• Categories
• Costura
• Libros
• Ficción y literatura

Citation preview

~^ji

4

f^^

/

^

H

/^

Cornell University Library

The tine

original of

tliis

book

is in

Cornell University Library.

There are no known copyright

restrictions in

the United States on the use of the

text.

http://www.archive.org/details/cu31924050724636

ALBERT R. MANN LIBRARY AT

CORNELL UNIVERSITY

THE GIFT OF The Estate Of ELIZABETH KACKENMEISTER

3 1924 050 724 636

OLD POINT LACE. 's^::^

:

LD

OINT

ACE

AND HOW TO COPY AND IMITATE

IT.

BY

DAISY WATERHOUSE HAWKINS. WITH SEVENTEEN ILLUSTRATIONS

BY THE AUTHOR.

iLonDon

CHATTO AND WINDUS, PICCADILLY. 1878.

\All rights reserved?^

TT

(S7^

9,

—

PRINTED BY JOHN C. WILKINS, CASTLE STREET, CHANCERY LANE.

ELZEVIR press:

PREFACE. !HE

following facsimiles of Point-

Lace are selected from specimens in

the valuable collection at the

South Kensington Museum, and are published with the

sanction of the authorities

of that Institution, for which

sanction the

Author

she

is

very

grateful,

as

is

afforded an opportunity of diffusing

thus

among

the public a few antique examples, as stan-

dard models of beauty to those

endeavour

to revive

who now

the long-neglected art

of needle lace-making.

D.

W. H.

LIST OF PLATES.

LEMISH in the 2.

Lace.

17th Century.

No. 588

South Kensington Museum.

Pattern by which the same can be

worked

in braid

and

stitches.

3.

Flemish Lace. 17th Century. No. 596- in the South

4.

Pattern by which the same can be worked with braid,

5.

brides, and stitches. Piece of Lace in the " Bock Collection."

Kensington Museum.

No.

1586 in the South Kensington Museum. 6.

Pattern for working the same with braid, brides, and

7.

Flemish Lace.

8.

Pattern for working the same with braid and brides.

9.

Italian Lace.

stitches.

17th Century.

No. 586 in the

South Kensington Museum. 17th Century.

No. 583

in

the

South Kensington Museum. 10.

Pattern for working a copy of the same with braid, brides, cord,

and

stitches.

.

LIST OF PLATES.

viii

11.

Italian Rose Point.

ment 1

2

Part of Ecclesiastical Vest-

South Kensington Museum.

in the

Pattern for working the same with needle and thread only.

13.

14.

the " Bock Collection." South Kensington Museum. Pattern for copying the same with braid, wide and

Narrow Lace

in

narrow, and brides. 15. Original design for

brides, 16.

and

working lace d'oyley with braid,

stitches.

Italian Lace.

17th

South Kensington Museum. kind of

lace,

in

No. 582

Century.

This

is

in

the

a curious

which pieces of tape are

intro-

duced. 17.

Portuguese Lace.

17th Century.

South Kensington Museum.

In

No. 584

in the

this piece of lace

two distinct patterns are to be seen.

OLD POINT LACE. !HE to

in

assist

defect lace, viz.,

of most

modern amateur

The

a mistaken style of pattern.

art,

is

remedying a great

aim of making lace by hand ancient

work

object of the present

is

to revive the

of which such beautiful specimens centuries.

So

employed, and the

deli-

have survived the decay of far as the materials

cacy and variety of

stitches, the

same degree

of perfection has been already attained by

many

of our

modern workers

ancient predecessors.

But

in

as

by

spite

their

of the

care and industry bestowed, and the great

OLD POINT LACE.

lo

on patience and

Strain

there

the

is

still

eyesight involved,

one most important portion of

work which continues

neglected, and

that

be comparatively

to

the

is,

in

design,

con-

sequence of which neglect, modern point lace is,

when compared with

old lace, like a

body

without a soul.

This want of variety and beauty is

the

chiefly

more remarkable,

work

is

who

are supposed

an amount of delicate fancy and

scarcely

to

be expected from those

"stitch, stitch, stitch,"

merely to keep

themselves alive on bread and

The

design

undertaken by the most refined en-

to possess

who

the

since

joyers of " elegant leisure,"

taste,

in

difference

tea.

between the patterns now

used for point lace and the old specimens is this,

—the modern

and continuous is

lace consists of

an exact

repetition of a design,

which

contained in four or five inches of space,

whereas the old lace

displays

a

constant

variety and change in the pattern throughout

OLD POINT LACE. the entire length of the piece

;

u

there

is

also

a freedom and originality in the design which constitutes

its

chief beauty.

the superiority of lace.

The

work

stitches

In this consists

hand over machine made

iron machinery can repeat net-

by the

million, with

greater

precision and rapidity than any fair fingers

can

but at best such repetition

attain,

is

tedious to the eye.

The charm

of variety and the beauty of

novelty can only be found in the work of skilled hands,

guided by

fanciful minds,

and

not in the productions of iron wheels set

a-going by steam. In order to a complete restoration of the art of point lace

making, each worker should

design and amplify the pattern as the work progresses

;

but this would require an amount

of invention to those will

be

not possessed by many,

who have useful.

it

In

not, the following

and

pages

them are shown exact

copies of admirable pieces of old lace pre-

-;

OLD POINT LACE.

12

served in the South Kensington

each one

and

is

of a different style or period,

a good specimen of

is

the reproduction

facilitate

a diagram for working specimen, is

Museum

and

in

this

its

To

class.

of this old lace,

accompanies

each

diagram the design

so modified as to render

it

easy by the

present abbreviated method of working.

In the old lace

may be remarked an

ab-

sence of geometrical precision, and in the

most

ancient, a certain

has a charm of

its

uncouthness which

own, and which contrasts

very favourably with

many

of the present day,

in

stiffness

and monotonous

most remarkable It is fair

hoped

of the patterns

which geometrical similarity are the

features.

that this book,

by aiding some

votaries of point lace to really copy the

beautiful old relics of antique art- work (wo)

manship,

may

induce them to aim

still

higher,

so that by exerting the fanciful and imaginative

faculties

so largely possessed

by the

OLD POINT LACE.

13

refined of the fair sex, they

may

same perfection

and beauty of

in diversity

attain the

design, that they have already achieved in

the more mechanical portion of their

art.

HOW

TO COPY AND IMITATE

OLD POINT LACE. IN

order to

volume

render

the

useful to those

present

who

are

novices in the art of lace-making, as well as to those it is

who

are already proficient,

necessary not only to

beautiful

designs, but

make a

also

to

display of

describe the

means by which the same designs can be reproduced with needle and thread.

Having procured the necessary viz.,

materials,

linen thread, linen lace braid, cord,

good needles,

select

and

a braid of the width

OLD POINT LACE.

i6

by the

indicated

on

pattern,

between the

to the pattern

Where

a fulness

and tack

it

firmly

parallel lines.

caused at either edge of

is

the braid by the curves, whip over the edge

of the braid, and thus draw

Where two but

finely

come

braids

to the shape.

in contact,

together

firmly

it

by

sew them outer

the

threads.

the

All

varied

scrolls are filled,

are produced in

(as

and

by

with

stitches all

button-hole-stitch,

embroidery)

mind,

nate

it is

fresh

the

" the bars or " brides

from

left

each row below the other. in

which

to

worked

right,

Bearing

and

this rule

easy for every worker to origi-

varieties of stitches during

the

progress of her work.

Venetian or Spanish Rose Point

is

to

be

copied without the introduction of any braid.

A

series of threads (or if preferred a

cord) should be

fine

tacked on to the pattern,

following the exact

and afterwards sewn

outline of every scroll, over,

the intervening

OLD POINT LACE. space being

filled

17

entirely with button-hole-

Attach a needleful of thread firmly

stitch.

to the outline threads or cord at the right-

hand

side, carry

it

tightly across the space to

Fig.

I.

the left-hand side and attach

work a row of

button-hole-stitch very small

and even, taking each line

of the

thread that

scroll, is

is

stitch

through the out-

and including

fastened across.

work other rows the scroll

there, then

it

filled

in

the

up.

in

the

it

Continue to

same manner

until

Observe that these

rows of stitches generally run

in a horizontal

direction with regard to the whole piece of lace, as

though the work had been executed

as far as possible whilst retaining

it

in

its

OLD POINT LACE.

i8

intended position towards the be-

ultimate holder.

Another method of rendering in stitch

still

seen in Fig.

more 2.

close

and perfect

is

to

be

2.

and working the

button-hole-stitch over

it,

first

row of

close

form the second

and subsequent rows by taking each through the close threads of each the

filling-

After fastening the thread

Fig.

across,

this

stitch

stitch

in

row above, instead of through the loops

between the to be

work

stitches.

This causes the stitches

more square and it

firm,

but in very fine

adds considerably to the time and of course be under-

care occupied.

It will

stood that in

these diagrams the stitches

all

OLD POINT LACE.

19

are greatly magnified and separated in order to

make

the working intelligible.

tising the foregoing stitches,

fig.

After prac3 will easily

be understood without further explanation,

and

after

working

Fig-

will

the

that,

fair

lace-maker

3-

perceive that by increasing the number

of stitches to four or five and shortening the loops, a chessboard pattern

that

by shortening the

is

stitches

produced

is

shown

loose button-hole-stitch

of the scroll

;

for

all

and

and lengthen-

ing the loops, a dotted network

Another variety

;

is

in fig. 4.

round the

made.

Work

a

interior

second and subsequent rows,

take each stitch through the loop above, and

OLD POINT LACE.

20

then knot

by passing the needle a second

it,

time through the same loop, and drawing tight before

commencing another

stitch.

it

This

Fig. 4.

construction

may

again be changed, by work-

ing the second row and knots between the

two

threads

shown it

is

in fig. 5

of ;

the

button-hole-stitch,

as

but for this square network

necessary to

make

the

loops

much

longer than in any of the stitches previously described.

Bars or

" brides "

are

made by

working very tight button-hole-stitches round one thread

(or

more) that has been fastened

across from one scroll to another.

are required broad and

flat,

If bars

fasten two, or

OLD POINT LACE.

'

21

more, threads across, and then darn them together instead of button-hole stitching.

Having now described

Fig.

stitch

all

5-

necessary in carrying out the lace de-

signs in the present volume,

every worker originality

of her

the deviations of

own

will

add

is

hoped that

to their beauty

by introducing fancy.

it

and

additional varieties

FLE^

MISH LACE WITHOUT BRIDES

(n«

586)

PATTERN

FOI

R

COPYING FLEMISH LACE

(n? 586)

WITH BRAID

&-

STITCHES.

