HELP ME THROUGH THIS WORLD!Signboards: Their History. With Anecdotes of Famous Taverns and Remarkable Characters. ByJacob LarwoodandJohn Camden Hotten.Seventh Edition.Crown 8vo, cloth extra, 7s.6d.“It is not fair on the part of a reviewer to pick out the plums of an author’s book, thus filching away his cream, and leaving little but skim-milk remaining; but, even if we were ever so maliciously inclined, we could not in the present instance pick out all Messrs. Larwood and Hotten’s plums, because the good things are so numerous as to defy the most wholesale depredation.”—The Times.***Nearly 100 most curious illustrations on wood are given, showing the signs which were formerly hung from taverns, &c.THE WEDGE AND THE WOODEN SPOON.HANDBOOK OF COLLOQUIALISMS.The Slang Dictionary: Etymological, Historical, and Anecdotal. AnEntirely New Edition, revised throughout, and considerably Enlarged, containing upwards of a thousand more words than the last edition. Crown 8vo, with Curious Illustrations, cloth extra, 6s.6d.“Peculiarly a book which ‘no gentleman’s library should be without,’ while to costermongers and thieves it is absolutely indispensable.”—Dispatch.“Interesting and curious. Contains as many as it was possible to collect of all the words and phrases of modern slang in use at the present time.”—Public Opinion.“In every way a great improvement on the edition of 1864. Its uses as a dictionary of the very vulgar tongue do not require to be explained.”—Notes and Queries.“Compiled with most exacting care, and based on the best authorities.”—Standard.“In ‘The Slang Dictionary’ we have not only a book that reflects credit upon the philologist; it is also a volume that will repay, at any time, a dip into its humorous pages.”—Figaro.WEST-END LIFE AND DOINGS.Story of the London Parks.ByJacob 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-of-door resorts, from the earliest period to the present time.A KEEPSAKE FOR SMOKERS.Smoker’s Text-Book.ByJ. Hamer, F.R.S.L.Exquisitely printed from “silver-faced” type, cloth, very neat, gilt edges, 2s.6d., post free.CHARMING NEW TRAVEL-BOOK.“It may be we shall touch the happy isles.”Summer Cruising in the South Seas, ByCharles Warren Stoddard. With Twenty-five Engravings on Wood, drawn byWallis Mackay. Crown 8vo, cloth, extra gilt, 7s.6d.“This is a very amusing book, and full of that quiet humour for which the Americans are so famous. We have not space to enumerate all the picturesque descriptions, the poetical thoughts, which have so charmed us in this volume; but we recommend our readers to go to the South Seas with Mr. Stoddard in his prettily illustrated and amusingly written little book.”—Vanity Fair.“Mr. Stoddard’s book is delightful reading, and in Mr. Wallis Mackay he has found a most congenial and poetical illustrator.”—Bookseller.“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.”—Judy.“Mr. Stoddard is a humourist; ‘Summer Cruising’ has a good deal of undeniable amusement.”—Nation.Syntax’s (Dr.) Three Tours.With the whole ofRowlandson’svery droll full-page Illustrations, in Colours, after the Original Drawings. Comprising the well-knownTours—1.In Search of the Picturesque.2.In Search of Consolation.3.In Search of a Wife.The Three Series Complete, with a Life of the Author byJohn Camden Hotten. Medium 8vo, cloth extra, gilt, price 7s.6d.Theseus: A Greek Fairy Legend.Illustrated, in a series of Designs in Gold and Sepia, byJohn Moyr Smith. With descriptive text. Oblong folio, price 7s.6d.THEODORE HOOK’S HOUSE, NEAR PUTNEYTheodore Hook’s Choice Humorous Works, with his Ludicrous Adventures, Bons-mots, Puns, and Hoaxes. With a new Life of the Author,Portraits,Facsimiles, andIllustrations. Crown 8vo, 600 pages, cloth extra, 7s.6d.***“As a wit and humourist of the highest order his name will be preserved. His political songs andjeux d’esprit, when the hour comes for collecting them,will form a volume of sterling and lasting attraction!”—J. G. Lockhart.MR. SWINBURNE’S WORKS.Second Edition now ready ofBothwell: A Tragedy. ByAlgernon Charles Swinburne. Crown 8vo, cloth extra, pp. 540, 12s.6d.