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WORKS OF JAMES GILLRAY, THE CARICATURIST.
With the Story of his Life and Times, and full and Anecdotal Descriptions of his Engravings.
Edited by THOMAS WRIGHT, Esq., M.A., F.S.A.
Illustrated with 83 full-page Plates, and very numerous Wood Engravings. Demy 4to, 600 pages, cloth extra, 31s. 6d.
“High as the expectations excited by this description [in the Introduction] may be, they will not be disappointed. With rare exception, no source of information has been neglected by the editor, and the most inquisitive or exacting reader will find ready gathered to his hand, without the trouble of reference, almost every scrap of narrative, anecdote, gossip, scandal, or epigram, in poetry or prose, that he can possibly require for the elucidation of the caricatures.”—Quarterly Review.
“The publishers have done good service in bringing so much that is full of humour and of historical interest within the reach of a large class.”—Saturday Review.
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TOM HOOD’S NEW STORY FOR CHILDREN.
From Nowhere to the North Pole:
A Noah’s Arkæological Narrative. By TOM HOOD.
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On the Slopes of Parnassus. Illustrated by J. E. Millais, F. Sandys, Fred. Walker, G. J. Pinwell, J. D. Houghton, E. J. Poynter, H. S. Marks, J. Whistler, and others. Handsomely printed, crown 4to, cloth extra, gilt and gilt edges, 21s.
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Æsop’s Fables, translated into Human Nature by C. H. Bennett. Descriptive Text. Entirely New Edit. Cr. 4to, 24 Plates, beautifully printed in colours, cloth extra, gilt, 6s.
Advertising, A History of, from the Earliest Times. Illustrated by Anecdotes, Curious Specimens, and Biographical Notes of Successful Advertisers. By Henry Sampson. Cr. 8vo, Coloured Frontispiece and Illustrations, cloth gilt, 7s. 6d.
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Amusing Poetry. A Selection of Humorous Verse from all the Best Writers. Edited, with Preface, by Shirley Brooks. Fcap. 8vo, cl. ex., gt. edges, 3s. 6d.
Anacreon. Translated by Thomas Moore, and Illustrated by the Exquisite Designs of Girodet. Bound in Etruscan gold and blue, 12s. 6d.
Army Lists of the Roundheads and Cavaliers in the Civil War, 1642. Second Edition, Corrected and considerably Enlarged. Edited, with Notes and full Index, by Edward Peacock, F.S.A. 4to, hf.-Roxburghe, 7s. 6d.
Artemus Ward, Complete.—The Works of Charles Farrer Browne, better known as Artemus Ward, now first collected. Crown 8vo, with fine Portrait, facsimile of handwriting, &c, 540 pages, cloth extra, 7s. 6d.
Artemus Ward’s Lecture at the Egyptian Hall, with the Panorama. Edited by T. W. Robertson and E. P. Hingston. 4to, green and gold, Tinted Illust., 6s.
Uniform with Mr. Ruskin’s Edition of “Grimm.”
Bechstein’s As Pretty as Seven, and other Popular German Stories. Collected by Ludwig Bechstein. With Additional Tales by the Brothers Grimm. 100 Illustrations by Richter. Small 4to, green and gold, 6s. 6d.; gilt edges, 7s. 6d.
Boccaccio’s Decameron; or, Ten Days’ Entertainment. Now fully translated into English, with Introduction by Thomas Wright, Esq., M.A., F.S.A. With Portrait after Raphael, and Stothard’s Ten Copper-plates. Crown 8vo, cloth, extra gilt, 7s. 6d.
Booksellers, A History of. Full Accounts of the Great Publishing Houses and their Founders, both in London and the Provinces, the History of their Rise and Progress, and of their greatest Works. By Harry Curwen. Crown 8vo, over 500 pages, frontispiece and numerous Portraits and Illusts., cloth extra, 7s. 6d.
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Book of Hall-Marks; or, Manual of Reference for the Goldsmith and Silversmith. By Alfred Lutschaunig, Manager of the Liverpool Assay Office. Crown 8vo, with 46 Plates of the Hall-Marks of the different Assay Towns of the United Kingdom, as now stamped on Plate and Jewellery, 7s. 6d.
⁂ This work gives practical methods for testing the quality of gold and silver. It was compiled by the author as a Supplement to “Chaffers.”
Boudoir Ballads: Vers de Société. By J. Ashby Sterry. Crown 8vo, cloth extra, gilt, and gilt edges, 6s.