FLEM ISH

LACe(n°S9I

PATTERN FOR COPYING FLEMIi

"•nrvyvirv^T

u

"~"

"

tf

LACE WITH

-U

T.

-1)-"^/

u

BRAID BRIDES

-Lr-tr-!,

11

&.

STITCHES.

r -\--irn_i-TJ-ij-~Vi^-V

\J

!•-

t'lo -!

t. -^Tlrij- 1.-Tft'-trn)~U~Tj "TJ "U'lJ-Tr-U-i.-U- T-iJ"-tr-ir-7j-v.i

— ^^ xr

rrii

—y i-FtJ' -S~in

LACE

UCE WITH PLAIN

BRIDES fN° 1586).

6.

PATTERN FOR COPYING FLEMISH

WITH BRAID BRIDES

&.

STITCHES

7.

FLE^

5H LACE EDGING (n9586.)

PATTERN

FOR COPYING LACE

E

WITH TIGHT

BRAID & BRIDES ONLY.

ITALI

JgWi^-^S^S

alm. There are plenty ofgrown-up children -who like to be amused ; and if this new version of old stories does not amuse them they tnusi be very dull indeed and their situation one Tnuch to be commiserated." Morning Post,

—

Crown

8vo, cloth extra, with 639 Illustrations, 7^. dd., a

(uniform with

"The

New

Edition

Englishman's House") of

A Handbook of Architectural Styles. Translated

from

the

Collett-Sandars.

Crown

German With 639

8vo, Coloured Frontispiece

of

RosengARTEN by W,

A.

Illustrations.

and

Illustrations, cloth gilt,

A History of Advertising, From

"js.

6d.

the Earliest Times. Illustrated by Anecdotes, Curious and Biographical Notes of Successful Advertisers.

Specimens,

By Henry Sampson. Crown

Svo, with Portrait and Facsimile, cloth extra,

7J. 6d.

Art emus Ward's Works: The Works

of

Charles Farrer Browne, better known as With Portrait, facsimile of Handwriting, &c.

Artemus Ward. " The author combines The

salt is rubbed in

Saturday Review.

the powers of Thackeray with those of Albert Smith with a native hand—one which has the gift of tickling"—

Small 4to, green and gold,

6s. 6d.

;

gUt edges,

Js.

6d.

As Pretty as Seven, and other Popular German Stories. Collected by LUDWIG Bechstein. With Additional Tales by the Brothers Griiim ' and 100 Illustrations by RiCHTER.

CHATTO

6-

Crown

WINDUS, PICCADILLY.

8vo, cloth extra,

A Handbook of

6d.

"js.

London Bankers ;

With some Account of their

Predecessors, the Early Goldsmiths • together with Lists of Bankers, from 1677 to 1876. Bv F g'

Hilton Price.

j

•

"^/^^'''/''"'''^'''^""P'-etencling little mark, rnhkh may trove a usejul cmtniutiojt towards the history 0/ difficult subject. a Mr. Price's aMcdotes are entertaining. There is something /asciiiating, almost romantic the detaiU given us of Child's Bank. . There is a great deal of amusini . reading and some valuable information in this 3og/^."— Saturday Review. J

.

m

.

.

.

.

.

Crown

8vo, cloth extra,

gj-.

Our English Surnames:

Bardsley's

Their Sources and

By Charles Wareing

Significations.

Bardsley, M.A. Second Edition, revised throughout, considerably enlarged, and partially rewritten. '* Mr. Bardsley has faithfully consulted the original mediceval documents and works from -which the origin and developTnent of surnames can alo-ne be satisfaC' torily traced. He hasfurnished a valuable contribution to the literature ofsur^ names, and wehope to hearmoreofhim in this field." Times.

—

Demy

8vo, illustrated,

is.

each.

Henry Blackburn 's Art Handbooks Academy Notes for

:

iSyj.

With 143 Illustrations of the Principal Pictures at BurHouse more than One Hundred being Facsimiles of

lington

:

Sketches drawn by the Artists. NoxEsyiir 1875 and 1876

** Academy

may

behad,frke

also

One Shilling each. ** We at once take an opportunity of offering our thanks, as well as those of all visitors to the Exhibition, to Mr. Blackburn for his very carefully pictures, illustrated by some loo woodcut review the Academy executed of metnoratida of the principal pictu^res, almost half ofihemfroTn thepencils of cheaper, prettier, or more convenient souvenir painters themselves. A the of the Exhibition it would be difficult to conceive and unreasonable to expect" ^TiMES.

—

Pictorial Notes in the National Gallery. The British School. With upwards of 100 Illustrations of the principal Pictures at Trafalgar Square complete Catalogue of the British Section.

;

forming a

The Old Masters at Trafalgar Square. With numerous Illustrations. Pictures at South Kensington. With 80 Illustrations of the Raphael

[/« the p-ess. Cartoons, the Sheep-

shanks Collection, &c.

Grosvenor Notes, 1878. With numerous themselves.

JUustrations,

contributed

by the U'^

Artists press.

-lie

BOOKS PUBLISHED BY Demy

8vo, cloth extra, with Illustrations, i8j.

Baker's Clotids in the East: Travels and Adventures on the Perso-Turkoman Frontier. By With Maps and Illustrations, coloured and plain, from Original Sketches. Second Edition, revised and

Valentine Baker.

corrected. *' A man -who not only thinksfor himself, hut 'who has risked his life in order to peunmformatioti. A most graphic and lively narrative of travels and adventures 'which have nothings of the commonplace about them." Leeds Mercukv. .

.

—

.

CrovTO 8vo, cloth extra,

Boccaccio' s

gilt,

with Illustrations,

7^.

dd.

Decameron ;

Ten Days' Entertainment. Translated into English, with an Introduction by Thomas Wright, Esq., M.A., F.S.A. With Portrait, and Stothard's beautiful Copperplates. or.

Price

One

Shilling Monthly, with

Four

Illustrations.

Belgravia Magazine. That ike purpose -with which " BELGRA VIA " was originated has been shown by the popular-iiy that has attended it since its first appearAiming as may be inferred /rotn its name, at supplying the most refined and cultivated section of London society 'with intellectual pabulutn suited to its requirements, it sprang at once into public favour, and has since reinained one of the most extensively read and widely circulated of Periodicals. In passing

/ul/llled, is attce.

y

it has experienced no structural change or modification. Increased energy and increased capital have been employed in elevating it to tJie highest standard of excellence, but all the features that had "won public appreciation have been retaitted, and the Magazine still seeks its principal support in the homes of Belgravia. As the means through 'which the "writer most readily reaches the lieart of the general public, and in consequence as the most i^nportant of aids in the establishtnent of tnorals afid the formation of character fiction still remains a principalfeature in the Magazine. Two Serial Stories accordingly ru?i through its paees ; supplemented by short Stories, Novelettes, and narrative or drajnatic Skeicli^s : whilst Essays, Social, Biographical, and Humorous; Scientific Discoveries brought to the level of popular comprehension, and treated with a light touch; Poetry, of the highest character ; and records of Adventure and Travelj form the remaining portion of the contents. Especial care is no'iv bestowed upon the illustrations, of which no fewer than four appear in each number. Beyond the design of illustratiftg the article t/iey accotnpany, these aim. at tnaintaining a Position as works of art, both as regards drawing and engravingIn sltort, •wftatever claims tlie Masazine before possessed to favour have now been enhanced, and tlte Pubtislters can but leave t!te result to a public tliat has seldom failed to appreciate all earnest, Persistefit, and well-directed efforts for its amuse-

into neiv ha7ids

,

ment and

V

benefit.

The

THIRTY-FOURTH

Volume of

BELGRAVIA

('which in-

Belgravia Annual), elegantly bound in crimson cloth, full gilt side and back, gilt edges, price "Js. 6d., is now ready. Handsome Cases for binding the volume can be had at 2S. each. cludes the

—

Third Edition, crown

8vo, cloth extra,

Boudoir Ballads : Vers de Soeiete.

By

J.

Ashby-Sterry.

gilt, 6j.

CHATTO

WINDUS, PICCADILLY.

&•

Imperial 4to, cloth extra,

gilt

and

gilt edges, price 2ij.

per volume.

Beautiful Pictures by British Artists A

Gathering of Favourites from our Picture Galleries.

In 2

:

Series.

The First Series 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. The Second Series containing Pictures by Armytage, Faed, Goodall, Hemsley, Horsley, Marks, Nicholls, Sir Noel Paton, Pickersgill, G. Smith, Marcus Stone, Solomon, Straight, E. M. Ward, and Warren. All engraved on Steel in the highest style of Art. Edited, with Notices of the Artists, by Sydney Armytage, M.A. " This hook is well got itp^ and good engravings hy yeens, L-utnh Stocks, and bring back to —tk^rs, Times.

Crown

us pictures

^ Royal Academy Kxhibitiens of past years"

8vo, with Photographic Portrait, cloth extra, gj.

Blanchard' s (Laman) Poems. Now first Collected. Edited, with a Life of the Author (including numerous hitherto unpublished Letters from Lord Lytton, Lamb, Dickens, Robert Browning, and

chard Jerrold. '

others),

by Blan-

—

sparklijtg with genuine "//is humorous verse is much of it adttiirahle and as polished and pointed as Praed^s^ Scotsman.

—

esprity

Crown

Bret Harte

's

8vo, cloth extra,

"]!.

td.

Select Works,

With Introductory Essay by J. M. Belin Prose and Poetry. LEW, Portrait of the Author, and 5c Illustrations. ** Not tnany months be/ore my friend' s death, he had sent me two sketches of a young A merican -writer (Bret //arte), far away in California C The Outcasts of Poker Flat,* and cufiother), in which he had found such subtle strokesofcharacter as he had not anywhere else in late years discovered ; the mannerresembling himself, but the matter fresh to a degree that had surprised him ; tlie painting in all respects masterly, and the wild rude thing painted a guite wonderful reality. / have rarely known him more honestly moved.** Forster'sLife of Dickens

—

Crown

8vo, cloth extra,

gilt. Is.

6d.

Brand's Observations on Popular Antichiefly Illustrating the Origin of our Vulgar Customs, With the Additions of Sir Ceremonies, and Superstitions. Henry Ellis. An entirely New and Revised Edition, with fine-

quities,

full-page Illustrations.

BOOKS PUBLISHED BY Small crown 8vo, cloth

Brewster's

extra, gilt,

with full-page Portraits,

4f. dd.

David) Martyrs of

(Sir

Science.

Small crown 8vo, cloth extra,

with Astronomical Plates,

gilt,

4f. &/.

Brewster's (Sir David) More Worlds than One, the Creed of the Philosopher and the

Hope

of the

Christian.

