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... their chief value . In Lord Spencer's collection there is an octavo edition of Shakspeare , bequeathed to him by Mr. Stevens , illustrated by many curious specimens of graphic art 2 LIBRARIES OF NEW YORK . JOHN ALLAN'S.
... their chief value . In Lord Spencer's collection there is an octavo edition of Shakspeare , bequeathed to him by Mr. Stevens , illustrated by many curious specimens of graphic art 2 LIBRARIES OF NEW YORK . JOHN ALLAN'S.
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... illustrated works , or those in which plates have been inserted which do not belong to the volume , but are pertinent to the subject treated , comprising upward of one hundred and twenty - five volumes , many of which are illustrated ...
... illustrated works , or those in which plates have been inserted which do not belong to the volume , but are pertinent to the subject treated , comprising upward of one hundred and twenty - five volumes , many of which are illustrated ...
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... illustrated with great care by engravings brought together in this connection for the first and only time , are bound by binders of considerable note in their best manner . In addition is a unique copy of the Life of Sir Humphrey Davy ...
... illustrated with great care by engravings brought together in this connection for the first and only time , are bound by binders of considerable note in their best manner . In addition is a unique copy of the Life of Sir Humphrey Davy ...
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... illustrated Life of Mary Queen of Scots , by Buckingham , in four volumes , bound by Tarrant . A copy of the Catalogue Raisonné of select engravings , by Wilson , on large paper , illustrated by engravings collected by Mr. Allan ...
... illustrated Life of Mary Queen of Scots , by Buckingham , in four volumes , bound by Tarrant . A copy of the Catalogue Raisonné of select engravings , by Wilson , on large paper , illustrated by engravings collected by Mr. Allan ...
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... illustrated depart- ment of the collection is an edition of Robert Fulton on Canals , which contains , in addition to the engrav ings , all the original drawings executed by Fulton himself , from which the engravings were afterward made ...
... illustrated depart- ment of the collection is an edition of Robert Fulton on Canals , which contains , in addition to the engrav ings , all the original drawings executed by Fulton himself , from which the engravings were afterward made ...
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Page 354 - I may surely be contented without the praise of perfection, which, if I could obtain, in this gloom of solitude, what would it avail me? I have protracted my work till most of those whom I wished to please have sunk into the grave, and success and miscarriage are empty sounds: I therefore dismiss it with frigid tranquillity, having little to fear or hope from censure or from praise.
Page 311 - He spurred his courser on, Without stop or stay, down the rocky way, That leads to Brotherstone. He went not with the bold Buccleuch, His banner broad to rear; He went not 'gainst the English yew, To lift the Scottish spear. Yet his plate-jack...
Page 77 - The true Tragedie of Richard Duke of Yorke, and the death of good King Henrie the Sixt, with the whole contention betweene the two Houses Lancaster and Yorke, as it was sundrie times acted by the Right Honourable the Earle of Pembrooke his seruants.
Page 83 - And unto this impression is added seven playes, never before printed in folio. Viz. Pericles Prince of Tyre. The London ProdigalL The History of Thomas Ld. Cromwell. Sir John Oldcastle Lord Cobham. The Puritan Widow. A York-shire Tragedy. The Tragedy of Locrine.
Page 249 - Being a Narrative of the Troubles with the Indians in New England, from the First Planting thereof in the year 1607 to this present year, 1677.
Page 78 - 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...
Page 32 - I was passionately fond as a boy (it was one of the Greek plays we read thrice a year at Harrow) ; indeed that and the ' Medea' were the only ones, except the ' Seven before Thebes,
Page 429 - Her pure and eloquent blood Spoke in her cheeks, and so distinctly wrought, That one might almost say her body thought.
Page 108 - A SHORT STORY OF THE RISE, REIGN AND RUIN OF THE ANTINOMIANS, FAMILISTS AND LIBERTINES THAT INFECTED THE CHURCHES OF NEW ENGLAND...
Page 2 - a passion for possessing books; not so much to be instructed by them, as to gratify the eye by looking on them. He who is affected by this mania knows books only by their titles and dates, and is rather seduced by the exterior than the interior.