CRABBE, HEBER, AND POLLOK"S POETICAL WORKS.
COMPLETE IN ONE VOLUME, OCTAVO.
WITH SIX BEAUTIFUL ENGRAVINGS.
A writer in the Boston Traveller holds the following language with reference to these valuable editions:--
"Mr. Editor:--I wish, without any idea of puffing, to say a word or two upon the "Library of English Poets" that is now published at Philadelphia, by Lippincott, Grambo & Co. It is certainly, taking into consideration the elegant manner in which it is printed, and the reasonable price at which it is afforded to purchasers, the best edition of the modern British Poets that has ever been published in this country. Each volume is an octavo of about 500 pages, double columns, stereotyped, and accompanied with fine engravings and biographical sketches; and most of them are reprinted from Galignani"s French edition. As to its value, we need only mention that it contains the entire works of Montgomery, Gray, Beattie, Collins, Byron, Cowper, Thomson, Milton, Young, Rogers, Campbell, Lamb, Hemans, Heber, Kirke White, Crabbe, the Miscellaneous Works of Goldsmith, and other masters of the lyre. The publishers are doing a great service by their publication, and their volumes are almost in as great demand as the fashionable novels of the day; and they deserve to be so: for they are certainly printed in a style superior to that in which we have before had the works of the English Poets."
No library can be considered complete without a copy of the above beautiful and cheap editions of the English Poets; and persons ordering all or any of them, will please say Lippincott, Grambo & Co."s ill.u.s.trated editions.
A COMPLETE
Dictionary of Poetical Quotations:
COMPRISING THE MOST EXCELLENT AND APPROPRIATE Pa.s.sAGES IN THE OLD BRITISH POETS; WITH CHOICE AND COPIOUS SELECTIONS FROM THE BEST MODERN BRITISH AND AMERICAN POETS.
EDITED BY SARAH JOSEPHA HALE.
As nightingales do upon glow-worms feed, So poets live upon the living light Of Nature and of Beauty.
_Bailey"s Festus._
Beautifully ill.u.s.trated with Engravings. In one super-royal octavo volume, in various bindings.
The publishers extract, from the many highly complimentary notices of the above valuable and beautiful work, the following:
"We have at last a volume of Poetical Quotations worthy of the name. It contains nearly six hundred octavo pages, carefully and tastefully selected from all the home and foreign authors of celebrity. It is invaluable to a writer, while to the ordinary reader it presents every subject at a glance.--_G.o.dey"s Lady"s Book_.
"The plan or idea of Mrs. Hale"s work is felicitous. It is one for which her fine taste, her orderly habits of mind, and her long occupation with literature, has given her peculiar facilities; and thoroughly has she accomplished her task in the work before us."--_Sartain"s Magazine_.
"It is a choice collection of poetical extracts from every English and American author worth perusing, from the days of Chaucer to the present time."--_Washington Union_.
"There is nothing negative about this work; it is _positively_ good."--_Evening Bulletin_.
THE DIAMOND EDITION OF BYRON.
THE POETICAL WORKS OF LORD BYRON,
WITH A SKETCH OF HIS LIFE.
COMPLETE IN ONE NEAT DUODECIMO VOLUME, WITH STEEL PLATES.
The type of this edition is so perfect, and it is printed with so much care, on fine white paper, that it can be read with as much ease as most of the larger editions. This work is to be had in plain and superb binding, making a beautiful volume for a gift.
"_The Poetical Works of Lord Byron_, complete in one volume; published by L., G. & Co., Philadelphia. We hazard nothing in saying that, take it altogether, this is the most elegant work ever issued from the American press.
""In a single volume, not larger than an ordinary duodecimo, the publishers have embraced the whole of Lord Byron"s Poems, usually printed in ten or twelve volumes; and, what is more remarkable, have done it with a type so clear and distinct, that, notwithstanding its necessarily small size, it may be read with the utmost facility, even by failing eyes. The book is stereotyped; and never have we seen a finer specimen of that art.
Everything about it is perfect--the paper, the printing, the binding, all correspond with each other; and it is embellished with two fine engravings, well worthy the companionship in which they are placed.
""This will make a beautiful Christmas present."
"We extract the above from G.o.dey"s Lady"s Book. The notice itself, we are given to understand, is written by Mrs. Hale.
"We have to add our commendation in favour of this beautiful volume, a copy of which has been sent us by the publishers. The admirers of the n.o.ble bard will feel obliged to the enterprise which has prompted the publishers to dare a compet.i.tion with the numerous editions of his works already in circulation; and we shall be surprised if this convenient travelling edition does not in a great degree supersede the use of the large octavo works, which have little advantage in size and openness of type, and are much inferior in the qualities of portability and lightness."--_Intelligencer_.
THE DIAMOND EDITION OF MOORE.
(CORRESPONDING WITH BYRON.)
THE POETICAL WORKS OF THOMAS MOORE,
COLLECTED BY HIMSELF.
COMPLETE IN ONE VOLUME.
This work is published uniform with Byron, from the last London edition, and is the most complete printed in the country.
THE DIAMOND EDITION OF SHAKSPEARE,
(COMPLETE IN ONE VOLUME,)
INCLUDING A SKETCH OF HIS LIFE.
UNIFORM WITH BYRON AND MOORE.
THE ABOVE WORKS CAN BE HAD IN SEVERAL VARIETIES OF BINDING.
GOLDSMITH"S ANIMATED NATURE.
IN TWO VOLUMES, OCTAVO.
BEAUTIFULLY ILl.u.s.tRATED WITH 385 PLATES.
CONTAINING A HISTORY OF THE EARTH, ANIMALS, BIRDS, AND FISHES; FORMING THE MOST COMPLETE NATURAL HISTORY EVER PUBLISHED.