Small crown 8vo, cloth

extra,

(>s.

Brillat-Savarin 's Gastronomy as a Fine Art ; or. The Science of Good Living. A Translation of the " Physiologic du Goiit " of Brillat-Savarin, with an Introduction and Explanatory Notes by R. E. Anderson, M.A. ** TVe have read it -with, rare enjoymc7it, just as we have delightedly read ayid Mr. Anderson has done his -work of translation re-read quaint old Izaak. daintily "with true appreciation of tlie points in his original; and altogether, though late, we catmot but believe that this book will be welcofned and muck read by niany.'^ — Nonconformist, f

Demy

8vo, profusely Illustrated in Colours, price

30j-.

The British Flora Medica : A

History of the Medicinal Plants of Great Britain.

Illustrated

by a Figure of each Plant, coloured BY HAND. By Benjamin H. Barton, F.L.S., and Thomas Castle, M.D., F.R.S. A New Edition, revised, condensed, and partly re-written, by John R. Jackson, A.L.S., Curator of the Museums of Economic Botany, Royal Gardens, Kew.

The Stothard Bunyan.— Crown

Bunyan 's Pilgrim's

8vo, cloth extra,

gilt, "js.

dd.

Progress.

Edited by Rev. T. Scott. With 1 7 beautiful Steel Plates by Stothard, engraved by Goodall and numerous Woodcuts. ;

Crown

8vo, cloth extra,

gilt,

Byron 's Letters and

with Illustrations,

ys.

6d.

yotirnals.

A

of his Life. By Thomas Moore. Reprint of the Original Edition, newly revised, Complete in One thick Volume, with Twelve full-page Plates. " We have read this book with the greatest pleasure. Considered merely as a composition, it deserves to be classed aTnong the best specimcTts of Engli&h prose which our age has produced. The style is agreeable, clear, and manly and when it rises into eloquence, rises without e^ort or ostentation. It would be difficult to name a hook which exhibits more kind?iess, fairness, and modesty '* Macaulay, in the Edinburgh Review,!

With Notices

.

—

.

.

:

CHATTO Demy 4to,

WINDUS, PICCADILLY.

6-

cloth extra, gilt edges,

Canova 's Works ling.

3lj-. (,d.

in Sculpture and Model-

150 Plates, exquisitely engraved in Outline by Moses, and With Descriptions by the Countess

printed on an India tint. Albrizzi, a Biographical trait

"

by Worthington.

Memoir by CiCOGNARA, and

For-

'^'^ f'''t^\ty of this master's resources is amazing, and the manual lalour expended on his ivorks would have worn out many an ordinary workman '\

outline engravings are finely executed. ana the Tnam exact' Spectator.

—

m

Two

The The descriptive notes are discriminating,

Vols, imperial 8vo, cloth extra, gilt, the Plates beautifully printed in Colours, £2, y.

Catlin's Illustrations of the Manners, and Condition of the North American Indians : the reEight Years of Travel and Adventure among the Wildest and most Remarkable Tribes now existing. Containing 360 Coloured Engravings from the Author's original Paintings. Customs,

sult of

Small 4to, cloth

gilt,

with Coloured Illustrations, loj. 6d.

Chaucer for Children A

Golden Key. By Mrs. H. R. Haweis. With Eight Coloured and numerous Woodcuts by the Author. ** It must not only fake a high place among the Christinas and New Year hooks Pictures

this season, hut is also of permanent value as an introduction to the study 0/ Chceucer, whose works, in selections of some kind or other, are now text-books in every school that aspires to give sound instruction in English" Academy.

of

—

Demy

8vo, cloth extra, with Coloured Illustrations and Maps, 24J.

Cope's **

History of the Rifle Brigade

(The Prince Consort's Own), formerly the 95th. By Sir William H. Cope, formerly Lieutenant, Rifle Brigade. This latest contribution to the history of the^ British army is a work of the

most varied inforTnation regarding the distijiguished regiment whose life it narrates, and also of fcu:ts interesting to the student in jnilitary affairs. . Great credit is due to Sir IV. Cope for the patietiee and labour, extending over In tnaiiy cases well-exe. ynany years, which he has given to the work. cuted plans of actions are given.'' Morning Post. Even a bare record of a corps which has so often heen under fire, and has borne a part in important engagements all over the world, could not prove Athen^um. otherwise than full of matter acceptable to the military reader. .

—

.

.

.

*

'

—

Crown

8vo, cloth

gilt.

Two

very thick Volumes,

']s.

6d. each.

Cruikshank's Comic Ahnanack. Complete in Two Series The First from 1835 to 1843 the Second from 1844 to 1853. A Gathering of the Best Humour of Thackeray, PIood, Mayhew, Albert, Smith, A'BeckWith 2000 Woodcuts and Steel ETT, Robert Brough, &c. Engravings by Cruikshank, Hine, Landells, &c. :

;

BOOKS PUBLISHED BY Crown

8vo, cloth extra,

gilt, ^s.

6d.

Co/man's Humorous Works: "Broad Grins," "My Nightgown and Slippers," and othe? Humorous Works, Prose and Poetical, of George Colman. With Life by G. B. Buckstone, and Frontispiece by Hogarth. Crown

Creasy' s

Svo, cloth extra,

gilt,

with Portraits,

"]!.

6d.

Memoirs of Eminent Etonians;

with Notices of the Early History of Eton

College.

By

Sir

Edward

Creasy, Author of "The Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World." A New Edition, brought down to the Present Time, with 13

Illustrations.

'* A new edition of ' Creasy^ s Etonians* will be -welcome. The hook was a favourite a quarter of a century ago, and it has maintained its reputation. T/te value of this new edition is enhanced by the Jact that Sir Edward Creasy hat added to it several tnemoirs of Etonians who have died since the first edition appeared. The work is eminently interesting.^^ Scotsman.

—

To be Completed illustrated

in

Twenty-four Parts, quarto, at

by Coloured and Plain Plates and

5J.

Wood

each, profusely

Engravings,

Cyclopcedia of Costume ; or, A Dictionary of Dress — Regal, Ecclesiastical,

Civil, and Military from the Earliest Period in England to the reign of George the Third. Including Notices of Contemporaneous Fashions on the Continent, and preceded by a General History of the Costumes of the Principal Countries of Europe. By J. R. PlanciiS, Somerset Herald. Prospectus will be sent upon application. Part XIX. now ready. *' A most readable and interesting 7vork—and it can scarcely be consulted in vain, whether the reader is in search for information as to military, court, ecclesiastical, legal, or professional costume. . All the chromo-lithografilts, a7ld most of tli£ woodcut illuslratio7ts the latter amountiiig to several thousands arevery elciboralely executed ; and the work/onns a livre de \uxewhich retiders it equally suited to the library and the ladies' drawing-room." Times. Part XIV. contains the Completion oftJie V, •whiik, as Vol. I. of the Book, forms a Complete IVorIi in itself. This volumt

—

—A

—

—

.

.

—

*/

may now

DICTIONAR

handsomely bound hi half red morocco, gilt top, price Cases for binding the volume may also be had, price 5^. each.

be had,

£t, ly. 6d.

The remaining Parts

will be occupied by the

OF THE COSTUMES OF EUROPE, Demy

GENERAL HISTOR y

arranged Chronologically.

Svo, half-bound morocco, 2ij.

Dibdin's Bibliomania ; A Bibliographical Romance. With numerous or, Book-Madness Illustrations. A New Edition, with a Supplement, including a :

Key

to the

Assumed Characters

in the

Drama.

CHATTO Parts

I.

dr-

WIND US, PICCADILLY.

to XII.

now

ready, 21s. each.

Cussans' History of Hertfordshire. By John

E. Cussans. Illustrated with fullpage Plates on Copper and Stone, and a profusion of small Woodcuts. • Mr. Cttssans has, from sources not accessible to Clutterhuck, made mast valitabU additions to the manorial history 0/ the county from tlie earliest period downwards, cleared up many doubtful points, and given original details concerning various subjects untouched or imperfectly treated by iluit writer. The pedigrees seem to have been construciedwith great care, and areavaluabU addition to^ the genealogical history of the county. Mr, Cussans appears to have done his work conscientiously, and to have spared neither time, labour, Tior expense to render his volumes worthy of ranking in the highest class of County Histories*

—Academy.

Demy

8vo, clotli extra, vis. 6d.

Doran's Memories of our Great Towns. With Anecdotic Gleanings concerning their Worthies and Oddities. By Dr. John DoRAN, F.S.A.

Second Edition, demy

8vo, cloth

gilt,

with Illustrations,

their

i8j.

Dunraven's The Great Divide: A Narrative of Travels in the of 1874.

Upper Yellowstone in the Summer By the Earl of DunraveN. With Maps and numerous full-page Illustrations by Valentine W. Bromley.

striking There has not for a long time appeared a better book of travel than Lord Tht book is full cf clever observation, JDunravens * Tlte Great Divide.* . and both narrative and illustrations are thoroughly good." — Athen.cum. **

.

Demy

.

8vo, cloth extra, with Illustrations, 24J.

Dodge's (Colonel) The Himting Grounds A

Description of the Plains, Game, and the Great West : By Richard Indians of the Great North American Desert. Irving Dodge, Lieutenant-Colonel of the United States Army. With an Introduction by William Blackmore; Map, and

of

numerous

Illustrations

drawn by Ernest Griset.

** This magnificent volume is one of tlie most able and jnost interesting works ivhich has ever proceeded from an Atnerican pen, while its freshness is equal to Colonel Dodge has chosen a subject of which he is itiat of any similar book. tnasier. and treated it with a fulness that leaves nothing more to be desired, and in a style which is charming equally for its picturesqueness aftd its purity."

— Nonconformist.

Crown 8vo,

cloth extra,

gilt,

with Illustrations,

Emanuel On Diamonds and stones : their History, Value, ascertaining their Reality.

With numerous

Illustrations,

and Properties

;

6s.

Precious

with Simple Tests for

By Harry Emanuel, F.R.G.S. Tinted and Plain.

:

)

BOOKS PUBLISHED BY Crown

8vo, cloth extra, with Illustrations,

"Js,

6d,

The Englishman' s House A

Practical

Guide to

House, with

Richardson.

Selecting or Building a

all interested in

By

Estimates of Cost, Quantities, &c.

full

C.

J.

With

nearly 600 Illustrations. "^ This hook IS intended to supply a long-felt ivant, viz. a plain, non-technical account of every style of house, with the cost and »tanner of huildiTtg ; it gizrcs cilery variety, from a ivorkman's cottage to a nobletnan^s palace.

Third Edition.

