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To be Completed in Twenty-four Parts, quarto, at $s. each, profusely 

 illustrated by Coloured and Plain Plates and Wood Engravings, 



Cyclopczdia of Costume ; 



or, A Dictionary of Dress Regal, Ecclesiastical, Civil, and Mili- 

 tary from the Earliest Period in England to the reign of George 

 the Third. Including Notices of Contemporaneous Fashions on 

 the Continent, and a General History of the Costumes of the Prin- 

 cipal Countries of Europe. By J. R. PLANCH^, Somerset Herald. 

 Part XXI. now ready. 



"A most readable and interesting work and it can scarcely be consulted in. 

 vain, whether the reader is in search for information as to military, court t 

 ecclesiastical, legal, or professional costume. . . . A II the chroma-lithographs, 

 and most of the woodcut illustrations the latter amounting to several thousands 

 are-very elaborately executed; and the work forms a livre de luxe which renders 

 it equally suited to the library and the ladies' drawing-room" TIMES. 



%* The DICTIONARY forms Vol. /., which may now be had 

 bound in half red morocco, price 3 l$s. 6d. Cases for binding $s. each. 

 The remaining Parts will be occupied by the GENERAL HISTOR Y 

 OF THE COSTUMES OF EUROPE, arranged Chronologically. 



Parts I. to XII. now ready, 2U. each. 



Cussans' History of Hertfordshire. 



By JOHN E. CUSSANS. Illustrated with full-page Plates on Copper 



and Stone, and a profusion of small Woodcuts. 



" Mr. Cussans has, from sources not accessible to Clutterbuck, made most 

 valuable additions to the manorial history of the county from the earliest period 

 downwards, cleared up -many doubtful points, and given original details con- 

 cerning various sub/ects untouched or imperfectly treated by that writer. The 

 pedigrees seem to have been constructed with great care, and are a valuable addition 

 to the genealogical history of the county. Mr. Cussans appears to have done 

 his work conscientiously, and to have spared neither time, labour, nor expense to 

 render his volumes worthy of ranking in the highest class of County Histories" 

 ACADEMY. 



Demy 8vo, cloth extra, 12s. 6d. 



Doran's Memories of our Great Towns. 



With Anecdotic Gleanings concerning their Worthies and their 

 Oddities. By Dr. JOHN DORAN, F.S.A. 



" Lively and conversational; 'brimful,' as the introductory notice in the 

 volume describes them, 4 'of pleasant chatty interest and antiquarian lore.' . 

 The -volume will be found useful to ordinary visitors to the towns included 

 within its range. . . . Many of the anecdotes contained in this pleasant col- 

 lection have not, so far as we know, been published elsewhere" SATURDAY 

 REVIEW. 



" A greater genius for writing of the anecdotic kind few men have had. As 

 io giving any idea of the contents of the book, it is quite impossible. Those it ho 

 know how Dr. Dor an used to write it is sad to have to use the past tense of one of 

 the most cheerful of men will understand what we -mean ; and those ivho do not 

 must take it on trust from us that this is a remarkably entertaining volume" 

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