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WEST-END LIFE AND DOINGS.

The Story of the London Parks. By

JACOB LARWOOD. With numerous Illustrations, Coloured and Plain. In One thick Volume, crown 8vo, cloth extra, gilt, 7s. 6d.

A most interesting work, giving a complete History of these favourite out-ofdoor resorts, from the earliest period to the present time.

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"It may be we shall touch the happy isles."

Summer Cruising in the South Seas. By CHARLES WARREN STODDARD. With nearly Thirty Engravings on Wood, drawn by WALLIS MACKAY. Crown 8vo, cloth, extra gilt, 7s. 6d.

Chapters descriptive of life and adventure in the South Sea Islands, in the style made so popular by "The Earl and the Doctor."

"A remarkable book, which has a certain wild picturesqueness."-Standard. "The author's experiences are very amusingly related, and, in parts, with much freshness and originality."-Fudy.

"Mr. Stoddard is a humourist; 'Summer Cruising' has a good deal of undeniable amusement."-Nation.

74 & 75, PICCADILLY, LONDON, W.

ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE'S WORKS.

Swinburne's Atalanta in Calydon.

New Edition. Foolscap 8vo, price 6s.

Swinburne's Bothwell.

Swinburne's Chastelard.

New Edition. Price 7s.

A New Poem.

[In preparation.

A Tragedy,

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Swinburne's Notes on his Poems, and on the Reviews which have appeared upon them. Price Is.

Swinburne's Queen Mother and Rosa

mond. New Edition. Foolscap 8vo, price 5s.

Swinburne's Song of Italy. Foolscap

8vo, toned paper, cloth, price 35. 6d.

Swinburne's William Blake: A Critical Essay. With facsimile Paintings, Coloured by Hand, after the Drawings by Blake and his Wife. Thick 8vo, cloth extra, price 16s.

74 & 75, PICCADILLY, LONDON, W.

WILLIAM COMBE'S BEST WORK.

Dr. Syntax's Three Tours. WITH THE

WHOLE OF ROWLANDSON'S VERY DROLL FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS, IN COLOURS, AFTER THE ORIGINAL DRAWINGS. Comprising the well-known TOURS

1. IN SEARCH OF THE PICTURESQUE.

2. IN SEARCH OF CONSOLATION.

3. IN SEARCH OF A WIFE.

The Three Series Complete and Unabridged, with a Life of the Author by JOHN CAMDEN HOTTEN. 8vo, cloth extra, gilt, in one handsome volume, price 7s. 6d.

One of the most amusing and laughable books ever published.

A SMALLER EDITION, with Eight Coloured Plates, the text complete, price 3s. 6d.

Taylor's History of Playing Cards.

With Sixty curious Illustrations, 550 pp., price 7s. 6d.

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Ancient and Modern Games, Conjuring, Fortune-Telling, and Card Sharping, Gambling and Calculation, Cartomancy, Old Gaming-Houses, Card Revels and Blind Hookey, Picquet and Vingt-et-un, Whist and Cribbage, Tricks, &c.

Theseus: A Greek Fairy Legend.

Illustrated, in a series of Designs in Gold and Sepia, by JOHN MOYR SMITH. With descriptive text. Oblong folio, price 7s. 6d.

74 & 75, PICCADILLY, LONDON, W.

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Papers. Twenty-nine Letters, complete. Fcap. 8vo, illust. cover, Is. 74 & 75, PICCADILLY, LONDON, W.

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Timbs' Clubs and Club Life in Lon don. With ANECDOTES of its FAMOUS COFFEE HOUSES, HOSTELRIES, and TAVERNS. By JOHN TIMBS, F.S.A. New Edition, with NUMEROUS ILLUSTRATIONS, drawn expressly. Crown 8vo, cloth extra, 600 pages, 7s. 6d.

A Companion to "The History of Sign-Boards." It abounds in quaint stories of the Blue Stocking, Kit-Kat, Beef Steak, Robin Hood, Mohocks, Scriblerus, One o'clock, the Civil, and hundreds of other Clubs; together with Tom's, Dick's, Button's, Ned's, Will's, and the famous Coffee Houses of the last century.

Timbs' English Eccentrics and Eccentricities. Stories of Wealth and Fashion, Delusions, Impostures and Fanatic Missions, Strange Sights and Sporting Scenes, Eccentric Artists, Theatrical Folks, Men of Letters, &c. By JOHN TIMBS, F.S.A. An entirely New Edition, with numerous Illustrations. Crown 8vo, cloth extra, 600 pages, 7s. 6d. [Nearly ready.

74 & 75, PICCADILLY, LONDON, W.

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