Chatto & Windus's List of Books, July 1878
Part 4
Two vols. 8vo, cloth extra, Illustrated, 21_s._, the THIRD EDITION of
_Miss Misanthrope_.
By JUSTIN MCCARTHY, Author of “Dear Lady Disdain,” &c. With 12 Illustrations by ARTHUR HOPKINS.
“_In ‘Miss Misanthrope’ Mr. McCarthy has added a new and delightful portrait to his gallery of Englishwomen.... It is a novel which may be sipped like choice wine; it is one to linger over and ponder; to be enjoyed like fine, sweet air, or good company, for it is pervaded by a perfume of honesty and humour, of high feeling, of kindly penetrating humour, of good sense, and wide knowledge of the world, of a mind richly cultivated and amply stored. There is scarcely a page in these volumes in which we do not find some fine remark or felicitous reflection of piercing, yet gentle and indulgent irony._”--DAILY NEWS.
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_MRS. LINTON’S NEW NOVEL._
Two Vols. 8vo, cloth extra, Illustrated, 21_s._, the SECOND EDITION of
_The World Well Lost_.
By E. LYNN LINTON, Author of “Patricia Kemball,” &c. With 12 Illustrations by HENRY FRENCH and J. LAWSON.
“_If Mrs. Linton had not already won a place among our foremost living novelists, she would have been entitled to it by her latest work of fiction--a book of singularly high and varied merit. The story rivets the attention of the reader at the outset, and holds him absorbed until the close._”--SCOTSMAN.
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_MR. JAMES PAYN’S NEW NOVEL._
Two Vols., 8vo, cloth extra, Illustrated, 21_s._, the SECOND EDITION of
_By Proxy_.
By JAMES PAYN, Author of “Walter’s Word,” &c. With 12 Illustrations by ARTHUR HOPKINS.
“_One of the most racy and entertaining of English novels._”--ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS.
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_NEW NOVEL BY MR. JAMES GRANT._
Three Vols., crown 8vo.
_The Lord Hermitage._
By JAMES GRANT, Author of “The Romance of War,” &c.
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_OUIDA’S NEW NOVEL._
Now ready, in Three Vols., crown 8vo.
_Friendship_:
A Story of Society. By OUIDA.
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Crown 8vo, red cloth, extra, 5_s._ each.
_Ouida’s Novels.--Uniform Edition._
_Held in Bondage._ By OUIDA.
_Strathmore._ By OUIDA.
_Chandos._ By OUIDA.
_Under Two Flags._ By OUIDA.
_Idalia._ By OUIDA.
_Tricotrin._ By OUIDA.
_Cecil Castlemaine’s Gage._ By OUIDA.
_Puck._ By OUIDA.
_Folle Farine._ By OUIDA.
_Dog of Flanders._ By OUIDA.
_Pascarel._ By OUIDA.
_Two Wooden Shoes._ By OUIDA.
_Signa._ By OUIDA.
_In a Winter City._ By OUIDA.
_Ariadnê._ By OUIDA.
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Small 8vo, cloth extra, with Illustrations, 3_s._ 6_d._
_The Prince of Argolis_:
A Story of the Old Greek Fairy Time. By J. MOYR SMITH. With 130 Illustrations by the Author.
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Post 8vo, illustrated boards, 2_s._ each.
_Cheap Editions of Popular Novels._
[WILKIE COLLINS’ NOVELS may also be had in cloth limp at 2_s._ 6_d._ _See, too, the_ PICCADILLY NOVELS, _for Library Editions_.]
_The Woman in White._ By WILKIE COLLINS.
_Antonina._ By WILKIE COLLINS.
_Basil._ By WILKIE COLLINS.
_Hide and Seek._ By WILKIE COLLINS.
_The Dead Secret._ By WILKIE COLLINS.
_The Queen of Hearts._ By WILKIE COLLINS.
_My Miscellanies._ By WILKIE COLLINS.
_The Moonstone._ By WILKIE COLLINS.
_Man and Wife._ By WILKIE COLLINS.
_Poor Miss Finch._ By WILKIE COLLINS.
