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British Museum Publications-continued.

1860

British Museum Publications-continued.

PRINTED BOOKS.

List of the Additions from 1831-35, 5 vols. roy. 8vo. bds. 7s 1834-39
Catalogue of Printed Books in the British Museum. Vol. I., folio,
188 sheets; 1. boards

the Hebrew Books in the Museum, 8vo. £1. 5s
Bibliotheca Grenvilliana, Part II., 8vo £1. 11s 6d

1841

1867

1848

Part III., 8vo. 15s-Large paper, £2.28 1872
List of Books of Reference in the Reading-Room of the British
Museum, 8vo. 5s. With Coloured Plan

MAPS.

1871

Catalogue of the Geographical Collection in the Library of King
Geo. III., 2 vols. 8vo. 1. 4s

PRINTS AND DRAWINGS.

1829

Catalogue of the Maps, Prints, Drawings, etc. attached to the
Library of King George the Third, 2 vols. 8vo. cloth, 108 1829
of the Manuscript Maps, Charts, and Plans, and of the
Topographical Drawings, 2 vols. 8vo. bds. 108
1844
Catalogue of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum. Division I.
Political and Personal Satires. Vol. I., 1320 to April 11, 1689,
8vo. £1. 58

1870

Vol. II., June, 1689 to 1733, 8vo. £1. 10s 1873

British Museum Publication. Facsimile of an Egyptian
Hieratic Papyrus of the reign of Rameses III, oblong atlas folio, 79
large plates, with an historical and descriptive Introduction, and
Translation by S. Birch, bds. £3. By Order of the Trustees, 1876

British Museum Sanskrit Texts. A Catalogue

of Sanskrit and Pali Books in the British Museum, by Dr. Ernest
Haas, 1 vol. 4to. 200 pp. cloth, 21s
1876
A Catalogue raisonné of one of the best collections of Sanscrit MSS., forming a necessary
adjunct to the meagre guide of Gildemeister.

Binns (R. W.) Century of Pottery in the City

of Worcester, being the History of the Royal Porcelain Works, from 1751-
1851; to which is added a short account of the Celtic, Roman and Mediaeval
Pottery of Worcestershire; SECOND EDITION, with 109 plates and woodcuts,
hf. morocco, £2. 12s 6d

1877

the same, 4to. LARGE PAPER, with 12 extra photographic plates, only
12 copies printed for sale, £7. 7s

1877

1856

Bruce's Bayeux Tapestry: The Bayeux Tapestry elucidated,
by BRUCE, 4to. 17 facsimile plates, COLOURED, boards, 20s
Burckhardt's Arabic Proverbs, or the Manners

and Customs of the Modern Egyptians, illustrated from the proverbial
sayings current at Cairo, translated and explained by John Lewis
Burckhardt, second edition, 8vo. cloth, 188

1875

This book-the most valuable in certain respects of all the works of the eminent traveller-
has long been rare and difficult to obtain even at a very costly rate. To supply the great exist-
ing demand for it, the present reprint has been executed, and is now offered to the public at a
moderate price.

Cancioneirinho de Trovas antigas, colligidas de um

grande Cancioneiro da Bibliotheca do Vaticano, precedido de una noticia critica, 12mo. bds. 12s Vienna, 1872 Printed in a clear old Gothic type imitated from the MS. The minstrels were Portuguese and Galicians; and an interesting literary history is contained in the introduction.

Chamberlaine's Imitations of Drawings from the

Great Masters in the Royal Collection, engraved by BARTOLOZZI and others, impl. folio, 74 fine plates, mostly tinted, including, in addition, "Ecce Homo" after Guido, and the scarce Series of Anatomical Drawings (pub. at £12. 12s) richly hf. bound morocco, gilt edges, £5. 5s 1796

Chippendale Furniture: A Collection of Ornamental

Designs, applicable to Furniture, Frames, and the Decoration of Rooms in the style of Louis XIV, impl. 4to. 24 plates of elaborate designs of Mirrors, Girandolles, Cartouches, and Cabinet Work, (pub. at 21s) cloth, 7s 6d s. a. (? 1820)

It is by means of such a charming book of designs as the above that Art taste will be instilled into the minds of the working Artists and Mechanics. It is Books versus the Trade Unions and the Pot-house.

