UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT LOS ANGELES The Marlon Press laica Queensborough New V >; 1901 Facsimile of Mr. Arnold's Book-plate Ldy M -All out service. In every point twice done and then done double. Were poor and single business, to contend Against those honours deep and broad wherewith Your majesty loads our house : for those of old, And the late dignities heaped up to them, We rest your hermits. DUD Where's the thane of Cawdor? We coursed him at the heels, and had a purpose To be his purveyor : but he rides well ; And his great love, sharp as his spur, hath holp him To his home before us. Fair and noble hostess. We are your guest to-night. Lady M Your servants ever Have theirs, themselves and what is theirs, in compt, To make their audit at your highness' pleasure. Still to return your own. Dun.. Give me your hand ; Conduct me to mine host : we love him highly, And shall continue our graces towards him. Exeunt By your leave, hostess. SCENE VII. A ROOM IN THE CASTLE. Hautboys and torches. Enter a Sewer, and divers Scr' vantb with dishes and service, and pass over the stage. Then enter Macbeth. Macb. BST* "JSjjrn u ii ii limn uilii n III ilinii. llii n 'twere well It were done quickly: if the assassination Could trammel up the consequence, and catch With his surcease success; that but this blow Might be the be-all and the end-all here, But here, upon this bank and shoal of time, We'd jump the life to come. But in these cases We still have judgment here ; that we but teach Bloody instructions, which, being taught, return To plague the inventor: this even-handed justice Commends the ingredients of our poisoned chalice To our own lips. He's here in double trust; First, as I am his kinsman and his subject, Strong both against the deed; then, as his host, Who should against his murderer shut the door. Not bear the knife myself. Besides, this Duncan Hath borne his faculties so meek, hath been So clear in his great office, that his virtues Will plead like angels, trumpet'tongued, against The deep damnation of his taking-off; And pity, like a naked new-born babe, Striding the blast, or heaven's cherubim, horsed Upon the sightless couriers of the air. Shall blow the horrid deed in every eye, That tears shall drown the wind. I have no spur To prick the sides of my intent, but only Vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself Enter Lady And falls on the other . . . Macbeth H ow now ! what ne ws ? Lady M.He has almost supped : why have you left the chamber? Macb. Hath he asked for me ? LadyM. Know you not he hat? Macb. We wil I proceed no further in thi btisineni Act 1. 3c. He hath honou red me of late; and I have bought Golden opinions from all sorts of people, Which would ' ie worn now in their newest gloss. Not cast aside so soon. Lady M. Was the hope drunk Wherein you dressed vourself ? hath it slept since I And wakes it now, to look so green and pale At what it did so freely ? From this time Such I account thy love. Art thou afeard To be the same in thine own act and valour As thou art in desire ? Wouldst thou have that Which thou esteem's! the ornament of life, And live a coward in thine own esteem, Letting "I dare not" wait upon " I would," Like the poor cat i'the adage ? Macb. Prithee, peace: I dare do all that may become a nun; Who dares do more is none. LadyM. What beast was' t, then, That made you break this enterprise to me ? Vfhen you durst do it, then you were a man; And, to be more than what you were, you would Be so much more the man. Nor time nor place Did then adhere, and yet vou would make both : They have made themselves, and that their fitness now Does unmake you. I have given suck, and know How tender'tis to love the babe that milks me : I would, while it was smiling in my face, Have plucked my nipple from his boneless gums. And dashed the brains out, had I so sworn as you Have done to this. Macb. Ifwe should fail? Lady M.We fail! But screw your courage to the sticking/place, And we '11 not fail. \V hen Duncan is asleep . . . Whereto the rather shall his day's hard journey Soundly in vite him ... his two chamberlains Will I with wine and wassail so convince That memory, the warder of the brain, Shall be a fume, and the receipt of reason A limbeck only : when in swinish sleep Their drenched natures lie as in a death, What cannot you and I perform upon The unguarded Duncan? what not put upon His spongy officers, who shall bear the guilt Of our great quell? Macb. Bring forth men-children only: For thy undaunted mettle should compose Nothing but males. Will it not be received, When we have marked with blood those sleepy two Of his own chamber and used their very daggers, That they have done't ? Ldy M Who dares receive it other, As we shall make our griefs and clamour roar Upon his death? Macb I am settled, and bend up Each corporal agent to this terrible feat. Away, and mock the time with fairest show: False face must hide what the false heart doth know. Exeunt Reduced Facsimile of the Trial Page for the Projected Kelmscott Edi- tion of The Tragedies, Histories, & Comedies of William Shakespeare. See number 254. BOOKS AND LETTERS Collected by William Harris Arnold of New York The Marion Press Jamaica Queensborough New York i 90 i Copyright 1901 by William Harris Arnold To be sold at Auction Without Reserve by Bangs & Co 93 Fifth Avenue New York at 3 o'clock p m Tuesday May 7 1901 lots i to 198 Wednesday May 8 190 lots 199 to 411 and Supplement Note This small collection contains many desirable vol- umes, some of which have uncommon interest by association with the authors, while a few are so ex- tremely rare as to render their sale at auction an oc- currence of some consequence in the old-book world. Several of the letters are of considerable importance. There are two books in the collection which the present owner confesses never to have read; and they are here in spite of his rule, to admit no book un- less he could read it. These are the old Latin tomes of Rodoricus and St. Chrysostom. The excuse for their presence is the beauty of their typography ; the clear strong black letters, surrounded by wide mar- gins, have stood, for more than four centuries, as ex- amples of good printing. Of the old English books, the copy of Milton's "Paradise Lost," 1667, in the original sheep, is un- questionably the most important; yet the copy of Chapman's Homer is, on account of the associations clustered about it, of the highest interest of the older books in the collection ; it belonged to Coleridge, and has many critical notes, in his handwriting, on the verso of the leaf of dedication and on the mar- gins of several pages; it has, too, his autograph sig- nature in three places. Inserted is a long letter one of the most interesting literary letters in exis- tence which was sent with this book to Miss Hutchinson, the sister of Wordsworth's wife. On IX Note the death of Miss Hutchinson the book passed into the possession of Wordsworth. Another old book, made interesting by distinguished association, is Cartwright's "Comedies," 1651, which once be- longed to Thomas Warton and has his critical manuscript comments written on the margins of many pages. This same copy later belonged to James Bindley, the noted collector of a century ago, and bears his autograph. It has, inserted, an auto- graph letter by Thomas Park, another famous col- lector, who writes of the differences he has found in various copies of this rare old book. A volume of no value, except for association, is "Legatus Opus Caroli Paschalii," 1598, with the autograph signa- ture of John Donne on the title-page. To name the many first editions of rare old books would be to repeat too large a portion of the cata- logue. Among the worthiest of mention are the rollicking cavalier "Songs" of Brome; Corbet's "Certain Elegant Poems"; and Crashaw's "Steps to the Temple," in well worn but original binding. Drayton is here in the little edition of 1605, and also in the larger edition of 1619. There are several volumes of Dryden, including his first play, "The Wild Gallant," and his most important poem, "The Hind and the Panther," 1687. The big thin vol- ume of the "Poems" of Andrew Marvell, the friend of Milton, is a fine copy of this uncommon book. Katherine Philips, "the matchless Orinda," is repre- sented by the earliest but unauthorized edition of her "Poems," 1664, and also by the sumptuous volume of 1667 with her portrait by Faithorne. Other old Note rarities are the "Poems" of Waller and Shirley, of Donne and Hall, of Randolph and Carew all first editions and all fine copies. The most important book in this collection, with an eighteenth-century date, is the little "Deserted Village" of 1770, which the best opinion now places earlier than the first 4to of the same year. Some of the reasons for this recognition of the importance of these small 8vos are stated in a long note, written specially for this catalogue, by Mr. Luther S. Living- ston, who is the discoverer of three varieties, of which the copy here catalogued is the only one of its kind known to exist, and the first of the 8vos to be sold at auction in this country. Mr. Livingston's full study of these earliest issues of Goldsmith's mas- terpiece appeared in The Bookman of last February. There is an uncut copy of Dr. Johnson's " Plan of a Dictionary," 1747; and the big "Dictionary" itself (almost a common book in ordinary cut condition) is one of the only three copies that are now known to exist in the original boards, uncut. There are fine copies of "Tom Jones" and "Amelia," as well as other books of Fielding; and Swift is represented by "The Tale of a Tub," "Gulliver's Travels," and by "Genteel and Ingenious Conversation" on large paper all first editions. Mention should also be made of a beautiful example of binding by Roger Payne, which is accompanied by his curious auto- graph bill for the work. Several of the nineteenth-century books unite im- portance as early issues of great rarity with unusual personal associations. Such, for instance, is the proof XI Note copy of Browning's "Dramatis Personae" with a manuscript title in the author's handwriting, under- neath which is written "To be Published May 2ist." The text has many alterations in his autograph. Another Browning book, of the same order, is a proof copy of "The Ring and the Book," with hundreds of manuscript additions and corrections in the author's handwriting. With this book is an unpublished autograph letter by Browning, in which he makes arrangements connected with the publication of the work. The "Pauline," 1833, Browning's first book, is, like most first books of famous authors, extremely rare. This same copy was sold at auction in London last De- cember, and was then secured by the present owner. There are also Browning's privately printed poems: "Cleon," "The Statue and the Bust," "Gold Hair," and "Helen's Tower" all in fine condition. Two of the other Browning books are presentation copies with the author's autograph inscription in each. Mrs. Browning's first book, "The Battle of Mara- thon," 1820, is even rarer than "Pauline"; and the copy here is of particular interest, for it belonged to the young poet's uncle, S. M. Barrett, and bears his book-plate. Of the fifty copies, originally printed for presentation purposes none were made for sale only six are now known to exist. The exquisitely bound copy of the rare "Sonnets" formerly belonged to Charles Kingsley, to whom it was presented by Miss Mitford, who had charge of the printing of the book for Mrs. Browning. No copy of this book has ever before been sold at auction, either in Eng- xii Note land or in this country. There are four other presen- tation copies of books by Mrs. Browning, each with her autograph inscription ; and there is also her " Last Poems," a posthumous publication, with the auto- graph inscription of Robert Browning, presenting it to Miss Isa Blagden, the intimate friend of both poets. Of Keats, there is a shabby copy of his .first book, the "Poems," 1817; but condition, in this instance, is secondary, for the book is a presentation copy with the poet's autograph inscription on the title- page. Here also are "Endymion," 1818, and "Lamia," 1820; both uncommonly fine copies, and both in the original boards, uncut. Besides a set of the beautiful books printed at the Kelmscott Press, there is the trial page of the projected Kelmscott folio Shakespeare. Only this one page was ever set, and only this one copy of it exists. Shelley's "Adonais" is here in the rare first edition, 1821, uncut and with the original covers; also the second edition, 1829, a presentation copy from Arthur Hallam to Samuel Rogers. Two extremely rare books of Ten- nyson are "The Falcon," 1879, and "The Promise of May," 1882; both uncut, and both in the original paper covers. No copy of the latter has ever before been sold at auction. When John Brown "of Osawatomie" was in chains in a Virginia jail awaiting the day of his ex- ecution, he wrote a brave stirring letter, characteris- tic of the man. That letter is the first in the list. The first literary letter is one by Mrs. Browning, in xiii Note which she speaks with enthusiasm of Tennyson, whom, when the letter was written, she had not yet seen. There are three letters by Robert Brown- ing. The letter by Cowper is of exceptional inter- est; it treats almost entirely of "The Task," which at the time was yet unpublished. One of the Emer- son letters (there are seven in all) gives an important appreciation of Wordsworth. Of Hawthorne, there is one expressing an opinion of his own romances. Several by Holmes (there are twelve in all) are in relation to -his own books. Two by Washington Irving are about his own writings, and a third tells an amusing Sleepy Hollow story of contemporary goblins. Of Keats there is the larger part of a very long letter; also letters to Keats from his friends Haydon and Reynolds. The only one by Longfellow relates entertainingly the circumstances of "the first speech I ever made in my life." One of the three by Lowell has unusual interest, for it is written in rhyme. The three by Shelley, excepting the Cole- ridge letter already referred to, are unquestionably the most important of all the literary letters in the col- lection. In them, the poet refers to several of his writings by name. Of Stedman, there are two let- ters, and an autograph verse from "Pan in Wall Street." Whittier is represented by eight letters, three of which refer to his own books. At the end of the list are two long letters by Wordsworth, one of which, written in 1798, is of high literary in- terest. Besides the letters, there are the original transfer of copyright, signed by Addison, of a volume of- xiv Note The Spectator; the fragment of a Bryant manuscript ; the complete holograph manuscript of Irving's "The Knight of Malta," signed "Geoffrey Crayon"; and, most important of all, the complete holograph manuscript of Keats's poem, "To Charles Cowden Clark." Attention is called to the Supplement, which con- tains a list of books, etc., which were acquired too late for insertion in Mr. Arnold's Catalogue of American First Editions. xv Here are big books, little books, books new and books old, All awaiting the morrow their turn to be sold." ARNOLD COLLECTION Part I Books ANDREWS, WILLIAM LORING. A Short Historical Sketch of the Art of Bookbinding. With a Description of the Prominent Styles by William Matthews. 6 full page illustrations. Square i2mo, original paper covers, uncut. New York, 1895. First Edition. One of 50 Large Paper copies printed on vellum paper. ANDREWS, WILLIAM LORING. A Historical Sketch of the Art of Bookbinding. With a Description of the Prominent Styles by William Matthews. 6 full page illustrations. Square 24010, original paper covers. [New York,] Published for the benefit of the Art Loan Exhibition held April, 1895. ANDREWS, WILLIAM LORING. Fragments of American History. Illustrated Solely by the Works of Those of our own Engravers who Flourished in the XVIIIth Century. 18 illustra- tions, 4 of which are in colors. i2mo, original half brown calf, gilt top, other edges uncut. Privately printed for William Loring Andrews, New York, 1898. One of 30 copies on Imperial Japan paper. 4 ANDREWS, WILLIAM LORING. Sextodecimos et Infra. Il- lustrated. 1 2mo, original vellum paper covers, uncut. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1899. Number 66 of 140 copies on English hand-made plate-paper. I (l) Arnold Collection of Books and Letters 5 ANDREWS, WILLIAM LORING. A Trio of Eighteenth Cen- tury French Engravers of Portraits in Miniature. Il- lustrated. 8vo, original vellum paper covers, uncut. New York, William Loring Andrews, 1899. One of 161 copies on Imperial Japan paper. 6 ANDREWS, WILLIAM LORING. James Lyne's Survey, or, as it is more commonly known, The Bradford Map. An Ap- pendix to an Account of the same Compiled in 1893 by William Loring Andrews. Illustrated. 8vo, original cloth, uncut. New York, Dodd, Mead, & Company, 1900. One of 32 copies on Imperial Japan paper. 7 ANDREWS, WILLIAM LORING. James Lyne's Survey, etc. An Appendix to an Account of the same, etc. 8vo, original cloth, uncut. New York, Dodd, Mead, & Company, 1900. One of 170 copies on Holland paper. 8 ANDREWS, WILLIAM LORING. Gossip About Book Collect- ing. Illustrated. 2 volumes, 8vo, original illuminated paper covers, gilt top, other edges uncut. Published by Dodd, Mead, & Company, 1 900. One of 32 copies on Imperial Japan paper. 9 ANDREWS, WILLIAM LORING. Gossip About Book Collect- ing. Illustrated. 2 volumes, 8vo, original illuminated paper covers, gilt top, other edges uncut. Published by Dodd, Mead, & Company, 1900. One of 125 copies on Holland paper. Arnold Collection of Books and Letters 10 BACON, FRANCIS. The Essaies of Francis Bacon Knight, the King's Soliciter General. Small 8vo, old calf, marbled edges. Imprinted at London by John Beale, 1612. The first three editions of Bacon's Essays each contain but 10 essays; this, the fourth edition, contains 38 essays, of which 29 ap- pear here for the first time, which renders this essentially a first edi- tion. The present is a desirable copy, although several headlines are cut into. Rare. 11 Bibliotheca Anglo-Poetica : or, a Descriptive Catalogue of a Rare and Rich Collection of Early English Poetry. Illustrated fo -. by Occasional Extracts and Remarks, Critical and Biographical. Frontispiece, vignette portraits, etc. 8vo, old morocco, gilt top, other edges uncut. London, Printed by Thomas Davidson, 1815. 12 BLADES, WILLIAM. The Life and Typography of William Caxton, England's First Printer. With Evidence of his ^ Typographical Connection with Colard Mansion, the Printer at Bruges. Compiled from Original Sources by William Blades. Illustrated. 2 volumes, 4to, original half morocco, uncut. Published by Joseph Lily, London, 1861. First Edition. Fine copy. Inserted is the original prospectus of the book, a pamphlet of 6 leaves, and an autograph letter dated 1 8 Oct. 1882, signed William Blades, in reference to the different editions of this work. 13 BLADES, WILLIAM. The Pentateuch of Printing, with a Chapter on Judges. With a Memoir of the Author, and List of his Works, by Talbot B. Reed. Illustrated. 4to, original cloth, gilt top, other edges uncut. London, Elliot Stock, 1891. First Edition. H BOLLIOUD-MERMET, Louis. Crazy Book-Collecting or Bib- liomania. Showing the great folly of collecting rare and curi- ous books, first editions, unique and large paper copies, in costly bindings, etc. i2mo, original cloth, uncut. New York, Duprat & Co., 1894. (3) Arnold Collection of Books and Letters ffj Book-Lovers' Almanac for 1893. With iuustrations bv Hen " 3 * riot. 1 2mo, original paper covers, uncut. New York, Duprat & Co., 1893. Number 195 of 200 copies on Japan paper. 16 jy Book-Lovers' Almanac for 1894. With etchings by Robida, 7* and other illustrations. 12 mo, original paper covers, uncut. New York, Duprat & Co., 1894. This is one of 150 copies on Japan paper. . r^ Book-Lovers' Almanac for 1895. Illustrated. 12010, original * - First Edition of Mrs. Browning's first book. A large copy (8 5-16x5 1-16 inches) of this extremely rare volume, in very fine condition. The father of the young Poet had 50 copies printed, and of these, after most diligent searching for years, only 6 are now known to exist. This copy was presented by the young author to her uncle, S. M. Barrett, and has his book-plate. Facsimile of title-page on verso of this leaf. (5) THE BATTLE OF MARATHON. A POEM. . Behold What care employs me now, my vows I pay To the sweet Muses, teachers of my youth !" AKENSIDB. " Ancient of days ! August Athena ! Where, Where are thy men of might, thy grand in soul? Gone glimmering through the dream of things that were. First in the race that led to glory's goal, They wou, and past away." BYRON* BY E. B. BARRETT. ILon&on: PRINTED FOR W. LINDSELL, 87, WIMPOLE- STREET, CAVENDISH-SQUARE. 1820. Arnold Collection of Books and Letters BROWNING, ELIZABETH BARRETT. An Essay on Mind, with Other Poems. 1 2mo, original boards, paper label, uncut. London, James Duncan, 1826. First Edition. An uncommonly fine copy of this scarce book. 27 BROWNING, ELIZABETH BARRETT. An Essay on Mind, with Other Poems. 8vo. London, James Duncan, 1826. Pro- metheus Bound. i2mo. London, Printed and published by A. J. Valpy, M. A., 1833. The two books bound together in i . 