,

Crown

8vo, cloth boards, 6j. per Volume ; a few Large copies (only 50 printed), at I2j-. per Vol.

Early English

Paper

Poets.

Edited, with Introductions and Annotations,

by Rev. A.B. Grosart.

**Mr. Grosart has spent the most laborious and the most enthusiastic care eu the perfect restoration and preservatioft of the text; and it is very unlikely tltat From Mr. Grosart we any other edition of the poet can ever he called for. always expect a7id always receive the final results of most patient and competent .

.

scholarship."— 1.yLtMvaB.^.

Fletcher's (Giles, B.D.

1.

Complete Poems: Christ's Victorie in Heaven, Christ's Victorie on Christ's Triumph over Earth,

Minor

and

Death,

One

Davies'

2.

Complete

Three Vols.

Poems.

With Memorial-Introduction and Notes.

Complete Collected Poems. With Memorial-Introduction and Notes, Index of First Steel Portrait, Lines, and Glossarial Index, &c.

Vol.

(Sir

Poetical

Complete Poetical Works, includmg all those in "Arcadia." With Portrait, Memorial-Introduction, Essay on the Poetry of Sidney, and Notes. Three Vols.

John)

Works,

in-

cluding Psalms I. to L. in Verse, and other hitherto Unpubhshed MSS., for the first time ColWith Melected and Edited. morial-Introduction and Notes. Two Vols.

Sidney's (Sir Philip)

4.

Donne's

5.

(Dr.

John)

Complete Poetical Works, including the Satires and various from MSS. With Memorial-Introduction and Notes. \ln the press.

3. Herrick's (Robert)Hesand ferides. Noble Numbers, • • other volumes are in active preparation.

Crown

FairhoWs

8vo, cloth extra, with Illustrations, 6s.

Tobacco.

History and Associations ; with an Account of the Plant and of Use in all Ages and Countries. its Manufacture, and its Modes New Edition, with Coloured By F. W. Fairholt, F.S.A. Frontispiece and upwards of 100 Illustrations by the Author.

Its

A

**

we

A

and instructive history of tobacco and its associations, which recommend alike to the votaries and to the enemies of the much-

very pleasant

cordially

maligned but certainly not neglected weed. formation."—'Dt.u.\

News.

.

.

.

Full of interest and

in-

;

CHATTO Crown

6-

WIND US, PICCADILLY.

8vo, cloth extra, with Illustrations, 4?. dd.

Faraday 's Chanical History ofa Candle.

Lectures delivered to a Juvenile Audience. New Edition. Edited by W. Crookes, F.C.S. With numerous Illustrations. Crowrn 8vo, cloth extra, with Illustrations, 4J-. dd.

A

Faraday's Variotts Forces of Nature. A New Edition.

Edited by

W. Crookes.

With numerous

F. C. S.

Illustrati ons.

Crown

8vo, cloth extra, with Illustrations,

7^-.

dd.

Finger- Ring Lore:

—

Historical, Legendary, and Anecdotal. Earliest Notices; Superstitions ; Ring Investiture, Secular and Ecclesiastical ; Betrothal and

Wedding Rings

Ring-tokens ; Memorial and Mortuary Rings ; ; Posy-Rings ; Customs and Incidents in Connection with Rings Remarkable Rings, &c. By William Jones, F.S. A. With Hundreds of Illustrations of Curious Rings of all Ages and Countries. *' Enie?-s fully into tke ivkole subject, and gives an amount of informaticn

itnd general reading in refereiue thereto -which is of very his;h interest. The book is not only a sort of history of finger-rings, but is a collection of anecdotes in connection with them, The volume is admirably illustrated, and . . . altogether affords an amount of amusemeitt and information -which is not oiher-

—

Scotsman. One of those gossiping hooks -which are as tion*' ATHEN.euM.

-wise easily accessible.^^ '*

—

The Ruskin Grimm. — Square

crown 8vo, cloth

gilt edges,

German Popular

full of antusetnent as of instruc-

"Js.

extra, ds. dd.;

dd.

Stories.

Collected by the Brothers Grimm, and Translated by Edgar Taylor. Edited, with an Introduction, by John Ruskin. With 22 Illustrations after the inimitable designs of George

Cruikshank. Both Series Complete. " The illustrations of this volume are of quite sterling and admirahle . . art, of a class precisely parallel in elevation to the character of the tales -tuhich they illustrate ; and the original etchings, as I have before said in the Appendix to tny * Elements of Dra-wing,' -were unrivalled in masterfulness of touch since RemTo make brandt {in some qualities of delineation, unrivalled even by him). some-what enlarged copies of them, looking at them through a Tnagnifying glass, and never putting t-wo lines -where Cruikshank has put only one, -would be an exercise in decision and severe dra-wing -which -would leave afterwards little to be learti t in scIlooIs." Extrax:t from Introduction by John Ruskin. .

.

.

.

.

—

One

Vol. crown 8vo, cloth extra,

s.

Hake 's New Symbols Poems.

By Thomas Gordon Hake.

?>"" ?'^ eanohling: inflvna, shews wekome Jl'^^lif^*V"-J°°^ i'''n'"f tn^Tuihtyof idea and ilUistraHon, and yields the highest froof ofimaginati-oe •"

Anyone 'l.'"ndthat /'f.'*"^''^ he is rabbit, mind, and a very uncommon mind too-that he ts a fairy reading emna word of the stor^ ZTng^chUf adviser to some one-without Don tfairy-bird the picture of little the ej^ect of AgiSn notice the fairy-Uke A more Perfectly dream-ltheimf^get-me,' flying aw7y back into fairy-land^ illustration of fairy tales any in given been hardly has p^fssion offairy-land within our knowledge."— S^Tl-CVKio^. 'white rabbit.

8

:

BOOKS PUBLISHED BY

1

Small 8vo, cloth

extra, 5j.

Poetry for Children, and Prince

Lamb 's

Dorm. Carefully reprinted from unique copies. " The quaint and delightful little hook, over the recovery of which all the hearts of his lovers are yet warm with rejoicing." Mr. Swinburne, in the Athen-eum.

—

Crown

8vo, cloth extra,

gilt,

with Portraits,

7^. (xl.

Lajnb's Complete Works, In Prose and Verse, reprinted from the Original Editions, with many Pieces hitherto unpublished. Edited, with Notes and InWith Two Portraits and Factroduction, by R. H. Shepherd. simile of a page of the " Essay on Roast Pig." " A complete edition of Lamb's writings, in frcse and verse, has long been The editor appears to have taken great pains •wanted, and is now sitpplied. to bring together Lamb's scattered contributions, and his collection contaitis a reproduced -which are now /or the first time since their original pieces number of appearance in various old periodicals." — Saturday Keview.

Crown

Mary

8vo, cloth extra, with numerous Illustrations, lew. 6d.

&

Charles

Lamb:

Their Poems, Letters, and Remains.

With Reminiscences and

Carew

Hazlitt. With Hancock's Portrait of W. the Essayist, Facsimilesof the Title-pages of the rare First Lditions Notes by

of Lamb's and Coleridge's Works, and numerous Illustrations. Very many passages will delight those fond of literary trifles ; hardly any portion willfail in interest for lovers of Charles Lamb and his sister." Standard. **

—

Demy

8vo, cloth extra, with

Lament 's Yachting

Maps and ijt

Illustrations, i8j.

the Arctic Seas;

or. Notes of Five Voyages of Sport and Discovery in the Neighbourhood of Spitzbergen and Novaya Zemlya. By James Lamont, F.R.G.S. With numerous full-page lUustrations by Dr. LiVESAY. ** After wading through numberless volumes of icy fiction, concocted narrative, and spurious biography of Arctic voyagers, it is pleasant to meet "with a real and He sliows much tact in recounting his adventures, and genuine volume. they are so interspersed with anecdotes aTtd information as to make them anything The book, as a whole, is the most important addition but wearisome. made to our Arctic literature for a lott^ time." AthenjEum. .

.

.

.

—

.

Crown

Svo, cloth

gilt,

']s.

6d.

Latter-Day Lyrics Poems of Sentiment and Reflection by Living Writers ; select-ed and arranged, with Notes, by W. Davenport Adams. With a Note " On some Old French Forms of Verse " by Austin Dobson.

:

CHATTO

fio

Crown

Lee's

WINDVS, PICCADILLY.

8vo, cloth extra,

19

Sf. dd.

More Glhnpses of the JVorld Unseen.

Edited by the Rev. Frederick George Lee, D.C.L., Vicar of All Saints', Lambeth; Editor of "The Other World; or. Glimpses of the Supernatural," &c.

^Crown Svo, cloth

Life in

extra, wiUi Illustrations, 7^. td.

London

The History of Jerry Hawthorn and Corinthian Tom. With the whole of Cruikshank's Illustrations, in Colours, after the

or,

Originals.

Small crown 8vo, cloth

extra, 4^. dd.

foskua Davidson,

Linton

's Christian and Communist. with a New Preface.

Crown

By

E.

Lynn Linton.

Svo, cloth extra, with Illustrations,

Sixth Edition,

^s. 6d.

Longfellow's Complete Prose JVorks. Including "Outre Mer," "Hyperion," " Kavanagh," "The Poets and Poetry of Europe," and " Driftwood." With Portrait

and

Illustrations

Crown

by Valentine Bromley.

8vo, cloth extra,

Longfellow

'5

gilt,

with Illustrations,

7J-.

dd.

Poetical Works.

With numerous Carefully Reprinted from the Original Editions. fine Illustrations on Steel and Wood. and t}t£ vtost read of years been the best known kas formany "Mr. Lon^fellffw A-merican poets ; and his popttlarity is of tJie right kind^ and rightly and fairly nor striven to force it by to catch attention by has not stooped artifice, •won. He His 'works have faced the test of parody ajtd burlesque t^which in tJiese •violence. come and have lot writings ajty mark), almost the cojn>no7t off undays is of of Iiarmed." Saturday Review.

—

The Eraser

Portraits.

—Demy

4to, clotti gilt and gilt edges, with 3IJ-. td.

83 characteristic Portraits,

Maclise's Gallery of Illustrious Literary With Notes by Dr. Maginn. Edited, with copious Characters. Additional Notes, by William Bates, B. A. ** One of the most interesting volumes of this year's literature.'' Times. ** Deserves a place on every drawing-roojn table, and may not unfitly be removed

—

frojn the drawing-rootn to the library."

Crown

— Spectator.

8vo, cloth extra, with Illustrations,

is.

bd.

Madre Natura v. The Moloch of Fashion. By Luke Limner. With 32 Illustrations by Fourth Edition, revised and enlarged.

^ "Agreeably written and amusingly illustrated. Common are brought

to

bear on the subjects discussed in

it."

