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34 BOOKS PUBLISHED BY CHATTO & WINDUS.

COMPANION TO "CUSSANS' HERALDRY."

The Pursuivant of Arms; or, Heraldry founded upon Facts. A Popular Guide to the Science of Heraldry. By J. R. PLANCHÉ, Esq., F.S.A., Somerset Herald. To which are added, Essays on the BADGES OF THE HOUSES OF LANCASTER AND YORK. A New Edition, enlarged and revised by the Author, illustrated with Coloured Frontispiece, five full-page Plates, and about 200 Illustrations. Crown 8vo, beautifully bound in cloth, with Emblematic Design, extra gilt, 75. 6.1.

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SEVENTH EDITION OF

Puck on Pegasus.

By H. CHOLMONDELEYPENNELL. Profusely illustrated by the late JOHN LEECH, H. K. BROWNE, Sir NOEL PATON, JOHN MILLAIS, JOHN TENNIEL, RICHARD DOYLE, Miss ELLEN EDWARDS, and other artists. A New Edition (the SEVENTH), crown 8vo, cloth extra, gilt, price 55.; or gilt edges, 6s.

This most amusing work has received everywhere the highest praise as "a clever and brilliant book."

"The book is clever and amusing, Svigorous and healthy."-Saturday Review.

"The epigrammatic drollery of Mr. Cholmondeley-Pennell's Puck on Pegasus' is well known to many of our readers, ... The present (the sixth) is a superb and handsomely printed and illustrated edition of the book."-Times.

Specially fit for reading in the family circle."-Observer.

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By the same Author.

Modern Babylon, and other

Small crown 8vo, cloth extra, gilt, 4s. 6d.

74 & 75, PICCADILLY, LONDON, W.

Poems.

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IMPORTANT TO ALL INTERESTED IN MINES.

The Practical Assayer: A Guide to

Miners and Explorers.

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By OLIVER NORTH, of "The Field," Mining Journal," &c. With Tables and Illustrative Woodcuts. Crown 8vo, cloth extra, 7s. 6d.

This book gives directions, in the simplest form, for assaying bullion and the baser metals by the cheapest, quickest, and best methods. Those interested in mining property will be enabled, by following its instructions, to form a tolerably correct idea of the value of ores, without previous knowledge of assaying; while to the young man seeking his fortune in mining countries it is indispensable.

"Likely to prove extremely useful. The instructions are clear and precise."Chemist and Druggist.

"We cordially recommend this compact little volume to all engaged in mining enterprize, and especially to explorers."-Mining and Monetary Review. "An admirable little volume."-, "-Mining Journal,

Private Book of Useful Alloys and Memoranda for Goldsmiths and Jewellers. By JAMES E. COLLINS, C.E. Royal 16mo, 3s. 6d. Invaluable to the Trade.

"AN AWFULLY JOLLY BOOK FOR PARTIES."

Puniana: Thoughts

Wise and Otherwise.

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By the

Hon. HUGH ROWLEY. Best Book of Riddles and Puns ever formed. With nearly 100 exquisitely Fanciful Drawings. Contains nearly 3000 of the best Riddles, and 10,000 most outrageous Puns, and is one of the most Popular Books ever issued. New Edition, small quarto, uniform with the "Bab Ballads.' Price 6s.

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"Enormous burlesque proachable and pre-eminent. We think this very queer volume will be a favourite. We should suggest that, to a dull person desirous to get

credit with the young holiday people, it would be good policy to invest in the book and dole it out by instalments."-Saturday Review.

By the same Author.

A Second Series of Puniana: Containing

nearly 100 beautifully executed Drawings, and a splendid Collection of Riddles and Puns, fully equal to those in the First Volume. Small 4to, uniform with the First Series, cl. gt., gilt edges, 6s. [Preparing.

74 & 75, PICCADILLY, LONDON, W.

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The Works of Rabelais. Faithfully trans

lated from the French, with variorum Notes, and numerous characteristic Illustrations by GUSTAVE DORÉ. Crown 8vo, cloth extra, 700 pages. Price 7s. 6d.

UNIFORM WITH "" 'WONDERFUL CHARACTERS."

