Xiv BIBLIOGRAPHY. by David Erskine Baker. To ... 1782, by Isaac Reed; to... 1811, by Stephen Jones. 4 vols., 8vo. London: Longman. 1812. BALE (J.) Scriptorvm illustriũ maioris Anglium & Scotiam uocant: Catalogus: 2 vols., folio, pp. (28), 744; (20), 336. ... Brytannie, quam nunc For the title at length, see Petzholdt, pp. 341-2. An account of the ancient writers of Great Britain. Dibdin calls it "the foundation of British Biography." BANDINEL (Bulkley). A Classed Catalogue of the Books relating to British Topography and Saxon and Northern Literature, bequeathed to the Bodleian Library by Richard Gough. 4to, pp. 459. Oxford. 1814. Dr. Bandinel was the Bodleian Librarian, and Lowndes characterizes this as "the most complete Catalogue of English Topography extant.' BARBIER (A. A.) et DESESSARTS. Nouvelle Bibliothèque d'un Homme de Goût entièrement refondue, Corrigée et Augmentée ... Par A. A. Barbier et N. L. M. Desessarts. 5 vols., 8vo. Paris. 1808-10. "This is one of the best bibliographical works in any language. It is a sure authority for all the best works in the French language."-VENTOUILLAC. BARBIER. Dictionnaire des Ouvrages Anonymes et Pseudonymes composés, traduites ou publiés en Français et en Latin avec les noms des auteurs, traducteurs et éditeurs, accompagné de notes historiques et critiques. Seconde édition, revue, corrigée et considérablement augmentée. 4 vols., 8vo. Paris. 1822-27. + Troisième édition, revue et augmentée par MM. Olivier Barbier, René et Paul Billard 3 vols., 8vo. Paris. 1872-75. .... By far the most perfect and valuable of all the numerous works which have been published in this Department of Bibliography, being the results of thirty years of diligent labor and research. The author was private Librarian to the Emperor Napoleon, and afterwards, on the return of the Bourbons, Superintendent of the private Royal Libraries. He died in 1825. His Dictionary is confined to works in the Latin and French languages, but of these it notices between twenty-three and twentyfour thousand. The first edition is, Paris. 1806-9. 4 vols., 8vo. Part 11. of volume III. of the third edition is not yet published (February, 1875). BARBIER et BEAUVAIS. Dictionnaire Historique, &c. 8vo. In one series of paging to form "une seul volume de 3,500 pages!" The best Biographical Dictionary extant, except the Biographie Universelle. BARBOSA MACHADO (Diego). Summario da Bibliotheca Lu zitana. 4 vols., 18mo. Lisboa. 1786. See Machado. CATALOGUE OF BOOKS, FOR SALE AT THE PRICES ANNEXED, BY JOSEPH SABIN & SONS, Booksellers, Printsellers and Importers, 84 Nassau St., New York, and 14 York St., Covent Garden, London. W. C. COLLECTIONS OF BOOKS PURCHASED FOR CASH, OR LIBRARIES OR SMALLER BOOK AUCTION SALES.-J. Sabin & Sons give their personal attention to orders on sales in New York, and use for their patrons the same discrimination as if buying for themselves. They have the satisfaction of being able to refer to the Librarians of the chief Public Libraries, and also to private collectors in all the principal cities, for whom purchases have been made in this manner. CHARGE-FIVE PER CENT. ON AMOUNT OF PURCHASES. "And books we know Are a substantial world, both pure and good; See back numbers of Bibliopolist for other Catalogues. JOHNSON, SAMUEL, LL.D. The Life. Together with a Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides. A reprint of the first edition, with Boswell's Corrections and Additions. Edited, with new Notes, by Percy Fitzgerald. Portrait. 3 vols., 8vo, cloth, uncut. London, 1874. $12.00 REASONS FOR THE ISSUE OF A NEW LIBRARY EDITION OF BOSWELL'S LIFE OF JOHNSON.-" Mr. Percy Fitzgerald is editing a new edition, in three volumes, of Boswell's 'Life of Dr. Johnson.' Boswell issued two editions of his book, the first in 1791, the second in 1793. At his death, when the preparation of a third edition had just begun, Malone took up the task, and under his supervision no less than four editions were issued. The sixth, or fourth from the author's death, was issued in 1811, and was the last superintended by Malone, who died in that year. From the date of his death this edition remained the standard one, until the year 1831, when it was supplanted by Croker's edition in five volumes, which under various forms has held its place until the present moment. Malone's and Croker's are substantially the groundwork upon which all succeeding editors have worked. Malone seriously exceeded the privileges of his literary executorship in converting notes into text and vice versa, in shifting the place of notes, and revising' the text itself. These changes were not very material as to substance, but still such a mode of settling the text,' as it was called, pursued through a whole series of editions, could only result in a serious departure from the original. Malone, indeed, announced in his advertisements, that 'every new remark, not written by the author,' together with 'the letters now introduced, are carefully included within crotchets, that the author may not be answerable for anything which has not the sanction of his approbation.' This system, however, has long since been abandoned, and in the modern editions we find the author jostling with a crowd of intruders-Croker, Malone, Blakeway, Kearney-his annotations being also labelled with his own name, as though he had been introduced, like them. Even the decency of enclosing between crotchets' had been dropped. Croker's performance was nearly unique in the annals of editing. Not only did he make interpolations in the text on a vast scale, but he overloaded the whole with elaborate notes. Obscure allusions explained, biographies furnished, blanks filled up, mistakes corrected, opinions, either of Boswell or Johnson, refuted in controversial style, contemporary authors largely quoted, and political opinions and prejudices