Just published, In foolscap 8vo, cloth, Price 5s. BLACK'S PICTURESQUE GUIDE ΤΟ NORTH AND SOUTH WALES. Illustrated by minutely Engraved Travelling Maps, Charts of the Railways, a Chart of the course of the river Wye, and very numerous Views of the Scenery, on Wood and Steel. Price 10s. 6d., Neatly bound, in a thin portable volume, Suited for the travelling and pleasure purposes of the Tourist and Sportsman, BLACK'S TOURIST'S AND SPORTSMAN'S COMPANION TO THE COUNTIES OF SCOTLAND. A series of Thirty-six Maps, showing all the Roads, Railways, Country Seats, Villages, Towns, Fishing Streams, Rivers, and Lakes; Places of Historical and Legendary Note, Memoranda of Battles, and Heights of Mountains. ADAM & CHARLES BLACK, BOOKS ILLUSTRATIVE OF SCOTTISH CHARACTER AND SCENERY. BLACK'S Tourist's Memorial of Scotland: A Series of Twenty Views of Picturesque Scenery and celebrated Localities, in a Fancy Binding. Price 5s. This Series of Views presents delineations of some of the noblest prospects in Scotland, by many of her most accomplished Artists. Among the subjects represented may be mentioned, EDINBURGH, PERTH, DUNKELD, ROSLIN CHAPEL, and the Castles of TAYMOUTH, STIRLING, and CRAIGMILLAR. A Highland Chief Clan Macdonell and a Highland Piper-Clan Gregarach. Two Full-Length Figures. From Paintings by R. R. M'IAN, Esq. Beautifully lithographed and coloured. Price 3s. 6d. each. These Drawings have been executed with strict regard to fidelity of Costume, and furnish very accurate and spirited representations of the Celtic Character and Garb. A Voyage Round the Coasts of Scotland and the Isles. By JAMES WILSON, F.R.S.E., M.W.S., &c., author of the Treatise on Angling in "The Rod and the Gun." In two volumes post 8vo, with 20 Etchings, and numerous Woodcuts. Price 21s. "Two of the most charming volumes we have had under our notice for a long time. They describe Scenery round which the imagination loves to linger, and of which no description can be fatiguing."-Court Journal. "Written in a flowing and animated style."-Edinburgh Review. HIGHLAND RAMBLES and Long Legends to Shorten the Way. By Sir THOMAS DICK LAUDER, Bart., Author of "An Account of the Morayshire Floods," " Lochandhu," "Wolfe of Badenoch," &c. &c. In two volumes, 8vo. With Seven Illustrative Etchings by W. DYCE, Esq. Price 21s. "We heartily recommend these volumes to all tourists to the 'Land of the Mountain and the Flood,' who are now setting forth on their delightful trip."Bentley's Miscellany. "Full of legend, full of adventure, full of interest."-Athenæum. "Sir Thomas evinces an intense sympathy with our Highland landscapes, people, and traditions."-Inverness Courier. "Admirable, and admirably narrated. Full of the true percep tive feeling of the beautiful in nature."-Dublin University Magazine. ADAM AND CHARLES BLACK, EDINBURGH, BOOKSELLERS AND PUBLISHERS TO THE QUEEN. TO SPORTSMEN, In a handsome volume, post 8vo, price 10s. 6d., with numerous Engravings on Wood and Steel, THE ROD AND THE GUN: Being Two Treatises on Angling and Shooting; the former by JAMES WILSON, Esq., F.R.S.E., &c.; the latter by the Author of "The Oakleigh Shooting Code." Second Edition. "Know also to thy utter discomfort, nay, to thy utter confusion, that a book has lately appeared, yclept 'The Rod and the Gun,' so amusingly written, and so complete in all its parts, that there is not the least occasion for you to burden Mr. Murray's shelves with stale precepts that no one will attend to."Preface to "Days and Nights of Salmon Fishing," by William Scrope, Esq. In a handsome volume, post 8vo, price 12s., with Numerous Illustrations on Wood and Steel, THE HORSE AND THE HOUND: Their various Uses and Treatment, In-Doors and out; including Practical Instructions in Horsemanship. By NIMROD. New Edition. *The Engravings on Steel include Portraits of a Racer-a Hunter-a Hackney-and of a celebrated Fox-Hound. Among the other Illustrations (after Designs by Alken) are the finish of a RaceUnharbouring the Stag-Horsemen Mounting-The Good and Bad Seats The Military Seat-The Jockey Seated-Hounds in their Lodging-Rooms-The Faulty Hound-Selling a Horse, &c. EDINBURGH: ADAM & CHARLES BLACK. LONDON: LONGMAN & CO. TO TOURISTS IN SCOTLAND. Just published, in royal 4to, containing about Forty Plates, price £2: 2s., THE CASTELLATED ARCHITECTURE With Views and Descriptions, by Sir ANDREW LEITH HAY This volume contains Views and Descriptions of Her Majesty's and the Duchess of Kent's residences in Aberdeenshire, viz., Balmoral and Abergeldie Castles, &c., &c. ABERDEEN: D. WYLIE & SON, Booksellers to the Queen and Prince Albert. EDINBURGH: ADAM & CHARLES BLACK. N.B.-Upon sending a Post Office order for £2: 2s. to the Publishers, copies will be sent free to any address. CHEAP ILLUSTRATED EDITIONS OF THE SCOTTISH POETS. Neatly bound in 16mo cloth, price 2s. 6d., extra cloth, gilt THE GENTLE SHEPHERD, A PASTORAL COMEDY. BY ALLAN RAMSAY. With a Life and Portrait of the Author, numerous Illustrations, and a comprehensive Glossary. "This is a very pretty edition of Ramsay's Gentle Shepherd. It combines elegance with cheapness, and will gradually find its way into the possession of every admirer of Scottish pastoral poetry. The text is clear and distinct; the pictorial engravings gracefully executed, whilst the copious glossary supplies a key that will enable the reader to understand the dialect though he may not be acquainted with the vernacular."-Edinburgh Advertiser, April 22, 1851. Preparing for Publication, in a neat volume uniform with the above, POEMS AND SONGS IN THE SCOTTISH DIALECT. BY ROBERT TANNAHILL. ADAM & CHARLES BLACK, EDINBURGH. In Royal Octavo, pp. 714, price 28s. THE ARCHEOLOGY AND PREHISTORIC ANNALS OF SCOTLAND. 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M'IAN, Esq., with Descriptive Letterpress by THE object of this Publication is to illustrate HIGHLAND COSTUME and ARMS, both ancient and modern, and give accurate representations of the TARTAN and INSIGNIA peculiar to the different Scottish Clans, with requisite Descriptions and Historical Notices of each. Complete in 24 Parts. Imperial Quarto, containing coloured plates, 12s. each part. N.B.-Parts xiii. and xxiv., containing the Illuminated Frontispieces to each volume, Quarto, 16s.; Folio, 25s. each. An elaborately executed DESIGN has been provided for the Binding. Folio, 2 vols. elegantly bound in Morocco Quarto, 2 vols. do. £16 16 0 Morocco Binding, Folio, £4; Quarto, £2: 12s. per volume. Separate Plates, coloured, each |