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1. Shakespeare’s Complete Works. With a Biographical Sketch by Mary Cowden Clarke, a Copious Glossary, and numerous Illustrations.
⁂ This Edition is based on the Text of Johnson, Steevens, and Reed, which is allowed to be one of the most accurate; and, so far as regards mechanical correctness, it will contrast favourably with many high-priced and ambitious editions.
2. Burns’ Complete Works. Containing also his Remarks on Scottish Song, General Correspondence, Letters to Clarinda, and Correspondence with George Thomson. With Life and Variorum Notes, and full-page Illustrations by eminent Artists.
3. Goldsmith’s Miscellaneous Works. Including ‘The Vicar of Wakefield,’ ‘Citizen of the World,’ ‘Polite Learning,’ Poems, Plays, Essays, etc. etc.
4. Lord Byron’s Poetical Works. With Life. Illustrated with full-page Engravings on Wood by eminent Artists.
5. Josephus: The Whole Works of Flavius Josephus, the Jewish Historian. Translated by William Whiston, A.M. With Life, Portrait, Notes, and Index, etc.
6. The Arabian Nights’ Entertainments. Translated from the Arabic. An entirely New and Complete Edition. With upwards of a Hundred Illustrations on Wood, drawn by S. J. Groves.
7. The Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. Carefully selected. Including ‘A Tale of a Tub,’ ‘Gulliver’s Travels,’ ‘Journal to Stella,’ ‘Captain Creichton,’ ‘Directions to Servants,’ Essays, Poems, etc. etc. With a Biography of the Author, and Original and Authentic Notes.
8. The Works of Daniel Defoe. Carefully selected from the most authentic sources. Including ‘Robinson Crusoe,’ ‘Colonel Jack,’ ‘Memoirs of a Cavalier,’ ‘Journal of the Plague in London,’ ‘Duncan Campbell,’ ‘Complete English Tradesman,’ etc. etc. With Life of the Author.
‘We congratulate the lovers of good literature on having their tastes supplied at such a cheap rate.’—The City Press.
9. The Works of Tobias Smollett. Carefully selected from the most authentic sources. Including ‘Roderick Random,’ ‘Peregrine Pickle,’ ‘Humphry Clinker,’ Plays, Poems. With Life, etc.
10. The Canterbury Tales and Faerie Queen: With other Poems of Chaucer and Spenser. Edited for Popular Perusal, with current Illustrative and Explanatory Notes. With Lives of the Authors.
11. The Works of the British Dramatists. Carefully selected from the Original Editions. Including the best Plays of Ben Jonson, Christopher Marlowe, Beaumont and Fletcher, Philip Massinger, etc. etc. With copious Notes, Biographies, and a Historical Introduction.
12. The Scottish Minstrel: The Songs and Song Writers of Scotland subsequent to Burns. With Biographies, etc. etc. By the Rev. Charles Rogers, LL.D.
13. Moore: The Poetical Works of Thomas Moore. New Edition, carefully Revised. With Life. Illustrated with full-page Engravings on Wood by eminent Artists.
14. Fielding: The Writings of Henry Fielding. Comprising his Celebrated Works of Fiction. With Life, etc.
15. Sterne: The Works of Laurence Sterne. New and Complete Edition. Including ‘Tristram Shandy,’ ‘A Sentimental Journey,’ Sermons, Letters, etc. etc.
16. Boswell’s Johnson: The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. By James Boswell. New and Complete Edition, carefully revised from the most authentic sources, with Notes, etc. etc.
17. Mrs. Hemans: The Poems of Felicia Hemans. Complete Copyright Edition. With Portrait, Notes, Appendix, Index, etc.
⁂ This Series is also kept bound in cloth extra, full gilt side, back, and edges, price 6s. 6d. each; and in half-calf extra, marbled sides, edges, and end papers, price 8s. 6d. each.