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LONDON.-Stanford's Guide for the Stranger and Resident, containing Information respecting Conveyances, Places of Resort, Police and Postal Regulations, Public and Private Buildings, Museums, Scientific and other Institutions, with Excursions in the Environs, Maps, &c. Price 3s. 6d.

PARIS. Stanford's Paris Guide. A New and revised Edition, containing Instructions on Routes, Hotels, Restaurateurs, Public Conveyances, Police Regulations, Tables of French Money and Measures, a short History of Paris, its Government, Public Buildings, Ecclesiastical Edifices, Curiosities, Places of Public Amusement, Environs of Paris, &c. &c. With Plans of Paris, its Environs, Map to illustrate the Routes, and a Frontispiece. 3s. 6d. ISLE of WIGHT.-A Guide to the Isle of Wight, its Approaches and Places of Resort, with numerous Walks, Drives, and Excursions, and a general synopsis of its Topography, Agriculture, Products, and Manufactures; Local Affairs, Civil and Religious; Antiquities and Architecture; History, Geology, Botany, and Zoology. By the Rev. EDMUND VENABLES, M.A., and eminent Local Naturalists. With Map, containing popular References to Fossiliferous Localities, Antiquities, Landing-places for Boats, &c.; and an Appendix, showing the Island, Southampton Water, and the adjacent country, on a reduced scale, geologically coloured. Price 78. 6d. ; or, with the Map mounted on linen, and in separate case, 10s. 6d.

"We have always taken an interest in Guide-Books, from the belief that they may be made very important educational agents to large classes of readers; and we have therefore especial pleasure in recommending Mr. Venables' volume as one of the best executed specimens of the kind that have ever fallen under our critical notice." SATURDAY REVIEW.

NORTH WALES.-A Guide through North Wales, including Anglesey, Caernarvonshire, Denbighshire, Flintshire, Merionethshire and Montgomeryshire, with the adjacent Borders, including the Basin of the River Dee, and the Upper Basin of the Severn as far as Shrewsbury. Designed to accompany the Ordnance Maps, and arranged according to the Natural Structure of the Country, so as to direct attention to all parts, whether traversed by public vehicles or only accessible to private carriages, horsemen, and pedestrians. By WILLIAM CATHRALL, Author of " Wanderings in North Wales." With a Notice of the Geology, by Professor A. C. RAMSAY, Local Director of the Geological Survey of Great Britain. Price 5s.

"Its information is full, and what is still more important, well selected and complete..... It is one of the best Guides ever composed." DAILY NEWS.

"So well arranged and systematic is this work, that we can safely predicate that it will supersede all the other guides to the picturesque beauties of North Wales." NEWS OF THE WORLD.

LAKES, MOUNTAINS, and NORTH-WEST COAST. A Guide to the Lakes, Mountains, and North-West Coast of England, from the Dee to the Solway, descriptive of Scenery, Historical, Legendary, and Archæological, with Notices of their Botany and Geology. By MACKENZIE E. C. WALCOTT, M.A. With Map, price 3s. 6d.

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Guide-Books for Tourists.

WEYMOUTH and ISLAND of PORTLAND.A Guide to the Geology of Weymouth and the Island of Portland, containing a Map of the District, Geological Sections, Coast Views, Figures of the characteristic Fossils, and other Illustrations, with numerous Notes on the Botany and Zoology of the Coast and Neighbourhood. By ROBERT DAMON. Price 5s.

A SUPPLEMENT to the HANDBOOK to the GEOLOGY of WEYMOUTH, consisting of Nine Lithographic Plates of Fossils. Drawn by C. R. BONE. Price 2s. 6d.

SOUTH COAST of ENGLAND.-A Guide to the South Coast of England, from the Reculvers to Land's End, and from Cape Cornwall to the Devon Foreland: including all the information necessary for Tourists and Visitors. With 4 Maps. By MACKENZIE E. Č. WALCOTT, M.A. Price 78.

To be had separately

KENT, with Map, 2s. SUSSEX, with Map, 2s.

