Bibliography (Early Dutch): Holtrop (J. W.) MONUMENS TYPOGRAPHIQUES des PAYS-BAS au XVe SIÈCLE, Collection de Facsimile d'après les originaux conservés à la Bibliothèque Royale de la Haye et ailleurs, 21 parts, complete in 1 vol. atlas 4to. hf, bd. £6. 10s The same, hf. bd. red morocco, gilt top, uncut, £7. 10s 1857-68 1857-68 Only 200 copies printed. Indispensable to the Student of the History of Printing. Block-Books : HOLY CROSS: Geschiedenis van het heylighe Cruys; or the History of the Holy Cross, reproduced in facsimile from the original edition printed by J. Veldener in 1483, text and engravings by J. Ph. Berjeau, sm. 4to. (published at £1. 5s), bds. 20s 1863 Introduction, 12 pp. History of the Holy Cross, text (in modern type) with illustrative extracts from the Golden Legend and ancient French MSS. 60 pp. The facsimile, 64 woodcuts on 33 leaves, with text at foot. SPECULUM Humanæ Salvationis: le plus ancien Monument de la Xylographie et de la Typographie réunies, reproduit en facsimile avec introduction historique et bibliographique, par J. P. Berjeau, impl. 4to. including facsimiles of the 116 woodcuts, cloth (published at £4. 4s), £2. 10s 1861 Title and Introduction, 72 pp. The Speculum in modern type, 33 pp. The Speculum, in facsimile, 63 leaves printed on one side, and including 116 distinct designs, on Dutch-made paper of precisely the same texture and tint as the original. Only 155 copies were printed, and the book is now out of print. This block-book, supposed to have been executed about 1435, is of the greatest interest in the history of the origin of typography, as well as of popular education. It is a Pictorial Scripture History, that is to say a picture of a certain subject from the Old or New Testament is given, with a more or less brief account in black letter underneath it, of the personages or scenes intended. Each page has a double subject. As regards the drawing we hold it to be, though rude, very artistic. There is a decided character and an expression in the figures that are almost worthy of Albert Dürer. Nothing is feeble, though much is quaint. The draperies are simple and effective, and there is no crowding of figures, but a judicious grouping of from two to five personages in each, with backgrounds of trees, hills or houses, as in the works of the early Masters.-See Home and Foreign Review, April, 1863. Bowes (J. L.) Japanese Enamels, with Illustrations from examples in the Bowes Collection, impl. 8vo. woodcuts in the text and 20 plates of Japanese Pottery, some in gold and colours, cloth, £1. 1s Liverpool, printed for private circulation, 1884 Botany. Only a few copies left of BOOTT (F.) Illustrations of the GENUS CAREX, 4 vols. folio, 600 plates, containing several thousand figures, £21. 1858-67 This valuable book must rise in price, as only half-a-dozen copies remain for sale. The most valuable and exhaustive work on the grasses of the whole world, containing 600 plates of the full size of nature, most beautifully drawn by M. Maubert, of Paris, and engraved on copper under the guidance and inspection of M. Spach. The Author printed the first three volumes for presentation to his friends; the work being interrupted by his death, was completed from the materials left by him, by Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker, a fourth volume containing plates 412-600 being published. The few remaining copies of the fourth volume have passed into the hands of Mr. QUARITCH, who would urge upon the possessors of the first three volumes the necessity of immediately completing their copies, as the very small remainder of the fourth volume will soon be exhausted. No more copies can ever be produced, as the copper-plates were sold as old