Elegantly printed in post 8vo, price 9s. in cloth, GRAY'S ELEGY IN A COUNTRY CHURCH-YARD. EACH STANZA ILLUSTRATED With an Engraving on Wood, from 33 original Drawings expressly made for the volume by the following eminent Artists: A. W. CALLCOTT, R.A. R. WESTALL, R.A. J. J. CHALON, A.R.A. W. BOXALL. G. CATTERMOLE. COPLEY FIELDING. THALES FIELDING. FRANK HOWARD. C. R. STANLEY. "No poem in the English language has touched the universal heart more tenderly than Gray's Elegy; and few, indeed, in any language, have approached its simple pathos and natural imagery. It was a happy thought to illustrate it by the sweetest productions of the sister art; and the design has been perfectly executed in the delightful volume before us. Every stanza has its appropriate drawing from a master's hand; and the effect is wonderfully touching. We can give no idea of it; but let our readers fancy every verse of this affecting Elegy yielding a theme to exercise the imagination of our best artists, and they may form some conception of the nature and value of these graphic gems."-Literary Gazette. In post 8vo, price 10s. 6d. cloth, AN ANGLER'S RAMBLES. Author of "GLEANINGS IN NATURAL HISTORY." "Who ever took up a book of Mr. Jesse's without being delighted with the amusement it afforded, or satisfied with the knowledge it conveyed! Truly, he has led us to many a scene of good-fellowship, both on land and water; he has made us intimate with fishermen, landladies, and ladies of the manor also, in humble inns and lordly halls, to say nothing of a country clergyman, village cricket club, classical Oxford, and that new insight into animal life which has already rendered his works on Natural History the most charming medium of knowledge ever afforded to the investigating mind."-New Monthly Magazine. JOHN VAN VOORST, 1, PATERNOSTER ROW. On the 1st of July will be published PART I. price 2s. 6d. of BY WILLIAM YARRELL, F. L.S. SECRETARY TO THE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY. THIS work, which is intended as a companion to the HISTORY OF BRITISH QUADRUPEDS AND BRITISH FISHES, will be completed in two volumes 8vo, and will contain a greater number of British Birds than has yet been included in any work on the same subject. All the species will be illustrated by engravings on wood; two representations of many of them; and in some cases even three figures will be given, to represent the various changes dependant on age, sex, or season. The whole of the Birds will be engraved by, or under the direction of Mr. Thompson, whose name is at once a guarantee that the execution will be excellent and uniform throughout. The drawings will be made from living examples of the Birds as often as opportunities permit; and in other instances from the most perfect specimens in the different collections to which the author has access. The vignettes will be numerous, and subservient to the general subject; occasionally illustrating the description of some interesting portion of internal or external structure; and no expense or labour will be spared to render this History of British Birds as complete as extensive observation, long practical acquaintance with the subject, and the plan of the work will admit. A limited number will also be printed on royal 8vo, 5s. each Part, and fifty only on imperial 8vo; the latter not to be delivered until the work is complete. JOHN VAN VOORST, 1, PATERNOSTER ROW. |