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THE BEWICK COLLECTOE. A Descriptive Catalogue 
of the Woi‘ks 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 Wood 
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 owm Blocks. By the Rev. Thomas Hugo, M.A,, E.S.A., 
the Possessor of the Collection. Demy 8vo, pp. 562, price 21j. ; im- 
]}erial 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. 
WHITNEWS CHOICE OE EMBLEMES/^ 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. Ixxxviii., 468. 73 Eacsimile 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, 
wdth 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 wEom Whitney 
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. 
TRAVELS. 
TRAVELS ON THE AMAZON AND EIO NEGRO; 
with an Account of the Native Tribes, and Observations on the Climate, 
Geology, and Natural History of the Amazon Valley. By Alfred R. 
Wallace. Demy 8vo, 541 pp., with Map and Tinted Frontispiece, 18.y. 
A lively narrative of travels in one of the most interesting districts of the 
Southern Hemisphere, accompanied by Bemarks on the Vocabularies of the 
l.ni'.gnagcs, by Dr. B. G. Latham. 
