BONN'S 
STANDARD LIBRARY; 
A SERIES OF 
THE BEST ENGLISH AND FOREIGN AUTHORS, 
^n'nteU in n nch) anti tltgant Jporm, 
EQUALLY ADAPTED TO THE LIBRARY AND TilE FIRESIDE, 
AT THE EXTREMELY LOW PRSCE OF 3s. @d. PER VOLUME. 
This Series has been undertaken with the view of presenting to 
the educated pul)Hc works of a deservedly established character, ac- 
curately printed in an elegant form, and at the lowest possible price 
that can remuuer:ite the Publisher. 
In the present advanced stage of widely-diffused intelligence, and 
after the many able arguments adduced by some of the most power- 
ful minds of the age in favour of extended literature, it would be 
superfluous, in a notice of this kind, to extol the advantages of cir- 
culating the higher productions of genius and learning, on terms 
that may render them accessible to all. 
The Publisher ventures to assume that liis unremittin£r and lono-- 
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practised experience in books, his constant intercourse with the 
learned in all parts of the world, and his extensive literary property? 
will enable him to bring such resources to the formation of his 
" Standard Library" as shall leave httle or nothing to be desired. 
These and other facilities have suggested the present undertaking, 
and concurrent circumstances have hastened its commencement. As 
holder of many valuable copyrights (including Hoscoe's Leo THE 
Tenth, Lorenzo de Medici, and the Works of Robert Hall) 
the Publisher considers it incumbent on him to take into his own 
hands the republication of them in a cheap and popular form, rather 
than leave them to the piecemeal appropriation of others. 
The Publisher would not incur the imputation of inviting attention 
by inflated promises ; but he may safely affirm, that he feels some 
ambition in the prospect of rendering the projected series worthy of 
distinction ; and is resolved to employ all the means he possesses to 
merit and secure success. 
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