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1 8 B OKS PUBLISHED B Y Three Vols. royal 4to, cloth boards, 6 6s. Historical Portraits ; Upwards of 430 Engravings of Rare Prints. Comprising the Collections of RODD, RICHARDSON, CAULFIELD, &c. With Descriptive Text to every Plate, giving a brief outline of the most important Historical and Biographical Facts and Dates connected with each Portrait, and references to original Authorities. Two Vols. royal 8vo, with Coloured Frontispieces, cloth extra, z 55. Hope's Costume of the Ancient-s. Illustrated in upwards of 320 Outline Engravings, containing Re- presentations of Egyptian, Greek, and Roman Habits and Dresses. " The substance of many expensive -works, containing all that may b necessary to give to artists, and even to dramatic performers and to others engaged tn classical representations, an idea of ancient costumes sufficiently ample to prevent their offending in their performances by gross and obvious blunders. Crown 8vo, cloth extra, gilt, 7-r. 6d. Hood's (Thomas) Choice Works, In Prose and Verse. Including the CREAM OF THE COMIC ANNUALS. With Life of the Author, Portrait, and over Two Hundred original Illustrations. " Not only does the volume include the letter-known poems by the author, but also what is happily described as * the Cream of the Comic Annuals' Such delicious things as ' Don't you smell Fire ? ' ' The Parish Revolution,' and ' Huggins and Cream of the Comic Annuals' Such delicious The Parish ~ Duggin$ t will never want readers. " GRAPHIC. Crown 8vo, cloth extra, with Photographic Portrait, 6s. Hood's (Tom) Poems, Humorous and Pathetic. Edited, with a Memoir, by his Sister, FRANCES FREE- LING BRODERIP. " There are many poems in the volume ivJiich the very best judge might ivet^ mistake/or his father's werk." STANDARD. Square crown 8vo, in a handsome and specially-designed binding, gilt edges, 6s. Hood's (Tom) From Nowhere to the North Pole: A Noah's Arkaeological Narrative. With 25 Illus- trations by W. BRUNTON and E. C. BARNES. " The amusing letterpress is profusely interspersed with the jingling rhymes "which children love and learn so easily. Messrs. Bruntcn and Barnes do full justice to the writer s meaning, and a pleasanter result of the harmonious co- operation of author and artist could not be desired." TIMES.