_Miss or Mrs.?_ By WILKIE COLLINS.
_The New Magdalen._ By WILKIE COLLINS.
_The Frozen Deep._ By WILKIE COLLINS.
_The Law and the Lady._ By WILKIE COLLINS.
_Gaslight and Daylight._ By GEORGE AUGUSTUS SALA.
_The Waterdale Neighbours._ By JUSTIN MCCARTHY.
_My Enemy’s Daughter._ By JUSTIN MCCARTHY.
_Linley Rochford._ By JUSTIN MCCARTHY.
_A Fair Saxon._ By JUSTIN MCCARTHY.
_Dear Lady Disdain._ By JUSTIN MCCARTHY.
_An Idle Excursion._ By MARK TWAIN.
_The Adventures of Tom Sawyer._ By MARK TWAIN.
_Pleasure Trip on the Continent of Europe._ By MARK TWAIN.
_Oakshott Castle._ By HENRY KINGSLEY.
_Bound to the Wheel._ By JOHN SAUNDERS.
_Guy Waterman._ By JOHN SAUNDERS.
_One Against the World._ By JOHN SAUNDERS.
_The Lion in the Path._ By JOHN and KATHERINE SAUNDERS.
_Surly Tim._ By the Author of “That Lass o’ Lowrie’s.”
_Under the Greenwood Tree._ By THOMAS HARDY.
_Ready-Money Mortiboy._ By WALTER BESANT and JAMES RICE.
_The Golden Butterfly._ By Authors of “Ready-Money Mortiboy.”
_This Son of Vulcan._ By the Authors of “Ready-Money Mortiboy.”
_My Little Girl._ By the Authors of “Ready-Money Mortiboy.”
_The Case of Mr. Lucraft._ Authors of “Ready-Money Mortiboy.”
_With Harp and Crown._ Authors of “Ready-Money Mortiboy.”
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Two Vols. 8vo, cloth extra, with Illustrations, 10_s._ 6_d._
_Plutarch’s Lives of Illustrious Men._
Translated from the Greek, with Notes Critical and Historical, and a Life of Plutarch, by JOHN and WILLIAM LANGHORNE. New Edition, with Medallion Portraits.
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Crown 8vo, cloth extra, with Portrait and Illustrations, 7_s._ 6_d._
_Poe’s Choice Prose and Poetical Works._
With BAUDELAIRE’S “Essay.”
“_Poe stands as much alone among verse-writers as Salvator Rosa among painters._”--SPECTATOR.
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Crown 8vo, cloth extra, Illustrated, 7_s._ 6_d._
_The Life of Edgar Allan Poe._
By WILLIAM F. GILL. With numerous Illustrations and Facsimiles.
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Demy 8vo, cloth extra, 12_s._ 6_d._
_Proctor’s Myths and Marvels of Astronomy._
By RICHARD A. PROCTOR, Author of “Other Worlds than Ours,” &c.
“_Mr. Proctor, who is well and widely known for his faculty of popularising the latest results of the science of which he is a master, has brought together in these fascinating chapters a curious collection of popular beliefs concerning divination by the stars, the influences of the moon, the destination of the comets, the constellation figures, and the habitation of other worlds than ours._”--DAILY NEWS.
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Crown 8vo, cloth extra, 5_s._
_Prometheus the Fire-Giver_:
An attempted Restoration of the Lost First Part of the Trilogy of Æschylus.
“_Another illustration of that classical revival which is due in no small degree to the influence of Mr. Swinburne.... Much really fine writing, and much appreciation of the Æschylean spirit._”--HOME NEWS.
“_Well written in parts--soft, spirited, and vigorous, according to requirement._”--ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS.
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In Two Series, small 4to, blue and gold, gilt edges, 6_s._ each.
_Puniana_;
or, Thoughts Wise and Other-Why’s. A New Collection of Riddles, Conundrums, Jokes, Sells, &c. In Two Series, each containing 3000 of the best Riddles, 10,000 most outrageous Puns, and upwards of Fifty beautifully executed Drawings by the Editor, the Hon. HUGH ROWLEY. Each Series is Complete in itself.