duly ventilated—these were but a tithe of the Crokerian contribution. This extraordinary treatment of an author was long ago exposed by Mr. Carlyle. Croker admitted his mistake, and in a later edition withdrew the bulk of the intruded matYet he could not bring himself to sacrifice the whole of the foreign element, and the work still includes masses of Thrale and other letters, diaries and the like. But he did not stop there, and a diligent examination warrants us in saying that he has tampered with the text. Letters have been transposed, and shifted here and there, on account of some assumed inconsistency; dates have been altered, notes re-written, cut up, and distributed, or altogether omitted; while, with an overstrained delicacy, adjectives of a somewhat coarse flavor have been struck out and others substituted. In this new edition the reader will have the original text of Boswell's first edition exactly as it was printed, with the old spelling, punctuation, paragraphs, &c. Text, notes, and alterations will now, for the first time, be given complete, distinct, and fenced off, as it were, from such notes and illustrations as are supplied from other sources. Many of these additions are from original MS., and a large portion have never made their appearance in any edition of Boswell's 'Johnson."-From the Athenæum of March 28, 1874. ter. AINSWORTH, W. H. Tower of London. ALL THE TALENTS: A Satirical Poem in Three Dialogues, by Polypus. 8vo, new half morocco, gilt top. Scarce. London: Stockdale, 1807. $1.50 AMOURS PASTORALES DE DAPHNIS et Chloé. Charming Plates, many of an erotic character. 12mo, new calf extra, gilt edges. London, 1779. $7.50 AMERICANA. Journal and Writings of Miss Fanny Woodbury. Portrait. 8vo, new half calf extra, citron edges. Scarce. Edinburgh, 1818. $1.50 AMERICANA. Junius: "A Letter to an Honorable Brigadier General, Commander-inChief of His Majesty's Forces in Canada." London, 1760. Edited by Sauvis. 12mo, cloth. London: Pickering, 1841. $1.50 ANACREON, SAPPHO, BION, MOSCHUS and Musæus. Works of. Translated by Francis Fawkes. 12mo, new half levant morocco, gilt top. London, 1789. $2.50 ANSTEY, C. New Bath Guide, or Memoirs of the B-N-R--D Family in a Series of Poetical Epistles. Illustrations of Celebrated Personages, Quin, &c. Half morocco extra, gilt top, uncut. Scarce. London, 1807. $2.50 The writings of Anstey have been much admired, particu larly the above, which has gone through many editions. APULEE. L'Ane d'Or. Precede du Demon de Socrate. Translated by Maury into French with the Latin text opposite. Charming Outline Illustrations by French Artists. 2 vols., 8vo, mottled calf. Scarce. Paris, 1822. $10.00 APULEIUS. The Metamorphosis, or Golden Ass, and Philosophical Works. Translated by Thomas Taylor. 8vo, marbled calf extra, gilt edges. London, 1822. Another copy. Cloth. $14.00 $8.50 Very scarce, and contains the suppressed passages. Apuleius is undoubtedly the greatest of the ancient Latin Platonists, a portion of whose writings have been preserved to the present time; and though in consequence of living at a period in which the depths of the Platonic philosophy had not been fathomed, and its mysteries luminously unfolded, as they afterwards were by certain Coryphæan Greeks; he is not to be classed among the chief of the disciples of Plato, yet he will always maintain a very distinguished rank among those who have delivered to us the more accessible parts of that philosophy, with consumate eloquence and an inimitable splendor of diction. AUTOGRAPHS. Letters selected from the Collection of, in the possession of William Tite, Esq., M. P. 4to, sewed. Very scarce. Printed $5.00 for the Camden Society, 1864. BACON, FRANCIS. The Essayes or Covnsels, Civil and Morall, of Francis Lo. Verviam, Viscovnt St. Alban. 4to, newly bound in sprinkled calf extra, citron edges. Very rare. London, 1629. $8.50 Bacon has contributed far more than any other philosopher to pave the way for that wonderful advancement of the sciences which form the peculiar distinction and glory o modern philosophy. BALLANTYNE, R. M. Red Eric, or the Whaler's Last Cruise. Plates. 8vo, new half calf extra, marbled edges, London, n. d. $1.50 BARHAM. Ingoldsby Legends. 8vo, new half calf, gilt top. London, 1858. $2.00 BARING-GOULD, S. Yorkshire Oddities, Incidents and Strange Events. 2 vols., 8vo, cloth, uncut. New. London, 1874. $4.75 BARKER, LADY. Station Life in New Zealand. Frontispiece. 12mo, new half morocco extra, gilt top. London, 1871. BARNES, W. Grammar and Glossary of the Dorset Dialect, with the History, Outspreadings, and Bearings of Southwestern English. 8vo, sewed. Berlin, 1863. $2.00 $2.25 BASTIAN, H. C. Beginnings of Life. Some Account of the Nature, Modes of Origin, and Transformations of Lower Organisms. 2 vols, 8vo, new half morocco extra, gilt tops. 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Of him Mr. Greville "This account corresponds with all I have before heard, and confirms the opinion I have long had that a more contemptible, cowardly, selfish, unfeeling dog does not exist than this King, on whom such flattery is constantly lavished. He has a sort of capricious good-nature, arising, however, out of no good principle or good feeling, but which is of use to him, as it cancels in a moment and at small cost a long score of misconduct. Princes have only to behave with common decency and prudence, and they are sure to be popular, for there is a great and general disposition to pay court to them. I do not know anybody who is proof against their seductions when they think fit to use them in the shape of civility and condescension. The great consolation in all this is the proof that, so far from deriving happiness from their grandeur, they are the most miserable of all mankind.” Vide.-J. 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