Cheap Issue of highly Popular and Favourite Works. The original object of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, in publishing the Series of the Works known as "THE LIBRARY OF ENTERTAINING KNOWLEDGE," Was to produce only such as should combine Entertainment and Instruction. That they succeeded in these essentials in a book intended for popular reading, has been admitted by almost every Periodical and Review in the country. The many thousand copies which have been sold of each volume, is the best testimony that the public thought so too. The present Proprietor is anxious to extend by all means in his power the utility of these desirable books, and has determined to REDUCE THE PRICE OF THE WORK So Low, that he can only hope to be remunerated by a very extensive demand for the work on the part of the Public. The very high el aracter of all the volumes contained in the Series, and the extremely MODERATE PRICE at which the Series is now offered, must make the "LIBRARY OF ENTERTAINING KNOWLEDGE" THE BOOK OF THE PEOPLE. To carry out this desirable object, Mr. Nattali proposes to re-issue the volumes, elegantly bound, with full gilt backs, at Two Shillings and Threepence each volume. THE LIBRARY OF ENTERTAINING KNOWLEDGE is written in a style to please the most fastidious critic, and yet at the same time it is so perspicuous as to be within the comprehension of the most illiterate reader. In this particular it possesses the same charm which we find in Robinson Crusoe and Pilgrim's Progress. THE BACKWOODS OF AND OREGON TERRITORY, WITH A MAP OF THE TERRITORY. THE OREGON TERRITORY SEPARATELY, PLANCHE'S BRITISH COSTUME, A COMPLETE History of the Dress of the Inhabitants of the British Islands. 400 PAGES AND 136 WOODCUTS. The SECRET SOCIETIES of the MIDDLE AGES 408 PAGES AND ILLUSTRATIONS. ACCOUNT of the MANNERS and CUSTOMS UPWARDS OF 800 PAGES AND 107 WOODCUTS. "His work is a record of unquestionable value, containing every thing respecting the manners and customs of the Egyptians that could be desired."—Quarterly Review. POMPEII: ITS PAST AND PRESENT STATE, ITS PUBLIC AND PRIVATE BUILDINGS, ETC. Compiled from the great work of M. Mazois; the Museo Borbonico; Sir Wm. Gell, &c.; but chiefly from the MS. Journals and Drawings of WM. CLARKE, ESQ. ARCHITECT. 650 PAGES, 8 PLATES, AND 280 WOODCUTS. 2 vols. 12mo. with full gilt backs, 48. 6d. SPLENDID COLLECTION OF BOOKS AT REDUCED PRICES. ACKERMANN'S HISTORY OF THE UNIVERSITIES OF OXFORD AND CAMBRIDGE, the Public Schools and Colleges in England; Westminster Abbey; and Microcosm, or the Public Buildings of London; with Four Hundred and Fifty Plates, Portraits, and Views, coloured in imitation of Drawings. Ten vols. elephant 4to. half-bound, morocco elegant, uncut, top edges gilt, 161. 16s. (published at 701. in bds.) London, 1812-16 The Works are sold separately, half-bound morocco elegant as follows. HISTORY (The) OF OXFORD, one hundred and fourteen Plates, coloured, 41. 4s. (published at 217.) LARGE PAPER, WITH A DOUBLE SET OF PLATES, ONE SET Coloured, AND THE OTHER PROOFS ON INDIA PAPER, 2 VOLS. FOLIO, HALFBOUND MOROCCO, UNCUT, (published at 557.) reduced to 71. 7s. OXFORD, whose celebrity has been for ages acknowledged by the whole civilized world, cannot but be dear, in all its relations, to Learning, to Science, and to Religion, throughout the country of which it is the boast. The beauty, grandeur, and variety of its structures; the awful solitude of its cloisters; its spacious quadrangles, venerable galleries, and stately porticos; with its numerous gardens, sequestered walks, and studious groves; its libraries, paintings, statutes, and ancient monuments, with its stupendous apparatus of universal science the reverend character of its rulers, the learning of its professors, the rank, fortune, and number of its students, the wisdom of its institutions, and the dignity of its solemnities; the splendid roll of its FOUNDERS and BENEFACTORS, among whom, KINGS are inscribed as its nursing fathers, and QUEENS as its nursing mothers: the long train of ILLUSTRIOUS MEN, who, within its walls, have wooed that science which gave them renown and made them great, might here compose a subject for an enlarged and attractive description; but these things are generally known to all those whose patronage is solicited for the volumes of THE HISTORY OF OXFORD, now offered to the public at a REDUCED PRICE. HISTORY (The) OF CAMBRIDGE, ninety-seven Plates, coloured, 41. 