In 8vo, handsomely bound in cloth, price 16s. ; The SECOND EDITION of 



JORROCKS'S JAUNTS AND JOLLITIES^ 



With Twelve Illustrations by PHIZ. 



" The essays, now published under the title of " Jorrocks's Jaunts and Jollities,, 

 were the first to lead the way in this line of fiction. In these, Mr. Jorrocks, a ricb. 

 sporting grocer, is the chief character; and competent and unprejudiced judges 

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 from the hero of the Surrey hunt. Pickwick is an excellent character with the 

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 better of the two. He has all Pickwick's good-natured simplicity, without his 

 lethargic slowness." Frazer's Magazine, Oct. 1838. 



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 hesitation in saying also, that there is much in it as good as any thing to be found 

 in the celebrated adventures of that very celebrated person." Tlte Scotsman. 

 Edinburgh Literary Journal. 



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THE WORKS OF EDMUND SPENSER, 



Including the whole of his Poetry, likewise his celebrated LETTER ON THE STATE OF 

 IRELAND, and a Copious GLOSSARY. To which is prefixed, a CRITICAL and BIOGRA- 

 PHICAL INTRODUCTION, and embellished with a Portrait of Spenser,, and a View of 

 Kilcolman Castle, Spenser's residence iu Ireland, finely engraved in the line 

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Lately published, in post 8vo, price Two Shillings and Sixpence, The 



OLD ENGLISH SQUIRE, 



A SONG. The words by STEPHEN OLIVER. The Music composed by D. 

 BLAKE. Illustrated with Six Characteristic Etchings, by PHIZ. 



