130 Family Devotion A Guide to. Containing a Hymn, a Portion of Scripture with Reflections, and a Prayer, for the Morning and Evening of Every Day in the Year. With an Appendix of Prayers and Hymns on Various Subjects. By Alex. Fletcher. With numerous fine full-page steel engravings. 4to. half brown morocco extra, gilt centres, raised bands, solid gilt edges. New York. $7.50
Fine copy with splendid impressions of the numerous plates.
131 Fairbairn's Crests of the Leading Families in Great Britain and Ireland, and their kindred in other lands. Compiled from the best authorities by James Fairbairn. Revised by L. Butters, and edited by J. MacLaren. Illustrated with colored frontispiece and 137 plates containing several thousand designs of crests, etc. 2 vols. in one. 4to. ½ dark brown leather, marbled edges. New York, 1911. $7.50
The best and most complete work on the subject yet issued.
132 Facetiae. Italian Novelists. The Facetious Nights of Giovanni Francesco Straparola, in four volumes; The Pecorone of Ser Giovanni, in three volumes. Illustrated with 44 fine plates on special paper from originals by Jules Garnier, of Paris, and E. R. Hughes, A.R.W.S., London. 7 volumes, 8vo., very handsomely bound in ¾ morocco, gilt tooled back, top edges gilt. Edition strictly limited to 1,000 numbered and registered copies. Privately printed for Societe des Bibliophiles, a very fine, curious and facetious work. $27.50
133 Another copy of the same edition. Limited Edition de Luxe. Unexpurgated. Illustrated. 7 volumes, 8vo., in original green buckram, gilt tops, uncut edges. Privately printed for Societe des Bibliophiles. A very fine, curious and facetious work. $19.50
"The Nights" of Straparola consist of an exquisite and delightful collection of humorous, witty and mirthful conversations, tales and enigmas, including singing, music and dancing during the thirteen nights of the Carnival at Venice, as related by ten charming and accomplished damsels and several nobles, men of learning, illustrious and honorable gentlemen of note at the entertainments of merriment and pleasure given by the Princess Lucretia at her beautiful Palace at Murano.
The masterpiece of Italian prose, The Pecorone of Ser Giovanni, ranks in celebrity with Boccaccio's Decameron. The great popularity of the Pecorone arose from the fact that the amorous stories of love, intrigue and adventure therein contained cover comparatively fresh ground. Shakespeare borrowed Falstaff from Ser Giovanni, and The Merchant of Venice is founded on the first novel of the Fourth Day.
134 Facetiae. The Amours and Adventures of the Chevalier de Faublas, by John Baptiste—Louvet de Couvary. Founded on historical facts, interspersed with most remarkable narratives. A faithful reprint of the very rare, literal, unexpurgated translation of 1822, from the Paris edition of 1821, choicely printed on antique deckle-edged paper, and delightfully illustrated with numerous charming plates, etched by Louis Monzies from drawings by Paul Avril, printed on special paper. Complete in 4 vols. Newly bound in ¾ morocco extra, gilt tops and backs, uncut. Edition strictly limited to 100 sets only. Privately printed for Societe des Bibliophiles, 1898. $40.00