Now ready, half morocco, handsomely printed by Whittingham and Wilkins, price 7s. 6d.,
Army Lists of the Roundheads and Cavaliers in the Civil War: Giving the Names of all the Officers in the Royal and Parliamentary Armies of 1642, now first reprinted from the comparatively unknown originals, and Edited, with Notes, by EDWARD PEACOCK, F.S.A. In 4to, with elaborate floreated capitals.
These most curious Lists show on which side the gentlemen of England were to be found during the great conflict between the King and the Parliament. As illustrations of County History they are exceedingly interesting. The literary antiquary and the genealogist will find much new and out-of-the-way matter in them; and there are but few families in England who cannot claim a relationship to one or other of the names mentioned in the Royalist or Roundhead lists. Only a very few copies have been most carefully reprinted on paper that will gladden the heart of the lover of Choice Books.
Now ready, 12mo, in binding after a pattern of the period, very choicely printed, by Whittingham and Wilkins, price 6s. 6d.,
THE EARLIEST KNOWN LONDON DIRECTORY.
A Collection of the Names of the Merchants Living IN AND ABOUT THE CITY OF LONDON; very usefull and necessary. Carefully Collected for the Benefit of all Dealers that shall have occasion with any of them, directing them at the first sight of their name to the place of their abode. London: Printed for Sam Lee, 1677. See Review in the Times, Jan. 22nd.
This curious little volume has been reprinted verbatim from one of the only two copies known to be in existence. It contains an Introduction pointing out some of the principal persons mentioned in the list. For historical and genealogical purposes the little book is of the greatest value. Herein will be found the originators of many of the great firms and copartnerships which have prospered through two pregnant centuries, and which exist some of them in nearly the same names at this day. Its most distinctive feature is the early severance which it marks of ‘goldsmiths that keep running cashes,’ precursors of the modern bankers, from the mass of the merchants of London. Here also will be found in the general list some of the entertainers of the wits of their day; Fountain, the father of the wealthy knight with whom Swift was familiar, as shown in his letters to Stella; Kiffen, the sturdy Baptist, whom James II. could neither affright nor seduce; Bathurst, with Bragg his connexion, the Vansittarts, Van Milderts, Ducanes, Beckfords, Papillons, Burdetts, Biddulphs, and Holfords. Here are Russells, Temples, Palmers, and Harveys, the latter near kinsman of Dr. William Harvey, who discovered the secret of our own circulation. Only two originals are known, and one of these recently produced £30 at public auction. The little book is curious, among other things, as containing the name of Alexander Pope, the father of the poet, among the merchants residing in Broad Street. The names of the Messrs. Hoare, the eminent bankers of Fleet Street, at the sign of the ‘Leathern Bottle’—the house, by the way, where Oliver Cromwell kept his money—occurs in the Directory, as also do those of the Messrs. Child, the well-known bankers of Temple Bar. Only a very few copies have been reprinted on paper made to resemble the original.
This day, on tinted paper, price 3s. 6d., by post 3s. 10d.,
Artemus Ward—His Book. Edited, with Notes and Introduction, by the Editor of the “Biglow Papers.” One of the wittiest and certainly the most mirth-provoking book which has been published for many years.
The author has recently been delighting his countrymen with lectures on “The Babes in the Wood,” “Sixty Minutes in Africa,” and “Life among the Mormons,” and it is expected will shortly visit this country, to take for a time the late Albert Smith’s place among us.