The following lot, comprising an edition, we believe, not very
generally known, and containing the manuscript notes and comments
of so profound a critic as Ludwig Tieck, ought to find an English
purchaser.

2152 THE PLAYS OF W. SHAKSPEARE, with the Corrections
and Illustrations of various Commentators,
to which are added Notes by Johnson and
Steevens. 23 vols. gr. in 8vo. Basil 1800-1802

"Exemplaire unique et de la plus grande importance,
contenant des notes sans nombre de la main de
M. Tieck. Ces notes renferment les fruits d'une
étude de plus de 40 ans sur le grand poète, par
son plus grand traducteur et commentateur, et
forment le texte du grand ouvrage sur Shakspeare,
promis depuis si longtemps."

One of the most curious articles in this catalogue, copies of which
may be obtained from the London Agent for the sale, Mr. Nutt, of the
Strand, is No. 1965, a copy of Lilly's _Sixe Court Comedies_, which
had belonged to Oliver Cromwell, and appears to contain his autograph.

There are few literary men who have not, in the course of some one
or other of their inquiries, experienced the difficulty there is in
procuring copies of pamphlets which being for the most part originally
published for purposes of temporary interest, are rarely preserved
by binding, and consequently when afterwards wanted become extremely
difficult of attainment. We all remember the valuable Catalogue
published many years since by Mr. Rodd, of Newport Street, the father