—Lancet.

sense

the

and

Author. erudition

BOOKS PUBLISHED BY Handsomely printed

in facsimile, price

5-f.

Magna Charta. exact Facsimile of the Original Document in the British fine plate paper, nearly 3 feet long by 2 feet wide, with the Arms and Seals of the Barons emblazoned in Gold

An

Museum, printed on and Colours.

A full Translation,

*,*

Crown

Maid

with Notes, on a large sheet,

(>d.

8vo, cloth extra, is. 6d.

of Norway (The). With Pen and

Translated from the German by Mrs. BiRKBECK. Ink Sketches of Norwegian Scenery.

NEIV COPYRIGHT WORK BY MARK TWAIN. Post 8vo, illustrated boards,

An

Idle Excursion,

and

2s.

other Papers.

By Mark Twain. Small 8vo, cloth extra, with

Illustrations, yj. dd.

Mark Twain sA dventureso/TomSawyer. '

With One Hundred

Illustrations.

A beak te be read. There is a certain freshness and novelty about it^ a practically ro7nantic character, so to speak, which tuill make it very attractive." **

—

Spectator.

*^* Also a Popular Edition, post 8vo, illustrated boards, 2S.

Crown

8vo, cloth extra, with Illustrations,

Mark Twain 's

yj-.

bd.

Choice Works.

Revised and Corrected throughout by the Author. and numerous Illustrations.

With

Life,

Portrait,

Post 8vo, illustrated boards, is.

Mark

Twain's Pleasure Trip on the

Continent of Europe. ("The Iimocents Abroad," and Pilgrim's Progress.")

"The

New

Two

Vols,

crown 8vo, cloth

extra, i8j.

Marston's (Dr. Westland) Dramatic and Poetical Works.

Collected Library Edition. Patricians Daughter' is an oasis in tJie desert of tnodem dramatic We do not recollect any modem "work in literature, a real emanation 0/ mind. luhich states of thought are so freely developed, except the * Torquato Tasso of Goethe. The play is a work of art in the same sense that a play of Sophocles is a ' luork of art ; it is one simple idea in a state of gradual developynent The Favourite of Fortune' is one of the most important additiotts to thi stock of English prose comedy that has been made during the present century." Times. *'

7 he

*

'

.

—

.

.

:

CHATTO

&>

Crown

WIND US, PICCADILLY.

21

8vo, cloth extra, 8f.

Marston 's (Philip B.) All in All: Poems and Sonnets.

Crown

8vo, cloth extra, 8j.

Marston 's (Philip B.) Song And

other Poems.

Tide,

Second Edition.

Proofs, royal folio, £\o ; Large copies. Artists' India Proofs, elephant folio, £20.

Handsomely half-bound, India

Paper

Modern Art A

Series of superb Line Engravings, from the Works of Distinguished Painters of the English and Foreign Schools, selected from Galleries and Private Collections in Great Britain, With descriptive Text by James Dafforne.

Crown

8vo, cloth extra,

Mtises of Mayfair

gilt, gilt

edges,

"js.

6d.

:

Vers de Societe of the Nineteenth Century. Including Selections from Tennyson, Browning, Swinburne, Rossetti, Jean

Ingelow, Locker, Ingoldsby, Hood, Lytton, C. S. C, Landor, Austin Dobson, &c. Edited by H. C. Pennell.

Crown

8vo, cloth extra,

a

(>s.,

New

and Cheaper Edition of

New Republic ;

The

Culture, Faith, and Philosophy in an English Country House.

or.

By W. H. Mallock. ** Tlie ^eat cha-r7n of i/ie book lies in the clever and artistic way the dialogue managed, attd tJie diverse atid various expedients by wkick, -whilst the love of thought on every page is kept at a high pitch, it never loses its realistic aspect. It is giving high praise to a isjork of this sort to say that it absolutely . needs to be taken as a whole, and tltat disjointed extracts here a-nd tltere would entirely fail to convey any idea of the artistic unity, the careful and conscientious sequence of what is evidently the brilliant outcotne of much patient tliought and Enough Itccs now been said to recommend these volumes to any study. reader who desires something above the usual novel, something which will open up lanes of thotight in his own mind, and insensibly introduce a higher standard Here is novelty indeed, as well as originality, and into his daily Ufe. anyone who can appreciate or understand The New Republic^ it cannot ^

is

,

.

,

.

.

.

.

to

tail to be

*

^

a rare

treat.'*

.

'

—Observer.

The Original Edition, in Two

Vols,

crown %vo,

21s.,

may

also

be had.

Square 8vo, cloth

extra,

with numerous Illustrations,

9^.

North Italian Folk. By

Mrs.

Comyns Carr.

Caldecott.

With

Illustrations

by

Randolph

:

:

"

BOOKS PUBLISHED BY MOORE'S HITHERTO UNCOLLECTED WRITINGS. Crown

8vo, cloth extra, with Frontispiece, gj.

—

Humorous, Satirical, — THOMAS MOORE. Including Suppressed

Prose and Verse and Sentimental by

Chiefly from the Passages from the Memoirs of Lord Byron. Author's MSS., and all hitherto Inedited and Uncollected. Edited, with Notes, by Richard Herne SftEPHERD. " Hitherto Thomas Moore Jias deen mostly regarded as OTie of tlie lighter writers rapture of love and of Tnerely a sentimental poet par excellence, in whom the wine determined him strictly to certaiti modes of sympathy and of utterance, and This volume will serve to these to a large extent of a slightly artificial cliaracter. show him in otlier,' and certainly as attractive, aspects, while, at the same time, enabling us to a considerable extent to see /tow faithfully Ite developed himself on tJte poetical or fanciful side. This is a book which claims, as it ought to

—

'

'

.

.

.

obtain, various classes of readers, and we trust that the very jnixed elements of interest in it may not conflict with its obtaining the7n. For the lightest reader there is much to enjoy ; for the most thoughtful somethitig to ponder over; and the

thanks of both are due

Crown

to editor

and publisher alike.

T/ie Old Dramatists Ben Jonson's Works.

Algernon

l

and ExWith^Notes, .,iuu x>uLc», ^.iu>-i^ Critical .iM^^-vplanatory and a Biographical Memoir by Vi^iLLiAM Gifford. Edited by Col. CUNNINGHAM. Three Vols.

Now

First Collected.

i

Complete

Three Vols.

Vol. I. contains the Plays complete, including the Vol. II. the doubtful ones Poems and Minor Translations,

Including his Translations. Edited, with

Col.

the Tragedy of "Believe as you List." Edited by Col. Cunningham. One Vol.

Fcap. bvo, cloth extra,

Crown

Svo,

O' Shaughnessy

clotli extra, los. td.

's

Second Edition. "js.

6d.

Music and Moonlight

boards, with numerous Plates,

Old Point Lace, and It.

of

Lays of France.

Poems and Songs. Crown 8vo, illustrated

Illustrations

An Epic

Second Edition.

Fcap. 8vo, cloth extra,

Imitate

6j.

(Arthur)

's (Founded on the " Lays of Marie.")

O' Shaughnessy

Notes and Introduction,

Cunningham. One Vol. Massinger's Plays. From the Text of WILLIAM Gifford. With the addition of

with an Introductory Essay by

's Women, and other Pnems.

Swin-

^

;

O' Shaughnessy

Charles

^^^^V tions of Z°]\'}h:}l.Il^^^the Iliad and Odyssey, ;,^„„7_..^,. ^Jr^..l.y^ Marlowe's Works. by

Chapman 's Works. in

— Nonconformist.

8vo, cloth extra, with Vignette Portraits, price 6s. per Vol.

How

to

By Daisy Waterhouse Hawkins. by the Author.

7.5.

6d.

Copy and With

17

CHATTO Crown

dr"

WIND US, PICCADILLY.

23

8vo, carefully printed on creamy paper, and tastefully bound in cloth for the Library, price 6s. each.

The Piccadilly Novels: popular ^tavki

6j) ti)0

aScSt SiutljorS.

A nt07ima.

By Wilkie Collins. Gilbert and Alfred Concanen. Basil. By Wilkie Collins. Illustrated by Sir John Gilbert and J. Mahoney. Hide and Seek. By Wilkie Collins. Illustrated by Sir JOHN Gilbert and J. Mahoney. Illustrated

by

Sir J.

The Dead Illustrated

Secret. By WiLkiE Collins. by Sir John Gilbert and H. FuRNiss.

Queen of Hearts.

By Wilkie Collins. Gilbert and A. Concanen. Miscellanies. By Wilkie Collins. With Steel Portrait, and Illustrations by A. Concanen. The Woman in White. By wilkie Collins. Illustrated by Sir J. Gilbert and F. A. Fraser. The Moonstone. By Wilkie Collins. Illustrated by G. Du Maurier and F. A. Frasee. By Wilkie Collins. and Wife. Illustrated by William Small. By Wilkie Collins. Poor Miss Finch. Illustrated by G. Du Maurier and Edward Hughes. Illustrated

by

My

Sir J.

Man

Miss or Mrs. by

Illustrated

S.

L. Fildes and

Illustrated

by G.

Illustrated

Tlie

V

Henry Woods.

New

Magdalen. Du Maurier The Frozen Deep. Illustrated by G. Du Maurier The Law and the Lady.

The

By Wilkie Collins.

f

by

Two Also a

NOVELS, Felicia.

S.

and C.

S.

By Wilkie Collins. Rands.

By Wilkie Collins. and J. Mahoney.

L. Fildes and

By wilkie Collins.

Sydney Hall. By Wilkie Collins.

Destinies.

POPULAR EDITION of WILKIE COLLINS'S post 8vo, illustrated boards,

2S. each.

By m. betham-edwards.

With a Frontispiece by W. Bowles. , , ^. ^ " A noils navel. Its teaching is elevated, its story is sympathetic, and the kind derived from music or of feelinic its perusal leaves behind is that more ordinarily our high poetry than from prose fiction. Few works in modern fiction stand as estimation as this."— SvKDAV Times.

m

Olympia.

By r.

e. feancillon.

BOOKS PUBLISHED BY

24

The Piccadilly Novels Under the Greetiwood Tree. Fated to be Free. The Queen of Connaught. The Dark Colleen.

—continued. By Thomas Hardy. By jean ingelow. By Harriett Jay. By Harriett Jay.

" Jiovel lukick possesses the rare and valuable qualify of nffvelfy. . . . The scenery -will be strange to most readers^ and in many passages the aspects 0/ Nature are very cleverly described. Moreover^ the book is a study o/a. very curious and TWvel which no novel-reader should 7niss, and which interesting state of society. people who generally shun novels may ir?;;'^."— Saturday Review.

