PRICES OF BOOKS AT AUCTION.

From the N. Y. Observer.

THOUGH auction sales of standard, miscellaneous, and rare books are numerous in New York, they do not form so regular and important a feature in the annual record of book sales as they do in the city of London. There the greatest private libraries are year after year scattered by the auctioneer throughout the wide world. It is in this way that the greatest public libraries obtain their most important acquisitions and the most valuable private libraries are continually enriched. It seems that there is no house or family in Great Britain that will not sooner or later exchange its literary treasure for money. Those who regret such a state of things as this will be glad to learn that the book sales of London in 1888 were not so numerous or so important as during several of the years immediately preceding. It is said that there are usually about seventy high-class book auctions in London during a year, while during the season of 1888 there were but forty-nine, and these included comparatively few books of great reputation and value. This may indicate that the supply of such works in private hands is gradually diminishing as the leading libraries of the world absorb more and more of the limited number of those works which are valued mainly for their variety and antiquity. Shakespeare folios are rarer every year. At the Aylesford sale the first folio realized £200; the second folio, £140; the third £93. and the fourth £29. Only the last was perfect.

Early printed American books and tracts have long been objects of special interest to the British collector. "Americana" is one of the constant headings in all English catalogues of second-hand books. At the Martin sale a pamphlet of thirtyfive pages, printed at New York in 1719, entitled "The Charter and Laws of the City of New York," sold for £75, and a Brief Description of the Province of Carolina," 4to, 1666, for £46. The "Epistola" of Columbus, the edition supposed to have been printed by Planck at Rome in 1493, was sold at the Crawford sale last year for £236. At the sale of the Wimpole Library, the highest price of the season was reached, namely, £555 for twelve tracts relating to America, bound in one small quarto volume, comprising such rarities as Hamor's "True Discourse of the Present Estate of Virginia," 1615; Cotton's "Abstract of the Laws of New England," 1641; and Ashley's" Relation of Cochin-China," 1633. At the same sale nine other tracts, also relating to America, sold for £66.

Early editions of standard authors held their own in 1888. The first edition of Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy," possessing the leaf of errata at the end, realized £25 10s. at a sale in February, and at the same time £12 10s. was obtained for the "Pickwick Papers" in the original parts. At this sale a unique copy of "Paradise Lost" sold for £15, the first edition of 1668, with seven preliminary leaves not previously observed by any bibliographer. At the Gibson-Craig sale, the Kilmarnock edition of Burns' Poems" brought £111, the highest figure ever paid for this rare work. Fifty pounds was paid for the first edition of Byron's waltz " 4to, 1813. A first edition of Walton was sold for £23 as fourteen leaves were absent.

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We have a flourishing Grolier Club in New York. Its members are not necessarily all wealthy, for men have been known to wear rags,

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in order that they might have books which were dressed in rich leather and gold. At the GibsonCraig sale, £78 was paid for the "Prognosticatio" of Liechtenberger, Cologne, 1520, on account of the inscriptions in letters of gold, "Io Gr et amicorum" at the bottom of the cover, and on the reverse "Portio mea Domine sit in Terra Viventium." Books from the Library of Grolier are said to be worth their weight in gold. Camerarius de Prædestinatione," 1556, folio, bound in white leather, the sides blind tooled with the emblems of Diana of Poitiers, brought £146. At the Turner sale, £61 was paid for Rogers' "Italy" and "Poems" in two vols., 1830-4, both volumes splendidly bound by Bedford in morocco extra, covered with minute gold tooling, relieved by variegated leathers in the Grolier style. Such are some of the curiosities of what has been called bibliomania by a wondering world.

Until bibliomania has been completely cured and extirpated, "Caxtons" will be the despair of all collectors with moderate means. At the Wimpole sale, an imperfect copy of the "Game and Play of Chesse," 1475, brought £260, and a very imperfect copy of the " Myrrour of the Worlde," 1481, brought £60. We have printed so much and so often in regard to the prices of old Bibles that we do not mention these in this summary.

