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NEELE'S GENERAL ATLAS. This Work will extend to Four Parts, and will comprise a complete Set of Maps, compiled from the best Authorities, improved by valuable Original Documents, and embracing all the recent Discoveries of Circumnavigators and Travellers.

Those Countries which are most interesting (particularly the European States) will be given each on four pages, forming together, the full size of a sheet of imperial, without the inconvenience of folding.

Part I. price One Guinea, containing 19 Plates (to be continued every Two Months), handsomely coloured and hotpressed.

BORDER ANTIQUITIES of ENGLAND and SCOTLAND, comprising Specimens of the Architecture, Sculpture, and other Vestiges of former Ages, from the earliest Times to the Union of the two Crowns; accompanied with descriptive Sketches, biographical Remarks, and a brief History of the principal Events that have occurred in this interesting Part of Great Britain. Nos. 1 to 6 in med. 4to. 10s. 6d.; or superroyal 4to. with Proof Impressions, 16s. each. This Work is published in quarterly Numbers.

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The BRITISH THEATRE; or, a Collection of Plays, which are acted at the Theatres Royal, Drury-lane, Covent-garden, and Haymarket, printed under the Authority, and by Permission of the Managers, from the Prompt Books. With Biographical and Critical Remarks. By Mrs. INCHBALD. Nos. 1 to 125, 1s. each; or on fine paper, 2s. each.

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