4- one volume, half morocco, marbled edges. First Edition. Presentation copies, with autograph inscription on title-page of "An Essay on Mind": "From the author, 1842." and autograph signature on title-page of "Prometheus Bound": "E. B. Barrett." Inserted is an autograph letter of 3 very small pages which was sent to Mr. Westwood with this copy of "An Essay on Mind." The letter is here quoted in full : "Miss Barrett inferring Mr. Westwood from the handwriting begs his acceptance of the unworthy little book he does her the honor of desiring to see. It is more unworthy than he could have expected when he ex- pressed that desire having been written in very early youth when the mind was scarcely free in any measure from trammels & Popes, &, what is worse, when flippancy of language was too apt to accom- pany immaturity of opinion. The miscellaneous verses are, still more than the chief poem, ' childish things ' in a strict literal sense & the whole volume is of little interest even to its writer except for personal reasons except for the traces of dear affections, since rudely wounded, and of that love of poetry, which began with her sooner than so soon, & must last as long as life does without being subject to the changes of life. Little more therefore can remain for such a volume than to be humble & shrink from circulation. Yet Mr. Westwood's kind words win it to his hands. Will he receive at the same moment the expression of touched & gratified feelings with which Miss Barrett read what he wrote on the subject of her later volumes, still very imperfect altho' more mature & true to the truth within. ? Indeed she is thankful for what he said so kindly in his note to her. 50 Wimpole street Jany. 7 th 1842." Book-plate of Thomas Westwood. (7) Arnold Collection of Books and Letters BROWNING, ELIZABETH BARRETT. Poems. By Elizabeth Bar- rett Barrett. 2 volumes in i. Small 8vo, half morocco, mar- bled edges. London, Edward Moxon, 1844. First Edition. Presentation copy, with autograph inscription on fly-leaf: "To M r Westwood with the author's regards. August, 1844." Inserted is an autograph letter of 4 pages, which is here printed in full for the first time : "50 Wimpole Street August 22. 1844. Thursday. My dear M r Westwood, you will start back at this tall, white ghost of my usual note paper! but take courage I do not pre- meditate the overwhelming you with a third volume only my usual sheets are out of my reach, & I snatch this nearest one, to thank you for your welcome letter, so kind in its candour. /, angry that you sh d prefer my Seraphim? Angry? No, indeed, INDEED. I am grateful for the Seraphim and not exacting for the Drama & all this the more, because of a recent obstinate persua- sion that the Drama will have a majority of friends in the end, & perhaps deserve to have them. Nay, why sh d I throw perhapses over my own impressions, & be insincere to you who have honored me by being sincere ? Why sh d I dissemble my own belief that the Drama is worth two or three Seraphims, my own belief, you know, which is worth nothing writers knowing themselves so superficially, and having such a natural leaning to their last work. Still, I may say honestly to you, that I have a far more modest value for the Seraphim than your kindness suggests, & that I have seemed to myself to have a clear insight into the fact, that that poem was only borne up by the minor poems published with it, from immediate destruction. There is a want of unity in it, which vexes me to think of, & the other faults magnify them- selves day by day, more & more, in my eyes. Therefore it is not that I care more for the Drama, but that I care less for the Sera- phim. Both poems fell short of my aspiration & desire, but the Drama seems to me fuller, freer, & stronger, & worth the other three times over. If it has anything ' new,' I think it must be some- thing new into which I have lived, for certainly I wrote it sincerely & from an inner impulse. In fact, I never wrote any poem with so much sense of pleasure in the composition, or so rapidly, with con- tinuous flow from fifty to a hundred lines a day, & quite in a glow of pleasure & impulse all through. Still, you have not been used to see me in blank verse, & there may be something in that. That the poem is full of faults & inefficiencies I do not in the least doubt. I have vibrated between exaltations and despondencies, in the cor- (8) Arnold Collection of Books and Letters reeling & printing of it, though the composition went smoothly to an end and I am prepared to receive the bastinado to the critical degree, I do assure you. The few opinions I have yet had, are all to the effect that my advance on the former publication is very great & obvious but then I am aware that people who thought exactly the contrary w d be naturally backward in giving me their opinion. The sincerity, the honest pure-hearted sincerity, for which I so earn- estly thank you, has scarcely had time to act & express itself with readers in general, neither has the dispepsy. Indeed I thank you most earnestly. Truth & kindness, how rarely do they come to- gether! I am very grateful to you. It is curious that "Duchess May " is not a favorite of mine, & that I have sighed one or two se- cret wishes toward its extirpation, but other critics besides yourself have singled it out for praise, in private letters to me. There has been no printed review yet I believe & when I think of them, I try to think of something else for with no private friends among the critical body, (not that I c d desire to owe security in such a matter, to private friendship) it is awful enough, this looking forward to be reviewed. Never mind. The ultimate prosperity of a book lies far above the critics, & can neither be mended nor made, nor unmade, by them. The little poem called 'The Claim in an allegory' could not find page-room, & it did not find enough favour with me, to force page- room. That is the fact. Dear M r Westwood, with a repetition of warm & earnest thanks to you & yours to you & my other Enfield friends for your kindness, your sympathy, &, above all, your candour, I beg you to believe me most faithfully yours Elizabeth B Barrett." Book-plate of Thomas Westwood. 29 BROWNING, ELIZABETH BARRETT. Sonnets. By E. B. B. i2mo, dark blue crushed levant morocco extra, uncut, by the Club Bindery. Reading [Not for publication], 1847. First Edition. Of this privately printed little volume only a very few copies are known. None has heretofore been sold at auction either in England or in this country. The present copy was for- merly owned by Charles Kingsley, to whom it was presented by Miss Mitford, who had charge of the printing of the book for the author. The emblematic binding is a most beautiful example of the artistic work of the Club Bindery. * (9) Arnold Collection of Books and Letters 3 BROWNING, ELIZABETH BARRETT. The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim's Point. 8vo, original paper covers, uncut, unopened, A JT- and unstitched. London, Edward Moxon, 1849. First Edition. Only a few uncut copies are known of this rare pamphlet. The present copy is in sheets folded and laid in the wrapper, and is in the finest possible condition. It measures 8^x5^: inches. 3 1 BROWNING, ELIZABETH BARRETT. Casa Guidi Windows. Small 8vo, original cloth. London, Chapman & Hall, 1851. First Edition. Presentation copy, with autograph inscription on half-title : "To M re Procter with the author's kind regards." 32 A/ BROWNING, ELIZABETH BARRETT and ROBERT. Two Poems. ' "" 8vo, original paper covers, uncut. London, Chapman & Hall, 1854. First Edition. Scarce. 33 * . BROWNING, ELIZABETH BARRETT. Aurora Leigh. 8vo, ' ' original cloth, uncut. London, Chapman & Hall, 1857. First Edition. 34 >? / BROWNING, ELIZABETH BARRETT. Poems Before Congress. 8vo, original cloth, uncut. London, Chapman & Hall, 1860. First Edition. Presentation copy, with autograph inscription of Anna Barrett, sister of Mrs. Browning, on fly-leaf. 35 BROWNING, ELIZABETH BARRETT. Poems Before Congress. 8vo, original cloth, uncut. London, Chapman & Hall, 1860. First Edition. (10) ff- Arnold Collection of Books and Letters BROWNING, ELIZABETH BARRETT. Last Poems. Small 8vo, vellum. London, Chapman & Hall, 1862. First Edition. Presentation copy, with Robert Browning's auto- graph inscription : "Dearest Isa Blagden from R B. London, March 25. 1862." Miss Blagden was one of Mrs. Browning's most intimate friends, and was with her when she died. 37 BROWNING, ELIZABETH BARRETT. The Greek Christian x 2.JT Poets and the English Poets. Small 8vo, original cloth, c? uncut. London, Chapman & Hall, 1863. First Edition. 38 BROWNING, ELIZABETH BARRETT. The Letters of Eliza- beth Barrett Browning. Edited with biographical additions % 7* by Frederic G. Kenyon. With portraits. 2 volumes, small 8vo, original cloth, uncut. London, Smith, Elder, & Co., 1897. First Edition. 39 BROWNING, ELIZABETH BARRETT. A Study of Elizabeth Barrett Browning. By Lilian Whiting. Small 8vo, original cloth. Boston, Little, Brown, and Co., 1899. First Edition. 40 BROWNING, ROBERT, Senior. Original Manuscript of the Poem "Hamelin." 20 pages, 4to, half brown morocco, by Tout. fay "CP "This poem, founded upon the 'Pied Piper' legend, was written by the father of Robert Browning, who dabbled a good deal in verse. Mr. Browning, some two years before his death, told Mr. T. J. Wise (who showed him this MS. on behalf of its then owner) that his father wrote the poem while he, R. B., was in Germany. That upon his (R. B.'s) return to England Mr. Browning Senr. showed this very MS. to his son who afterwards composed his own work upon the same subject. This MS. was given by Mr. Browning Sr. to a lady, who sold it immediately after the poet's death. " Manuscript note on fly-leaf of this volume. Arnold Collection of Books and Letters 4 1 BROWNING, ROBERT. Pauline ; A Fragment of a Confes- sion. 8vo, original boards, paper label, uncut. London, Saunders and Otiey, 1833. First Edition. Extremely rare. There is a torn hole in the text of one of the leaves (signature An); otherwise this is a very fine copy. The present owner, after endeavoring for years to obtain an uncut copy in the original binding, secured this one at auction, at Sotheby's, last December. Only 1 1 copies are known to exist. Facsimile of title-page opposite. 42 BROWNING, ROBERT. Paracelsus. Small 8vo, original boards, paper label, uncut. London, Effingham Wilson, 1835. A very fine copy of the scarce First Edition. 43 BROWNING, ROBERT. Strafford: An Historical Tragedy. 8vo, original paper covers, paper label on front cover, uncut. London, Printed for Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longman, 1837. First Edition. An unusually fine copy of this scarce book. More than half the leaves are unopened. 44 BROWNING, ROBERT. Sordello. Small 8vo, cloth, paper label, uncut. London, Edward Moxon, 1840. First Edition. The copies of the book as originally issued were bound in boards with paper label. Later the publisher's unbound stock of the first edition was bound in green cloth, with the original paper label ; the present copy is one of these. 45 f V S~ BROWNING, ROBERT. Poems. 2 volumes, small 8vo, original cloth, uncut. London, Chapman & Hall, 1849. First Edition. 46 BROWNING, ROBERT. Christmas-Eve and Easter-Day. A Poem. Small 8vo, original cloth, uncut. London, Chapman & Hall, 1850. First Edition. PAULINE; FRAGMENT OF A CONFESSION. Plus ne suis ce que j'ai 6te, Et ne le sjaurois jamais etre. LONDON: SAUNDERS AND OTLEY, CONDUIT STREET. 1833. Arnold Collection of Books and Letters 47 BROWNING, ROBERT. Cleon. Small 8vo, crushed levant morocco, top edges gilt, other edges uncut, by Riviere and Sons. London, Edward Moxon, 1855. First Edition. Rare. Only a few copies were printed for the author's use. 48 BROWNING, ROBERT. The Statue and the Bust. Small 8vo, crushed levant morocco, top edges gilt, other edges uncut, by Riviere and Sons. London, Edward Moxon, 1855. First Edition. Rare. Only a few copies were printed for the author's use. 49 BROWNING, ROBERT. Men and Women. 2 volumes, small 8vo, original cloth, uncut. London, Chapman & Hall, 1855. First Edition. Mrs. Anna Jameson's copy, with her autograph signature on fly-leaf of volume 2, and a few comments in her hand- writing on several pages. 50 BROWNING, ROBERT. Gold Hair: A Legend of Pornic. Small 8vo, blue crushed levant morocco, gilt top, other edges uncut, by Zaehnsdorf. London, 1864. First Edition. Scarce. Only a few copies were printed for the author's use. Original plain blue-granite paper covers bound in. Inserted is an unpublished autograph letter of i% pages, with envelope addressed "Miss Browning, I. Maitland Park Crescent, Haverstock Hill, N. W." The letter is here given in full. "19 Warwick Crescent, Upper Westbourne Terrace, W. My dear Louise, Aug. I. '63. Where there is a will there is not always a way ; and here am I going without that visit to you which I fully meant to indulge in. I have of late been working hard all day up to the last min- ute I can hardly be so occupied another season. Will you forgive me ? and believe that, as soon as I return, one of my first attempts will be to see you ? I go to the old place in Bretagne where I stayed last year my father & sister accompanying me, of course, as well as the Boy, whom you will make acquaintance with, one day. All kindest regards to you all from yours affectionately ever Robert Browning." The "old place in Bretagne" was Pornic, and "Gold Hair" was written there during the visit of 1863. (14) Arnold Collection of Books and Letters 5* BROWNING, ROBERT. Dramatis Person*. Proof copy, with manuscript revisions made before the publication of the first edition. Small 8vo, half calf, sprinkled edges. [London, 1864.] On the fly-leaf of this unique volume is written : "This is the first copy of Dramatis Personae that ever came from the press, and was presented to me by its author, all the writ- ing and corrections in it (except this note) being in his own hand- writing. MD Con way." Inserted is an autograph note which apparently was written by Browning when he called at Conway's house to leave the volume. It is here quoted in full. "Dear Mr. Conway, Here are the proofs which I promised : they will be published on or after the 2 I st May. I rely on your entirely keeping them to yourself, as, with one exception, nobody has seen them. Yours very truly Robert Browning S 1 April 26, "64" On the fly-title of the poem "James Lee" is written in Brown- ing's autograph : "DRAMATIS PERSONVE by Robert Browning. To be Published May 2 ist." * The other writing and corrections by Browning are too numerous to mention here in detail. BROWNING, ROBERT. Dramatis Personae. 8vo, original cloth, uncut. London, Chapman & Hall, 1864. First Edition. Presentation copy, with autograph inscription on half-title: "Reuben Browning from his very affectionately R Browning. June 1 6. '64." Reuben Browning was the uncle of the Poet. 53 BROWNING, ROBERT. Selections from the Works of Robert Browning. 8 parts, small 410, original paper covers, uncut. London, Edward Moxon & Co., 1865. First Edition. Scarce in this form. There is a steel portrait of Browning, by Baker, in part 8. ('5) Arnold Collection of Books and Letters 54 BROWNING, ROBERT. The Ring and the Book. Proof copy, with manuscript revisions made before the pubb'cation of the first edition. 4 volumes bound in 2 ; each lettered on back, " Brown- ing Revises." London, 1868. The book containing volumes i and 2 is a small 8vo, cloth, uncut, while the book containing volumes 3 and 4 is a folio, cloth, sprinkled edges, with the text printed on one side only of each leaf actually the proofs taken before the type was arranged into pages of the size adopted for the volumes as published ; that is, they are galley proofs. These two highly interesting volumes contain hundreds of auto- graph corrections, both textual and typographical, made by Brown- ing himself. Inserted is an autograph letter of 4 pages, which is here printed for the first time. "19, Warwick Crescent, Upper Westbourne Terrace, W. My dear Mr Conway, Oct. 30. '68. I am, now even, hardly in a position to say exactly what I can do about the sheets ; still the presumption is that I may be able to let you have them in the course of next week. It is arranged that two volumes shall appear in the U. S. on Dec. i ; & the third & fourth, also together, on March i. Hence the publication of vol. 2. will anticipate the appearance of the English edition by a month. I have, therefore, to furnish you with the whole of the half, if it would be of service, and I do so on the stipulation, now obligatory, since the property in the poem is no longer mine, on either side of the Atlantic, that, here, you make no use of the second volume before its appearance (nor, of course, of the first) and, in America, that you engage to give nothing that may precede the regular publication of reviews, and that you will be expressly answerable for your di- rections on this head being obeyed by the editor of the newspaper which you furnish with criticism, on this stipulation, if you will please to repeat it, I will send the sheets. You know very cer- tainly that, so far as yourself are concerned, I need no such assur- ance : but I should be seriously in fault if I omitted these precau- tions, and, by a misunderstanding anywhere, really broke my en- gagements, to which it would amount. Here I am in no anxiety, but it will be for you to take care, by abstaining from any pre- mature transmission of your M.S., that nobody can possibly pre- tend to mistake your intentions, and so subject me to treatment I should least like. Will you kindly inform me on all these points? I was sorry to miss your visit the other afternoon. Ever most truly yours Robert Browning. I have said only the business saying only what I am bound to be precise about: why should I add, what you must understand so well, that, for the rest, I value properly the attention you will give, and the sympathy, to my work? My own interest that you should put them into play, as you have so often done, is so obvious that I dwell the more determinedly on the other side of the question. Pray re- member me to Mrs. Conway." (16) Arnold Collection of Books and Letters 55 BROWNING, ROBERT. The Ring and the Book. 4 volumes, small 8vo, original cloth, uncut. London, Smith, Elder, & Co., 1868-1869. First Edition. 56 BROWNING, ROBERT. Helen's Tower. Square folio, 2 leaves, page measure 7^x9^ inches. The poem, in large type, is on /,,, (* the first page of the first leaf; the other leaves are blank. Privately printed; dated April 26, 1870. First Edition. Very rare. This sonnet is a tribute to the mem- ory of Helen, mother of Lord Dufferin; it was suggested by the memorial tower erected by her son on his estate at Clandeboye. Tennyson's poem of the same title is a like memorial. 57 BROWNING, ROBERT. Balaustion's Adventure. Including A Transcript from Euripides. Small 8vo, original cloth, uncut. London, Smith, Elder, & Co., 1871. First Edition. 58 BROWNING, ROBERT. Prince Hohenstiel-Schwangau. Sav- iour of Society. Small 8vo, original cloth, uncut. London, Smith, Elder, & Co., 1871. First Edition. Presentation copy, with autograph inscription on title-page : "Ernst Benzon from his affectionate friend Dec: 1 8. '71. Robert Browning. " 59 BROWNING, ROBERT. Prince Hohenstiel-Schwangau. Sav- iour of Society. Small 8vo, original cloth, uncut. London, Smith, Elder, & Co., 1871. First Edition. 60 BROWNING, ROBERT. Fifine at the Fair. Small 8vo, original ^^ cloth, uncut London, Smith, Elder, & Co., 1872. First Edition. 3 I 1 ?) Arnold Collection of Books and Letters 61 BROWNING, ROBERT. Red Cotton Night-Cap Country, or Turf and Towers. Small 8vo, original cloth, uncut. London, Smith, Elder, & Co., 1873. First Edition. Presentation copy, with autograph inscription on title-page : "Miss Heaton with the affectionate regards of R B." 62 * S BROWNING, ROBERT. The Inn Album. Small 8vo, original cloth, uncut. London, Smith, Elder, & Co., 1875. First Edition. 63 .. BROWNING, ROBERT. Aristophanes' Apology, including A ^ ' Transcript from Euripides, being the Last Adventure of Balaus- tion. Small 8vo, original cloth, uncut, London, Smith, Elder, & Co., 1875. First Edition. 64 BROWNING, ROBERT. Pacchiarotto, and How He Worked in /f^jy Distemper: With Other Poems. Small 8vo, original cloth, uncut. London, Smith, Elder, & Co., 1876. First Edition. Inserted is a quotation, in Browning's handwriting, from "Of Pacchiarotto, and How He Worked in Distemper," as follows : "Query: Was ever a quainter Crochet than that of the painter Giacomo Pacchiarotto Who took ' Reform ' for his motto ? [Signed] Robert Browning. London, Dec. 31. '76." This identical autograph was sold at the Foote sale in 1895 with a rebound copy of the book. 65 BROWNING, ROBERT. The Agamemnon of ^Eschylus. Small ^ 8vo, original cloth, uncut. London, Smith, Elder, & Co., 1877. First Edition. (18) Arnold Collection of Books and Letters 66 BROWNING, ROBERT. La Saisiaz : The Two Poets of Croisic. /i6mo, original cloth, uncut. London, Smith, Elder, & Co., 1878. First Edition. 67 BROWNING, ROBERT. Dramatic Idyls. Small 8vo, original /^^r cloth, uncut. London, Smith, Elder, & Co., 1879. First Edition. 68 BROWNING, ROBERT. Dramatic Idyls. Second Series. Small fr Jp 8vo, original cloth, uncut. London, Smith, Elder, & Co., 1880. First Edition. 69 BROWNING, ROBERT. Jocoseria. Small 8vo, original cloth, uncut. London, Smith, Elder, & Co., 1883. 70 BROWNING, ROBERT. Parleyings with Certain People of / 7 Importance in Their Day, etc. Small 8vo, original cloth, uncut. London, Smith, Elder, & Co., 1887. 