L. UEEVE AND CO.'s PUBLICATIONS. 19 



THE BEWICK COLLECTOR. A Descriptive Catalogue 



of the Works of Thomas and John Bewick, including Cuts, in various 

 states, for Books and Pamphlets, Private Gentlemen, Public Companies, 

 Exhibitions, Races, Newspapers, Shop Cards, Invoice Heads, Bar Bills, 

 Coal Certificates, Broadsides, and other miscellaneous purposes, and W T ood 

 Blocks. With an Appendix of Portraits, Autographs, Works of Pupils, etc. 

 The whole described from the Originals contained in the Largest and most 

 Perfect Collection ever formed, and illustrated with a Hundred and Twelve 

 Cuts from Bewick's own Blocks. By the Rev. Thomas Hugo, M.A., F.S.A., 

 the Possessor of the Collection. Demy 8vo, pp. 562, price 21,?.; im- 

 perial 8vo (limited to 100 copies), with a fine Steel Engraving of Thomas 

 Bewick, £2. 2*. The Portrait may be had separately, on imperial folio, 

 price Is. 6d. 



WHITNEY'S "CHOICE OE EMBLEMESj" a Facsimile 



Reprint by Photo-lithography. With an Introductory Dissertation, Essays 

 Literary and Bibliographical, and Explanatory Notes. By HeNry Green, 

 M.A. Post 4to, pp. lxxxviii., 468. 72 Facsimile Plates, 42s. 



A beautiful and interesting reproduction by Photo-lithography of one of the 

 best specimens of this curious class of literature of the sixteenth century. An 

 Introductory Dissertation of eighty-eight pages traces the history of Emblematic 

 Literature from the earliest times, and gives an Account of the Life andWritings 

 of Geoffrey Whitney, followed by an Index to the Mottoes, with Tra nslations 

 and some Proverbial Expressions. The facsimile reproduction of the ' Emblems, 

 •with their quaint pictorial Illustrations, occupies 230 pages. Then follow 

 Essays on the Subjects and Sources of the Mottoes and Devices, on Obsolete 

 Words in Whitney, with parallels, chiefly from Chaucer, Spenser, and Shake- 

 speare ; Biographical Notices of some other emblem-writers to whom Y\ 7 hitney 

 was indebted ; Shakespeare's references to emblem-books, and to Whitney's em- 

 blems in particular ; Literary and Biographical Notes explanatory of some of 

 Whitney's emblems, and of the persons to whom they are dedicated. Seventy- 

 two exceedingly curious plates, reproduced in facsimile, illustrate this portion of 

 the work, and a copious General Index concludes the volume. 



SHAKESPEABE'S SONNETS, Facsimile, by Photo-Zinco- 

 graphy, of the First Printed edition of 1609. Prom the Copy in the 

 Library of Bridgewater House, by permission of the Right Hon. the Earl 

 of Ellesmere. 10s. Qd. 



