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Journal of the Reign of King George the Third. From the * Year 1771 to 1783. Edited, with Notes, by Dr. Doran. Portraits. 2 vols. London: Richard Bentley, 1859.

Anecdotes of Painting in England; with some Account of the Principal Artists, with Additions by the Rev. James Dallaway, and Vertue's Catalogue of Engravers. Portraits. 3 vols. London: Bickers & Son, N. D

The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford. Edited by Peter Cunningham. Portraits. 9 vols. London: Bohn,

1861.

Memoirs of Horace Walpole and his Contemporaries, including numerous Original Letters, chiefly from Strawberry Hill. Edited by Eliot Warburton. Portraits. 2 vols. London: H. Colburn, 1857.

* The Castle of Otranto. A Gothic Story. With frontispiece. I vol, on stilts. London, 1797.

Together, 29 vols. Full light calf, gilt, blue and red labels, marbled edges.
London, V. D

395

WALTON & COTTON'S COMPLETE ANGLER; or, The Contemplative Man's Recreation. By Isaac Walton. And Instructions How to Angle for a Trout or Grayling in a Clear Stream. By Charles Cotton. With Copious Notes, for the most part Original. A Biographical Preface, Giving an Account of Fishing and Fishing Books, from the Earliest Antiquity to the Time of Walton, etc. (By Rev. Geo. W. Bethune). Copiously illustrated. Both parts in 1 vol.

Crown 8vo, full dark green turkey morocco, elaborate gilt back and sides, top edge gilt. New York and London: Wiley & Putnam, 1847

Fine copy of the rare first American edition, with the "ex libris" of E. F. Snow.

396

WALTON & COTTON'S COMPLETE ANGLER; or, The Contemplative Man's Recreation of Izaak Walton and Chas. Cotton. Edited by John Major. With the numerous illustrations on India paper.

8vo, three-quarter dark green levant, emblematic gilt tooling, top edge gilt, uneut, by Oldach & Co. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co., N. D

Edition de Luxe.

of which this is No

Limited to two hundred and fifty copies, 33.

397

(WARD, EDWARD.) Nuptial Dialogues and Debates; or, An useful Prospect of the Felicities and Discomforts of a Marry'd Life. Incident to all Degrees, from the Throne to the Cottage. Containing many great Examples of Love, Pity and Prudence also the fantastical Humours of all Fops, Coquettes, Bullies, Jilts, fond Fools and Wantons, Old Fumblers, Barons, Ladies, Misers, Parsimonious Wives, Ninnies, Sluts and Termagants, drunken Husbands, etc. By the Author of the London Spy. Frontispieces.

2 vols. 12mo, full mottled calf, gilt backs, gold lines on sides, inside dentelle borders, gilt edges. London, 1723 The title fully indicates the delectable morsels to be found within the covers.

398 WARWICK, EDEN. The Poets' Pleasaunce; or, Garden of all Sorts of Pleasant Flowers, which our Pleasant Poets have, in past time, for pastime, planted. Beautifully engraved ornamented borders throughout.

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8vo, full crushed dark green levant, elaborate gilt back and sides in floral designs, with leaves inlaid in light green levant, Morris paper doublé, with gold borders, edges gilt in the round, by Riviere.

London: Longman, Brown & Co., 1847

A beautiful book, and elegantly bound by Riviere.
See facsimile of binding.

WATERLOO. Historic, Military, and Naval Anecdotes of Personal Valour, Bravery, and Particular Incidents which Occurred to the Armies of Great Britain and Her Allies, in the Last Long-Contested War, Terminating with the Battle of Waterloo. Illustrated with numerous superb aquatints,

printed in colors.

Royal 4to, three-quarter crushed red levant, gilt, top edges gilt.

London (1815)

Fine copy, with all the forty colored plates illustrating scenes immediately preceding and during the battle of Waterloo.

WHITE, GILBERT. The Natural History of Selborne. Edited, with Notes, by Grant Allen. Illustrated by Edmund H. New; also illustrated with full-page and other original water colors by T. P. Bush.

2 vols. Royal 8vo, full crushed dark green levant, blind tooled, inside gold borders, top edges gilt, uncut, by Oldach Co.

Jno. Lane, The Bodley Head, London, 1900

One of two copies illustrated in water color by T. P. Bush. A beautiful work.

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WILSON, HARRIETTE. Memoirs of. Written by herself. Illustrated with many suggestive engravings.

4 vols. 12mo, full crushed brown levant, gilt backs, gold lines on sides, inside dentelle borders, top edges gilt, uncut, by Riviere.

London: Printed by J. Mitford, 14 Gate Street, N. D.

Fine copy. Very scarce.

WOLFE, THEODORE F. Literary Haunts and Homes. American Authors. Illustrated.

12mo, half red levant, gilt, top edge gilt, uncut. Lippincott, Philadelphia, 1899

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WORLD'S GREAT CLASSICS. Beautifully illustrated with colored and plain plates and illuminated title-pages. Containing Orations of Demosthenes; with Introductions by the Translator, Thos. Leland. I vol.-Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero. Translated by Chas. D. Yonge; with Special Introduction by Chas. H. Ohly. I vol.-Orations of American Orators, including Biographical and Critical Sketches; with Special Introduction by Julian Hawthorne. 2 vols. Órations of British Orators, including Biographical and Critical Sketches; with a Special Introduction by Julian Hawthorne. 2 vols.-Essays of American Essayists, including Biographical and Critical Sketches; with a Special Introduction by C. C. Starkweather. I vol.-Essays of British Essayists, including Biographical and Critical Sketches; with a Special Introduction by C. C. Starkweather. 2 vols.Essays of French, German and Italian Essayists, including Biographical and Critical Sketches; with a Special Introduction by Chauncy C. Starkweather. I vol.

Together, 10 vols. 8vo, full crushed dark green levant, gilt backs, gold lines on sides, green silk doublé, with dentelle borders, top edges gilt, uncut. Colonial Press: New York, N. D.

The Colonial Edition. Limited to one hundred copies, of which this is No. 6.

WORLD'S GREAT CLASSICS. Beautifully illustrated with colored and plain plates and illuminated title-pages. Containing History of Europe During the Middle Ages. By Henry Hallam. With Special Introduction by A. R. Marsh. And Modern History. By Jules Michelet. With Special Introduction by William MacDonald. 3 vols.—A Short History of the English People. By John Richard Green. With a Special Introduction by Albert S. Cook. And History of Civilization in Europe. By F. P. G. Guizot. With Special