7* BROWNING, ROBERT. Asolando : Fancies and Facts. Small / w 8vo, original cloth, uncut. London, Smith, Elder, & Co., 1890. First Edition. 7* BROWNING, ROBERT. Of "Fifine at the Fair," "Christmas xL Eve and Easter Day," and Other of Mr. Browning's Poems. By Jeanie M orison. Small 8vo, original cloth. William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh, 1892. First Edition. 73 BROWNING, ROBERT. Personalia. By Edmund Gosse. Fron- tispiece portrait of Browning. Small 8vo, original vellum-paper boards, gilt top, other edges uncut. London, T. Fisher Unwin, 1891. First Edition. (19) Arnold Collection of Books and Letters 74 BROWNING, ROBERT AND ELIZABETH BARRETT. The Letters of Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, 1845-1846. With portraits and facsimiles. 2 volumes, small 8vo, original cloth, uncut. London, Smith, Elder, & Co., 1899. First Edition. 75 BURTON, ROBERT. The Anatomy of Melancholy. En- graved title by C. le Blon, with portrait of the Author. Tall 4to, old sheep, red edges. Oxford, Printed for Henry Cripps, 1628. A good copy of the Third Edition. Book-plate of Samuel Cowper Brown. 76 CAREW, THOMAS. Poems. By Thomas Carew, Esquire. Small 8vo, crushed red levant morocco, edges gilt on the rough, by Bed- ford. London, Printed by I. D. for Thomas Walkley, 1640. Fine copy of the rare First Edition. A few page numbers slightly cut into. 77 * CAREW, THOMAS. Poems. By Thomas Carew, Esquire. Small / y ' 8vo, original calf, sprinkled edges. London, Printed by I. D. for Thomas Walkley, 1642. Second Edition, revised and enlarged. Very fine copy of this scarce book. From the Earl of Westmoreland's library and with his autograph book-plate, dated 1856. CARTWRIGHT, WILLIAM. Comedies : Tragi-Comedies, With Other Poems. Fine impression of the frontispiece portrait by Lombart. 8vo, brown crushed levant morocco, edges gilt on the rough, by Reviere. London, Printed for Humphrey Moseley, 1651. First Edition. Large copy, containing the duplicate leaves of signatures Ul, Ull, Ulll, and the cancelled leaf of commendatory verses by Henry Davidson and R. Watkins. Thomas Warton's au- tograph signature is mounted on the inside of the front cover, and his manuscript notes appear throughout the volume. Inserted is an autograph letter by Thomas Park referring to this book. Book-plate of James Bindley, and his autograph inscription on fly-leaf, signed "J. B. 1800," explaining why he preferred this to many better copies. (20) Arnold Collection of Books and Letters 79 CASTLE, EGERTON. English Book-Plates, Ancient and Modern. Illustrated. 4to, original cloth, gilt top. London, George Bell & Sons, 1893. First Edition. 80 CAWDRAY, ROBERT. A Treasurie or Store-House of Similies: Both Pleasaunt, delightfull, and profitable for all Estates of Men in generall. 4to, boards, leather back, yellow edges. London, Printed by Tho. Creed, 1600. First Edition. Good copy. 8l CHATTERTON, THOMAS. Poems, Supposed to have been written at Bristol by Thomas Rowley, and Others, in the fifteenth cen- tury. 8vo, old half calf. London, Printed for T. Payne and Son, 1777. Second Edition, with an appendix which does not appear in the earlier issue. 82 CHAUCER, GEOFFREY. The woorkes of Geffrey Chaucer, newly printed, with diuers addicions, whiche were neuer in printe before: With the siege and destruccion of the worthy citee of Thebes, compiled by Jhon Lidgate, Monke of Burie. As in the table more plainly dooeth appere. Folio, Black- Letter. Imprinted at London, by lohn Kyngston, for lohn Wight, dwellyng in Poules Churchyarde, Anno 1561. Very fine, large, and perfect copy of this scarce edition. Some leaves water-stained. A large woodcut of Chaucer's arms occupies about two-thirds of the title-page, with the date 1560 under the helmet, and these 'lines of verse in a compartment below : "Vertue florisheth in Chaucer still, Though death of hym, hath wrought his will." 83 COLERIDGE, S. T. Christobel: Kubla Khan, A Vision; The Pains of Sleep. By S. T. Coleridge, Esq. 8vo, buff calf, top edges gilt, other edges uncut. London, Printed for John Murray, 1816. First Edition. Fine copy. Arnold Collection of Books and Letters CORBET, RICHARD. Certain Elegant Poems, Written by Dr. Corbet. Small 8vo, sprinkled calf, gilt edges, by Riviere. London, printed by R. Cotes for Andrew Crooke, 1647. First Edition. Fine copy. Rare. With the extra pages 55 to 85, printed later than 1647 and added to some copies of the first issue. 85 CORBET, RICHARD. Poetica Stromata, or a Collection of Sundry Pieces in Poetry : Drawne by the known and approued hand of R. C. Small 8vo, original vellum. n. p., Anno 1648. This is the Second Edition of "Certain Elegant Poems." A re- markably fine and very large copy of this rare volume. 86 COTTON, CHARLES. Poems on Several Occasions. Written by Charles Cotton, Esq. 8vo, old calf, extra. London, Printed for Tho. Basset, Will. Hinsman and Tho. Fox, 1689. First Edition. Fine copy. 87 COYERDALE, MILES. Certain most godly, fruitful, and <3 O * comfortable letters of such true Saintes and holy Martyrs of God, as in the late bloodye persecution here within this Realme, gaue their lyues for the Defence of Christes holy gospel : written in the tyme of theyr affliction and cruell imprysonment. Square 8vo, Black- Letter, old calf, blind tooled, gilt edges. Imprinted at London by John Day, 1564. First Edition. Scarce. Two book-plates of William Hopkinson and one of E. H. Firth. 88 COWLEY, ABRAHAM. The Mistresse, or Seuerall Copies of Love- Verses. Written by Mr. A. Cowley. Small 8vo, orig- inal sheep, sprinkled edges. London, Printed for Humphrey Moseley, 1647. First Edition. Fine copy, except that a piece has been torn from signature H2 and rudely repaired. Following the text is "A Table of the Heads in this Poem" on 6 pages, and Humphrey Moseley's list of his publications covering 16 pages. Among the books thus advertised are the poems of Suckling, Donne, Waller, Fan- shaw, Carew, Milton, Shirley, Crashaw, Quarles, Shakespeare, Stanley, and Cartwright. (22) Arnold Collection of Books and Letters COWPER, WILLIAM. Poems by William Cowper; The Task, a Poem in Six Books. By William Cowper. 2 volumes, 8vo, sprinkled calf, gilt edges. London, Printed for T. Johnson, 1782 and 1785. First Edition of each volume. 90 COWPER, WILLIAM, and JOHN NEWTON. Olney Hymns, in Three Books. i2mo, old half-calf. London, Printed and Sold by W. Oliver, 1779. First Edition. 91 CRASHAW, RICHARD. Steps to the Temple. Sacred Poems, With other Delights of the Muses. By Richard Crashaw. Small 1 2mo, original sheep. London, Printed by T. W. for Humphrey Moseley, 1646. First Edition, and a very tall copy, with the edges of some leaves uncut, but water stained, binding loose, and the margins of a few leaves cut close. The armorial book-plate of the Right Hon ble John Lord Hervey, dated March the 23 d , 1702, is on the back of the title-leaf. Two names written on title-page. An exceedingly rare book in any condition. 92 CRISOSTOME, S. Homilia. 21 Homilies of St. Chrysostom. 8vo, original calf, cracked. n. p., 1479. Printed with Gothic type. A beautiful example of fifteenth cen- tury typography. The book has very wide margins, and is in fine condition throughout. Inserted is a description of the volume with notes in regard to the Author. Autograph of Charles Jordan on fly-leaf, with the statement "Cost me 93 D'AYENANT, WILLIAM. Gondibert: A Heroic Poem. Writ- ten by S r William D'Avenant. 4to, original calf, rebacked. London, Printed by Tho. Newcomb for John Holden, 1651. First Edition. Fine large copy. Arnold Collection of Books and Letters 94 DE VINNE, THEODORE L. Brilliants. A Setting of Humorous Poetry in Brilliant Types. 481110, original morocco extra, gilt edges. New York, The De Vinne Press, 1888. This tiny volume was privately printed by Mr. De Vinne for pre- sentation purposes. It is a marvel of printing from small types. Scarce. 95 DIBDIN, T. F. The Library Companion; or the Young Man's Guide, and the Old Man's Comfort, in the Choice of a Library. 8vo, original boards, paper label, uncut. London, Printed for Harding, Triphook, and Lepard and J. Major, 1825. Second Edition. 96 DOBSON, AUSTIN. A Postscript to Dr. Goldsmith's Retalia- tion, Being an Epitaph on Samuel Johnson, LL. D. 4to, un- stitched as issued, uncut. [London,] Printed in June, 1896. Only a few copies were made of this privately printed pamphlet. Austin Dobson's autograph signature is on the front cover. 97 DOBSON, AUSTIN. Verses Read at the Dinner of the Omar Khayyam Club, on Thursday, 25th March, 1897. 8vo, orig- inal paper covers, uncut. London, Printed at the Chiswick Press, 1897. The edition of this Poem consisting of 100 copies was printed for Edmund Gosse to be presented to the members of the Omar Khay- yam Club as a memento of his Presidency. 98 DOBSON, AUSTIN. A Paladin of Philanthrophy, and Other Papers. 1 2mo, original cloth, gilt top, other edges uncut. London, Chatto & Windus, 1899. First Edition. 99 DONNE, JOHN. Legatus Opus Caroli Paschalii. Small 8vo, old calf. Rothomagi, 1598. John Donne's copy, with his autograph on the title-page. Arnold Collection of Books and Letters 100 DONNE, JOHN. Poems, by J. D. With Elegies On The Authors Death. 4to, dark blue crushed levant morocco extra, gilt edges, by Riviere. London, Printed by M. F. for John Marriot, 1633. First Edition. This very fine and large copy has the two leaves with "The Printer to the Understanders" and "Hexastichon Bib- liopolae," often missing. 101 DONNE, JOHN. Poems, By J. D. With Elegies On The Author's Death. Brilliant impression of the frontispiece portrait by Mar- shall, with the stanza by Izaak Walton. Small 8vo, blue morocco extra, gilt edges, by Bedford. London, printed by M. F. for John Marriot, 1635. Second Edition. A fine large copy of this scarce book. 102 DONNE, JOHN. Letters to Severall Persons of Honour. Brilliant impression of the frontispiece portrait by Lombart. 410, original sheep, rebacked. London, Printed by J. Flesher, for Richard Marriot, 1651. First Edition. Very fine large copy. 103 DRAYTON, MICHAEL. Poems: By Michaell Draiton Esquire. Small 8vo, green crushed levant morocco, edges gilt on the rough, by Bedford. London, Printed for N. Ling, 1605. First Collected Edition. Fine copy. 104 DRAYTON, MICHAEL. Poems by Michael Drayton Esquyer. Collected into one Volume. With sondry peeces inserted never before Imprinted. Engraved title, and engraved portrait of the author on verso of printed title. Tall 410, buff polished calf extra, gilt edges, by Riviere. London, Printed by W. Stansby for John Smethwicke [1619]. Very fine and very large copy of the most complete and best of the collected editions of Drayton. Besides the engraved and printed titles mentioned above, there are six separate printed title-pages to the various parts, all dated 1619. Small portion of blank margin of engraved title-page skillfully mended. Book-plate of E. H. Bierstadt. Arnold Collection of Books and Letters 105 DRYDEN, JOHN. Annus Mirabilis ; The Year of Wonders, 1666. An Historical Poem. Small 8vo, original sheep. London, Printed for Henry Herringman, 1667. First Edition. Very scarce. 106 DRYDEN, JOHN. The Wild Gallant: A Comedy. As it was Acted at the Theater- Royal, by His Majesties Servants. Written by John Dryden, Esq. 4to, boards, leather label. In the Savoy. Printed by Tho. Newcomb, for H. Herringman, 1669. First Edition of the first drama written by Dryden. 107 DRYDEN, JOHN. The Rival Ladies. A Tragi-Comedy. As it was Acted at the Theatre-Royal. Written by John Driden, Esquire. 4to, boards, leather label. London, Printed for H. Herringman, 1669. First Edition. 108 DRYDEN, JOHN. Religio Laici, or a Laymans Faith. A Poem. Written by Mr. Dryden. 410, half green calf. London, Printed for Jacob Tonson, 1682. First Edition. Book-plate of E. H. Bierstadt. 109 DRYDEN, JOHN. The Medall. A Satyre against Sedition. By the Authour of Absalom and Achitopbel. 4to, half red levant morocco, gilt top. London, Printed for Jacob Tonson, 1682. First Edition. Fine copy. Book-plate of E. H. Bierstadt. no DRYDEN, JOHN. The Hind and the Panther. A Poem, In Three Parts. 4to, olive crushed levant morocco, gilt edges. London, Printed for Jacob Tonson, 1687. A fine large copy of this very rare book, with the leaf of license, usually wanting, dated "April the nth 1687." Margin of title-page skillfully mended. (26) Arnold Collection of Books and Letters in DRYDEN, JOHN. Britannia Rediviva : A Poem on the Birth of the Prince. 410, half crushed red levant morocco, gilt top, by Bradstreet's. London, Printed for J. Tonson, 1688. First Edition. Book-plate of E. H. Bierstadt. 112 Du BARTAS, G. S. Du Bartas, His Deuine Weekes and Workes Translated : And Dedicated to the Kings most ex- cellent Maiestie, by Joshuah Sylvester. Engraved title, by Hole. 4to, original calf, rebacked. Printed at London for Humfrey Lownes, 1611. Fourth Edition. Prince Henry's copy, with his arms and initials stamped in gold on both the front and back covers. Sylvester was Prince Henry's tutor. This book was so popular that no less than 30 editions were printed in 6 years. No perfect copy of the first edi- tion is known. 113 ELIOT, GEORGE. George Eliot's Life as Related in her Letters and Journals. Arranged and Edited by Her Husband, J. W. Cross. Illustrated. 3 volumes, 1 2mo, original cloth, uncut. Edinburgh, William Blackwood & Sons, 1885. First Edition. Presentation copy, with autograph inscription "To William Wood with affectionate remembrance from J. W. Cross London 21 Jany. 1885." ELYOT, THOMAS. The Boke Named the Govuernour de- uised by syr Thomas Elyot knight. Small 8vo, original calf. Londini, Thomae Bertheleti, 1544. Very large and fine copy. Printed in black-letter. The date on the colophon differs from that on the title, being M.D.XLVI. EYE, G. W. Decorative Heraldry. A Practical Handbook of Its Artistic Treatment. Illustrated. 410, original cloth, gilt top. London, George Bell & Sons, 1897. First Edition. far) Arnold Collection of Books and Letters 116 EUCLID. The Elements of Geometrie of the most auncient Philosopher Euclide of Megara. Faithfully (now first) translated X y ' into the Englishe toung, by H. Billingsley. With a very fruitfull Preface by M. I. Dee. Engraved title. Illustrated with dia- grams. Folio, original blind-stamped calf. At London, Printed by John Daye, 1570. First Edition of the first English translation of Euclid. Very fine copy. Scarce. Portions of some of the diagrams are printed separately and are attached so that they may be lifted for demonstrations of the figures. On the last page is Daye's portrait and colophon. 117 FIELD, EUGENE. With Trumpet and Drum. 8vo, original A ' boards, Japan paper back, gilt top, other edges uncut. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1892. First Edition. Number 71 of 250 copies printed on Large Paper. 118 FIELD, EUGENE. Second Book of Verse. 8vo, original half cloth, leather label, gilt top, other edges uncut. Chicago, Melville E. Stone, 1892. First Edition. Large Paper copy. 119 FIELD, EUGENE. Love Songs of Childhood. 8vo, original vellum, gilt top, other edges uncut. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1894. First Edition. Number 37 of 106 copies on Large Paper, printed from type on Van Gelder paper. 120 (/ FIELDING, HENRY. The History of Tom Jones, A Found- ling. 6 volumes, 1 2mo, original calf. London, Printed for A. Millar, 1749. First Edition. Fine copy. 121 [FIELDING, HENRY.] The History of Tom Jones the Found- ling, in his Married State. i2mo, original calf. London, Printed for J. Robinson, 1750. First Edition. This book was not written by Fielding, but is usually catalogued under his name as above. (28) Arnold Collection of Books and Letters 122 FIELDING, HENRY. Amelia. 4 volumes, 12010, original calf. London, Printed for A. Millar, 1752. First Edition. Fine copy. 125 FIELDING, HENRY. The Journal of A Voyage to Lisbon. f SD By the late Henry Fielding, Esq; i2mo, original calf. London, Printed for A. Millar, 1755. First Edition. With old armorial book-plate. Fine copy. 12 4 FIELDING, HENRY. The Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon. f. By Henry Fielding. With Introduction and Notes by Austin Dobson. 8vo, original boards, vellum back, uncut. London, Printed and issued by Charles Whittingham & Co., 1892. This is number 17 of 25 copies printed on Japanese vellum. 12 5 FLECKNOE, RICHARD. Rich. Flecknoe's ^Enigmatical Char- acters. Being Rather a new Work, then new Impression of the old. Small 8vo, old calf, sprinkled edges. London, Printed by R. Wood, for the Author, in the year 1665. Second Edition. Lowndes states that according to Malone the Characters vary in each edition. This copy contains 78 Characters. Characters 75, 76, and 78 are defaced by pen marks. Book-plate of E. H. Bierstadt. 126 FLETCHER, PHINEAS. The Purple Island, or The Isle of r- Man : Together with Piscatorie Eclogs and other Poeticall Mis- cellanies. By P. F. 4to, sprinkled calf extra, gilt edges, by Bedford. Printed by the Printers to the Universitie of Cambridge, 1633. First Edition. A fine copy of this scarce book. It has the two blank leaves before the title to the second part and the leaf at the end of the volume containing the verses " To my deare friend, the Spencer of this age," by Francis Quarles. These three leaves are frequently wanting. There is no blank leaf before the first title. Arnold Collection of Books and Letters 12 7 FLETCHER, PHINEAS. Locustae, Vel Pietas lesvitica. Per Phineam Fletcher. Apud Thomam & loannen Bvcke, 1627. The Locusts, or Apollyonists. By Phineas Fletcher. Printed by Thomas Bvcke and lohn Bvke, 1627. Both in one volume, 4to, brown morocco extra, gilt edges, by Pratt. First Edition of each part. A fine copy of this very rare volume, with the preliminary leaf, blank but for a small woodcut, commonly wanting. 128 FORD, PAUL LEICESTER. The New-England Primer. A History of Its Origin and Development with a reprint of the Unique Copy of the Earliest Known Edition and many fac-simile Illustrations and Reproductions. Illustrated. Square 8vo, boards, morocco back, uncut. New York, Dodd, Mead, and Company, 1897. No. 250 of 425 copies printed on American hand-made paper. 129 FRANKLIN, BENJAMIN. Facsimile of Poor Richard's Al- 2 manack for 1733. With an Introduction by John Bigelow and Notes on the Portraits. 1 2mo, original boards, uncut. The Duodecimos, Printed at the De Vinne Press, 1894. This is number 78 of 132 copies on hand-made paper. There are 14 portraits of Franklin in the volume. 130 FRANKLIN Imprint. The Pennsylvania Gazette. Num- ber 425. From January 27 to February 3, 1736-7. Folio, uncut. Philadelphia, Printed by B. Franklin, 1736,7. Very scarce. 131 FROISSART, JOHN. Here begynnith the firste volum of Sir John Froissart: of the Cronycles of Englande, Fraunce, Spayne, Portyngale, Scotlande, Bretaine, Flaunders: and other places adioynynge. Translated oute of Frenche into oure materall Englysshe tongue, by John Bouchier knyghte, lorde Berners: Full-page woodcut of a coat-of-arms on back of title-leaf. Folio, Black-Letter, red levant morocco, gilt edges. Imprinted at London by Wyllyam Myddylton [1525]. Remarkably large copy of the first book of Froissart's Chronicles. Lower corner of margin of title-leaf repaired. More or less worm- holes in all the leaves. Scarce. (30) Arnold Collection of Books and Letters 132 GOLDSMITH, OLIVER. The Memoirs of a Protestant, Con- demned to the Galleys of France, For His Religion. Written by Himself. 2 volumes, 1 2mo, original calf. London, printed for R. Griffiths and E. Dilly, 1758. First Edition. Scarce. This is Goldsmith's first publication. 133 GOLDSMITH, OLIVER. An Enquiry Into the Present State , of Polite Learning in Europe. 8vo, original calf, red edges. London, Printed for R. and J. Dodsley, 1759. First Edition. This work was much altered in the second edition, published in 1774, and one entire chapter omitted. 134 GOLDSMITH, OLIVER. The Citizen of the World; or Letters from a Chinese Philosopher, Residing in London, To His Friends in the East. 2 volumes, 1 2mo, sprinkled calf, gilt edges, by Riviere. London, Printed for the Author, 1762. First Edition. Scarce. Fine copy. Armorial book-plate in each volume. 135 GOLDSMITH, OLIVER. The Life of Richard Nash, Of j{~ Bath, Esq; Extracted principally from His Original Papers. Engraved frontispiece portrait by Walker. 8vo, original calf, re- backed. London, Printed for J. Newbery and W. Frederick, 1762. First Edition. 136 GOLDSMITH, OLIVER. The Life of Richard Nash, Esq; Late Master of the Ceremonies at Bath. Engraved frontispiece portrait by Walker. 8vo, original boards, uncut. London, Printed for J. Newberry, W. Frederick, and G. Faulkener, 1762. Second Edition. Large Paper copy. Very rare in this state. Edmund Gosse, in his "Gossip in a Library," London, 1891, says of this book : " There are cases, not known to every collector of books, where it is not the first which is the really desirable edition of a work, but the second. One of these rare examples of the exception which proves the rule is the second edition of Goldsmith's Life of Beau Nash. Disappointment awaits him who possesses only the first; it is in the second that the best things originally appeared. . . . The wise bibliophile, therefore, will eschew it [the first edition], and will try to get the second edition issued a few weeks later in the same year." (30 Arnold Collection of Books and Letters 137 GOLDSMITH, OLIVER. Essays. By Mr. Goldsmith. i2mo, original calf. London, Printed for W. Griffin, 1765. This recently discovered edition is probably an earlier issue than the one next described. The title is printed from type ; the print is small, and the preface occupies 2 pages, the Essays 187 pages. Book-plate of Rev. James Trail. 