Cruikshank's Comic Almanack.
Complete in Two Series: The First from 1835 to 1843; the Second from 1844 to 1853. A Gathering of the Best Humour of Thackeray, Hood, Mayhew, Albert Smith, A'Beckett, Robert Brough, &c. With 2,000 Woodcuts and Steel Engravings by Cruikshank, Hine, Landells, &c.
Parts I. to XIV. now ready, 21s. each.
Cussans' History of Hertfordshire.
By John E. Cussans. Illustrated with full-page Plates on Copper and Stone, and a profusion of small Woodcuts.
∴ Parts XV. and XVI., completing the work, are just ready.
"Mr. Cussans has, from sources not accessible to Clutterbuck, made most valuable additions to the manorial history of the county from the earliest period downwards, cleared up many doubtful points, and given original details concerning various subjects untouched or imperfectly treated by that writer."—Academy.
Two Vols., demy 4to, handsomely bound in half-morocco, gilt, profusely Illustrated with Coloured and Plain Plates and Woodcuts, price £7 7s.
Cyclopædia of Costume;
or, A Dictionary of Dress—Regal, Ecclesiastical, Civil, and Military—from the Earliest Period in England to the reign of George the Third. Including Notices of Contemporaneous Fashions on the Continent, and a General History of the Costumes of the Principal Countries of Europe. By J. R. Planché, Somerset Herald.
The Volumes may also be had separately (each Complete in itself) at £3 13s. 6d. each:
Vol. I. THE DICTIONARY.
Vol. II. A GENERAL HISTORY OF COSTUME IN EUROPE.
Also in 25 Parts, at 5s. each. Cases for binding, 5s. each.
"A comprehensive and highly valuable book of reference…. We have rarely failed to find in this book an account of an article of dress, while in most of the entries curious and instructive details are given…. Mr. Planché's enormous labour of love, the production of a text which, whether in its dictionary form or in that of the 'General History,' is within its intended scope immeasurably the best and richest work on Costume in English…. This book is not only one of the most readable works of the kind, but intrinsically attractive and amusing."—Athenæum.