“Mr. Swinburne’s most prejudiced critic cannot, we think, deny that ‘Bothwell’ is a poem of a very high character. Every line bears traces of power, individuality, and vivid imagination. The versification, while characteristically supple and melodious, also attains, in spite of some affectations, to a sustained strength and dignity of a remarkable kind. Mr. Swinburne is not only a master of the music of language, but he has that indescribable touch which discloses the true poet—the touch that lifts from off the ground.”—Saturday Review.“It is not too much to say that, should he never write anything more, the poet has by this work firmly established his position, and given us a poem upon which his fame may safely rest. He no longer indulges in that frequent alliteration, or that oppressive wealth of imagery and colour, which gave rhythm and splendour to some of his works, but would have been out of place in a grand historical poem; we have now a fair opportunity of judging what the poet can do when deprived of such adventitious aid,—and the verdict is, that he must henceforth rank amongst the first of British authors.”—Graphic.“The whole drama flames and rings with high passions and great deeds. The imagination is splendid; the style large and imperial; the insight into character keen; the blank verse varied, sensitive, flexible, alive. Mr. Swinburne has once more proved his right to occupy a seat among the lofty singers of our land.”—Daily News.“A really grand, statuesque dramatic work.... The reader will here find Mr. Swinburne at his very best, if manliness, dignity, and fulness of style are superior to mere pleasant singing and alliterative lyrics.”—Standard.“Splendid pictures, subtle analyses of passion, and wonderful studies of character will repay him who attains the end.... In this huge volume are many fine and some unsurpassable things. Subtlest traits of character abound, and descriptive passages of singular delicacy.”—Athenæum.“There can be no doubt of the dramatic force of the poem. It is severely simple in its diction, and never dull; there are innumerable fine touches on almost every page.”—Scotsman.“‘Bothwell’ shows us Mr. Swinburne at a point immeasurably superior to any that he has yet achieved. It will confirm and increase the reputation which his daring genius has already won. He has handled a difficult subject with a mastery of art which is a true intellectual triumph.”—Hour.Chastelard: A Tragedy. Foolscap 8vo, 7s.Poems and Ballads.Foolscap 8vo, 9s.Notes on“Poems and Ballads,” and on the Reviews of them. Demy 8vo, 1s.Songs before Sunrise.Post 8vo, 10s.6d.Atalanta in Calydon.Fcap. 8vo, 6s.The Queen Mother and Rosamond.Foolscap 8vo, 5s.A Song of Italy.Foolscap 8vo, 3s.6d.Ode on the Proclamation of the French Republic.Demy 8vo, 1s.Under the Microscope.Post 8vo, 2s.6d.William Blake: A Critical Essay. With facsimile Paintings, Coloured by Hand, after the Drawings by Blake and his Wife. Demy 8vo, 16s.manTHE THACKERAY SKETCH-BOOK.THACKERAYANA.Notes and Anecdotes,Illustrated by about Six Hundred Sketches byWilliam Makepeace Thackeray, depicting Humorous Incidents in his School-life, and Favourite Scenes and Characters in the books of his every-day reading,now for the First Time Published, from the Original Drawings made on the margins of his books, &c. Large post 8vo, cloth extra gilt, gilt top, price 12s.6d.“It is Thackeray’s aim to represent life as it is actually and historically—men and women as they are, in those situations in which they are usually placed, with that mixture of good and evil, of strength and foible, which is to be found in their characters, and liable only to those incidents which are of ordinary occurrence. He will have no faultless characters, no demi-gods,—nothing but men and brethren.”