New Zealand Revisited
Some Important Biographies
Some Important Biographies
Boswell's Johnson
Pitman's "Extra Illustrated" Edition
Newly edited with notes by Roger Ingpen
In 2 vols. crown 4to, 1240 pages, half morocco 21s. net.; handsome cloth gilt 18s. net. With 568 illustrations, including twelve Photogravure Plates.
"Altogether, this is a splendid edition of what Mr. Ingpen properly describes as 'the most vivid, entertaining, and enduring piece of biography in the English language'; and in it the famous lexicographer and critic 'comes to his own' in a fashion never before attempted and not likely to be equalled."—Aberdeen Journal.
Farmer George
By Lewis Melville
In 2 vols., demy 8vo, cloth gilt, gilt top. With 53 illustrations, including two coloured frontispieces, 24s. net.
"This is a splendidly prepared book on George III, dealing especially with his domestic life. Mr. Melville has made the book a mine of information about George, his family, and his Ministers…. The two volumes are splendidly illustrated, and would make a sumptous gift."—Irish Times.
A Great "Punch" Editor
Being the Life, Letters and Diaries of Shirley Brooks
By George Somes Layard
In demy 8vo, cloth gilt, gilt top, 18s. net.
With eight full-page Plates, and twenty-two initial Letters from Punch.
"A handsome and delightful volume with many illustrations and wonderful initial letters…. Valuable and welcome as it is, it is still more highly to be recommended for the admirable portrait it gives of one of the very best of the mid-Victorian men of letters."—Pall Mall Gazette.
"A mine of good things."—Globe.