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Page 4 - Tuer, The Leadenhall Press, EC [Twenty-one Shillings. OF all the productions of the talented authoress this is perhaps the one best liked by children. The story is as fascinating as the illustrations are charming. " A mediaeval romance, now printed for the first time.
Page 21 - lost leader" of the Tories that is necessary. A reprint of the famous and long lost pamphlet " What is he ? " of which it is believed that only one copy is in existence, and of the almost equally scarce " Vindication of the Constitution," which Disraeli the Younger addressed to Lord Lyndhurst in 1835. The former establishes the identity of Disraeli's politics in youth and in age, and the latter vindicates the consistency of the two great men with whose names it is associated against the calumnies...
Page 22 - A BEAUTIFULLY printed and luxuriously got-up book of special value to the Dickens collector. In three separate divisions, the text includes primarily a reprint of the catalogue of the Dickens sale, at which it may be remembered almost fabulous sums were realised. Mr. Francis Phillimore contributes a gossipy and interesting introduction, and Mr. John F. Dexter a lengthy...
Page 21 - LORD BEACONSFIELD ON THE CONSTITUTION. " What is he ? " and " A Vindication of the English ConStitUtiOn." By "Disraeli the Younger.
Page 14 - A Record of Work, Artistic, Literary and Political, from 1835 to 1884. LONDON : Field & Tuer, The Leadenhall Press, EC _ [Six Shillings. DESCRIBES, with corroborative documents from sovereigns, statesmen, and the press, nearly half a century of the wholly gratuitous toil of a true lover of England, to whom a Lord Chancellor said, " No one has worked more consistently and efficiently, and with more self-sacrifice than yourself," and of whom Richard Cobden wrote, " You have deserved well of all to...
Page 22 - — all charming specimens of Bewick's skill with the graver — are first impressions from blocks hitherto not printed from.
Page 7 - Satin (50 only) Four Guineas. The twelve quaintly old fashioned and beautiful whole-page illustrations are eminently adapted for separate framing. CONTAINS an account of London cries from the earliest period. The " Six Charming Children " — highly finished prints of the Bartolozzi School — are duplicated in red and brown, and are eminently adapted for separate framing. There are in addition about forty other illustrations — many of them in colours — including ten of Rowlandson's humorous...
Page 17 - A BOOK on the oddities, mainly, of tree life, and one that, taking the reader into the byways of tree lore, gives interesting facts not usually found in books on trees. Its aim is to discuss its subject lightly and pleasantly, so that whilst it communicates little-known matters it endeavours to do this in the form of entertaining
Page 6 - On A Raft, and Through The Desert: By TRISTRAM J. ELLIS. LONDON^ Field & Tuer, The Leadenhall Press, EC [Two Volumes, Price Two Pounds Twelve-and-Sixpence. A DESCRIPTION of an artist's journey through Northern Syria and Kurdistan, by the Tigris to Mosul and Baghdad, and returning across the Desert by the Euphrates and Palmyra to Damascus, over the Anti-Lebanon to Baalbek and Beyrout, with thirty-eight etchings on copper by the author, and a map.
Page 17 - THE amusement to be derived from reading these ancient travels, and guessing at the curiously misspelt names is almost endless. After the title was chosen and printed it was found that a nearly contemporary diary, that of Guylforde, had already been circulated by a literary society ; but, as Torkington went over nearly the same ground only a few years later, and as his narrative is much more personal, and more amusing and quaintly told it has not been thought necessary to make any alteration.