“_A witty, droll, and most amusing work, profusely and elegantly illustrated._”--STANDARD.
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Crown 8vo, cloth extra, with Portrait and Facsimile, 12_s._ 6_d._
_The Final Reliques of Father Prout._
Collected and Edited, from MSS. supplied by the family of the Rev. FRANCIS MAHONY, by BLANCHARD JERROLD.
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Crown 8vo, cloth extra, gilt, 7_s._ 6_d._
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_The Pursuivant of Arms_;
or, Heraldry founded upon Facts. A Popular Guide to the Science of Heraldry. By J. R. PLANCHÉ, Esq., Somerset Herald. With Coloured Frontispiece, Plates, and 200 Illustrations.
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Crown 8vo, cloth extra, 7_s._ 6_d._
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_Rabelais’ Works._
Faithfully Translated from the French, with variorum Notes, and numerous Characteristic Illustrations by GUSTAVE DORÉ.
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Crown 8vo, cloth gilt, with numerous Illustrations, and a beautifully executed Chart of the various Spectra, 7_s._ 6_d._, a New Edition of
_Rambosson’s Astronomy._
By J. RAMBOSSON, Laureate of the Institute of France. Translated by C. B. PITMAN. Profusely Illustrated.
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Crown 8vo, cloth extra, 6_s._
_Red-Spinner’s By Stream and Sea_:
A Book for Wanderers and Anglers. By WILLIAM SENIOR (RED-SPINNER).
“_Mr. Senior has long been known as an interesting and original essayist. He is a keen observer, a confessed lover of ‘the gentle sport,’ and combines with a fine picturesque touch a quaint and efficient humour. All these qualities come out in a most attractive manner in this delightful volume.... It is pre-eminently a bright and breezy book, full of nature and odd out-of-the-way references.... We can conceive of no better book for the holiday tour or the seaside._”--NONCONFORMIST.
“_Very delightful reading; just the sort of book which an angler or a rambler will be glad to have in the side pocket of his jacket. Altogether, ‘By Stream and Sea’ is one of the best books of its kind which we have come across for many a long day._”--OXFORD UNIVERSITY HERALD.
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Crown 8vo, cloth extra, 7_s._ 6_d._
_Memoirs of the Sanson Family_:
Seven Generations of Executioners. By HENRI SANSON. Translated from the French, with Introduction, by CAMILLE BARRÈRE.
“_A faithful translation of this curious work, which will certainly repay perusal--not on the ground of its being full of horrors, for the original author seems to be rather ashamed of the technical aspect of his profession, and is commendably reticent as to its details, but because it contains a lucid account of the most notable causes célèbres from the time of Louis XIV. to a period within the memory of persons still living.... Can scarcely fail to be extremely entertaining._”--DAILY TELEGRAPH.
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Handsomely printed, price 5_s._
_The Roll of Battle Abbey_;
or, A List of the Principal Warriors who came over from Normandy with William the Conqueror, and Settled in this Country, A.D. 1066-7. Printed on fine plate paper, nearly three feet by two, with the principal Arms emblazoned in Gold and Colours.
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In 4to, very handsomely printed, extra gold cloth, 12_s._
_The Roll of Caerlaverock._
The Oldest Heraldic Roll; including the Original Anglo-Norman Poem, and an English Translation of the MS. in the British Museum. By THOMAS WRIGHT, M.A. The Arms emblazoned in Gold and Colours.
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Crown 8vo, cloth extra, profusely Illustrated, 4_s._ 6_d._ each.
_The “Secret Out” Series._
_The Art of Amusing_:
A Collection of Graceful Arts, Games, Tricks, Puzzles, and Charades. By FRANK BELLEW. 300 Illustrations.
_Hanky-Panky_:
Very Easy Tricks, Very Difficult Tricks, White Magic, Sleight of Hand. Edited by W. H. CREMER. 200 Illustrations.
_Magician’s Own Book_:
Performances with Cups and Balls, Eggs, Hats, Handkerchiefs, &c. All from Actual Experience. Edited by W. H. CREMER. 200 Illustrations.