138 GOLDSMITH, OLIVER. Essays. By Mr. Goldsmith. i2mo, original calf. London, Printed for W. Griffin, 1765. This is generally called the first edition. The title-page is en- graved, and has a vignette by Taylor. The preface occupies 7 pages; the Essays 236 pages, followed by a two-page list of books published by W. Griffin. The type is much larger than that of the preceding copy. 139 GOLDSMITH, OLIVER. The Beauties of English Poesy. Selected by Oliver Goldsmith. 2 volumes, i2mo, original calf. London, Printed for William Griffin, 1767. First Edition. Pages 265 to 269 of volume i are incorrectly numbered 165 to 169 as in all copies of the first edition. 140 GOLDSMITH, OLIVER. The Deserted Village, A Poem. By Dr Goldsmith. Small 8vo, brown morocco, edges gilt on the rough. London, Printed for W. Griffin, 1770. There were six 410 editions of The Deserted Village published by Griffin in 1770, the first being published on May 26 of that year. With the exception of the first they all bear on the title or half-title a statement as to the edition. It was not until the Crampon sale in 1896 that there seems to have been any record made of any edition in another form by the same printer, issued that same year. In the catalogue of that sale a copy was offered containing the following note : "This is the genuine first privately printed edition before the 410 of May, 1770. It is the only copy known." It brought ,25, an inadequate price, it would seem, in the face of the fact that the first 4to edition turns up frequently, and has brought as high as ^45. Since the Crampon sale a few other copies have been discovered. This is the first copy to be offered at public sale in America, though the first 4to edition has several times appeared, Mr. Frederick- son's copy having brought $140.00 at the sale of his library in 1897. Notwithstanding the great rarity of the book in this small 8vo (3*) THE DESERTED VILLAGE, POEM B* DR GOLDSMITH. LONDON: Prmtetl &r W GRIFFIN, atGamck's HeaJ^ fo Caslwrinc-ftrecr, Strand* M DCC Arnold Collection of Books and Letters (or rather I2mo) form, it has been recently discovered that there were three distinct editions of the little book issued in 1770, the wording of the title-page being identical in all. What may be called the first of these three is most easily identified by the misprint in line 37 of the poem, which there reads "Amidst thy bowers the tyrant's head is seen." In all later editions of the poem, this line is corrected to read "Amidst thy bowers the tyrant's hand is seen." Of this earliest variety only two copies have been discovered, one, the Crampon copy, in a private collection in England, the other now in America. The variety here offered is textually exactly the same as the first quarto, though it differs from it in many places in punctuation or spelling. It seems to be the second 8vo edition, and is the only copy known of that edition. Of the third 8vo edition, three copies at least are in America. Except for the one word noted above, and three or four palpable misprints, these three editions all agree textually with the first 4to edition. Several words were changed in the second 410 edition, which is plainly called "Second Edition": In line 67 "luxury" was changed to "oppulence"; in line 101 "blest is he" was changed to "happy he"; in line in "sinks" is altered to "bends"; in line 184 "ready" becomes "steady"; and in line 315 "each joy" is changed to "those joys." As the three 8vo editions have the text of the first 410 and contain no one of these changes, they must have been issued before the second 410; and as the three 8vos in their punctuation and spelling form one class, while the early 4tos form another class, it seems probable that all three 8vo editions antedate all of the 4tos. Facsimile of title-page on preceding page. _rt GOLDSMITH, OLIVER. The Poetical and Dramatic Works of Oliver Goldsmith, M. B. Now first Collected. With an Account of the life and writings of the Author. Frontis- piece portrait. 2 volumes, 8vo, original calf. London, Printed by H. Goldney, 1780. First Collected Edition. 142 GOMERSALL, ROBERT. Poems, The Tragedy of Sforza, and The Levites Revenge. With the two engraved frontis- pieces by Cecil. 8vo, light brown straight-grained morocco, edge gilt on the rough. London, Printed by M. F. for John Harriot, 1633. First Edition of the Poems; Second Edition of Sforza and The Levites Revenge. There are separate title-pages to the 3 parts. Some headlines cut into. Scarce. (34) J Arnold Collection of Books and Letters GOSSE, EDMUND. Gossip in a Library. 12 mo, original cloth, L~ gift to P> other edges uncut. London, William Heinemann, 1891. First Edition. 144 GOSSE, EDMUND. Questions at Issue. i2mo, original cloth, ^j gilt top, other edges uncut. London, William Heinemann, 1893. First Edition. 145 GOSSE, EDMUND. A Catalogue of a Portion of the Library of Edmund Gosse. By R. J. Lister. Illustrated with facsimiles of MS. title-pages, old prints, etc. 4to, original cloth, silk ties, uncut. Privately Printed for the Subscribers at the Ballantyne Press, London, 1893. On the fly-leaf is this statement: "The impression of this book is limited to sixty-five copies. No. 52." followed by the autograph signature "Edmund Gosse." Fine copy. Very scarce. 146 .. GOULD, ROBERT. Poems Chiefly Consisting of Satyrs and fr- Satyrical Epistles. Licensed Jan. 8th, i68f. 8vo, original calf, rebacked. London, Printed, and are to be sold by most Booksellers in London and Westminster, 1689. First Edition. Fine copy. Scarce. H7 GOWER, JOHN. Jo Gower de confessione Amantis. Folio, Gothic type, old calf, binding broken. Imprinted at London by Thomas Berthelette, 1532. Second Edition. A remarkably large copy in very fine condition. Wants two leaves of the table: aa4 and aa5- Rare. The first edition was printed by Caxton in 1483. 148 / * f& GRAY, THOMAS. Odes by Mr. Gray. Vignette on title. Square ^ folio, mottled calf extra, gilt edges, by Riviere. Printed at Strawberry-Hill, For R. and J. Dodsley, 1757. First Edition. 149 GRAY, THOMAS. Poems by Mr. Gray. 8vo, yellow calf, yellow edges, by Zaehnsdorf. London, Printed for J. Dodsley, 1768. Fine copy of the First Collected Edition. (35) Arnold Collection of Books and Letters 150 GRAY, THOMAS. Poems by Mr. Gray. Large 410. Glasgow, Printed by Robert and Andrew Foulis, 1768. Elegia Inglese by Tommaso Gray, sopra Un Cimitero Cam- pestre Transportata in verso Italiano da Giuseppe Torelli Ver- onese. Large 4to. Parma, Co' Tipi Bodoniani, 1793. These two books are bound together in old half calf. The Glas- gow edition of the Poems was printed the same year as the first Lon- don edition. The Parma edition of the Elegy has the English text, as well as the Italian version. Both books are beautiful examples of printing, and both are scarce editions. Book-plate of Peter Forbes. HABINGTON, WILLIAM. Castara: Frontispiece by Marshall. 1 2 mo, red morocco extra, edges gilt on the rough, by De Coverley. London, Printed by T. Cotes for Will. Cook, 1 640. The third but first complete edition, as the third part here appears for the first time. Fine copy. Lower edges of a few leaves uncut. Scarce. 1 5 2 HALL, JOHN. Poems. Small 8vo, polished calf, gilt edges, by Bedford. Cambridge, Printed by Roger Daniel, 1646. Fine copy of the scarce First Edition. Opposite page 68 is an- other title, "The Second Booke of Divine Poems. By J. H.," which bears the date 1647, as in all copies of the first edition. HAMILTON, WALTER. French Book-Plates. A Handbook for Ex-Libris Collectors. Illustrated. 4to, original cloth, gilt top. London, George Bell & Sons, 1892. First Edition. HAYDON, FREDERIC W. Benjamin Robert Haydon: Cor- respondence and Table-Talk. With facsimile illustrations from his journals. 2 volumes, 8vo, original cloth, uncut. London, Chatto and Windus, 1876. First Edition. (36) Arnold Collection of Books and Letters 155 HALL, JOSEPH, Bishop of Norwich. Virgidemiarvm Sixe Bookes. First three Bookes, Of Tooth-lesse Satyrs, i. Poeticall. 2. Academical!. 3. Morall. London, Printed by lohn Harison, for Robert Dexter, 1602. The Three Last Bookes. Of byting Satyres. Corrected and amended with some Additions, by I. H. Imprinted at London for Robert Dexter, 1599. Certaine Worthye Manvscript Poems of great Anti- quitie Reserued long in the Studie of a Northfolke Gentleman. And now first published By J. S. That stately tragedy of Guistard and Sismond. The Northern Mothers Blessing. The Way to Thrifte. Imprinted at London for R. D., 1597. In one volume. Small 8vo, brown calf, rough edges. London, 1597-1602. Rare. A portrait of Bishop Hall is inserted ; none belongs with the book as issued. 156 HEBER, JOHN. A Catalogue of Heber's Collection of Early English Poetry. With prices and purchasers' names. 8vo, original boards, leather back, paper label, uncut. London, Edward Lumley [1834]. *57 HERBERT, GEORGE. The Temple. Sacred Poems and Private Ejaculations. By Mr. George Herbert, late Oratour of the Universitie of Cambridge. 1 2mo, original calf, red edges. Printed by T. Buck and R. Daniel, printers to the Universitie of Cambridge, 1633. Second Edition. Very fine, large, and thick copy of this scarce book. 1 5 8 HERBERT, GEORGE. The Temple. Sacred Poems and Pri- vate Ejaculations. By Mr. George Herbert, late Oratour of the Universitie of Cambridge. i2mo, blue crushed levant morocco, edges gilt on the rough, by Bedford. Printed by T. Buck and R. Daniel, printers to the Universitie of Cambridge, 1633. Second Edition, and a fine copy. The title-page differs from that of the preceding copy by the addition of a line below the imprint: "And are to be sold by Fr. Green." (37) Arnold Collection of Books and Letters 159 HERBERT, GEORGE. Herbert's Remains. Or, Sundry Pieces r() Of that sweet Singer of the Temple, Mr George Herbert. i2mo, dark blue crushed levant morocco, edges gilt on the rough, by Riviere. London, Printed for Timothy Garth wait, 1652. First Edition. Scarce. Very fine copy. This volume contains the second title, "A Priest to the Temple," often lacking. Bound in with this copy is Jacula Prudentum, or Outlandish Proverbs, 1651. 160 . HEYRICK, THOMAS. The Submarine Voyage. A Pindaric \S Poem in Four Parts. By Tho. Heyrick, M. A. 410, old red calf extra, gilt edges. Cambridge, Printed by John Hayes, for the Author, 1691. First Edition. Evidently extracted from Heyrick's "Miscellany Poems" and specially bound. // HEYWOOD, JOHN. The Works of lohn Heiwood Newlie * Imprinted. Namelie, A Dialogue, wherein are pleasantlie con- triued the number of all the effectuall Prouerbs in our English tongue : Compact in a matter concerning two maner of Marriages. Together with three hundred Epigrammes upon three hundred Prouerbes. Also a fourth, fifth and sixth hundreth of other very pleasant, pithie and ingenious Epigrammes. 4to, green straight-grain morocco extra, gilt edges. At London, Imprinted by Felix Kingston, 1598. Fifth Edition. Printed in black-letter. There are four separate titles besides the general title. Large copy. Margins of several leaves mended. Book-plate of Baron Holland. 162 HEYWOOD, THOMAS. Troia Britanica; or, Great Britaines Troy. A Poem Deuided into XVII. seueral Cantons, inter- mixed with many pleasant Poetical Tales. Concluding with an Vniuersall Chronicle from the Creation, untill these present Times. Small folio, buff polished calf, rebacked. London, Printed by W. Jaggard, 1609. First Edition, large copy. Small piece of upper corner of title- leaf, and top margin of last leaf repaired. (38) - /\, 9 Arnold Collection of Books and Letters 163 HEYWOOD, THOMAS. Tunaikeion: or, Nine Bookes of Various History Concerninge Women ; Inscribed by y e names of y e Nine Muses. Written by Thorn : Heywoode. En- graved title. Small folio, old morocco extra, gilt edges. London, Printed by Adam Islip, 1624. First Edition. Very fine copy. The binding is an interesting example of early English work. 164 HEYWOOD, THOMAS. The Hierarchic of the blessed Angells. Their Names, orders, and Offices. The Fall of Lucifer with his Angells. Written by Tho : Heywood. Brilliant impressions of the engraved title and other plates, engraved by Droeshout, Cecill, Marshall, etc. Folio, original calf, red edges. London, Printed by Adam Islip, 1635. First Edition. Fine, tall, clean copy of this scarce volume, with the leaf of license before the title dated " Novemb. 7, 1634." 165 HILDEBURN, CHARLES R. A Century of Printing. The Issues of the Press in Pennsylvania 1865-1784. 2 vol- umes, 8vo, original cloth, gilt top, other edges uncut. Philadelphia, 1885. This is Number 36 of 300 copies privately printed. 166 HOCCLEYE, THOMAS. Poems by Thomas Hoccleve, Never Before Printed: Selected from a MS. in the possession of George Mason. With a Preface, Notes and Glossary. 410, stitched, uncut. London, Printed by C. Roworth, for Leigh and Sotheby, 1796. First Edition. Fine copy. 167 HOMER. The Whole Works of Homer: Prince of Poetts In His Iliads, and Odysses. Translated according to the Greeke. By Geo: Chapman. Tall 410, original stamped calf, rebacked, red edges. At London, printed for Nathaniell Butler [about 1616]. This was Coleridge's copy, and contains numerous critical notes in his handwriting and his signature in three places. In one note Coleridge says: "Chapman in his moral heroic verse, as in this (39) / /A S/\ Arnold Collection of Books and Letters Dedication and the prefatory Sonnets to his Odyssey stands above Jonson, more dignity, more lustre, and equal strength ; but not mid- way quite between him and the Sonnets of Milton. I do not know, whether I give him the higher praise, in that he reminds me of B. Jonson with a sense of his superior excellence, or that he brings Milton's memory, notwithstanding his inferiority." Inserted is a long letter one of the most interesting literary let- ters in existence which was sent by Coleridge, with this book, to Miss Hutchinson, the sister of Wordsworth's wife, Mary. On the death of Miss Hutchinson the volume passed into the possession of Wordsworth. I 168 HOWARD, ROBERT. Poems. By S r Robert Howard. Small 8vo, original calf. London, Printed for H. Herringman, 1660. First Edition. With the half-title to "The Blind Lady" between pages 28 and 29. This half-title is not mentioned by Hazlitt in his collation of the book. Signatures A6-7-8 contain a poem to Harvard by Dryden. Book-plate of G. W. F. Gregor. A few head-lines cut into, but a good copy. Scarce. 169 IRVING, WASHINGTON. Five Volumes of Scott's Poems from the Library of Washington Irving. 241110, old calf, marbled edges. Mar m ion. Philadelphia, 1809. With autograph signature "Washington Irving" on fly-leaf. The Lay of the Last Minstrel. Philadelphia, 1810. With autograph signature " Washington Irving " on title-page. Ballads and Lyrical Pieces. Baltimore, 1811. Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border. Philadelphia, 1813. Rokeby. Philadelphia, 1813. 170 IRVING, WASHINGTON. Voyages and Discoveries of the Companions of Columbus. 8vo, original boards, cloth back, paper label, uncut. Philadelphia, Carey & Lea, 1831. First Edition. (4) Arnold Collection of Books and Letters 171 IRVING, WASHINGTON. The Alhambra: A Series of Tales s^ J77 and Sketches of the Moors and Spaniards. By the Author of the Sketch Book. 2 volumes, 1 2 mo, original boards, cloth backs, paper labels, uncut. Philadelphia, Carey & Lea, 1832. First Edition. 172 JOHNSON, JOHN. Typographia, or the Printers Instruc- /J- tor: Including an Account of the Origin of Printing. 2 vol- umes, 8vo, original boards, uncut. Published by Messrs. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Browne & Greene, London, 1824. First Edition. This work was originally issued in three sizes. Of the copies printed on "largest paper" only 36 were made, and published at 4. 43. each ; the present copy is one of these. The portraits of Caxton and of the Author, and the title-page, are on India paper. 173 JOHNSON, SAMUEL. The Plan of a Dictionary of the Eng- ? -^__ Edited by Jno. Gilmer Speed. Portraits. 3 volumes, 8vo, orig- inal boards, uncut. New York, Dodd, Mead, & Co., 1883. First Issue of this Edition. One of 55 copies printed from type on Whatman paper by De Vinne. Number 23. 187 KEATS, JOHN. The Poetical Works and Other Writings Lucrece, 1594. Sonnets, 1609. The Lover's Complaint. Edited by F. S. Ellis. 8vo. Golden type, in black and red. Bound in limp vellum. 500 copies. Though the number printed was large, this has be- come one of the scarcest books issued from the Press. 210 News from Nowhere: or, An Epoch of Rest, being Some , Chapters from a Utopian Romance, by William Morris. 8vo. Golden type, in black and red. Woodcut engraved by W. H. Hooper from a design by C. M. Gere. Bound in limp vellum. 1892. 300 copies. 211 The Order of Chivalry. Translated from the French by William Caxton and reprinted from his edition of 1484. Edited by F. S. Ellis. And L'Ordene de Chevalerie, with translation by William Morris. Small 410. Chaucer type, in black and red. Woodcut designed by Sir Edward Burne-Jones. Bound in limp vellum. 1893. 225 copies. This was the last Kelmscott book printed in small 4to, and the first book printed in Chaucer type. 212 The Life of Thomas Wolsey, Cardinal Archbishop of York. Written by George Cavendish. Edited by F. S. Ellis from the author's autograph MS. 8vo. Golden type. Bound in limp vellum. 250 copies. 7 (49) Arnold Collection of Books and Letters 215 The History of Godefrey of Boloyne and of the Con- quest of Iherusalem. Reprinted from Caxton's edition of 1481. Edited by H. Halliday Sparling. Large 410. Troy type, with list of chapter headings and glossary in Chaucer type, in black and red. Woodcut title. Bound in limp vellum. 1893. 300 copies. This was the fifth and last of the Caxton reprints. It was the first book published and sold at the Kelmscott Press. Utopia. Written by Sir Thomas More. A reprint of the and edition of Ralph Robinson's translation, with a foreword by Wil- liam Morris. Edited by F. S. Ellis. 8vo. Chaucer type, with the title in Troy type, in black and red. Bound in limp vellum. 1893. 300 copies. 215 Maud, A Monodrama. By Alfred Lord Tennyson. 8vo. Golden /J / typ e > in black and red. Bound in limp vellum. J 893. 500 copies. This is the first of the 8vo books with a woodcut title. 2l6 Gothic Architecture: A Lecture for the Arts and Crafts Ex- /S hibition Society. By William Morris. i6mo. Golden type, in black and red. Bound in half holland. 1893. 1500 copies. This was the first Kelmscott book printed in i6mo. 217 Sidonia the Sorceress. By William Meinhold translated by Francesca Speranza Lady Wilde. Large 4to. Golden type, in black and red. Bound in limp vellum. *&93- 300 copies. 218 . Ballads and Narrative Poems By Dante Gabriel Rossetti. 8vo. Golden type, in black and red. Woodcut title. Bound in limp vellum. 1893. 310 copies. (50) Arnold Collection of Books and Letters 219 The Tale of King Florus and the Fair Jehane. Trans- lated by William Morris from the French of the i3th Century. i6mo. Chaucer type, in black and red. Woodcut title. Bound in half holland. l &93' 350 copies. 220 The Story of the Glittering Plain which has been also -, called The Land of Living Men or The Acre of the Undying. Written by William Morris. Large 4to. Troy type, with list of chapters in Chaucer type, in black and red. Borders designed by Walter Crane, engraved by A. Leverett. Woodcut title. Bound in limp vellum. 1894. 250 copies. The borders used in this book appear in no other. 221 Of the Friendship of Amis and Amile. Done out of . the ancient French by William Morris. i6mo. Chaucer type, in black and red. Woodcut title. Bound in half holland. 1894. 500 copies. 222 Sonnets and Lyrical Poems By Dante Gabriel Rossetti. f-f 8vo. Golden type, in black and red. Woodcut title. Bound in limp vellum. 1894. 310 copies. This book is uniform with Rossetti's Ballads and Nar- rative Poems. 225 The Poems of John Keats. Edited by F. S. Ellis. 8vo. Golden type, in black and red. Woodcut title. Bound in limp vellum. 1894. 300 copies. This is the most sought after of all the smaller Kelmscott books. 224 Atalanta in Calydon: A Tragedy. By Algernon Charles Swinburne. Large 4to. Troy type, with argument and dramatis personae in Chaucer type; the dedication and quotation from Euripides in Greek type designed by Selwyn Image; in black and red. Woodcut title. Bound in limp vellum. 1894. 250 copies. (JO Arnold Collection of Books and Letters 225 The Tale of the Emperor Coustans and of Over Sea. Done out of ancient French by William Morris. 1 6mo. Chaucer type, in black and red. 2 woodcut titles. Bound in half holland. 1894. 525 copies. 226 The Wood Beyond the World. By William Morris. 8vo. Chaucer type, in black and red. Frontispiece designed by Sir E. Burne-Jones, and engraved on wood by W. Spielmeyer. Bound in limp vellum. 1894. 350 copies. The borders in this book, as well as the 10 half- borders, are here used for the first time. 227 The Book of Wisdom and Lies. A book of Traditional Stories from Georgia in Asia. Translated by Oliver Wardrop from the original of Sulkhan-Saba Orbeliani. 8vo. Golden type, in black and red. Woodcut title. Bound in limp vellum. 1894. 250 copies. The arms of Georgia, consisting of the Holy Coat, appear in the woodcut title of this book. 228 The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley. Edited by F. S. Ellis. 