BOOK OF FUN.—The Book of Fun. London J. Gilbert. 12mo, red levant morocco, gilt back, gilt top, uncut edges, by Rivière.
This volume comprises: "The Illustrated English Grammar; or, Lindley Murray Simplified"; "The Comic Speaker"; "Illustrated Arithmetic; or, Cyphering made Comical"; and "The Comic History of Rome." Lithographic title-page, numerous woodcut illustrations, and the original cloth covers.
BOOK OF GEMS.—The Book of Gems. The Poets and Artists of Great Britain. Edited by S. C. Hall. London: Saunders and Otley . . . 1836-'7-'8. 8vo, three volumes, calf, gilt back and sides, gilt top, uncut edges, by Rivière.
First edition. One hundred and forty-nine vignette illustrations engraved on steel by Finden, Greatbach, Goodall, Cousins, etc., after the designs of Mulready, Eastlake, Lawrence, Etty, Prout, Beechey, Stanfield, Wilkie, Reynolds, Maclise, Turner, Stothard, Flaxman, Leslie, Constable, Gainsborough, Landseer, and others.
BOOSEY, Thomas.—Piscatorial Reminiscences and Gleanings by an Old Angler and Bibliopolist [T. Boosey]. To which is added a Catalogue of Books on Angling [by William Pickering] London William Pickering 1835. 16mo, cloth, uncut edges.
Frontispiece. The Catalogue of Books on Angling has a separate title, dated 1836.
BOOTH, Edwin.—Excerpts from the many good words uttered in honor of Edwin Booth At the Supper given on Saturday Night, March 30, 1889, by Augustin Daly and A. M. Palmer. Printed for The Players. New York 1889. 4to, cloth, uncut edges.
BOOTH, Mary L.—History of the City of New York by Mary L. Booth . . . Illustrated . . . New York W. R. C. Clark . . . 1867. Imperial 8vo, two volumes, boards, uncut edges.
First edition. No. 49 of one hundred large paper copies printed.
BORROW, George.—Faustus: his Life, Death, and Descent into Hell. Translated from the German. . . . London: W. Simpkin and R. Marshall. 1825. Post 8vo, half russia, gilt top, uncut edges.