Number Seventeen: A Novel, Volume 1Chatto and Windus, 1875 |
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... interesting and valuable of modern times . " — Art Union . CHRISTMAS CAROLS AND BALLADS . Selected and Edited by JOSHUA SYLVESTER . Cloth extra , gilt , gilt edges , 3s . 6d . CICERO'S FAMILIAR LETTERS , AND LETTERS TO ATTICUS ...
... interesting and valuable of modern times . " — Art Union . CHRISTMAS CAROLS AND BALLADS . Selected and Edited by JOSHUA SYLVESTER . Cloth extra , gilt , gilt edges , 3s . 6d . CICERO'S FAMILIAR LETTERS , AND LETTERS TO ATTICUS ...
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... he writes with enthusiasm and fulness of knowledge . " - Echo . ' Really interesting alike to youths and to grown - up people . " - Scotsman . 1 CONEY'S ENGRAVINGS OF ANCIENT CATHEDRALS , Hôtels de Ville 6 BOOKS PUBLISHED BY.
... he writes with enthusiasm and fulness of knowledge . " - Echo . ' Really interesting alike to youths and to grown - up people . " - Scotsman . 1 CONEY'S ENGRAVINGS OF ANCIENT CATHEDRALS , Hôtels de Ville 6 BOOKS PUBLISHED BY.
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... interesting documents never before collected together - a com- plete Heraldry of the county - a larger list of Sheriffs than has hitherto been published - Tales of the population , Domesday Manors , & c . COTMAN'S ENGRAVINGS OF THE ...
... interesting documents never before collected together - a com- plete Heraldry of the county - a larger list of Sheriffs than has hitherto been published - Tales of the population , Domesday Manors , & c . COTMAN'S ENGRAVINGS OF THE ...
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... interesting classic ground which the inquiry embraces , is the sure recommendation of this very able and standard work . Athenæum . GELL AND GANDY'S POMPEIANA ; or , The Topography , Edifices , and Ornaments of Pompeii . With upwards of ...
... interesting classic ground which the inquiry embraces , is the sure recommendation of this very able and standard work . Athenæum . GELL AND GANDY'S POMPEIANA ; or , The Topography , Edifices , and Ornaments of Pompeii . With upwards of ...
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... afford lessons of political wisdom , he has taught us still more interesting lessons - on the social relations of men , and the intercourse of nations in the earlier ages of the world . His work is as learned 12 BOOKS PUBLISHED BY.
... afford lessons of political wisdom , he has taught us still more interesting lessons - on the social relations of men , and the intercourse of nations in the earlier ages of the world . His work is as learned 12 BOOKS PUBLISHED BY.
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Page 2 - Imperial 4to, cloth extra, gilt and gilt edges. 2i*. per volume. Beautiful Pictures by British Artists : A Gathering of Favourites from our Picture Galleries. In Two Series. The FIRST SERIES including Examples by WILKIE, CONSTABLE TURNER, MULREADY, LANDSEER, MACLISE, EM WARD, FRITH, Sir JOHN GILBERT, LESLIE, ANSDELL, MARCUS STONE, Sir NOEL PATON, FAED, EYRE CROWE, GAVIN O'NEIL, and MADOX BROWN.
Page 12 - With Additions by Professors AGASSIZ, PIERCE, and GRAY; 12 Maps and Engravings on Steel, some Coloured, and copious Index.
Page 15 - Complete Works, In Prose and Verse, reprinted from the Original Editions, with many Pieces hitherto unpublished. Edited, with Notes and Introduction, by RH SHEPHERD. With Two Portraits and Facsimile of a Page of the
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Page 13 - His graphic representations are indeed books : they have the teeming , fruitful , suggestive meaning of words. Other pictures we look at, his prints we read.
Page 10 - These volumes are so replete with what is valuable, that were we to employ our entire journal, we could, after all, afford but a meagre indication of their interest and worth. It is, indeed, a...
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