Chapter 16

LONDON:PRINTED BY LEVEY, ROBSON, AND FRANKLYN,Great New Street, Fetter Lane.

THENATIONAL ILLUSTRATED LIBRARY.

IN MONTHLY VOLUMES, 2s.6d.EACH,

Containing about Three Hundred Pages and Fifty Engravings.

Crown 8vo, handsomely bound in cloth gilt.

WORKS ALREADY PUBLISHED.

Vols.1 to 4.—BOSWELL’S LIFE of DR. JOHNSON. Elucidated by copious Notes. Illustrated with numerous Portraits, Views, and characteristic Designs, engraved from authentic sources.Third Edition.

THE SAME, 4 vols. bound in 2, calf, half-extra, marbled edges, 18s.

Vol. 5.—The BOOK of ENGLISH SONGS, from the 16th to the 19th century. Illustrated with Fifty Engravings from original designs.Third Edition.

Vol. 6.—The MORMONS; or, LATTER-DAY SAINTS. Illustrated with Forty Engravings from original sources.Third Edition.

Vol. 7.—The ORBS of HEAVEN; or, the PLANETARY and STELLAR WORLDS. A popular Exposition of the great Discoveries and Theories of Modern Astronomy. Illustrated with Nebulæ, Portraits, Views, Diagrams, &c.Second Edition.

Vol. 8.—PICTURES of TRAVELS in the SOUTH of FRANCE. From the French of ALEXANDRE DUMAS. With Fifty spirited Engravings on Wood. Unabridged Edition.Second Edition.

Vols.9 and 13.—HUC’S TRAVELS in TARTARY, THIBET, and CHINA, in 1844, 5, and 6. Translated by W. HAZLITT. Unabridged Edition. Two vols. crown 8vo, cloth. 2 vols. in 1, cloth, gilt edges, 5s.

THE SAME, handsomely bound in calf gilt, marbled edges, 9s.

Vol. 10.—A WOMAN’S JOURNEY ROUND the WORLD. Translated from the German of Madame PFEIFFER. Unabridged edition. Illustrated with full-size page Engravings printed in two tints, handsomely bound in One Volume.Second Edition.

Vols.11 and 12.—MEMOIRS of EXTRAORDINARY POPULAR DELUSIONS. By CHARLES MACKAY, LL.D., with 120 Illustrations from scarce prints, and other authentic sources. Two vols. crown 8vo, cloth.Second Edition.

Two vols. 2s.6d.each; or the Two Vols. in One, cloth, gilt edges, 5s.

THE SAME, elegantly bound, Two Vols. in One, calf gilt, marbled edges, 9s.

Vol. 14.—BOSWELL’S JOURNAL of a TOUR to the HEBRIDES. Companion volume to BOSWELL’S LIFE OF JOHNSON. With Index to the “Life.” ByRobert Carruthers, Esq., of Inverness.Second Edition.

Vol. 15.—NARRATIVE of a RESIDENCE at the CAPITAL of the KINGDOM of SIAM. ByFrederick Arthur Neale, formerly in the Siamese service, author of “Eight Years in Syria.”

Vol. 16.—The ILLUSTRATED BOOK of SCOTTISH SONGS.

Vol. 17.—PICTURESQUE SKETCHES of LONDON, PAST and PRESENT. ByThomas Miller, Author of the History of the Anglo-Saxons, &c.

NEW BOOKS FOR JULY.

W E B S T E R’S  D I C T I O N A R Y  O F  T H E  E N G L I S H  L A N G U A G E.

Exhibiting the Origin, Orthography, Pronunciation, and Definition of Words; comprising also a Synopsis of Words differently pronounced by different Orthoepists; and Walker’s Key to the Classical Pronunciation of Greek, Latin, and Scripture Proper Names. A New Edition, revised and enlarged, byC. A. Goodrich, Professor in Yale College; with the addition of a Vocabulary of Modern Geographical Names and their Pronunciation. With Portrait of Dr.Webster.

⁂ This valuable Dictionary of the English Language must not be confounded withWorcester’s, which, although similar in appearance and price, is smaller, and, not so complete.

THEILLUSTRATED MODERN GEOGRAPHY.

ByJOSEPH GUY, Jun., of Magdalen Hall, Oxford,

Author of numerous popular Educational Works.

Demy 8vo, with about One Hundred Engravings of Cities, Costumes, and Wonders of the World, &c. The Drawings are made with great care from truthful sources—a desideratum so necessary in an Elementary Geography. Nine Maps have been engraved by a patent process expressly for this Work, and are corrected to the present period.

Demy 8vo, cloth, 2s.

THE ILLUSTRATEDL O N D O N  D R A W I N G-B O O K.

Comprising a complete introduction to Drawing and Composition; with instructions for Etching on Copper or Steel, &c. Illustrated with above 300 subjects for study in every branch of Art.

Demy 8vo, cloth, 2s.

HAZLITT’S

L I F E  O F  N A P O L E O N  B O N A P A R T E.

Vol. III. New Edition,

Revised and corrected by his son, WILLIAM HAZLITT, Esq.

⁂ The Fourth Volume, which completes this interesting work, will be ready on the 1st of August.

THE

SQUANDERS OF CASTLE SQUANDER.

A New Novel by WILLIAM CARLETON, Esq.,

Author of “The Black Prophet,” “Traits of the Irish Peasantry,” &c. &c. Two vols. crown 8vo, handsomely bound in red and silver, price each volume, 2s.6d.


Back to IndexNext