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NUGGY " A diminutive mass of precious metal." 



41 Little gems of bookmaking." Commercial Gazette^ Cin- 

 zinnati. 



u For many a long day nothing has been thought out or 

 worked out so sure to prove entirely pleasing to cultured 

 book-lovers." The Bookmaker. 



I Gesta Romanorum. Tales of the old 

 monks. Edited by C. SWAN . . . $i oo 



4i This little gem is a- Collection of stories composed by the 

 iMonks of old, who wtre in the custom of relating them to 

 each other after r-io.ls for their mutual amusement and infor- 

 mation." Williams^ Literary Monthly. 



" Nuggets indeed, and charming ones, are these rescued 

 irom the mint of old Latin, which would certainly have been 

 lost to many busy readers who can only take what comes to 

 them without delving for hidden treasures." 



II Headlong Hall and Nightmare Abbey. 

 By THOMAS LOVE PEACOCK . . . $i oo 



" It must hare been the court librarian of King Oberon 

 who originally ordered the series of quaintly artistic little 

 volumes that Messrs. Putnam are publishing under the name 

 of Knickerbocker Nuggets. There is an elfin dignity in the 

 aspect of these books in their bindings of dark and light blue 

 with golden arabesques." Portland Press. 



Ill Gulliver's Travels. By JONATHAN SWIFT. 

 A reprint of the early complete edition. Very fully 

 illustrated. Two vols $2 50 



" Messrs. Putnam have done a substantial service to all 

 readers of English classics by reprinting in two dainty and 

 artistically bound volumes those biting satires of Jonathaa 

 Swift, 4 Gulliver's Travel*.' " 