3 volumes, 8vo. Golden type. Bound in limp vellum. 1894-95. 250 copies. 229 . ^ Psalmi Penitentiales. An English rhymed version of the Seven Penitential Psalms. Edited by F. S. Ellis. 8vo. Chaucer type, in black and red. Bound in half holland. 1894. 300 copies. The half-border on page 34 appears for the first time in this book. (s*) Arnold Collection of Books and Letters 230 Epistola de Contemptu Mundi di Frate Hieronymo da Fer- rara Dell Ordine de Frati Predicatori la Quale Manda ad Elena Buonaccorsi Sua Madre, per Consolarla Delia Morte del Fratello, Suo Zio. Edited by Charles Fairfax Murray from the original autograph letter. 8vo. Chaucer type, in black and red. Wood- cut title. Bound in half holland. 1894. I 50 copies. This little book was printed for Mr. C. Fairfax Mur- ray, the owner of the manuscript, and was not for sale in the ordi- nary way. 231 The Tale of Beowulf. Done out of the Old English tongue by William Morris and A. J. Wyatt. Large 4to. Troy type, with argument, side-notes, list of persons and places, and glossary in Chaucer type, in black and red. Woodcut title. Bound in limp vellum. 300 copies. The borders of this book were used only once again, in the Jason. Syr Perecyvelle of Gales. Overseen by F. S. Ellis, after the edition edited by J. O. Halliwell from the Thornton MS. in the Library of Lincoln Cathedral. 8vo. Chaucer type, in black and red. Woodcut designed by Sir E. Burne-Jones. Bound in limp vellum. 350 copies. This book is the first of the series to which Sire De- grevaunt and Syr Ysambrace belong. The Life and Death of Jason, A Poem. By William Mor- ris. Large 4to. Troy type, with a few words in Chaucer type, in black and red. 2 woodcuts designed by Sir E. Burne-Jones, and engraved on wood by W. Spielmeyer. Bound in limp vellum. 1895. 200 copies. (53) Arnold Collection of Books and Letters 234 Child Christopher and Goldilind the Fair. By William Morris. 2 volumes, i6mo. Chaucer type, in black and red. Woodcut title. Bound in half holland. 600 copies. The borders designed for this book were only used once again, in Hand and Soul. Hand and Soul. By Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Reprinted from The Germ. i6mo. Golden type, in black and red. Bound in stiff vellum. 1895. 225 copies for sale in England and 300 copies for America. The present copy is one of those made for England. 236 Poems Chosen Out of the Works of Robert Herrick. Edited by F. S. Ellis. 8vo. Golden type, in black and red. Woodcut title. Bound in limp vellum. 250 copies. 237 .--- Poems Chosen out of the Works of Samuel Taylor U U Coleridge. Edited by F. S. Ellis. 8vo. Golden type, in black and red. Bound in limp vellum. 1896. 300 copies. This book is the last of the series to which Tenny- son's Maud and the Poems of Rossetti, Keats, Shelley, and Herrick belong. 238 The Well at the World's End. By William Morris. Large 4to. Double columns. Chaucer type, in black and red. 4 woodcuts designed by Sir E. Burne-Jones. Bound in limp vellum. 1896. 350 copies. The eight borders and the six different ornaments between the columns appear here for the first time. (54) Arnold Collection of Books and Letters 239 The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer. Edited by F. S. Ellis. Folio. Chaucer type, with headings to the longer poems in Troy type, in black and red. Woodcut title and 87 woodcut illustra- tions designed by Sir E. Burne-Jones. Bound in half holland. 1896. 425 copies. This book is by far the most important achievement of the Kelmscott Press. Besides the 87 woodcuts by Burne-Jones the volume contains a woodcut title, 14 large borders, 18 different frames around the illustrations, and 26 large initial words designed for the book by William Morris. 240 The Earthly Paradise. By William Morris. 8 volumes, medium 4to. Golden type, in black and red. Woodcut title. Bound in limp vellum. 1896-97. 225 copies. This was the first book printed on the paper with the apple water-mark. None of the 10 borders appear in any other book. The 4 different half-borders round the poems to the months are not used elsewhere. 241 Laudes Beatae Mariae Virginis. Latin Poems taken from a Psalter written in England about A. D. 1220. Edited by S. C. Cockerell. Large 4to. Troy type, in black, red, and blue. Bound in half holland. 1896. 250 copies. This was the first book printed at the Kelmscott Press in 3 colors. 242 The Floure and the Leafe, & the Boke of Cupide, God of Love, or the Cuckow and the Nightingale. Edited by F. S. Ellis. Medium 4to. Troy type, with note and colo- phon in Chaucer type, in black and red. Bound in half holland. 1896. 300 copies. 2 of the initial words from the Chaucer are used in this book, one at the beginning of each poem. (55) Arnold Collection of Books and Letters 243 The Shepheardes Calender: Conteyning Twelve ^Eglogues, Proportionable to the Twelve Monethes. By Edmund Spenser. Edited by F. S. Ellis. Medium 4to. Golden type, in black and red. With 1 2 full-page illustrations by A. J. Gaskin. Bound in halfholland. 1896. 225 copies. 44 The Water of the Wondrous Isles By William Morris. S7t Large 4to. Chaucer type in double columns, with a few lines in Troy type at the end of each of the seven parts, in black and red. Bound in limp vellum. 250 copies. 245 Two Trial-Pages of the Projected Edition of Lord Ber- ners' Translation of Froissart's Chronicles. Folio. Chaucer type, with heading in Troy type, in black and red. Not bound. 1 60 copies on vellum; none on paper. It was the intention of Mr. Morris to make the Froissart a worthy companion to the Chaucer. 246 tr- Sire Degrevaunt. Edited by F. S. Ellis after the edition printed by J. O. Halliwell. 8vo. Chaucer type, in black and red. Woodcut designed by Sir E. Burne-Jones. Bound in half holland. 1897. 350 copies. 247 Syr Ysambrace. Edited by F. S. Ellis after the edition printed by J. O. Halliwell, from the MS. in the Library of Lincoln Cathedral, with some corrections. 8vo. Chaucer type, in black and red. Bound in half holland. 1897. 350 copies. (56) Arnold Collection of Books and Letters 248 Some German Woodcuts of the Fifteenth Century. Being 35 reproductions from books that were in the library of the f late William Morris. Edited with a list of the principal woodcut blocks in that library, by S. C. Cockerell. Large 410. Golden type, in black and red. Bound in half holland. I &97- 225 copies. 29 of these reproductions were chosen by Mr. Morris to illustrate a projected catalogue of his library. 249 The Story of Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Niblungs. By William Morris. Small folio. Chaucer type, with titles and headings to the four books in Troy type, in black and red. 2 illustrations designed by Sir E. Burne-Jones. Bound in limp vellum. 1898. 1 60 copies. The 2 borders used in this book were almost the last that Mr. Morris designed. 250 The Sundering Flood Written by William Morris. Overseen for the press by May Morris. 8vo. Chaucer type, in black and red. Bound in half holland. 1898. 300 copies. This was the last romance written by William Morris. 251 Love is Enough, or the Freeing of Pharamond: A Morality. Written by William Morris. Large 4to. Troy type, with stage directions in Chaucer type, in black, red, and blue. 2 illustrations designed by Sir E. Burne-Jones. Bound in limp vel- lum. 1898. 300 copies. This was the second book printed in 3 colors at the Kelmscott Press. 252 A Note by William Morris on His Aims in Founding the Kelmscott Press. Together with a short Description of the Press by S. C. Cockerell, and an Annotated List of the Books printed thereat. 8vo. Golden type, with five pages in the Troy and Chaucer type, in black and red. Woodcut designed by Sir E. Burne-Jones. Bound in half holland. 1898. 525 copies. The last book printed at the Kelmscott Press. 8 (57) Arnold Collection of Books and Letters 253 A four-page Leaflet for the Ancoats Brotherhood, with the frontispiece from the Kelmscott Press edition of A Dream of John Ball on the first page. Golden type. 1894. 2500 copies. 254 Trial Page for the Projected Edition of The Tragedies, Histories, & Comedies of William Shakespeare. Portion of Macbeth, Act i, Scenes vii and viii. Printed on one side only of a sheet of hand-made paper measuring 11^5x16^$ inches. Golden type, double columns, in black and red. i copy. " The original intention, as first set out in the list of May 20, 1893, was to print it [Shakespeare] in three volumes folio. A trial page from Lady Macbeth, printed at this time, is in existence." S. C. Cockerell, in his Annotated List of Books Printed at the Kelm- scott Press. This Trial Page of Shakespeare was the experimental proof, and is unique. It remains the only specimen in existence of the projected Kelmscott Shakespeare. From the collection of H. Halliday Sparling, Secretary of the Kelmscott Press. Enclosed in a frame and glass. A reduced facsimile of the Page is the frontispiece to this cata- logue. (58) Arnold Collection of Books and Letters LANGLAND, WILLIAM. The vision of Pierce Plowman, nowe the seconde tyme imprinted by Roberte Crowlye. 4to, russia. [London,] 1550. The First Issue of the Second Edition. The lines have been numbered throughout with a pen. Book- plate of L. Sharpe. Scarce. 256 LATIMER, HUGH. Frvtefvll Sermons Preached by the right reuerend father, and constant Martyr of Jesus Christ M. Hugh Latymer newly Imprinted : with others, not heretofore set forth in print, to the edifying of all which will dispose them selues to the readyng of the same. Engraved border about title. Colo- phon with large woodcut printer's device on verso of q 4 and on the last page. Separate titles to parts 2 and 3. 4to, dark red crushed levant morocco, edges gilt on the rough, by Worsfold. At London, Printed by John Daye, 1571. First Collected Edition of all the sermons by Latimer that have been preserved, thirty-nine in number. Very fine large copy, with the rare print of Latimer preaching before King Edward, part i, page 22 ; first line of title to this print cut into. 257 LEIGH, RICHARD. Poems, Upon Several Occasions, and to Several Persons. By the Author of The Censure, of the Rota. Small 8vo, old sprinkled calf, sprinkled edges. London, Printed by Andr. Clark for William Hensman, 1675. First Edition. 258 LEWIS, JOHN. The Life of Mayster William Caxton, of the Weald of Kent ; The First Printer in England. Frontispiece portrait of Caxton by Bagford. 8vo, old paneled calf, blind tooled, sprinkled edges. London, Printed in the Year, 1737. First Edition. Fine copy. Scarce. () Arnold Collection of Books and Letters LLOYD, LODOWICKE. The Pilgrimage of Princes, Newly //\ published, by Lodowicke Lloid Esquier, one of her Maiesties Sar- geants at Armes. Engraved border about title. 410, red crushed levant morocco extra, gilt edges. Imprinted at London, by John Wolfe, 1586. Second Edition. A fine and very large copy. Preceding the text is a leaf of commendatory verse by Thomas Churchyard; and on leaves 133 to 137, 8 pages, is "The Deathes of Certaine Noble Princes in english verse." Book-plate of Fountaine Walker. 260 LLUELLIN, M. Men-Miracles. With other Poemes. By M. u i LL. St. of Ch. Ch. in Oxon. Small 8vo, half morocco, sprinkled edges. London, Printed for Will Shears Junior, 1656. First Edition. Fine copy. 261 LOCKER-LAMPSON, FREDERICK. The Rowfant Library. A Catalogue of the Printed Books, Manuscripts, Autograph Letters, Drawings and Pictures, collected by Frederick Locker-Lampson. Frontispiece by George Cruikshank. Portrait. 8vo, original cloth, leather back, gilt top, other edges uncut. Bernard Quaritch, London, 1886. One of 150 copies printed for sale. Inserted is an autograph letter, dated 15 April, 1886, signed F. Locker L., which refers to this book in these words: "I sh d have liked to give you the Catalogue but I kept only a few copies to give to my relations and the great, great libraries & sold all the rest to that Demon Quaritch." 262 LOCKER-LAMPSON, FREDERICK. My Confidences. An Au- tobiographical Sketch Addressed to my Descendants. 2 portraits. 8vo, original cloth, uncut. London, Smith, Elder, & Co., 1896. First Edition. (60) Arnold Collection of Books and Letters 263 LYLIE, JOHN. Evphves the Anatomie of Wit. Very plea- sant for all Gentlemen to read, and most necessary to remember. Wherein are contained the delights that wit followeth in his youth, by the pleasantnesse of loue: and the happinesse he reapeth in age, by the perfectnesse of wisdome. Evphves and His England, Containing His Voyages and Adventures : Mixed with sundry pretty Discourses of honest Loue, the Description of the Country, the Court, and the man- ners of the He. Delightfull to be read, and nothing hurtfull to be regarded: wherein there is small offence by lightnes giuen to the wise and lesse occasion of loosenesse proffered to the wanton. By lohn Lilie, Master of Arts. 1636. 2 volumes in i. Black-Letter. Square 8vo, green morocco ex- tra, gilt edges. London, Printed by John Haviland, 1636. A good copy, but a few leaves are foxed. 264 Manuscript. A Seventeenth Century MS. Book of Poems. Mostly by contemporary writers. Size 4^x2^ inches, old calf. The original owner's name is written on a fly-leaf, with the date 1650. 165 MARYELL, ANDREW. Miscellaneous Poems. By Andrew Marvell, Esq; Late Member of the Honourable House of Com- mons. Fine impression of the frontispiece portrait. Tall 4to, old calf, sprinkled edges. London, Printed for Robert Boulter, 1681. First Edition. Very large and fine copy of this rare book. 266 MILTON, JOHN. Angli Pro Populo Anglicano Defensio. Small 1 2mo, original vellum. Londini, Typis Du Gardianis, Anno Domini 1651. First Edition. Scarce. This book was condemned by Parliament at the Restoration, and ordered to be burnt by the common hang- man. (61) Arnold Collection of Books and Letters .67 MILTON, JOHN. Paradise lost. A Poem Written in Ten Books By John Milton. 410, original sheep, back strengthened, side and bottom edges of several leaves uncut. London, 1667. First Edition. First Title, with the author's name in larger type, which is the rarer form. Fine large copy on extra thick paper, meas- uring 7x5 7-16 inches. It has the original blank leaf before the title, which is lacking in almost all copies. Every leaf is perfect. Alto- gether this is an exceptionally fine copy. Facsimile of title-page opposite. 268 MILTON, JOHN. Paradise lost. A Poem in Ten Books. The Author John Milton. 410, brown levant morocco, edges gilt on the rough, by the Club Bindery. London, Printed by S. Simmons, 1668. First Edition. Fourth Title. Scarce. Fine copy, measuring 7x5^ inches. The printer's name appears for the first time on this title, and in this issue also first appear the seven preliminary leaves containing The Printer to the Reader, The Argument, The Verse, and the Errata. There is no blank leaf preceding the title, as none belongs there, for, beginning with the issue with the fourth title, the title-leaf was printed with the first three of the preliminary leaves, leaving no blank leaf. Every leaf is perfect. 269 / .__ MILTON, JOHN. Paradise Lost. A Poem In Twelve Books. The Authour John Milton. The Fourth Edition, Adorn'd with Sculptures. Frontispiece portrait by White. Twelve other full- page engravings. Folio, mottled calf, gilt edges, by Riviere. London, Printed by Miles Fletcher for Richard Bentley, 1688. First Illustrated Edition. Bound with the above are Paradise Re- gained and Samson Agonistes, with separate title-pages of the same date as Paradise Lost. Fine copy. Scarce. 270 MILTON, JOHN. Paradise Lost. A Poem in Twelve Books. With the Life of Milton by Thomas Newton, D. D. Paradise Regained. A Poem, in Four Books. To which are added Sam- son Agonistes: and Poems on Several Occasions. 2 volumes. 8vo, original sheep. Philadelphia, Printed by Robert Bell, 1777. The First American Edition of Milton. Portrait lacking in vol- ume I. Very rare. A POEM Written in TEN BOOKS By JOHN MILTON. Licenfed and Entred according to Order. LONDON Printed, and are to be fold by Peter Parfyr under Creed Church neer Aldgate 5 And by Rtbtrt Boulter at the Turkj Heal in Bifkopfaatc-ftrttt ; And Matthias Walter , under St. Dunflens Church in flcet-flrett, Arnold Collection of Books and Letters , 271 MILTON, JOHN. Paradise Lost. A Poem Written in Ten Books. 410, half levant morocco, gilt top, other edges uncut. London [Pickering, 1873]. Facsimile reprint of the First Edition, with a monograph on the First Edition of Milton's Paradise Lost. Binding worn. 272 MILTON, JOHN. Paradise Lost, as originally published by John Milton, Being a Facsimile Reproduction of the First Edition. With an Introduction by David Masson. 8vo, original cloth. London, Elliot Stock, 1877. 273 * * MILTON, JOHN. Paradise Regained. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is added Samson Agonistes. The Author John Milton. Small 8vo, original sheep, rebacked. London, Printed for John Starkey, 1680. Second Edition. With the leaf of license before the title. A tear in the lower left-hand corner has removed a portion of the word "in" of the imprint. 274 S? f~j MILTON, JOHN. The History of Britain, That part especially " / ' now call'd England. Fine impression of the frontispiece portrait by Faithorne. 410, old calf, sprinkled edges. London, Printed by J. M. for James Allestry, 1670. First Edition. Fine copy. With book-plates of Thomas Graham and Joannis M. Gray. 275 MILTON, JOHN. Poems, &c. Upon Several Occasions. By Mr. John Milton: Both English and Latin, &c. Composed at several times. With a small Tractate of Education To Mr. Hartlif. Small 8vo, red crushed levant morocco, gilt edges, by Riviere. London, Printed for Tho. Bring, 1673. Fine large copy, measuring 6^x41-16 inches. (64) Arnold Collection of Books and Letters 276 MILTON, JOHN. Facsimile of the Manuscript of Milton's Minor Poems Preserved in the Library of Trinity College, Cam- bridge. Edited by William Aldis Wright. Folio, sheets, uncut, en- closed in a cloth case. Cambridge, At the University Press, 1899. The 47 photographic facsimiles are by A. G. Dew-Smith. 277 MOORE, THOMAS. Irish Melodies, By Thomas Moore, Esq. With an Appendix containing the original Advertisements, and the Prefatory Letter on Music. 8vo, original boards, paper label, uncut. London, Printed for J. Power, 1821. First edition without the musical accompaniments. Very fine copy. Inserted is an autograph letter dated August 18, 1820, signed "Ever yours, T. Moore," which says in part as follows: "The advertisement had better run thus J. Power has the honour to inform the Subscribers to Moore's I. M. that the Eighth Number is nearly ready for the Press. The Proprietor begs also to state that, in compliance with the wish of the Public for an edition of the Poetry of this work, uncon- nected with the Music, Mr. Moore is at present employed in prepar- ing such a volume for publication, and that it will appear at the same time with the Eighth Number, the Poems of which it will, of course, comprize." 278 / MORE, HENRY. Philosophicall Poems, By Henry More: ^< Master of Arts, and Fellow of Christs College in Cambridge. 8vo, sprinkled calf, gilt edges, by Silari. Cambridge, Printed by Roger Daniel, 1647. First Edition. Fine copy. Besides the general title-page, there are eight separate title-pages to the various parts, each dated 1647. Book-plate of E. H. Bierstadt. 279 /? ft MUFFET, THOMAS. The Silkewormes, and their Flies: Liuely described in verse, by T. M. a Countrie Farmar, and an apprentice in Physicke. For the great benefit and enriching of England. Woodcut on title-page. Small 4to, red levant morocco extra, gilt edges, by Riviere. Printed at London by V. S. for Nicholas Ling, 1599. First Edition. Fine copy. Small blank portion of corner of title- page mended. From Thomas Park's library, and with his auto- graph on title-page. Very rare. Arnold Collection of Books, and Letters 280 New York Historical Society. Catalogue of the Books, Tracts, Newspapers, Maps, Charts, Views, Portraits, and Manuscripts, in the Library of the New York Historical Society. 8vo, old half roan. New York, J. Seymour, 22 Dec. 1813. Presentation copy, with autograph inscription "For Francis Jef- frey, Esq. from the Historical Society." Jeffrey was an honorary member of the New York Historical So- ciety ; he was married to an American lady while in New York in 1813. 28l PAYNE, ROGER. Binding. Schemata Caelestina. Manu- script. 1 2mo, russia, richly tooled, gilt edges, by Roger Payne. 1797. This is a most beautiful specimen of Payne's work, in perfect con- dition. An expert in bindings pronounces it the best example of Roger Payne's art he has ever seen. Inserted is Payne's original dated bill, in his autograph, which is not only curiously interesting in itself, but is specially valuable be- cause it gives a full description of the binding, and thus verifies it as the work of this noted master. Facsimile of the bill on opposite page. 282 PHILIPS, KATHERINE. Poems. By the Incomparable, Mrs. K. P. Small 8vo, original calf, rebacked, marbled edges. London, Printed by F. G. for Rich. Marriott, 1664. Very fine copy of the rare First Edition (which was unauthorized), with the leaf of imprimatur and leaf of errata. Autograph of Ann Littleton on title. Book-plate of I. P. Van Ness. PHILIPS, KATHERINE. Poems By the most deservedly Admired Mrs. Katherine Philips The matchless Orinda. Brilliant impres- sion of the frontispiece portrait by Faithorne. Folio, original calf. London, Printed by J. M. for H. Herringman, 1667. Very fine copy, with wide margins, of the First Authorized Edition. (66) fc&$trif %A^$rtJ$y f x - /^Wo^O^ 0}7L#iff?L. fafj^tr* /.