Chapter I: Front Matter

MAY 1, 1845.

A LIST OF BOOKS

RECENTLY PUBLISHED BY

EDWARD MOXON, 44, DOVER STREET.

DRAMATIC LIBRARY.

I.

BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER. With an INTRODUCTION. BY GEORGE DARLEY. In
two volumes, 8vo, with Portraits and Vignettes, price 32_s._ cloth.

II.

SHAKSPEARE. With REMARKS on his LIFE and WRITINGS. BY THOMAS
CAMPBELL. In one volume, 8vo, with Portrait, Vignette, and Index,
price 16_s._ cloth.

III.

BEN JONSON. With a MEMOIR. BY WILLIAM GIFFORD. In one volume, 8vo,
with Portrait and Vignette, price 16_s._ cloth.

IV.

MASSINGER AND FORD. With an INTRODUCTION. BY HARTLEY COLERIDGE. In
one volume, 8vo, with Portrait and Vignette, price 16_s._ cloth.

V.

WYCHERLEY, CONGREVE, VANBRUGH, AND FARQUHAR. With BIOGRAPHICAL and
CRITICAL NOTICES. BY LEIGH HUNT. In one volume, 8vo, with Portrait
and Vignette, price 16_s._ cloth.

VI.

SHERIDAN’S DRAMATIC WORKS. With a BIOGRAPHICAL and CRITICAL SKETCH.
By LEIGH HUNT. Price 5_s._ 6_d._ cloth.

ROGERS’S POEMS.

I.

ROGERS’S POEMS. A NEW EDITION; In one volume, illustrated by 72 Vignettes, from designs by Turner and Stothard, price 16_s._ boards.

II.

ROGERS’S ITALY. A NEW EDITION. In one volume, illustrated by 56 Vignettes, from designs by Turner and Stothard, price 16_s._ boards.

III.

ROGERS’S POEMS; AND ITALY. In two pocket volumes, illustrated by numerous Woodcuts, price 10_s._ cloth.

WORDSWORTH’S POEMS.

I.

WORDSWORTH’S POETICAL WORKS. In six volumes, price 30_s._ cloth.

II.

WORDSWORTH’S POEMS, chiefly of early and late Years, including “THE BORDERERS,” a Tragedy. In one volume, price 9_s._ cloth.

III.

WORDSWORTH’S SONNET& In one Volume, price 6_s._ cloth.

IV.

WORDSWORTH’S EXCURSION. A POEM. In one volume, price _6s[._?] cloth.

V.

SELECT PIECES FROM WORDSWORTH. In one volume, illustrated by numerous Woodcuts, price 7_s._ 6_d._ boards. 8_s._ 6_d._ half-bound, morocco, gilt edges.

CAMPBELL’S POEMS.

I.

CAMPBELL’S POETICAL WORKS. A NEW EDITION. In one volume, illustrated by 20 Vignettes from designs by TURNER, and 37 Woodcuts from designs by HARVEY. Price 20_s._ boards.

II.

CAMPBELL’S POETICAL WORKS. In one pocket volume, illustrated by numerous Woodcuts, price 8_s._ cloth.

III.

THE LIFE AND LETTERS OF CAMPBELL. Edited by Dr. WILLIAM BEATTIE, one of his Executors.

_In the Press._

SHELLEY’S WORKS.

I.

SHELLEY’S POETICAL WORKS. Edited by MRS. SHELLEY. In one volume, 8vo, with Portrait and Vignette, price 10_s._ 6_d._ cloth.

II.

SHELLEY’S ESSAYS AND LETTERS FROM ABROAD. Edited by MRS. SHELLEY. A NEW EDITION. Price 5_s._

CHARLES LAMB’S WORKS.

I.

LAMB’S WORKS. A NEW EDITION. In one volume, 8vo, with Portrait and Vignette, price 14_s._ cloth.

II.

THE ESSAYS OF ELIA. A NEW EDITION. Price 5_s._

D’ISRAELI’S WORKS.

I.

CURIOSITIES OF LITERATURE. THIRTEENTH EDITION. In one volume, 8vo,
with Portrait, Vignette, and Index, price 16_s._ cloth.

II.

MISCELLANIES OF LITERATURE. In one volume, 8vo, with Vignette,
price 14_s._ cloth.