HAMPSHIRE and DORSET, with Map, 2s. DEVON and CORNWALL, with Map, 2s. "Most useful accessories, being careful products of a skilful hand, and comprising, as might be expected, much special information, the result of intelligent inquiry. It is the object of the author to afford that amount of information which an intelligent host would communicate to his guest, or the visitor be glad to acquire and retain, embodied in a book, as a memorial of the scenes through which he has passed."-TIMES.

"Neat little Guide-Books, well printed, and so well written as to be good reading apart from travel, while they are at the same time furnished with useful itineraries and information for travellers." EXAMINER.

"They are valuable additions to our literature."-DAILY NEWS. CHANNEL ISLANDS. A New Guide to Jersey, Guernsey, Sark, Herm, Jethou, Alderney, &c.; with Notes on their History, Geology, Climate, Agriculture, Laws, &c. By F. F. DALLY, Esq. 2d Edition, with Map, price 3s. 6d. ; or separately,

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CATHEDRALS of the UNITED KINGDOM.— Their History, Architecture, and Traditions; Notices of their Eminent Ecclesiastics and the Monuments of their Illustrious Dead; also short Notes of the Objects of Interest in each Cathedral City, and a popular Introduction to Church Architecture. By MACKENZIE E. C. WALCOTT, M.A. 2d Edition, price 5s.

MINSTERS

and ABBEY RUINS of the UNITED KINGDOM; their History, Architecture, Monuments, and Traditions. With Notices of the larger Parish Churches and Collegiate Chapels. By MACKENZIE E. C. WALCOTT, M.A. 4s.

*** EDWARD STANFORD has on Sale at all times the largest Stock in London of Guide-Books, and English and Foreign Travelling and Geological Maps, Catalogues of which may be had on application.

London: EDWARD STANFORD, 6 Charing Cross, S.W., Agent for the sale of the Ordnance Maps, Geological Survey Maps, and Admiralty Charts.

THE

EAST COAST OF ENGLAND

By the same Author.

1. South Coast of England.-Guide to the South

Coast of England, from the Reculvers to Land's End, and from Cape
Cornwall to the Devon Foreland, including all the information desirable
for Tourists and Visitors, as well as for Railway and other short
Excursions. With 4 Maps. Price 78.

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HANTS and DORSET, with Map. Price 2s.

DEVON and CORNWALL, with Map. Price 28.

2 East Coast of England. - A Guide to the

East Coast of England, from the Thames to the Tweed, descriptive of
Scenery, Historical, Legendary, and Archæological; with Notes of its
Botany and Geology. With Map.

Separately,

ESSEX, SUFFOLK, and NORFOLK, with Map. Price 2s.
LINCOLN and YORKSHIRE, with Map. Price 2s.

DURHAM and NORTHUMBERLAND, with Map. Price 28.

3. Cathedrals of the United Kingdom: Their

History, Architecture, Monuments, and Traditions; with short Notes of the chief Objects of Interest in each Cathedral City, and a Popular Introduction to Church Architecture. Cloth, 5s. 2nd Edition, enlarged.

4. Minsters and Abbey Ruins of the United

Kingdom: their History, Architecture, Monuments, and Traditions; with
Notices of the larger Parish Churches and Collegiate Chapels. 4s.

5. North-West Coast: Lakes and Mountains of England, from the Dee to the Solway. With a Map. 3s. 6d.

6. William of Wykeham and his Colleges. £1.1s.

illustrated.

7. The English Ordinal. 7s. 6d.

8. English Episcopate. Biographical Memoirs of

the Bishops of England and her Colonies. Demy 8vo. No. 1. Diocese of London, sewed, 2s. 6d. ; 2. Diocese of Chester, 6d.; 3. Diocese of Peterborough, 6d.; 4. Diocese of Gloucester, 6d.; 5. Diocese of Carlisle, 6d.

9. Memorials of Westminster. 7s. 6d. illustrated.

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MACKENZIE E. C. WALCOTT, M.A.

OF EXETER COLLEGE, OXFORD

"If you would have a man to put his travel into a little room, and in
a short time to gather much, let him carry with him some card or book
describing the country where he travelleth, which will be a good key to his
enquiry"
LORD BACON

LONDON

EDWARD STANFORD, 6 CHARING CROSS, S.W.

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