BOOKS PUBLISHED BY CHATTO &> WINDUS. 47 

 THE WATERFORD ROLL. 



Illuminated Charter-Roll of Water- 

 ford, Temp. Richard II. 



** A mongst the Corporation Muniments of the City of Waterford is preserved 

 an ancient Illuminated Roll, of great interest and beauty, comprising all the eatly 

 Charters and Grants to the City of Waterford, from the time of Henry II. to 

 Richard 1 1. A full-length Portrait of each King, whose Charter is given including 

 Edward III., -when young, and again at an advanced age adorns the margin. 

 These Portraits, with the exception of four -which are smaller, and on one sheet of 

 Tellum, vary from eight to nine inches in length sotne in armour, and some in 

 robes of state. In addition to these are Portraits of an A rchbishop in full canonicals, 

 of a Chancellor, and of many of the chief Burgesses of the City of Waterford, as 

 well as singularly curious Portraits of the Mayors of Dublin, Waterford, Limerick, 

 and Cork, figured for the most part in the quaint bipartite costume of the Second 

 Richard's reign, though partaking of many of the peculiarities of that of 

 Edward III. Altogether this ancient work of art is unique of its kindin Ireland, 

 and deserves to be rescued from oblivion, by the publication of the unedited Charters, 

 and offac-similes of all the Illuminations. The production of such a 'work would 

 throiu nntch light on the question of the art and social habits of the Anglo-Norman 

 settlers in Ireland at the close of the fourteenth century. The Charters are, many 

 of them, highly important from an historic point of view, 



The Illuminations have been accurately traced and coloured for the 'work from a. 

 copy carefully made, by permission of the Mayor and Corporation of Waterford, by 

 the late George V. Du Noyer, Esq., M.R.I. A. ; and those C harters which have not 

 already appeared in print will be edited by the Rev. James Graves, A.B., 

 M.R.I. A., Hon. Sec. Kilkenny and South-East of Ire land A rchaological Society. 



The work will be brought out in the best manner, with embossed cover and 

 characteristic title-page ; and it will be put to press as soon as 250 subscribers are 

 obtained. The price, in imperial ^to, is 2os. to subscribers, or 301. to non-subscribers. 



Wonderful Characters : Memoirs and 



Anecdotes of Remarkable and Eccentric Persons of Every Age and 



Nation. From the text of HENRY WILSON and JAMES CAULFIELD. 



Crown 8vo, cloth extra, with Sixty-one full-page Engravings of 



Extraordinary Persons, "js. (>d. 



** There are so many curious matters discussed in this volume, that any per- 

 son who takes it up will not readily lay it down until he has read it through. 

 The Introduction is almost entirely devoted to a consideration of Pig-Faced 

 Ladies, and the various stories concerning them. 



Wright's (Andrew) Court-Hand Re- 



stored ; or, Student's Assistant in Reading Old Deeds, Charters, 

 Records, &c. Half Morocco, a New Edition, los. 6d. 

 _ ** The best guide to the reading of old Records, &c. 



Wright's History of Caricature and 



the Grotesque in Art, in Literature, Sculpture, and Painting, from 

 the Earliest Times to the Present Day. By THOMAS WRIGHT, Esq., 

 M. A., F.S.A. Profusely illustrated by FAIRHOLT. Small 410, cloth, 

 extra gilt, red edges, 2U. 



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