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Three Editions of Eobertson and Prescott's Charles the Fifth. 



PEESCOTT AND EOBEETSON'S HISTORY OF 

 CHARLES the FIFTH, being ROBERTSON'S History of his Reign. 

 "With important original additions by W. H. PRESCOTT. New Index, and 

 Steel Portrait. Uniform with the Editions of Mr. PKESCOTT'S other 

 Works published by R. BENTLEY. 



1. Library Edition, 2 vols. 8vo, cloth lettered, with a Portrait, price 24a. 



2. Cabinet Edition, 2 vols. post 8vo, with a Portrait, price 12s. 



3. The 1 vol. Edition, in crown 8vo, price 5s. 



" In this edition Mr. Prescott has given a brilliant sketch and minute account of 

 the latter days of Charles the Fifth." Times. 



" Robertson's Charles the Fifth is only a history of that reign, less than three 

 pages being devoted to Charles's life subsequent to his abdication. Yet this is the 

 most curious and interesting portion of that monarch's existence. The result of 

 Mr. Prescott's examination of the Archives of Simancas has been to exhibit, under 

 a very different aspect, the monastic life of Charles, from that in which it has 

 hitherto been written, and to give great completeness to the original work of 

 Bobertson." 



Each in 2 vols. boards, 4s. ; or in cloth, 5s. 



pEESCOTT'S (W. H.) HISTOEICAL WOEKS. 

 JL Cheap Complete Edition. Viz. : 



FERDINAND AND ISABELLA. 2 vola. 



CONQUEST OF MEXICO. 2 vols. 



CONQUEST OF PERU. 2 vols. 



PHILIP THE SECOND. 2 vols. 



Also, uniform, ' 



CHARLES THE FIFTH. 2 vols. By ROBERTSON, with a continua- 

 tion by PRESCOTT. 



** This issue of Mr. Prescotfs Historical Works is the only cheap 

 one that contains, without the slightest abridgment, all the Notes of the 

 original octavo American editions, with full Indexes. 



" To Mr. Prescott belongs the rare distinction of uniting solid merit with exten- 

 sive popularity. He has been exalted to the first class of Historians both by the 

 popular voice and the suffrages of the learned. His fame, also, is not merely local, 

 pr even national it is as great in London, Paris, and Berlin, as at Boston or 2s ew 

 York. His works have been translated into Spanish, German, French, and Italian ; 

 and, into whatever region they have penetrated, they have met a cordial welcome, 

 and done much to raise the character of American letters and scholarship." 

 Whipple's Essay. 



" Prescott's Works in point of style rank with the ablest English historians, and 

 paragraphs may be found in which the grace and elegance of Addison are combined 

 with .Robertson's cadence and Gibson's brilliancy." Athenaeum. 



Price 2s. boards, or 2s. 6d. cloth. 



PEESCOTT'S ESSAYS, BIOGEAPHICAL AND 

 JL CRITICAL. Comprising : 



C. B. Brown, the Novelist. Irving's Conquest of Granada. Cervantes. 

 Sir Walter Scott. Chateaubriand's Eastern Literature. Bancrofts, 

 United States. Moliere. Italian Narrative Poetry. Scottish Song. 

 Poetry and Romance of the Italians. 