metal. Price of the FOURTH volume, wanting to many copies distributed gratis, separately, £10. Botany. CLARKE (C. B., Superintendent of the Calcutta Botanic Garden) Commelynaceæ et Cyrtandraceæ Bengalenses, royal folio, 95 fine large plates, with accurate structural details and descriptive text, bds. 20s Calcutta, 1874 Very few of this learned and valuable Botanical work have come to England and Europe, and none have gone yet to America. Commelynaceae is Englished Spiderworts. Cyrtandraceæ is Englished Gesnerworts, i.e. by Lindley: but as none of either of these grow in England or in Europe, these English terms convey no meaning to most Englishmen. It might be better to call the Cyrtandraceæ Gloxinias. The book contains life-sized figures with descriptions of all the species of Spiderwort and Asiatic Gloxinia known to inhabit Bengal. The book was published by C. B. Clarke, who has elaborated the whole Order Commelynaces for the forthcoming volume of Monographs published by Alphonse and Casimir De Candolle. The figures of several of the rare specimens were drawn by a Bengali artist from the living plants in their native jungles, under the superintendence of C. B. Clarke. ELWES'S (H. J.) Monograph of the genus LILIUM, complete in 7 parts, impl. folio, two maps, photograph, and 48 superbly COLOURED plates of every known species of LILIES, engraved by FITCH, often two species on one plate, stitched, £6. 68 Privately printed, 1880 Only 250 copies were issued for subscribers. The Author, by great energy and at vast expense, brought together ALL THE KNOWN SPECIES OF LILIES. In this book, in which they have been most elaborately drawn from nature by FITCH, he says: "I have procured living plants of every species, and have had under cultivation in my "own gardens every known species of Lily." The text is thoroughly scientific, and is written with assistance from Mr. J. G. Baker and Sir Joseph D. Hooker, Royal Gardens, Kew. Most elaborate reviews have appeared in the Journal of Botany and the Gardeners' Chronicle. Hitherto very rare. "No person from northern latitudes can long reside in tropical countries, particularly in tropical America, without being struck with the number and variety of endogenous plants, such as agaves, pine-apples, plantains, and palms, which form a characteristic and, to northern eyes, a novel feature in every landscape. If of an observant and inquiring turn of mind, the traveller will soon be brought to reflect on the economic value of these plants, and their thousand useful applications in supplying human wants. He will discover that they not only furnish staple articles of food, oil, and refreshing as well as intoxicating drinks, but also that they are the productive sources of valuable fibres, of every degree of fineness and strength, and fit for the most delicate tissues as well as for the strongest cables." TODARO (A.) Hortus Botanicus Panormitanus, sive Plantæ Novæ vel Criticæ, quæ in Horto Botanico Panormitano coluntur, descriptæ et iconibus illustrata, folio, price per part, 10s Palermo, 1876-? To be completed in 48 parts, forming 2 vols. folio. Fifteen parts are now published. Each part contains 2 coloured plates, besides Text. Now ready, only 250 copies printed and nearly out of print, 2 vols., foolscap 4to. xii and 450 pp. vii and 412 pp. with 116 cuts of Printers' Marks, Facsimiles of Block-Prints, Portraits of Printers, etc.-Half morocco, price £5. 58 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF PRINTING, A WITH NOTES AND ILLUSTRATIONS. COMPILED BY E. C. BIGMORE AND CHARLES WYMAN. VOL. I.-A TO L. VOL. II.