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Title: W. Kent & Co's Annual Catalogue, April 1859 Author: Unknown Language: English As this book started as an ASCII text book there are no pictures available. *** Start of this LibraryBlog Digital Book "W. Kent & Co's Annual Catalogue, April 1859" *** produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) APRIL, 1859. W. KENT & CO'S (LATE DAVID BOGUE'S) ANNUAL CATALOGUE. [Illustration] NEW ILLUSTRATED WORKS. =The Merrie Days of England=; Sketches of the Olden Time. By EDWARD M'DERMOTT. Illustrated with Twenty large Engravings from drawings by JOSEPH NASH, GEORGE THOMAS, BIRKET FOSTER, EDWARD CORBOULD, etc., and ornamented with numerous initial letters and tail pieces by HARRY ROGERS. Handsomely bound in cloth, decorated in the manner of the Elizabethan period. Crown 4to, 21s. cloth gilt, or 34s. morocco elegant or antique. =Dreamland.= By MARY ELIZABETH. Illustrated by JESSIE MACLEOD, and Printed in Tints by Hanhart. The list of Illustrations comprises The Poet's Dream--Youth's Dream of Ambition--The Exile's Dream--Age's Dream of the Past--Dream of the Criminal--The Conqueror's Dream--The Merchant's Dream--The Miser's Dream--The Murderer's Dream--A Dream of Happiness--A Dream of Plenty--A Dream of Peace--The Dream of the Brave Knight. This book, from the very exquisite manner in which it is got up, deserves a place on every drawing-room table. Demy 4to, richly bound, 21s. plain; 42s. highly coloured. =The Loves of the Poets=; or, Portraits of Ideal Beauty: being a series of original Steel Engravings, drawn by the most eminent Artists, and engraved by MOTE, with Illustrative Text by TENNYSON, WORDSWORTH, etc. Demy 4to, richly ornamented, 21s. plain; 42s. coloured. =The Miller's Daughter.= By ALFRED TENNYSON. Illustrated with Seventeen Steel Engravings, drawn by A. L. BOND, and engraved by MOTE. With a Portrait of the Author. Small 4to, handsome cloth binding, 16s.; morocco, 24s. =The Fables of Æsop and Others.= Translated into Human Nature, with Twenty-five humorous Illustrations by CHARLES H. BENNETT, author of "Shadows." Small 4to, ornamental boards, 6s. plain; 10s. 6d. coloured. "A more amusing, and else a more instructive work, it is not easy to imagine."--_Observer._ =Christmas with the Poets=: A Collection of English Poetry relating to the Festival of Christmas. Upwards of Fifty Engravings from Drawings by BIRKET FOSTER, and numerous Initial Letters and Borders printed in gold. New Edition, with additional Embellishments, super-royal 8vo, richly bound, 21s.; morocco, 31s. 6d. =Merry Pictures by Comic Hands=; being a Collection of Humorous Designs by PHIZ, CROWQUILL, DOYLE, LEECH, MEADOWS, HINE, etc., with Illustrative Text. Oblong folio, handsome cover by Crowquill, 12s. =Milton's L'Allegro and Il Penseroso=: with upwards of Thirty Illustrations, drawn and etched by BIRKET FOSTER. The text printed in red. Super-royal 8vo, neatly bound, 21s.; morocco, 31s. 6d. "Altogether one of the handsomest and most beautiful books which has come under our notice; it deserves a place on every drawing-room table."--_Morning Post._ =Longfellow's Poetical Works, Illustrated.= New and Enlarged Edition. Including "Evangeline," "Voices of the Night," "Seaside and Fireside," "The Golden Legend," and other Poems. With One Hundred and Seventy Engravings on Wood, from Designs by BIRKET FOSTER, JANE E. HAY, and JOHN GILBERT. Crown 8vo, 21s. cloth; 30s. morocco. "Evangeline," separately, 10s. 6d. cloth; 16s. morocco. "Voices of the Night," "Seaside," &c., 15s. cloth; 21s. morocco. =Longfellow's Golden Legend, Illustrated.