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+*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 56815 ***
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+  OCTOBER, 1858.
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+DICTIONARIES.
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+=Webster's Quarto Dictionary, unabridged=; containing all the Words
+in the English Language, with their Etymologies and Derivations. By
+NOAH WEBSTER, LL.D. Revised by Professor GOODRICH. With Pronouncing
+Vocabularies of Scripture, Classical, and Geographical Names. New
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+  *** The only _complete work_. _All_ the octavo editions are
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+  is the most elaborate and successful undertaking of the kind
+  which has ever appeared."--_Times._
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+  "The veteran Webster's work is the best and most useful
+  Dictionary of the English Language ever published. Every page
+  attests the learning and talent, the sound judgment and nice
+  discrimination, the great industry, profound research, and
+  surprising perseverance of the author. It is a very manifest
+  improvement on Todd's Johnson, and contains many thousand
+  more words than that or any other English Dictionary hitherto
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+INDEX.
+
+
+                                              PAGE
+
+  Acting Charades                               10
+
+  Algebra (Cassell's)                           31
+
+  Architectural Works                            7
+
+  Arithmetic (Cassell's)                        31
+
+  ---- for the Young                            31
+
+  Arnold's (Edwin) Poems                         9
+
+  Astronography                                 32
+
+
+  Balance of Beauty                             36
+
+  Ball Room Polka                               11
+
+  ---- Preceptor                                11
+
+  Beattie and Collins                            5
+
+  Bertie's Indestructible Books                 22
+
+  Bible Gallery                                  4
+
+  ---- Women of the                              4
+
+  Bingley's Tales                               21
+
+  Biographical Dictionary                       33
+
+  Boat (The) and the Caravan                    19
+
+  Book and its Story                            36
+
+  ---- of the Months                            24
+
+  Boswell's Johnson                             24
+
+  Botany, The Outlines of                       32
+
+  Boyhood of Great Men                           6
+
+  Boy Princes                                    6
+
+  Boy's Own Book                                19
+
+  ---- Treasury                                 20
+
+  Brandon's Architectural Works                  7
+
+  British Empire, Greatness of the              34
+
+  Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress                    3
+
+  Byron Beauties                                 3
+
+  ---- Illustrated                               3
+
+
+  Capern's Poems                                10
+
+  Cassell's Educational Works                   26
+
+  Cheever's Whaleman's Adventures               20
+
+  Childs' Drawing Books                         23
+
+  Child's First Lesson Book                     20
+
+  Christian Graces in Olden Time                 3
+
+  Christmas with the Poets                       1
+
+  Classical Library                             30
+
+  Colling's Gothic Architecture                  8
+
+  ---- Ornament                                  8
+
+  Comic Works                                   14
+
+  ---- Almanack                                 14
+
+  Comical Creatures from Wurtemburg             15
+
+  ---- People                                   15
+
+  ---- Story Books                              22
+
+  Cottage Gardener's Dictionary                 25
+
+  Cowper's Poems                                 5
+
+  Cracker Bon-Bon for Christmas                 10
+
+  Crosland's Memorable Women                    19
+
+  Cruikshank's (Geo.) Works                     14
+
+  ---- Fairy library                            21
+
+  Curiosities of Modern Travel                   7
+
+
+  Dale's Poems                                  10
+
+  De Lolme's French Manual                      27
+
+  Dibdin's Water Colours                        23
+
+  ---- Easy Drawing Book                        23
+
+  Dictionaries                                  13
+
+  Domestic Architecture                          8
+
+  ---- Hints                                    24
+
+  Drawing Books                                 23
+
+
+  Edgar's Boyhood of Great Men                  18
+
+  ---- Footprints of Famous Men                 18
+
+  ---- Boy Princes                              18
+
+  ---- History for Boys                         18
+
+  Educator, The Popular                         26
+
+  ---- Biblical                                 26
