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ASTLE ON WRITING.-THE ORIGIN AND PROGRESS OF WRITING, as well Hieroglyphic as Elementary, Illustrated by Engravings taken from Marbles, Manuscripts, and Charters, Ancient and Modern; also Some Account of the Origin and Progress of Printing. By THOMAS Astle, F.R.S., F.A.S., late Keeper of Records in the Tower of London. Royal 4to, half-Roxburghe, with 33 Plates (some Coloured), price £1 155. A few Large Paper copies, roy. folio, half-Roxburghe, the Plates altogether unfolded, £3 35. "The completest work on the subject of writing in this or any other language."

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|AKER.—CLOUDS IN THE EAST: Travels and Adventures on the Perso-Turkoman Frontier. By Valentine BAKER. With Maps and Illustrations, coloured and plain, from Original Sketches. Demy 8vo, cloth extra, 18s. [In the press. BANKERS, A HANDBOOK OF LONDON; with some Account of their Predecessors, the Early Goldsmiths; together with Lists of Bankers, from the Earliest London Directory, printed in 1677, to that of the London Post-Office Directory of 1876. By F. G. HILTON PRICE. Crown 8vo, cloth extra, 7s. 6d. BARDSLEY'S OUR ENGLISH SURNAMES: Their Sources and Significations. By CHARLES Wareing BARDSLEY, M.A. SECOND EDITION, revised throughout, considerably Enlarged, and partially rewritten. Crown 8vo, cloth extra, 95.

"Mr. Bardsley has faithfully consulted the original mediaval documents and works from which the origin and development of surnames can alone be satisfactorily traced. He has furnished a valuable contribution to the literature of surnames, and we hope to hear more of him in this field."-Times.

BEAUTIFUL PICTURES BY BRITISH ARTISTS: A Gathering of Favourites from our Picture Galleries. In Two Series. The FIRST Series including Examples by WILKIE, Constable, Turner, MULREADY LANdseer, MACLISE, E. M. WARD, FRITH, Sir JOHN GILBERT, LESLIE, ANSDell, MARCUS STONE, Sir NOEL PATON, FAED, EYRE CROWE, GAVIN, O'NEIL, and MADOX BROWN. The SECOND containing Pictures by ARMYTAGE, FAED, GOODALL, HEMsley, HorsleY, MARKS, NICHOLLS, Sir NOEL PATON, PICKERSGILL, G. SMITH, MARCUS STONE, SOLOMON, STRAIGHT, E. M. WARD, and WARREN. All engraved on Steel in the highest style of Art. Edited, with Notices of the Artists, by SYDNEY ARMYTAGE, M.A. Price of each Series, imperial 4to, cloth extra, gilt and gilt edges, 215. Each Volume is Complete in itself.

"This book is well got up, and good engravings by Jeens, Lumb Stocks, and others, bring back to us pictures of Royal Academy Exhibitions of past years.”—

Times.

BLAKE'S WORKS.-A Series of Reproductions in Facsimile of the Works of WILLIAM BLAKE, including the "Songs of Innocence and Experience," "The Book of Thel," "America," "The Vision of the Daughters of Albion," "The Marriage of Heaven and Hell," "Europe, a Prophecy," "Jerusalem," "Milton," "Urizen," "The Song of Los," &c. These Works will be issued both coloured and plain. [In preparation.

"Blake is a real name, I assure you, and a most extraordinary man he is, if he still be living. He is the Blake whose wild designs accompany a splendid edition of Blair's Grave.' He paints in water-colours marvellous strange picturesvisions of his brain-which he asserts he has seen. They have great merit. I must look upon him as one of the most extraordinary persons of the age."- Charles Lamb. BLANCHARD'S (Laman) POEMS. Now first Collected. Edited, with a Life of the Author (including numerous hitherto unpublished Letters from Lord LYTTON, LAMB, DICKENS, ROBERT BROWNING, and others), by BLANCHARD JERROLD. Crown 8vo, with a Vignette Portrait, cloth extra, gs.

"His humorous verse is much of it admirable-sparkling with genuine esprit, and as polished and pointed as Praed's."-Scotsman.