= A New and Revised Edition, with numerous Alterations and Notes by the Author. Illustrated by BIRKET FOSTER. Crown 8vo, 12s. cloth; 21s. morocco. =Longfellow's Courtship of Miles Standish=, and other Poems. Illustrated by JOHN ABSOLON, BIRKET FOSTER, and M. S. MORGAN. 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Acting Charades, 10 Architectural Works, 7 Arnold's (Edwin) Poems, 9 Balance of Beauty, 26 Ball Room Polka, 11 ---- ---- Preceptor, 11 Beattie and Collins, 5 Bertie's Indestructible Treasury, 21 Bible Gallery, 4 ---- Women of the, 4 Bingley's Tales, 21 Boat (The) and the Caravan, 7, 20 Blakey's Angler's Guide, 27 Bloxam's Architecture, 8 Book and its Story, 25 ---- and its Missions, 25, 30 Boswell's Johnson, 24 Boyhood of Great Men, 6 Boy Princes, 6 Boy's Book of Modern Travel, 6, 19 Boy's Own Book, 19 Brandon's Architectural Works, 7 Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress, 3 Byron Beauties, 3 Capern's Poems, 10 Capern's Ballads, 10 Cheever's Whaleman's Adventures, 20 Child's Drawing Books, 23 Child's First Lesson Book, 20 Christian Graces in Olden Time, 3 Christmas with the Poets, 2 Colling's Gothic Architecture, 8 ---- ---- Ornament, 8 Comic Works, 14 ---- Almanack, 14 Comical Creatures from Wurtemburg, 15 ---- People, 15 ---- Story Books, 22 Coster's Lorrin, and other Poems, 10 Cottage Gardener's Dictionary, 28 Cowper's Poems, 4 Cracker Bon-Bon for Christmas, 10 Crosland's Memorable Women, 20 Cruikshank's (Geo.) Works, 14 ---- ---- Fairy Library, 21 Curiosities of Modern Travel, 7 Dale's Poems, 10 Dictionaries, 13 Domestic Architecture, 8 ---- Hints, 27 Drawing Books, 23 Dreamland, 1 Edgar's Boyhood of Great Men, 18 ---- Footprints of Famous Men, 18 ---- Boy Princes, 18 ---- History for Boys, 18 ---- Heroes of England, 18 ---- Wars of the Roses, 18 English without a Master, 29 Etiquette for the Ladies, 11 ---- ---- ---- Gentlemen, 11 ---- of Courtship, 11 Euclid, Symbolical, 24 Fables of Æsop, 2, 15 Footprints of Famous Men, 6 French Dictionary, Miniature, 13 ---- without a Master, 29 Games for Christmas, 10 German without a Master, 29 Glenny's Handbook to Flower-garden, 28 ---- Catechism of Gardening, 28 ---- Garden Almanac, 28 Glossary of Architecture, 8 Goldsmith's Poetical Works, 9 Goldsmith's Works, 24 Gourmet's Guide to Rabbit Cooking, 27 Graces, Gallery of the, 4 Grimm's Household Stories, 11, 19 Guizot's Young Student, 20 Gutch's Scientific Pocket Book, 12 Handbook of Pencil Drawing, 11 Harding's Early Drawing Book, 23 Harry's Ladder to Learning, 21 ---- Book of Poetry, 21 Health for the Million, 24 Heath's Waverley Gallery, 3 Heroes of Asgard, 20 ---- of England, 6, 18 Heroines of Shakspeare, 3 Hervey's Meditations, 24 Hints for the Table, 27 History for Boys, 7 Home Lesson Books, 19, 22 ---- Story Books, 19, 22 How to make Home Happy, 24 Indestructible Lesson Books, 22 ---- Pleasure Books, 22 Introd. to Gothic Architecture, 8 Italian Without a Master, 29 Jerrold (Douglas) Life of, 5 ---- ---- Wit and Opinions of, 27 Johnson's Lives of the Poets, 24 Julien's Studies of Heads, 23 ---- Human Figure, 23 King's Interest Tables, 24 Ladies' Drawing-Room Book, 26 Language of Flowers, 4, 11 Latin Without a Master, 29 Lectures on the Great Exhibition, 12 Lionel Fitzgibbon, 