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CHATTO & WINDUS

74 & 75, PICCADILLY, LONDON, W.

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SUMPTUOUS GIFT-BOOK.

THE TURNER

GALLERY:

A Series of Sixty Engravings,

From the Principal Works of JOSEPH MALLORD WILLIAM TURNER. With a Memoir and Illustrative Text, by RALPH NICHOLSON WORNUM, Keeper and Secretary, National Gallery. Handsomely half-bound, India Proofs, Royal folio, 10; LARGE PAPER copies, Artists' India Proofs, Elephant folio, £20.

NEW SERIES OF

BEAUTIFUL

PICTURES. Including Examples by ARMYTAGE, FAED, GOODALL, HEMSLEY, HORSLEY, MARKS, NICHOLLS, Sir NOEL PATON, PICKERSGILL, G. SMITH, MARCUS STONE, SOLOMON, STRAIGHT, E. M. WARD, WARREN; all engraved in the highest style of Art, with Notices of the Artists and of their Pictures by SYDNEY ARMYTAGE, M.A. Imp. 4to, cloth extra, gilt, and gilt edges, 21s.

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THE NATIONAL GALLERY:

A Selection from its Pictures,

By CLAUDE, REMBRANDT, CUYP, Sir DAVID WILKIE, CORREGGIO, GAINSBOROUGH, Canaletti, VANDYCK, PAUL Veronese, CARACCI, RUBENS, N. and G. POUSSIN,

and other great Masters.

Engraved by GEORGE Doo, JOHN BURNET, WILLIAM FINDEN, JOHN and HENRY LE KEUX, JOHN PYE, WALTER BROMLEY, and others. With descriptive Text. A NEW EDITION, from the Original Plates, in columbier 4to, cloth extra, full gilt and gilt edges, 42s.

THE FAMOUS FRASER PORTRAITS.

MACLISE'S GALLERY OF

ILLUSTRIOUS LITERARY CHARACTERS.

With Notes by the late WILLIAM MAGINN, LL.D. Edited, with copious Notes, by WILLIAM BATES, B.A. The volume contains 83 SPLENDID AND MOST CHARACTERISTIC PORTRAITS, now first issued in a complete form. In demy 4to, over 400 pages, cloth gilt and gilt edges, 31s. 6d.

"Most interesting."-Saturday Review.

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THE

WORKS OF JAMES GILLRAY, THE CARICATURIST.

With the Story of his Life and Times, and full and Anecdotal
Descriptions of his Engravings.

Edited by THOMAS WRIGHT, Esq., M.A., F.S.A. Illustrated with 83 full-page Plates, and very numerous Wood Engravings. Demy 4to, 600 pages, cloth extra, 31s. 6d.

"High as the expectations excited by this description [in the Introduction] may be, they will not be disappointed. With rare exception, no source of information has been neglected by the editor, and the most inquisitive or exacting reader wil find ready gathered to his hand, without the trouble of reference, almost every scrap of narrative, anecdote, gossip, scandal, or epigram, in poetry or prose, that he can possibly require for the elucidation of the caricatures."-Quarterly Review. "The publishers have done good service in bringing so much that is full of humour and of historical interest within the reach of a large class."-Saturday Review. "One of the most amusing and valuable illustrations of the social and polished life of that generation which it is possible to conceive.”—Spectator.

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BEAUTIFUL PICTURES BY BRITISH ARTISTS:

A Gathering of Favourites from our Picture Galleries, 1800-1870. Including examples by WILKIE, CONSTABLE, TURNER, MULREADY, LANDSEER, MACLISE, E. M. WARD, FRITH, Sir JOHN GILBERT, LESLIE, ANSDELL, MARCUS STONE, SIR NOEL PATON, FAED, EYRE CROWE, GAVIN, O'NEIL, and MADOX BROWN. Engraved on Steel in the highest style of Art. Edited, with Notices of the Artists, by SYDNEY ARMYTAGE, M.A. Imperial 4to, cloth extra, gilt and gilt edges, 215.

COURT BEAUTIES OF THE REIGN OF CHARLES II. From the Originals in the Royal Gallery at Windsor,

By Sir PETER LELY.

Engraved in the highest style of art by THOMSON, WRIGHT, SCRIVEN, B. HOLL, WAGSTAFF, and T. A. DEANE. With Memoirs by Mrs. JAMESON, Author of "Legends of the Madonna." Imperial 4to, cloth gilt and gilt edges, 215.

"This truly beautiful and splendid production is equally a gem among the Fine Arts and in Literature."-Quarterly Review.

TOM HOOD'S NEW STORY FOR CHILDREN.

