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Longfellow's Golden Legend, Illustrated.
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Longfellow's Hyperion Illustrated.
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Christmas with the Poets:
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Turner and his Works:
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Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress.
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The Landscape Painters of England:
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The Christian Graces in Olden Time:
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The Heroines of Shakspeare:
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The Book of Beauty.
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Heath's Keepsake.
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Rembrandt and his Works;
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Curiosities of Glass-making:
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The Cartoons of Raffaelle,
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Vestiges of Old London:
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Views in Rome;
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The Bible Gallery:
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The Women of the Bible.
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Milton's Poetical Works.
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Thomson's Seasons and Castle of Indolence.
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Beattie and Collins' Poetical Works.
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The Language of Flowers;
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Sir Walter Scott's most Popular Works—
| Tilt's Illustrated Editions. | |
| 1. THE LAY OF THE LAST MINSTREL. | |
| 2. THE LADY OF THE LAKE. | |
| 3. MARMION: A TALE OF FLODDEN FIELD. | |
| 4. ROKEBY. | |
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Cowper's Poems.
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Sketches at Home and Abroad.
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The Beauty of the Heavens.
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Le Keux's Memorials of Cambridge.
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Pearls of the East:
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Walton and Cotton's Complete Angler.
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PRACTICAL WORKS ON
Drawing and Painting.
JOHN BURNET, F.R.S.
Landscape Painting in Oil Colours
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Practical Hints on Portrait Painting.
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Practical Essays on the Fine Arts;
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J.D. HARDING.
Lessons on Art:
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⁂ This work is dedicated to His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, by special permission of Her Majesty the Queen.
Elementary Art;
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Lessons on Trees.
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Fielding's Works on Painting.
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| II. | The Theory and Practice of Painting in Oil and Water Colours. With an Appendix on Lithography. Fifth Edition. With numerous Plates, plain and coloured, 16s. |
Harry Willson on Water Colours.
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The Elements of Art:
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The Art of Painting Restored
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☞ Manuals of Art, see page 15.——Drawing Books, page 21.