OF THE

LIBRARY

OF

MR. WILLIAM J. Le MOYNE

COMPRISING

Drama and Dramatic Biography; Old Plays and Playbills and
Other Rare Dramatic Items; Shakespeare's Plays and
Shakespeareana; Books Illustrated by Cruikshank, Leech
and Others; Pierce Egan's Life of the Actor and Life in
London; Jest Books; Mormon Bible, First Edition; Dunlap
Society Publications; Bibliography, etc., etc.

To be sold at Auction on Tuesday, Wednesday,
Thursday and Friday, October 17, 18 19, 20

DX

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'HE Library of Mr. William J. Le Moyne, the well-known comedian, is not a professional collection merely, but rather the works garnered in many years by a many-sided reader and lover of books. Among them are many of highest interest to lovers of the stage, but many others illustrate the cultivated tastes of the owner in widely separated fields of thought and research.

Mr. Le Moyne has evidently cared less for special editions than for the contents of his books; but many interesting items will be found by the collector as well as by the general reader.

The Portraits, Prints and Miscellaneous Collection of Mr. Le Moyne will be separately catalogued and sold later as Part II.

CATALOGUE

I.

A

'BECKETT (GILBERT A.) The Comic History of England. Twenty colored plates, and two hundred woodcuts, by John Leech. 8vo, cloth, gilt.

2.

Lond., n. d.

Comic History of Rome. Colored plates and

woodcuts, by John Leech. 8vo, cloth, gilt. Exceptionally fine copies

3.

shank. 8vo.

Lond. n. d

The Comic Blackstone. Illustrations by Cruik-
Chicago, 1869

4. ABBOTT (JACOB). Makers of History. With engravings. 10 vols. 16mo, cloth.

N. Y.

5. ABINGTON (MRS.) Life of Celebrated Comic Actress. Accounts of her performances in London and Dublin. Interesting notes upon the History of the Irish Stage. 12mo, oards. Lond. 1888

6. ADDISON (JOSEPH). The Miscellaneous Works, in Verse and Prose. Fine portrait. 4 vols. 16mo, old calf.

Dublin, 1773

Travels and

7. AIKIN (JOHN). View of the Life, Philanthropic Labors of the late John Howard. Portrait. 16mo, half leather.

Phila. 1794

8. ALCIPHRON'S EPISTLES, in which are described the domestic manners, the Courtesans and Parasites of Greece. Now first translated. 8vo, half calf, gilt.

Lond. 1791

N. Y. 1863

Mercedes, and Later Lyrics. 12mo, boards.

Boston, 1884

11. ALEXANDER

(ALEXANDER).

The Life of.

Written by himself. Edited by John Howell. Portrait. 2

vols. 16mo, cloth.

Edinburgh, 1830