Claude, Beauties of, containing 24 of his choicest Landscapes, beautifully engraved on steel, by Brumley, Lupton and others, with Biographical Sketch of Claude, and portrait, roy. folio, (pub. at £3. 12s) in a portfolio, morocco back, £1. 5s

1825

Claude's Liber Veritatis, a Collection of 300 Prints after the original designs of Claude; in the Collection of his Grace the Duke of Devonshire, Richard Payne Knight, the British Museum, &c., engraved by RICHARD EARLOM, in the manner and taste of the Drawings. To which is added a descriptive Catalogue of each Print; together with the names of those for whom, and the places for which, the original Pictures were first painted (taken from the handwriting of Claude on the back of each drawing), and of the present possessors of many of the Original Pictures, 3 vols. folio, (pub. at £31. 10s) hf. bound moròcco extra, richly gilt backs and gilt edges, £10. 10s 1777-1804

To this edition has been added a revised list of the plates, with addition of the prices at which the pictures have been sold, and to whom. This was compiled for Mr. Bohn by the late Mr. John Smith, the eminent picture dealer.

Coney's Engravings of Foreign Cathedrals,

Hôtels de Ville, Town Halls, and other remarkable Buildings, containing some of the grandest examples of Gothic Architecture in France, Holland, Germany, and Italy, 32 fine large plates, impl. folio, (pub. at £10. 10s) half morocco extra, gilt edges, £3. 13s 6d

1842

Constable's Graphic Works, many of them now first published, comprising 40 large and highly finished mezzotinto engravings on steel, by David Lucas; with short descriptive Letterpress, by C. R. Leslie, R.A., folio, (pub. at £5. 5s) half red morocco extra, gilt edges,

£2. 2s

1855

Cotman's Engravings of the Sepulchral

BRASSES in NORFOLK and SUFFOLK, tending to illustrate the Ecclesiastical, Military, and Civil Costume of former ages, as well as to preserve Memorials of the most ancient Families in those Counties; with Letterpress Descriptions, an Introductory Essay on Sepulchral Memorials by Dawson Turner, and Notes by Sir Samuel Rush Meyrick, Albert Way, and Sir Harris Nicolas; also a General Index, new and greatly enlarged edition, containing 173 plates, two of which being enamelled brasses, are splendidly illuminated, in 2 vols. small folio, the size of Stothard's Monuments, hf. bound morocco, uncut, top edges gilt, £6. 6s 1839

the same, LARGE PAPER, 2 vols. impl. folio (uniform in size with the Architectural Etchings), hf. bound mor. uncut, top edges gilt, £8. 8s 1839

1838

Cotman's Etchings of Architectural Remains, chiefly Norman and Gothic, in various Counties in England, but principally in Norfolk, with Descriptive Notices by Dawson Turner, and Architectural Observations by Thomas Rickman, 2 vols. impl. folio, containing 240 highly spirited Etchings, (pub. at £24.) hf. morocco, uncut, top edges gilt, £8. 8s Cotman's Liber Studiorum. A Series of Landscape Studies and Original Compositions, several in the style of the Old Masters, for the use of Art-students, consisting of 40 etchings, the greater part executed in the manner termed "soft ground," impl. folio, half bound morocco, uncut, £1. 11s 6d 1838 "Mr. Cotman is beyond all comparison the most spirited and forcible of the Architectural Draughtsmen of the present age. His Etchings have all the richness and vigour of the best artists of the old School, and are highly prized by all who are capable of appreciating them."

"The plates, etched and drawn by Mr. Cotman, are recommended by a high degree of merit and interest; most of the subjects which this indefatigable artist has chosen are hitherto inedited monuments. Mr. Cotman's style of engraving is well adapted for architecture, and unites picturesque effect with fidelity of delineation."- Quarterly Review.

The Dabistan ; or, School of Manners.

Translated from the Persian, with Notes, &c. by D. SHEA, and A. TROYER, 3 vols. 8vo. cloth, getting scarce, £2. 2s 1844

This is a work of great interest for all Oriental Scholars and Comparative Mythologists. Sir William Jones describes this work as containing "nore recondite learning, more entertaining history, more beautiful poetry, more ingenuity and wit, indecency and blasphemy, than he ever saw collected in a single volume." It contains an account of the old Persian, the Brahmin, the Buddhist, the Christian, the Sufi, and the Mohammedan religions, with their various sects; as well as a statement of their doctrines. It is most valuable for its exposition of the Zoroastrian creed, as this is based upon ancient Zend works now entirely lost.

