PREFACE. 



IN an unusually interesting catalogue composed of choice items culled from the 

 recent dispersal of the libraries of Algernon Charles Swinburne, Mrs. Elton, 

 Colonel Prideaux, the Penn collection from Pennsylvania Castle, Portland, the 

 old family library at Ladbrooke Hall, Warwickshire, etc., etc., we should like 

 to draw particular attention to the ONLY KNOWN AND VERY FINE COPY OF COPLAND'S 



LOTHBERY EDITION OF DAME JULIANA BttRNERS's BOOKE OF HAUK1NG, HUNTING 



AND FYSSHYNG; the fine XVth century Flemish illuminated MS. of the School of 

 Bruges, with 25 beautiful miniatures; Polman's Battels, i585?-87 (see No. 79), 

 only one other perfect copy known; Ockland's Valiant Actes with " Elizabeth 

 Queene," 1584 ?-8s (see No. 73), one of two perfect copies known ; the fragments of 

 an unknown Calendar of Sarum use, and part of a Sarum Horae, printed by 

 Wynkyn de Worde; Johnson's History of New England, 1654; the extremely 

 rare and important volume relating to the boundaries of Pennsylvania and Mary- 

 land (No. 8), CHARLES THE UNO'S OWN COPY OF THE EIKON BASILIKE, specially 

 bound for him, and formerly in the possession of the Duke of Kent, father of 

 Queen Victoria ; a number of beautiful inlaid and other bindings by Samuel and 

 Charles Mearne ; a fine example of the English Lyonese style ; a very beautiful 

 specimen of the " cottage. roof " pattern, together with examples of the eminent 

 French binders, Boyet, Padeloup and Derome ; books printed in the XVth and 

 XVlth centuries ; blHCft letter books ; coloured plate books ; first editions of 

 esteemed authors ; extra illustrated books ; association copies ; Goldsmith's 

 Deserted Village, ist Edition, on thick paper, in fine contemporary tooled morocco ; 

 the very fine example of modern illumination (No. 104) ; Waller's Poems, 1645, 

 and the same author's extremely rare poem " On the Park at St. Jamese's," Printed 

 for Tho. Dring; the choice Persian illuminated MS. in a fine native lacquer 

 binding, with 22 miniatures; the portraits of Napoleon and his stepson from the 

 Sir Hudson Lowe collection; the remarkable series of holograph or signed letters 

 of many of the foremost personages of the Elizabethan era, including holograph 

 letters of Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, and Thomas Sackville, Lord Buckhurst. 

 Also an holograph letter of Henry of Lorrain, Duke of Guise, the instigator of 

 the Massacre of St. Bartholomew and cousin of Mary Queen of Scots only one 

 other example known, and letters signed by Henri III. of France and Cardinal 

 Mazarin, together with autographs of Scott and Sheridan, a very interesting literary 

 letter of H. D. Thoreau, and Admiral Lord Nelson's own copy of Sheridan's 

 Speech, referring to himself, with his autograph signature on title. 



The whole carefully described and all. defects fully pointed out, so that 

 intending purchasers ma}' feel certain that every item ordered will be found to 

 correspond exactly with the description given, in the catalogue. 



With a view to preventing loss to intending pur- 

 chasers, all orders from Overseas will be despatched 

 fully insured against all risks, without extra charge. 



