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Folio, half-bound boards, India Proofs, 211. 



Blake (William) : 



Etchings from his Works. By W. B. SCOTT. With descriptive Text. 

 In Illuminated Cover, crown 4to, 65. 



Birthday Flowers: Their Language and Legends. 



By W. J. GORDON. Illust. in Colours by VIOLA BOUGHTON. [Shortly. 



This sumptuous and elegant Birthday Book is the first in which our floral 

 treasures have been laid under really effective contribution. It has been produced at 

 immense cost, and in it we have one of the most accurate and beautiful Masterpieces 

 ofChromo-lithography yet issued from the press. Within its sixty -four fully-coloured 

 pages, each lithographed in fourteen printings, we have a noble Series of lovely Bou- 

 quets, depicting in all their wealth of grace and beauty the most famous of our field 

 and garden jewels ; as a different flower is taken for every day in the year, there 

 are no fewer than three hundred and sixty-six separate selections. The legends 

 and the sentiments ascribed to each of the chosen blossoms have formed the theme of 

 some fifteen hundred lines of Original Verse, and there is thus given one of the fullest 

 " Languages of Flowers " in existence, and the only one which is free from duplicates. 

 An unusual amount of thought and labour has been expended on the work, and the 

 publishers congratulate themselves that in a literary and artistic sense the result has 

 been fully commensurate thereto. Such a collection of flowers, so complete and com- 

 pact, has never before been offered. As a Book of Birthdays and Family Records it 

 is unsurpassed. The addition of the scientific names to the minutely accurate delinea- 

 tions of plants renders its pages invaluable to the botanist and every lover of leaf and 



bloom. The hgends -which form the burden of its verse will delight the scholar and 

 archceologist and all students of song and folk-lore ; while the copious floral mean~ 

 ings, completer than in any ether "language of flowers " yet available, will render it 



the constant companion and most treasured gift of a much more numerous section oj 

 the community the whole world of Sweethearts of the English-speaking nations. 



Crown 8vo, cloth extra, gilt, with Illustrations, 75. 6d. 



Boccaccio's Decameron; 



or, Ten Days' Entertainment. Translated into English, with an In- 

 troduction by THOMAS WRIGHT, Esq., M.A., F.S.A. With Portrait, 

 and STOTHARD'S beautiful Copperplates. 



Bowers' (G.) Hunting Sketches : 



Canters in Crampshire. By G. BOWERS. I. Gallops from Gorse- 

 borough. II. Scrambles with Scratch Packs. III. Studies with Stag 

 . Hounds. Oblong 4to, half-bound boards, zis. 



Leaves from a Hunting Journal. By G. BOWERS. Coloured in 

 facsimile of the originals. Oblong 4to, half-bound, 2is. 



Crown 8vo, cloth extra, gilt, with numerous Illustrations, 75. 6d. 



Brand's Observations on Popular Antiquities, 



chiefly Illustrating the Origin of our Vulgar Customs, Ceremonies, and 

 Superstitions. With the Additions of Sir HENRY ELLIS. 



Brewster (Sir David), Works by: 



More Worlds than One : The Creed of the Philosopher and the 

 Hope of the Christian. By Sir DAVID BREWSTER. With Plates. Post 

 8vo, cloth extra, 45. 6d. 



The Martyrs of Science : Lives of GALILEO, TYCHO BRAKE, and 

 KEPLER. By Sir DAVID BREWSTER. With Portraits. Post 8vo, cloth 

 extra, 45. &d. 



