A Catalogue of the Books and Manuscripts of Harry Elkins Widener, Volume 2 |
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Page 38 - THE STORY OF THE GLITTERING PLAIN, which has been also called The Land of the Living Men, or The Acre of the Undying.
Page 282 - Oriental field sports ; being a complete, detailed and accurate description of the wild sports of the East ; and exhibiting, in a novel and interesting manner, the natural history of the elephant, the...
Page 137 - Mr. William Shakespear's Comedies Histories, and Tragedies Published according to the true Original Copies. Unto which is added, Seven Plays, Never before (!) Printed in Folio : Viz. PERICLES PRINCE OF TYRE. THE LONDON PRODIGAL. 'THB HISTORY or THOMAS, LORD CROMWELL. SIR JOHN OLDCASTLE LORD COBHAM. THE PURITAN WIDOW. A YORKSHIRE TRAGEDY. THE TRAGEDY OF LOCRINE.
Page 287 - The River Duddon, A SERIES OF SONNETS: VAUDRACOUR AND JULIA: AND OTHER POEMS. To which is annexed, A Topographical Description of the Country of the Lakes, In the North of England.
Page 30 - Licensed and Entred according to Order. London printed, and are to be sold by Peter Parker under Creed Church neer Aldgate ; And by Robert Boulter at the Turks Head in Bishopsgatestreet ; And Matthias Walker under St. Dunstons Church in Fleetstreet 1667.
Page 134 - The History of Thomas Ld- Cromwell. Sir John Oldcastle Lord Cobham. The Puritan Widow. A York-shire Tragedy. The Tragedy of Locrine.
Page 38 - Here ends the book of the Works of Geoffrey Chaucer, edited by F. S. Ellis; ornamented with pictures designed by Sir Edward Burne-Jones, and engraved on wood by WH Hooper. Printed by me William Morris at the Kelmscott Press, Upper Mall, Hammersmith, in the county of Middlesex. Finished on the 8th day of May, 1896.] 2 blank 1., ii p., 1 1., 554 p.
Page 118 - Rowlandson, the Caricaturist. A Selection from his Works, with Anecdotal Descriptions of his Famous Caricatures, and a Sketch of his Life, Times, and Contemporaries. With nearly 400 Illustrations, mostly in Facsimile of the Originals. By JOSEPH GREGO, Author of "James Gillray, the Caricaturist ; his Life, Works, and Times.
Page 27 - The Costume of the original Inhabitants of the British Islands, from the earliest Periods to the sixth century; to which is added, that of the Gothic Nations on the western Coasts of the Baltic, the Ancestors of the Anglo-Saxons and Anglo-Danes.
Page 29 - THIS is true liberty, when freeborn men, Having to advise the public, may speak free ; Which he who can, and will, deserves high praise ; Who neither can, nor will, may hold his peace ; What can be juster in a state than this ? FROM HORACE.