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ROLL OF ARMS OF THE REIGN OF KING EDWARD II.

Edited by Sir HARRIS NICOLAS; to which is added, an "Ordinary" of the Arms mentioned by Jos. Gwilt, Esq. 8vo, cloth. 4s. 6d. (original price 10s. 6d.) On LARGE PAPER, 4to, cloth, 10s. (original price 21s.)

CALENDAR OF KNIGHTS; containing Lists of Knights Bachelors, British

Knights of the Garter, Thistle, Bath, St. Patrick, the Guelphic and Ionian Orders, from 1760 to 1828. By F. TOWNSEND, Windsor Herald. Post 8vo, cloth. 3s. (original price 98.)

A very useful volume for Genealogical and Biographical purposes.

THE SLOGANS OR WAR-CRIES OF THE NORTH OF ENGLAND, by M. AISLABIE DENHAM; with an Introduction on their Supposed Origin, by JOHN FENWICK; and Observations on Martial Mottoes, by W. HYLTON LONGSTAFFE. Post 8vo, elegantly printed, with Coats of Arms, Seals, &c., sewed. 6s. 6d.

ENEALOGISTS' MANUAL; or Guide to the various Public Records, Registers, Wills, Printed Books, and other Documents necessary to be consulted in tracing a Pedigree. With particulars of the days and hours each Öffice or Registry is available, the charges made, the objects and dates of their Records, &c. &c. ; the whole carefully compiled from Returns made expressly for this work; together with other Tables and Calendars useful to the Antiquary, Topographer, and Conveyancer. By MATTHEW COOKE. Thick 12mo, cloth. 6s. (nearly ready.)

Fine Arts.

PLAYING CARDS.-Facts and Speculations on the History of Playing Cards in

Europe. By W. A. CHATTO, author of the "History of Wood Engraving," with Illustrations by J. JACKSON. 8vo, profusely illustrated with engravings, both plain and coloured, cloth. £1. 1s.

"The inquiry into the origin and signification of the suits and their marks, and the heraldic, theological, and political emblems pictured from time to time, in their changes, opens a new field of antiquarian interest; and the perseverance with which Mr. Chatto has explored it leaves little to be gleaned by his successors. The plates with which the volume is enriched add considerably to its value in this point of view. It is not to be denied that, take it altogether, it contains more matter than has ever before been collected in one view upon the same subject. In spite of its faults,

it is exceedingly amusing; and the most critical reader cannot fail to be entertained by the variety of curious outlying learning Mr. Chatto has somehow contrived to draw into the investigations."-Atlas.

"Indeed the entire production deserves our warmest approbation."-Lit. Gaz.

"A perfect fund of antiquarian research, and most interesting even to persons who never play at cards." -Tait's Mag.

"A curious, entertaining and really learned book." -Rambler.

HOLBEIN'S DANCE OF DEATH, with an Historical and Literary

Introduction, by an Antiquary. Square post 8vo, with 53 Engravings, BEING THE MOST ACCURATE COPIES EVER EXECUTED OF THESE GEMS OF ART, and a frontispiece of an ancient bedstead at Aix-la-Chapelle, with a Dance of Death carved on it, engraved by Fairholt, cloth. 98.

"The designs are executed with a spirit and fidelity "Ces 53 Planches de Schlotthauer sont d'une exquite extraordinary.-They are indeed most truthful." quise perfection-Langlois, Essai sur les Dances des Morts, 1852,

-Athenæum.

CATALOGUE OF THE PRINTS which have been Engraved after

Martin Heemskerck. By T. KERRICH, Librarian to the University of Cambridge. 8vo, portrait, bds. 3s. 6d.

CATALOGUE OF PICTURES, composed chiefly by the most admired

Masters of the Roman, Florentine, Parman, Bolognese, Venetian, Flemish, and French Schools; with Descriptions and Critical Remarks. By ROBERT FOULIS. 3 vols. 12mo, cloth. 5s.

ME EMOIRS OF PAINTING, with a Chronological History of the Importation

of Pictures by the Great Masters into England since the French Revolution. By W. BUCHANAN. 2 vols. 8vo, bds., 7s. 6d. (original price £1. 6s.)

