The Bibliographer's Manual of English Literature: Containing an Account of Rare, Curious, and Useful Books, Published in Or Relating to Great Britain and Ireland, from the Invention of Printing; with Bibliographical and Critical Notices, Collations of the Rarer Articles, and the Prices at which They Have Been Sold |
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... preface ; but numerous communications , public and private , seem to require earlier re- cognition . Some well - meant advisers have suggested the omission of what they deemed unimportant articles of past literature , and the sub ...
... preface ; but numerous communications , public and private , seem to require earlier re- cognition . Some well - meant advisers have suggested the omission of what they deemed unimportant articles of past literature , and the sub ...
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... boon to his confrêres and to literary men , than as an object of mercantile profit , and he trusts it will be received as such . April 30 , 1858 . HENRY G. BOHN . LOWNDES ' PREFACE , WRITTEN JANUARY 1 , 1834 . iv ...
... boon to his confrêres and to literary men , than as an object of mercantile profit , and he trusts it will be received as such . April 30 , 1858 . HENRY G. BOHN . LOWNDES ' PREFACE , WRITTEN JANUARY 1 , 1834 . iv ...
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... PREFACE , WRITTEN JANUARY 1 , 1834 . In proportion to the advancement and general diffusion of litera- ture ought to be the publication of references to , and accounts of , the multifarious works with which the genius of past and of the ...
... PREFACE , WRITTEN JANUARY 1 , 1834 . In proportion to the advancement and general diffusion of litera- ture ought to be the publication of references to , and accounts of , the multifarious works with which the genius of past and of the ...
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... work having exceeded what was originally contemplated . To these notices are annexed , First . A concise account of the merits of the work , taken occasionally from Reviews , but more generally from writers cf PREFACE . vii.
... work having exceeded what was originally contemplated . To these notices are annexed , First . A concise account of the merits of the work , taken occasionally from Reviews , but more generally from writers cf PREFACE . vii.
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... about every edition of every work , which renders it imperative that it should be carefully referred to by an editor of such work it may also happen that a first edition PREFACE . ix The importance of knowing the exact character of, and ...
... about every edition of every work , which renders it imperative that it should be carefully referred to by an editor of such work it may also happen that a first edition PREFACE . ix The importance of knowing the exact character of, and ...
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Page 263 - Bibliographer's Manual of English Literature. Containing an Account of Rare and Curious BOOKS published in or relating to Great Britain and Ireland, from the Invention of Printing, with Biographical Notices and Prices, by WT Lowndes.
Page 513 - The Whole Contention betweene the two Famous Houses, Lancaster and Yorke. With the Tragicall ends of the good Duke Humfrey, Richard Duke of Yorke, and King Henrie the sixt. Diuided into two Parts : And newly corrected and enlarged. Written by William Shakespeare, Gent. Printed at London, for TP" A small quarto, containing 64 leaves, A to Q in fours.
Page 426 - The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer, compared with the Former Editions and many valuable MSS. Out of which, Three Tales are added which were never before Printed ; By John Urry, Student of Christ-Church, Oxon, Deceased : Together •with a Glossary, By a Student of the same College.
Page 545 - English Synonymes Explained in Alphabetical Order. With copious Illustrations and Examples drawn from the Best Writers.
Page 321 - News from France : in a letter, giving a relation of the present state of the difference between the French king and the court of Rome...
Page 328 - Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy, he said, was the only book that ever took him out of bed two hours sooner than he wished to rise.
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Page 532 - THE SEPULCHRAL BRASSES IN NORFOLK AND SUFFOLK, tending to illustrate the Ecclesiastical, Military, and Civil Costume of former ages, as well as to preserve Memorials of the most ancient Families in those Counties ; with letter-press Descriptions, an Introductory Essay on Sepulchral Memorials, by several eminent Antiquaries, and a General Index.
Page 316 - Crests, and Mottoes, from the Earliest Period to the Present Time, including the late Grants by the College of Arms.
Page 403 - The LIFE of MARY, QUEEN of SCOTS. Drawn from the State Papers With Six subsidiary Memoirs: 1.