-M TO S. In February, 1873, a preliminary intimation of this work was published. Various other notifications were issued from time to time, until the actual production of the first instalment in January, 1876, in The Printing Times and Lithographer. In this publication it has ever since appeared monthly, and is still being continued. BRITISH MUSEUM PUBLICATIONS. I. ANTIQUITIES. 1 THE COLLECTION OF ANCIENT GREEK INSCRIPTIONS in the British Museum, edited by C. T. NEWTON, part I, Attika, edited by the Rev. E. L. HICKS, folio, viii and 160 pp. 3 plates of the Ground-plan, Sections, and Details of Erechtheion, bds. £1. 1874 2 COLLECTION (The) of Ancient GREEK INSCRIPTIONS in the British Museum, part II, edited by C. T. NEWTON, folio, plates, bds. 20s 1883 The first part, published in 1874, contains the Inscriptions found in Attika. The second part, now published, contains those from the Peloponnese, Northern Greece, Macedonia, Thrace, the Kimmerian Bosporos and the Islands of the Greek Archipelago. The third part will contain the Inscriptions from Prienè, Ephesos and Iasos. 3 Description of the Ancient Terracottas, by T. Combe, 4to. £1. 118 6d -Large Paper, £2. 12s 6d 1810 4 DESCRIPTION of the Collection of Ancient Marbles by Taylor Combe, E. Hawkins, and C. R. Cockerell, 11 vols. in 7, 371 fine engravings, 1812-61-Description of Ancient Terracottas by T. Combe, 40 plates, 1810-together 8 vols. 4to. (pub. in bds. at £26. 188), half russia, uncut, top edges gilt, £15. 6 vols. in the BRITISH 5 MUSEUM, by Taylor Combe, E. Hawkins, and C. R. Cockerell, comprising the Townley Collection, the Elgin Collection, and the Phigalian Marbles, 10 parts or vols. 1812-45-Description of the Collection of ANCIENT TERRA COTTAS in the British Museum, 1810— together 11 vols. in 6, royal 4to. LARGE PAPER, over 200 proof plates (published in boards at £33. 158 6d), £20. 1810-45 From the library of Sir Robert Peel. This is one of the finest works ever published on Ancient Sculpture. 6 Catalogue of the Greek and Etruscan Vases in the British Museum, 2 vols. 8vo. 10s; fine paper, 15s 1870 7 Tablets and other Egyptian Monuments, from the Collection of the Earl of Belmore, folio, 15s 1843 8 Inscriptions in the Cuneiform Character, from Assyrian Monuments, discovered by A. H. Layard, D.L.C., folio, £1. 18 1851 9 THE CUNEIFORM INSCRIPTIONS OF WESTERN ASIA, Prepared for publication by Maj.-Gen. Sir H. C. Rawlinson, K.C.B., assisted by E. Norris, Vol. I, folio, £1. 1861 1866 Vol. II, folio, £1. 1870 VOL. IV: RAWLINSON (Sir Henry C.) Selections of the Miscellaneous Inscriptions of Assyria, edited by GEORGE SMITH, impl. folio, 70 lithographed sheets 13 10s 6d 1875 Vol. V, part I, plates, 1-35, 1880 14 THE CUNEIFORM INSCRIPTIONS OF WESTERN ASIA, Vol. V, part II, plates 36-70, 10s 6d 1884 "The five volumes of the Cuneiform Inscriptions of Western Asia,' from first to last, form a splendid thesaurus, the like of which has never been published in any country of the civilized world."-Athenæum, September 6th, 1884. 15 Inscriptions in the Phoenician Character, discovered on the site of Carthage, during Researches by Nathan Davis, Esq., 1856-58, fol. £1. 5s 1863 16 Inscriptions in the Himyaritic Character, discovered chiefly in Southern Arabia, fol. 16s sheets; £1. 4s boards 1863 17 Inscriptions in the Hieratic and Demotic Character, fol. £1. 78 6d 1868 18 ASSYRIAN ANTIQUITIES, Guide to the Kouyunjik Gallery, 12mo. pp. 190, 4 autotype plates, sd. 1s 6d II. COINS. 1883 19 Catalogue of the Anglo-Gallic Coins, by E. Hawkins, 4to. £1. 4s 1826 20 CATALOGUE OF THE GREEK COINS, Vol. I: ITALY, 8vo. many hundred woodcuts, cloth, £1. 5s 1873 CONTENTS:-Etruria, Umbria, Picenum, Vestini, Latium, Samnium, Frentani, Campania, Apulia, Calabria, Lucania and Bruttii. 