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Price 2s. + + + + +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 + + +86, FLEET STREET, AND PATERNOSTER ROW, LONDON. + + + + + 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 *** |