[DECEMBER 7TH, 1903.]

SOTHEBY, WILKINSON & HODGE.

A COLLECTION OF SHAKESPEAREANA.

The catalogue of this important sale was profusely illustrated, and though it comprised no more than a dozen entries will always remain a valuable contribution to Shakespearean biography and literature. The articles sold comprised a folio document dated December 31st, 1598, bearing the signatures of Archbishop Whitgift, Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex and other noted personages of the day; a signed holograph letter of Lettice, Countess of Leicester, the "little western flower" of "A Midsummer Night's Dream"; autograph signatures of Philip Herbert, Earl of Pembroke and Montgomery, and Henry Wriothesley, Earl of Southampton, Shakespeare's great patron, a silver seal-top spoon bearing a fulllength figure of Shakespeare and the initials of himself and Anne Hathaway, a casket made from the wood of the mulberry tree, a carved portrait of Shakespeare from the same wood, and the unknown portrait" reproduced and described in Walford's "Antiquarian" for October, 1885. Reference must be made to the catalogue for a descriptive account of these articles. The following books were, however, included in the catalogue, and sold for the sums named :

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1329 Mottley (John). List of all the Dramatic Authors, with some account of their lives and of all the Dramatic Pieces ever published in the English language to the year 1747—also Scanderberg, or Love and Liberty, a Tragedy, by Thomas Whincop, portraits, original calf, 1847, 8vo. (10)

Barton, £42

[This belonged to Richard Farmer, the Shakespearean commentator, and was evidently prepared by him for a revised edition, which, however, was never published. Nearly all the 200 pages were covered with additions and corrections in his autograph. In the division devoted to Shakespeare, the author has noted against each play his opinion of the date of its composition, as well as much other information concerning the circumstances rounding it, the characters, etc.-ED.]

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1330 Shakespeare (W.) Dramatic Works, to which are added his Miscellaneous Poems, portrait, contemporary calf, 1821, 8vo. (9) Pearson, 11 IOS.

[On the front cover of this volume is inlaid a piece of the wood of the celebrated mulberry tree, surrounded by a gold frame, bearing the following inscription, "Part of the mulberry tree planted by Wm. Shakespeare." The fly-leaf bears the following inscription: “The insertion in the binding is from a portion of the tree formerly in the possession of the widow of the celebrated David Garrick, who presented the same to George IV., and for whom

sundry articles were made by Rundell and Bridge, and small pieces of which were converted into loving mementoes by the several recipients.-A. Evors."-Catalogue.] 1331 Shakespeare (W.) Mr. William Shakespeare, his Comedies, Histories and Tragedies, set out by himself in quarto, or by the players his fellows in folio, and now faithfully republished, etc., 10 vol., original calf, London, printed by Dryden Leach for I. and R. Tonson, in the Strand (1767-68), 8vo. (11) A. Jackson, £120

[Capell's edition. This copy came from the libraries of Thomas Gray, Edmund Malone and Richard Heber. Gray has added MS. annotations to several of the plays and to Capell's introduction. Malone had written a list of the plays on the fly-leaf (31⁄2 pages) and annotated several of them. The chief feature here consisted, of course, in the manuscript additions by Thomas Gray, the poet.-ED.] 1332 Shakespeare (W.) Mr. William Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories and Tragedies, published according to the true original copies, unto which is added Seven Plays, never before printed in folio . . . the fourth edition, London, printed for H. Herringman, and are to be sold by Joseph Knight and Francis Saunders at the Anchor, in the Lower Walk of the New Exchange, 1685, folio (12) Marshall, £215 [A large copy, measuring 14% inches by 9% inches, having a few uncut leaves. Bound in old diced calf at the end of the eighteenth century. This copy was described in the catalogue as belonging to a totally unknown issue, and probably unique. The imprint hitherto recorded reads: "London, printed for H. Herringman, E. Brewster and R. Bentley, at the Anchor in the New Exchange, the Crane in St. Paul's Churchyard and in Russell Street, Covent Garden." The errors in pagination in this copy did not follow the list given in the British Museum Catalogue, nor that given by Lowndes. The ornament above the imprint is different, and the whole title-page is evidently re-set.ED.]

[DECEMBER 8TH, 1903.]

SOTHEBY, WILKINSON & HODGE.

THE LIBRARY OF THE LATE MR. WILLIAM HENRY DUTTON, OF NEWCASTLE, STAFFORDSHIRE.

(No. of Lots, 269; amount realised, £827 10s.)

1333 Acosta (Jos.) The Naturall and Morall Historie of the East and West Indies, translated by E. G., wanted preliminary leaves, old calf (cover broken), V. Sims for E. Blount, etc., 1604, small 4to. (72) H. Stevens, £ 105.