27 Little Boy's Own Book, 19 ---- Mary's Books, 21 ---- ---- Treasury, 21 ---- ---- Lesson Book, 21 Longfellow's Poems, 2, 9 ---- Hyperion, 2 ---- Golden Legend, 2, 9 ---- Kavanagh, 2 ---- Prose Works, 10 ---- Song of Hiawatha, 9 ---- Miles Standish, 3, 9 Lorrin, and other Poems, 10 Loves of the Poets, 1 Mackay's (Charles) Egeria, 10 ---- ---- Town Lyrics, 10 Manuals of Instruction, 22 Massey's (G.) Babe Christabel, 9 ---- ---- Craigcrook Castle, 10 ---- ---- Burns (Robert), 9 Mayhew's Acting Charades, 10 ---- Peasant Boy Philosopher, 18 ---- Sandboys' Adventures, 15 ---- Wonders of Science, 18 Memoirs of the Queens of Prussia, 26 Men of the Time, 5 Merrie Days of England, 1 Merry Pictures, 2 Mia and Charlie, 20 Miller's Daughter, 2 Miller's (T.) Poems for Children, 21 Milton's Poetical Works, 4 ---- L'Allegro and Il Penseroso, 2 Museum of Painting and Sculpture, 4 Musgrave's Ramble in Normandy, 7 National Magazine, 30 Ogleby's Adventures, 15 Oldbuck's Adventures, 15 Old Faces in New Masks, 10 Painters (The) of All Nations, History of, 25 Panoramic View of Palestine, 24 Parlour Magic, 10, 20 Pellatt on Glass-making, 4 Phillips's Etchings of Familiar Life, 23 Poe's Poetical Works, 9 Poetry of the Year, 3 Portraits of Ladies of Distinction, 4 Queens of Prussia, Memoirs of the, 26 Raffaelle's Cartoons, 3 Recollections of a Detective. Second Series, 27 Reid's (Capt. M.) Desert Home, 17 ---- ---- Boy Hunters, 17 ---- ---- Young Voyageurs, 17 ---- ---- Forest Exiles, 17 ---- ---- Bush-Boys, 17 ---- ---- Young Yägers, 17 ---- ---- Plant Hunters, 17 ---- ---- Ran away to Sea, 17 Relics of Genius, 6 Rival (The) Kings, 19 Robinson Crusoe, 11, 20 Romance of Modern Travel, 7 Round Games, 11 St. Leonard, 26 Scott's Poems, 5 Shadows, 11 Shakspeare, Heroines, 3 Shilling's Worth of Sense, 11 Shreds and Patches, 26 Sidney Grey, 20 Smith's (Alex.) Poems, 9 ---- ---- Sonnets on the War, 9 Soyer (Alex.) Life of, 27 Southey's Life of Nelson, 7, 20 Spanish without a Master, 29 Suggestions in Design, 12 Taylor's (Jeff.) Young Islanders, 20 Tennyson's Miller's Daughter, 2 Thomson's Seasons, 5 Timbs's Curiosities of London, 16 ---- Curiosities of History, 16 ---- Popular Errors, 16 ---- School Days of Eminent Men, 16 ---- Things Not Generally Known, 16 ---- Curiosities of Science, 16 ---- Painting Popularly Explained, 16 Traditions of London, 10 Vegetable Kingdom, 28 Wars of the Roses, 6, 18 Waverley Gallery, 3 Weather Book, the, 11 Webster (Daniel) Orations, 26 Webster's Quarto Dictionaries, 13 ---- Smaller Dictionary, 13 Williams's Euclid, 24 Winkles's English Cathedrals, 8 Women of the Bible, 4 Wonders of Travel, 7 Worsley's Little Drawing Book, 23 Year Book of Facts, 12 Young Lady's Oracle, 11 THOMAS HARRILD, Printer, Salisbury Square, Fleet Street, London. 86, FLEET STREET, AND PATERNOSTER ROW, LONDON. Transcribers Notes: Italics are shown thus: _sloping_. Bold type is shown thus: =shout=. Small capitals have been capitalised. In the index two '----' have been added to include Burns in Massey's works. On page 2, a bad scan of a word, looked like 'eke', has been altered to 'else'. Asterisms have been changed to '***'. Archaic and variable spelling has been preserved. Variations in hyphenation and compound words have been preserved. Obvious typos were silently corrected. *** End of this LibraryBlog Digital Book "W. Kent & Co's Annual Catalogue, April 1859" *** Copyright 2023 LibraryBlog. All rights reserved.