As Addison and Steele reflected their own generations, so has Laman Blanchard in his sketches mirrored forth the variable and motley peculiarities of the present day; they have but to be read to be admired."-Sun.

BLEWITT.—THE ROSE AND THE LILY: A Story. By
Mrs. OCTAVIAN BLEWITT. With a Frontispiece designed and etched by GEORGE
CRUIKSHANK. Small 8vo, cloth extra, gilt, price 6s.
[In the press.
BOCCACCIO'S DECAMERON; or, Ten Days' Entertainment.
Translated into English, with Introduction by THOMAS WRIGHT, Esq., M.A.,
F.S.A. With Portrait, and STOTHARD'S beautiful Copperplates. Crown 8vo,
cloth extra, gilt, 75. 6d.

BOUDOIR BALLADS: Vers de Société. By J. ASHBY STERRY.
Crown 8vo, cloth extra.
[In preparation.
BRAND'S OBSERVATIONS ON POPULAR ANTIQUITIES,
chiefly Illustrating the Origin of our Vulgar Customs, Ceremonies, and Super-
stitions. With the Additions of Sir HENRY ELLIS. A New Edition, with fine
full-page Illustrations. Crown 8vo, cloth extra, gilt, 7s. 6d. [In the press.

"Anyone who will read, on each respective day, the chapter which belongs to it, will, when he has got through the volume, have a better notion of what English history is than he will get from almost any other work professedly named a 'history.'"-Quarterly Review.

BRET HARTE'S CHOICE WORKS in Prose and Poetry. With Introductory Essay by J. M. BELLEW, Portrait of the Author, and 50 Illustrations. Crown 8vo, cloth extra, 7s. 6d.

"Not many months before my friend's death, he had sent me two sketches by a young American writer (Bret Harte), far away in California ('The Outcast of Poker Flat,' and another), in which he had found such subtle strokes of character as he had not anywhere else in late years discovered; the manner resembling himself, but the matter fresh to a degree that had surprised him; the painting in all respects masterly, and the wild rude thing painted a quite wonderful reality. I have rarely known him more honestly moved."-FORSTER'S Life of Dickens.

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BREWSTER'S (Sir David) MARTYRS OF SCIENCE. New Edition, in small crown 8vo, cloth extra, gilt, with full-page Portraits, 4s. 6d. BREWSTER'S (Sir David) MORE WORLDS THAN ONE, the Creed of the Philosopher and the Hope of the Christian. A New Edition, in small crown 8vo, cloth extra, gilt, with full-page Astronomical Plates, 4s. 6d. "There does certainly exist a wide-spread desire to know, so far as can be known, the extent of God's living, responsible creation. The planet which we inhabit is but one vessel in the midst of a fleet sailing on through the vast ocean of space, under convoy of the sun. Far on the distant horizon what seem to be a great many other convoy ships appear, though such is their remoteness that even our best glasses enable us to know very little regarding them. But in the vessels of the same group as ourselves, we see evolutions similar to those which our own ship performs-we see them maintain relations similar to our own to the great guardian vessel in the midst we see them regulated by her in all their movements, and that when night falls dark most of them have their sets of lanthorns hoisted up to give them light; and there is a desire among us to know somewhat respecting the crews of these neighbouring vessels of ours, and whether as we all seem bound on a common voyage-the expedition, as it is evidently under one and the same control, may not have a common purpose or object to accomplish."-HUGH MILLER.

BRIC-À-BRAC HUNTER (The); or, Chapters on Chinamania. By Major H. BYNG HALL. With Photographic Frontispiece. Crown 8vo, cloth, full gilt (from a special and novel design), ios. 6d.

"This is a delightful book. His hints respecting marks, texture, finish, and character of various wares will be useful to amateurs. By all who are interested in chinamania will be most warmly appreciated-a very amusing and chatty volume." Standard.

BRILLAT SAVARIN'S PHYSIOLOGY OF TASTE. Translated into English, with an Introduction and Notes. Crown 8vo, cloth extra.

[In the press.

BUNYAN'S PILGRIM'S PROGRESS. Edited by Rev. T. SCOTT. With 17 beautiful Steel Plates by STOTHARD, engraved by GOODALL; and numerous Woodcuts. Crown 8vo, cloth extra, gilt, 7s. 6d.