\7- 6 See Number 281. Arnold Collection of Books and Letters 284 POOLE, JOSHUA. The English Parnassus: or, A Helpe to English Poesie. Containing A Collection Of all Rhyming Monosyllables, The choicest Epithets and Phrases. With Some General Forms upon all Occasions, Subjects, and Theams, Alpha- betically digested. 8vo, unbound, marbled edges. London, Printed for Tho. Johnson, 1657. First Edition. Fine copy. 285 POPE, ALEXANDER. The Dunciad. With Notes Variorum, and ^ the Prolegomena of Scriblerus. Frontispiece of the Owl on a pedestal. 410, black calf, top edges gilt, side edges uncut. London, Printed for Lawton Gilliver, 1729. Very tall copy in fine condition. Scarce. 286 PORDAGE, SAMUEL. Poems Upon Several Occasions. By S. P. Gent. Small 8vo, green morocco by Stikeman. London, Printed by W. G. for Henry Marsh, 1660. First Edition. Very scarce. 287 PORDAGE, SAMUEL. Troades Englished. By S. P. Small 8vo, green morocco by Stikeman. London, Printed by W. G. for Henry Marsh, 1660. First Edition. Rare. Not mentioned by Lowndes. 288 Q.UARLES, FRANCIS. Divine Fancies: Digested into Epi- grammes, Meditations, and Observations. By Fra: Quarles. 410, calf, gilt edges, by Aitken. London, Printed by M. F. for lohn Marriot, 1632. First Edition. With book-plate of E. H. Bierstadt. (68) Arnold Collection of Books and Letters 289 QUARLES, FRANCIS. The Shepheards Oracles: Delivered in j^T Certain Eclogues. By Fra: Quarles. Small 410, blue half calf, gilt top. London, Printed by M. F. for John Marriot and Richard Marriot, 1646. First Edition. Rare. Signature Bi is cut into and there is a hole in the text. Signature 2 is mended. Book-plate of E. H. Bierstadt. 290 RALEIGH, SIR WALTER. Judicious and Select Essayes r <^ and Observations. By that Renowned and Learned Knight, Sir Walter Raleigh Upon The First Invention of Shipping. The Misery of Invasive Warre. The Navy Royall and Sea-Service. With his Apologie for his voyage to Guiana. Brilliant impression of the frontispiece portrait by Vaughan. Small 8vo, original calf, marbled edges. London, Printed by T. W. for Humphrey Moseley, 1650. First Edition. Fine and large copy, with all of the four titles. At the end of the volume is an eight-page list of books published by Humphrey Moseley, among which are Milton's Poems, Waller's Poems, Shirley's Poems, Crashaw's Steps to the Temple, Quarles's Divine Poems, and Suckling's Fragmenta Aurea. Book-plate of Hugh Percy. 291 RANDOLPH, THOMAS. Poems with the Muses Looking- 2 *J Glasse : and Amyntas. 4to, old calf, red edges. Oxford, Printed by Leonard Lichfield, for Francis Bowman, 1638. A very fine copy of the rare First Edition. 292 RITSON, JOSEPH. Bibliographia Poetica: A Catalogue of ^ ' English Poets, of the Twelfth, Thirteenth, Fourteenth, Fifteenth, and Sixteenth, Centurys, with a Short Account of their Works. 8vo, original boards, uncut. London, Printed by C. Roworth for G. and W. Nicol, 1802. First Edition. Fine copy. (69) Arnold Collection of Books and Letters 293 RODORICUS. Speculum. Illuminated by hand. Folio, old red ^ calf, sprinkled edges. [Paris, about 1469], /""jT ^J V ^r y X Printed with Gothic type. Very wide margins. A beautiful ex- ample of fifteenth-century typography. 294 Rump (The), or a Collection of Songs and Ballads, made upon those who would be a Parliament, and were but the Rump of an House of Commons, five times dissolv'd. Fine impres- sion of the frontispiece. Small 8vo, original sheep, rebacked. London, Printed for H. Brome and H. Marsh [1660]. First Edition. Very rare. The bottom line of the imprint on the title-page is cut off, and there is a large hole in the text of one leaf (signature 15). As is always the case, signature G is wanting. The copy in the Foote Collection was believed by Mr. Perkins to be the only perfect one in existence. 295 f-n Rump : or an Exact Collection Of the Choycest Poems and Songs relating to the Late Times. By the most Eminent Wits, from Anno 1639 to Anno 1661. Small 8vo, red crushed levant morocco, edges gilt on the rough. London, Printed for Henry Brome, and Henry Marsh, 1662. Very fine and uncommonly large copy of this scarce book. Preced- ing the printed title is a fine impression of the engraved title. This collection is much fuller than the edition of 1660. From the Royal Society Library, with armorial book-plate. The Society Stamp is on verso of the title-leaf and on verso of the last leaf. 296 SANDYS, GEORGE. A Paraphrase vpon the Psalmes of David and vpon the Hymnes Dispersed throughout The Old and New Testaments. By G. S. Small 8vo, original calf, red edges. London, 1636. First Edition. Very large and very fine copy. (70) Arnold Collection of Books and Letters 297 SANDYS, GEORGE. Ovid's Metamorphosis Englished by G. S. Engraved title "by Cecill and engraved frontispiece by Marshall. Tall 410, original calf. London, Printed by William Stansby, 1626. First Edition. Large and fine copy. Opposite the title is the leaf with " The Minde of the Frontispeece, And Argument of this Worke." The last leaf has the printer's engraved device. MS. notes on some pages. 298 x> SANDYS, GEORGE. Christs Passion. A Tragedy. With ** Annotations. Small 8vo, old calf, gilt edges. London, Printed by I. L., 1640. First Edition. Scarce. 299 SANDYS, GEORGE. Sandys Travailes. Illustrated with Fifty Graven Maps and Figures. Folio, olive morocco extra, gilt edges, by Bedford. London, Printed by R. and W. Leybourn, 1658. Sixth Edition. Very fine copy. The binding is an example of the best work of Bedford. 300 SHAKESPEARE. The Dramatic Works of Shakespeare. f / Engraved portrait (inserted), and numerous engraved illustrations by Stothard, Westall, and others. i2mo, red crushed levant morocco, gilt edges, by Matthews, enclosed in a slip-case. London, William Pickering, 1826. The first issue of the Diamond Edition. The binding is a choice example of Matthews's work. This volume was bought by the present owner at the sale of the Matthews Library in 1897. (70 Arnold Collection of Books and Letters 301 SHELLEY, PERCY BYSSHE. Adonais An Elegy on the Death of John Keats, Author of Endymion, Hyperion Etc. 4to, orig- inal paper covers, uncut. Pisa, with the types of Didot, 1821. First Edition. A piece has been torn from the lower right corner of the front cover and rudely replaced. Fine copy. Uncut copies of this book with the original blue paper covers are extremely rare. Reference is made to this edition of Adonais in two of the letters by Shelley which are described in Part II of this catalogue. Facsimile of title-page opposite. 502 _^ . SHELLEY, PERCY BYSSHE. Adonais An Elegy on the Death of John Keats. Edited with a Bibliographical Introduction by Thomas J. Wise. 410, boards, uncut. London, Published for the Shelley Society by Reeves and Turner, 1886. Of this facsimile reprint of the first edition of Adonais 300 copies were printed. 303 SHELLEY, PERCY BYSSHE. Adonais. An Elegy on the Death 2/ // of John Keats, Author of Endymion, Hyperion Etc. 8vo, half morocco, uncut, with the original green paper covers bound in. Enclosed in a green straight-grained morocco case. Cambridge, Printed by W. Metcalfe, 1829. Second Edition. Presentation copy from Arthur Hallam, who edited this edition, to Samuel Rogers, with Hallam's autograph inscription on the title-page. This second edition is reputed to be even scarcer than the first. 304 . ^ JT SHELLEY, PERCY BYSSHE. Adonais. Edited with Introduc- / tion and Notes by W. M. Rossetti. 1 2mo, original cloth. Oxford, at the Clarendon Press, 1891. First issue of this Edition. ADONAIS AN ELEGY ON THE DEATH OF JOHN KEATS, AUTHOR OF ENDYMION, HYPERION ETC. BY t wo< Nuv $t fiotvwv PISA WITH THE TYPES OF DIDOT MDCCCXXL IO / Arnold Collection of Books and Letters 305 SHIRLEY, JAMES. Poems &c. By James Shirley. Brilliant im- pression of the frontispiece portrait by Marshall. Small 8vo, green levant morocco, gilt edges, by J. Wright. London, Printed for Humphrey Moseley, 1646. First Edition. Fine large copy, measuring 6# x 4 inches. Rare. 306 SIDNEY, PHILIP. The Comtesse of Pembrokes Arcadia. Written by Sir Philip Sydney Knight. Now the Fovrth Time published with some new additions. Engraved title. Folio, orig- inal calf, rebacked, sprinkled edges. London, Imprinted by H. T. for Matthew Lownes, 1613. Fourth Edition. Fine copy. Inserted are two engraved portraits of Sydney. 307 SINKER, ROBERT. The Library of Trinity College, Cam- bridge. 10 illustrations. 410, original boards, vellum paper back, gilt top, other edges uncut. Cambridge, Deighton Bell & Co., 1891. Number 67 of an edition of 153 copies on hand-made paper. 308 SLATER, J. H. Book Collecting A Guide for Amateurs. 8vo, original cloth, gilt top, other edges uncut. London, Swan Sonnenschein & Co., 1892. Large Paper copy of the First Edition. Number 391 of 500 printed. 309 SLATER, J. H. Early Editions. A Bibliographical Survey of the Works of Some Popular Modern Authors. 8vo, original cloth, leather back, gilt top. London, Kegan Paul & Co., 1894. First Edition. (74) Arnold Collection of Books and Letters 310 SMITH, JAMES and HORATIO. Rejected Addresses: or The New Theatrum Poetarum. 1 2mo, original boards, uncut. London, Printed for John Miller, 1812. First Edition. Fine copy. Only a small portion of the paper label remains. 5 ll SOMERYILLE, WILLIAM. The Chace. A Poem. Engraved frontispiece by Gravelot. 4to, original calf. London, Printed for G. Hawkins, 1735. First Edition. Fine copy. 312 SPENSER, EDMUND. The Faerie Glveen : The Shepheards Calendar: Together with the Other Works of England's Arch- Poet, Edm. Spenser. Engraved title and head- and-tail pieces. Folio, olive crushed levant morocco extra, gilt edges, by Riviere. London, Printed by H. L. for Matthew Lownes, 1611. First Collected Edition. An uncommonly large and fine copy. The binding is a rich example of Riviere's work. 313 STERNE, LAURENCE. A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy. By Mr. Yorick. 8vo, old calf. London, Printed for T. Becket and P. A. De Hondt, 1768. First Edition, and a fine large copy. These volumes belonged to the Honorable Miss Ingram, one of the original subscribers (see list of subscribers, volume i, page 12), and has her autograph signa- ture on the fly-leaf of each book. STERNE, LAURENCE. Facsimile of the First Edition of A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy. By Mr. Yorick. 2 volumes, 1 2 mo, original boards, paper labels, un- cut. 100 copies printed on Holland paper, of which this is Num- ber 36, and 4 copies on vellum. Printed from type at the De Vinne Press, New York, 1885. This copy was presented to Mr. C. W. Frederickson by Mr. Rob- ert Hoe, who had the reprint made. Inserted is a letter by Mr. Hoe, dated Feb. 4, 1889, which was sent with the book. (75) Arnold Collection of Books and Letters 3*5 SUCKLING, JOHN. Fragmenta Avrea. A Collection of all the Incomparable Peeces Written By Sir John Svckling And pub- lished by a Friend to perpetuate his memory. 8vo, sprinkled calf, gilt edges, by Bedford. London, Printed by Tho. Warren for Humphrey Moseley, 1648. A fine copy of the Second Edition, with a beautiful impression of the frontispiece portrait by Marshall. There are seven separate title-pages, all dated 1648, in addition to the general title-page. Armorial book-plate. 316 SWIFT, JONATHAN. A Tale of a Tub. To which is added An Account of a Battel between the Antient and Modern Books in St. James's Library. 8vo, original calf, leather label. London, Printed for John Nutt, 1704. A large and uncommonly fine copy of the First Edition of this scarce book, with separate title-pages to each of the three parts. Preceding the first title-page is the leaf, frequently wanting, which gives a factitious list of "Treatises writ by the same author which will be speedily published." 317 r7 , SWIFT, JONATHAN. Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. In Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver. Portrait and maps. 2 volumes, 8vo, original calf, leather labels. London, Printed for Benj. Motte, 1726. A large and fine copy of the scarce First Edition. With separate pagination to each part. Book-plate in each volume of Charles Viscount Bruce, son of Thomas Earl of Ailesbury, dated 1742. SWIFT, JONATHAN. A Complete Collection of Genteel and Ingenious Conversation. In Three Dialogues. By Simon Wagstaff, Esq. 8vo, half calf, gilt top. London, Printed for B. Motte and C. Bathurst, 1 738. A Large Paper copy of the First Edition in very fine condition. Rare in this state. Preceding the title-page is a leaf on which is printed the publisher's advertisement of other books, including " A Tale of a Tub" and "Gulliver's Travels." (76) THE FALCON JLONDON: PRINTED FOR THE AUTHOR: 1879. Arnold Collection of Books and Letters 319 SWIFT, JONATHAN. Verses on the Death of Dr. Swift. Written by Himself: Nov. 1731. Folio, half morocco. London, Printed for C. Bathurst, 1739. A garbled version of this poem was surreptitiously printed in 1 73 1 . This is the First Authorized Edition. Scarce. 320 SWIFT, JONATHAN. The History of the Four Last Years of the Queen. 8vo, original calf, sprinkled edges. London, Printed for A. Millar, 1758. First Edition. Large Paper copy. Name written on title-page. 321 SWINBURNE, A. C. A Sequence of Sonnets on the Death of Robert Browning. 8vo, original paper covers. London, Printed for Private Circulation, 1890. Rare. Very fine copy, in a red silk wrapper, which is enclosed in a red levant morocco case with title and date on back. 322 TENNYSON, ALFRED. The Falcon. 8vo, original paper covers, uncut. London, Printed for the Author, 1879. First Edition. One of the rarest of the privately printed books of Tennyson. The present copy, except for a slight break in the front cover, is in the finest possible condition. Facsimile of title-page on preceding page. 323 TENNYSON, ALFRED. The Promise of May. 8vo, original paper covers, uncut. London, Printed for the Author, 1882. First Edition. This is not quite so rare as "The Falcon," yet all told, after most diligent searching, only 1 1 copies are known, and some of these lack the covers. The covers of the present copy are slightly worn by use. Facsimile of title-page opposite. 324 TENNYSON, ALFRED. Lucretius. Small 410, original cloth, y ^ ^L uncut. Cambridge, Mass., Printed for Private Circulation, 1868. First Edition. Only a few copies were made by Mr. James T. Fields "for the use of himself and friends." Scarce. (78) THE PROMISE OF MAY LONDON : PRINTED FOR THE AUTHOR : i88a Arnold Collection of Books and Letters 325 THOMAS, ISAIAH. Catalogue of English, Scotch, Irish and American Books. For Sale at the Worcester Bookstore. Small 1 2mo, original paper covers. Printed at Worcester, by Isaiah Thomas, 1 80 1 . 326 THOMAS, ISAIAH. The History of Printing in America. O U With a Biography of Printers and an Account of Newspapers. Illustrated. 2 volumes, tall 410, original calf. Worcester, From the press of Isaiah Thomas, Jun. Isaac Sturtevant, Printer, 1810. First Edition. Presentation copy from the Author, with autograph inscription on the title-page of volume I as follows : "Presented to the Rev. Leverett I. F. Huntington, By his Friend, Isaiah Thomas. Jany. 1820." 327 TUSSER, THOMAS. Five Hundred points of good Husbandry. Square 8vo, green morocco extra, gilt edges. London, Printed by I. O. for the Company of Stationers, 1638. The blank corners of a few leaves mended ; otherwise a good copy of this scarce volume. 328 WALLER, EDMOND. Poems, &c. Written by Mr. E. D. Waller. Small 8vo, buff polished calf, gilt edges, by Bedford. London, Printed for Humphrey Mosley, 1645. The genuine First Edition, with the dedication and advertisement to the reader and list of contents not in the spurious one. A fine copy of this very rare book. 329 WALLER, EDMOND. Poems, &c. Written Upon Several Occa- sions, And To Several Persons. By Edmond Waller, Esq. Small 8vo, original calf, gilt edges. London, Printed for Henry Herringman, 1664. Second Authorized Edition. Very fine copy, with the leaf of imprimatur, preceding the title- leaf, dated January loth, 1663. (so) / ^ Arnold Collection of Books and Letters 330 WALLER, EDMUND. The Works of Edmund Waller Esqr. in Verse and Prose Published by Mr. Fenton. Frontispiece por- trait of Waller engraved by Virtue after Kneller. Many other en- graved portraits by Virtue. Engraved title. 4to, original calf extra, red edges. London, Printed for I. Tonson, 1729. Very fine large copy. The binding is an interesting example of eighteenth-century work. 331 WALTON, IZAAK. The Life of Dr. Sanderson, Late Bishop of Lincoln. Brilliant impression of the frontispiece portrait by White. 8vo, original calf, marbled edges. London, Printed for Richard Marriott, 1678. First Edition. Fine copy. Book-plate of Charles B. Foote. 332 WALTON, IZAAK. The Lives of Dr. John Donne, Sir Henry Wotton, Mr. Richard Hooker, Mr. George Herbert. Written by Izaak Walton. Four portraits. i2mo, original calf, sprinkled edges. London, Printed by Tho. Newcomb for Richard Marriott, 1670. First Collected Edition. A large fresh copy, with fine impressions of the four portraits. Scarce. 333 WARNER, WILLIAM. Albions England : A Continued Historic of the same Kingdome, from the Originals of the first Inhabitants thereof: And most the chief e Alterations and Accidents there hapning: vnto, and in, the happie Raigne of our now most gracious Soueraigne Queen Elizabeth. First penned and pub- lished by William Warner : and now reuised, and newly inlarged by the same Author. 4to, red morocco, gilt edges, by the Club Bindery. London, Printed by the Widow Orwin for J. B., 1597. A scarce volume of sixteenth-century poetry. Title-page and several leaves mended and some lines cut into. This book is seldom found in perfect condition. ii (81) Arnold Collection of Books and Letters 334 Washington Collection. A Catalogue of the Washing- ton Collection in the Boston Athenaeum Compiled and Annotated by Appleton P. C. Griffin. With an Appendix By W. C. Lane. Illustrated. 8vo, original cloth, gilt top, other edges uncut. The Boston Athenaeum, 1897. Number 50 of 55 copies on special paper provided for the pur- pose in 1850, and first used in making this limited edition. 335 WITHER, GEORGE. Wither's Motto, Nee habeo, nee Careo, nee Curo. Engraved title by Elstraeke. Small 8vo, old calf. London, Printed for John Marriott, 1621. First Edition. Large copy, with the leaf of Explanation before the title-page. Some leaves water-stained. 33 6 WORDSWORTH, WILLIAM. Autograph Signature in The Annales of Cornelius Tacitus. The Description of Germanie. Translated by Sir Henry Savile K'. Folio, old boards, leather back. Printed at London, by Arnold Hatfield for John Norton, 1612. Wordsworth's copy, with his autograph signature on the title-page. The volume is in very poor condition. Some leaves are torn and many are wormed. 337 WORDSWORTH, WILLIAM. Poems of Wordsworth Chosen and Edited by Matthew Arnold. Vignette portrait. 8vo, original cloth, paper label, uncut. London, Macmillan and Co., 1892. First Edition. Large Paper copy. Cs WORDSWORTH AND COLERIDGE. A Description of The Wordsworth and Coleridge Manuscripts in the Posses- sion of Mr. T. Norton Longman. With three facsimile Repro- ductions. Edited with notes by W. Hale White. Large 4to, original boards, uncut. Longmans, Green, and Co., London, New York, and Bombay, 1897. (82) 60. Part II Letters et Cetera 339 ADDISON, JOSEPH. Original manuscript Transfer of Copy- right of the Eighth Volume of the Spectator, written on the first page of a folio sheet. The document reads as follows. "Know all men by these presents That I Joseph Addison of the Parish of S l Clements Danes in the County of Middle Essex for & in consideration of the Sume of Fifty Three pounds fifteen Shillings of good & Lawfull money of Great Britain to me in hand paid by Jacob Tonson Jun r of London Bookseller The receipt whereof He the said Joseph Addison Doth hereby acknowledge He the said Joseph Addi- son Hath Bargained Sold assigned & Sett over & by these presents Doth Bargain Sell assign & Sett over All That his full & Sole right & Title of in & to The Copy of the Eighth Vol of the Spectator from Number five hundred fifty Six Inclusive to Number Six hundred Thirty five Inclusive which said Copy to be and remain unto the said Jacob Tonson his heires & assigns for ever. In Witness whereof the said Joseph Addison hath hereunto Sett his hand & Seal this Twenty Seventh day of Aug st - 1715. Sealed & delivered being [Signed] Jos. Addison first stampt according to the Severall acts of parliam 1 in the presence of Tho. Tickell Jh Pinckney " 34 BROWN, JOHN. Autograph Letter to T. B. Musgrave. i page, 4to. The letter is given below in full. " Charlestown, Jefferson Co. Va. 17 th Nov. 1859. T. B. Musgrave Esqr My Dear Young Friend I have just received your most kind & welcome letter of the 15 th inst but did not get any other from you. I am under many obligations to you # to your Father for all the kindness you have shown me, especially since my disaster. May God & your own conciousness ever be your rewarders. Tell your Father that I am quite cheerful that I do not feel myself in the least de- (83) Arnold Collection of Books and Letters graded by my imprisonment, my chain, or the near prospect of the Gallows. Men cannot imprison, or chain ; or hang the Soul. I go joyfuly in behalf of Millions that "have no rights that this great & glorious"; "this Christian Republic," "is bound to respect." Strange change in morals political ; as well as Christian ; since 1776. I look forward to other changes to take place in "Gods good time" ; fully believing that "the fashion of this world passeth away." I am unable now to tell you where my friend is; that you inquire after. Perhaps my Wife who I suppose is still with Mrs [name obliterated], may have some information of him. I think it quite uncertain however. Farewell; May God abundantly bless You all. Your Friend John Brown" Brown was executed on December 2d, 1859. 