"It is impossible in a small space to give anything like an adequate idea of the vast amount of curious information which these volumes contain. The hundreds of literary celebrities who are brought forward not merely by passing anecdotes but by highly valuable memoirs and sketches, and the extensive bibliographical and literary matter which they contain, render this one of the most permanently interesting sets of books ever published." Vols. vii. and viii. are additions by the author's son, J. B. Nichols. NICHOLSON (J. B.) A Manual of the Art of Bookbinding: ... designed for the Practical Workman, the Amateur, and the Book-Collector. By James B. Nicholson. 12mo, pp. 318. _Philadelphia: Henry Carey Baird._ 1856. NICOL (G. & W.) A Catalogue of the Library of the Late John, Duke of Roxburghe, arranged by G. & W. Nicol, etc., which will be sold by auction, by Robert H. Evans. 8vo. _London: Printed by W. Bulmer & Co._ 1812. No. 6,292 is the celebrated Valdarfer Boccaccio of 1471, the only known copy, which was purchased by the Marquis of Blandford for £2,260, the highest price ever paid for a single volume. Dibdin gives (_more suo_) a long account of the contest for this volume in his _Bibliographical Decameron_, III. 62-65. The Roxburghe Club was one of the results of this famous sale. NICOLSON (W.) The English, Scotch, and Irish Historical Libraries, giving a short view and character of most of our historians, either in print or in manuscript, with an account of our Records, Law-books, Coins, &c., To which is added a letter to the Rev. White Kennett in defence of the English Historical Library, &c. A New Edition corrected. By William Nicolson. 4to. _London._ 1796. The first edition of the English portion is _London_, 1696. 8vo, pp. 238, (34). The second edition, _London_, M.DCC.XIV. Folio, pp. xviii, 272. The third edition, _London_, 1736. Folio, pp. xviii, 272. The letter to Kennett was first printed in 1702. The first edition of the Scottish portion is _London: Childe_. 1702. 8vo, pp. 2, 4, xl, 376. The Irish portion was first printed _Dublin: Taylor_. 1724. 8vo, pp. xxxix, 256. NODIER (C.) Bibliographie entomologique, ou Catalogue raisonné des ouvrages relatifs à l'entomologie et aux insectes, avec des notes critiques et l'exposition des méthodes; par Charles Nodier. 12 mo, pp. viii, 64. _Paris: Moutardier. An_ IX-1801. NODIER. Bibliothèque sacrée Grecque et Latine, comprenant le Tableau chronologique, biographiques des auteurs inspirés ecclésiastiques, depuis Moise jusqu'à St. Thomas d'Aquin. Par Charles Nodier. 8vo. _Paris._ 1826. + Seconde édition. 8vo, pp. (4), 436. _Bruxelles._ 1828.