reine Marie
Antoinette ' and ' La Dauphine Marie An-
toinette ' (the last two together, 11. 17s. Qd.) in the
" Goupil Series of Historical Monographs";
Hamilton's handbook on French book-plates, in
Bell's " Ex-libris Series," now out of print (7s. Qd.) ;
Froissart (Berners's translation) and Monstrelet
(translated by T. Johnes) in 8 vols., Hafod Press,
1809-12 (51. 5s.); and Urquhart and Motteux's
translation of ' Gargantua ' in Lawrence &
Bullen's "Edition de Luxe " of 1892 (11. Is. Gd.).
The interesting list numbered 344 which we
have received from Messrs. Maggs again offers a
wealth of good matter from which it is not easy to
make selection. We looked, we confess, rather
covetously at the " Best Library Edition,"
brought out in Paris in 20 vols. (1856), of the
' M^moires ' of Saint-Simon, which costs no more
than 9Z. 9s. ; nor would we scorn the ' Me'moires de
la Roine Marguerite,' in the original edition of
1628, bound by Bedford, if in these pinching times
we could spare 51. 15s. from more strictly necessary
objects to purchase it. Then there are seven sets
of French engravings, of which the most expensive
is Martin's ' Histoire du Vieux et du Nouveau
Testament,' 1700 (221. 10s.) ; but we would just
as soon possess the three volumes of Tibullus, with
engraved frontispiece and a dozen plates, which
were published at Tours in the year 1795 (Gl. 6s.).
" Boca.ce, de la Ge"nalogie des Dieux. . . .Translate
en Francoys et nouvellement imprime a Paris par
Jehan Petit," illustrated by 12 large and 25 small
woodcuts, and published in 1531, is not dear for
42Z. ; nor is a sixteenth-century set of Plutarch's
works (the Lives being in Amyot's translation)
dear at 14Z. 14s. Sicard's nine books of French
songs, ' D'Airs, a Boire, et Serieux,' bound in
2 vols., Paris, R. Ballard, 1666-75 (181. 18s.) ; a
" grangerized " copy of Dr. Holland Rose's
' Napoleon I.,' extended from 2 to 6 vols. by
means of plates (75Z.) ; and Moliere's ' (Euvres ' in
the first complete edition, 1682 (42J.) : these
must suffice as specimens of the good things from
France which the collector will find tempting him
at a distance through Messrs. Maggs's pages.
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THE REV. J. FRANK BUXTON thanks PROF. STOCKLEY for the identification of the person wanted as Lord Macaulay.
COL. BULLOCK ("I will not cease from mental fight," &c.). From Blake ' Prophetic Book: Milton.'
MR. WILMOT CORFIELD. Many thanks for cutting about the " Black Hole of Calcutta."
CORRIGENDUM. Ante. p. 210, col. 2, near the beginning of paragraph about Mary, Queen of Scots, for " October, 1585," read " October, 1586*