341 BROWNING, ELIZABETH BARRETT. Autograph Letter to Cornelius Mathews. 3 pages, small 8vo, and address. About one half of this long letter is quoted below ; the portion not quoted is mostly comment on books written by Mr. Mathews. "50 Wimpole Street March, 1844. My dear M r Mathews you will forgive my silence for the sake of a feebleness of health which has been overmuch pressed upon this win- ter, by occupation. For the future you shall have a better corre- spondent, if indeed my writing to you oftener can appear to you a better thing and your indulgence will help you to understand, in the meantime, how a very weak hand, such as mine is, may be over- worked in the preparation for the printing of a book, until it is forced to deny itself to the claims of private letters. Also from the latter part of January to April I am apt to be more shaken than usual by the visitations of our English climate and the influence of the east wind. I have a heart which runs like a racehorse, leaps like a hun- ter, & stands still like a mule, all in the course of one morning so that I am sometimes forced to be quiet, & think of life death & the wind. Upon the whole, my health does improve, I think, and two summers now together might renew me, 1 fancy. But I live upon a point, a spire of a church liable to precipitation every instant which is no reason, however, that I sh d write so much about it. Yes, I will explain how impossible it was for me to escape the mortification of refusing to see your friend M r Belford. He wrote a very courteous letter to me when he found that I c d not see him, & amused me exceedingly by inquiring into the personal history of my relation M r Tennyson. Leigh Hunt he said, had intimated some- where that he was my relation ! Now I remember that Leigh Hunt in his 'Last of the Violets' (which by the way has just been repub- (84) Arnold Collection of Books and Letters lished by Moxon together with his other collected poems) had the goodness to say of me * I took her at first for a sister of Tennyson's ' and that poetical relationship which after all I have no better claim to, I fear, than lies in M r Hunt's ' gentilnesse,' is the only one exist- ing between us. Indeed I never saw M r Tennyson in my life. So far in reply to your question which made me smile again. And I have thanks upon thanks for you besides, for your kind words added to the mistake. As to the mistake, if I could make out a hundred & ninety ninth cousinship a hundred & ninety nine times removed from Alfred Tennyson, I would snatch at it, and frame my pedigree . . . I am at the end of my paper & have yet to thank you warmly & gratefully for your kind interest about the American edition of my poems, to the proposed arrangement of which I accede at once. The proof sheets & preface shall go to your care through Wiley & Put- nam ; and perhaps you will have the goodness to see that the latter, which must be in MS., is correctly printed. Probably I shall have two volumes here & Moxon is my publisher. Your American kindnesses are remembered in the deepest of my heart and to be less unworthy of them is a better object than fame. Let me hear from you, & tell me if your own book has a triumph in its own land. Ever yours truly & faithfully Elizabeth B. Barrett." 342 BROWNING, ROBERT. Autograph Letter signed Robert Brown- ing. T.y 2 pages, 8vo, 19 Warwick Crescent, upper Westbourne Terrace, July 28, 1863. "I find this morning that the case is very little altered the swell- ing being still so considerable as to affect Robert's articulation al- though in the main he is better and probably will be well in a day or two." 343 BROWNING, ROBERT. Autograph Letter to Mr. Gillespie, signed Robert Browning, i^ pages, 8vo, 19 Warwick Cres- cent, W. May 1 8, 1871. "I shall send in a packet to-morrow Robert's verses, they are too bulky for the post. You need be in no hurry to return them pray keep them six months if you please. You must remember they are the very first attempts of the poor fellow, but there is no fear that you will deny your indulgence. " (85) Arnold Collection of Books and Letters 344 f~ BRYANT, WILLIAM CULLEN. Fragment of an Autograph \ 7 George had a quick rejoinder to his Letter of excuse to Haslam, so we had not his company yesterday which I was sorry for as there was our old set. I know three witty people all dis- tinct in their excellence Rice, Reynolds and Richards. Rice is the wisest, Reynolds the playfullest, Richards the out-o'-the-wayest. The first makes you laugh and think, the second makes you laugh and not think, the third puzzles your head. I admire the first, I en- joy the second, I stare at the third. The first is Claret, the second Ginger-beer, the third Creme de Byrapymdrag. The first is inspired by Minerva, the second by Mercury, the third by Harlequin Epigram, Esq r . The first is neat in his dress, the second slovenly, the third uncomfortable. The first speaks adagio, the second allegretto, the third both together. The first is swiftean, the second Tom cribean, the third Shandean and yet these three Eans are not three Eans but one Ean. Charles came on Saturday but went early: he seems to have schemes and plans and wants to get off. He is quite right, I am glad to see him employed at business. You remember I wrote you a Story about a woman named Alice being made young again or some such stuff. In your next Letter tell me whether I gave it as my own or whether I gave it as a matter Brown was employed upon at the time. He read it over to George the other day, and George said he had heard it all before. So Brown suspects I have been giving you his Story as my own. I should like to set him right in it by your Evi- dence. George has not returned from Town when he does I shall tax his memory. We had a young, long, raw, lean Scotchman with us yesterday calld Thornton. Rice, for fun or for mistake would per- sist in calling him Stevenson. I know three people of no wit at all, each distinct in his excellence, A, B, and C. A is the foolishest, B the sulkiest, C is a negative. A makes you yawn, B makes you hate, as for C you never see him though he is six feet high. I bear the first, I forbear the second I am not certain that the third is. The first is gruel, the second Ditch water, the third is spilt he ought to be wiped up. A is inspired by Jack-o' the-clock B, has been drill'd by a russian serjeant C they say is not his Mothers true child but that she bought him of the Man who cries, Young lambs to sell. Twang dillo dee This you must know is the Amen to nonsense. I know a good many places where Amen should be scratched out, rubbd over with po[u]nce made of Momus's little finger bones and in its place Twang-dillo-dee written. This is the word I shall henceforth be tempted to write at the end of most modern Poems. Every Ameri- can Book ought to have it. It would be a good distinction in Society. My Lords Wellington, Castlereagh and Canning and many more would do well to wear Twang-dillo dee on their Backs instead of rib- bands at their Button holes. How many people would go side ways along walls and quickset hedges to keep their Twang-dillo-dee out of sight, or wear large pig-tails to hide it. However there would be so many that the Twang dillo dees would keep one another in Counte- nance which Brown cannot do for me I have fallen away lately. Thieves and Murderers would gain rank in the world, for would any (102) Arnold Collection of Books and Letters one of them have the poorness of spirit to condescend to be a Twang dillo dee? "I have robbed many a dwelling-house, I have killed many a fowl many a goose and many a Man (would such a gentle- man say) but thank heaven I was never yet a Twang dillo dee." Some philosophers in the Moon, who spy at our Globe as we do at theirs, say that Twang dillo dee is written in large letters on our Globe of Earth, They say the beginning of the T is just on the spot where London stands. London being built within the Flourish wan reach down and slant as far a Timbuctoo in Africa, the tail of the G goes slap across the Atlantic into the Rio della Plata the re- mainder of the letters wrap round New Holland, and the last e ter- minates on land we have not yet discovered. However, I must be silent; these are dangerous times to libel a man in, much more a world. " 38? KEATS, JOHN. Autograph Letter to Keats from his friend Benjamin Robert Haydon. 2^ pages, 4to, and address. The letter, of which only the signature and the postscript are in Haydon's handwriting, is given below in full. "Bridgewater Sept. 25 th My dear Keats Here I am as Shakespeare says ' Chewing the cud of sweet & bitter fancy,' solitary in the midst of society with no human being to ex- change a notion with except my sister and she begins to be so occupied with her little brats that if I attempt to quote Shakespeare to her I am ordered into silence for fear I should wake the children. I came here for repose of mind as I am now getting better I am again on the rack to be again in the midst of all the objects of my ambition. I am getting about again my hero and I hope to God I shall yet finish my picture to the satisfaction of all of you. I am longing to be among you and hear your account of your last Tour if it has done as much good to the inside as the outside of your head you will feel the effects of it as long as you live. I shall leave this place to- morrow or Monday & hope to be in Town by Wednesday at furthest. I hope your brother Tom does not suffer much poor fellow I shall never forget his look when I saw him last. I can never say as much when I dictate a letter as when I write it myself and this I hope will be a sufficient excuse for not writing a longer one to you at any rate this is better treatment than you gave me when you went on your Tour. Believe me my dear Keats most affectionately & sincerely Yours ever B. R. Haydon. P. S. to give you an idea of the elegant taste of this place the other dav^ irt company when I illustrated something by a quotation, one of die' company said with great simplicity, ' Lord Mr. Haydon, you are full of scraps.' adieu my eyes will not permit me." Arnold Collection of Books and Letters 384 KEATS, JOHN. Autograph Letter to Keats from his friend John Hamilton Reynolds. 3 pages, 8vo, and address. The letter is given below in full. "My Dear Keats I was most delighted at seeing you yesterday, for I hardly knew how I was to meet with you, situated as you are, and confined as I am. I wish I could have stayed longer with you. As to the Poem I am of all things anxious that you should publish it, for its complete- ness will be a full answer to all the ignorant malevolence of cold lying Scotchmen and stupid Englishmen. The overweening struggle to oppress you only shews the world that so much of endeavour cannot be directed to nothing. Men do not set their muscles, and strain their sinews to break a straw. I am confident, Keats, that the Pot of Basil hath that simplicity and quiet pathos, which are of sure Sov- ereignty over all hearts. I must say that it would delight me to have you prove yourself to the world, what we know you to be ; to have you annul the Quarterly Review, by the best of all answers. When I see you I will give you the Poem, and pray look it over with that eye to the littlenesses which the world are so fond of excepting to (though I confess with that word altered which 1 mentioned I see nothing that can be cavilled at) And let us have the Tale put forth, now that an interest is aroused. One or two of your Sonnets you might print, I am sure And I know that I may suggest to you, which because you can decide as you like [a portion of the sheet is lacking here] ... I give over all intention and you ought to be alone. I can never write anything now my mind is taken the other way: But I shall set my heart on having you, high, as you ought to be. Do you get Fame, and I shall have it in being your affectionate and steady friend. There is no one I am more interested in and there is no one that I have more pleasure in communicating my own happiness to. You will gratify me much by letting me have, when- ever you have leisure, copies of what you write; for more than my- self have a sincere interest in you. When shall I see you & when shall I go with you to Severn's Your ever affectionate Wed" Morn. J. H. Reynolds" 385 KEATS, JOHN. Complete Holograph Manuscript of the Poem, To Charles Cowden Clarke, dated 1816. Written on 4 pages of 410 letter-paper. Size of each page, 7^x9^ inches. The rarity of Keats manuscripts is well known. This is believed to be the first time that the manuscript of a complete poem by Keats has been sold at auction in this country. A facsimile of the whole poem will be found on the 4 pages following. (I0 4 ) a. t r fcte-p f y. , /1/tvA- v ' Jrr- ty MA il , L / J . aSu) OMJL -t Cvu^ Zjtn.cb.uMy AM *- J ^ \M J -W- 1 ^^ % ' * ./* A/rf axc^ JT t^ cL a- t-it,*^ 1 CrtJA ,^, W " (J fl Arnold Collection of Books and Letters 386 KEATS, JOHN. Autograph Letter by Joseph Severn to Keats's niece, Mrs. Philip Speed. 3 pages, small 8vo, and address. The letter is given below in full. "Rome Sep' i*t 1863 My dear Madam This is a line to assure you that I am the ' one devoted friend un- till death' of your illustrious relative 'John Keats' & that it has grati- fied me highly to be addressed by you in consequence of your read- ing my essay ' on the Vicissitudes of Keats's Fame ' As I had the happiness to meet his sister here (Madame d'Llanos) after 45 years! I trust it may be also my happiness to meet some others of his family in Rome, where I am likely to remain all my life, & where I first came in his dear company in Nov r 1820 & on his account altho' on my part so mad a thing as it seemed at the time & was pronounced so by most of my f ds ; yet it was the best & perhaps the only step to in- sure my artistic career, which no doubt was watched & blessed by His dear Spirit, for I remained 20 years without returning to England & during that time the Patrons I most valued came to me as 'the f ds of Keats' These have remained faithfull to me & to mine no doubt inspired by the revered name of the Poet. The success of my family (3 sons & 3 daughters) has turned on this. The chief of these Patrons I may mention is the present Chancellor of the Exchequer (William Gladstone) At this moment I only know of two personal f ds of the poet besides myself to be now living M r Charles Cowden Clark who is at Genoa & M r John Taylor (the Publisher) in London. It may be also that f ds of yours [one word torn from sheet here] chance to be visiting Rome & in that case I beg you to give them a note to me. This quiet note I fear may find you in the midst of wars misery if it ever finds you at all & I hope it may be the means of procuring me another letter from you or yours to yours most truly Joseph Severn For M rs Speed." 387 LONGFELLOW, HENRY WADSWORTH. Autograph Letter to Robert C. Winthrop, signed H. W. L. 4 pages, small 8vo, Carlisle, June 14, 1868. "On Saturday an Address was made me by the Carlisle Literary Society, and I had to reply. It was the first speech I ever made in my life, and I mean it shall be the last. It was only an inch long ; but while impending it cast a shadow over my life for three days ! " I 4 (I0 9 ) Arnold Collection of Books and Letters LOWELL, JAMES RUSSELL. Autograph Letter in Rhyme. i page, small 8vo. "My dear Mr. Regent if there's an ingregient in a poor devil's duties gives him hard thoughts of you, 'tis this ciphering and sorting biennial reporting: my experiment crucial comes tardy as usual from yours (as you know well) most cordially Lowell. Elmwood, Tuesday." 389 LOWELL, JAMES RUSSELL. Autograph Letter, i% pages, small 8vo. The letter is given below in full. "Elmwood, 13 th April, 1872. Dear Sir, if today had been pleasant, I should have answered your letter in person. For the last few weeks my mind has been too much taken up with nearer matters. The question of a new volume is one of time & mood rather than of money. I should like very much to get one ready but cannot quite yet be sure that I shall be able. To a man of my rooted habits, the thought of going to Europe is something which wonderfully dis- turbs the mind & scatters thought. You see I should have to (mainly) rewrite whatever I put in the book & there is the difficulty. I had better say ' no ' with an intention to do ' yes ' if I can. Very truly yours J. R. Lowell." 390 LOWELL, JAMES RUSSELL. Autograph Letter to Robert C. Winthrop, signed. 2^ pages, small 8vo, Legation of the United States, London, 20 th April, 1882. "As to the Royal Wedding, it is more than doubtful whether I am invited myself. My predecessor was not to the marriage of the Duke of Connaught & though I may be better kntown to the Duke of Al- bany than Mr Welsh that would probably make no difference in a (no) Arnold Collection of Books and Letters matter of etiquette. The Crown having lost all the substance of pre- rogative clings all the more closely to the Shadow. I hope I shall have the pleasure of seeing something of you while you are in London if Ireland leaves me any time or if the Irish Re- public doesn't send me home in Chains." 391 SHELLEY, PERCY BYSSHE. Autograph Letter, i page, 410, and address, to his publisher, Mr. Oilier. Postmarked 26 Nov. 1817. The letter is given below in full. "Marlow, Nov. 25, 1817. Dear Sir, I have not yet seen the announce [sic] of Laon & Cythna in the public papers. Be so good as not to let it be delayed a day longer, as the books are now ready. I wish a parcel of twelve to be sent to me as soon as you can get them put in boards. If you will send me the account of the expense of the advertisements I will transmit you the money the moment they appear Dear Sir Your most obe d - Percy B. Shelley. Send one to Hunt the first thing. Dante? & the Spectator?" The sheet on which this letter is written is much stained. 392 SHELLEY, PERCY BYSSHE. Autograph Letter, i page, 410, j . and address, July 17, 1821, to his publishers, Oilier & Co. The letter is given below in full. "Dear Sir I send you the bill of lading of the box containing Adonais: and I send also a copy to yourself by Mr. Gisborne who probably will ar- rive before the ship Pray put the inclosed in the post. I add a few words on the subject of my last letter. I think it of consequence that the circumstances of Mrs S. 's having written the work I propose to you should be kept a profound secret, & I repose upon my confidence in you to that effect. On consideration, I think that it ought not to be announced as written by the author of Frank- enstein : it bears every indication of the greatest popularity & many people might have been prejudiced by Frankenstein against a second attempt of the same author. The work I send you, has been seen in part by M r - Gisborne, & has excited, as it must in every one, the deepest interest. Dear Sir, yours very truly P. B. Shelley." (in) Arnold Collection of Books and Letters 393 SHELLEY, PERCY BYSSIIE. Autograph Letter. 3 pages, 410, and address, to his publishers, Oilier & Co. The letter is given below in full. "Pisa Jan n 1821 [1822] Dear Sir I cannot but express my surprize at the silence you have thought proper to observe respecting the various subjects on which I have written to you in the course of the last six months. My only motive in breaking it on the present occasion is to inform you that, consider- ing your total neglect as a negative upon my last modification of the proposal for M re Shelley's novel, I have sent it to M r Godwin with liberty to dispose of it to the best advantage, & should you still be desirous of publishing it, you may treat with him for the copyright. You will at once see how little reason you have to complain of this conduct on my part, when I tell you that two months elapsed between the completion of the novel & its being sent to England in expecta- tion of your answer. With respect to my own publications. I had exceedingly desired the immediate publication of Hellas from public no less than private reasons ; but as post day after post day passes & I receive no proof sheets of it, as I had requested, I suppose I might as well not have relied upon your spontaneous offers to execute my commissions. I was also, more than commonly interested in the success of Adonais ; I do not mean the sale, but the effect produced and I should have [been] glad to have received some communication from you re- specting it. I do not know even, whether it has been published, & still less whether it has been republished with the alterations I sent. The Historical Tragedy of Charles the first will be ready by the spring. It is my intention to sell the copyright of this poem and as you have always been my publisher, I give you the refusal of it. My reason for selling it, to speak frankly, is, that the bookseller should have sufficient interest in its success to give it a fair chance. Should you not think it worth while to make any offer for it ; of course you will absolve me from levity in applying to another pub- lisher. I ought to say that the Tragedy promises to be good, as Tragedies go ; & that it is not coloured by the party spirit of the author: how far it may be popular I cannot judge. Should you pay the same attention to my present letter as its late predecessors have received from you ; you will scarcely think it ex- traordinary that this should be the last time I intend to trouble you Dear Sir I have the honour to be Your obedient humble ser 1 Percy B. Shelley." The post-mark on the letter bears date "Ja-26 1822". Arnold Collection of Books and Letters 394 SHELLEY, MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT. Autograph Letter to Charles Oilier, i page, and address, small 8vo, Kentish Town, Monday. Postmarked February 19, 1825. "Mr. Colburn mentioned to my father that there was a Romance entitled The Last Man, in three thin volumes published some time ago Now that I have finished mine I should like to see this." 395 SHELLEY, MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT. Autograph Letter to Charles Oilier, signed Mary Shelley, i page, small 8vo, and address, Kentish Town, 5 Dec. [1825]. "I wrote some days ago requesting you to send me (from Mr. Colburn) Wordsworth's Poems and Keats's first publication contain- ing Sleep and Poetry. I am afraid some mistake has occurred and I shall soon want the books in the correction of a proof sheet " 396 SHELLEY, MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT. Autograph Letter, signed M. Shelley, i^ pages, small 8vo, Putney, 2 July. "The Triumph of Life was written in 1822 so that you caflnot give my husband the pas over Lord Byron in a thing which after all is but a trifle." 