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of Atrocities. By DOD GRILE. New Edition, in illustrated wrapper, fcap. 8vo, Is. ; or crown 8vo, cloth extra, 3s. 6d.

"A specimen of American Humour' as unlike that of all other America humourists, as the play of young human Merry-Andrews is unlike that of a young and energetic demon whose horns are well budded."-New York Nation.

The Finish to Life in and out of London; or, The Final Adventures of Tom, Jerry, and Logic. By PIERCE EGAN. Royal 8vo, cloth extra, with Spirited Coloured Illustrations by CRUIKSHANK, 215.

An extraordinary picture of "LONDON BY NIGHT" in the Days of George the Fourth. All the strange places of amusement in the neighbourhood of Covent Garden and St. James's are fully described, and very queer places they were too!

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A Gathering of Choice Wit and Humour, Good Things, and Sublime Nonsense, by DICKENS, JERROLD, SAM SLICK, CHAS. H. Ross, HOOD, THEODORE HOOK, MARKTWAIN, BROUGH, COLMAN, TITUS A. BRICK, and a Host of other Humourists. With Pictures by MATT MORGAN, GILBERT, NAST, THOMPSON, CRUIKSHANK, Jun., BRUNTON, &c. In fcap. 4to, profusely illustrated, with picture wrapper, Is.

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The Genial Showman; or, Show Life

in the New World. Adventures with Artemus Ward, and the Stor of his Life. By E. P. HINGSTON. Third Edition. Crown 8vo, Ilic trated by BRUNTON, cloth extra, 7s. 6d.

• This is a most interesting work. It gives Sketches of Show-Life in the F West, on the Pacific Coast, among the Mines of California, in Salt Lake Cit and across the Rocky Mountains; with chapters descriptive of Artemus Wars visit to England.

RUSKIN AND CRUIKSHANK.

German Popular Stories. Collected by

the Brothers GRIMM, and Translated by EDGAR TAYLOR. Edited by JOHN RUSKIN. With 22 Illustrations after the inimitabl designs of GEORGE CRUIKSHANK. Both Series complete. Square crown 8vo, 6s. 6d.; gilt leaves, 7s. 6d.

These are the designs which Mr. Ruskin has praised so highly, placing them far above all Cruikshank's other works of a similar character. So rare had t original book (published in 1823-1826) become, that £5 to £6 per copy was an dinary price. By the consent of Mr. Taylor's family a New Edition is now issued under the care and superintendence of the printers who issued the originals for years ago. A few copies for sale on Large Paper, price 218.

Gesta

Romanorum;

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Entertaining

Stories, invented by the Monks as a Fireside Recreation, and com monly applied in their Discourses from the Pulpit. A New Edition with Introduction by THOMAS WRIGHT, Esq., M. A., F.S.A. Two vols. large fcap. 8vo, only 250 copies printed, on fine ribbed paper, 18s.; or, LARGE PAPER EDITION (only a few copies printed), 30s. Gladstone's (Rt. Hon. W. E.) Speeches

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Golden Treasury of Thought. The Best

Encyclopædia of Quotations and Elegant Extracts, from Writers of all Times and all Countries, ever formed. Selected and Edited by THEODORE TAYLOR, Author of "Thackeray, the Humorist and Man of Letters," "Story of Charles Dickens' Life." Crown 8vo, very handsomely bound, cloth gilt, and gilt edges, 7s. 6d.

Grose's Dictionary of the Vulgar

Tongue. 1785. A genuine unmutilated Reprint of the First Edition. Quarto, bound in half-Roxburghe, gilt top, price 8s.

Only a small number of copies of this very vulgar, but very curious, book have been printed, for the Collectors of" Street Words" and Colloquialisms.

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Hall's (Mrs. S. C.) Sketches of Irish Character. With numerous Illustrations on Steel and Wood, by DANIEL MACLISE, R. A., Sir JOHN GILBERT, W. HARVEY, and G. CRUIKSHANK. 8vo, pp. 450, cloth extra, 7s. 6d.

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"The Irish sketches of this lady resemble Miss Mitford's beautiful English Sketches in Our Village,' but they are far more vigorous and picturesque and bright."-Blackwood's Magazine.

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Hans Breitmann's Ballads.

By J. G. LELAND. The Complete Work, from the Author's revised Edition. Royal 16mo, paper cover, Is. ; in cloth, Is. 6d.

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Holidays with Hobgoblins, and Talk of

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25.

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