Shakspeare’s Dramatic Works. One of a few Copies on a fine and beautiful paper, the printing by Whittingham of Chiswick, the illustrations by Stothard, with charming little ornamental head-pieces, half morocco, very neat, top edge crimsoned, contents lettered, 10 vols., post 8vo (sells at £6 15s., unbound), 58s. only; or, in yellow (or green) calf extra and delicately-tooled backs, £5 18s. Whittingham, 1856.
The only really handsome and readable edition of Shakspeare, convenient in size and accurate in text, ever printed. A choicely-printed edition has long been a positive want. I can recommend the above in the strongest terms. But a limited number were printed on this beautiful paper, with glorious margins.
Stokes (H. Sewell of Truro) the Vale of Lanherne, and other Poems, 8vo, best edition, with numerous tinted Illustrations Depicting the Lovely Scenery of the Neighbourhood (sells at 12s. 6d.), perfectly new and fresh, in cloth, elegant, for 3s. 6d. Longman, 1853.
It was quite by accident that the publisher fell in with a few copies of this delightful volume at an exceedingly low price. In the old book market copies have been scarce for some time past. Amongst the Illustrations may be enumerated the Vale of Lanherne—Nunnery of Lanherne and Church of St. Mawgan—Ancient Cross in Mawgan Churchyard—Tregurrion Bay—The Norwegian’s Rock, and the Eyry.
Tasso, la Gerusalemme Liberata. The exquisite Diamond Type Edition, 2 vols., 48mo. (sells at 10s.), only 2s.
Artistically bound in morocco, with exquisite taste and neatness, 21s. or, with the sides delicately tooled, 25s.
Ten Thousand Wonderful Things, comprising the Marvellous and Rare, Odd, Curious, Quaint, Eccentric, and Extraordinary in All Ages and Nations, in Art, Nature, and Science, including many Wonders of the World. By ED. FILLINGHAM KING, M.A. Post 8vo, 684 pages, with upwards of 400 very interesting woodcuts, comprising nearly everything noticeable in Nature and Art, neatly half-bound morocco, cloth sides, 4s. 10d. only.
A most amusing at the same time that it is a very instructive volume. It contains the pith of Notes and Queries, the whole of Mr. John Timbs’ labours in the world of literary curiosity, the essence of half-a-dozen Encyclopædias, the marrow of such journals as the old Penny Magazine, and admirable selections from the most rare, quaint, and marvellous books in the British Museum and elsewhere. Open the work at any page, and the reader is sure to be edified and interested—and this is more than can be said of one book in ten thousand.
Terentius. The exquisite Diamond Type Edition, 48mo. (sells at 6s), only 1s. 6d.
Artistically bound in morocco, with exquisite taste and neatness, 10s. 6d; or, with the sides delicately tooled, 12s. 6d.