Now ready an entirely new edition of

Digby's Broad Stone of Honour: MORUS, TANCREdus,

and ORLANDUS, in 5 vols. crown 8vo. handsomely printed, gilt cloth, uncut, £2. 12s 6d

Only 500 copics were printed.

the same, LARGE PAPER, 5 vols. medium 8vo. printed on Whatman's fine hand-made paper, hf. morocco, uncut, £5. 58

Only 50 copies were printed.

The author's greatest work; originally written at twenty-one years of age, reprinted with changes and additions one year later; and finally given to the world in its complete form between

Digby's Broad Stone of Honour-continued.

1829 and 1848, after he had embraced the ancient faith of Europe, and thereby found himself obliged to make considerable alterations in the text. The product of a highly sensitive and graceful genius, richly stored with learning, it stands in the same relation to the History of Chivalry as the works of Mr. Ruskin to the History of Art. No ancient romancer, nor yet Mr. Tennyson in our own time, has ever painted Knighthood in such beautiful shape and delicate colouring; and the enthusiasm which breathes throughout the work reveals the nature of the author himself as dentical with the type he portrays. In spite of the vast knowledge of olden times and mediæval literature which is visible in every passage of his book, there is no mouldiness of antiquity, no dust or rust, on the mirror of his intellect; his style is simple and unaffected; and to any mind, in which high and noble thoughts can ever harbour, the reading of the Broad Stone of Honour will be as delightful and full of charm as the Earlier Romances of Chivalry.

Digby's Broad Stone of Honour, Orlandus, 2 vols. 12mo. uniform with and completing Imley's edition, cloth, sold separately, 14s

Sold also separately: MORUS, 1 vol. for 8s; the TANCREDUS, for 10s.

ALBERT DURER'S

WORKS.

1876

L'Apocalypse, ou la Revelation de St. Jean, par Albert Dürer, en 15 gravures sur bois anno 1498, et Vignette de Titre anno 1511, reproduction, procédé A. W. van de Weijer, d'après les plus beaux tirages (la plupart avant de lettre) du Cabinet de feu H. A. Cornill-D'Orville, Francfort Spa, avec une introduction et description des gravures par W. H. J. Weale, Bruges, atlas folio, £2. 4s

Utrecht, 1877 DURER'S APOCALYPSE, his master-piece of wood engraving, has now been reproduced so perfectly that even connoisseurs might mistake these facsimiles for original impressions.

La Grande Passion par Albert

Durer,

en

douze Gravures sur bois, Nuremberg, anno 1511; reproduction, procédé
A. W. van de Weijer, d'après les épreuves avant le lettre appartenant
au Cabinet de Dr. Straeter, Aix la Chapelle, avec une Introduction par
G. Duplessis, atlas folio, twelve fine large plates on tinted
on tinted paper, mounted
on drawing paper, unbound, £1. 16s
Utrecht, 1873

Durer, la Vie de la Sainte Vierge Marie

en vingt gravures sur bois, Nuremberg anno 1511, décrite en vers Latins par Chelidonius; réproduction, procéde de P. W. Van de Weijer, avec une introduction par Ruelens, folio, 20 facsimiles of the original beautiful woodcuts, sd. 21s Utrecht, 1875

This work deserves support from a wide circle, for at the price at which it is offered no greater boon could be conferred on the Art-loving public. A facsimile reproduction of such a series of engravings-the masterpieces of the greatest of all German artists-ought to be hailed with gladness by those who know the fame of Dürer, and the extreme difficulty of obtaining his original works even at a very high cost.

The great and little Passion, by Dürer, are in preparation.

Durer's Engraved Works, folio, 104 of the

most superb Engravings and Etchings, on Copper and Steel, by this the greatest of all German Artists, reproduced in facsimile, giving all the brilliancy of the original first impressions, with a German text by LÜBKE, in parts, £7. 7s Nuremberg, 1877

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