In noting the prices of books the uninformed should remember that the price is largely determined by the condition of the book. Sometimes an unbound copy would bring five or ten times what it would if bound, and again the binding may give a book nearly all the value it has. We have little sympathy with any kind of speculation, and none whatever with speculation in books. But if any one has any special interest in the treasures of print, he may make them a study and acquire such knowledge as will prove a pleasant recreation. He cannot purchase judiciously without knowing the history of the volume and the class to which it belongs. Such knowledge is the recreation of the student and scholar, who is incapable of finding pleasure in the ordinary amusements of the thoughtless world.

NEWBERY HOUSE.

SINCE the rebuilding of the old house at the corner of St. Paul's Churchyard (London), the business of Messrs. Griffith, Farran, Okeden & Welsh has developed to an extent that could not possibly have been foreseen four or five years ago, and in consequence they have been obliged to build larger premises, which are now completed, and the publishing department of Messrs. Griffith, Farran & Co.'s business has been transferred thereto.

It may be interesting to state that the house was founded in the year 1740 by John Newbery, the philanthropic publisher of St. Paul's Churchyard, as he is called in "The Vicar of Wakefield." After his death in 1767 it was continued successively by his son Francis Newbery, his nephew Francis Newbery, and his step-son, Thomas Carnan. Most of Oliver Goldsmith's writings were published by John Newbery, who also issued the works of Dr. Johnson, Christopher Smart, Dr. Dodd, and many other celebrated writers. The old house in St. Paul's Churchyard was also a renowned medicine and tea warehouse. Dr. James' fever powders, and numerous patent medicines were for years sold there. Cephalic

snuff, analeptic pills, and tea at 30s. per pound were also among the commodities to be bought at the establishment a hundred years ago. After the Newberys, John Harris succeeded to the business. It subsequently became Grant & Griffith, later on Griffith & Farran, and five years ago the present style was adopted.

The new house is built upon a prominent site in Charing Cross Road, at the corner of Bear Street and Cranbourne Street, it stands upon land which is the property of the London County Council, and it bears the name of Newbery House in memory of the founder of the business. It contains an area of nearly 3000 superficial feet in the basement, and over 2000 feet on each floor above. It has three frontages, the two principal ones being faced with red bricks and white Portland stone; the third is faced with picked white glazed bricks.

The house, which is six stories in height, is substantial and handsome in appearance. Here

and there is introduced in the carved stonework the sign of the " Bible and Sun," with the motto "Fiat Lux." There are about 120 tons of iron used in the building, each floor having a continuous iron girder built in the enclosing walls besides a stanchion in nearly every pier.

The main entrance leads directly into a large hall, with a tessellated pavement; on the right is a private reception and waiting room. In this hall are displayed a complete set of the publications of the house and of Messrs. Griffith, Farran & Co.'s special productions in books in leather bindings, Bibles, prayer-books, hymnals, etc. In the waiting room, contained in two large bookcases, is the collection of the publications of

John Newbery, the founder of the house, ang from 1740 to the end of the last century, and of Harris, his successor; and of the successors of Harris, from 1800 down to the present time. CANADIAN PROTECTION OF BOOKS.

ON October 18 a circular was issued to the Canadian collectors of customs, notifying them that it has been reported that two cheap editions of Dickens' works have recently been published in the United States and are likely to be largely circulated in Canada. The collectors are requested to see that the copyright royalty of 124 per cent. is levied upon such importation, as well as the customs duty of 15 per cent.

COMMUNICATIONS.

"AN APPEAL TO PHARAOH."

NEW YORK, Oct. 22, 1889.

To the Editor of the Publishers' Weekly: SIR: Your summary or digest of "An Appeal to Pharaoh," in the Weekly Record of last week, says: His remedy [for the evils of the negro problem] is a wholesale exportation by the government of the negro race to Africa or some other country."

That is precisely what his remedy is not. is, on the contrary, a carefully elaborated plan of It induced emigration on the part of certain specialized classes among the negroes; and one reason why the book is arousing such an interested discussion is the great pains taken by the author to make a plan to serve the welfare of the negro, as well as to provide a gradual and natural remedy for the ills endured by both races, on account of his presence in the country.