1334 Adrianus Carthusiensis. Liber de Remediis utriusq. Fortune per quendam A. poetam prestantem, etc. noviter compilatus, lit, goth.. long lines, 27 to a full page, without marks (Hain, 94), wormed, old Netherlands binding, oaken boards, leather, stamped in small compartments (worn), Absque ulla nota (Argent., H. Eggesteyn, circa 1471), small 4to. (73) Leighton, £5 1335 Æneas Sylvius Piccolomini Pius II. Papa. Epistola ad Mahumetum Principem Turcorum, lit. goth.. long lines, 27 to a full page, 54 leaves, without marks (Hain, 171), half bound, Absque ulla nota (Colon., U. Zell, 1470?), small 4to. (74) Leighton, £3 35. 1336 Albertus Magnus. Sermones notabiles de tempore et de Sanctis per totius anni circulum, lit. goth., double columns, 40 lines, without marks, rubricated (some plain corners torn off, some leaves stained), half bound, Coloniæ, per Arnoldum ther hurnen, with device (in red), 1474, folio (148)

Robson, £3 35. 1337 Ambrosius Episc. Mediol. (S.) De Officiis lib. iii., lit. rom., long lines, 28 to a full page, without marks (wanted the 30 preliminary leaves containing the Life of Ambrosius, etc.), half bound, from the Wodhull collection, 3 painted coatsof-arms on first leaf, Impressus Mediolani per Christoforum Valdarfer, 1474, small 4to. (77) Maggs, £3 14S. 1338 Aristoteles. Ethica Politica et Economica Latine, Leonardo Aretino interprete, lit. semi-goth.. long lines, 32 to a full page, without marks (Hain, 1762), old oaken boards, leather (rebacked), large and clean copy, 2 leaves of a XIIIth century vellum MS. pasted in covers, Absque nota [Argent., Mentelin, circa 1468-70], folio (151) Robson, 1O 1OS. 1339 Aristoteles. Moralium Liber Geo. Valla interprete, una cum L. Aretini de Moribus Dialogo (edid. Jac. Stapulenses), lit. goth.. half vellum, Paris [J. Higman et W. Hopyl], 1497, folio (152) Quaritch, £1 IOS. 1340 Arnold (Richard). Chronicle, first edition, black letter, new morocco (Antwerp, Desborough, 1502 ?), folio (153) Leighton, £8 15s.

[Imperfect; commencing on A 2 of the list of mayors and sheriffs, and finishing on folio cxvii.; some leaves wormed.-ED.]

1341 Augustinus (S.) Enchiridion Liber, editio princeps, lit. goth. (59 leaves), long lines, 27 to a full page, without marks (Hain, 2028), rubricated, red painted capitals, half bound, Absque nota [Colon., U. Zell, 1466-70], small 4to. (79) Lever, £5 10s. 1342 Beauties of England and Wales, by Brewer, Britton, Brayley and others, engravings, 25 vol., calf (bindings broken), 1810, etc., 8vo. (13) Ridler, £35. 1343 Biblia. Two specimen leaves of the first dated Latin Bible, Printed by Fust and Schoeffer in 1462, folio (154) Tregaskis, £4 2s. 6d. 1344 Biblia Sacra Latina, editio Vulgata, Iít. goth., double columns,

48 lines, without marks, painted ornamental capitals in blue and red, half bound (Mogunt., P. Schoeffer, 1472), folio (155) Ridler, £4 1345 Biblia Sacra Latina, editio Vulgata cum Prologis S. Hieronymi, una cum Menardi compendiosa Librorum Biblia notitia et Tabula Canonum, lit. goth., double columns, 51 lines, without signatures, contained "Locus librorum numerus," one leaf; text, cccclxi. numbered leaves; compendium, six leaves; rubricated, large and small ornamental initials, painted in red and blue, some lower plain margins damped, otherwise a very fine, large copy, oaken boards, leather, stamped in ornamental frame compartments, Nuremb., Ant. Coberger, 1479, large folio (156) Bull, £10 5s.

