LIBRARY OF OLD AUTHORS.
M. John Russel Smith, libraire à Londres, publie une collection destinée à prendre en Angleterre la place occupée en France par la Bibliothèque elzevirienne. Plusieurs ouvrages sont en vente ou sous presse. Tous les volumes sont imprimés uniformément et avec soin, avec des fleurons et lettres ornées, reliés en percaline, et se vendent à des prix modérés. Voici la liste des premières publications.
En vente:
The Dramatic and Poetical Works of John Marston. Now first collected
and edited by J. O. Halliwell. 3 vols. cart. en toile. 22 50
The Vision and Creed of Piers Ploughman. Edited by Thomas Wright; a
new edition, revised, with additions to the Notes and Glossary.
2 vols. cart. 15 »
John Selden's Table Talk. A new and improved Edition, by S. W. Singer,
1 vol. 7 50
Francis Quarle's Enchiridion. 1 vol. cart. 4 50
Increase Mather's Remarkable Providences of the Earlier Days of American
Colonization. With Introductory Preface by George Offor. Portrait. 7 50
The Poetical Works of William Drummond of Hawthornden. Edited by W. B.
Turnbull. Portrait. 7 50
George Wither's Hymns and Songs of the Church. 7 50
The Miscellanies of John Aubrey, F.R.S. 6 »
The Miscellaneous Works of Sir Thomas Overbury, 1 vol. 7 50
The Poetical Works of the Rev. Robert Southwell. 1 v. 6 »
The Iliads and the Odysseys of Homer, translated by George
Chapman. 2 vol. 18 »
Sous presse:
The Journal of a Barrister of the name of Manningham, for the years
1600, 1601 and 1602; containing Anecdotes of Shakespeare, Ben Johnson,
Marston, Spenser, Sir W. Raleigh, Sir John Davys, etc. Edited from the
ms. in the British Museum, by Thomas Wright.
The Rev. Joseph Spence's Anecdotes of Books and Men, about the time of
Pope and Swift. A new Edition by S. W. Singer.
The Prose Works of Geoffrey Chaucer, including the Translation of Boethius,
the Testament of Love, and the Treatise on the Astrolabe. Edited by T. Wright.
King James' Treatise on Demonology. With Notes.
The Poems, Letters and Plays of Sir John Suckling.
Thomas Carew's Poems and Masque.
Dépôt à Paris, chez
P. Jannet,
éditeur de la Bibliothèque Elzevirenne, rue Richelieu, 15.