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Waring's (J. B.) Masterpieces of Industrial Art and Sculpture at the International Exhibition, 1862.

300 Plates.

3 vols. folio, half morocco, extra gilt (Hammond), 11l. IIS. (published in parts at 18% 5s.)

Containing several hundred Illustrations of the most choice examples in the Exhibition of 1862 of Sculpture and Decorative Art, executed in the highest style of excellence attainable in chromo-lithography, from coloured photographs taken for the purpose.

Scott Russell's Modern System of Naval Architecture. Embracing Naval Design, Practical Shipbuilding, and Steam Navigation. 167 carefully executed Line Engravings on Copper, many of very large size, and 724 pages of Descriptive Text. Folio, double elephant, in sheets, 27. 10s. (published at 42/.)

Nothing has been omitted, either in the contents of the work or the style of its production, that could possibly add to its widest usefulness, or its enduring qualities.

The Life of Josiah Wedgwood; from his Private Correspondence and Family Papers. With an Introductory Sketch of the Art of Pottery in England. By Eliza Meteyard. Dedicated to the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone. Complete in 2 vols. 8vo., with Portraits, and 300 other beautiful Illustrations, elegantly bound in cloth, 17. (published at 27. 2s.); or in calf extra, gilt edges, 17. 10s.

"An important contribution to the annals of industrial biography; Miss Meteyard has executed a laborious task with much care and fidelity. The book is profusely illustrated, and the illustrations deserve the highest praise. They are executed with extreme beauty."-Times.

"An admirable, well-written, honourably elaborate, and most interesting book." Athenæum.

Painting in Water-Colours; the Theory and Practice. A complete exposition of the art as practised in the present day. By Aaron Penley. 46 Studies, imp. folio, handsomely bound in cloth, 31. 35. (published at 41. 45.)

This work, alike invaluable to teacher and student, also addresses itself in a remarkable degree to those who, having gone through the usual course of teaching, desire to advance themselves to the perfect practice of the art, whether as an elegant accomplishment or as a means of professional livelihood: it treats from the first holding a brush, through a course of study of the most analytical and extended kind, up to the highly-finished landscape, with all the sentiment and poetry of effect that can be conceived and realised by an accomplished master mind.

Court and Society from Elizabeth to Anne. Edited from the Papers at Kimbolton, by the Duke of Manchester. Second Edition. 2 vols. 8vo. with fine Portraits, cloth, 7s. 6d. (published at 30s.); or in calf extra, 15s.

"These volumes are sure to excite curiosity; a great deal of interesting matter is here collected from sources which are not within everybody's reach.”—Times.

Menzies' (Wm.) History of Windsor Great Park and Windsor Forest. Illustrated with 20 magnificent photographs of the grand old Trees of the Forest. Folio, half morocco, 37. (original selling price, 81. 8s.)

Sir Henry Holland's Essays on Scientific and other Subjects, contributed to the Edinburgh and Quarterly Reviews. 8vo. cloth, 35. 6d. (published at 145.); calf extra, 7s. 6d.

Sir Henry Holland's Medical Notes and Reflections. Third Edition. 8vo. cloth, 3s. 6d. (published at 18s.); calf extra, 75. 6d.

Plays by Frances Anne Kemble; including an English Tragedy-Mary Stuart and Mademoiselle de Belle Isle. Crown 8vo. cloth, 2s. 6d. (published at 12s.)

Jeremy Taylor's Holy Living and Dying; together with Prayers, containing the whole duty of a Christian. Crown 8vo. cloth, 3s. 6d. (published at 6s.); calf antique, red edges, 6s.

The Exodus of the Western Nations. By Viscount Bury. 2 vols. 8vo. cloth, 7s. (published at 1l. 12s.); or in calf extra, 15S.

"Lord Bury's work well deserves attention."-Edinburgh Review.

A Personal Narrative of Three Years' Residence in China. By Lt.-Col. Fisher, C. B. Maps and Illustrations. 8vo. cloth, 5s. (published at 18s.); calf extra, 95.

Memoir of the Abbe Lacordaire.

By the Count de

Montalembert. Authorized Translation. 8vo. cloth, 6s. (published at 12s.)

Pictures of Society, Grave and Gay, from the pencils of celebrated artists, and the pens of popular authors. Royal 8vo. cloth extra, 9s. (published at 21s.)

artists.

Contains over 100 full-page Illustrations by the most notable of our rising

Pictures of English Life. After Original Studies by Barnes and Wimperis. Engraved by Cooper. With Descriptive Poems by J. J. Watts; the rich woodcut borders of flowers and fruit on every alternate page by Kennedy. Folio, cloth gilt, 6s. (published at 14s.)

