NOTES ON BOOKS, SALES, CATALOGUES, ETC.
Archdeacon Cotton, whose endeavours to ascertain and record the succession of the Prelates and Members of the Cathedral Bodies in Ireland are probably known to many of our readers (at least, by the Queries which have appeared in our Columns), has just completed his Fasti Ecclesiæ Hiberniæ, in 4 vols. 8vo. From the nature of the work, it is obvious that it could never have been undertaken with a view to profit. The printing, &c., has cost upwards of six hundred pounds, and the Archdeacon, naturally unwilling to lose the whole of this outlay, is circulating a prospectus offering copies at fifty shillings the set. Of these, there are but two hundred. The utility of a book which contains the names and preferments of every occupant of an Irish see, dignity, or prebend, from the earliest period to the present day, so far as existing materials permits, is so obvious, that it can scarcely be doubted that it must eventually find a place in all public and official libraries.
Catalogues Received.—J. Miller's (43. Chandos Street) Catalogue No. XXII. of Books Old and New; D. Nutt's (270. Strand) List of Valuable Books, Foreign Theology, Canon Law, Monastic History, Fathers of the Church, &c.; Nattali and Bond's (23. Bedford Street, Covent Garden) Catalogue of Ancient and Modern Books in all Languages; W. Heath's (29½. Lincoln's Inn Fields) Catalogue No. III. for 1851, of Valuable Second-hand Books in all classes of Literature; T. D. Thomson's (13. Upper King Street, Russell Square) Catalogue Part XIV. of Second-hand Books English and Foreign; J. Tupling's (320. Strand) Catalogue of Books on Divinity, so classified as to form a guide to Students in their choice; J. Lilly's (7. Pall Mall) Catalogue No. III. of Valuable Books relating to English History, Antiquities, &c.; Olive Lasbury's (10. Park Street, Bristol) Catalogue No. XI. of Books now on Sale; J. Petheram's (94. High Holborn) Catalogue Part CXXII. of Books Old and New; W. S. Lincoln's (Cheltenham House, Westminster Road) Catalogue No. LXVIII. of Cheap Second-hand Books.