BOSWELL"S LIFE OF DR. JOHNSON, with numerous Portraits, Views, and Characteristic Designs, engraved from authentic sources.
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THE LIFE, PUBLIC AND DOMESTIC, OF THE RIGHT HON. EDMUND BURKE. By PETER BURKE, Esq. (of the Inner Temple and the Northern Circuit). Profusely ill.u.s.trated with Portraits, Scenes of Events, and Landscape Views, relating to the great Orator and the other noted persons of his time and career.
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ELLISTON"S LIFE and ENTERPRISES. By GEORGE RAYMOND. Ill.u.s.trated with Portrait and Engravings on steel, from designs by Phiz, Cruikshank, &c.
"This is a very entertaining memoir of one of the most gentlemanly, accomplished, and versatile actors who adorned the English stage. The life of R. W. Elliston, unlike that of the majority of his professional brethren, affords ample materials for a readable book, and this volume presents indubitable testimony in proof of that fact."--_Morning Post._
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EXTRAORDINARY MEN: their Boyhood and Early Youth. By WILLIAM RUSSELL, Esq. The Sixth Edition, ill.u.s.trated with 50 Engravings of Portraits, Birthplaces, Incidents, &c. &c.
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EXTRAORDINARY WOMEN: their Girlhood and Early Years. By WILLIAM RUSSELL, Esq. Ill.u.s.trated with numerous Engravings designed and executed by Messrs. Dalziel.
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EXMOUTH"S (LORD) LIFE. BY EDWARD OSLER.
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MARLBOROUGH"S LIFE. By CHARLES MACFARLANE. With Two Ill.u.s.trations.
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THE GREAT COMMANDERS OF ALL NATIONS. By G. P. R. JAMES. A new revised Edition, comprising the Lives of Henry the Fifth, Turenne, the Great Conde, Marlboro", Peterboro", General Wolfe, Cromwell, Duke of Alva, Gonzalvo de Cordova, &c., &c., with Eight Ill.u.s.trations.
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THE BUCCANEERS (HISTORY OF); or, The Monarchs of the Spanish Main. By WALTER THORNBURY. With Eight Ill.u.s.trations by Phiz.
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WELLINGTON (LIFE OF). By CHAS. MACFARLANE. With Ill.u.s.trations by John Gilbert.
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GRIMALDI"S LIFE. Edited by CHARLES d.i.c.kENS, and Ill.u.s.trated by George Cruikshank.
"The editor has made such alterations in the original ma.n.u.script as he conceived would improve the narration of the facts, without any departure from the facts themselves."--_Introductory Chapter._
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CRANMER"S LIFE. By JOHN STRYPE, M.A., being Memorials of the Most Reverend Father in G.o.d, Thomas Cranmer, some time Lord Archbishop of Canterbury. A New Edition, by PHILIP E. BARNES, Esq., B.A., F.L.S., of the Middle Temple, Barrister-at-Law.
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NELSON"S LIFE. By JOSEPH ALLEN, Author of "Battles of the British Navy."
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RICHELIEU"S LIFE. By W. ROBSON. With Ill.u.s.trations.
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"The student will find the events of Richelieu"s life reflected as in a mirror."--_Liverpool Albion._
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