MEMORIAL ROOM

WITH

THE HARRY ELKINS WIDENER COLLECTION

A CATALOGUE

OF THE

BOOKS AND MANUSCRIPTS

OF

HARRY ELKINS WIDENER

BY

A. S. W. ROSENBACH

VOLUME II

PHILADELPHIA

PRIVATELY PRINTED

MDCCCCXVIII

HARVARD
UNIVERSITY
LIBRARY

CAR 1 1.54

THE LIBRARY

OF

HARRY ELKINS WIDENER

CHARLES MACKLIN

An Infallible Recipe | to Make a Wicked Manager of a Theatre |
... Chester Augt. 20. 1750. Wrote by a Member of the Com-
pany of Players of which Mr. ******** was Manager. | Pub-
lish'd according to the Act, by Monsr. Verité.

Broadside, bound in "The Hostelries of London,” vol. II, p. 31.

HUMPHREY MACKWORTH

Down with the Mug:|or, | Reasons | for Suppressing the Mug-
Houses; | Humbly offer'd | To the Consideration | of the | Parlia-
ment | of | Great-Britain. | By Sir H. M. | London: | Printed for
John Morphew, near Stationer's-Hall. 1717.

8°. Bound in Timbs, "London Clubs," vol. II, p. 54.
Collation: Title, I leaf; text, pp. 1-15

HISTORY OF MADEIRA

A History of | Madeira. | with | A Series of Twenty-seven
coloured Engravings, | Illustrative of the | Costumes, Manners,
and Occupations | of the | Inhabitants of that Island. | [Colored
Vignette] | London: | Published by R. Ackermann, 101, Strand, |
and sold by all the Booksellers in the United Kingdom. | 1821.
4to, half cloth, uncut.

From the collection of Clarence S. Bement.

Collation: Title-page, as above, verso blank; 26 colored plates.

Magna Carta. | Regis Johannis | xv. Die Junii Anno Regni. XVII. |
A. D. MCCXV. | Londini, | Apud Johannem Whittaker, | MDCC-
CXVI.

Imperial folio, bound in Russia leather, richly tooled by C. Lewis.

Printed in letters of gold upon white vellum by John Whittaker, and illumi-
nated by Richard Thomson.

Collation: Portrait; title; portrait; dedication; text, 11 leaves; Conventio, 1817,
title; portrait; dedication; text, 2 leaves.

SIR THOMAS MALORY

Le Morte Darthur | By Syr Thomas Malory | The original Edition

of William Caxton | now reprinted and edited with an | Intro-

duction and Glossary | By H. Oskar Sommer, Ph.D. | with an

Essay on Malory's Prose Style | by Andrew Lang, M. A. | Vol. I.—

Text London: Published by David Nutt, in the Strand | 1899.

Royal 4to, 3 vols. in 4, half red morocco, uncut.

No. 56 of 108 copies.

From the collection of Clarence S. Bement.

Collation:

Vol. I, Part 1, half-title, verso blank, pp. [i]-[ii]; p. [iii] blank; p. iv, number of

copies; half-title, verso blank, pp. [v]-[vi]; title, verso blank, pp. [vii]-[viii];

dedication, verso blank, pp. [ix]-[x]; inserted here between pp. [x] and [vii] is

an 8vo leaf with a printed "Editors Note"; preface, pp. [vii] to x; facsimile,

recto blank, pp. [xi]-[xii]; fly-title, verso blank, pp. [xiii]-[xiv]; leaf, [xv]-[xvi];

text, pp. [1]-424.

Vol. I, Part 2, half-title, verso blank; text, pp. 425–861; p. 862 blank; imprint,

verso blank, pp. [i]-[ii].

Vol. II, half-title, verso blank, pp. [i]-[ii]; half-title, verso blank, pp. [iii]-[iv];

title, verso blank, pp. [v]-[vi]; preface, pp. [v]-vii; p. [viii] blank; contents,

verso blank, pp. [ix]-[x]; text, pp. [1]-230; imprint, verso blank, p. [231].

Vol. III, half-title, verso blank, pp. [i]-[ii]; half-title, verso blank, pp. [iii]-[iv];

title, verso blank, pp. [v]-[vi]; preface, pp. [v]-viii; contents; [ix]-xi; p. [xii]

blank; "Le Morte Darthur." By Andrew Lang, M.A., pp. [xiii]-xxv; p. [xxvi] blank;

fly-title, verso blank, pp. [xxvii]-[xxviii]; text, pp. [1]-338; imprint, verso blank,

P. [339].

Fancy Ball Dress. Published by W. Spooner, 259, Regent Street.

30 colored plates; Nos. 1 to 15, 19 to 30 are by L. Mansion. No. 16 is by

R. Buss, Nos. 17 and 18 are unsigned.

Costume du Haut Ton. Published by W. Spooner, 259, Regent

Street.

4 colored plates by L. Mansion; bound with Fancy Ball Dress.