ADVENTURES OF GIL BLAS:—Translated from the French of Le Sage; with a memoir of the Author. With near Five Hundred Engravings, after designs by Gigoux.
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"The cleverest picture of real life and manners that has ever been drawn."—J. G. Lockhart,—Quarterly Review. (No. CXL, p. 67.)
"All the designs are full of spirit, and descriptive of the remarkable passages in this fine satire on the policy, drama, literature, and domestic habits of the Spaniards."—Morning Advertiser.
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ASMODEUS, THE DEVIL ON TWO STICKS:—A newly-revised translation by an eminent author, allowed by critics to be the best edition extant. With Two Hundred Engravings, after designs by Tony Johannot. Demy 8vo. cloth, gilt back, (298 pp.) price 5s.
"It is Asmodeus who speaks, and the judicious reader will find strokes of the crutches, which he may improve to his advantage and edification."—Old Preface.
"The engravings, though worked with the type, are, through care and skill, as clear and distinct as plates intended for separate publication."—Literary Gazette.
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MYTHOLOGY OF THE ANCIENTS;—With nearly Two Hundred Engravings, by first-rate Artists.
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"A proper as well as an acceptable present to the young. This, we are sure, will be no slight recommendation to those who are in the habit of objecting to works treating of similar subjects, which have less regard to moral purity."—Kendal Mercury.