The Genial Showman: Reminiscences of the Life of Artemus WardChatto and Windus, 1881 - 519 pagina's |
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Pagina 27 - Walton and Cotton's Complete Angler; or, The Contemplative Man's Recreation : being a Discourse of Rivers, Fishponds. Fish and Fishing, written by IZAAK WALTON ; and Instructions how to Angle for a Trout or Grayling in a clear Stream, by CHARLES COTTON.
Pagina 23 - Roll of Battle Abbey ; or, A List of the Principal Warriors who came over from Normandy with William the Conqueror, and Settled in this Country, AD 1066-7.
Pagina 6 - GEORGE CRUIKSHANK. Both Series Complete. " The illustrations of this volume . . . . are of quite sterling and admirable art, of a class precisely parallel in elevation to the character of the tales which they illustrate ; and the original etchings, as I have before said in the Appendix to my ' Elements of Drawing,' were unrivalled in masterfulness of touch since Rembrandt (in some qualities of delineation, unrivalled even by him).
Pagina 21 - 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.
Pagina 4 - Englishman's House, The : A Practical Guide to all interested in Selecting or Building a House, with full Estimates of Cost, Quantities, &c. By CJ RICHARDSON. Third Edition. With nearly 600 Illustrations. Ewald (Alex. Charles, FSA), Works by : Stories from the State Papers. With an Autotype Facsimile, Crown 8vo, cloth extra, 6s. The Life and Times of Prince Charles Stuart, Count of Albany, commonly called the Young Pretender.
Pagina 16 - Complete in Three Vols. Vol. I. contains the Plays complete, including the doubtful ones; Vol. II. the Poems and Minor Translations, with an Introductory Essay by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE. Vol. III. the Translations of the Iliad and Odyssey. Marlowe's Works. Including his Translations. Edited, with Notes and Introduction, by Col. CUNNINGHAM. One Vol. Massinger's Plays. From the Text of WILLIAM GIFFORD. With the addition of the Tragedy of
Pagina 2 - 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.
Pagina 20 - Held in Bondage. By OUIDA. Strathmore. By OUIDA. Chandos. By OUIDA. Under Two Flags. By OUIDA. Idalia. By OUIDA. Cecil Castlemaine. By OUIDA. Tricotrin. By OUIDA. Puck. By OUIDA. Folle Farine. By OUIDA. Dog of Flanders. By OUIDA. Pascarel. By OUIDA. Two Little Wooden Shoes. By OUIDA. Signa. By OUIDA. In a Winter City. By OUIDA. Ariadne.
Pagina 9 - Hood's (Thomas) Choice Works, In Prose and Verse. Including the CREAM OF THE COMIC ANNUALS.
Pagina 1 - Chaucer: Chaucer for Children: A Golden Key. By Mrs. HR HAWEIS. With Eight Coloured Pictures and numerous Woodcuts by the Author. New Ed., small 410, cloth extra, 6s.