Remarkable Trials and

Notorious

Characters. From "Half-Hanged Smith," 1700, to Oxford, who shot at the Queen, 1840. By Captain L. BENSON. With spirited full-page Engravings by PHIZ. 8vo, 550 pages, 7s. 6d.

** A Complete Library of Sensation Literature! There are plots enough here to produce a hundred" exciting" Novels, and at least five hundred " powerful" Magazine Stories. The book will be appreciated by all readers whose taste lies in this direction.

UNIFORM WITH "THE TURF, CHASE, AND ROAD." Reminiscences of the late Thomas Assheton Smith, Esq.; or, The Pursuits of an English Country Gentleman. By Sir J. E. EARDLEY WILMOT, Bart. A New and Revised Edition, with Steel-plate Portrait, and plain and coloured Illustrations. Crown 8vo, cloth extra, 7s. 6d.

74 & 75, PICCADILLY, LONDON, W.

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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. Carefully drawn, and printed on fine plate paper, nearly three feet by two feet, with the Arms of the principal Barons elaborately emblazoned in Gold and Colours. Price 5s. ; or, handsomely framed in carved oak of an antique pattern, 22s. 6d.

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. In 4to, very handsomely printed, extra gold cloth, 125.

Rochefoucauld's

Reflections

and

Moral Maxims. With Introductory Essay by SAINTE-BEUVE, and Explanatory Notes. Royal 16mo, elegantly printed, Is.; cloth neat, Is. 6d.

Roman Catholics in the County of

York in 1604. Transcribed from the Original MS. in the Bodleian Library, and Edited, with Genealogical Notes, by EDWARD PEACOCK, F.S.A., Editor of "Army Lists of the Roundheads and Cavaliers, 1642." Small 4to, handsomely printed and bound, 15s.

Genealogists and Antiquaries will find much new and curious matter in this work. An elaborate Index refers to every name in the volume, among which will be found many of the highest local interest.

Ross's (Chas. H.) Unlikely Tales and Wrong-Headed Essays. Fcap. 8vo, with numerous quaint and amusing Illustrations, Is.

74 & 75, PICCADILLY, LONDON, W.

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Ross's (Chas. H.) Story of a Honey

moon. A New Edition of this charmingly humorous book, with numerous Illustrations by the Author. Fcap. 8vo, picture boards, 2s.

THE RUMP PARLIAMENT.

The Rump; or, An Exact Collection of

the choicest POEMS and SONGS relating to the late Times, and continued by the most eminent Wits; from Anno 1639 to 1661. A Facsimile Reprint of the rare Original Edition (London, 1662), with Frontispiece and Engraved Title-page. In 2 vols., large fcap. 8vo, printed on antique laid paper, and bound in antique boards, 17s. 6d. ; or, LARGE-PAPER COPIES, 30s. [Nearly ready.

A very rare and extraordinary collection of some two hundred Popular Ballads and Cavalier Songs, on all the principal incidents of the great Civil War, the Trial of Strafford, the Martyrdom of King Charles, the Commonwealth, Cromwell, Pym, the Roundheads, &c. It was from such materials that Lord Macaulay was enabled to produce his vivid pictures of England in the sixteenth century. To historical students and antiquaries, and to the general reader, these volumes will be found full of interest.

School Life at Winchester College;

or, The Reminiscences of a Winchester Junior. By the Author of "The Log of the Water Lily;" and "The Water Lily on the Danube." Second Edition, Revised, COLOUred Plates, 7s. 6d.

Shaving Them; or, The Adventures of

Three Yankees. By TITUS A. BRICK. Fcap. 8vo, illustrated cover, Is.

The Secret

Out; or, One Thousand Tricks with Cards, and other Recreations; with Entertaining Experiments in Drawing Room or "White Magic." By the Author of the 66 Magician's Own Book." Edited by W. H. CREMER, Jun., of Regent Street. With 300 Engravings. Crown 8vo, cloth, 4s. 6d.

***Under the title of "Le Magicien des Salons," this book has

ong been a Standard Magic Book with all French and German Professors of the

Art.

74 & 75, PICCADILLY, LONDON, W.

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