—David Masson.THE SUBSCRIPTION ROOM AT BROOKES’S.Timbs’ Clubs and Club Life in London.WithAnecdotesof itsFamous Coffee Houses,Hostelries, andTaverns. ByJohn Timbs, F.S.A.New Edition, withnumerous 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 theBlue Stocking, Kit-Kat, Beef Steak, Robin Hood, Mohocks, Scriblerus, One o’Clock, the Civil,and hundreds of other Clubs; together withTom’s, Dick’s, Button’s, Ned’s, Will’s,and the famous Coffee Houses of the last century.“The book supplies a much-felt want. The club is the avenue to general society at the present day, and Mr. Timbs gives theentréeto the club. The scholar and antiquary will also find the work a repertory of information on many disputed points of literary interest, and especially respecting various well-known anecdotes, the value of which only increases with the lapse of time.”—Morning Post.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. ByJohn Timbs, F.S.A.An entirely New Edition, with about 50 Illustrations. Crown 8vo, cloth extra, 600 pages, 7s.6d.playing cardTaylor’s History of Playing Cards.With Sixty curious Illustrations. 550 pp., crown 8vo, cloth, extra gilt, price 7s.6d.***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.Vagabondiana; or, Anecdotes of Mendicant Wanderers through the Streets of London; with Portraits of the most remarkable, drawn from the Life byJohn Thomas Smith, late Keeper of the Prints in the British Museum. With Introduction byFrancis Douce, and descriptive text. Reprinted from the original, with the Woodcuts, and the 32 Plates, from the original Coppers, in crown 4to, half Roxburghe, price 12s.6d.“LES MISÉRABLES.” Complete in Three Parts.Victor Hugo’s Fantine.Now first published in an English Translation, complete and unabridged, with the exception of a few advisable omissions. Post 8vo, illustrated boards, 2s.“This work has something more than the beauties of an exquisite style or the word-compelling power of a literary Zeus to recommend it to the tender care of a distant posterity: in dealing with all the emotions, passions, doubts, fears, which go to make up our common humanity, M. Victor Hugo has stamped upon every page the Hall-mark of genius and the loving patience and conscientious labour of a true artist. But the merits of ‘Les Misérables’ do not merely consist in the conception of it as a whole; it abounds, page after page, with details of unequalled beauty.”—Quarterly Review.Victor Hugo’s Cosette and Marius.Translated into English, complete, uniform with “Fantine.” Post 8vo, illustrated boards, 2s.Victor Hugo’s Saint Denis and Jean Valjean.Translated into English, complete, uniform with the above. Post 8vo, illustrated boards, 2s.6d.Vyner’s Notitia Venatica: A Treatise on Fox-Hunting, the General Management of Hounds, and the Diseases of Dogs; Distemper and Rabies; Kennel Lameness, &c. Sixth Edition, Enlarged. ByRobert C. Vyner.With spirited Illustrations in Colours, by Alken, of Memorable Fox-Hunting Scenes.Royal 8vo, cloth extra, 21s.***An entirely new edition of the best work on Fox-Hunting.Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass.The Complete Work, precisely as issued by the Author in Washington. A thick volume, 8vo, green cloth, price 9s.“Whitman is a poet who bears and needs to be read as a whole, and then the volume and torrent of his power carry the disfigurements along with it and away. He is really a fine fellow.”—Chambers’s Journal.Walton and Cotton, Illustrated.—The Complete Angler; or, the Contemplative Man’s Recreation; being a Discourse of Rivers, Fish-ponds, Fish and Fishing, written byIzaak Walton; and Instructions how to Angle for a Trout or Grayling in a clear Stream, byCharles Cotton. With Original Memoirs and Notes by SirHarris Nicolas, K.C.M.G. With the whole 61 Illustrations, precisely as in the royal 8vo two-volume Edition issued by Pickering. A New Edition, complete in One Volume, large crown 8vo, with the Illustrations from the original plates, printed on full pages, separately from the text, price 7s.6d.Warrant to Execute Charles I.An exact Facsimile of this important Document, with the Fifty-nine Signatures of the Regicides, and corresponding Seals, admirably executed on paper made to imitate the original document, 22 in. by 14 in. Price 2s.; or, handsomely framed and glazed in carved oak of antique pattern, 14s.6d.Warrant to Execute Mary Queen of Scots.The Exact Facsimile of this important Document, including the Signature of Queen Elizabeth and Facsimile of the Great Seal, on tinted paper; made to imitate the Original MS. Price 2s.; or, handsomely framed and glazed in carved oak of antique pattern, 14s.6d.Waterford Roll (The).