Handsome crown 8vo Volumes, bound in cloth gilt,
3s. 6d. each. Each volume illustrated with a Portrait etched
for this Series by M. Ad. Lalauze of Paris.
1. Leigh Hunt. Tales by Leigh Hunt, hitherto uncollected, with a Biographical Introduction by William Knight, LL.D., Professor of Moral Philosophy, University of St. Andrews. With a Portrait of Leigh Hunt in his young days, etched by Ad. Lalauze, Paris.
2. Mrs. Shelley. Tales by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, hitherto uncollected, with a Critical Introduction by Richard Garnett, LL.D., of the British Museum. With an Etching by Ad. Lalauze, from an unpublished Portrait lent by Lady Shelley.
3. Douglas Jerrold. Tales by Douglas Jerrold, hitherto uncollected, with a Biographical Notice by J. Logie Robertson, M.A. (“Hugh Haliburton”), illustrated with a Frontispiece from an early Portrait etched by Ad. Lalauze of Paris.
4. Lord Beaconsfield. Tales by Benjamin Disraeli, Lord Beaconsfield, hitherto, for the greater part, uncollected, with a Biographical Notice by J. Logie Robertson, M.A. (“Hugh Haliburton”). The Frontispiece being an Etching by Ad. Lalauze, from a Portrait of the author when thirty-five years of age.
An impression of 55 copies printed on the best Dutch Handmade Paper has been prepared with the Portraits printed on Japanese Paper, each copy numbered.