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With 24 Illustrations and 3 Maps, 288 pp., extra fcap. 8vo, cloth Sixth Standard, for Boys. extra fcap, 8vo, cloth Sixth Standard, for Girls. extra fcap. 8vo, cloth With 100 Illustrations, 352 pp., With 40 Illustrations, 352 pp., Sixth Standard, for Mixed Classes. With 120 Illustrations, Reading Sheets, being the First Primer, in large type, for mounted on millboard and varnished, 16 sheets "The Illustrated English Readers will at once rank with the best of such books hitherto published. They are well illustrated with neatly-executed woodcuts, are printed in a bold type on good paper, and are very substantially bound."-Leeds Mercury. The publishers are to be congratulated on the production of a set of Readers in every way suited for elementary instruction."-Schoolmaster. "We heartily commend the series, as forming a noble substructure of a sound English education."— Educational News. Illustrated English Primer. Part I., 16 pp., sewed Illustrated English Primer. 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