[Koburger's third Latin Bible and a fine production of his press. Leaf of an ancient vellum MS. as fly-leaf.—Catalogue.] 1346 Biblia Sacra Latina, Editio Vulgata, cum Prologis S. Hieronymi et Interpr. Hebr. Nom., lit. goth., painted and illuminated initials, wanted title, leaves at beginning and end stained and mended (sold not subject to return), new boarded calf antique, r. e., the first octavo edition of the Vulgate Latin Bible, Basil., J. Froben, 1491, 8vo. (15) Peach, L 1347 Breydenbach (Bern. von). Peregrinationes in Montem Sion, etc. Der Fart uber Mer zu de heiligen Grab unsers Herren Jesu Christi gen Jerusalem, etc., first edition in German, lit. goth., original frontispiece of the armorial bearings of Philippus de Birken, Miles, original folding views of cities (some defective) and woodcuts, wanted printed title, text generally clean and sound, and a good copy (sold not subject to return), oaken boards, stamped pigskin (rebacked), Meyntz, durch Erhart Rewich getrucket, 1486, folio (171) Tregaskis, £4 45. 1348 Brunet (J. Ch.) Manuel du Libraire et de l'Amateur des Livres, cinquième (et dernière) édition, facsimiles, 6 vol., half morocco gilt, t. e. g., Paris, Didot, 1860-5, royal 8vo. (20) Peach, £7 15s. 1349 Burchardus. Hystoria Frederici Imperatoris Magni huius nominis primi ducis suevorum et parentele sue, editio prima, lit. rom., long lines, 38 to a full page, without marks, rubricated (Hain, 8718), boards, Absque ulla nota [Augusta Monasterio SS. Ulrici et Afræ, circa 1470?], folio (172) Maggs, £3 5s. 1350 Caracciolus de Licio (Robertus). Opus Quadragesimale quod de Penitentia dictum est, lit. goth., double columns, 46 lines, without marks, no title, half bound, Neapoli, M. Moravus, 1479, folio (174) Leighton, £3 3s. 1351 Caxton (William). Higden's Polychronicon, Printed by Wm. Caxton in 1482, 11 original leaves, viz., folios ccclxxxx., ccclxxxxi., ccclxxxxiii., ccclxxxxiiii., ccclxxxxv., ccclxxxxvi., ccclxxxxviii., cccc., cccci., ccccii. and cccciii. (wormholes), bound in a vol., half vellum, Printed at Westmynstre, 1482, folio (176) Quaritch, £43

1352 Caxton (William). Two Original Leaves from Caxton's edition of Boethius, printed in two types before 1479, in fine condition-and Two Leaves from "The Life of our Ladye," Printed by Caxton in 1484 (much wormed), mounted in a vol., presented, with letters, from Wm. Blades to W. H. Dutton, half bound, folio (177) Quaritch, £19 1353 Caxton (William). Life and Typography of William Caxton, by Wm. Blades, plates and facsimiles, 2 vol., half calf gilt, m. e., J. Lilly, 1861-63, 4to. (92) Young, £2 6s. 1354 Caxton (William). The Royall Book, W. de Worde's edition, begins on Diii. (badly damaged by fire throughout, sold not subject to return), black letter, woodcuts, W. de Worde, 1507, small 4to. (93) Ridler, £145. 1355 Chaucer (Geoffrey). The Woorkes of Geffrey Chaucer, newly printed, with divers addicions, whiche were never in printe before, with the Siege and destruccion of the Worthy Citee of Thebes, compiled by John Lidgate, edited by John Stow, black letter, title containing Chaucer's arms, other titles within genealogical borders, woodcuts and initials in the text, plain margins water-stained, a few leaves wormed, otherwise good, old russia, Jhon Kyngston for Jhon Wight, 1561, folio (179) Ellis, £9 7s. 6d. 1356 Chrysostomus (Joannes). Homilia in Evangelium S. Johannis, Latine per Fr. Aretinum, editio princeps, lit. rom., long lines, 33 to a full page, without marks (wanted 2 leaves, some leaves stained), russia, Roma in S. Eusebii Monasterio [per Georgium Lauer], 1470, folio (180) Ridler, £3 1357 Churchill (Sir Winston). Divi Britannici, a Remark upon the Lives of all the Kings of this Isle, coat-of-arms, portrait of Samuel Pepys, after Kneller, by White, pasted on reverse of title, which also has an inscription for "Mr. Havers Edgely," old calf, T. Roycroft, 1675, folio (181)

Maggs, £4 10s. 1358 Clericus (Hubertinus Cresantinus). In Epistolas ad Familiares Ciceronis Commentum, lit. rom., painted ornamental initials in blue and red, old calf, Vincentia, Hermannus Lichtensten Colon. impressum anno 1479, folio (182)

Peach, £2 1359 Cologne. Die Cronica van der hilliger Stat van Coellen, lit. goth., numerous spirited woodcuts coloured by a contemporary hand, numerous blank leaves at beginning and end, some having MS. notes, contemporary oaken boards, stamped leather, metal bosses, clasps, Gedruckt am Coellen durch Johan Koelhoff, 1409, folio (183) Leighton, £15 10s. 1360 Dante. La Divina Commedia, col. commento di Chr. Landino revista et emendata da Piero da Figio, outline woodcuts and ornamental initials (wanted title, some leaves wormed and stained, sold not subject to return), half calf gilt, r.e., Venezia, B. Benali e Matth. da Parma, 1491, folio (187) Peach, £3 6s. 1361 Dionysius de Burgo. Commentarius super Valerii Maximi Dictas et Factas Memorabilias, lit. rom., long lines, 36 to a