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[ISTORY OF THE ORIGIN AND ESTABLISHMENT OF GOTHIC ARCHITECTURE, and an Inquiry into the mode of Painting upon and Staining Glass, as practised in the Ecclesiastical Structures of the Middle Ages. By J. S. HAWKINS, F.S.A. Royal 8vo, 11 plates, bds. 4s. (original price 12s.)

John Russell Smith, 36, Soho Square, London.

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Popular Poetry, Tales, and Superstitions. THE NURSERY RHYMES OF ENGLAND, collected chiefly from

Oral Tradition. Edited by J. O. HALLIWELL. The FOURTH EDITION, enlarged, with 38 Designs, by W. B. SCOTT, Director of the School of Design, Newcastle-on-Tyne. 12mo, illuminated cloth, gilt leaves. 4s. 6d.

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OLD SONGS AND BALLADS.-A Little Book of Songs and Ballads,

gathered from Ancient Music Books, MS. and Printed, by E. F. RIMBAULT, LL.D., F.S.A., &c., elegantly printed in post 8vo, pp. 240, half morocco. 68.

"Dr. Rimbault has been at some pains to collect the words of the Songs which used to delight the Rustics of former times."-Atlas.

ROB

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HOOD.-The Robin Hood Garlands and Ballads, with the Tale of "The Little Geste," a Collection of all the Poems, Songs, and Ballads relating to this celebrated Yeoman; to which is prefixed his History, from Documents hitherto unrevised. By J. M. GUTCH, F.S.A. 2 vols. 8vo, with numerous fine woodcuts, &c., by Fairholt, extra cloth. £1. 1s. (original price £1. 10s.)

Two very handsome volumes, fit for the drawing-room table.

BALLAD ROMANCES. By R. H. HORNE, Esq., Author of "Orion," &c.

description. Mr. Horne should write us more Fairy Tales; we know none to equal him since the days of Drayton and Herrick."-Examiner.

12mo, pp. 248, cloth. 3s. (original price 6s. 6d.) Containing the Noble Heart, a Bohemian Legend; the Monk of Swineshead Abbey, a ballad Chronicle of the death of King John; the three Knights of Camelott, a Fairy Tale; The Ballad of Delora, or the Passion of Andrea Como; Bedd Gelert, a Welsh Legend; Ben Capstan, a Ballad of the Night Watch; the Elfe of the Woodlands, a Child's Story.

"Pure fancy of the most abundant and picturesque

"The opening poem in this volume is a fine one, it is entitled the Noble Heart,' and not only in title but in treatment well imitates the style of Beaumont and Fletcher."-Athenæum.

SIR HUGH OF LINCOLN: or an Examination of a curious Tradition

respecting the JEWS, with a Notice of the Popular Poetry connected with it. By the Rev. A. HUME, LL.D. 8vo. 2s.

ESSAY ON THE ARCHEOLOGY OF OUR POPULAR

PHRASES AND NURSERY RHYMES. By J. B. KER. 2 vols. 12mo, new cloth. 4s. (original price 12s.)

A work which has met with much abuse among the reviewers, but those who are fond of philological pursuits will read it now it is to be had at so very moderate a price, and it really contains a good deal of

gossiping matter. The author's attempt is to explain every thing from the Dutch, which he believes was the same language as the Anglo-Saxon.

MERRY TALES OF THE WISE MEN OF GOTHAM.

Edited by JAMES ORCHARD HALLIWELL, Esq, F.S.A. Post 8vo.

These tales are supposed to have been composed in the early part of the sixteenth century, by Dr. Andrew Borde, the well-known progenitor of Merry Andrews.

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SAINT PATRICK'S PURGATORY; an Essay on the Legends of Hell,

Purgatory, and Paradise, current during the Middle Ages. By THOMAS WRIGHT,

M.A., F.S.A., &c. Post 8vo, cloth. 6s.

"It must be observed that this is not a mere account of St. Patrick's Purgatory, but a complete history of the legends and superstitions relating to the subject, from the earliest times, rescued from old MSS. as well as from old printed books. Moreover, it embraces a singular chapter of literary history, by Warton and all former writers with whom acquainted; and we think we may add,

nitted

e are forms

the best introduction to Dante that has yet been published."-Literary Gazette.