397 SHELLEY, MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT. Autograph Letter, signed M. Shelley. 2}^ pages, small 8vo, Kentish Town, 16 Jan. Refers to "Frankenstein." 398 SHELLEY, MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT. Autograph Letter to George W. Portman, signed Mary Shelley, i y 2 pages, small 8vo, n. p., n. d. "It has been my constant endeavour to withdraw myself person- ally from public notice and I flatter myself that I have so far suc- ceeded as to be quite sure that the portrait of so insignificant a per- son would possess no attraction for the numerous readers of the Magazine. As to a Memoir, as my sex has precluded all idea of my fulfilling public employment I do not see what the public have to do with me I am a great enemy to the prevailing custom of dragging private life before the world." ("3) Arnold Collection of Books and Letters 399 STEDMAN, EDMUND CLARENCE. Autograph Letter to Tick- nor and Fields, signed Edmund C. Stedman. i^ pages, 8vo, New York, August n, 1868, accepting a "proposition for pub- lishing my new book." 400 STEDMAN, EDMUND CLARENCE. Autograph Letter to James R. Osgood, signed E. C. Stedman. i^ pages, 4to, New York, June 17, 1873, entirely in relation to his forthcoming book of poems. 401 STEDMAN, EDMUND CLARENCE. Autograph directions "To the Printer," signed E. C. Stedman. 3 pages, narrow 8vo. Most explicit directions are here given for the arrangement of the w stanzas, style of type, etc., for a forthcoming book of the Poet. 402 STEDMAN, EDMUND CLARENCE. Autograph verse from " Pan in Wall Street," signed Edmund Clarence Stedman. i page, 8vo, New York, December 5, 1881. 403 WHITTIER, JOHN GREENLEAF. Autograph Letter to James T. Fields, signed J. G. W. ife pages, small 8vo, n. p., n. d. "I have an impression that this verse in 'The Countess' is a little stilted .... Would it not be a trifle more natural and in keeping to say instead : Her simple daily life he saw By homeliest duties tried In all things by an untaught law Of fitness justified." ("4) Arnold Collection of Books and Letters 404 WHITTIER, JOHN GREENLEAF. Autograph Letter, signed J- G. W. i page, small i6mo, n. p., n. d. A hastily written note of no particular interest. 405 WHITTIER, JOHN GREENLEAF. Autograph Letter to James R. Osgood. 2 pages, small 8vo. The letter is given below in full. " Amesbury 28 th 12 mo, 1870 Dear fd. Osgood I hardly know what to say to you. Everything with me is so un- certain that I hardly dare promise anything positively. The ' Poetry for Children ' I believe I did half promise M r F. I have had in mind a volume of Ballads under the title of 'Indian Summer,' strung to- gether by a thread of narative [sic] & description, somewhat like The Tent on the Beach. Yet, as all depends on my health, and that is a very slight dependence any how, I am afraid to have you an- nounce my dimly defined project, as a positive matter. It might be safer to say probably. I shall be in Boston, if I am able, about the middle of the next month. yrs truly John G. Whittier" 406 WHITTIER, JOHN GREENLEAF. Autograph Letter to James R. Osgood. i page, small 8vo. The letter is given below in full. "Amesbury 8 th 4 mo 1875 My dear Friend Have you printed off the 'Mabel Martin ' ? It seems to me proper to say a word in a note about the change in name &c in the poem. And there is a slight error in punctuation in one of the verses, and one word misspelled : and in the proem or introductory stanza I wish to make one or two verbal corrections. Let me know whether I am too late & oblige thy friend J. G. W." Arnold Collection of Books and Letters 407 WHITTIER, JOHN GREENLEAF. Autograph Letter to Mary Howitt. 3 pages, small 8vo, with addressed envelope. "Oak Knoll Danvers 19 th 7 th Mo 1877 My dear Friend Mary Howitt I am more sorry than I can tell about the unlucky ' error i the bill ' to which thy kind note, just rec d , refers. My head & eyes are too ailing for proof reading and my own poems have in consequence, often appeared in a questionable shape. I will try to have the matter set right. I know too well just how an author feels about such per- versions of his meaning & words. Did I write thy husband about his admirable Peace Poem? If I did not I meant to do it. It is a strong & powerful plea for Peace, and was never more needed than now I wish I had the Arabian Nights carpet to transport me to your beautiful Tyrolese summer home. I should be so glad to shake hands with you. I can truly say with much love I am your friend John G. Whittier" 408 WHITTIER, JOHN GREENLEAF. Autograph Letter to James R. Osgood. 3 pages, small 410. The letter is given below in full. "Danvers 2 d mo 24 1882 My dear James Osgood I was pleased with thy plan of publishing an edition of English Poets with biographical & critical introductions, and would have been glad to have some little connection with it. But I fear I must give up the idea of attempting it. More than a year ago I was induced to consent to write an introduction to a volume of Mrs Child's Letters, and had two or three times essayed to do it, but was unable to pro- ceed. Since my return home, I have tried to finish the sketch, but find that I cannot write without suffering & exhaustion. As I can only write in a fragmentary way, a few minutes at a time, it is more difficult to write prose than verse. I am more sorry than any one else can be, but I must yield to the inevitable. The work I wish I could do, will no doubt be better done by others, for I am exceptionally weak in criticism & analysis. I wish to say here, that in common with all who have been con- nected with thee as their publisher, I entertain a grateful sense of thy uniform kindness and liberality. To thee & Fields I owe much. You have been my friends as well as my publishers. With every good wish for thee, I am truly & gratefully thy old friend John G. Whittier" (1*6) Arnold Collection of Books and Letters 409 WHITTIER, JOHN GREENLEAF. Autograph Letter. \y 2 pages, small 8vo. The letter is given below in full. " Oak Knoll Danvers Mass 8 th mo. 26. 1886 Dear Friend The entire writings of mine are published in the ' Household Edi- tion ' of my Poems, and in the two volumes of Prose works, pub- lished by Houghton, Mifflin & Co Boston. I thank thee for the kind words of thy letter and for so truly interpreting my feeling in regard [to] the people of the South, and those who differed from me in political opinions for ' If my words were harsh at times They spared my fellow men : their blows Fell only upon crimes.' I am very truly thy friend John G. Whittier" 410 WORDSWORTH, WILLIAM. Autograph Letter to James Tobin. 3 pages, 410, and address. The letter is given below in full. "Allfoxden 6* March [1798] My dear Tobin, I have long wished to thank you for your letter & Gustavus Vasa. They were both very acceptable to me in this solitude. The Tragedy is a strange composition of genius & absurdity : as you have not read it I will take care of it for you. I am perfectly easy about the thea- tre, if f had no other method of employing myself Mr Lewis's suc- cess would have thrown me into despair. The Castle Spectre is a Spectre indeed. Clothed with the flesh & blood of 400 received from the treasury of the theatre it may in the eyes of the author & his friend appear very lovely. There is little need to advise me against publishing; it is a thing which I dread as much as death itself. This may serve as an example of the figure by rhetoricians called hyperbole, but privacy & quiet are my delight. No doubt you have heard of the munificence of the Wedgwoods towards Coleridge. I hope the fruit will be good as the seed is noble. We leave Allfox- den at Midsummer. The house is let to Crewkshank of Stowey so our departure is decided. What may be our destination I cannot say. If we can raize the money we shall make a tour on foot. Probably through Wales & Northwards. At present utterly unable to say 15 Arnold Collection of Books and Letters where we shall be. We have no particular reason to be attached to the neighbourhood of Stowey but the society of Coleridge, & the friendship of Poole. News we have none, our occupations continue the same, only I rise early in the mornings. I have written 1300 lines of a poem in which I can contrive to con- vey most of the knowledge of which I am possessed. My object is to give pictures of nature, man, & society. Indeed I know not any thing which will not come within the scope of my plan. If ever I at- tempt another drama, it shall be written either purposely for the closet or purposely for the stage. There is no middle way. But the work of composition is carved out for me, for at least a year and a half to come. The essays of which I have spoken to you must be written with eloquence, or not at all. My eloquence, speak- ing with modesty, will all be carried off, or at least for some time, into my poem. If you could collect for me any books of travels you would render me an essential service, as without much of such read- ing my present labours cannot be brought to a conclusion. I have not yet seen the life of Mrs. Godwyn. I wish to see it, though with no tormenting curiosity. If you have three pounds, eighteen shil- lings to spare for a few months I will thank you to call at No 6 little Ormond street, queen square, and pay the bill for the newspapers. The bill is either a mistake or a gross imposition but there is no remedy. Let me hear from you soon. If you can employ an amanu- ensis it would be better as we find it difficult to read your letters. Basil grows a stout fellow he has not forgotten you. My sister desires to be kindly remembered to you. Yours sincerely William Wordsworth." In both instances where the name Tobin is written the original writing has been erased. 411 WORDSWORTH, WILLIAM. Autograph Letter to Henry Reed of Philadelphia. 3 pages, 410, and address. [London, 1837.] The letter is given below in full. "19 th August My dear Sir, Upon returning from a tour of several months upon the Continent I find two letters from you awaiting my arrival, along with the edi- tion of my Poems which you have done me the honor of editing. To begin with the former Letter, April 25 1836. It gives me courage that you should have thought it necessary (not to apologize for that you have not done, but) to explain at length why you addressed me in the language of affectionate regard. It must surely be gratifying to one whose aim as an Author has been the hearts of his fellow (118) Arnold Collection of Books and Letters creatures of all ranks & in all stations to find that he has succeeded in any quarter, and still more must he be gratified to learn that he has pleased in a distant country men of simple habits and cultivated taste, who are at the same time widely acquainted with literature. Your second Letter accompanying the edition of the Poems, I have read, but unluckily have it not before me. It was lent to Sargeant Talfourd on account of the passage in it that alludes to the possible & desirable establishment of english copyright in America I shall now hasten to notice the edit, which you have superintended of my poems. This I can do with much pleasure, as the Book which has been shown to several persons of taste, Mr Rogers in particular, is allowed to be far the handsomest specimen of print in double column which they have seen. Allow me to thank you for the pains you have bestowed upon the work. Do not apprehend that any differences in our several arrangements of the poems can be of much importance ; you appear to understand me far too well for that to be possible. I have only to regret, in respect to this volume, that it should have been published before my last Edition in the correction of which I took great pains as my last labour in that way, and which moreover con- tains several additional poems. It may be allowed me also to express a hope that such a law will be passed erelong by the American Legis- lature, as will place English Authors in general upon a better footing in America than at present they have obtained, and that the protec- tion of Copyright between the two Countries will be reciprocal. The vast circulation of English works in America offers a temptation for hasty and incorrect printing; and that same vast circulation without adding to the price of each copy of an English work in a degree that could be grudged or thought injurious by any purchaser, would allow in America remuneration which might add considerable to the com- fort of English Authors who may be in narrow circumstances, yet who at the same time may have written solely from honourable mo- tives. Besides: Justice is the foundation upon which both law and practice ought to rest. Having many Letters to write on returning to England after so long an absence I regret that I must be so brief upon the present occasion. I cannot conclude however without assuring you, that the acknowl- edgements which I receive from the vast Continent of America are among the most grateful that reach me. What a vast field is there open to the English Mind acting through our noble Language. Let us hope that our Authors of true Genius will not be unconscious of that thought, or inattentive to that duty which it imposes upon them of doing their utmost to cultivate to purify & to elevate their Readers. That such may be my own endeavour through the short time that I shall have to remain in this world, is a prayer in which I am sure you and your [two words illegible] will join me. Believe me gratefully Your much obliged Friend W Wordsworth " ("9) SUPPLEMENT The items here entered, with two exceptions which are noted, were acquired too late for inser- tion in Mr. Arnold's Catalogue of American First Editions. Numbers A3, A4, A5, A6, Ay t A8, are not Mr. Arnold's property. Four of the six were not in his first editions of Lowell, so he is glad to include them here. "II Pesceballo" is so rare that a second opportunity to obtain a copy will doubtless be welcomed by many collectors of Lowell's books. The " Death of President Garfield " is in paper covers the copy in the collection was in cloth covers. READ AT THE OPENING OF THE PENNSYLVANIA HALL, ON PHILADELPHIA: *JUtfTED BY MERBIHEW A!TD .GUWW No. 7 Carter's Alley. 1838* See Number A 12. SUPPLEMENT Emerson Ai The Young American. 8vo, half morocco, gilt top. London, 1844. First Edition. Fine copy. Exceedingly rare. This volume is from the library of Thomas J. McKee, and has his book-plate. Longfellow A.2 The Estray: A Collection of Poems. Edited by Longfellow. With the " Proem" by Longfellow; and the poems " Raphael," by Whittier; "To a Pine Tree," by Lowell; "The Problem," by Em- erson; and " The Future Life," by Bryant. 1 2 mo, original boards, 2 paper label, uncut. Boston, 1847. First Edition. Name on title-page. Fine copy, with the 2 pre- liminary leaves of advertisements dated January i, 1847. When the books in Mr. Arnold's Collection of American First Edi- tions were checked by the auctioneers, one title only of those which had been listed for insertion in the catalogue was missing the catalogue card had been lost. By a curious coincidence the name of the book is "The Estray," which, at last, finds a place here. Longfellow A 3 Excelsior. With twelve illustrations. Square i zmo, unbound and unstitched. New York, 1872. First separate issue. Very scarce. In the catalogue of American First Editions the issue of 1878 is erroneously entered as the first separate issue. Longfellow A4 The Alarm Bell of Atri. A poem, by Longfellow. 8vo, printed on three pages for the "Fair for Our Dumb Animals." 8vo. 1875. Second Edition. This leaflet was erroneously catalogued as the issue of 1871. The purchaser returned it, so this opportunity is taken to re-enter it under its actual date of issue. Supplement Lowell A 5 II Pesceballo. Opera in one Atto. Musica del Maestro Ros- sibello-Donimazarti. 1 2mo, original paper covers. Cambridge, 1892. First Edition. Privately printed. Fine copy. Very rare. Lowell A6 How I Consulted the Oracle of the Goldfishes. Orig- inal galley-proof of the first 9 stanzas of the Poem, with numerous manuscript additions and corrections in Lowell's hand- writing. [Cambridge, 1889.] Lowell A 7 How I Consulted the Oracle of the Goldfishes. Orig- inal proof-sheets of the whole Poem with 2 manuscript lines in Lowell's handwriting. 8vo, 3 separate leaves. [Cambridge,] August, 1889. Lowe!/ AS Death of President Garfield. Meeting of Americans in London, at Exeter Hall, 24* Sept., 1881. With an address on Garfield by Lowell. Portrait. Square i2mo, original paper cov- ers, gilt top, other edges uncut. London, 1881. First Edition. Back of cover broken, but otherwise a fine copy. Lowe!! A<) Memoir of James Russell Lowell, LL.D. By A. Laurence Lowell. 8vo, original paper covers, uncut. Cambridge, 1896. First Edition. Lowell Aio Addresses delivered at the Lowell Commemoration. Held in the Architektenhaus, Berlin, February 19, 1897. 8vo, original paper covers. Berlin [1897]. First Edition. The address of Professor Grimm is printed in German; the ad- dresses of Professors Brandl and Hatfield are in English. Inserted is one of the original engraved cards of invitation to the Commemo- ration. Supplement Whittier An American Anecdotes : Original and Select. By an American. ^ With the poem, The Spectre Ship of Salem, by Whittier. 2 vol- umes, 1 2mo, original boards, cloth backs, paper labels, uncut. Boston, 1830. First Edition. Very scarce. Fine copy. Whittier Ai2 Address Read at the Opening of The Pennsylvania Hall, on the isth of Fifth Month, 1838. i2mo, stitched. Philadelphia, 1838. First Edition. Fine copy. Rare. A facsimile of the title-page is the frontispiece to this Supplement. /* /* Whittier At Sundown. 1 2mo, original cloth. Cambridge, 1890. First Edition. One of a few copies privately printed for presenta- tion purposes, and preceding the published edition by 2 years. Bound in with the book, as issued, is a small slip of paper on which is written, "From John G. Whittier," in the Poet's handwriting. This copy formerly belonged to Charles B. Foote, and has his book-plate. Whittier Whittier as a Politician. Illustrated by his Letters to Professor Elizur Wright, Jr. Now first published. Edited, with Explanatory Text, by Samuel T. Pickard. Portrait. 8vo, original boards, paper label, uncut. Boston, 1900. First Edition. Inserted is an autograph letter of i ^ pages, with address "Hon Robt C. Winthrop Marlborough street Boston Mass" The letter is given below in full. "Danvers I st mo 7 1 88 1 My Dear Friend I hasten to thank thee for thy letter, & for the generous aid to the Florida Church, which thee & M rs W. have given. God bless you for it. I have read thy eloquent Memoir of Henry Clay a man whom I have always greatly admired. There is little, if anything in [thy] estimate of the great statesman, that I cannot endorse. It was at my suggestion that he offered to use his influence for the liberation of Garrison from the Baltimore jail. With sincere respect and esteem I am thy friend John G. Whittier." Fifteen hundred copies of this catalogue were printed at the Marion Press, Jamaica, Queensborough, New-York, in March, 1901. FRANK E. HOPKINS. ^HHI First Editions mo } ( i ( ' oil ection of American. 1 in red) and the k /. '. \\ Hie number, till'.-, and here will ; , w , i in each insta nee. v\ <- etl i - ! .-'.action or / ri \ ate : L>. ber of Jkcsh:::; 1 /-^: ' bs 1 i IT ere Iot|ueof the collec on. Fhe .edition will be . b to ^ 20 copies, and vs : i be pj inted ai the ; : a: Press, xfaiaaic;: . Queensborotiali, New- York, ; American hand-i n; tde pa p er. i o i .-copies. OB ? . / ' i be Bold, bj Dodd, Mead & Gompan y, Fifth / !; ' and 'th Si-- ,- N< w York. THE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY This book is DUE on the last date stamped below FormL-O r -3, '89(7752) letters 897 082