Bret Harte’s Complete Works, in Prose and Poetry. Now First Collected. With Introductory Essay by J. M. Bellew, Portrait of the Author, and 50 Illustrations. Crown 8vo, 650 pages, cloth extra, 7s. 6d.
Brewster’s (Sir David) More Worlds than One, the Creed of the Philosopher and the Hope of the Christian. A New Edition, in small crown 8vo, cloth, extra gilt, with full-page Astronomical Plates. 4s. 6d.
Brewster’s (Sir D.) Martyrs of Science. Small cr. 8vo, cloth, extra gilt, with full-page Portraits. 4s. 6d.
Bright’s (Rt. Hon. J., M.P.) Speeches on Public Affairs of the last Twenty Years. Collated with the best Public Reports. Royal 16mo, 370 pages, cloth extra, 1s.
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Conquest of the Sea: A History of Diving, from the Earliest Times. By Henry Siebe. Profusely Illustrated. Crown 8vo, cloth extra, 4s. 6d.
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“Unaffected, simple, and easily written, it will disappoint Miss Braddon’s early admirers, and please that which we hope is a wider public.”—Athenæum.
Byron’s (Lord) Letters and Journals, with Notices of his Life. By Thomas Moore. A Reprint of the Original Edition, newly revised, complete in a thick volume of 1060pp., with Twelve full-page Plates. Crown 8vo, cloth extra, gilt, 7s. 6d.
“We have read this book with the greatest pleasure. Considered merely as a composition, it deserves to be classed among the best specimens of English prose which our age has produced. It contains, indeed, no single passage equal to two or three which we could select from the Life of Sheridan; but, as a whole, it is immeasurably superior to that work. The style is agreeable, clear, and manly, and, when it rises into eloquence, rises without effort or ostentation. Nor is the matter inferior to the manner. It would be difficult to name a book which exhibits more kindness, fairness, and modesty. It has evidently been written, not for the purpose of showing—what, however, it often shows—how well its author can write, but for the purpose of vindicating, as far as truth will permit, the memory of a celebrated man who can no longer vindicate himself. Mr. Moore never thrusts himself between Lord Byron and the public. With the strongest temptations to egotism, he has said no more about himself than the subject absolutely required. A great part, indeed the greater part, of these volumes consists of extracts from the Letters and Journals of Lord Byron; and it is difficult to speak too highly of the skill which has been shown in the selection and arrangement.... It is impossible, on a general survey, to deny that the task has been executed with great judgment and great humanity. When we consider the life which Lord Byron had led, his petulance, his irritability, and his communicativeness, we cannot but admire the dexterity with which Mr. Moore has contrived to exhibit so much of the character and opinions of his friend, with so little pain to the feelings of the living.”—Lord Macaulay, in the Edinburgh Review.
Carols of Cockayne: Vers de Société descriptive of London Life. By Henry S. Leigh. Third Edition. With numerous Illustrations by Alfred Concanen. Crown 8vo, cloth extra, gilt, 5s.
Carlyle (T.) on the Choice of Books. With New Life and Anecdotes. Brown cloth, UNIFORM WITH THE 2s. EDITIONS OF HIS WORKS, 1s. 6d.
Celebrated Claimants, Ancient and Modern. Being the Histories of all the most celebrated Pretenders and Claimants from Perkins Warbeck to Arthur Orton. Fcap. 8vo, 350 pages, illustrated boards, price 2s.
MR. WILKIE COLLINS’S NEW NOVEL.
The Law and the Lady: A Novel. By Wilkie Collins, Author of “The Woman in White.” 3 vols., crown 8vo, 31s. 6d.
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Christmas Carols and Ballads. Selected and Edited by Joshua Sylvester. A New Edition, beautifully printed and bound in cloth, extra gilt, gilt edges, 3s. 6d.
Cruikshank’s Comic Almanack. Complete in Two Series: the First from 1835 to 1843; the Second from 1844 to 1853. A Gathering of the Best Humour of Thackeray, Hood, Mayhew, Albert Smith, A’Beckett, Robert Brough, &c With 2,000 Woodcuts and Steel Engravings by Cruikshank, Hine, Landells, &c Crown 8vo, cloth gilt, two very thick volumes, 15s.; or, separately, 7s. 6d. per volume.
