and Mischiefs of Deceiving Courtezans. Published at his dying request. London: Printed by N. O. for Henry Bell and are to be sold at his shoppe in Bethlem, at the signe of the Sun. 1621. · Robert Greene, an English Poet and miscellaneous writer (1560-1592), led a reckless life, deserted his wife, and finally died of a "surfeit of pickled herrings and "Rhenish wine." In this tract he "laments his profligate career and exhorts his "former companions to forsake their evil ways." Excepting 61 copies printed (1813) by Sir E. Brydges, no edition has been issued since 1621. Vol. V.(a) AN ACCOUNT of the Cartoucheans in France. Translated from the French. London: printed for J. Roberts M.DCC.XXV. ... This, though purporting to be "from the French," is said to be really a work by Defoe. Louis Dominique Cartouche, "the French Dick Turpin" (1693–1721), and his gang terrorized the Parisians for years, but at last he was arrested by an accident and after many months' trial broken on the wheel. (b) THREE CURIOUS TRACTS: I. THE GREAT FROST: Cold Doings in London, except it be at the Lotterie: with Newes out of the Country. London: Printed for H. Gosson. 1608. ⚫. The original tract consisted of 15 leaves and had a frontispiece giving a view of the frozen Thames with the citizens at their sports. The frost (1607-8) was so severe that there were fires and diversions on the Thames. 2. ENGLAND'S Joy, or a Relation of the most remarkable Passages, from His Majesty's arrival at Dover to his Entrance at Whitehall. London: Printed by Thomas Creak. 1660. .. This was reprinted in the third volume of the Harleian Miscellany and in the seventh of the Somers Collection of Tracts. 3. A NARRATIVE of all the Proceedings in the Draining of the Great Level of the Fens, extending into the Counties of Northampton, Lincoln, Norfolk, Suffolk, Cambridge, and Huntingdon and the Isle of Ely: from the time of Queen Elizabeth, until this present May, 1661. London: Printed by A. W. for the use of the Author, 1661. The Great Level of the Fens is about 70 miles long and from 3 or 4 to 30 or 40 miles broad, covering an area of 1060 square miles or 680,000 acres. The whole surface is lower than the sea, the level varying from 4 to 16 feet below high-water mark in the German Ocean. Booth, Mary L.-AMERICA before Europe. See De Gasparin, Count Agénor. Booth, Mary L.-UPRISING of a Great People. See De Gasparin, Count Agénor. Borrow, George (1803-1881).-BIBLE, THE, in Spain; or, the [295] Journeys, Adventures, and Imprisonments of an Englishman, in an attempt to circulate the Scriptures in the Peninsula. Philadelphia: James M. Campbell. 1843. Large 8vo. 2 columns. Half calf. The writer went to Spain as "agent" for the London Bible Society. He naturally came into conflict with the authorities of the country and spent five " eventful” years in that country. This is bound up with "The Initials," a Story of Modern Life. See Anonymous. Bosc, Ernest.-[Art.] DICTIONNAIRE de l'Art, de la Curiosité et [296] du Bibelot. Paris: Firmin-Didot et Cie. 1883. Large 8vo. Three-quarters levant morocco, top edges gilt. ... This is a Dictionary by M. Bosc, an Architect, illustrated with 35 Plates separate from, and 709 Wood-cuts incorporated with, the Text, of Art, archæology, antiques, curios, jewellery, books, etc. and most articles of bijouterie and vertu. At the end are given (1) List (pp. 671-690) of the principal Collectors of the 19th century, and (2) Analytical Table (pp. 691–695) of the Principal terms contained in the Dictionary, arranged under classes or families. Four extra plates have been added (pp. 180, 404, 546, and 622), illuminated in metals and colours. Bostock, John.-PLINY'S Natural History. See Pliny. Boswell, James (1740-1795).-Life, The, of SAMUEL JOHNSON, [297] LL.D., including A Journal of his Tour to the Hebrides, Tour in Wales, Correspondence with Mrs. Thrale &c. With numerous additions and Notes by the Right Hon: J. Wilson Croker M. P. Revised and enlarged under his direction by John Wright Esq. Illustrated with upwards of 40 Engravings on Steel. London: Bell & Daldy, Vol. I., Henry G. Bohn, Vols. II. to X. 1859-1866. 