New-York tribune., 1880-03-10
PART IL. OF THE ODELL LIBRARY.


ITS REMARKABLE CATALOGUE AND THE CARE BE
SLOWED UPON IT--MR. ODELLs LOVE FOR HIS
BOOKS AND KNOWLEDGE or THEIR CoNIENIS-
SOME OF The CHOICE THINGS ~ MS COlLLc-
TioN-ITs SALE NEXT WEEK At DANGss.
The Spring book auctions are close upon US.
March brings best OF them as usual Inc bElnIcy
collection already noted, comes the 22d ard next MOI
day at Bangs Co.'S the sale of tne second ana fnai
part of the rare library Of Mr. Andrew J. Ode OF tins
-ity will BEGIN The Olel catalogue has been ont few
weeks and the sale promises be the most remarkable
n point OF ancient and modern BOOKS 1or the most
part European that has occurred Lere III many daY
Mr. Ode has gwen twenty years 10 the coeclOh ol MS
books and has succeeded IN getting together
a very curious interesting ana valuable lot
of them He has not collected them for tue mere
sake eoectng and he is well known by bis Trends
for his intimate knowledge of the sdes Of all his rare
volumes He Is OF the few collectors WHO Iead the
books they buy In the midst of an active life as treas
urer OF large railroad corporation be has been accus
toned to devote several hours of each evennS-otten
reading and writing TIL past mlduiGh-to the study Of
these volumes. He is acquainted with five or six ian
guages and understood that he has produced as the
literary result his readings fewer Than twentysix
thick folio volumes OF manuscript, all carefully written
with the utmost exactness in his OVID hand and hand
somey bound for permanent preservation Ills lfc mas
been the retired life OF scholar and his acquaintance
aside from his business has been rs limited az scholars
From billiards in hts homo lie has derived his
amusement and recreation.
Mr. Odell's constitution Eot equal 10 this double
strain of great business responsibility in the daytime
and close study of ancient books in foreign tongues at
night His health last gave out under IT, and he de-
cded TO sell the collection Mr. Odell was not content,
however that the library should be scattered before he
had first secured some worthy memorial Of IL in the
form Of a handsome catalogue To Mr.. George T.
Phfes the voknowa photographer OF this city. he in
trusted the OF making such catalogue, giving di-
n will all " n "a
Phes could bcstow upon it, and printed n the best
etyle known to the The first result OF this was seen
by the public year and half in the first part OF
The catalogue, then issued In the present and
second part the typographical excellence
aud evidences OF superior learning and skill
on the part OF the compiler are seem Notes based on
precise information quoted from recognized aUth0r
ties appear every page often In great number while
the type and printing among the most beautiful
secimens OF tho art which have been seen In this coun
try In the early printed book, special type in
frequent instances, had TO be made There are many
pieces which have never been used here before; aud al
though il has been stated that they are the identical
type uscd fifteen years ago for HarIsses Bb!oheea
Americans such, II learned, is not the No old
type been used at aeyen the black letter Is said to
he nearly all aew. Many page Is made extremely
beautiful 10 the eye by black letter lines, which
seem odd enough in an American work Of the
present day, as OF any day FOR that matter
The exact appearance OF the titles of many books
has been carefully reproduced There are two forms IN
which the catalogue Is printed Neither intended as
an auction catalogue. but the cheap form will neoes
sary be for the sale and the moderate price OF 50
is put upon II differs from the finer only In
paper and ink The contents precisely the same in
both The fue paper copies printed on laid linen
paper and the initial letters head and tail pieces in
coors while the cover is OF yeun printed in coOTs
and folded after the French manner It were vain
undertaking 70 point all OF The quaint and curious
for ton W
aboupds No one but photographer such as Mr. Philes
could do that But with the aid OF Mr Philes copious
notes some OF the interesting may be indicated.
And first the immortal Dibdn, urser whose name
tlere are ten titles The fist Is " Bib!Ography:
Poem. In SIX Books" OF which ONLY hIty copies were
n,inte, and those privately and of which Dbdn after
ward said tha! he achieved IN five morning sittngs
certain poem-n sort Of mongrel blank versc-entitod
sBiblography'" His plan WAS TO make these verses
mere pegs for the hanging OF notes upon" Then follow
an urcut copy OF fhe Decameron, 1877 finely bound
partly priced catalogue of the "SpeDcer Duplicates.
which Is very scarce and OF course, Of the
volume Catalogue" itself. Then Dawson Turner's
COPY Of the Library Companion" presentation copy
from the author and containing four Dlbdiu auto
graphs.
The collection OF Sir EgerOn Brydges's works very
complete. The copy o! the Restituta IN four vol
umcs is uncut; the Lord BrokeDhurst'" 1919,
which Is very the Coningsby" also 1919. aud
very scarce the " Sir Ralph Wiloughby." and the
"Cimella." OF which only seyenty-fve copies were
printed The Poems is presentation copy from the
author The Ees LitefaI@ " and the "AntrCric" are
uresenta;ion copies 10 Wordsworth and have Words
worth's owa autograph But of all the Bridges
hooks peri aps is the Fugitive Pieces" usually
wanting in all collections Of bis works, and comprising
ten pieces.
Old Gregorus Relsch and his Margnrta." one Of the
earliest Middle Ages cycop@dias have very hon
orabe places IN this collection, they deserve TO have,
for there are four editions OF ttat work. including the
hrsta great raIiy. Tais first edition. ptintd IN 1903,
contains n remarkable OF ell, aud phrenolorcal
chart which ought TO satisfy modern enthusiast In
phrcnoogy tnai there indeed nothing under the
sun In the third cdition appears very rare map of
the vord.
No 2O55 is a fne clean and wefpreserved copy OF
MonstrciIeps Chrontces"-a writer who in recording