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The First Folio Shakespeare.

Mr. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE'S Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies. Published according to the true Originall Copies. London, Printed by ISAAC IAGGARD and ED. BLOUNT, 1623.-An exact Reproduction of the extremely rare original, in reduced facsimile by a photographic process—ensuring the strictest accuracy in every detail. A full Prospectus will be sent upon application,

"To Messrs. Chatto and Windus belongs the merit of having done more to facilitate the critical study of the text of our great dramatist than all the Shakespeare clubs and societies put together. A complete facsimile of the celebrated First Folio edition of 1623 for half-a-guinea is at once a miracle of cheapness and enterprise. Being in a reduced form, the type is necessarily rather diminutive, but it is as distinct as in a genuine copy of the original, and will be found to be as useful and far more handy to the student than the latter."-ATHENÆUM.

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The Lansdowne Shakespeare.

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Steel Plates, after STOTHARD.

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The School of Shakspere.

Including "The Life and Death of Captain Thomas Stukeley," with a New Life of Stucley, from Unpublished Sources; "Nobody and Somebody," "Histriomastix," "The Prodigal Son," "Jack Drum's Entertainement," "A Warning for Fair Women," with Reprints of the Accounts of the Murder; and "Faire Em." Edited, with Introductions and Notes, and an Account of Robert Green and his Quarrels with Shakspere, by RICHARD SIMPSON, B.A., Author of "The Philosophy of Shakspere's Sonnets," "The Life of Campion," &c. With an Introduction by F. J. FURNIVALL.

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Signboards:

Their History. With Anecdotes of Famous Taverns and Remarkable Characters. By JACOB LARWOOD and JOHN CAMDEN HOTTEN. With nearly 100 Illustrations.

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Sheridan's Complete Works,

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"The editor has brought together within a manageable compass not only the seven plays by which Sheridan is best known, but a collection also of his poeticar pieces which are less familiar to the public, sketches of unfinished dramas, selections from his reported witticisms, and extracts from his principal speeches. To these is prefixed a short but well-written memoir, giving the chief facts in Sheridan's literary and political career; so that, with this volume in his hand, the student may consider himself tolerably well furnished with all that is necessary for a general comprehension of the subject of it."- PALL MALL Gazette.

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The Slang Dictionary:

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Spenser for Children.

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"In these transcripts the writer has endeavoured to preserve the thoughts_and language of Spenser, while presenting the tales in a simple and continuous form. The work of one of our greatest poets has not been approached in an irreverent spirit, nor with any intention of vulgarizing his fictions by relating them in a familiar and mocking manner-a style too often supposed to be that most attractive to the young."

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Stothard's Monumental Effigies of Great

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Stedman's Victorian Poets:

Critical Essays. By EDMUND Clarence StedmAN.

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Stow's Survey of London.

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Swift's Choice Works,

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"Swift's reputation as a poet has been in a manner obscured by the greater splendour, by the natural force and inventive genius, of his prose writings; but, if he had never written either the Tale of a Tub' or 'Gulliver's Travels, his name merely as a poet would have come down to us, and have gone down to posterity, with well-earned honours."-HAZLITT.

Mr. Swinburne's Works :
The Queen Mother and

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Atalanta in Calydon.

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Poems and Ballads.

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Bothwell:

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George Chapman :

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Songs of Two Nations.

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Essays and Studies.

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Notes on "Poems and Erechtheus:

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William Blake:

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Songs before Sunrise.

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A Tragedy. Crown 8vo, 6s. Note of an English Republican on the Muscovite Crusade. 8vo, IS.

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MR. SWINBURNE'S NEW WORK.

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Strutt's Sports and Pastimes of the

People of England; including the Rural and Domestic Recreations, May Games, Mummeries, Shows, Processions, Pageants, and Pompous Spectacles, from the Earliest Period to the Present Time. With 140 Illustrations. Edited by WILLIAM HONE.

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Dr. Syntax's Three Tours,

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Thackerayana:

Notes and Anecdotes Illustrated by a profusion of Sketches by WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY, depicting Humorous Incidents in his School-life, and Favourite Characters in the books of his everyday reading. With Hundreds of Wood Engravings and Five Coloured Plates, from Mr. Thackeray's Original Drawings. "It would have been a real loss to bibliographical literature had copyright difficulties deprived the general public of this very amusing collection. One of Thackeray's habits, from his schoolboy days, was to ornament the margins and blank pages of the books he had in use with caricature illustrations of their contents. This gave special value to the sale of his library, and is almost cause for regret that it could not have been preserved in its integrity. Thackeray's place in literature is eminent enough to have made this an interest to future generations. The anonymous editor has done the best that he could to compensate for the lack of this. It is an admirable addendum, not only to his collected works, but also to any memoir of him that has been, or that is likely to be, written."-BRITISH QUARTERLY REVIEW.

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Thomson's Seasons and Castle of In

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Cyril Tourneur's Collected Works,

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F. M. W. Turner's Life and Correspond

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Taine's History of English Literature.

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Thoreau: His Life and Aims.

A Study. By H. A. PAGE, Author of "The Life of Thomas
De Quincey," &c.

EXTRACT FROM PREFACE." The nature-instinct in Thoreau was so strong that, as I believe, it may even do something to aid in the interpretation of certain phenomena of so distant a period as the Middle Age. I see a kind of real likeness between this so-called Stoic' of America, with his unaffected love for the slave, his wonderful sympathies and attractions for the lower creatures, his simplicities, and his liking for the labour of the hand, and that St. Francis whose life has recently been made fresh and real to us by the skilful pen of Mrs. Oliphant. All! claim for Thoreau is a disinterested and not a one-sided and prejudiced hearing.'

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Timbs' Clubs and Club Life in London.

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Timbs' English Eccentrics and Ec

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