4s. (published at 18. 18s.) LARGE PAPER, WITH A DOUBLE SET OF PLATES, ONE SET PROOFS UPON INDIA PAPER. AND THE OTHER SET COLOURED, 2 VOLS. FOLIO, HALF-BOUND MOROCCO, uncut, (published at 551.) reduced to 71. 7s. HISTORY (The) OF WESTMINSTER ABBEY, eighty Plates, coloured, 41. 4s. (published at 167. 16s.) HISTORY (The) OF THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES, forty-eight Plates, coloured, 21. (published at 71. 48.) LARGE PAPER, FOLIO, WITH A DOUBLE SET OF PLATES, ONE SET PROOFS UPON INDIA PAPER, AND THE OTHER SET COLOURED, boards, (published at 211.) reduced to 31. 15s. MICROCOSM, OR PUBLIC BUILDINGS OF LONDON, one hundred and four Plates, coloured, 3 vols. 4to. 31. 15s (published at 157. 15s.) ACKERMANN'S ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY ORNAMENTAL DESIGNS. A selection of Ornaments for the use of Sculptors, Painters, Carvers, Modellers, Chasers, Embossers, &c. In One Hundred and Twenty Plates. In small folio, halfbound morocco, uncut. Reduced to 17. 16s. (published at 57.) A very few copics for sale. AFFGHAUNISTAN. Views in Affghaunistan, Caubul, and Ghuznee, taken during the Campaign of the Army in the Indus. Twentyseven Plates and Map, drawn on stone by Allom, Boys, &c. 4to. half-bound, 11. 5s. (published at 21. 28.)-Coloured as Drawings half-bound morocco, elegant, gilt leaves, 4to. 21. 28. (published at 41. 4s.) Large Paper, folio, with the Plates Coloured as Drawings, half bound morocco elegant, gilt leaves, 31. 3s. (published at 97. 9s.) 1840 BARNARD'S VIEWS IN SWITZERLAND, THE ALPS, AND ITALIAN LAKES, in oblong 4to. boards. Thirteen Plates in Lithography, printed in the new process of Tinting by Hullmandel. Reduced to 9s. (published at 1. 18.) : 1837 "The Studies in the present work were collected in the Summer of 1835, during a ramble of some months on the continent; and I have chosen the title, Continental Drawing Book for Advanced Pupils,' as it is calculated, with the addition of a few hints, materially to assist them in mastering the difficulties of using the Stump and Opake White on Tinted Paper." BARTOLOZZI AND CIPRIANI'S DRAWINGBOOK. Easy Principles for Drawing the Human Figare, in Thirty-four Lessons, from the original Drawings of Bartolozzi and Cipriani, in a series of Thirty-four Plates. Imperial 4to. sewed, 98 (published at 17. 18.) BIBLE HISTORIES. Representing some of the most Remarkable Events recorded in the Old and New Testament. In 18mo., cloth gilt, with Fifty-two Plates. Reduced to 4s. (published at 12s.) 1829 BLAKE.-BLAIR'S GRAVE, with Twelve Plates by BLAKE, and Fine Portrait, 4to. cloth lettered, 11. 1s. (published at 21. 12s 6d.) -Half morocco elegant, 11. 68.-Large Paper, imperial 4to. cloth, 21. 2s. (published at 51. 5s.) Only a few copies, on Large Paper, for sale. 1818 "BLAKE is a real name, I assure you, and a most extraordinary man he is, if he still be living. He is the BLAKE whose wild designs aécompany a splendid edition of BLAIR'S GRAVE.' He paints in water-colours marvellous strange pictures visions of his brain which he asserts he has seen. They have great merit.” 1 Charles Lamb. "Full of feeling and delicacy, and looked on with wonder and respect by the world."-PILKINGTON'S DICTIONARY OF PAINTERS. BRITTON'S ENGLISH CITIES, Sixty Plates and Twenty four Wood-cuts, 4to. half morocco, gilt leaves, 11. 16s. (published at 71. 4s. boards) 1835 BRITTON'S ARCHITECTURAL ANTIQUITIES OF GREAT BRITAIN, Three Hundred and Sixty Plates, 5 vols. 4to. half morocco elegant, gilt leaves, (published at 347. 10.) for 121. 12s. 1836 BRITTON'S CATHEDRALS OF ENGLAND. Three Hundred Plates, by LE KEUX, 5 vols. 4to. half morocco elegant, gilt leaves, (pnblished at 351.) for 12. 128. 