The Philadelphia Telegraph says: "More copies of it will be sold and read than of most

successful novels." Whether this be true or not, the book has already made a marked impression; and, as it is an eminently fair book, it deserves fair discussion, on its own merits or demerits. FORDS, HOWARD & HULBERT.

[Our brief note was perhaps not fully accurate, as the author accepts forcible exportation only if a necessary alternative. But it was based on the following passage:

"The forcible removal of the whole black and colored population of the United States could be accomplished, and should be accomplished, if that were necessary. Their gradual and induced immigration [sic] will be equally efficient and far preferable, and should be encouraged and effected wherever and so far as it shall be favored, by either the white people or the blacks themselves. The whole influence and resources of the nation, operating through the agency of the general government, can be and ought to be employed for the permanent restoration to the Union-for that is what it amounts

to-of so much of the soil of the Union as shall bid for redemption through its return to the exclusive control of the white race.' ED. P. W.]

OBITUARY.

EDMUND MCLOUGHLIN, formerly of the firm of McLoughlin Brothers, died on the 17th inst. at his home, No. 558 Bedford Ave., Brooklyn, aged fifty-six years. He had been confined to the house for about four weeks. He retired from the publishing firm in 1885, and has since been engaged in various enterprises, but the condition

of his health has for a considerable time interfered with his pursuits. He had a large circle of friends in old Williamsburg, the Eastern District of Brooklyn, and was well and favorably known among business men in New York. He leaves a wife and four children.

NOTES ON AUTHORS.

CHURCH, the authorized biograWILLIAM C. Con, will contribute two articles pher of John Ericsso to Scribner. on the great inventor D.-Our correspondent, MRS. L. B. WALFORdly desire to enlighten "Broad Brim," in his friens the identity of this lady novelist, appears inadverters. Walford is the our ignorance concerning ently to have led us niece, not the daughter, of astray in two particulars. Mscotland's premier baronet," and Mr. Walford is but is a large Soot a member of the firm of Millington & Sons, -m of Wrigley shareholder in and director of the f & Son, Limited:-London Bookseller

ous examples for practice, making a valuable handbook for technical schools.

LONGMANS, GREEN & Co. will publish shortly two volumes of American short stories, "Gerald Ffrench's Friends," tales of California 'Irishmen, by George H. Jessop, and "A Family Tree, and other stories," by Brander Matthews.

J. W. BOUTON is soliciting subscriptions for the "Salon of Paris" for 1889. Like its predecessors, it will illustrate the principal works by the photogravure process, one hundred plates being promised in various colors, and the majority of them full-page.

THE WORTHINGTON COMPANY have just issued François Coppée's "Henriette, or, a Corsican mother," translated by Edward Wakefield, and illustrated with photogravures. They will publish, on November 1, "A Study of Ben Jonson," by Algernon Charles Swinburne.

THOMAS WHITTAKER has just published a new edition with some changes of Miss Anne Ayres' 'Life and Work of William Augustus Muhlenberg." The first edition of this work was published by Harper & Brothers, the second and third editions by A. D. F. Randolph & Co.

D. C. HEATH & Co. will issue at once Hoff. man's "Tales from History," with historical and explanatory notes. They also issue Freytag's

"Aus dem Staat Friederichs des Grossen," with notes explanatory and critical by Herman Hager, and an appendix which adds some notes on the phonetic changes in German.

lication of " Goodholme's Domestic Encyclo pædia" (formerly published by C. A. MontThe work will hereafter gomery & Co.). appear with their imprint. The book has for years been considered the most complete and authoritative domestic work published.

J. B. LIPPINCOTT Co. will publish shortly "With Gauge and Swallow," by Judge Tourgée, a new novel in a somewhat new field, though one with which the author is most familiar, and gives free scope to his quaint humor, his keen satire, and his well-known fondness for sociopolitical questions; "Adrift," a novel, the scene of which is located in the neighborhood of Niagara, by Julia D. Young; a new translation, by Mrs. Wister, entitled "Erlach Court;" and "The Bursting of a Boom," a novel, by Frederick R. Sanford. They will also issue this month a treatise on "Crime," by Judge S. M. Green, who has embodied in this work the opinions and settled convictions to which he has been led by a long experience as judge both in the Circuit and Supreme Courts of Michigan. While the volume will naturally be of much service to lawyers, it is not specifically a legal book, but is a popular and, at the same time, exhaustive discussion of the nature, causes, treatment and preven

tion of crime. Judge Green arraigns heredity, intemperance, ignorance, poverty, and our unsatisfactory social conditions, and makes a strong

case against them.

