“A handsome large octavo volume, abundantly supplied with well-engraved woodcuts and lithographic plates; a sort of Encyclopaedia for ready reference.... The whole work has a look of painstaking completeness highly commendable.”—Athenaeum.
“One of the most beautifully got up and interesting volumes we have seen for a long time. It gives in the compass of one volume an account of the History of those beautiful monuments of former days.... The illustrations are extremely well chosen.”—English Churchman.
A few copies only of this work remain for sale; and, as it will not be reprinted in the same form and at the same price, the remaining copies are raised in price. Early application for the Large Paper Edition is necessary.
By the same Author, to be completed in Four Parts,
CHRISTIAN MONUMENTS in ENGLAND and WALES: an Historical and Descriptive Sketch of the various classes of Monumental Memorials which have been in use in this country from about the time of the Norman Conquest. Profusely illustrated with Wood Engravings. Part I. price 7s. 6d.; Part II. 2s. 6d.
“A well conceived and executed work.”—Ecclesiologist.
* * * * *
MATERIALS for making RUBBINGS of MONUMENTAL BRASSES and other Incised Works of Art.
Heel Ball, in cakes, at 8d. and 1s. each.
White paper, in rolls, each 12 yards in length, and s. d. 57 inches wide 6 0 47 do. 5 0 40 do. 4 0 23 do. 1 6 do. do., a thinner quality 1 0
Also, RICHARDSON’S METALLIC RUBBER, in cakes, price 1s. 6d.: Double cakes, 2s. 6d.
And PREPARED PAPER,
s. d.
34 inches long by 24 inches wide, per quire
4 6
30 do. 23 do.
3 6
In rolls, each 12 yards in length and
23 inches wide
3 6
35 do.
6 6
London: GEORGE BELL, 186. Fleet Street.
* * * * *
Just Published, 2 vols. 8vo., 20s. cloth,
THE WORKS OF VIRGIL, TRANSLATED (in blank verse).
The first four
Pastorals, the Georgics, and the first four AEneids,
by the Rev. RANN
KENNEDY. The last six Pastorals and the last
eight AEneids by CHARLES
RANN KENNEDY. Dedicated to H.R.H. the Prince
Albert.
London: GEORGE BELL, 186. Fleet Street.
* * * * *
Preparing for immediate Publication, in 2 vols. small 8vo.
THE FOLK-LORE of ENGLAND. By WILLIAM J. THOMAS, F.S.A., Secretary of the Camden Society, Editor of “Early Prose Romances,” “Lays and Legends of all Nations,” &c. One object of the present work is to furnish new contributions to the History of our National Folk-Lore; and especially some of the more striking Illustrations of the subject to be found in the Writings of Jacob Grimm and other Continental Antiquaries.