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GEORGE MORLAND : his Life and

Works. By GEORGE C. WILLIAMSON, Litt.D. Small Colombier 8vo. With 48 Collotype Plates and a Frontispiece in Colours. 25s. net. Also a Large Paper Edition of 100 Copies, printed on Hand-made paper, with the Plates on Japanese Vellum. Crown folio, 31. 3s. net.

This is the only volume now in print dealing with the life and works of Morland, and adequately illustrating his pictures. It con- tains a full memoir of the artist, with chapters on his position as an artist, and on the engravings alter his works. Complete appendices are added, giving lists of the pictures and engravings, which will be of great value to the collector. The illustrations are all reproduced from photographs specially taken for the purpose.

SAMUEL COUSINS. By Alfred

WHITMAN. Author of ' The Print Collector's Hand book,' 'S. W. Reynolds,' &c. Small Colombier 8vo. With 40 Collotype Plates and a Photogravure Frontis- piece. 25s. net. Also 50 Copies on Hand-made paper, with the Plates on Japanese Vellum. Crown folio, 31. 3s. net.

%* This volume is uniform with Mr. Whitman's work on 8. W. Reynolds, issned last year. It contains a memoir of the artist and a catalogue raisonne of his engravings, and is illustrated with a series of fine reproductions in collotype, all taken from the most perfect impressions.

WILLIAM BLAKE: a Study of His

Life and Art Work. By IRENE LANGRIDGE. With

48 Illustrations. Small 4to, 10s. 6d. net.

This handbook on the art of Blake is the result of long and close study of the writings and works of the poet painter. In it an attempt is made to elucidate the hidden meanings of his works, and to appreciate his mysterious imagination. Its illustrations are all repro- duced from photographs specially taken for the book.

The TREATMENT of DRAPERY in

ART. By G. WOOLLISCROFT RHEAD, R.E. A.R.C.A.

Lond. With over 50 Diagrams and Drawings in line by the Author, and 32 Half-tone Illustrations. Post 8vo, 6s. net.

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DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI. By

H. C. MARILLIER.

%* This is a revised and abridged edition of the author's larger volume on Rossetti. It contains a magnificent series of illustrations, including a large number which are not to be found elsewhere.

BOHN'S LIBRARY. NEW VOLUME.

GRAY'S LETTERS. Edited by Duncan

C. TOVEY, M.A. Vol. II. Small post 8vo, 3s. 6d.

" This edition will long hold the field with students of Gray and the eighteenth century as the most accurate, the best informed, and the completest of all editions of the letters." Speaker.

HOW to COLLECT OLD FURNI- TURE. By FREDERICK LITCHFIELD, Author of ' Illustrated History of Furniture,' &c. With 40 Plates and numerous other Illustrations. Post 8vo, 5s. net. This handbook hag been written to enable the amateur to dis- criminate between the various periods and styles in furniture, and to avoid the work of the forger. It contains chapters on the Furniture of the Renaissance, Jacobean, French, Italian, Dutch, and English Eighteenth-Century and Nineteenth-Century Furniture, and a chapter on "faked " furniture, " Hints and Cautions," and a glossary of terms. It is well illustrated by representative examples of furniture selected from the Victoria and Albert and other Museums.

HOW to IDENTIFY PORTRAIT

MINIATURES. By GEORGE C. WILLIAMSON, Litt.D. With Chapters on the Painting of Miniatures by ALYN WILLIAMS, R.B.A. With 40 Plates, illus- trating upwards of 70 Miniatures. Post 8vo, 5s. net. This volume is intended to serve as a guide to the young collector, and contains a brief history of the art of Miniature Fainting, with hints as to colouring, signatures, dates, and other means of identifica- tion, which will be appreciated by amateurs. The illustrations hav& been selected to show important works by the chief masters in each period. The chapters dealing with the practical side of the art, with special reference to lighting, posing, colours, materials, and methods of painting, will be found most useful by every amateur.

NAPOLEONIC STUDIES. By J.

HOLLAND ROSE, Litt.D., Author of 'The Life of Napoleon I.' Post 8vo, with Maps, 7s. 6d. net.

NAPOLEON and ENGLAND, 1803-

1813. A Study from Unprinted Documents. By P. COQUELLE. Translated from the French by GORDON D. KNOX, Balliol College, Oxford. With a Preface by Dr. J. HOLLAND ROSE, Author of 'The Life of Napoleon I.,' &c. Post 8vo, 5s. net.

A CHEAPER EDITION OF ROSE'S ' LIFE OF NAPOLEON.'

LIFE of NAPOLEON I. By John

HOLLAND ROSE, Litt.D., late Scholar of Christ's College, Cambridge. Largely compiled from New- Materials taken from the British Official Records. la 2 vols. post 8vo. With Maps and Plans. Fourth- Edition. 10s. net,

" To say that Mr. J. H. Rose has written the best life of Napoleon yet published is but faint praise, far less than he deserves, often as the task has been attempted." Times.

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A CHEAPER EDITION OF WHEATLEY'S PEPYS.

The DIARY of SAMUEL PEPYS,

M.A. F.R.S., Clerk of the Works and Secretary to the Admiralty. Transcribed from the Shorthand MS. in the Pepysian Library, Magdalene College, Cambridge, by the Rev. MYNOR8 BRIGHT, M.A., late Fellow and President of the College. With Lord Braybrooke's Notes. Edited, with Additions, by HENRY B. WHEATLEY, F.S.A. In 8 vols. post 8vo, 5s. net each.
 * This reprint contains the whole of the text of the Diary, and the

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entitled Fepysiana ' only being omitted.

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