'Lond. 1836 The Cathedrals are sold separately, in cloth, at the following reduced prices: ! On Large Paper only the following can be had : 550 3 3 0 3 3 0 "If you ask a well educated American, when he visits England, what objects in the mother country have impressed him most, he will answer, " ITS CATHEDRALS." Place him in YORK MINSTER OF WESTMINSTER ABBEY, and he no longer thinks of comparing England to America, the "Religio Loci" makes itself felt, it awakens in him ancestral feeling of which he was before unconscious, and he then begins to understand that, in the thoughts and emotions which carry us back to past ages, and connect us with the generations which are gone, there is something more soothing, more salutary for the heart, and more elevating also, than in all the anticipations with which a young and emulous nation looks onward to the future. We have heard more than one American say, that it is worth crassing the Atlantic to see some of our CATHEDRALS. "The pride with which we now regard these stately monuments of antiquity is one proof of national improvement in feeling, as well as in taste and knowledge." DR. SOUTHEY. Mr. BRITTON, in his CATHEDRAL AND ARCHITECTURAL ANTIQUITIES, has presented us with a large variety of objects most admirably delineated by the most distinguished artists who have followed that peculiar line of drawing and engraving. In the fifth volume of his ARCHITECTURAL ANTIQUITIES he has collected nearly all the different opinions on the question, amounting to upwards of fifty, extracted from set treatises or incidental disquisitions."-EDINBURGH REVIEW. BRITTO N'S ANCIENT ECCLESIASTICAL ARCHITECTURE OF GREAT BRITAIN, Eighty Plates, 4to. half-bound morocco, uncut, (published at 67. 15s.) for 2l. 12s. 6d. 1835 In this volume the buildings are classed and arranged in chronological order, whereby the progressive and almost imperceptible changes of style are defined. From the earliest specimens to the reign of Elizabeth, almost every variety of design, and every successful novelty are displayed; and these are engraved in plan, section, elevation, and perspective view, for the purpose of accurate and satisfactory delineation. By this mode, it is presumed that a grammar of English Architecture is provided for the young student, and its elements are plainly and simply deveJoped. A Dictionary of Terms, with definitions, &c. is added. This forms the FIFTH VOLUME OF THE ARCHITECTURAL ANTIQUITIES, and is printed with a separate Title. CONEY'S BEAUTIES of CONTINENTAL ARCHITECTURE, Twenty-eight Plates, and Fifty-six Vignettes, imperial 4to. half bound, morocco elegant, gilt leaves, (published at 4l. 48.) reduced to 11. 16s. 1843 COOPER'S (T. S.) DESIGNS FÖR CATTLE PICTURES, Thirty-four Plates, royal folio, half-bound morocco elegant, gilt leaves, 31. 3s. (published at 51. 5s.) 1837 Very few copies remain for sale, and the drawings are rubbed off the stones. COOPER'S SPLENDID GROUPS OF CATTLE, drawn from Nature, Twenty-six Plates, royal folio, half-bound morocco elegant, gilt leaves, 21. 16s. (published at 4l. 4s.) 1839 "There is an artless and homely nature is this artist's figures, whether of animals or human beings, which we have always admired, and never more so than in this delightful volume. As lithographs the subjects are at once softly and clearly rendered."-Athenæum. COTMAN'S ARCHITECTURAL ANTIQUITIES OF NORMANDY, One Hundred Plates, 2 vols. in 1, folio, halfbound morocco elegant, top edges gilt, (published at 127. 12s.) 4l. 10s. LARGE PAPER, 2 vols. folio, cloth, 10l. 10s. (published at 21.) 1822 Hints on ELSAM'S DESIGNS FOR COTTAGES. 1816 FIELDING'S ART OF ENGRAVING, with the Modes of Operation, Ten Plates and Eight Woodcuts, 8vo. cloth gilt, 9s. (published at 12s.) 1844 FLAXMAN'S ANATOMICAL STUDIES, for the use of Artists, Eighteen Plates by LANDSEER, folio, cloth, 11. 1s. 1835 FLAXMAN'S COMPOSITIONS FROM DANTE, One Hundred and Eleven Plates, oblong 4to. half bound morocco, (published at 41. 4s.) for 21, 2s. "Flaxman has translated Dante best, for he has translated it into the universal language of nature."--Lord Byron. 66 THE FORGET ME NOT." Containing Contributions in Prose and Poetry by the best Authors, illustrated with upwards of Two Hundred and Ten Plates, by the first Artists, from 1828 to 1845 inclusive, 18 vols. 12mo. elegantly bound, with full gilt backs and gilt leaves, reduced to 31. 128, (published at 10. 16s.), The volumes are sold separately at the reduced price of 4s. 6d. each volume, elegantly bound, with gilt leaves (published at 12s.)-or in morocco, with gilt leaves, 5s. 6d. |