—Illuminated Charter-Roll of Waterford, Temp. Richard II.***Amongst the Corporation Muniments of the City of Waterford is preserved an ancient Illuminated Roll, of great interest and beauty, comprising all the early Charters and Grants to the City of Waterford, from the time of Henry II. to Richard II. A full-length Portrait of each King, whose Charter is given—including Edward III., when young, and again at an advanced age—adorns the margin. These Portraits, with the exception of four which are smaller, and on one sheet of vellum, vary from eight to nine inches in length—some in armour, and some in robes of state. In addition to these are Portraits of an Archbishop in full canonicals, of a Chancellor, and of many of the chief Burgesses of the City of Waterford, as well as singularly curious Portraits of the Mayors of Dublin, Waterford, Limerick, and Cork, figured for the most part in the quaint bipartite costume of the Second Richard’s reign, though partaking of many of the peculiarities of that of Edward III. Altogether this ancient work of art is unique of its kind in Ireland, and deserves to be rescued from oblivion, by the publication of the unedited Charters, and of fac-similes of all the Illuminations. The production of such a work would throw much light on the question of the art and social habits of the Anglo-Norman settlers in Ireland at the close of the fourteenth century. The Charters are, many of them, highly important from an historic point of view.The Illuminations have been accurately traced and coloured for the work from a copy carefully made, by permission of the Mayor and Corporation of Waterford, by the late George V. Du Noyer, Esq., M.R.I.A.; and those Charters which have not already appeared in print will be edited by the Rev. James Graves, A.B., M.R.I.A., Hon. 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Half Morocco, a New Edition, 10s.6d.***The best guide to the reading of old Records, &c.Wright’s Caricature History of the Georges(House of Hanover). With 400 Pictures, Caricatures, Squibs, Broadsides, Window Pictures, &c. ByThomas Wright, Esq., M.A., F.S.A. Crown 8vo, cloth extra, 7s.6d.caricature“A set of caricatures such as we have in Mr. Wright’s volume brings the surface of the age before us with a vividness that no prose writer, even of the highest power, could emulate. Macaulay’s most brilliant sentence is weak by the side of the little woodcut from Gillray, which gives us Burke and Fox.”—Saturday Review.“A more amusing work of its kind was never issued.”—Art Journal.“It is emphatically one of the liveliest of books, as also one of the most interesting. It has the twofold merit of being at once amusing and edifying.”—Morning Post.Yankee Drolleries, Edited byG. A. Sala. ContainingArtemus Ward’s Book;Biglow Papers;Orpheus C. 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HELP ME THROUGH THIS WORLD!
Signboards: Their History. With Anecdotes of Famous Taverns and Remarkable Characters. ByJacob LarwoodandJohn Camden Hotten.Seventh Edition.Crown 8vo, cloth extra, 7s.6d.
“It is not fair on the part of a reviewer to pick out the plums of an author’s book, thus filching away his cream, and leaving little but skim-milk remaining; but, even if we were ever so maliciously inclined, we could not in the present instance pick out all Messrs. Larwood and Hotten’s plums, because the good things are so numerous as to defy the most wholesale depredation.”—The Times.
***Nearly 100 most curious illustrations on wood are given, showing the signs which were formerly hung from taverns, &c.
THE WEDGE AND THE WOODEN SPOON.
THE WEDGE AND THE WOODEN SPOON.
HANDBOOK OF COLLOQUIALISMS.