10 vols. (bound in Index, 2 col. Vol. 5) 18mo. Half russia, top edges gilt. ...This is the revised and corrected Edition of 1835. The first Edition was merci. lessly reviewed by Lord Macaulay in the Edinburgh Review, 1831 (see Macaulay's Es says, Ed. 1856, II. 1), and Carlyle has devoted a considerable portion of his fifth Lecture on Heroes and Hero worship to Dr. Johnson and Boswell. Boswell's Life of Johnson (1709–1784) did not appear till 1791, when Johnson had been dead nearly seven years. Lord Brougham declared in his article on "Johnson” in the "Times of George III." that Croker's Edition was a valuable accession to literature, and that his " well-known accuracy" gave importance to his labours. Macaulay made the most of some undoubted errors discovered in the two to three thousand "Notes" by Mr. Croker. The Encyclopædia Britannica considers Wright's Edition of Croker's Boswell as "one of the most helpful" existent. 66 Croker calls attention to a curious point, viz: that Boswell saw "very little of his great friend." Boswell, practising in Edinburgh, paid only infrequent visits to London, and Croker calculates the days on which Johnson and Boswell met, were about 180, to which are to be added the days they spent together in the Tour to the Hebrides-18 Aug. to Nov. 22, 1773-making a total of 276 days. There are a considerable number of interesting facsimiles of holograph letters from a variety of well-known personages, besides 15 portraits of some of the more celebrated characters connected with the great Lexicographer's Life, as Thrale, Boswell, Mrs. Piozzi, and Cave. In Vol. I. (p. 210) is an etching from the original of "Remarkable "Characters who were at Tunbridge Wells with Richardson in 1748 from a drawing "in his possession with 21 references in his own writing.” Vols. IX. and X. comprise "Johnsoniana," a Collection of Miscellaneous Anecdotes and Sayings of Dr. Samuel Johnson gathered from nearly a hundred different publications. They are a Sequel to Croker's Edition of Boswell's Johnson. Boswell, James.-LIFE, THE, OF SAMUEL JOHNSON, LL.D. (With [298] Portraits.) Together with The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides. New Editions, with Notes and Appendices. By Alexander Napier. London: George Bell and Sons. 1884. 5 vols. Impl. 8vo. Half morocco, top edges gilt. 54 Illust., see each vol. a. c. Index 2 col. Vol. IV. 421467. Index to Johnsoniana Vol. V. 423-432. ... This is No. 63 of a limited Edition of 104 copies. The Life fills the first three Volumes. Vol. IV. contains the Tour to the Hebrides, and the Journey into North Wales, 1774, followed by a catalogue of Johnson's Prose Works, pp. 411-420, and the Index. Vol. V. consists of "Johnsoniana," being Anecdotes of Dr. Johnson newly collected and edited by Robina Napier, and its independent Index. In the collection are included Mrs. Piozzi's Anecdotes, first published 1786—Apophthegms from Sir John Hawkins' Edition of Johnson's Works, 1787-Letters from Mrs. Hill Boothby to Dr. Johnson, numbered and labelled by himself, and bound together in a thin quarto volume, published by Mr. Richard Wright of Lichfield in 1805—A Biographical Sketch by Thomas Tyers, published in the Gentleman's Magazine, December, 1784, a few days after Johnson's death—Recollections of Johnson by Richard Cumberland, 1807-Anecdotes and Remarks by Bishop Percy, written by the Bishop in an interleaved copy of Dr. Anderson's Life of Johnson-Dr. Thomas Campbell's ("The Irish Dr. Campbell" of Boswell's Life) Diary of a Visit to England in 1775— Extracts from Mrs. Hannah More's Life and Correspondence, published 1834-Extracts from the Diary and Letters of Madame d'Arblay, 1842-Recollections of Dr. Johnson by Miss Reynolds, communicated in 1829 to Mr. Croker by Mr. Palmer-Sir Joshua Reynolds on Johnson's Character—and An Essay on the Life and Genius of Dr. Johnson by Arthur Murphy, 1792. The publication of Mrs. Piozzi's “Anecdotes” gave "great offence to Johnson's "friends, to none more than to Boswell" The sale was so rapid that Cadell, the publisher, stated that he "never brought out a work the sale of which was so rapid "and that rapidity of so long continuance." When the King sent for copy of the Anecdotes" on the evening of the day of publication not a single copy was to be had." The Illustrations are India paper impressions of the plates by E. Finden, etc. Botta, Paolo Emilio (1800-1870) et Flandin, Eugéne Napoléon [299] (1809-1876).