⁂ The “Comic Almanacks” of George Cruikshank have long been regarded by admirers of this inimitable artist as among his finest, most characteristic productions. Extending over a period of nineteen years, from 1835 to 1853, inclusive, they embrace the best period of his artistic career, and show the varied excellences of his marvellous power. The late Mr. Tilt, of Fleet Street, first conceived the idea of the “Comic Almanack,” and at various times there were engaged upon it such writers as Thackeray, Albert Smith, the Brothers Mayhew, the late Robert Brough, Gilbert A’Beckett, and, it has been asserted, Tom Hood the elder. Thackeray’s stories of “Stubbs’ Calendar; or, The Fatal Boots,” which subsequently appeared as “Stubbs’ Diary;” and “Barber Cox; or, The Cutting of his Comb,” formed the leading attractions in the numbers for 1839 and 1840.
THE BEST GUIDE TO HERALDRY.
Cussans’ Handbook of Heraldry; with Instructions for Tracing Pedigrees and Deciphering Ancient MSS.; also, Rules for the Appointment of Liveries, &c, &c By John E. Cussans. Illustrated with 360 Plates and Woodcuts. Crown 8vo, cloth extra, gilt and emblazoned, 7s. 6d.
⁂ This volume, beautifully printed on toned paper, contains not only the ordinary matter to be found in the best books on the science of Armory, but several other subjects hitherto unnoticed. Amongst these may be mentioned:—1. Directions for Tracing Pedigrees. 2. Deciphering Ancient MSS., illustrated by Alphabets and Facsimiles. 3. The Appointment of Liveries. 4. Continental and American Heraldry, &c.
NEW AND IMPORTANT WORK.
Cyclopædia of Costume; or, A Dictionary of Dress, Regal, Ecclesiastical, Civil, and Military, from the Earliest Period in England to the reign of George the Third. Including Notices of Contemporaneous Fashions on the Continent, and preceded by a General History of the Costume of the Principal Countries of Europe. By J. R. Planché, F.S.A., Somerset Herald.
This work will be published in Twenty-four Monthly Parts, quarto, at Five Shillings, profusely illustrated by Plates and Wood Engravings; with each Part will also be issued a splendid Coloured Plate, from an original Painting or Illumination, of Royal and Noble Personages, and National Costume, both foreign and domestic. The First Part will be ready on Jan. 1, 1875.
In collecting materials for a History of Costume of more importance than the little handbook which has met with so much favour as an elementary work, I was not only made aware of my own deficiencies, but surprised to find how much more vague are the explanations, and contradictory the statements, of our best authorities, than they appeared to me, when, in the plenitude of my ignorance, I rushed upon almost untrodden ground, and felt bewildered by the mass of unsifted evidence and unhesitating assertion which met my eyes at every turn.
During the forty years which have elapsed since the publication of the first edition of my “History of British Costume” in the “Library of Entertaining Knowledge,” archæological investigation has received such an impetus by the establishment of metropolitan and provincial peripatetic antiquarian societies, that a flood of light has been poured upon us, by which we are enabled to re-examine our opinions and discover reasons to doubt, if we cannot find facts to authenticate.
That the former greatly preponderate is a grievous acknowledgment to make after assiduously devoting the leisure of half my life to the pursuit of information on this, to me, most fascinating subject. It is some consolation, however, to feel that where I cannot instruct, I shall certainly not mislead, and that the reader will find, under each head, all that is known to, or suggested by, the most competent writers I am acquainted with, either here or on the Continent.
That this work appears in a glossarial form arises from the desire of many artists, who have expressed to me the difficulty they constantly meet with in their endeavours to ascertain the complete form of a garment, or the exact mode of fastening a piece of armour, or buckling of a belt, from their study of a sepulchral effigy or a figure in an illumination; the attitude of the personages represented, or the disposition of other portions of their attire, effectually preventing the requisite examination.
The books supplying any such information are very few, and the best confined to armour or ecclesiastical costume. The only English publication of the kind required, that I am aware of, is the late Mr. Fairholt’s “Costume in England” (8vo, London, 1846), the last two hundred pages of which contain a glossary, the most valuable portion whereof are the quotations from old plays, mediæval romances, and satirical ballads, containing allusions to various articles of attire in fashion at the time of their composition. Twenty-eight years have expired since that book appeared, and it has been thought that a more comprehensive work on the subject than has yet issued from the English press, combining the pith of the information of many costly foreign publications, and, in its illustrations, keeping in view the special requirement of the artist, to which I have alluded, would be, in these days of educational progress and critical inquiry, a welcome addition to the library of an English gentleman.
J. R. PLANCHÉ.
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⁂ An entirely new History of this important County, great attention being given to all matters pertaining to Family History.