The Slang Dictionary: Etymological, Historical, and Anecdotal. AnEntirely New Edition, revised throughout, and considerably Enlarged, containing upwards of a thousand more words than the last edition. Crown 8vo, with Curious Illustrations, cloth extra, 6s.6d.
“Peculiarly a book which ‘no gentleman’s library should be without,’ while to costermongers and thieves it is absolutely indispensable.”—Dispatch.
“Interesting and curious. Contains as many as it was possible to collect of all the words and phrases of modern slang in use at the present time.”—Public Opinion.
“In every way a great improvement on the edition of 1864. Its uses as a dictionary of the very vulgar tongue do not require to be explained.”—Notes and Queries.
“Compiled with most exacting care, and based on the best authorities.”—Standard.
“In ‘The Slang Dictionary’ we have not only a book that reflects credit upon the philologist; it is also a volume that will repay, at any time, a dip into its humorous pages.”—Figaro.
WEST-END LIFE AND DOINGS.
Story of the London Parks.ByJacob 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-of-door resorts, from the earliest period to the present time.
A KEEPSAKE FOR SMOKERS.
Smoker’s Text-Book.ByJ. Hamer, F.R.S.L.Exquisitely printed from “silver-faced” type, cloth, very neat, gilt edges, 2s.6d., post free.
CHARMING NEW TRAVEL-BOOK.
“It may be we shall touch the happy isles.”
“It may be we shall touch the happy isles.”
Summer Cruising in the South Seas, ByCharles Warren Stoddard. With Twenty-five Engravings on Wood, drawn byWallis Mackay. Crown 8vo, cloth, extra gilt, 7s.6d.
“This is a very amusing book, and full of that quiet humour for which the Americans are so famous. We have not space to enumerate all the picturesque descriptions, the poetical thoughts, which have so charmed us in this volume; but we recommend our readers to go to the South Seas with Mr. Stoddard in his prettily illustrated and amusingly written little book.”—Vanity Fair.
“Mr. Stoddard’s book is delightful reading, and in Mr. Wallis Mackay he has found a most congenial and poetical illustrator.”—Bookseller.
“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.”—Judy.
“Mr. Stoddard is a humourist; ‘Summer Cruising’ has a good deal of undeniable amusement.”—Nation.
Syntax’s (Dr.) Three Tours.With the whole ofRowlandson’svery droll full-page Illustrations, in Colours, after the Original Drawings. Comprising the well-knownTours—1.In Search of the Picturesque.2.In Search of Consolation.3.In Search of a Wife.The Three Series Complete, with a Life of the Author byJohn Camden Hotten. Medium 8vo, cloth extra, gilt, price 7s.6d.
Theseus: A Greek Fairy Legend.Illustrated, in a series of Designs in Gold and Sepia, byJohn Moyr Smith. With descriptive text. Oblong folio, price 7s.6d.
THEODORE HOOK’S HOUSE, NEAR PUTNEY
THEODORE HOOK’S HOUSE, NEAR PUTNEY
Theodore Hook’s Choice Humorous Works, with his Ludicrous Adventures, Bons-mots, Puns, and Hoaxes. With a new Life of the Author,Portraits,Facsimiles, andIllustrations. Crown 8vo, 600 pages, cloth extra, 7s.6d.
***“As a wit and humourist of the highest order his name will be preserved. His political songs andjeux d’esprit, when the hour comes for collecting them,will form a volume of sterling and lasting attraction!”—J. G. Lockhart.
MR. SWINBURNE’S WORKS.
Second Edition now ready of
Bothwell: A Tragedy. ByAlgernon Charles Swinburne. Crown 8vo, cloth extra, pp. 540, 12s.6d.
“Mr. Swinburne’s most prejudiced critic cannot, we think, deny that ‘Bothwell’ is a poem of a very high character. Every line bears traces of power, individuality, and vivid imagination. The versification, while characteristically supple and melodious, also attains, in spite of some affectations, to a sustained strength and dignity of a remarkable kind. Mr. Swinburne is not only a master of the music of language, but he has that indescribable touch which discloses the true poet—the touch that lifts from off the ground.”—Saturday Review.