A

A

Patricia Kemball.

By

E.

Lynn Linton.

Du

MAURIER. Frontispiece by G. Displays genuine humour, as well as keen social observation. Enough graphic portraiture and witty observation to furnish materials for lietlf-a-dozen runiels of the ordinary kind," Saturday Review. With

*

'

—

By E. Lynn Linton.

The Atonement of Learn Dundas. With a Frontispiece by Henry Woods. " In her narrowness and her depths in her boundless

loyalty, her self-forgetting passion, that exclusiveness of love which is akin to cruelty, and the fierce In one kutnility which is vicarious pride. Learn Dundas is a striking figure. guality the autJioress lias in some measure surpassed herself." Fall Mall Gaz.

—

The Waterdale Neighbours.

B/Justin McCarthy.

My Energy's

Daughter. Linley Rochford. A Fair Saxon. Dear Lady Disdain.

By Justin McCarthy. By Justin McCarthy. By Justin McCarthy. By Justin McCarthy. The Evil Eye,and other Stories. By Katharine S.Macquoid. Illustrated by Thomas R. Macquoid and Percy Macquoid. ^

_

Cameos enough

to

tnendation.

delicately, if not very minutely or vividly, wrought, atui quite finished give a pleasut^ahle sense of artistic ease and faculty. wordofcomis merited by the illustrations." Academy.

A

—

Number Oakshott With a

Seventeen.

By Henry Kingsley. By henry Kingsley.

Castle. Frontispiece by

Shirley Hodson.

"A brisk and clear north wind of sentiment—sentiment that braces instead of enervating— blows throjigh all his works, and makes all their readers at once healthier aTid more glad" Spectator,

—

Open

Sesame

I Illustrated by F. A. Fraser.

!

A

By Florence Marryat.

storyivhich arouses and sustains ike reader's interest to than, perka/is, any of its author's /ortner "works." Graphic. *'

—

Whiteladies. With

a higJur degree

By Mrs. Oliphant.

Illustrations

by A. Hopkins and H. Woods.

A pleasant and readable book, written ivith practical ease and grace." The Best of Husbands. By James "

Illustrated

by J.

MoYR

Fallen Fortunes.

Times.

Payn.'

Smith.

ByjAMEs payn.

CHATTO

The

&>

WIND US, PICCADILLY.

25

Piccadilly '^ove.zs— continued.

Halves.

By James Payn,

With a

Frontispiece by J.

Mahoney.

Walter's Word. Illustrated by J. Moyr Smith. What he Cost her.

By James Payn.

By James Pays.

His

novels are always commendable in the sense oj art. They also possess another distinct claim to our liking : the ^rls in them are remarkably charm,i7tg and true to nature^ as ntost people^ -we believe^ Julve the good fortune tif observe nature represented by girls." Spectator. '*

—

Her

Mother's Darling.

By

The Way we Live Now. With

Mrs.

j.

h. Riddell

By Anthony trollope.

Illustrations,

The American Senator. *'

Mr.

By Anthony trollope.. a true artist's idea 0/ ione^ of colour^ of hartnony : his and seldotn out of drawing; he never strains ofier effect ,ia

Trollope has

pictures are one, fidelity itself in

expressing English

life,

is

never guilty of caricature."

—

Fortnightly Review.

Diamond Cut Diamond.

By t. a. trollope.

Wlten of interest, of close observation, and sympathy. . Mr. Trollope paints a scene it is sure to be a scene worth paintirtg."— Satur'*

Full of

life,

.

.

day Review.

Bound to the Wheel. Guy Waterman. One Against the World. The Lion in the Path.

By John Saunders.

By John Saunders^ By John Saunders. By John Saunders.

** A carefully written and beautiful story— a story of goodness and truth, which is yet as interesting as though it dealt with the opposite qualities. . . 'The author of this really clever story has been at great pains to work out all picture its details with elaborate conscientiousness, and the result is a very vivid of the ways of life atid habits of thought of a hundred and fifty years ago. Times, interesting book." very Certainly a , .

—

,

Ready-Money Mortiboy.

By w. besant and James rice.

My

By W. Besant and James Rice.

Little Girl.

The Case of Mr. Lucraft. This Son of Vulcan. With Harp and Crown. The Golden Butterfly.

By W, besant and James Rice. By W. Besant and James Rice, By

w. besant and James

Ricb.

By W. besant and James Rice.

Frontispiece by F. S, Walker, The Golden Butterfly will certainly add to thehappinessof mankind, for wedefy anybody to read it with a gloomy countenance." Times.

With a

"

'

'

—

s

BOOKS PUBLISHED BY

26

NEW NOVEL BY JUSTIN MCCARTHY. Two

vols. 8vo, cloth extra, Illustrated, 2ij., the

Second Edition of

Miss Misanthrope. By Justin McCarthy, Author With 12 " In

'

Illustrations

by

Lady Disdain,"

of *'Dear

&c.

Arthur Hopkins.

Miss Misanthrope Mr. McCarthy has added a 7ie'wand delightfulPortrait '

It is a novel -ajhich maybe sipped like . . to his gallery of Englishwomen. choice wi7te ; it is one to linger over and ponder ; to be enjoyed like fine, sweet air, .

or good company, for it is pervaded by a perfume of honesty and humour, of high feeling, of kindly penetrating hu7nour, of good sense, and luide knowledge of the There is scarcely a page in "world, of a mind richly cultivated and amply stored. these volumes in which we do not find some fine remark orfelicitous refiection of piercing, yet gentle and indulgent irony." Daily News.

—

MRS. LINTON'S

Two

NEW NO l^EL. Second Edition

Vols. 8vo, cloth extra, Illustrated, 2ij., the

of

The World Well Lost. E. Lynn Linton, Author of " Patricia Kemball," &c. With 12 Illustrations by Henry French and J. Lawson. " We are ivclimd to ifUnk that in this novel Mrs. Lynn Linton has readied a higher artistic mark than in anyforjner one." Nonconformist. *^ 1/ Mrs. Linton had not already won a place among ourforemost living novelists, she -would have been entitled to it by her latest work of fiction — a book o/ singularly

By

—

high

and varied merit. Tli£ story rivets the attentioiL of him absorbed until the close." Scotsman.

—

UTui holds

NEW NOVEL BY THE AUTHOR

the reader at

tite

outset,

OF "JULIETS GUARDIAN."

Three Vols., crown 8vo,

3IJ. dd.

Deceivers Ever. By

Mrs.

H. Lovett Cameron. Crown 8vo, red cloth,

Ouida 's Novels. Folk Farine. Idalia.

Chandos.

UnderTwo Flags. Tricotrin.

— Uniform Edition.

By Ouida. By Ouida. By Ouida. By ouida. By Ouida.

Pascarel.

By OuiDA.

Held in Bondage. By Ouida.

Two WoodenShoeshy 0\!iTi\. _

In a Winter

By Ouida. City. By ouida.

Ariadne.

NEW NOVEL BY MR. JAMES Shortly,

By Ouida.

Puck. By Ouida. Dog of Flanders, By Ouida. Strathmore. By Ouida. Signa.

Cecil Castlemaini Gage.

extra, %s. each.

Three Vols., crown Svo,

By Ouida.

GRANT. 31J. dd.

The Lord Hermitage. By James Grant, Author

of

"The Romance

of

War," &c.

CHATTO

WIND US, PICCADILLY.

&=

Post 8vo, illustrated boards,

2j.

27

each.

Cheap Editions of Popular Novels. [WiLKiE Collins' Novels may too, the

also be had in cloth limp Piccadilly NovELS,yo?- Library Editions.^

at

2s.\

6d.

See,

Under the Greenwood Tree. By Thomas Hardy. Ready-Money Mortiboy. By Walter Besant and James RiceThe Golden Butterfly. ByAuthorsof "Ready-Money Mortiboy." This Son of Vulcan. By the Authors of " Ready-Money Mortiboy."

My

Little Girl.

By

the Authors of

The Case of Mr. Lucraft. With Harp and Crown. Tlie

Woman

Authors of " Ready-Money Mortiboy."

in White.

By Wilkie Collins.

By Wilkie Collins. By Wilkie Collins. By Wilkie Collins.

Afttoniiia.

Basil.

Hide and

"Ready-Money Mortiboy."

Authors of "Ready-Money Mortiboy.''

Seek.

The Dead Secret. The Queen of Hearts.

My Miscellanies. The Moonstone. and Wife. Poor Miss Finch. Miss or Mrs. f The New Magdalen. The Frozett Deep. The Law and the Lady. Gaslight and Daylight. The Waterdale Neighbours. My Enemy's Daughter.

Man

By Wilkie Collins. By Wilkie Collins. By Wilkie Collins. By Wilkie Collins. By wilkie CoLtiNs. By Wilkie Collins. By Wilkie Collins. By Wilkie Collins.

By Wilkie Collins. By wilkie coluns. By George Augustus Sala. By Justin McCarthy. By Justin McCarthy.

By Justin McCarthy. Linley Rochford. By Justin McCarthy. A Fair Saxon. By Justin McCarthy. Dear Lady Disdain. By Mark Twain. An Idle Excursion. By mark twain. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. Pleasure Trip on the Continent of Europe, m. twain. By henry Kingsley. Oakshott Castle. By John Saunders. Bound to the Wheel.

A

Guy Waterman. One Against The Lion in Surlv Tim.

the World.

By John Saunders.

By John Saunders. By John and Katherine Saunders. the Path. ^y *^ Author of " That Lass o' Lowrie's."

:

"

:

BOOKS PUBLISHED BY Two

Vols. 8vo, cloth extra, with Illustrations, lOf. 6d.

Plutarch's Lives of Illustrious Men. Translated from the Greek, with Notes Critical and Historical, and a Life of Plutarch, by John and William Langhorne. New Edition, with Medallion Portraits.

Crown

8vo, cloth extra, with Portrait

Poe's Choice Prose

and

Illustrations,

"Js.

td.

and Poetical IVorks.

With Baudelaire's "Essay." " Poe stands as 'painters.

much — Spectator.

Crown

alone

among

verse'iuriters as Salvaior

8vo, cloth extra, Illustrated,

Rosa anwng

6d.

'js.

The Life of Edgar Allan Poe. By William

F.

With

Gill.

numerous

Illustrations

and

Facsimiles.

Small 8vo, cloth extra, with

Illustrations, 3^. (>d.

The Prince of Argolis A

By

Story of the Old Greek Fairy Time. Illustrations by the Author.

J.

MoYR Smith.

With 130

Demy

Proctor's '*

8vo, cloth extra, 12s. 6d.