+
+  ---- Historical                               26
+
+  ---- The Child's                              31
+
+  Emma de Lissau                                20
+
+  England, Cassell's History of                 32
+
+  ---- History of                               33
+
+  English without a Master                      38
+
+  ---- Cassell's Lessons in                     30
+
+  ---- (The) Language, its Elements and Form    32
+
+  Etiquette for the Ladies                      11
+
+  ---- Gentlemen                                11
+
+  ---- of Courtship                             11
+
+  Euclid, Symbolical                            24
+
+  ---- Cassell's                                31
+
+
+  Fables of Æsop                                15
+
+  Footprints of Famous Men                       6
+
+  Footprints of Travellers                      34
+
+  Ford's Easy Lessons in Landscape              23
+
+  French, Cassell's Lessons in                  27
+
+  ---- Dictionary, Cassell's                    27
+
+  ---- Miniature                                18
+
+  ---- without a Master                         33
+
+  France, The History of                        31
+
+
+  Games for Christmas                           10
+
+  Geography, Cassell's Elementary               31
+
+  German, Cassell's Lessons in                  28
+
+  ---- Dictionary (Cassell)                     28
+
+  ---- without a Master                         38
+
+  Glenny's Handbook to Flower-garden            25
+
+  ---- Catechism of Gardening                   25
+
+  ---- Garden Almanac                           25
+
+  Glossary of Architecture                       8
+
+  Goldsmith's Works                             24
+
+  Graces, Gallery of the                         4
+
+  Greek, Cassell's Lessons in                   30
+
+  Grimm's Household Stories                     19
+
+  Guizot's Young Student                        20
+
+  Gutch's Scientific Pocket Book                12
+
+
+  Handbook of Pencil Drawing                    23
+
+  Harding's Drawing Books                    8, 23
+
+  ---- Portfolio                                23
+
+  Harry's Ladder to Learning                    21
+
+  ---- Book of Poetry                           21
+
+  Health for the Million                        37
+
+  Heath's Keepsake                               3
+
+  ---- Waverley Gallery                          4
+
+  Heroes of Asgard                              19
+
+  ---- of England                                6
+
+  Heroines of Shakspeare                         3
+
+  Hervey's Meditations                          24
+
+  History for Boys                               6
+
+  Home Lesson Books                             22
+
+  ---- Story Books                              22
+
+  How to make Home Happy                        24
+
+  Howitt's Library for the Young                35
+
+  Humphreys' British Coins                       3
+
+
+  Indestructible Lesson Books                   22
+
+  ---- Pleasure Books                           22
+
+  Introd. to Gothic Architecture                 8
+
+  Ireland, the History of                       33
+
+  Italian, Cassell's Lessons in                 30
+
+  ---- Without a Master                         38
+
+
+  Julien's (Mons.) Studies of Heads             23
+
+  Johnson's Lives of the Poets                  24
+
+  ---- Human Figure                             23
+
+
+  Keepsake (The)                                 3
+
+  King's Interest Tables                        24
+
+  Knight's Store of Knowledge                   37
+
+
+  Ladies' Drawing-Room Book                     36
+
+  Language of Flowers                        4, 11
+
+  Latin, Cassell's Lessons in                   29
+
+  ---- Dictionary (Cassell's)                   29
+
+  ---- Without a Master                         38
+
+  Lectures on the Great Exhibition              12
+
+  Lionel Fitzgibbon                             36
+
+  Little Boy's Own Book                         19
+
+  ---- Mary's Books                             21
+
+  ---- Treasury                                 21
+
+  ---- Lesson Book                              21
+
+  Longfellow's Poems                          2, 9
+
+  ---- Hyperion                                  2
+
+  ---- Golden Legend                          2, 9
+
+  ---- Kavanagh                                  2
+
+  ---- Prose Works                              10
+
+  ---- Song of Hiawatha                          9
+
+  Loves of the Poets                             1
+
+
+  Mackay's (Charles) Egeria                     10
+
+  ---- Town Lyrics                              10
+
+  Man, The Natural History of                   33
+
+  Manuals of Instruction                        22
+
+  Massey's (G.) Babe Christabel                  9
+
+  ---- Craigcrook Castle                         9
+
+  Mathematical Science                      31, 32
+
+  Mayhew's Acting Charades                      10