“It is not too much to say that, should he never write anything more, the poet has by this work firmly established his position, and given us a poem upon which his fame may safely rest. He no longer indulges in that frequent alliteration, or that oppressive wealth of imagery and colour, which gave rhythm and splendour to some of his works, but would have been out of place in a grand historical poem; we have now a fair opportunity of judging what the poet can do when deprived of such adventitious aid,—and the verdict is, that he must henceforth rank amongst the first of British authors.”—Graphic.
“The whole drama flames and rings with high passions and great deeds. The imagination is splendid; the style large and imperial; the insight into character keen; the blank verse varied, sensitive, flexible, alive. Mr. Swinburne has once more proved his right to occupy a seat among the lofty singers of our land.”—Daily News.
“A really grand, statuesque dramatic work.... The reader will here find Mr. Swinburne at his very best, if manliness, dignity, and fulness of style are superior to mere pleasant singing and alliterative lyrics.”—Standard.
“Splendid pictures, subtle analyses of passion, and wonderful studies of character will repay him who attains the end.... In this huge volume are many fine and some unsurpassable things. Subtlest traits of character abound, and descriptive passages of singular delicacy.”—Athenæum.
“There can be no doubt of the dramatic force of the poem. It is severely simple in its diction, and never dull; there are innumerable fine touches on almost every page.”—Scotsman.
“‘Bothwell’ shows us Mr. Swinburne at a point immeasurably superior to any that he has yet achieved. It will confirm and increase the reputation which his daring genius has already won. He has handled a difficult subject with a mastery of art which is a true intellectual triumph.”—Hour.
Chastelard: A Tragedy. Foolscap 8vo, 7s.
Poems and Ballads.Foolscap 8vo, 9s.
Notes on“Poems and Ballads,” and on the Reviews of them. Demy 8vo, 1s.
Songs before Sunrise.Post 8vo, 10s.6d.
Atalanta in Calydon.Fcap. 8vo, 6s.
The Queen Mother and Rosamond.Foolscap 8vo, 5s.
A Song of Italy.Foolscap 8vo, 3s.6d.
Ode on the Proclamation of the French Republic.Demy 8vo, 1s.
Under the Microscope.Post 8vo, 2s.6d.
William Blake: A Critical Essay. With facsimile Paintings, Coloured by Hand, after the Drawings by Blake and his Wife. Demy 8vo, 16s.
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THE THACKERAY SKETCH-BOOK.
THACKERAYANA.
Notes and Anecdotes,
Illustrated by about Six Hundred Sketches byWilliam Makepeace Thackeray, depicting Humorous Incidents in his School-life, and Favourite Scenes and Characters in the books of his every-day reading,now for the First Time Published, from the Original Drawings made on the margins of his books, &c. Large post 8vo, cloth extra gilt, gilt top, price 12s.6d.
“It is Thackeray’s aim to represent life as it is actually and historically—men and women as they are, in those situations in which they are usually placed, with that mixture of good and evil, of strength and foible, which is to be found in their characters, and liable only to those incidents which are of ordinary occurrence. He will have no faultless characters, no demi-gods,—nothing but men and brethren.”—David Masson.
THE SUBSCRIPTION ROOM AT BROOKES’S.
THE SUBSCRIPTION ROOM AT BROOKES’S.
Timbs’ Clubs and Club Life in London.WithAnecdotesof itsFamous Coffee Houses,Hostelries, andTaverns. ByJohn Timbs, F.S.A.New Edition, withnumerous 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 theBlue Stocking, Kit-Kat, Beef Steak, Robin Hood, Mohocks, Scriblerus, One o’Clock, the Civil,and hundreds of other Clubs; together withTom’s, Dick’s, Button’s, Ned’s, Will’s,and the famous Coffee Houses of the last century.
