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Rose Collection (The), of Engraved Portraits, 1 vol., 4to, 1874; £2 19s.

Smith (J. Chaloner), British Mezzotinto Portraits described, 6 vols., 8vo, 1878-83; £4 7s. 6d., £2 10s., £3.

Thane (J.), British Gallery of Historical Portraits, 4 vols., 8vɔ, uncut; £4.

Walpole (Horace), Anecdotes of Painting. A number of portraits. First Edition, 1762-71, 5 vols., 4to, Strawberry Hill; £7, £3 3s., £25 (very fine copy bound by Derome).

Second Edition, 1765-71, 5 vols., 4to; £4 18s., £5 10s.
Third Edition, London, 1782, 5 vols., 8vo; £1.

Fourth Edition, London, 1786, 5 vols., 8vo; £1.
Fifth Edition, 5 vols., royal 8vo, 1826-28.
Sixth Edition, 1849, 3 vols., 8vo; £1 5s.

Armour, Ancient Dresses and Costumes, Sculpture and Marbles.

Agincourt (Séroux d'). See ante, page 124. The second part of Agincourt's work relates to sculpture.

Bruynus (A.), Diversarum Gentium Armatura Equestris, 4to, Ant., 1575.

The First Edition of this work, £2.

Bulwer (John), Anthropometamorphosis; or, Man Transformed, small 4to, 1653; £11 (hf. mor., uncut).

Another Edition, 1654, 4to; £6 5s., £5.

This is a most extraordinary book. In it the author describes the vagaries of fashion as they have existed over the Iworld at different times.

Canova (A.), The Works of, in Sculpture and Modelling, demy 4to, 1876; 12s.

The Works of, with Memoir by CICOGNARA, 3 vols., port., 1824-28, 8vo; £3.

Carter (J.), Specimens of Ancient Sculpture and Painting now remaining in this Kingdom, London, 1780-87, 2 vols., folio; £2 2s.; large paper, £5.

Another Edition, London, 2 vols., folio, 1806; £2 14s. Chandler (R.), Marmora Oxoniensia, 1763, royal folio; £1 12s., £3 3s. Contains engravings of the Arundelian marbles. Grose (F.), A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons, London, 1786, 4to; £2; large paper, £2 18s.

Military Antiquities, including the Ancient Armour, London, 3 vols., 1786-88, 4to; £1 10s., £5 (mor. ex., g. e.).

Another Edition, London, 1812, 2 vols., 4to; £1; large paper, £1 18s.

Heffner (J. de), Costume du Moyen Age, 4 vols., impl. 4to, consisting of 420 coloured plates, Frankfort, 1840-50; £16 10s., £18 (mor. ex.). This is said to be the most beautiful, as well as the most authentic work on medieval costume.

Hewitt (J.), Ancient Armour and Weapons in Europe, 3 vols., 8vo, 1860; 30s.

Knight (R. P.), Specimens of Ancient Sculpture, 2 vols., 1809-35; £6 (hf. mor.). The second volume is scarce.

Martin, Civil Costumes of England, London, Bohn, 1842, royal 4to; 18s.

Mason (G. H.), The Costume of China, 60 coloured plates, London, 1800, royal 4to; £2.

Another Edition, royal 4to, 1804; £1 10s.

Meyrick (S. R.), Engraved Illustrations of Ancient Arms and Armour, a series of 154 etchings, Oxford, 1824, impl. 4to, 3 vols.; £5 12s. 6d., £7 10s.; proofs on india-paper, £13, £11 (russ.)

Second Edition, 1854, 2 vols., impl. 4to; £2 18s.

Another Edition, Chatto and Windus, 2 vols., impl. 4to; £4 14s. 6d. (published).

A Critical Enquiry into Ancient Armour, London, 3 vols., folio, 1824; sold recently, £6 5s., £7 15s.; published at £21. Second Edition, London, 1844, 3 vols., impl. 4to; £4 168., £5 10s.

Another Edition, Chatto and Windus, 3 vols., impl. 4to; £1 58.

Moleville (B. De), The Costume of Austria, translated by R. C. DALLAS, London, 1804, impl. 4to; £1.

Ottley (W. Y.), The Florentine School and The Italian School of Design. Both these works incidentally refer to sculpture, and are mentioned ante, page 133.

Perkins (C. C.), Tuscan Sculptors, their Lives, Works, and Times, 2 vols., impl. 8vo, 1864.

Italian Sculptors, impl. 8vo, 1868. The two together, plates on india-paper, £4 5s. (mor. ex., g. e.).

Planché (J. R.), History of British Costume from the Earliest Period to the 18th Century, London, 1834, 12mo; 2s. 6d. Other Editions of the same value.

The Costumes of Shakespeare's Henry IV., 2 parts, 12mo, 21 coloured plates, 1824; £1 1s.

The Cyclopædia of Costume; or, a Dictionary of Dress, 2 vols., 4to, 1876-79; £2, £2 10s. (hf. cf. ex.).

Scott (W. B.), British School of Sculpture, impl. 4to, 20 engravings, N.D.; 10s. (published at £1 5s.)

Shaw (H.), Decorations and Dresses of the Middle Ages, London, 1840-43, 2 vols., impl. 8vo; about £3; large paper, extra finished in gold and colours: £14 (mor. ex., g. e.).

Second Edition, London, 2 vols., impl. 8vo, 1858; £2 12s.; large paper, impl. 4to, about £10; or with the plates extra finished, and the initial letters illuminated in gold (only 12 copies so got up), £15 (mor. ex.).