"The style of Bunyan is delightful to every reader, and invaluable as a study to every person who wishes to obtain a wide command over the English language. The vocabulary is the vocabulary of the common people. There is not an expression, if we except a few technical terms of theology, which would puzzle the rudest peasant. Vet no writer has said more exactly what he meant to say. For magnificence, for pathos, for vehement exhortation, for subtle disquisition, for every purpose of the poet, the orator, and the divine, this homely dialect-the dialect of plain working men-was perfectly sufficient. There is no book in our literature on which we could so readily stake the fame of the old unpolluted English language; no book which shows so well how rich that language is in its own proper wealth, and how little it has been improved by all that it has borrowed. We are not afraid to say that, though there were many clever men in England during the latter half of the seventeenth century, there were only two great creative minds. One of those minds produced the Paradise Lost,' the other, the 'Pilgrim's Progress.'”— MACAULAY.

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JOURNALS.

BYRON'S (Lord) LETTERS With Notices of his Life. By THOMAS MOORE. A Reprint of the Original Edition, newly revised, complete in a thick Volume of 1060 pp., with Twelve full-page Plates. Crown 8vo, cloth extra, gilt, 7s. 6d.

"We have read this book with the greatest pleasure. Considered merely as a composition, it deserves to be classed among the best specimens of English prose which our age has produced. . The style is agreeable, clear, and manly, and, when it rises into eloquence, rises without effort or ostentation. Nor is the matter inferior to the manner. It would be difficult to name a book which exhibits more kindness, fairness, and modesty."-MACAULAY, in the Edinburgh Review.

ANOVA'S WORKS IN SCULPTURE AND MODELLING. 150 Plates, exquisitely engraved in Outline by Moses, and printed on an India tint. With Descriptions by the Countess ALBRIZZI, a Biographical Memoir by CICOGNARA, and Fortrait by WORTHINGTON. A New Edition. Demy 4to, cloth extra, gilt, gilt edges, 31s. 6d. "The fertility of this master's resources is amazing, and the manual labour expended on his works would have worn out many an ordinary workman. The outline engravings are finely executed. The descriptive notes are discriminating, and in the main exact."-Spectator.

"A very handsome volume.

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The graceful designs of the original are rendered by the engraver with exquisite fidelity. As a gift-book, the volume deserves to be placed beside the 'Outlines' of a very kindred genius-Flaxman."—Graphic. 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 Copperplate Engravings, comprising upwards of Two Thousand Specimens. Edited by JOHN BRITTON. Royal folio, half-morocco extra, £2 85.

Mr. Carter was the first to point out to the public the right way of delineating and representing the component and detached parts of the old buildings of England. His national work on Ancient Architecture occupied him in drawing, etching, arranging, and publishing, more than twenty years. It is highly valuable."-JOHN BRITTON.

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 Coloured Engravings from the Author's original Paintings. Two Vols. imperial 8vo, cloth extra, gilt, the Plates beautifully printed in Colours, £3 35.

"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 31 magnificent Plates (6 now first published), beautifully coloured in facsimile of the Original Drawings exhibited at the Egyptian Hall. With Letterpress Descriptions, imperial folio, half-morocco, gilt, £7 105.

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 55.

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 55.

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. London: published by Messrs. Boydell and Co., Cheapside. Printed by W. Bulmer and Co., Cleveland Row, 1777. Three Vols. folio, halfmorocco extra, gilt edges, £10 IOS.

COLMAN'S HUMOROUS WORKS.-Broad Grins, My Nightgown and Slippers, and other Humorous Works, Prose and Poetical, of GEORGE COLMAN. With Life and Anecdotes by G. B. BUCKSTONE, and Frontispiece by HOGARTH. Crown 8vo, cloth extra, gilt, 75. 6d.

"What antic have we here, in motley livery of red and yellow, with cap on head, and dagger of lath in hand? It is the king's jester, a professed droll, strangely gifted in all grimace, who pulls faces, and sells grins by the yard. For the impudent joke he has scarcely an equal."-Westminster Review.