_Magic No Mystery_:
Tricks with Cards, Dice, Balls, &c., with fully descriptive Directions; the Art of Secret Writing; the Training of Performing Animals, &c. With Coloured Frontispiece and many Illustrations.
_The Merry Circle_:
A Book of New Intellectual Games and Amusements. By CLARA BELLEW. Many Illustrations.
_The Secret Out_:
One Thousand Tricks with Cards, and other Recreations; with Entertaining Experiments in Drawing-room or “White Magic.” By W. H. CREMER. 300 Engravings.
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_NEW VOLUME OF THE “SECRET OUT” SERIES._
Crown 8vo, cloth extra, with numerous Plates, 4_s._ 6_d._
_The Pyrotechnist’s Treasury_;
or, Complete Art of Making Fireworks. By THOMAS KENTISH.
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Post 8vo, with Illustrations, cloth extra, gilt edges, 18_s._
_The Lansdowne Shakespeare._
Beautifully printed in red and black, in small but very clear type. With engraved facsimile of DROESHOUT’S Portrait, and 37 beautiful Steel Plates, after STOTHARD.
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In reduced facsimile, small 8vo, half Roxburghe, 10_s._ 6_d._
_The First Folio Shakespeare._
Mr. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE’S Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies. Published according to the true Originall Copies. London, Printed by ISAAC IAGGARD and ED. BLOUNT, 1623.--An exact Reproduction of the extremely rare original, in reduced facsimile by a photographic process--ensuring the strictest accuracy in every detail. _A full Prospectus will be sent upon application._
“_To Messrs. Chatto and Windus belongs the merit of having done more to facilitate the critical study of the text of our great dramatist than all the Shakespeare clubs and societies put together. A complete facsimile of the celebrated First Folio edition of 1623 for half-a-guinea is at once a miracle of cheapness and enterprise. Being in a reduced form, the type is necessarily rather diminutive, but it is as distinct as in a genuine copy of the original, and will be found to be as useful and far more handy to the student than the latter._”--ATHENÆUM.
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Two Vols. crown 8vo, cloth extra, 18_s._
_The School of Shakspere._
Including “The Life and Death of Captain Thomas Stukeley,” with a New Life of Stucley, from Unpublished Sources; “Nobody and Somebody,” “Histriomastix,” “The Prodigal Son,” “Jack Drum’s Entertainement,” “A Warning for Fair Women,” with Reprints of the Accounts of the Murder; and “Faire Em.” Edited, with Introductions and Notes, and an Account of Robert Green and his Quarrels with Shakspere, by RICHARD SIMPSON, B.A., Author of “The Philosophy of Shakspere’s Sonnets,” “The Life of Campion,” &c. With an Introduction by F. J. FURNIVALL.
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Crown 8vo, cloth extra, with Illustrations, 7_s._ 6_d._
_Signboards_:
Their History. With Anecdotes of Famous Taverns and Remarkable Characters. By JACOB LARWOOD and JOHN CAMDEN HOTTEN. With nearly 100 Illustrations.
“_Even if we were ever so maliciously inclined, we could not pick out all Messrs. Larwood and Hotten’s plums, because the good things are so numerous as to defy the most wholesale depredation._”--TIMES.
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Crown 8vo, cloth extra, gilt, 6_s._ 6_d._
_The Slang Dictionary_:
Etymological, Historical, and Anecdotal. An ENTIRELY NEW EDITION, revised throughout, and considerably Enlarged.
“_We are glad to see the Slang Dictionary reprinted and enlarged. From a high scientific point of view this book is not to be despised. Of course it cannot fail to be amusing also. It contains the very vocabulary of unrestrained humour, and oddity, and grotesqueness. In a word, it provides valuable material both for the student of language and the student of human nature._”--ACADEMY.
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Exquisitely printed in miniature, cloth extra, gilt edges, 2_s._ 6_d._
_The Smoker’s Text-Book._
By J. HAMER, F.R.S.L.