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Historia de Gil Blas de Santillana. Por Le Sage. Traducida al Castellano por el Padre Isla. Nueva Edicion, corregida y revisada. Complete in One Volume. Post 8vo, cloth extra, nearly 600 pages, price 4s. 6d.
Earthward Pilgrimage, from the Next World to that which now is. By Moncure D. Conway. Crown 8vo, beautifully printed and bound, 7s. 6d.
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⁂This Work might not inappropriately be termed “A Book of Houses.” It gives every variety of house, from a workman’s cottage to a nobleman’s palace. The book is intended to supply a want long felt, viz., a plain, non-technical account of every style of house, with the cost and manner of building.
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Final Reliques of Father Prout. Collected and Edited, from MSS. supplied by the Family of the Rev. Francis Mahoney, by Blanchard Jerrold. [In preparation.
Finish to Life in and out of London; or, The Final Adventures of Tom, Jerry, and Logic. By Pierce Egan. Royal 8vo, cloth extra, with Spirited Coloured Illustrations by Cruikshank, 21s.
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Golden Treasury of Thought. The Best Encyclopædia of Quotations and Elegant Extracts, from Writers of all Times and all Countries, ever formed. Selected and Edited by Theodore Taylor. Crown 8vo, very handsomely bound, cloth gilt, and gilt edges, 7s. 6d.
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Hogarth’s Five Days’ Frolic; or, Peregrinations by Land and Water. Illustrated with Tinted Drawings, made by Hogarth and Scott during the Journey. 4to, beautifully printed, cloth, extra gilt, 10s. 6d.
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Abstract of Contents.
Essays of Elia, as originally published in The London Magazine, The Examiner, The Indicator, The Reflector, The New Monthly, The Englishman’s Magazine, The Athenæum, &c.
Papers contributed to “Hone’s Table Book,” “Year Book,” and “Every Day Book,” and to Walter Wilson’s “Life of Defoe.”
Notes on the English Dramatists, 1808–1827.
Review of Wordsworth’s “Excursion” (from the Quarterly Review).
Rosamond Gray (from the Edition of 1798).
Tales From Shakespeare and from Mrs. Leicester’s School.
The Adventures of Ulysses.
Dramatic Pieces:
John Woodvil: a Tragedy (from the Edition of 1802).
Mr. H——, a Farce.
The Wife’s Trial; or, The Intruding Widow.
The Pawnbroker’s Daughter.
Poems:
Sonnets and other Poems printed with those of Coleridge in 1796-7, 1800, and 1813.
Blank Verse (from the Edition of 1798).
Poetry for Children, 1809.
Album Verses, 1830.
Satan in Search of a Wife, 1831, &c.
Lamb (Mary & Charles): Their Poems, Letters, and Remains. Now first collected, with Reminiscences and Notes, by W. Carew Hazlitt. With Hancock’s Portrait of the Essayist, Facsimiles of the Title-pages of the rare First Editions of Lamb’s and Coleridge’s Works, Facsimile of a Page of the Original MS. of the “Essay on Roast Pig,” and numerous Illustrations of Lamb’s Favourite Haunts. Crown 8vo, cloth extra, 10s. 6d.; Large-paper Copies 21s.
“Mr. W.C. Hazlitt has published a very pretty and interesting little volume. It has many pictorial illustrations, which were supplied by Mr. Camden Hotten; and, above all, it contains a facsimile of the first page of Elia on ‘Roast Pig.’ It is well got up, and has a good portrait of Elia. There are also some letters and poems of Mary Lamb which are not easily accessible elsewhere.”—Westminster Review.
“Must be consulted by all future biographers of the Lambs.”—Daily News.
“Tells us a good deal that is interesting and something that is fairly new.”—Graphic.
“Very many passages will delight those fond of literary trifles; hardly any portion will fail to have its interest for lovers of Charles Lamb and his sister.”—Standard.
“Mr. Hazlitt’s work is very important and valuable, and all lovers of Elia will thank him for what he has done.”—Sunday Times.
“Will be joyfully received by all Lambites.”—Globe.
Lee (General Edward): His Life and Campaigns. By his Nephew, Edward Lee Childe. With Portrait and Plans. 1 vol. Crown 8vo.
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⁂ The reader will find the present edition of Longfellow’s Prose Writings by far the most complete ever issued in this country. “Outre-Mer” contains two additional chapters, restored from the first edition; while “The Poets and Poetry of Europe,” and the little collection of Sketches entitled “Driftwood,” are now first introduced to the English public.
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THE OLD DRAMATISTS.
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