Myths and Marvels of Astro-

nomy. By Richard A. Proctor, Author of "Other Worlds than Ours," &c. Mr. Proctor, -who is well mtd virdely ktioivii/or his faculty of popularising the

Jatcst results of ihe science of lukich lie is a jna.\ter, has brought together in tliese fascinatiu° cliapters a curious collection of popular beliefs concerning divination by tlie stars, the influences of the ncoon, the destination of the comets, the constellation figures, and the Itabitation of otlier worlds than ours." Daily News. " The reader who begins this charming voluine a dozen chapters to as many instances of erroneous observation or superstitious credulity will hardly fail to peruse it to the end." Geaphic.

—

—

—

—

Crown

Bvo, cloth extra,

5j-.

Prometheus the Fire-Giver An

attempted Restoration of the Lost First Part of the Trilogy

of ^.schylus. *'

Anotlier illustration of that classical revival whicit is due in no small degree the iti/luence of Mr. Swinburru. . Much really fine writing, a?ui much appreciation of the jSschylean spirit." Home News. " IVellwritten in parts soft, spirited, and vigorous, according to requirement.^* Illustrated London Nevt?.

.to

—

.

—

—

.

CHATTO Crown

(&»

WINDUS, PICCADILLY.

2^

8vo, cloth extra, with Portrait and Facsimile, I2j. dd.

The Final Reliqties of Father Prout. MSS. supplied by the family Mahony, by Blanchard Jerrold.

Collected and Edited, from

Rev. Francis

In

Two

Series, small 410, blue

and gold,

gilt

of the

edges, ts. each.

Puniana ; A

Thoughts Wise and Other- Why's. New Collection of In Two Series, each Riddles, Conundrums, Jokes, Sells, &c. containing 3000 of the best Riddles, 10,000 most outrageous Puns, and upwards of Fifty beautifully executed Drawings by the Editor, or,

the

Hon.

Hugh Rowley.

"*j4 witty, drolls

— Standard.

Each Series is Complete in' itself. and titost armi^ing 'work, profusely and elegant iy illustrated,^

Crown

8vo, clotli extra,

gilt, 7^.

dd.

The Pursuivant of Arms or,

Heraldry founded upon Facts.

; Popular Guide to the PLANCH16, Esq., Somerset

A

By J. R. Science of Heraldry. Herald. With Coloured Frontispiece, Plates, and 200 Illustrations, Crown

8vo, cloth extra, is. dd,

Rabelais' Works. Faithfully Translated from the French, with variorum Notes, and numerous Characteristic Illustrations by Gustave DoRfi.

8vo, cloth gilt, with numerous Illustrations, and a beautifully executed Chart of the various Spectra, "Js. dd., a New Eflition of

Crown

Rambosson

's

Astronomy.

By J. Rambosson, lated

Laureate of the Institute of France.

by C. B. Pitman.

Crown

Red-Spinner' s

Trans-

Profusely Illustrated. 8vo, cloth extra, ds.

By Stream and Sea :

Book for Wanderers and Anglers. (Red-Spinner).

A

By WILLIAM Senior

" Mr Senior lias long been known as an interesting and original essayist. He is the gentle sfort,' and combines with a fine a keen observer, a confessed Urver of humour. A II these qualities come out a tirhiresaue touch a quaint and efficient 1 1 is fre-emmentlya volume. delightful this in most attractive manner iVe and odd out-of-tlie-way references. iZ-M and breezy bookjtill of nature better book for theholiday tour or thi seaside' -Nonconformist. " conceive of no reading; just the sort of book which an angler or a rambUr Verv delight/ul pocket of his jacket. A Itoget/ier, By i, trcam and '„,nnb, i-lad to have in tlie side have come across for many a long Sea"is one oftlie best books of its kind which -we '

m

.

.

.

\^

Herald. day."— OxTORD University

.

:

:

;

BOOKS PUBLISHED BY

30

Handsomely

printed, price Jj.

The Roll of Battle Abbey ; or,

A

List of the Principal Warriors

who came

over from Nor-

the Conqueror, and Settled in this Country, Printed on fine pkte paper, nearly three feet by A.D. 1066-7. two, with the principal Arms emblazoned in Gold and Colours.

mandy with William

In

4to, very

handsomely printed, extra gold

cloth, 12s.

The Roll of Caerlaverock. Oldest Heraldic Roll ; including the Original Anglo-Norman Poem, and an English Translation of the MS. in the British Museum. By Thomas Weight, M. A. The Arms emblazoned in Gold and Colours.

The

Crown

8vo, cloth extra,

td.

7^.

Memoirs of the Sanson Family : Seven Generations of Executioners. By Henri Sanson. Translated from the French, with Introduction, by Camille BARRfeRE. "A faithful translation of this curious workt "which luill certainly repayperusal not on the ground of its being full of horrors for the original author seems to be rather ashamed of the technical aspect of his profession^ and is comtnendably reticent as to its details^ but because it contains a lucid ctccouni of the jnost notable causes c£l&bres from the time of Louis XIV. to a period within the memory of

—

>

persons still living.

.

.

.'

—

Can

scarcely fail to be extretnely entertaining."

Daily Telegraph.

Crown

8vo, cloth extra, profusely Illustrated, 4r, dd. each.

''Secret Out" Series. Magic No Mystery The Art of Amusing : Tricks with Cards, Dice, A Collection of Graceful Arts,

The

Games, Tricks, Puzzles, and Charades.

By Frank Bellew. 300

Illustrations,

Hanky-Panky Very Easy Tricks, Very Difficult Tricks, White Magic, Sleight of Hand. Edited by W. H. CreMER. 200 Illustrations.

Magiciafis

Own

Book

:

Performances with Cups and Balls, Eggs, Hats, Handkerchiefs, &c. Actual Experience. All from Edited by W. H. Ceemer. 200

;

The Merry Circle : A Book of New Intellectual Games and

Many

Illustrations.

One Thousand Tricks with and other Recreations

;

Cards, with En-

tertaining Experiments in

Draw-

ing-room or "White Magic." By 300 Engravings.

VOLUME OF THE "SECRET OUT"

Crown

By Clara

Amusements.

Bellew.

The Secret Out :

W. H. Cremer.

Illustrations.

Ar£JV

Balls,

&c., with fully descriptive Directions the Art of Secret Writing the Training of Performing Animals, &c. With Coloured Frontispiece and many Illustrations.

8vo, cloth extra, with

numerous

SERIES.

Plates, 4?. dd.

The Pyrotechnist's Treasury; or.

Complete Art of Making Fireworks.

By Thomas Kentish.

—

CHATTO In reduced

^

WINDUS, PICCADILLY.

facsimile, small 8vo, half

Roxburghe,

31

loj. (td.

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. Chaito and Windvs belongs the merit of having done tnore to

—

•

—

**

facilitate the critical study of tlie text of our great dramatist than all the Shakecomplete facsimile of the celebrated speare clubs and societies put together. First Folio edition of it-z-^far half-a-guinea is at once a miracle of cheapness and enterprise. Beijig in a reduced form, tlie type is necessarily rather ditninutive, but it is as distinct as in a geyiuine copy of the original, and 'will befound to be as useful andfar more handy to th£ student than the latter. " Athen^um.

A

Post 8vo, with Illustrations, cloth extra,

gilt edges, iZs.

The Lansdowne Shakespeare. Beautifully printed in red and black, in small but very clear type. "With engraved facsimile of Droeshout's Portrait, and 37 beautiful Steel Plates, after Stothard.

Two

Vols, crown 8vo, cloth extra, l8i.

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,"

"A

Warning for Fair Women," "Jack Dijim's Entertainement, " with Reprints of the Accounts of the Murder ; and "Faire Em." Notes, and an Account of Robert and Introductions Edited, with Green and his Quarrels with Shakspere, by Richard Simpson, B. A., Author of "The PhQosophy of Shakspere's Sonnets," " The Life of Campion, " &c With an Introduction by F. J. Furnivall. .

Crown

8vo, cloth extra, with Illustrations,

Signboards

^s. 6d.

:

Their History. With Anecdotes of Famous Taverns and Remarkable Characters. By Jacob Larwood and John Camden HoTTEN. With nearly 100 Illustrations. " Even if we were ever so maliciously inclined, we could not pick out all Messrs. Larwood and Hotten's plums, because the good things are so numerous as to defy the most wholesale depredation."

—Times.

Exquisitely printed in miniature, cloth extra, gilt edges,

The Smoker By J. Hamer,

Text-Book.

's F.R.S.L.

2s.

6d.

:

BOOKS PUBLISHED BY

32

Crown

8vo, cloth extra,

gilt,

Illustrations,

with 10 full-page Tinted "Js.

6d.

Sheridan's Complete Works, Including his Dramatic Writings, with Life and Anecdotes. printed from the Original Editions, his Works in Prose and Poetry, Translations, Speeches, Jokes, Puns, &c. ; with a Collection of Sheridaniana. *' The editor has hro-ught together within a manageable compass not otily th^ seven plays by which Sheridan is best known, but a collection also of his poeticai pieces which are less familiar to the public, sketches of unfinished dra7nas, selections from his reported •witticisms, and extracts from his principal speeches^ To these is prefixed a sliort but well-written memoir, giving th£ chief facts in Sheridan's literary and political career ; so that, with this volume in his hand, the student Tnay consider himself tolerably 'well furnished with all thai is necessary for a general compreJiejision of the subject of it"— Pall Mall Gazette.

Crown

8vo, cloth extra,

gilt, ds.

6d.

The Slang Dictionary New

Etymological, Historical, and Anecdotal. An Entirely Edition, revised throughout, and considerably Enlarged. ** IVe are glad to see the Slang Dictionary reprinted and enlarged. From a high scientific poitit of view this book is not to be despised. Of course it cannot fail toIt contains tlte very vocabulary of unrestrained humour, and be amusing also. oddity, and grotesgueness. In a word, it provides valuable material both for the student of language and the student of human nature" Academy.

—

Crown

4to,

" Chaucer

uniform with

for Children,"

with Coloured

Illustrations, cloth gilt, ioj. dd.

Spenser for Children. By M. H. TowRY. Morgan.

With

Illustrations in Colours

by

Walter

J.

*'7?i these transcripts the writer has endeavoured to preserve tlie 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 cf vulgarizing his fictions by relating them in a familiar and rnocking manner a style too often supposed to be that most attractive to the young."

—

Imperial 410, containing 150 beautifully-finished full-page Engravings and Nine Vignettes, aU tinted, and some illuminated in gold and colours, half-morocco,

;£^9 gj.

Stothard's Momimental Effigies of Great Britain.

