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    August 15,188 7 Tlie Publishers' Circula...

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    UPRIGHT PENMANSHIP. (By a Teacher.)

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    Sal^ Jol Tings

    — i - ' i with a printed list of the prices and the names

    of the purchasers . In the recent sale . of the library of the late

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    had ever Blomefield bound , ' but s ' Norfolk certainl ' y 5 not vols a . very folio gran £ 20 d ( . one y S ^ j tracey v ^ ^^ ; — ^ j ) j ; j 'Nuremberg , - g—p Chronicle — — , _ _ __ _ 7 / , 1493 — , , £ 10

    fair ( Pickering MSS prices , of ) . . Pope The In this following and sale Rossetti were is some a which list interest : fetched ' The

    corrections Essaj 7 b on Man in , Bapppp Pope ' Wal «¦¦ 1736 ' bs , handwri wit at h MS ting . notes , broug i and > ht ¦ pA

    £ 10 ( Snow . ^^ ^ ); ' The , Dunciad ^^^^^^ / Dublin ^^^^_^ _ . edit ^^ ^ ion ^ of 1728 large paperwith MS . notes and

    cor-> , W , - j- » ' i ^ ¦»¦ ' ««> a 1 £ rec 13 tion ( Thompson s b y Pope " ^ . ' ) from ^ ; ' Th . the . ^ e Dunciad first Brog . ' lio ano INdS th ****** er .,

    large paper copy , with MS . corrections , , copied from Pope ' s copy by Jonathan Hichardson ,

    jim ., £ 7 ( Grant ); ' The Duneiad , ' 1736 , large paperwith numerous MS . notes and corrections

    from his , second MS . by Pope himself , £ 8 . 8 s . ( Pearson ); ' Sapho to Phaon , ' autograph . MS .,

    ± 17 ( Thompson ) ; * Essay on Criticism , ' autograph MS . £ 28 ( Thompson ); ' Windsor

    . ¦ Forest at end , ' £ autograp 20 ; , ' Essay h MS on ., Man wanting Mn four a lew epistles lines

    Epistles , I . to III ., autograph , MS . of the poet , , Epistle IV . printed , with numerous MS .

    correc aut tions ograph by " MS Pope . of , Pop £ 50 e £ ; 25 'E ; p * istle Ethic on Ep Tast istles e , ' '

    I . to HI ., autograph MS , . of Pope , £ 20 , with , numerous alterations and corrections by

    himself ; Epistle III . to Lord Bathurst ( the autograph MS . wanting eight lines at end ;

    transcorrections scri pt of the and same alterations by Pope , and with — ' ^ p ™ the autograp i i printed b h

    edition — - — ^*» ^ p » ^»» bka m of «^^^ ^^ mr E ^*^ r p istles ^^^ ^^^ f ^^ v ^^ i ^ b . " ^ p III ^ »»~ w ^^ ^^ . ^* p » ™^ pw to ¦ ** , ^ w ^*^ TIL ^ ^^ ^^ - ^^^ ^^ ^^ with ¦ ¦ MS ¦ — — — . corrections - — — —^ ^^ ^ mr vdb ^_^ a ri » . ^^ and 1 ^^ VT **** ' ^^ , al m * w - «* t »* erations ^^ flab ^ br ^ F waa ^ p * - m ^ m r ^^ b • ' y v " ^^ Pope ^ p * »^ p ^ ^^ - himself ^ ^— ^— — —p — ,- _ ^^ ) — ,

    also The E Rossetti tmm pistle If . MSS , autograp . fetched h MS . ' of Rose p ^ " ^ Pope Mary , £ 21 . '

    — — -m ^ ^^ w ^ p ^ T * f rirf ^ t *^ f ^ r ^ pr ^ B . Sfl ^ v ^^ B . r ^ r r t * ^^ ^^ . **^ ^ ip ^ ^* - ^^ t * p ^ ^^^ , ^ ^^ w ^^ ^^ ^~ ¦ ^^ — T , 47 45 pp pp . . , , £ £ 22 17 ( Quaritch ' The White ) ; < The Shi King p , ' 17 ' s pp Tragedy ., £ 21 , '

    House — ' - r I ^ ^^ e ^^ White of v ^ •»* Life « . JL Shi ^^ , m ' p £ wm' / 11 k ^ occupy « . ( » Pearson . a . ^ mT «^ v . * . ing » s ^ ^ - » » + * j ± ) r 9 ; m pp ^ and ^ w **** ., -w £ G ' Lyrics ' ; ' "^ The ^^ , '

    22 4 i' . 8 11 ( pp . Quaritch 5 . s . , ( £ Pickering 8 ) ( ; Ellis Swinburne ) ) ; ; ' Wellington Twenty ' s ' - Atalanta four ' s Funeral Sonnets / first , , '

    edition , with Rossetti s autograph , £ 7 ( Molinij .

    August 15,188 7 Tlie Publishers' Circula...

    August 15 , 188 7 Tlie Publishers' Circular 865

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• Citation
  • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), Aug. 15, 1887, page 865, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_15081887/page/15/