21 Vol. II: SICILY, edited by R. S. Poole, 8vo. full of woodcuts, cloth, 21s 225 1876 Vol. III: The Tauric Chersonese, Sarmatia, Moesia, Thrace, etc. by Barclay V. Head and Percy Gardner, edited by R. S. Poole, 8vo. numerous woodcuts, cloth, 1877 21s 23 24 25 26 Vol. IV: the Seleucid Kings of Syria, by Percy Gardner, edited by R. S. Poole, 8vo. 28 plates, cloth, 10s 6d 1878 Vol. V MACEDONIA, etc. by Barclay V. Head, edited by R. S. Poole, 8vo. map and woodcuts, cloth, 258 1879 Vol. VI, THESSALY to AETOLIA, by P. GARDNER and R. S. POOLE, 32 plates, representing about 500 coins, 15s 1883 Vol. VII, THE PTOLEMIES, Kings of Egypt, by R. S. POOLE, 32 plates, about 250 figures, 158 "These volumes contain a Catalogue of the Coins according to the system of Eckhel. 1883 arranged "The metal of each coin is stated, and its size in inches and tenths. The weight is given in English grains of all gold and silver coins and of all copper coins of known denominations. Tables for converting grains into French grammes and inches into millimètres, as well as into the measure of Mionnet's scale, are placed at the end of the volume."-R. S. Poole. 27 CATALOGUE OF ORIENTAL COINS, by S. L. and R. Poole, Vol. I: the Coins of the Eastern Khaleefehs, 8vo. 8 plates, cl. rare 1875 the same, Vol. II: the Coins of the Mohammedan Dynasties, Classes III-X, 8vo. 8 plates representing nearly 100 figures, cloth, 28 29 128 1876 the same, Vol. III: Coins of the Turkumán Houses of Seljook, Urtuk, Zengee, etc. 8vo. 12 plates of about 150 Coins, cloth, 128 1877 BRITISH MUSEUM PUBLICATIONS-continued. 30 CATALOGUE OF ORIENTAL COINS, by S. L. and R. Poole, Vol. IV: The Coinage of Egypt (A.H. 358-922) under the Fatimee Khaleefehs, the Ayyoobees and the Memlook Sultans, 8vo. 8 plates, representing nearly 200 Coins, cloth, 128 31 32 33 34 1879 the same, Vol. V: Coins of the Moors of Africa and Spain; and the Kings and Imáms of the Yemen, by S. L. Poole, edited by R. S. Poole, 8vo. 7 plates, cloth, 98 158 1880 the same, Vol. VI: Coins of the Mongols, 9 plates, cloth, plates, 98 1881 the same, Vol. VII: Coinage of Bukbárá (Transaxiana), 5 1882 the same, Vol. VIII: The Coins of the TURKS, by Stanley Lane POOLE, edited by Reginald Stuart POOLE, 12 plates, 208 1883 "The Académie des Inscriptions has conferred upon this work, as represented by the fifth volume, the honour of couronnement, by awarding to it the biennial Prix Duchalais." 35 COMBE (Taylor) Veterum Populorum et Regum Numi qui in Museo Britannico adservantur, roy. 4to. 15 plates of Coins, hf. morocco, rare, 368 1814 36 Nummi veteres Civitatum, Regum, Gentium, et Provinciarum, in Museo R. P. KNIGHT asservati, ab ipso ordine geographico descripti, roy. 4to. bds. 288 1830 37 Roman Medallions, by H. A. Grueber and R. S. Poole, impl. 8vo. 66 plates, bds. 21s 1874 38 HEAD (B. V.) A Guide to the Principal Gold and Silver Coins of the Ancients, from circ. B.c. 700 to A.D. 1, second edition, 8vo. viii and 128 pp. of Text, with 70 plates of Autotype facsimiles, 258 III. PAPYRI. 1881-2 39 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. £2.8s 1876 40 Greek Papyri in the British Museum. Part I, 4to. 10s-Large paper, 1839 41 SELECT PAPYRI in the HIERATIC character in the British Museum, 4 parts complete, folio, 187 plates of facsimiles, scarce, £3. 10s 1841-60 15s The first part is out of print. 42 Papyri in the Hieroglyphic and Hieratic Characters, from the Collection of the Earl of Belmore, folio, 6s 1843 43 Photographs of the PAPYRUS OF NEBSENI, oblong sm. folio, 33 plates, mounted on cardboard, in a portfolio, £2. 28 1876 IV. MANUSCRIPTS. 44 Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the COTTONIAN Library, folio, with an excellent Index, hf. bd. 10s 45 1802 HARLEIAN MSS. now in the British Museum, with Indexes, 4 vols. large folio, bds. uncut, 36s 1808 |