Customers wishing to present a book to a friend can send a card containing their name and a dedication or inscription to be enclosed, and it will be forwarded to the address given.
Remittances should be made by Money Order, draft on London, registered letter, or half-penny stamps.
After perusal of this Catalogue, kindly pass it on to some Book-buying friend.
CATALOGUE
OF
Mr. T. FISHER UNWIN'S
PUBLICATIONS.
Autumn-Christmas Season, 1886.
"HISTORIA SANCTÆ CRUCIS." With Illustrations.
THE LEGENDARY HISTORY OF THE CROSS: A Series of Sixty-Four Woodcuts, from a Dutch book published by Veldener, A.D. 1483. With an Introduction written and Illustrated by John Ashton, and a Preface by the Rev. S. Baring-Gould, M.A. Square 8vo., bound in parchment, old style, brass clasps. 10s. 6d.
"The mediæval romance of the Cross was very popular. It occurs in a good number of authors, and is depicted in a good many churches in stained glass.... It would seem that it was made up by some romancer out of all kinds of pre-existing material, with no other object than to write a religious novel for pious readers, to displace the sensuous novels which were much in vogue."—From the Preface.