A fresh Edition has been published by Chatto and Windus, 2 vols., impl. 8vo; £3 10s.

Smith (C. H.), Ancient Costume of Great Britain and Ireland, coloured plates, 1815, folio; £1 12s.

Solvigno (Balt.), The Costume of Hindostan, 60 coloured engravings, London, 1804, royal 4to; £2. (This work was republished in Paris, 1808, with French and English letterpress, 4 vols., royal folio.) Originally published at Calcutta, 1799, folio, at £10 10s.

Strutt (J.), Dresses and Habits of the People of England, London, 1796-99, 2 vols., 4to; coloured plates, £4 10s.

Another Edition, by PLANCHÉ, 2 vols., royal 4to, 1842 £2; coloured plates, £3 14s. ; illuminated plates up £10 10s.

A fresh Edition, Chatto and Windus, 2 vols., royal 4to, 153 engravings; published at £3 3s.; coloured plates, £6 68. ; illuminated plates, £15 15s.

Waring (J. B.), Masterpieces of Industrial Art and Sculpture, 3 vols., large folio, 1863; £2 15s. (hf. mor.).

Wyatt (M. D.), Notices of Sculpture in Ivory, 4to, 1856, Arundel Society; 7s. 6d.

Industrial Arts of the Nineteenth Century, plates, 2 vols., folio, 1851; £1 12s. (hf. cf. ex.). ̈

Pottery, Porcelain, Mosaics, &c.

Audsley (G. A.) and Bowes, Keramic Art of Japan, 2 vols., small folio, 1875-79; sold recently, £10 (mor. ex.), £4 17s. 6d. ; published at £7 7s.

Another Edition, Sotheran and Co., 1 vol., impl. 8vo; £1. Binns (R. W.), Century of Pottery in the City of Worcester, 4to, 1877; about £1; large paper, £2.

Previous Edition, large paper, 1865, 4to; £1 15s.

Birch (S.), History of Ancient Pottery, London, 8vo, 13 plates, 1873; £1. There is a previous edition, 1858, 8vo; £1.

Chaffers (W.), Keramic Gallery, 2 vols., royal 8vo, 468 plates, 1872; £1 15s.

Chaffers (W.), Marks and Monograms on Pottery and Porcelain of the Renaissance and Modern Periods, royal 8vo, 1874; £1. This work is the best published on the subject of Pottery, and contains 3000 potters' marks and illustrations.

Later Edition, 1888, 8vo; £1 5s.

De la Beche, Catalogue of Specimens of British Pottery, 8vo, 1871; 2s.

Fowler (Wm.). For this author's works on Roman and Mosaic Pavements, see ante, page 129.

Hamilton (W.), Collection of Engravings from Ancient Vases, Naples, 1791-95, 4 vols., atlas folio; £5 10s., £4 17s. 6d.

Outlines from the Figures and Compositions upon the Greek, Roman, and Etruscan Vases, London, 1804, 4to; 12s. 6d.

Collection of Etruscan, Greek, and Roman Antiquities (Vases), 2 vols., plates, 1766-67, folio; £1 13s.; £4 8s. (much better copy, plates coloured).

Jacquemart (A.), Histoire de la Céramique, Paris, 1875, 8vo; £2 (hf. mor. ex., uncut). Other editions of about the same value. There is an English translation of this work, by Mrs. Palliser, 1873, 8vo; £1 3s. (cl.).

Jewitt (L.), Ceramic Art of Great Britain, illustrations, 2 vols., 1878, 8vo; £1, £1 16s., £1 14s.

Jones (Owen), Designs for Mosaic and Tesselated Pavements, impl. 4to, 10 coloured plates, 1842; 10s.

Lysons (S.), Figures of Mosaic Pavements Discovered at Horkston, London, 1801, impl. folio; published at £2 2s.

Figures of Mosaic Pavements Discovered near Frampton, London, impl. folio, 1808; £1 5s.

Marryatt (J.), History of Pottery and Porcelain, 8vo, 1850, 1st ed.; £1 68.

The same on large paper 4to is rare, and worth, perhaps, £5 (mor.).

Another Edition, 8vo, 1857; £1 7s.

Another Edition, 1868, 8vo; £1 4s., £1 14s.

Meteyard (E.), Wedgwood Handbook, post 8vo, 1875; 3s.

Life of Wedgwood, 2 vols., cloth, 1865, 8vo; £1 11s., £1 5s. Murphy (J. C.), The Arabian Antiquities of Spain, representing 100 Remarkable Remains of Architecture, Mosaics, &c., London, 1816, atlas folio; £3 15s., £4 5s.

Owen (H.), Two Centuries of Ceramic Art in Bristol, by R. CHAMPION, impl. 8vo, 1873; £2 2s.

Waring (J. B.), Ceramic Art in Remote Ages, impl. 4to, 55 plates, 300 illustrations, 1874; £1 5s.

&c., with a General

Warrington (W.), History of Stained Glass, 24 plates, 1848, folio; £4 118. (hf. mor., uncut). Wedgwood (J.), Catalogue of Cameos, Account of Tablets, Vases, &c., 1787, 8vo. edition, the value of which is about 10s. are worth about the same.

This is the sixth All the other editions

Winston (C.), Ancient Glass Paintings, 2 vols., 1847, 8vo; £1 68. (hf. mor.).

Wyatt (M. D.), Specimens of the Geometrical Mosaic of the Middle Ages, folio, 1848; £2 (cf. ex.).

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