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Crown 8vo, cloth extra, gilt, with 10 full-page Tinted Illustrations, 7_s._ 6_d._
_Sheridan’s Complete Works_,
with Life and Anecdotes. Including his Dramatic Writings, printed from the Original Editions, his Works in Prose and Poetry, Translations, Speeches, Jokes, Puns, &c.; with a Collection of Sheridaniana.
“_The editor has brought together within a manageable compass not only the seven plays by which Sheridan is best known, but a collection also of his poetical pieces which are less familiar to the public, sketches of unfinished dramas, selections from his reported witticisms, and extracts from his principal speeches. To these is prefixed a short but well-written memoir, giving the chief facts in Sheridan’s literary and political career; so that, with this volume in his hand, the student may consider himself tolerably well furnished with all that is necessary for a general comprehension of the subject of it._”--PALL MALL GAZETTE.
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Crown 4to, uniform with “Chaucer for Children,” with Coloured Illustrations, cloth gilt, 10_s._ 6_d._
_Spenser for Children._
By M. H. TOWRY. With Illustrations in Colours by WALTER J. MORGAN.
“_Spenser has simply been transferred into plain prose, with here and there a line or stanza quoted, where the meaning and the diction are within a child’s comprehension, and additional point is thus given to the narrative without the cost of obscurity.... Altogether the work has been well and carefully done._”--THE TIMES.
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Imperial 4to, containing 150 beautifully-finished full-page Engravings and Nine Vignettes, all tinted, and some illuminated in gold and colours, half-morocco, £9 9_s._
_Stothard’s Monumental Effigies of Great Britain._
With Historical Description and Introduction by JOHN KEMPE, F.S.A. A NEW EDITION, with a large body of Additional Notes by JOHN HEWITT.
⁂ A few Large Paper copies, royal folio, with the arms illuminated in gold and colours, and the plates very carefully finished in body-colours, heightened with gold in the very finest style, half-morocco, £15 15_s._
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Crown 8vo, cloth extra, 9_s._
_Stedman’s Victorian Poets_:
Critical Essays. By EDMUND CLARENCE STEDMAN.
“_We ought to be thankful to those who do critical work with competent skill and understanding, with honesty of purpose, and with diligence and thoroughness of execution. And Mr. Stedman, having chosen to work in this line, deserves the thanks of English scholars by these qualities and by something more; ... he is faithful, studious, and discerning._”--SATURDAY REVIEW.
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_Mr. Swinburne’s Works_:
_The Queen Mother and Rosamond._
Fcap. 8vo, 5_s._
_Atalanta in Calydon._
A New Edition. Crown 8vo, 6_s._
_Chastelard._
A Tragedy. Crown 8vo, 7_s._
_Poems and Ballads._
Fcap. 8vo, 9_s._ Also in crown 8vo, at same price.
_Notes on “Poems and Ballads.”_
8vo, 1_s._
_William Blake_:
A Critical Essay. With Facsimile Paintings. Demy 8vo, 16_s._
_Songs before Sunrise._
Crown 8vo, 10_s._ 6_d._
_Bothwell_:
A Tragedy. Two Vols. crown 8vo, 12_s._ 6_d._
_George Chapman_:
An Essay. Crown 8vo, 7_s._
_Songs of Two Nations._
Crown 8vo, 6_s._
_Essays and Studies._
Crown 8vo, 12_s._
_Erechtheus_:
A Tragedy. Crown 8vo, 6_s._
_Note of an English Republican on the Muscovite Crusade._
8vo, 1_s._
_A Note on Charlotte Brontë._
Crown 8vo, 6_s._
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_MR. SWINBURNE’S NEW WORK._
Crown 8vo, cloth extra, 9_s._
_Poems and Ballads._ SECOND SERIES.
By ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE.
⁂ Also in fcap. 8vo, at same price, uniform with the FIRST SERIES.
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Fcap. 8vo, cloth extra, 3_s._ 6_d._
_Rossetti’s (W. M.) Criticism upon Swinburne’s “Poems and Ballads.”_
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Crown 8vo, cloth extra, with Illustrations, 7_s._ 6_d._
_Swift’s Choice Works_,
in Prose and Verse. With Memoir, Portrait, and Facsimiles of the Maps in the Original Edition of “Gulliver’s Travels.”