CONEY'S ENGRAVINGS OF ANCIENT CATHEDRALS, Hôtels de Ville, Town Halls, &c., including some of the finest Examples of Gothic Architecture in France, Holland, Germany, and Italy. 32 large Plates, imperial folio, half-morocco extra, £3 135. 6d.

CONSTABLE'S GRAPHIC WORKS. Comprising 40 highly finished Mezzotinto Engravings on Steel, by DAVID LUCAS; with descriptive Letterpress by C. R. LESLIE, R.A. Folio, half-morocco, gilt edges, £2 25. COTMAN'S ENGRAVINGS OF THE SEPULCHRAL BRASSES IN NORFOLK AND SUFFOLK. With Letterpress Descriptions, an Essay on Sepulchral Memorials by DAWSON TURNER, Notes by Sir SAMUEL MEYRICK, ALBERT WAY, and Sir HARRIS NICOLAS, and copious Index. New Edition, containing 173 Plates, two of them Illuminated. Two Volumes, small folio, half-morocco extra, £6 6s.

"Cotman's work on Sepulchral Brasses is by far the most important work on the subject."-DAWSON TURNER.

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 Observations 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, halfmorocco, 1 11s. 6d.

CREASY.-MEMOIRS OF EMINENT ETONIANS; with Notices of the Early History of Eton College. By Sir EDWARD CREASY, Author of "The Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World." A New Edition, brought down to the Present Time, with 13 Illustrations. Crown 8vo, cloth extra, gilt, 75. 6d. "A new edition of Creasy's Etonians will be welcome. The book was a favourite a quarter of a century ago, and it has maintained its reputation. The value of this new edition is enhanced by the fact that Sir Edward Creasy has added to it several memoirs of Etonians who have died since the first edition appeared. The work is eminently interesting."-Scotsman.

CRUIKSHANK'S COMIC ALMANACK.

Complete in Two

SERIES: The FIRST from 1835 to 1843; the SECOND from 1844 to 1853. A Gathering of the BEST HUMOUR of THACKERAY, HOOD, MAYHEW, ALBERT SMITH, A'BECKETT, ROBERT BROUGH, &c. With 2000 Woodcuts and Steel Engravings by CRUIKSHANK, HINE, LANDELLS, &c. Crown 8vo, cloth gilt, two very thick volumes, 15s.; or, separately, 75. 6d. per volume.

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, 75. 6d.

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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. CUSSANS. Illustrated with full-page Plates on Copper and Stone, and a profusion of small Woodcuts. Parts I. to X. now ready, 215. each. "The amount of labour Mr. Cussans bestows to obtain original information is mmense; his anxiety for accuracy is intense, and the painstaking care with which he investigates statements and peruses old documents is remarkable. The result of his industry is a work abounding in new and curious information. It differs from 'Clutterbuck' in this respect, that whereas that well-patronised and expensive book had most care and attention bestowed on the first volume-(that part of Hertfordshire where the author resided)-each successive portion of Mr. Cussans' history is manifestly an improvement on the earlier portions. Nothing can ever repay the author for the very great care, pains, and time he has devoted to this work, which must have been truly a labour of love to him; but he has sure reward in the esteem of those who can appreciate aright earnestness, diligence, and perseverance in the accomplishment of a useful and valuable object."-Herts Guardian. 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.

"There is no subject connected with dress with which Somerset Herald' is not as familiar as ordinary men are with the ordinary themes of everyday life. The gathered knowledge of many years is placed before the world in this his latest work, and, when finished, there will exist no work on the subject half so valuable. The numerous illustrations are all effective-for their accuracy the author is responsible; they are well drawn and well engraved, and, while indispensable to a proper comprehension of the text, are satisfactory as works of art."-Art Journal.

"These numbers of a Cyclopædia of Ancient and Modern Costume give promise that the work, when complete, will be one of the most perfect works ever published apon the subject. The illustrations are numerous and excellent, and would, even without the letterpress, render the work an invaluable book of reference for information as to costumes for fancy balls and character quadrilles. . . . Beautifully printed and superbly illustrated."-Standard.

"Those who know how useful is Fairholt's brief and necessarily imperfect glossary will be able to appreciate the much greater advantages promised by Mr. Planche's book."-Athenæum.

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