“The book supplies a much-felt want. The club is the avenue to general society at the present day, and Mr. Timbs gives theentréeto the club. The scholar and antiquary will also find the work a repertory of information on many disputed points of literary interest, and especially respecting various well-known anecdotes, the value of which only increases with the lapse of time.”—Morning Post.
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. ByJohn Timbs, F.S.A.An entirely New Edition, with about 50 Illustrations. Crown 8vo, cloth extra, 600 pages, 7s.6d.
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Taylor’s History of Playing Cards.With Sixty curious Illustrations. 550 pp., crown 8vo, cloth, extra gilt, price 7s.6d.
***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.
Vagabondiana; or, Anecdotes of Mendicant Wanderers through the Streets of London; with Portraits of the most remarkable, drawn from the Life byJohn Thomas Smith, late Keeper of the Prints in the British Museum. With Introduction byFrancis Douce, and descriptive text. Reprinted from the original, with the Woodcuts, and the 32 Plates, from the original Coppers, in crown 4to, half Roxburghe, price 12s.6d.
“LES MISÉRABLES.” Complete in Three Parts.
Victor Hugo’s Fantine.Now first published in an English Translation, complete and unabridged, with the exception of a few advisable omissions. Post 8vo, illustrated boards, 2s.
“This work has something more than the beauties of an exquisite style or the word-compelling power of a literary Zeus to recommend it to the tender care of a distant posterity: in dealing with all the emotions, passions, doubts, fears, which go to make up our common humanity, M. Victor Hugo has stamped upon every page the Hall-mark of genius and the loving patience and conscientious labour of a true artist. But the merits of ‘Les Misérables’ do not merely consist in the conception of it as a whole; it abounds, page after page, with details of unequalled beauty.”—Quarterly Review.
Victor Hugo’s Cosette and Marius.Translated into English, complete, uniform with “Fantine.” Post 8vo, illustrated boards, 2s.
Victor Hugo’s Saint Denis and Jean Valjean.Translated into English, complete, uniform with the above. Post 8vo, illustrated boards, 2s.6d.
Vyner’s Notitia Venatica: A Treatise on Fox-Hunting, the General Management of Hounds, and the Diseases of Dogs; Distemper and Rabies; Kennel Lameness, &c. Sixth Edition, Enlarged. ByRobert C. Vyner.With spirited Illustrations in Colours, by Alken, of Memorable Fox-Hunting Scenes.Royal 8vo, cloth extra, 21s.
***An entirely new edition of the best work on Fox-Hunting.
Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass.The Complete Work, precisely as issued by the Author in Washington. A thick volume, 8vo, green cloth, price 9s.
“Whitman is a poet who bears and needs to be read as a whole, and then the volume and torrent of his power carry the disfigurements along with it and away. He is really a fine fellow.”—Chambers’s Journal.
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Waterford Roll (The).—Illuminated Charter-Roll of Waterford, Temp. Richard II.
***Amongst the Corporation Muniments of the City of Waterford is preserved an ancient Illuminated Roll, of great interest and beauty, comprising all the early Charters and Grants to the City of Waterford, from the time of Henry II. to Richard II. A full-length Portrait of each King, whose Charter is given—including Edward III., when young, and again at an advanced age—adorns the margin. These Portraits, with the exception of four which are smaller, and on one sheet of vellum, vary from eight to nine inches in length—some in armour, and some in robes of state. In addition to these are Portraits of an Archbishop in full canonicals, of a Chancellor, and of many of the chief Burgesses of the City of Waterford, as well as singularly curious Portraits of the Mayors of Dublin, Waterford, Limerick, and Cork, figured for the most part in the quaint bipartite costume of the Second Richard’s reign, though partaking of many of the peculiarities of that of Edward III. Altogether this ancient work of art is unique of its kind in Ireland, and deserves to be rescued from oblivion, by the publication of the unedited Charters, and of fac-similes of all the Illuminations. The production of such a work would throw much light on the question of the art and social habits of the Anglo-Norman settlers in Ireland at the close of the fourteenth century. The Charters are, many of them, highly important from an historic point of view.
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