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... Frontispiece , which presents an example of what can be accomplished by Wood Engraving in its highest form . The subject is " A CHARGE OF WITCHCRAFT , " by H. G. GLINDONI , exhibited in the Royal Academy Exhibition of 1880 , and may be ...
... Frontispiece , which presents an example of what can be accomplished by Wood Engraving in its highest form . The subject is " A CHARGE OF WITCHCRAFT , " by H. G. GLINDONI , exhibited in the Royal Academy Exhibition of 1880 , and may be ...
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... frontispiece represents the most fragile , yet the most graceful of flowers , the Bindweed , with its large cup or bell - shaped corolla . The Stork's Bill , with its exquisite pink blossoms and elaborate foliage is here - the humble ...
... frontispiece represents the most fragile , yet the most graceful of flowers , the Bindweed , with its large cup or bell - shaped corolla . The Stork's Bill , with its exquisite pink blossoms and elaborate foliage is here - the humble ...
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... frontispiece is a group of the artist's two sisters , to whom she dedicates her work . The simple , lady - like treatment of this subject is the best proof of all of the taste and grace of the fair artist . Jack and Gill . By Louisa M ...
... frontispiece is a group of the artist's two sisters , to whom she dedicates her work . The simple , lady - like treatment of this subject is the best proof of all of the taste and grace of the fair artist . Jack and Gill . By Louisa M ...
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... frontispiece ( representing old Kate's dream ) , which we reproduced in our last CHRISTMAS BOOKSELLER , are all here again , to amuse a fresh band of young readers . We wish them all the success they so richly deserve . The Fisherman of ...
... frontispiece ( representing old Kate's dream ) , which we reproduced in our last CHRISTMAS BOOKSELLER , are all here again , to amuse a fresh band of young readers . We wish them all the success they so richly deserve . The Fisherman of ...
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... frontispiece . For a clergyman or a religious friend no more appropriate present than this could be selected . Roger Willoughby ; or , The Times of Benbow . A Tale of the Sea and Land . By W. H. G. Kingston . With Illustrations ...
... frontispiece . For a clergyman or a religious friend no more appropriate present than this could be selected . Roger Willoughby ; or , The Times of Benbow . A Tale of the Sea and Land . By W. H. G. Kingston . With Illustrations ...
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Page 234 - The Moor and the Loch. Containing Minute Instructions in all Highland Sports, with Wanderings over Crag and Corrie, Flood and Fell. By JOHN COLQUHOUN.
Page 207 - THE HISTORY OF DON QUIXOTE DE LA MANCHA. Translated from the Spanish of MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA by MOTTEUX. With copious Notes (including the Spanish Ballads), and an Essay on the Life and Writings of CERVANTES by JOHN G. LOCKHART. Preceded by a Short Notice of the Life and Works of PETER ANTHONY MOTTEUX by HENRI VAN LAUN. Illustrated with Sixteen Original Etchings by R. DE Los Rios.
Page 91 - The Pointed Prayer Book, being the Book of Common Prayer with the Psalter or Psalms of David, pointed as they are to be sung or said in Churches.
Page 190 - ADVENTURES OF ROBINSON CRUSOE, of York, Mariner, who lived eight and twenty years all alone in an uninhabited island on the coast of America, near the mouth of the Great River of Oroonoque; having been cast on shore by shipwreck, wherein all the men perished but himself. With an account how he was at last as strangely delivered by Pyrates. Written by himself.
Page 125 - Museum of Science and Art. THE MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND ART. Edited by DIONYSIUS LARDNER, DCL, formerly Professor of Natural Philosophy and Astronomy in University College, London. With upwards of 1 200 Engravings on Wood.
Page 244 - Alas ! alas ! Why, all the souls that were, were forfeit once; And He that might the vantage best have took, Found out the remedy: How would you be, If he, which is the top of judgment, should But judge you as you are? O, think on that; And mercy then will breathe within your lips, Like man new made.
Page 81 - NOBLE THOUGHTS IN NOBLE LANGUAGE : A Collection of Wise and Virtuous Utterances, in Prose and Verse, from the Writings of the Known Great and the Great Unknown. With an Index of Authors. Compiled and Analytically Arranged by HENRY SOUTHGATE, Author of " Many Thoughts of Many Minds," "Musings about Men,
Page 91 - MT Ciceronis de Natura Deorum Libri Tres, with Introduction and Commentary by JOSEPH B. MAYOR, MA, Professor of Moral Philosophy at King's College, London, together with a new collation of several of the English MSS.
Page 161 - The Encyclopaedic Dictionary. A New and Original Work of Reference to all the Words in the English Language, with a Full Account of their Origin, Meaning, Pronunciation, and Use.
Page 65 - A Short History of Natural Science and of the Progress of Discovery, From the Time of the Greeks to the Present Time.