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Schiller's Lay of the Bell. Sir E. Bulwer Lytton's translation; beautifully illustrated by forty-two wood Engravings, drawn by Thomas Scott, and engraved by J. D. Cooper, after the Etchings by Retszch. Oblong 4to. cloth extra, 14s.
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The Poetry of Nature. Selected and Illustrated with Thirty-six Engravings by Harrison Weir. Small 4to. handsomely bound in cloth, gilt edges, 12s.; morocco, 1l. 1s.
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Bloomfield's Farmer's Boy. Campbell's Pleasures of Hope. Cundall's Elizabethan Poetry. Coleridge's Ancient Mariner. Goldsmith's Deserted Village. Goldsmith's Vicar of Wakefield. Gray's Elegy in a Churchyard. |
Keat's Eve of St. Agnes. Milton's l'Allegro. Roger's Pleasures of Memory. Shakespeare's Songs and Sonnets. Tennyson's May Queen. Wordsworth's Pastoral Poems. |
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