MYERS & Co., 59, High Holborn, London, W.C. 13 



H. BUXTON FORMAN'S FACSIMILE REPRINT. 



50 BROWNING (Elizabeth Barrett) THE BATTLE OF MARATHON, A POEM, written 



in early youth by E. B. Browning, Printed for her Father in 1820, and now 

 reprinted in type facsimile, with an Introduction, by H. Buxton Forman, London, 

 for private distribution only, 1891, 8vo, fine uncut copy, three-quarter crushed brmvn 

 levant morocco, t.e.g., 2 IDS 

 One of SO copies printed on paper. Fifty four were printetl in all, four being on vellum. 



51 BROWNING BIBLIOGRAPHY WISE (THOMAS J.) A COMPLETE BIBLIOGRAPHY 



OF THE WRITINGS IN PROSE AND VERSE OF ROBERT BROWNING, London, for 

 Private Subscribers on/y, 1897, sm. 410, FINELY PRINTED ON HAND MADE PAPER. 

 bound from the % parts in half olive morocco gilt, uncut, t.e.g., WITH ALL THE 



ORIGINAL WRAPPERS PRESERVED, 4 48 



VERY RARE, ONLY 50 COPIES WERE PRINTED. The most exhaustive bibliography of R. 

 Browning by the most eminent authority upon the subject. 



52 BULL FIGHTING IN SPAIN A SERIES OF 13 FINE COLOURED AQUATINTS AFTER 



DRAWINGS BY J. H. CLARK, AQUATiNTED BY DuFOURG, illustrating the various 

 Stages of a Spanish Bull Fight, Published by Edw. Orme, London, 1813, BRILLIANT 

 IMPRESSIONS, engraved surface measures k\ x 8^ inches, with wide margins, 2 xos 



53 BYRON (Lord) LARA AND JACQUELINE, London, J. Murray, 1814, FIRST 



EDITION, sm. 8vo, original boards, uncut, no label, 155 



Jacqueline is not by Byron and is understood to be the prodnction of Samuel Rogers, the Banker 

 Poet. 



53A CARROLL (Lewis, i.e., C. L. DODGSON) ALICE'S ADVENTURES UNDER GROUND, 

 being a facsimile of the original MS. Book afterwards developed into "Alice's 

 Adventures in Wonderland," London and N. Y. t 1886, FIRST EDITION, 8vo, with 

 37 illustrations by the author, REMARKABLY FINK FRESH COPY, in the original red 

 ilt cloth, g.e,, 2 is 



54 CASANOVA'S MEMOIRS MKMOIRES DK JACQUES CASANOVA DK SEINGALT, 



ecrits par lui-meme, Bruxelles, 1871, EDITION ORIGINALE, LA SEULE COMPLETE, 6 



vols. in 3, thick 8vO, half mottled calf extra, t.e.g., ji i8s 



These celebrated memoirs record the doings of a man who successively figured as priest, soldier, 

 and statesman ; who found means to gain the favour of some of the greatest potentates of 

 Europe, among others of Frederick the Great and Catharine II. After roaming from place to 

 place he ended his long life of mingled charlatanry, profligacy and ability, at Vienna in 1803. 



55 CECIL (Robert, FIRST EARL OF SALISBURY) 1563? 1612. Famous Statesman 



and Lord High Treasurer. LETTER SIGNED, i p. folio, dated Strand, 8 August, 

 1 6 i o. To Sir Henry Nevill, relating to necessary repairs to be carried out in the 

 Manor of Sonning, Co. Berks. COUNTERSIGNED ISY SIR JULIUS G*SAR, Chancellor 

 of the Exchequer and Master of the Rolls, 355 



Two fine signatures of distinguished Elizabethans. Robert Cecil was the builder of Hatficld 

 House, was created Ba r on Cecil, 1603, Viscount Cranborne, 1604, and Earl of Salisbury, 1605. 

 He secured the accession of James VI. of Scotland to the English throne. 



56 CECIL (William, FIRST LORD BURGHLEY) 1520-98. Queen Elizabeth's chief 



Minister, Secretary of State, 1558-72, Lord Hi^h Treasurer, 1572-98. LETTER 

 SIGNED, i p. sm. folio, dated "ffrom my house at Westm'. 22 ffebr, 1593." To 

 Mr. Richard Staforlon, requiring 40 trees out oj fiurlay Wood in Windsor Forest, 

 with postscript, partly torn away, 355 



A fine autograph of the famous Lord Burghley, builder of Burleigh House near Stamford, who 

 was chiefly reponsible for the execution of Mary Queen of Scots. 



