6 Practical Handbooks, — Art and Virtu, Bees and Birds. 



Japanese Tail-piece (from "Decorative Painting"). 



DECORATIVE PAINTING: 



A Practical Handbook nn Painting and Etching upon Various Objects and Materials for 

 the Decoration of our Hornet. Illustrated with Novel Head and Tail Pieces. By B. C. 

 Saward (Author of the Artistic Needlework in "The Dictionary of Needlework," Ac). 

 A new Art Book, printed on tinted paper, with coloured ink, and bound in the new 

 •• Renaissance" binaing, price 78. fid., by post, 7^. 9d. 

 *'Spayedi. no pains to give useful infovmation as to thevarious processesof Decorative Painting." 

 — Academy. 



IDENTIFICATION and VALUATION of BRITISH COINS, 



A Guide to the : 



Giving the Value of the various Coins, fr'^m the prices realised at the chief sales of the 

 past 20 years. Arraneed in chronological ordfir. Of immense valu« to collectors arid 

 dealers. PLATES IN GOLD, SILVER. AND COPPEtt. In Monthly Parts, price 7d. 

 I. to IX. now ready. 

 " A useful guide . , . cannot he other v:ise than highly serviceable."— Batk Herali>. 



Edward VI. Half Sovereign, Third Year (from "A Guide to the Identification and 

 Valuation ot British Coins "). 



ENGLISH, SCOTCH & IRISH COINS: 



A Manual for Collectors ; being a History and Description of the Coinage of Great Britain, 

 from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time. Profusely Dlustrated. In cloth gilt, price 4s., 

 by post, 4s. 4d. 

 "A more useful, compendious, and reliable guide to the study and arrangement of tlie Coins of 

 Great Britain could not well he placed in the Collector's hands."— The Eeli quart. 



BEES AND BIRDS. 



PRACTICAL BEE-KEEPING: 



Being Plain Instructions to the Amateur for the Successful Management of the Honey 

 Bee. Illustrated. Third Edition. Revised and greatlv enlarged, and with numerous 

 additional illustratiors. By Frank Cheshire. In cloth gilt, price 8s. 6d., by post, 3s. 9d. 

 *' Here are full and plain instructions to the amateur on every p<rint." — Journal of Horti- 

 culture. 



L. Upcott Gill J Publisher, 170, Strand, W.C. 



