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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.

CARTER'S ANCIENT ARCHITECTURE OF ENGLAND. Including the Orders during the British, Roman, Saxon, and Norman Eras; and also under the Reigns of Henry III. and Edward III. Illustrated by 103 large Copper plate Engravings, comprising upwards of Two Thousand Specimens. Edited by JOHN BRITTON. Royal folio, half-morocco extra, £2 8s.

*** This national work on ancient architecture occupied its author, in drawing, etching, arranging, and publishing, more than twenty years, and he himsel declared it to be the result of his studies through life.

CARTER'S ANCIENT SCULPTURE NOW REMAINING IN ENGLAND, from the Earliest Period to the Reign of Henry VIII.; consisting of Statues, Basso-relievos, Sculptures, &c., Brasses, Monumental Effigies Paintings on Glass and on Walls; Missal Ornaments: Carvings on Cups, Croziers, Chests, Seals; Ancient Furniture, &c. &c. With Historical and Critical Illustrations by DOUCE, MEYRICK, DAWSON TURNER, and JOHN BRITTON. Royal folio, with 120 large Engravings, many illuminated, half-bound morocco extra, £8 8s. CATLIN'S ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE MANNERS. CUSTOMS, AND CONDITION OF THE NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS, written during Eight Years of Travel and Adventure among the Wildest and most Remarkable Tribes now existing. Containing 360 Engravings from the Author's original Paintings. Tenth Edition. Two Vols., imperial 8vo, cloth extra, gilt, 1 10s.; or with the Plates beautifully Coloured, half-morocco, gilt edges, £8 8s. "One of the most admirable observers of manners who ever lived among the aborigines of America."-HUMBOLDT's Cosmos.

CATLIN'S NORTH AMERICAN INDIAN PORTFOLIO. Containing Hunting Scenes, Amusements, Scenery, and Costume of the Indians of the Rocky Mountains and Prairies of America, from Drawings and Notes made by the Author during Eight Years' Travel. A series of 25 magnificent Plates, beautifully coloured in facsimile of the Original Drawings exhibited at the Egyptian Hall. With letterpress descriptions, imp. folio, in handsome portfolio, £7 10s, CELEBRATED CLAIMANTS, Ancient and Modern. The History of all the most celebrated Pretenders and Claimants, from PERKIN WARBECK to ARTHUR ORTON. Fcap. 8vo, illustrated boards, 25. CHAMBERLAINE'S IMITATIONS OF DRAWINGS FROM THE GREAT MASTERS in the Royal Collection. Engraved by BARTOLOZZI and others. 74 fine Plates, mostly tinted; including, in addition, “Ecce Homo,' after GUIDO, and the scarce Series of 7 Anatomical Drawings. Imperial folio, half-morocco, gilt edges, £5 5s.

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CHATTO'S (W. Andrew) HISTORY OF WOOD ENGRAVING, Historical and Practical. A New Edition, with an Additional Chapter. Illustrated by 445 fine Wood Engravings. Imperial 8vo, half-Roxburghe, £2 55. "This volume is one of the most interesting and valuable of modern times."-Art Union.

CHRISTMAS CAROLS

AND BALLADS. Selected and
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Edited by JOSHUA SYLVESTER.
CICERO'S FAMILIAR LETTERS, AND LETTERS TO
ATTICUS. Translated by MELMOTH and HEBERDEN. With Life of Cicero by
MIDDLETON. Royal 8vo, with Portrait, cloth extra, 125.

"Cicero is the type of a perfect letter-writer, never boring you with moral essays out of season, always evincing his mastery over his art by the most careful consideration for your patience and amusement. We should rifle the volumes of antiquity in vain to find a letter-writer who converses on paper so naturally, so engagingly, so much from the heart, as Cicero."—Quarterly Review.