“_The ‘Tale of a Tub’ is, in my apprehension, the masterpiece of Swift; certainly Rabelais has nothing superior, even in invention, nor anything so condensed, so pointed, so full of real meaning, of biting satire, of felicitous analogy. The ‘Battle of the Books’ is such an improvement on the similar combat in the Lutrin, that we can hardly own it as an imitation._”--HALLAM.
“_If he had never written either the ‘Tale of a Tub’ or ‘Gulliver’s Travels,’ his name merely as a poet would have come down to us, and have gone down to posterity, with well-earned honours._”--HAZLITT.
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Crown 8vo, cloth extra, with Illustrations, 7_s._ 6_d._
_Strutt’s Sports and Pastimes of the People of England_;
the Rural and Domestic Recreations, May Games, Mummeries, Shows, Processions, Pageants, and Pompous Spectacles, from the Earliest Period to the Present Time. With 140 Illustrations. Edited by WILLIAM HONE.
⁂ A few Large Paper Copies, with an extra set of Copperplate Illustrations, carefully Coloured by Hand, from the Originals, 50_s._
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Medium 8vo, cloth extra, with Illustrations, 7_s._ 6_d._
_Dr. Syntax’s Three Tours_,
in Search of the Picturesque, in Search of Consolation, and in Search of a Wife. With the whole of ROWLANDSON’S droll page Illustrations, in Colours, and Life of the Author by J. C. HOTTEN.
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Large post 8vo, cloth, full gilt, gilt top, with Illustrations, 12_s._ 6_d._
_Thackerayana_:
Notes and Anecdotes: Illustrated by a profusion of Sketches by WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY, depicting Humorous Incidents in his School-life, and Favourite Characters in the books of his everyday reading. With Hundreds of Wood Engravings and Five Coloured Plates, from Mr. Thackeray’s Original Drawings.
“_It would have been a real loss to bibliographical literature had copyright difficulties deprived the general public of this very amusing collection. One of Thackeray’s habits, from his schoolboy days, was to ornament the margins and blank pages of the books he had in use with caricature illustrations of their contents. This gave special value to the sale of his library, and is almost cause for regret that it could not have been preserved in its integrity. Thackeray’s place in literature is eminent enough to have made this an interest to future generations. The anonymous editor has done the best that he could to compensate for the lack of this. It is an admirable addendum, not only to his collected works, but also to any memoir of him that has been, or that is likely to be, written._”--BRITISH QUARTERLY REVIEW.
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Crown 8vo, cloth extra, gilt edges, with Illustrations, 7_s._ 6_d._
_Thomson’s Seasons and Castle of Indolence._
With a Biographical and Critical Introduction by ALLAN CUNNINGHAM, and over 50 fine Illustrations on Steel and Wood.
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Crown 8vo, cloth extra, with Coloured Illustrations, 7_s._ 6_d._
_J. M. W. Turner’s Life and Correspondence._ Founded upon Letters and Papers furnished by his Friends and fellow Academicians. By WALTER THORNBURY. A New Edition, considerably Enlarged. With numerous Illustrations in Colours, facsimiled from Turner’s original Drawings.
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_Taine’s History of English Literature._
Translated by HENRY VAN LAUN. Four Vols. small 8vo, 30_s._
⁂ Also a Popular Edition, in Two Vols., crown 8vo, cloth extra, 15_s._
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Two Vols. crown 8vo, cloth boards, 18_s._; Large Paper copies (only 50 printed), 36_s._
_Cyril Tourneur’s Collected Works_,
Plays and Poems. Edited, with Critical Introduction and Notes, by J. CHURTON COLLINS.
“_Tourneur’s plays are an essential part of the literary history of his period. For this reason chiefly they deserve Mr. Collins’s careful editing. His notes are brief and to the point; his illustrations, drawn from a store of curious and recondite learning, are apt and pregnant.... The book, which is prettily printed, is one which the student of Elizabethan literature cannot dispense with._”--SATURDAY REVIEW.
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