—MONUMENT de Ninive découvert et décrit par M: P. E. Botta, mesuré et dessiné par M: E. Flandin ouvrage publié par Ordre du Gouvernement sous les auspices de M. Le Ministre de l'Intérieur et sous la Direction d'une Commission de l'Institut. Paris: Imprimerie Nationale. 1849-50. 5 vols. atlas folio. Half morocco extra, edges gilt. Binding by J. Wright. Indexes to Plates Vols. I. and III. a. t. Index to Text Vol. V. (I p.) at end. ... Volumes I.-IV. comprise the Plates and Vol. V. the Text of this splendid work. The Plates are given in two series. Series I. (Vols. I. and II.) consists of 171 plates, numbered 1 to 165, with six extra plates. They depict "Architecture and Sculpture," viz: General Plans 10: Façades 38: Salles 104: and Fragments and Details 19. Of these, 17, viz: 12, 14, 43, 53, 62, 63, 65, 74 to 76, 110, 111, 113, 114, 146, 155, and 156, are coloured. The second Series (Vols. III. and IV.) consists of 203 plates numbered 1 to 183, with 20 extra plates. This series is entirely composed of engravings of the Inscriptions discovered by these indefatigable explorers. Paolo Emilio Botta, while consul at Mosul in 1843, excavated the palace near Khorsabad and recovered the stones covered with cuneiform inscriptions which students will delight to find are copied in this work. The French Government then commissioned several eminent scholars and academicians to assist him in the preparation of his work. Many of the discovered monuments have been placed in the Louvre, and Botta's excavations in the sandhills on the banks of the Tigris laid the foundation for Layard's later magnificent discoveries. Botta claims that in no plate is there anything hypothetical or the faintest attempt to give any conjectural restorations except in those that are so described and distinguished. Among the Plates of Sculpture those of the two giant-persons (Plates 41 and 47) strangling lions in their left arms and carrying curious animal-headed weapons in their right hands claim special notice. They are described at pp. 109 and 115 of the text. So also Pl. 28 (described p. 97 of the text), where is a person offering fruit with one hand and carrying a basket in the other. The Idols in Vol. II. plates 152 and 152 bis are curious. See text, p. 168. According to Botta (see Pl. 30) the two lion stranglers formed parts of a Façade, each being placed between two winged bulls facing away from the figure. Bouchot, Henri.-PRINTED BOOK, THE, Its History, Illustration, [300] and Adornment, from the Days of Gutenberg to the pre sent time. Translated and enlarged by Edward C. Bigmore. With 118 illustrations of facsimiles of early typography, printers' marks, copies of book illustrations, and specimens of bindings of all ages. London: H. Grevel and Co. 1887. 12mo. Half morocco, top edges gilt. Index 2 col. 305–312. ... This is (as it claims) "a useful compendium of the thousand unknown or now "forgotten essays, involving endless contradictory statements, that have been issued on "this theme." It recounts the History of Book Printing century by century and devotes three chapters to Types, etc., Bookbinding, and Libraries. The Illustrations are well chosen. Bouvier, Jacques Le.-Recovery of Normandy. See Collectanea Adamantaa (Vol. XVI.).(a) Bowditch, Nathaniel Ingersoll.-MEMOIR of Nathaniel Bowditch. [301] By his Son (with Portraits): originally prefixed to the Fourth Volume of the Mécanique Céleste. Third Edition. Cambridge: John Wilson and Son. Half morocco, top edges gilt. 8 Illust. a. c. 1884. 4to. ... The fame of Nathaniel Bowditch (1773-1838) is chiefly founded on his translation of the "Traité de la Mécanique Céleste" of Pierre Simon Laplace (1749-1827). This work was originally published in five volumes in the years 1799–1825, and was translated and published with valuable Notes in four large quarto volumes by Bowditch in the years 1829-32-34 and 38. The expense of the publication exceeded $10,000, consuming one-third of the translator's fortune. Bowen, Francis.-DEMOCRACY in America. See De Tocqueville, Alexis. Bowes, James Lord. See Audsley and Bowes. Bowne, Eliza Southgate (1783-1809).—GIRL's, A, Life eighty [302] years ago: Selections from the Letters of Eliza Southgate Bowne. With an introduction by Clarence Cook. |