"This appears to be a curious and even amusing book on the singular subject of Purgatory, in which the idle and fearful dreams of superstition are shown to be first narrated as tales, and then applied as means of deducing the moral character of the age in which they prevailed."-Spectator.

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NOBLE AND RENOWNED HISTORY OF GUY, EARL OF

WARWICK, containing a Full and True Account of his many Famous and Valiant Actions. Royal 12mo, woodcuts, cloth. 4s. 6d.

PHILOSOPHY OF WITCHCRAFT, (Chiefly with respect to Cases in Scot

land). By J. MITCHELL, and J. DICKIE. 12mo, cloth. 3s. (original price 6s.) A curious volume, and a fit companion to Sir W. Scott's "Demonology and Witchcraft."

ACCOUNT OF THE TRIAL, CONFESSION, AND CON

DEMNATION of Six Witches at Maidstone, 1652; also the Trial and Execution of three others at Faversham, 1645. 8vo. 1s.

These Transactions are unnoticed by all Kentish historians.

WONDERFUL DISCOVERY OF THE WITCHCRAFTS_OF

MARGARET and PHILIP FLOWER, Daughters of Joan Flower, near Bever (Belvoir), executed at Lincoln, for confessing themselves Actors in the Destruction of Lord Rosse, Son of the Earl of Rutland, 1618. 8vo. 1s.

One of the most extraordinary cases of Witchcraft on record.

Bibliography.

BIBLIOTHECA MADRIGALIANA.—A Bibliographical Account of the

Musical and Poetical Works published in England during the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries, under the Titles of Madrigals, Ballets, Ayres, Canzonets, &c., &c. By EDWARD F. RIMBAULT, LL.D., F.S.A. 8vo, cloth. 5s.

It records a class of books left undescribed by Ames, Catalogue of Lyrical Poetry of the age to which it refers. Herbert, and Dibdin, and furnishes a most valuable

THE MANUSCRIPT RARITIES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE. By J. O. HALLIWELL, F.R.S. 8vo, bds. 38 (original price 10s. 6d.) A companion to Hartshorne's "Book Rarities" of the same University.

SOME ACCOUNT OF THE POPULAR TRACTS, formerly in the Library of Captain Cox, of Coventry, A.D. 1575. By J. O. HALLIWELL. 8vo, only 50 printed, sewed. 1s.

CATALOGUE OF THE CONTENTS OF THE CODEX HOL

BROOKIANUS. (A Scientific MS.) By Dr. John Holbrook, Master of St. Peter's College, Cambridge, 1418-1431). By J. O. HALLIWELL. 8vo. 1s.

A Volume of Early English Poetry, preserved in the Bodleian Library. By J. O. HALLIWELL. 8vo, only 50 printed. 1s.

ACCOUNT OF THE VERNON MANUSCRIPT.

BIBLIOTHECA CANTIANA. A Bibliographical Account of what has been

published on the History, Topography, Antiquities, Customs, and Family Genealogy of the COUNTY of KENT, with Biographical Notes. By JOHN RUSSELL SMITH, in a handsome 8vo volume, pp. 370, with two plates of facsimiles of Autographs of 33 eminent Kentish Writers. 14s. (original price 14s.)-LARGE PAPER 10s. 6d.

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8vo, portrait, TS AND VERIFICATIONS OF ANCIENT BRICATALOGUEORY. By the Rev. BEALE POSTE. Svo, with engravings, cloth. In the

Masters of the

French Schools; with DesTT'S (a monk of Canterbury, circa 1280) Chronicle of Profane 12mo, cloth. 5s. Translated from the original MS., on 12 parchment skins, in 4to, half bound of Pictures by the Great an exact Facsimile of the entire Codex, 37 feet long, in a W. BUCHANAN. 2 vols. 8vo, bds. PRINTED, very curious. £2. 2s.

MEMOIRS OF PAlver, Esq., of Liverpool. By Dr. W. BELL.

HIS

ISTORY OF THE Oshop of Durham), Sermon preached on Palm Sunday, GOTHIC ARCHITECTURE, inted VERBATIM from the rare edition by Berthelet in Staining Glass, as practised in the Ec mmencement of the Reformation, Strype in his Memorials has J. S. HAWKINS, F.S.A. Royal 8vo, 11 pla.