CLAUDE'S LIBER VERITATIS. A Collection of 303 Prints after the Original Designs of CLAUDE. Engraved by RICHARD EARLOM. With a descriptive Catalogue of each Print, Lists of the Persons for whom, and the Places for which, the original Pictures were first painted, and of the present Possessors of most of them. Three Vols. folio, half-morocco extra, gilt edges, £10 10s. CLAUDE, BEAUTIES OF, containing 24 of his choicest Landscapes, beautifully Engraved on Steel, by BROMLEY, LUPTON, and others. With Biographical Sketch and Portrait. Royal folio, in a portfolio, £1 5s.

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The Woman in White. Il-
lustrated by Sir JOHN GILBERT and
F. A. FRASER.

Antonina ; or, The Fall of
Rome. Illustrated by Sir JOHN GIL-
BERT and ALFRED CONCANEN.
Basil. Illustrated by Sir JOHN
GILBERT and M. F. MAHONEY.
The Dead Secret. Illustrated
by Sir JOHN GILBERT and H.
FURNISS.

The Queen of Hearts. Illus-
trated by Sir JOHN GILBERT and
ALFRED CONCANEN.

The Moonstone. Illustrated by
G. DU MAURIER and F. A. FRASER.
Man and Wife. Illustrated by

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Poor Miss Finch. Illustrated
by GEORGE DU MAURIER and ED-
WARD HUGHES.

Miss or Mrs. ? Illustrated by
S. L. FILDES and HENRY WOODS.

The New Magdalen. With
Steel-plate Portrait of the Author, and
Illustrations by C. S. R.

The Frozen Deep.

Illustrated by G. Du MAURIER and M. F. MAHONEY.

My Miscellanies.
by ALFRED Concanen.

Illustrated

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CONDÉ (THE GREAT), and the Period of the Fronde: An Historical Sketch. By WALTER FITZ PATRICK. Second Edition. Two Vols., 8vo, cloth extra, 155.

CONQUEST OF THE

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CONEY'S ENGRAVINGS OF ANCIENT CATHEDRALS,
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Architecture in France, Holland, Germany, and Italy. 32 large Plates, imperial
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CONSTABLE'S GRAPHIC WORKS. Comprising 40 highly
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CORNWALL (PAROCHIAL HISTORY of the COUNTY of).
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COTMAN'S ENGRAVINGS OF THE SEPULCHRAL
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New Edition, containing 173 Plates, two of them splendidly Illuminated. Two
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folio, half-morocco extra, £8 8s.

COTMAN'S ETCHINGS OF ARCHITECTURAL REMAINS.
chiefly Norman and Gothic, in various Counties in England, but principally in
Norfolk, with Descriptive Notices by DAWSON TURNER, and Architectural Obser-
vations by THOMAS RICKMAN. Two Vols., imperial folio, containing 240 spirited
Etchings, half-morocco, top edges gilt, £8 8s.
COTMAN'S LIBER STUDIORUM.

A Series of Landscape

Studies and Original Compositions for the Use of Art Students, consisting of
48 Etchings, the greater part executed in "soft ground." Imperial folio, half-
morocco, 1 11s. 6d.

COWPER'S POETICAL WORKS.

Including his Translation of
HOMER. Edited by the Rev. H. F. CARY. With Portrait and 18 Steel Engrav-
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CRUIKSHANK AT HOME. Tales and Sketches by the
most Popular Authors. With numerous Illustrations by ROBERT CRUIKSHANK
and ROBERT SEYMOUR. Also, CRUIKSHANK'S ODD VOLUME, or Book
of Variety, Illustrated by Two Odd Fellows-SEYMOUR and CRUIKSHANK.
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CRUIKSHANK'S

UNIVERSAL SONGSTER. The largest

With 8,

Collection extant of the best Old English Songs (upwards of 5000).
Engravings on Steel and Wood by GEORGE and R. CRUIKSHANK, and 8 Portraits,
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CUSSANS' HANDBOOK OF HERALDRY.

With Instructions

for Tracing Pedigrees and Deciphering Ancient MSS.; Rules for the Appointment of Liveries, Chapters on Continental and American Heraldry, &c. &c. By JOHN E. CUSSANS. Illustrated with 360 Plates and Woodcuts. Crown 8vo, cloth extra, gilt and emblazoned, 7s. 6d.