From Nowhere to the North Pole :

A Noah's Ark-æological Narrative. By TOM HOOD. With 25 Illustrations by W. BRUNTON and E. C. BARNES. Sq. crown 8vo, in a handsome and specially-designed binding, gilt edges, 6s. NEW GROTESQUE GIFT-BOOK.

A RARE AND CHOICE COLLECTION OF

Queens and Kings, and other Things:

The Pictures, Poetry, and strange but veritable Histories designed and written by the PRINCESS HESSE-HOMBURG. Printed in gold and many colours by the Brothers DALZIEL, at the Camden Press. Imp. 4to, cloth gilt and gilt edges, price One Guinea.

American War (The): CARTOONS by MATT

MORGAN and other Artists, illustrative of the late Great Civil War in America. Now first collected, with Explanatory Text. Demy 4to, illustrated boards, 7s. 6d.

Æsop's Fables, translated into Human

Nature by C. H. BENNETT. Descriptive Text. Entirely New Edit. Cr. 4to, 24 Plates, beautifully printed in colours, cloth extra, gilt, 6s.

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COMPANION TO THE "HISTORY OF SIGNBOARDS."

Earliest Times.

Advertising, A History of, from the Illustrated by Anecdotes, Curious Specimens, Biographical Notes, and Examples of Successful Advertisers. By HENRY SAMPSON. Crown 8vo, with Coloured Frontispiece and

numerous Illustrations, cloth extra, gilt, 7s. 6d.

Amusing Poetry. A Selection of Humorous Verse from all the Best Writers. Edited, with a Preface, by SHIRLEY BROOKS. A New Edition, in fcap. 8vo, cloth extra, gilt, and gilt edges, 3s. 6d.

Anacreon. Translated by THOMAS MOORE, and Illustrated by the Exquisite Designs of GIRODET. Bound in Etruscan gold and blue, 12s. 6d.

Army Lists of the Roundheads and

Cavaliers in the Civil War, 1642. SECOND EDITION, Corrected and considerably Enlarged. Edited, with Notes and full Index, by EDWARD PEACOCK, F.S.A. 4to, hf.-Roxburghe, 75. 6d.

UNIFORM WITH MR. RUSKIN'S EDITION OF "GRIMM."

Bechstein's As Pretty as Seven, and

other Popular German Stories. Col. lected by LUDWIG BECHSTEIN. With Additional Tales by the Brother GRIMM. 100 I1lust. by RICHTER. Small 4to, green and gold, 6s. 6d.; gilt edges, 7s. 6d.

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Artemus Ward, Complete. The Works

of CHARLES FARRER BROWNE, better known as ARTEMUS WARD, now first collected. Crown 8vo, with fine Portrait, facsimile of handwriting, &c., 540 pages, cloth extra, 7s. 6d.

Artemus Ward's Lecture

at

the

Egyptian Hall, with the Panorama. Edited by T. W. ROBERTSON and E. P. HINGSTON. 4to, green and gold, TINTED ILLUST., 65.

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Boccaccio's Decameron; or, Ten Days'

Entertainment. Now fully translated into English, with Introduction by THOMAS WRIGHT, Esq., M.A., F.S.A. With Portrait after RAPHAEL, and STOTHARD'S Ten Copper-plates. Crown 8vo, cloth, extra gilt, 7s. 6d.

Booksellers, A History of. Full Accounts

of the Great Publishing Houses and their Founders, both in London and the Provinces, the History of their Rise and Progress, and of their greatest Works. By HARRY CURWEN. Crown 8vo, over 500 pages, with frontispiece and numerous Portraits and Illustrations, cloth extra, 78. 6.

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"In these days, ten ordinary Histories of Kings and Courtiers were well exchanged against the tenth part of one good History of Booksellers."-THOMAS CARLYLE.

"This stout little book is unquestionably amusing. Ill-starred, indeed, must be the reader who, opening it anywhere, lights upon six consecutive pages within the entire compass of which some good anecdote or smart repartee is not to be found." -Saturday Review.

"Mr. Curwen has produced an interesting work."-Daily News.

"The 'History of Booksellers' will not merely repay perusal, but ought to have a permanent place on library shelves."-Court Circular.

Book of Hall-Marks;

or, Manual of

Reference for the Goldsmith and Silversmith. By ALFRED LUT. SCHAUNIG, Manager of the Liverpool Assay Office. Crown 8vo, with 46 Plates of the Hall-Marks of the different Assay Towns of the United Kingdom, as now stamped on Plate and Jewellery, 7s. 6d.

This work gives practical methods for testing the quality of gold and silver. It was compiled by the author for his own use, and as a Supplement to "Chaffers." 74 & 75, PICCADILLY, LONDON, W.

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