+
+  ---- Peasant-Boy Philosopher                  18
+
+  ---- Sandboys' Adventures                     15
+
+  ---- Wonders of Science                       18
+
+  Memoirs of the Queens of Prussia              37
+
+  Men of the Time                                5
+
+  Merry Pictures                                 2
+
+  Mia and Charlie                               19
+
+  Miller's Daughter                              1
+
+  Miller's (T.) Poems for Children              21
+
+  Milton's Poetical Works                        4
+
+  ---- L'Allegro and Il Penseroso                2
+
+  Museum of Painting and Sculpture               4
+
+  Musgrave's Ramble in Normandy                  7
+
+
+  Ogleby's Adventures                           15
+
+  Oldbuck's Adventures                          15
+
+
+  Painters (The) of All Nations, History of     35
+
+  Panoramic View of Palestine                   24
+
+  Parlour Magic                                 20
+
+  Pellatt on Glass-making                        4
+
+  Phillips's Etchings of Familiar Life          23
+
+  Playmate (The)                                20
+
+  Poetry of the Year                             3
+
+  Political Economy                             32
+
+  Prout's (Sam.) Elementary Drawing             23
+
+
+  Queens of Prussia, Memoirs of the             37
+
+
+  Raffaelle's Cartoons                           3
+
+  Reid's (Capt. M.) Desert Home                 17
+
+  ---- Boy Hunters                              17
+
+  ---- Young Voyageurs                          17
+
+  ---- Forest Exiles                            17
+
+  ---- Bush Boys                                17
+
+  ---- Young Yägers                             17
+
+  Reynard the Fox                               20
+
+  Rhymes and Roundelayes                         2
+
+  Rival (The) Kings                             19
+
+  Robinson Crusoe                               11
+
+  Romance of Modern Travel                       7
+
+  Round Games                                   10
+
+
+  Sailings over the Globe                       34
+
+  St. Leonard                                   35
+
+  Science Popularly Explained                   32
+
+  Scotland, The History of                      33
+
+  Scott's Poems                                  5
+
+  Shadows                                   11, 15
+
+  Shakspeare, Concordance to                    37
+
+  ---- Heroines                                  3
+
+  Sharpe's Diamond Dictionary                   13
+
+  Shilling's Worth of Sense                     11
+
+  Sidney Grey                                   19
+
+  Smith's (Alex.) Poems                          9
+
+  ---- Sonnets on the War                        9
+
+  Southey's Life of Nelson                   6, 19
+
+  Spanish without a Master                      38
+
+  Spelling Book (Cassell's)                     30
+
+  Steam Engine, The History of the              34
+
+  Store of Knowledge                            37
+
+  Suggestions in Design                         12
+
+  Sutcliffe's Drawing Book of Horses            23
+
+
+  Taylor's (Jeff.) Young Islanders              20
+
+  Tennyson's Miller's Daughter                   1
+
+  Thomson's Seasons                              5
+
+  Timbs's Curiosities of London                 16
+
+  ---- Curiosities of England                   16
+
+  ---- Popular Errors                           16
+
+  ---- School Days of Eminent Men               16
+
+  ---- Things Not Generally Known               16
+
+
+  Waverley Gallery                               4
+
+  Weather Book, the                             11
+
+  Webster (Daniel) Orations                     36
+
+  Webster's Quarto Dictionaries                 13
+
+  ---- Smaller Dictionary                       13
+
+  Winkles's English Cathedrals                   8
+
+  Women of the Bible                             4
+
+  Wonders of Travel                              7
+
+  ---- of the Heavens                           34
+
+  Worsley's Little Drawing Book                 23
+
+
+  Year-Book of Facts                            12
+
+  Young Lady's Oracle                           11
+
+
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+
+
+  TRANSCRIBER'S NOTE
+
+  Obvious typographical errors and punctuation errors have been
+  corrected after careful comparison with other occurrences within
+  the text and consultation of external sources.
+
+  Except for those changes noted below, all misspellings in the text,
+  and inconsistent or archaic usage, have been retained.
+
+  Pg 7, 'Analyis of Gothick' replaced by 'Analysis of Gothick'.
+  Pg 7, 'By  and J. A. Brandon' replaced by 'By R. and J. A. Brandon'.
+  Pg 18, '6s. cloth gilt.'; the number was unclear, '6' has been
+  assumed.
+
+
+
+
+
+End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of W. Kent & Co's Annual Catalogue,
+October 1858, by Various
+
+*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 56815 ***