It makes a

THE WRITERS' PUBLISHING Co., N. Y., have just issued A Directory of Catholic Colleges, Academies, and Leading Schools in the U. S. for 1889 and 1890." It is arranged alphabetically by States and towns, with ample marginal space for changes and corrections, and is planned especially for advertisers who have need of a complete addressing and ready reference list in a convenient form.

THE NEW YORK SCHOOL-BOOK CLEARINGHOUSE, by an arrangement with the English pub lishers, have just issued the series of Hossfeld's "Methods for the Study of Modern Languages" -German, Spanish, and Italian. This series of language books, originally issued by the Society for Promoting a Knowledge of Foreign Languages, of London, met with almost immediate success, and their continued use is attributed to their practical character and the arrangement of

the lessons.

CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS will soon publish the Hon. William Waldorf Astor's second novel, "Sforza: a story of Milan." As in his "Valentino," Mr. Astor chooses historical and romantic Italy for the scene of his novel. It is a tale of one of the most famous families of mediæval Italy, and gives the author the richest possible material for a dramatic plot, several well-drawn and sharply accented characters, and a succession of brilliantly-worded pen-pictures of the times he portrays. The Scribners have assumed the pub

ADAM & CHARLES BLACK, of Edinburgh, announce a new and enlarged edition of the collected works of Thomas De Quincey, edited by Prof. David Masson, De Quincey's biographer in the English Men of Letters series. Several papers not before reprinted will be given in this edition, and the whole will be carefully classified. It will consist of fourteen volumes, to appear at intervals of one month; and it will be illustrated with portraits and views.

"but

WE hear tidings from time to time of choice prints on hand-made paper of unpublished letters and poems of poets and writers from Shelley to the present day, made by unknown printers in divers States of America, which wicked rumor says are situated in the city of London; where ignorance is bliss, 'tis folly to be wise." Collectors of book rarities may, however, some day find that they have not yet heard of all the privately-printed productions of even the present year of grace.-Academy.

"The

T. FISHER UNWIN, London, announces English Novel in the Time of Shakspere," by J. J. Jusserand; Ibsen's "A Doll's House," with portrait and photographs, and "The Lady from the Sea," translated by Eleanor Marx; Sir William Jones' " Sakuntala, or, the fatal ring," edited by Prof. Rhys-Davids; "The Barbary Corsairs," by Stanley Lane-Poole; "The Butterfly: its nature, development, and attributes," by John Stuttard; and " The Diary of the Parnell Commission," revised upon the Daily News by John Macdonald.

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W. B. CLARKE & Co., BOSTON, Mass. Hist. of State of R. I., Arnold S. G.

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Fifty Years in Chains; or, The White Slave.
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Landor's Works, Eng. ed., 8 v., 8°.
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E. P. DUTTON & Co., N. Y.
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Legend of St. Guendolin.

Hermitage and Other Poems, Sill.
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Essays Moral and Political. 1879.

Land, Systems and Industrial Economy of Ireland, etc. 1870.

Fraser's Magazine, July, 1868.

Fortnightly, Sept., 1880; and Nov., 1881.
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Letters of E. B. Browning, 2 v.

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Hamilton, Works, 9 v.

Putnam.

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Hawthorne, édition de luxe, 12 V.

Harris, Insects Injurious to Vegetation.

Jowett's Plato, 5 v. Macmillan & Co.

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Blacket. Researches into the Lost History of America. Lippincott.

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Richard Baxter, Practical Works, 4 v.

Snow, Southern Generals, Their Lives and Campaigns. 1866, C. B. Richardson.

of the Photogravure Company, 137 West 23d St. The store is 25 x 90, admirably suited for publisher, hook, or art store, etc., etc. Will be completed to suit tenant. MARTIN KLENEN & Co., 304 B'way, cor. Duane St.