NOTICE. 



^Messrs. Bell and Daldy beg to announce that they have 

 purchased of Mr. H. G. Bohn, who is preparing to retire 

 from business, after forty years of successful enterprise, the 

 entire stock of his various Libraries, consisting of more 

 than 600 different works, and comprising nearly half a 

 million of volumes. 



These Libraries have been created by Mr. Bohn during 

 the past twenty years by an amount of energy and industry, 

 bibliographical knowledge and literary skill never before 

 luiited with the requisite amount of capital ; and they repre- 

 sent an accumulation of valuable works unexampled in the 

 history of literary undertakings. 



Though Mr. Bohn was not the first to recognize the 

 power of cheapness as applied to the production of books, 

 he was the first to address his efforts exclusively to works 

 of a standard character and enduring interest. He threw 

 himself into the movement with characteristic energy ; and 

 in developing his aim he is known by those who have 

 watched the progi'ess of cheap literature to have distanced 

 all competitors. During the time that his Libraries have 

 been before the public, he has carried into all classes in all 

 parts of the world where ihe English language is under- 

 stood an unexampled choice of books, not only for students 

 and scholars, but for readers who merely seek amusement. 

 Such a choice, so varied, and at so low a price, does not 

 exist in this country or elsewhere ; and Mr. Bohn is entitled 

 to the gratitude of all who value the humanizing effects of 



literature. Since the commencement of these Libraries at 



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