CUSSANS' HISTORY OF HERTFORDSHIRE.

A County History, got up in a very superior manner, and ranging with the finest works of its class. By JOHN E. ČUSSANS. Illustrated with full-page Plates on Copper and Stone, and a profusion of small Woodcuts. Parts I. to VIII. are now ready, price 21s. each.

** An entirely new History of this important County, great attention being given to all matters pertaining to Family History.

CUVIER'S ANIMAL KINGDOM, arranged after its Organization forming a Natural History of Animals, and an Introduction to Comparative Anatomy. New Edition, with considerable Additions by W. B. CARPENTER and J. O. WESTWOOD. Illustrated by many Hundred Wood Engravings, and numerous Steel Engravings by THOS. LANDSEER, mostly Coloured. Imperial 8vo, cloth extra, 18s.

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 Costumes of the Principal Countries of Europe. By J. R. PLANCHÉ, Somerset Herald. To be Completed in Twenty-four Parts, quarto, at Five_Shillings each, profusely illustrated by Coloured and Plain Plates and Wood Engravings.-A Prospectus will be sent upon application. [In course of publication.

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DICKENS' SPEECHES, Social and Literary, now first collected. Royal 16mo, cloth extra, IS.

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DON QUIXOTE: A Revised Translation, based upon those of MOTTEUX, JARVIS, and SMOLLETT. With 50 Illustrations by ARMSTRONG and TONY JOHANNOT. Royal 8vo, cloth extra, gilt, 10s. 6d.

DON QUIXOTE IN SPANISH.-EL INGENIOSO HIDALGO DON QUIJOTE DE LA MANCHA. Nueva Edicion, corregida y revisada. Por MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA. Complete in One Volume, post 8vo, nearly 700 pages, cloth extra, price 4s. 6d.

DRURY'S ILLUSTRATIONS of FOREIGN ENTOMOLOGY. Containing, in 150 beautifully Coloured Plates, upwards of 600 Exotic Insects of the East and West Indies, China, New Holland, North and South America, Germany, &c. With important Additions and Scientific Indexes, by J. O. WESTWOOD, F.L.S. Three Vols, 4to, half-morocco extra, £5 5s.

DULWICH GALLERY (The): A Series of 50 beautifully Coloured Plates, from the most celebrated Pictures in this Collection, executed by the Custodian, R. COCKBURN, and mounted upon Cardboard, in the manner of Drawings. Imperial folio, in portfolio, £16 16s.

DUNLOP'S HISTORY OF FICTION: Being a Critical and Analytical Account of the most celebrated Prose Works of Fiction, from the Earliest Greek Romances to the Novels of the Present Day, with General Index. Third Edition, royal 8vo, cloth extra, os.

EDGEWORTH'S (Maria) TALES AND NOVELS, Complete.

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Belinda.

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Madame de Fleury, &c.

Patronage.

Comic Dramas, Leonora, &c.
Harrington, Bores, &c.

Helen.

With an

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ENGLISHMAN'S HOUSE (The): A Practical Guide to all interested in Selecting or Building a House, with full Estimates of Cost, Quantities, &c. By C. J. RICHARDSON. Third Edition. With nearly 600 Illustrations. Crown 8vo, cloth extra, 7s. 6d.

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FARADAY'S CHEMICAL HISTORY OF A CANDLE.

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FARADAY'S VARIOUS FORCES OF NATURE. A New Edition, Edited by W. CROOKES, Esq., F.C.S., &c. Crown 8vo, cloth extra, with numerous Illustrations, 4s. 6d.

FIGUIER'S PRIMITIVE MAN: A Popular Manual of the prevailing Theories of the Descent of Man as promulgated by DARWIN, LYELL, Sir JOHN LUBBOCK, HUXLEY, E. B. TYLOR, and other eminent Ethnologists. Translated from the last French edition, and revised by E. B. T. With 263 Illustra tions. Demy 8vo, cloth extra, gilt, os.

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