Columbus,
His Life and Voyages. By Washington Irving. A new edition, complete in one volume, foolscap 8vo., with an illustration. Bound in cloth, full gilt back, and emblematical design on side, 3s. 6d.
“One of the most fascinating and intensely interesting books in the whole compass of English literature; it has all the interest of romance blended with the truth of history.”
Life of Mahomet and his Successors.
By Washington Irving. A new edition, complete in one volume, foolscap 8vo., with an illustration. Bound in cloth, full gilt back, and emblematical design on side, 3s. 6d.
“As a piece of literary work, we can award high praise to this Life of Mahomet. The narrative flows on without interruption from the first page to the last, and is brightened by passages of unusual beauty of diction and pictorial effect, in the grouping of ideas and of situations.”—Athenaeum.
The Sketch-book, and Bracebridge Hall;
Or, Pictures of Life and Manners in England, by Washington Irving. A new edition, complete in one volume, foolscap 8vo., with an illustration. Bound in cloth, full gilt back and sides, 3s. 6d.
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Tales of the Alhambra,