New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-04-18
A POETS TREASURES.
THE LIBRARY OF FREDERICK LOCKER
LAMPSON.
A WONDERFUL COLLECTION OF RARE BOOKS AND
FIRST EDITIONS


FIRST EDITIONS.
First Article.
To the ordinary reader as well rs to the
N,borhe catalogue be It OF books or pictures Ia NJ
all times interesting and the projectors Of catalogues
have tor long time We'd With each ohoI IN the pro-
ductiou something rather better than what had gone
before the addition of Illustrations, ctchinss photo
graphs etc OF the individual libraries In existence
We have had only few catalogues rdtson"fs-h g.
catalogues with comments. coations ana ahho'at'ons
mado by q bihliophile. That OF the late Andrew d.
Ode whose books were sold in 1850, was marvel in
its way but 1t so beautifully done by George
Piles tina the re us hardly paid for the cost OF ca'a
,ocuinc Two years ago n Emile PicOt published
Paris TIL ough D. Morsaud the first volume OF the GAIA
locue OF Baron James Rothschilds books. limited
e ion only printed and IT has been justly described
nv a French critic as n monument d'er''daion" La
B,bliothiaue dun Bbliophile is the title OF small
nriva,s,y printcd book dedicated to the Amis dies
Iiyres the French society OF that nsme). by Henri
Braldi This Is catalogue OF books belonging To Eug
Pallet president OF the above mentioned society legal
lumuary OF the French Court of Appeals and recog-
n zed authority on books This little Volume NJ Biradi
has ma ie most by adding notes reatvc TO the
book OF Paris especially those who congreeae In
NJ Pallets library. Their no oes and idiosyncrasies
are freely discussed and commented upon' an" qieer
stories are told OF each and all OF them He tes no"
The books were found and where; what was paa ior
toem and what the world said about them; he gives
minnie descriptions OF the more important hooks ana
falls into ecstatic enthusiasm over Franz BauSounet
binding double and in mosaic.
Treating most particularly Of English books-the
poets and drimasts taking up the greater art-comes
Mr. Frederick Locker-Lampson's catalogue tTho hnai
name has been only lately added by the poet THIS is
without exception one of the most perfect bits OF book
making and cataloguing TO be fouud to-day. ftisa
large printed on Holland paper IL looks ana i
most attractive book on the reverse of the bastard ute
# is stated that this Is OF fifty copies printed ior
presentation" also that The etching by CruikshanR
which forms the fronpece OF this volume Is one OF he
first o5O mpressous Of the plate" The etching referred
to is VOL known this side OF tho water and has
always been favore with collectors of Cruikshank-
lana II represents Fairy Connoisserrs inspecting
MT Frederick Lockers collection o. drawings etc
That virtuoso whim
Which consecratcs our dim
Long ago."
BesIdes the Crulkshsnk etching there are reprodnc
tious of three book plates, one OF which by H. stacy
Marks appeared in The Century In Mr.. Brander
Matthews's article on Locker. OF the remaining two
here shown the looks very much as II IL were
the work Of Liney sambournc These bear the Locker
nootto Fear God Fear Nought" There is, further
more portrait OF Frederick Locker by Du Maurier.
/, is only head made with very few strokes in black on
white but there is characteristic smile on the lips and
o real twinkle in the eye
Mr. Locker Lampson has written short preface
which makes his reader wish that II were LONGER ITO
savs: IL T. 9 cd thing read books. and II need not
be bad thing TO write thcm; but 1t Is pous thlpS 10
r1eserye those hat have been sometime written; the
collecting and mendng and binding and cataloguing OF
books are all means such end This Is my apology
for the present volume. l had Intended TO annotate
some o. these curious AMI rare volumes. Tor nave
decided opinion about good many OF them BY doing
SO should have given my catalogue the distinct quaiy
that comes ownership and Affection but falling health
and de sire not to delay that which those who come
after me might find irksOme, even impossible has
nrsren,ed tni. distinguished American,
soho ar and man OF original mind but who did not
necaly collect rare books to see my eollee-
lion remember made apology to him for having
SO MANY and I make the apology now" This
1reiace is followed by poems by Andrew Lang con-
corning the Rowfant books.
Part l. OF the catalogue is devoted to BOOKS printer
from 1850 10 100, the books are arranged alpha
betically Here wonders indeed Unique copies,
or one Of two or three KNOWN" the most perfect
conv known"-such comments to be found on
nearly every page CT the 1t is wonderful piece
of cstaogi,ng too erfect that the bbliophie can
collae his COPY OF book by Mr. Lockers notes-that is
~ a hjbliophile be fortunate enough to have the
hook II would be Impossible in any short space to
rention even n small portion Of the treas OF this
library and equally impossible to into any detailed
desrripton O., tho books mentioned Here is John Bar
hours The Acts and Lyle OF tina maist Victorious
Copoueror Rpoert Bruce, King of Scotland Edin-
burgh 1871. svo b Lit is supposed to he unique
Here are the OF Beaumont and Fletcher
LOOP l6Gl-an OF extreme rar ty AM Christopher
Brookes
The Ghost of Richard the Third
expressing himself l. His Character
three l% iI pa.ts. (5 His His TTassdie etc.