This is a beautiful volume. The 10 large Engravings (every one worth framing) charmingly illustrate some most interesting phases of cottage home life in England.

The Life of J. M. W. Turner, R. A., from Original Letters and Papers furnished by his friends, and fellow academicians. By Walter Thornbury. 2 vols. 8vo. with Portraits and other Illustrations, cloth, 7s. (published at 1l. 10s.); or in calf extra, 15s.

Paved with Gold, or the Romance and Reality of the London Streets; an Unfashionable Novel, with numerous Engravings on Steel from drawings by "Phiz," illustrating many humorous and pathetic phases of London life. Original Edition. 8vo. cloth gilt, 4s. 6d. (published at 14s.)

Haunted London. By Walter Thornbury. With a number of unique Illustrations, copied from old drawings and prints, by F. W. Fairholt. 8vo. cloth gilt, 10s. (published at 215.); calf

extra, 14s.

"This book deals not so much with the London of the ghost-stories, as with the London consecrated by manifold traditions—a city, every street and alley of which teems with interesting associations, every paving-stone of which marks, as it were, the abiding-place of some ancient legend or biographical story; in short, this London of the present, haunted by the memories of the past."-Extract from the Preface.

Timbs' Anecdotical Works.

Club Life of London; with Anecdotes of the Clubs, Coffee-houses, and Taverns during the 17th, 18th, and 19th Centuries. By John Timbs. 2 vols. crown 8vo. cloth, 9s. (published at 21s.)

A Century of Anecdote, 1760-1860. 2 vols. crown 8vo. cloth, 8s. (published at 21s.)

"Mr. Timbs' notion of condensing the salient points, events, and incidents in the lives of distinguished men, and presenting them by way of anecdote in chronological order, is a very happy one."-Notes and Queries.

The Great Schools of England: an account of the Foundation, Endowments, and Discipline of the chief Seminaries of Learning in England. By Howard Staunton. With Illustrations. Crown 8vo. cloth, 5s. (published at 12s.)

Sirenia, or Recollections of a Past Existence. Second Edition. Crown 8vo. cloth, 2s. (published at 10s. 6d.)

Fullerton's (Lady Georgiana) Life of the Marchioness Giulia Faletti of Barolo. By Silvio Pellico, Author of "Le Mie Prigione." Translated by Lady Georgiana Fullerton. In 1 vol. small 8vo. cloth 2s. (published at 6s.)

Lingard's History of England from the first Invasion by the Romans to the year 1688. Sixth Edition, revised and enlarged. London, 1855. Io vols. post 8vo. cloth, 18s. 6d. (published at 35s.)

Memoirs of the Courts and Cabinets of William IV. and Victoria; from original family documents. By the Duke of Buckingham and Chandos, K.G. 2 vols. 8vo. cloth, 7s. 6d. (published at 30s.) calf extra, 15s.

Classics, edited by Mr. Keightley.

The Bucolics and Georgics of Virgil; with Notes, Excursus, Terms of Husbandry, and a Flora Virgiliana. Post 8vo. cloth, 2s. (published at 10s. 6d.)

The Satires and Epistles of Horace; with Notes and Excursus. Post 8vo. cloth, 2s. (published at 10s. 6d.)

Sir Philip Sidney. A Memoir by H. R. Foxbourne. 8vo. cloth, 5s. (published at 15s.); calf extra, 9s. 6d.

Carlyle's History of Friederich II. of Prussia, called Frederick the Great. Complete in 6 vols. 8vo. portraits, cloth, 21. 15s. (published at 67.); calf extra, 41. 4s.

Viscount Bolingbroke's Life. By Thomas Macknight, Author of the "Life of Burke." 8vo. cloth, 5s. 6d. (published at 18s.); calf extra, 9s. 6d.

The Correspondence of King George the Third with Lord North, from 1768 to 1783. Edited by W. Bodham Donne. 2 vols. 8vo. 18s. (published at 32s.)

Lord Colchester's Diary and Correspondence from 1802 to 1817. Edited by his son, Charles, Lord Colchester. 3 vols. 8vo. cloth, 15s. (published at 42s.); calf extra, 28s.

Loudon's Arboretum et Fruticetum Britannicum, or the Trees and Shrubs of Great Britain, delineated and described, with Directions for their Culture, Uses in the Arts, and Landscape Gardening, with many hundred engravings. 8 vols. 8vo. cloth, 37. (published at 10/. 10s.); calf extra, 4/. 105.

Anne Pratt's Poisonous, Noxious, and Suspected Plants of our Fields and Woods. 44 beautifully coloured Plates. Square 12mo. cloth, 3s. (published at 6s.)

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