Dictionary of Obsolete and Provincial English: Containing Words from the English Writers Previous to the Nineteenth Century which are No Longer in Use, Or are Not Used in the Same Sense. And Words which are Now Used Only in the Provincial Dialects, Volume 1

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Page 2 - BROWNE'S (Sir Thomas) Works Edited by Simon Wilkin. 3 vols y, 6d. each. BURKE'S Works. 8 vols. 3.*. 6d. each. I. — Vindication of Natural Society — Essay on the Sublime and Beautiful, and various Political Miscellanies. II. — Reflections on the French Revolution — Letters relating to the Bristol Election — Speech on Fox's East India Bill, &c.
Page 18 - STRABO'S Geography. Translated by W. Falconer, MA, and HC Hamilton. 3 vols. 5^. each. STRICKLAND'S (Agnes) Lives of the Queens of England, from the Norman Conquest. Revised Edition. With 6 Portraits. 6 vols. 5^. each. Life of Mary Queen of Scots. 2 vols. 5.?.
Page 11 - The Works of. Whiston's Translation, revised by Rev. AR Shilleto, MA With Topographical and Geo. graphical Notes by Colonel Sir CW Wilson, KCB 5 vols.
Page 15 - Craven.' With 62 Engravings on Wood after Harvey, and 9 Engravings on Steel, chiefly after A. Cooper, RA 5*.
Page 1 - Christian Era, &c. Giving an account of the Chief Eras and Systems used by various Nations ; with the easy Methods for determining the Corresponding Dates. By JJ Bond. 5*.
Page 12 - Memorials of Christian Life In the Early and Middle Ages ; including Light in Dark Places.
Page 8 - GRIMM'S TALES. With the Notes of the Original. Translated by Mrs. A. Hunt. With Introduction by Andrew Lang, MA 2 vols. 3*. 6d, each. - Gammer Grethel; or, German Fairy Tales and Popular Stories. Containing 42 Fairy Tales. Trans, by Edgar Taylor. With numerous Woodcuts after George Cruikshank and Ludwig Grimm. 3*.
Page 17 - SHARPE (S.) The History of Egypt, from the Earliest Times till the Conquest by the Arabs, AD 640, 2 Maps and upwards of 400 Woodcuts.
Page 16 - A. Lodge, MA Together with the Use of the Chorus in Tragedy (a short Essay).
Page 13 - PASCAL'S Thoughts. Translated from the Text of M. Auguste Molinier by C. Kegan Paul. 3rd Edition, y, dd. PAULI'S (Dr. R.) Life of Alfred the Great. Translated from the German. To which is appended Alfred's ANGLO-SAXON VERSION OF OROSIUS. With a literal Translation interpaged, Notes, and an ANGLO-SAXON GRAMMAR and GLOSSARY, by B. Thorpe. 5^. PAUSANIAS

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