CONTENTS:--

1. LITERARY MISCELLANIES. 2. QUARRELS OF AUTHORS. 3. CALAMITIES OF AUTHORS. 4. THE LITERARY CHARACTER. 5. CHARACTER OF JAMES THE FIRST.

DYCE’S BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER.

THE WORKS OF BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER; the Text formed from a new
collation of the early Editions. With Notes and a biographical
Memoir. By the Rev. A. DYCE. In eleven volumes 8vo. Price 6_l._
12_s._ 0_d._ cloth.

CHAUCER AND SPENSER.

I.

CHAUCER’S POETICAL WORKS. With an ESSAY on his LANGUAGE AND
VERSIFICATION, and an INTRODUCTORY DISCOURSE; together with NOTES
and a GLOSSARY. By THOMAS TYRWHITT. In one volume, 8vo with
Portrait and Vignette, price 16_s._ cloth.

II.

SPENSER’S WORKS. With a MEMOIR, NOTES, and a GLOSSARY. In one
volume, 8vo. _In the Press._

MISCELLANEOUS.

I.

HAYDN’S DICTIONARY OF DATES, and UNIVERSAL REFERENCE, relating to
all Ages and Nations; comprehending every Remarkable Occurrence,
Ancient and Modern--the Foundation, Laws, and Governments of
Countries--their Progress in Civilisation, Industry, and
Science--their Achievements in Arms; the Political and Social
Transactions of the British Empire--its Civil, Military, and
Religious Institutions--the Origin and Advance of Human Arts and
Inventions, with copious details of England, Scotland, and Ireland.
The whole comprehending a body of information, Classical,
Political, and Domestic, from the earliest accounts to the present
time. SECOND EDITION. In one volume, 8vo, price 18_s._ cloth.

II.

KNOWLES’S (JAMES) PRONOUNCING AND EXPLANATORY DICTIONARY OF THE
ENGLISH LANGUAGE. Founded on a correct development of the Nature,
the Number, and the Various Properties of all its Simple and
Compound Sounds, as combined into Syllables and Words. A NEW
EDITION. In medium 8vo, price 10_s._ 6_d._ cloth.

III.

By the AUTHOR OF “TWO YEARS BEFORE THE MAST.”

DANA’S SEAMAN’S MANUAL; containing a Treatise on Practical
Seamanship, with Plates; a Dictionary of Sea Terms; Customs and
Usages of the Merchant Service; Laws relating to the Practical
Duties of Master and Mariners. SECOND EDITION. Price 5_s._ cloth.

IV.

HINTS ON HORSEMANSHIP, to a NEPHEW and NIECE; or, Common Sense and
Common Errors in Common Riding. By Colonel GEORGE GREENWOOD, late
of the Second Life Guards; Price 2_s._ 6_d._

V.

CICERO’S LIFE AND LETTERS. The Life by Dr. MIDDLETON; The Letters
translated by WM. MELMOTH and Dr. HEBERDEN. In one volume, 8vo,
with Portrait and Vignette, price 16_s._ cloth.

VI.

ELLEN MIDDLETON. A TALE. BY LADY GEORGIANA FULLERTON. SECOND
EDITION. In three volumes price 31_s._ 6_d._ cloth.

VII.

CAPTAIN BASIL HALL’S FRAGMENTS OF VOYAGES AND TRAVELS. A NEW
EDITION. In one volume, 8vo, price 12_s._ cloth.

VIII.

DEERBROOK. A NOVEL. By HARRIET MARTINEAU. A NEW EDITION. In one
pocket volume, price 6_s._ cloth.

IX.

THE HOUR AND THE MAN. A Historical Romance. By HARRIET MARTINEAU. A
NEW EDITION. In one pocket volume, price 6_s._ cloth.

X.

TALFOURD’S (MR. SERJEANT) VACATION RAMBLES AND THOUGHTS; comprising
the Recollections of three Continental Tours in the Vacations of
1841, 42, and 43. SECOND EDITION. Price 10_s._ 6_d._ cloth.

XI.

DYCE’S REMARKS ON MR. C. KNIGHT’S AND MR. J. P. COLLIER’S EDITIONS OF SHAKSPEARE. In 8vo, price 9_s._ cloth.

XII.

LIFE IN THE SICK-ROOM: ESSAYS. By AN INVALID. SECOND EDITION. Price
8_s._ boards.

XIII.

HISTOIRE DE FRANCE DU PETIT LOUIS. Par LADY CALLCOTT. Price 2_s._
6_d._ half-bound.