With

Kempe,

F. S. A.

Historical Description

and Introduction by John

A New Edition, with a large body of Additional

Notes by John Hewitt. A few Large Paper copies, royal folio, with the arms illuminated in gold and colours, and the plates very carefully finished in body-colours *,.*

heightened with gold in the very

finest style, half-morocco,

;if

15 icj.

:

:

CHATTO

&-

.

WINDUS, PICCADILLY.

Crown

8vo, cloth extra,

33

qj.

Stedman 's Victorian Poets By Edmund Clarence Stedman.

Critical Essays.

We ought to

be thankful to iJiose -who do critical "work with competent skill •with honesty 0/ Purpose, and with diligence and thoroughness of execution. Mr. Siedtnan, having chosen to ivork in this line^ deser'ves the thanks of English scJiolars by these qualities and by somethitig more ; , , . .

and understanding;

And

he is faithful,

studiotis,

and discerning." — Saturday Review.

Large 8vo, half-Roxburghe, with

Illustrations, price gj.

Stow 's Survey of London, Edited by

W.

J.

A New Edition,

Thoms, F.S.A.

with Copper-

plate Illustrations.

Crown

8vo, cloth extra, with Illustrations,

yj. 6^/,

Swiff s Choice Works, With Memoir, Portrait, and Facsimiles of in the Original Edition of " Gulliver's Travels." " TJte * Tale of a Tub* is, in my apprehension, the -masterpiece of Swift ; certainly Rabelais has nothing superior, even in in-vention, nor anything so condensed, so pointed, so full of real meaning, of biting satire, of felicitous analogy. The * Battle of t/ie Books' is such an improvement on the similar cotnbat in the Lutrin, that-we can hardly OTvn it as an z?nitation." Hallam. " Sivift's reputation asapoet has been ina rnanner obscured by the greater splendour, by tfie naturalforce and inventive genius, of his prose writings ; but, if he had never written either the * Tale of a Tub' or Gullivers Travels,' his name tnerely as a poet would have come down to us, and Jiave gone down to posterity, 'onth well-earned honours." Hazlitt. and Verse.

in Prose

the

Maps

—

*

—

Mr. Swinburne's IVorks The Queen Mother and Fcap. 8vo,

Rosamond.

Atalanta in Calydon. A New Edition. Crown 8vo,

(>s.

A Tragedy. Fcap. 8vo, ^s. Poems and Ballads. Fcap. 8vo,

gj.

on

Ballads."

Svo,

is.

Critical Essay.

Paialings.

With Facsimile

Demy Svo,

i6s.

So7igs before Sunrise. Crown 8vo, los. dd.

Two

Vols, crown

6(f.

George Chapman : An Essay. Crown Svo, 7J. So7tgs of Two Nations. Crown

Svo, 6s.

Essays and Studies. Crown

"Poems and

William Blake:

A

Tragedy.

Svo, I2J.

Chastelard.

Notes

Bothwell:

A

$$.

Svo, I2J.

Erechtheus : A Tragedy. Crown Svo, ds. Note of an English Republican on the Muscovite Crusade.

Svo, IS.

A Note on CharlotteBront'c Crown

Svo, 6j,

:

BOOKS PUBLISHED BY

34

MR. SWINBURNE'S Crown

NEW

WORK.

8vo, cloth extra, gj.

Poems and Ballads.

Second Series.

By Algernon Charles Swinburne. Also in fcap. 8vo, at same price, uniform with the First

*.^*

Series^

Fcap. 8vo, cloth extra,

Rossettis (PV.

M.J

3^. td.

Criticism upon Swin-

burn^s " Poems and Ballads.^'

Crown

8vo, cloth extra, with Illustrations,

Sports

Strut t's

"]$.

6d.

and Pastimes of

the

England ;

including the Rural and Domestic Recreations, May Games, Mummeries, Shows, Processions, Pageants, and Pompous Spectacles, from the Earliest Period to the Present People of

Time. With 140 Illustrations. Edited by William Hone. A few Large Paper Copies, with an extra set of Copperplate Illustrations, carefully Coloured by Hand, from the Originals, 501. * *

Medium

8vo, cloth extra, with IDustrations,

Dr. Syntax

's

'Js.

6d.

Three Tours,

in Search of the Picturesque, in Search of Consolation, and in Search of a Wife. With the whole of Rowlandson's droll page Illustrations, in Colours, and Life of the Author by J. C. Hotten".

Large post 8vo,

cloth, full gilt, gilt top,

with Illustrations,

I2j-.

dd.

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 With Hundreds of Wood Engravings and his everyday reading. Five Coloured Plates, from Mr. Thackeray's Original Drawings. "// 'would have been a real loss to bibliographical literature had copyright One of difficiilties deprived tJu general public 0/ this very amusing collection. T/tackeray's liabits, from his schoolboy days> was to ornament the inargitis a?u£ lie had in use "with caricature the boohs illustrations pages th^ir 0/ blank of This gave special value to the sale of his library ^ and is almost canse contents. tJiat it could not fiave been preserved in its integrity. Thackeray's is eminent enough to have nuide this an interest to future Tlu anonymous editor Jias done tlte best that he could to compengeneratioTts. sate for t/u: lack of this. It is ati admirable addendum^ not only to his collected works, but also to any memoir of him that has beeti, or that is likely to be, British Quarterly Review. written.*

for regret

place in literature

'

—

Crown

8vo, cloth extra, gilt edges, with Illustrations,

"js.

6d.

Thomson's Seasons and Castle of Indolence.

With

a Biographical and Critical Introduction by over 50 fine Illustrations on Steel and

Cunningham, and

Allan Wood.

CHATTO Two

Vols,

6-

WINDUS, PICCADILLY.

35

crown 8vo, cloth boards, iSj. ; Large Paper copies (only 50 printed), 36^.

Cyril Tourneur's Collected Works, Plays and Poems.

Edited, with Critical Introduction and Notes,

by J. Churton Collins.

Crown 8vo,

cloth extra, with Coloured Illustrations, Is.

(td.

y. M. W. Turner's Life and CorrespondFounded upon Letters and Papers furnished by his Friends and fellow Academicians. By Walter Thorjjbury. A New Edition, considerably Enlarged. With numerous Illustrations ence.

in Colours, facsimiled from Turner's original Drawings.

Taine's History of English Literature. Translated by Henry Van Laun. Four Vols, small 8vo, 30J. ** Also a New and Cheaper Edition, in Two Vols., crown

Svo, cloth extra,

15s.

Small 8vo, cloth

gilt,

with Portrait,

ds,

Thoreau : His Life and Aims. A

By H. A. Page, Author of "The Life of Thomas Quincey," &c. Extract from Preface. '' Tke nature-instinct in Thoreau was so strong that, as I believe, it may even dc something to aid in the interpretation of certain ,phenoviena of so distant a period as the Middle Age, I see a kind of real likeness Study.

De

—

between this so-called ' Stoic' of America, with his unaffected lovefor the slave, his 'wonderful sympathies and attractions for the lower creatures, his simplicities, aTtd his liking for the labour of the haTui, and that St. Francis "whose life has recently been made fresh and real to us by the skilful pen of Mrs. Oliphant. All I claim for Thoreau is a disinterested and not a one-sided and prejudiced hearing.*

Crown

8vo, cloth extra, with Illustrations,

Timbs' Clubs With Anecdotes Taverns.

of

its

Is, (sd.

Life in London.

famous Coffee-houses, Hostelries, and F.S. A. With numerous Illustrations.

By John Times,

Crown

Timbs'

and Club

8vo, cloth extra, with Illustrations, Is. 6d.

English

Eccentrics

and Ec-

Wealth and Fashion, Delusions, Imposand Fanatic Missions, Strange Sights and Sporting Scenes,

centricities: Stories of

tures,

Eccpntric Artists, Theatrical Folks, Men of Letters, &c. With nearly 50 Illustrations.

Times, F.S.A.

By JOHN

36

BOOKS PUBLISHED BY CHATTO One

Tom

WINDUS.

Sf

Vol. crown 8vo, cloth extra,

6cl.

"]!.

Taylor 's Historical Plays.

"Clancarty," "Jeanne

d' Arc,"

%* The

Plays

may

Crown

also be

"The

'"Twixt Axe and Crown,"

Fool's Revenge," "Arkwright's Wife," and Passion."

had

"Anne

Boleyn," "Plot

separately, at is. each.

4to, half-Roxburghe, \2s. 6d,

Vagabondiana

;

Anecdotes of Mendicant Wanderers through the Streets of Portraits of the rnost Remarkable, drawn from the ; Life by John Thomas Smith, late Keeper of the Prints in the or.

London with

Museum. With Introduction by Francis Douce, and Descriptive Text. With the Woodcuts and the 32 Plates, from the original CopperS.

British

Large crown 8vo, cloth antique,

vrith Illustrations,

"Js.

6d.

Walton and Cotton's Complete Angler ; or.

The Contemplative Man's Recreation

being a Discourse of

:

and Fishing, written by IzAAK Walton ; Angle for a Trout or Grayling in a clear Witb Original Memoirs and Stream, by Charles Cotton. Notes by Sir Harris Nicolas, and 61 Copperplate Illustrations.

Rivers, Fishponds, Fish and Instructions how to

Carefully printed on paper to imitate the Original, Z2 in.

Warrant

to

Execute Charles

by 14

in., 2^,

I.

An

exact Facsimile of this important Document, with the Fiftynine Signatures of the Regicides, and corresponding Seals,

Beautifully printed on paper to imitate the Original

Warrant An

to

exact Facsimile, including the Signature of

and a Facsimile of the Great

Crown 8vo,

Wright

's

MS.,

price

s,s.

Execute Mary Q. of Scots. Queen

Elizabeth,

Seal.

cloth extra, vrith Illustrations, 7^. 6d.

Caricature

Georges. ( T!ie House ofHanover.)

History With 400

Squibs, Broadsides, Window Pictiures, &c. Esq., M.A., F.S.A.

of the

Pictures, Caricatures,

By Thomas Wright,

^

Large post 8vo, cloth

extra, gilt,

with

Illustrations, 7^. (sd.

Wright 's History of Caricature and of the Grotesque in Art, Literature, Sculpture, and Painting, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day. By Thomas Wright, M. A., F.S. A. Profiisely iUustrated by F. W. Fairholt, F.S. A. J.

OGDKN AND

CO.,

PRINTERS, X72, ST. JOHN STREET, E.G.

Craf t& Hobby

Boofcsl

Route Coroiel VaUcy MnntereTt CaW-

THE FINEST OF ANTIfiUE LACES

ALWAYS ON SALE

I

Purchast and Commission Depot, 36,

THAYER

STREET,

MANCHESTER SQUARE, LONDON, W.

J

HN

COTTON,

Manager.

1