The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1868-09-11

yesterday at nine O'Clock A. M. the fall trade sale
Oh DOCKS, stereotype plates, stationery, &c. was
formally opened by Leavitt, Streblegh Co., at their
rooms IN Clinton Hall, with catalogue Of five hum
dred pages, to which the heaviest publishing houses
in the Union had contributed.
me audience was large, every city in the New
England, Western and Middle States, and also
several OF those Of the Southern including Atlanta
and Savannah, Ca; Knoxville Tenn; Raleigh N.
c.; New Orleans, Galveston and Mobile, being repre-.
sented.
The day was devoted, that is from the hour OF
opening till six O'Clock p. NJ with j. p. Lippincott
& Co. IS heavy invoice, and the evening, from seven
to ten O'Clock, with the publications of the Ameri-
can News Company, F. A. Brady Long s. F.
Adams New Bedford. Mass.), George Stacey, OF this
city, and Charles Iaber Il Co. New Bedford Mass.).
The invoice of the last named firm consisted for the
most part of exquisitely prepared photographs and
ambrotypes and transparencies on porcelain.
These closed the work of yesterday, and, so far az
we could learn, to the entire satisfaction Of the
sellers. The attendance throughout large, the
competition at times quite spirited, the purchases
heavy, and to these facts commendable in the eyes
of the auctioneer we may add that the prices were
higher than was anticipated.
AT the close of the prelmnarles customary on such
occasions the work commenced by Offering Cham
bers magnificent ''EncycOpGdia' in two volumes,
each volume containing upward of $50 pages. and
including many valuable maps OF places and
countries and upward of 1000 Illustrations, bound
In various and costly styles. The Dictionary OF
Universal knowledge for the People," as II
is aptly termed in the catalogue. "is not
alphabetical order, but work to be readily
consulted as dictionary on every subject on which
people require distinct information" This
Encyclopedia was commenced In 1859, and 1t was
not until few weeks since that the last sheets OF the
eleven sets sold at prices ranging, according to
the character of the binding from 81 25 to So IS per
volume. Sets OF Bulwers novels were next sold, "a
nor nj nntn frnn tRh
cents to 81 so the volume, the bids in every
subsequent instance being governed by the quality
and the richness Of the binding Succeeding BuweI
the works of Shakespeare, some OF the editions
cents 70 s. T. 1 per copS Poetc
Works OF Sir Walter Scott were published at rates
came in for fair share of the honors; and accord
ing to the style in which he was made to appear
sold as low and as high as his predeces-
Shakespeare, scott and Burns seemed to be
pets, and their ingenuity is exhausted in devising
| coverings sufficiently gorgeous to satisfy their own
and the fancilul tastes of those who know only the
''great trumvrate" in rhythmic measure. Truths
Illustrated by Great Authors" sold well, as also did
| TennysOn," ''rhe Pilgrims Progress" that old
standby of the English eligOus) classics and which
for the occasion appeared not alone In sober dress las
became work 50 illustrative OF humility, but even
presented itself in all the magnifcence of Turkey,
'eXtra gilt' and also 1.-The antique" Hard on these
laudable efforts OF genius appeared our boyhOod's
soacer and companlOn-upOn whose solid iOunda-
lions many les Ill upreareu--'RODln-
son Crlsoe,'' with "stee plates In oil coors " and
quite attractive in binding. Robinson and his faith
iu henchman Friday sold readily at fair prices,
twenty sets being disposed OF. Other old books
succeeded these, and were then carried to the pack
ers in the basement to be forwarded by express
Lippincott & Co. have this year placed in their in
voices number of books new TO the trade ana the
reading public their circulation yet being limited.
Among these may be named ''Tricontain," q new
novel by Ould; John Wards Governess," "Horace
Wilder and DAISY, a sequel to "MebOurne House."
| A In m oi
Including an invoice OF exquisitely gotten
English p volumes o among which which , were
| in velvet of various appropriate colors and
richly ornamenied in every imaginable manner, In
corners Of the most elaborate designs These rei-
gous publications were taken with avidity at prices
satisfactory to the firm were also the many edi-
tons Of Thackeray, Dickens Walter Savage Lander
Emanuel Swedenborg, scott movesl Prescott and
the sets in the catalogue being taken at prices
ranging from eighty-hve cents TO 81 12K
per volume; Thackeray was in request at
this flvorte writer, in the OF publication
by Lippincott Co., but ten volumes have been is
sued, and there are ten more to concentrating
| twenty in all. This deficiency, however. did not
appear to initiate against the value of those offered
| A magnificent quartO volume entitled cart and
Song" illustrated by painters and poets, and valued
in he catalogue at sli was knocked down for 81 So.
II was Of the finest specimens OF the topographic
| art we have seen III many day.
We regret We can not July parcularize the works
eou. booh vi uehis, III tnIee sciics, Hlusei nceu
with steel engravings, was disposed OF at So SO to
| S. IS per volume: Dickens had bids varying from
| hfty cents to 50 rs per volume; "Kitto's Biblical
Cyclopedian IN three volumes, was sold at SIS SIX
and ilS; "Waverey" I'm forty-eight volumes, ranged
al from 81 10 TO ~ 80 per volume; "Webster's Die
tIonary,r In Its many FORMS from the primary school
to the illustrated royal, was sold without demur,
and every copy taken with avidity, at figures rum
ming from forty cents to IS 55 per copy.
number OF standard works on law and medicine
next offered, but prices not satisfactory
| rs the publishers could have been pleased with
The nave already lntlmated, closed
with invoices OF lesser uminaries In the publishing
world. but prices were kept to the mark and buyers
and sellers retired apparently well pleased with their
| days work, which extended over thirteen weary,
| sultry hours.