New-York tribune., 1873-12-12
THE LEAyrrT SALE OF BOOKS.

The second evenings sale Of the collection
y chOIce standard and illustrated works at Clinton Han
at night showed OF things-either that those
Who frequent book uonsfor the purpose Of buying
eel the sirngency OF the money market too keeny to
,lusnder grecnbacks in literary luxures or that they
go no louger seduced by rich and expensive bindings
uis a fiue thing 40 doubt have ones cases filled
WITH good BOOKS in morocco russia CALI tree calf, and
al that and TO say, as one handles them tenderly,
This wa bound by 50 aud So, whose reputa alton you
Know oi coarse :" 1t is ne thing TO the craft OF
lie bOokbnder carried on and up into art but there ID
be possibility OF its being exercised too often There are
books whose mission is show simply and there are other
,oos and these are the greatest number whose mission
use Books that are TO be used should be bound for
m not fr show An encyclopedia in tree calf is as ABB
,d A. . portcr IN brOadclOth seamstress in SATIN.
Whether fact that too many books are OVerbound
sOvaays beginning 10 be perceived and discouraged
sr rvhether people too poor TO pay any but panic
rces for booGs the reader shall undertake to decide
s "a true: costly works are selling below their value
Another thing occurs connection with the SALE and
hat is that the collection is Oyercatalogued The eaa
oyus is one that many will probably preserve II is
soth pre II only account of the gratutous
useless Information which 1t contains ana wmch
must have emanated from some tyro In biDnography'
Ehat object could any sane mind have In view IN VIII
Dg eighteen stupid lines about the Arabian Slghts'
n which people are grayely Informed that there
philosophy they seem intended TO support or ilustrate
,r In writing niue stupid lines about Mr.. BancrofPs
sOuminou- History in which the public Is glowingy
old that style is original and national, ana thst
aihes OF the mountain and the praire OF the great
axes and the wild savannabs OF his native landf Is
As photography or tale wrtingf And surely the most
snorsnt know something about Boswels johnson, and
ue not greatly edited BY Lord Macauays reference
Homer and Shakespeare and Demosthenes'
Ne. have heard before the anecdOte OF the
Duke of Bridgewaters muDifcencel with re-
.srd to tho "Bridgewater 1reahses," and we
20 nsed Christopher EOrths Endorsement OF Homes
EVry-Day Book" Mr.. Dickens is not so far forgotten
fsttha; the literary moral purpose OF MS movers
houd De restated for our benefit and his glorncatio
sixteen lines of dreary twsddle; nor has sir water
aaegh bseu little written about that we are not to
raby familiar with the Virgin Queen the refinement OF
Essex. sense and gsllanry of Sidney; ana all the
est Of It about BorleIgh Spencer. aud Drake NO ca
his and there is good deal OF IL, overcata-
oguiug aud we are sure that II don't pay. NOBODY 10
by only toIaugnteT, which never yet
JOd any collection to advantage.
Below list OF OF the principal lots sold last
ght stating as before the style Of binding, the mum
OF volumes aud the prices realized which are 10 be
understood as referring to Volumes
Gruner's "Fresco Decorations and stuccoes Of
s1,eenth Ceniuries,"2 yos morocco exra s26 Halls
History OF Eastern Vermont vols super.royaJ syo
Harot. rBrlef aud Tfno Report OF Tie SeWFoHndand
Of Virginia. folio half morocco antique "a reproduc
WORKS In English and Latin, collected and edited by
srw hoesworth, lo vols, calf grt q H. Hogsrth's
Works" from original plates restored by Heath
witt the text OF Nichols, imperial folio, half morocco
Rlt, t5T O HOpes Costumes OF the AHcients." z
vols imperial Syo half S.; HniDes History
Of England" Bowers edition. plates by Bartolozle,
Heath and others 10 vols, imperial folio. russia
So Brookedons Passes OF the Alps, yos 4to, half
morocco. tl2 80 Jacksons Treatise on "1od Ensray
ings." imperial syo, morocco sIO oD: Mis-.
Jamesons Beauties OF the Court OF Charles NJ proofs
Oh India paper, imperial Syo half morocco tll. owen
JOnes's Grammar Ornament" original ediuCs i0h0'
hlli evsnt morocco, s6. Thomas RemplsS II I'M
iston de Jesus Christ" large paper, Veiluin
with proofs before letter, half morocco, si1
Lord kIlssborough's "Antiquities OF MrXco hhu
Dup4iSs "M0nuIDeDts OF New Spain yOls.
together. imperial folio. half morocco ST. knghi's
Popular History Of England" yoiry svO eaiI eAua A.
- knights London" vols. imperial svo' Doinu !,
.fee polished calf, t5 Is and Knigbfs Od EnRiahu,
vols folio. half calf. s. So Lodges " PORTRAITS VI
usroas Personages," IL vols, 4to, bali morocco e1
4 Iongns's Les Amours fastoraies ds Dapnn,t % y,
" ChiOe" with the plates by Phiilppus, fed leV"h'
~'t'soo. s11. Eash's "MansiOns VI England IN