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APPENBERG'S HISTORY OF ENGLAND, under the Anglo-Saxon Kings. Translated by BENJ. THORPE, with Additions and Corrections, by the Author and Translator. 2 vols. 8vo, cloth. 12s. (original price £1. 1s.)

the best and surest guide in penetrating the labyrinth of early English History."-"König Aelfred und seine Stelle in der Geschichte Englands, von Dr. Reinold Pauli."-Berlin, 1851.

"Of modern works I am most indebted to the History of England by Lappenberg, the use of which, more particularly in conjunction with the translation given by Thorpe, and enriched by both those scholars, affords ETTERS OF THE KINGS OF ENGLAND, now first collected from the originals in Royal Archives, and from other authentic sources, private as well as public. Edited with Historical Introduction and Notes, by J. O. HALLIWELL. HANDSOME VOLUMES, post 8vo, with portraits of Henry VIII and Charles I, cloth. 8s. (original price £1 1s.)

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These volumes form a good companion to Ellis's Original Letters.

The collection comprises for the first time the love letters of Henry the VIII. to Anne Boleyn in a complete form, which may be regarded perhaps as the most singular documents of the kind that have descended to our times; the series of letters of Edward VI will be found very interesting specimens of composition; some of the letters of James I, hitherto unpublished, throw light on the murder of Overbury, and prove beyond a doubt the King was implicated in it in some extraordinary and unpleasant way: but

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Two

his letters to the Duke of Buckingham are of the most singular nature; only imagine a letter from a so vereign to his prime minister commencing thus; "My own sweet and dear child, blessing, blessing, blessing on thy heart-roots and all thine." Prince Charles and the Duke of Buckingham's Journey into Spain has never been before so fully illustrated as it is by th documents given in this work, which also includes the very curious letters from the Duke and Duchess of Buckingham to James I. Forming an essential com panion to every History of England.

WALES.-ROYAL VISITS AND PROGRESSES TO WALES, and the Border Counties of CHESHIRE, SALOP, HEREFORD, and MONMOUTH, from Julius Cæsar, to Queen Victoria, including a succinct History of the Country and People, particularly of the leading Families who Fought during the Civil Wars of Charles I., the latter from MSS. never A handsome 4to volume, with many wood before published. By EDWARD PARRY.

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I. Agincourt; a contribution, towards an authentic List of the Commanders of the English Host in King Henry the Fifth's Expedition.

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III. Milton; a sheaf of Gleanings after his Biographers and Annotators.

IV. The Ballad Hero, "Robin Hood," his period, real character, &c., investigated, and, perhaps, ascertained.

ARCHERY.-The Science of Archery, showing its affinity to Heraldry, and capa

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ELEMENTS OF NAVAL ARCHITECTURE; being a Translation of

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NEW YORK IN THE YEAR 1695, with Plans of the City and Forts as they then existed. By the Rev. JOHN MILLER. Now first printed. 8vo, bds. 2s. 6d. (original price 4s. 6d.)

THOUGHTS IN VERSE FOR THE AFFLICTED. By a COUNTRY CURATE. Square 12mo, sewed. 1s.

POEMS, partly of Rural Life, in National English. By the Rev. WILLIAM Barnes,

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WAIFS AND STRAYS. A Collection of Poetry. 12mo, only 250 printed,

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MIRROUR OF JUSTICES, written originally in the old French, long before

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HRISTMAS-TIDE-its History and Festivities. By WILLIAM SANDYS, Esq.
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SACRED LYRICS. By J. C. G. 12mo, cloth. 28.

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SOME ACCOUNT OF THE TERRITORY OR DOMINION

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RELIQUES OF IRISH JACOBITE POETRY, with Interlinear Trans

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HE TRIBES OF IRELAND: a Satire, by AENGHUS O'DALY, with Poetical Translation by the late J. C. MANGAN; together with an Historical Account of the Family of O'Daly, and an Introduction to the History of Satire in Ireland. By JOHN O'DONOVAN, LL.D., M.R.I.A. 8vo, cloth. 5s.

APOLOGIA PRO HIBERNIA ADVERSUS CAMBRI CALUM

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POETS AND POETRY OF MUNSTER; a Selection of Irish Songs by

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