Notes and Queries, Number 05, December 1, 1849 by Various
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the few that are to be met with are generally, if not always,
deficient in some leaves. The title-page to this copy (as in Mr. Grenville's) is supplied by the title to the 4th Decade, and a few leaves are wanting. For the rarity of this work, see _Bibliotheca Grenvilliana_, vol. i. p. 60. And, lastly, Lot 1701; which contains a matchless series, in 154 vols., of the Works of Daniel De Foe, whom Coleridge was inclined to rank higher than Addison for his humour and as a writer of racy vigorous English. The Lot is thus described:-- "THIS MATCHLESS SERIES of the Works of this distinguished Author was formed with unwearied diligence by his Biographer, the late Mr. Walter Wilson, during the greater portion of his life. "The numbers to 208 refer to the Catalogue of the Works as published in his _Life of Defoe_, 3 vols. 1830; those following have been discovered by Mr. Wilson since the period of the publication. This Collection is rendered still further to complete by the addition of upwards of forty pieces by a recent possessor. The extreme difficulty of forming such a collection as the present is very apparent when we compare its voluminous contents with those very few collections which, during the last fifty years, have on the dispersion of celebrated libraries occurred for sale." We have this week received a most important and valuable "Catalogue of Bibles and Biblical Literature, containing the best |
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