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CORRECT UNIVERSITY EDITIONS

OF

British Classic Authors,

Beautifully and uniformly printed in a Library
Size, at the University Press: combining Taste,
Elegance, and Economy, and Embellished with
highly-finished Copper-plate

Engravings from the Great Masters.

**The Publication of this general series of our best English Authors, at a price and in a way suited to the convenience of all classes, and the great encouragement received, has been noticed in the Legislature as a proof of the improvements of the Age, and the wide dissemination of Literature and useful Knowledge.

See Lord John Russel's Speech on Reform.

SERIES OF BRITISH HISTORIANS: Comprising an Elegant, Compact, and Uniform Library Series of the most celebrated British Historians, at One-fourth the Price of the original Editions. Embellished with fine Engravings from Designs of the first Artists, and commencing with

HUME AND SMOLLETT'S

History of England,

From the Invasion of Julius Cæsar to the Death of
George II. with a Continuation down to the
Coronation of George IV. by J. R. MILLER,
Esq.

Embellished with a complete Series of Portraits of
the Kings, Queens, &c. in emblematical Devices,
from original Designs by Smirke, Tresham,
Bromley, and other great Artists.

This Literary Curiosity will comprise the whole of Hume and Smollett, without the smallest abridgment, in 58 Nos. at 6d. or, 29 Parts at 1s. each: forming, with the Continuation, 2 Elegant 8vo. vols. (originally published in 13 Volumes at £5. 4s.) and presenting in this compact form, and at a trifling expense, the most complete body of English History extant, and the greatest mass of reading ever condensed within such limits. No expense has been spared, either in the Typography or Embellishments, to render it worthy of the large share of public favour already received.

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HISTORIES OF GREECE AND ROME, by the most Celebrated Authors, will follow.

An Elegant, Cheap, and Uniform Library Edition, in Weekly Nos. at 6d. or Parts, 1s. each, (con taining as much reading as is usually published at four times the price,) beautifully printed in double columns, 8vo. on the finest vellum paper, hotpressed, with superior Engravings; of the British Classics, or Essayists;

Comprising the SPECTATOR TATLER--
GUARDIAN-RAMBLER-IDLER-MIR-
ROR--LOUNGER-ADVENTURER-WORLD
-GOLDSMITH'S ESSAYS
THE WORLD-CONNOISSEUR-OBSERVER
SHENSTONE'S ESSAYS KNOX'S ES-
SAYS-BACON'S ESSAYS, &c.

CITIZEN OF

The whole forming an invaluable Collection of Religious, Moral, Critical, Satirical, and Entertaining Essays, by the most celebrated English Authors; including ADDISON, STEELE, DR. JOHNSON, POPE, GOLDSMITH, SWIFT, WATTS, BACON, &c.

** The SPECTATOR, TATLER, and GUARDIAN are complete in 60 Nos. at 6d. forming 2 elegant vols. containing the whole of what is usually printed in 14 vols. and the RAMBLER and IDLER, are complete in 17 Nos. and form another beautiful volume.

In Weekly Nos. 1 tifully and close double columns pressed, and off of cheapness, as Modern P

Comprising the Works of other viz. PETER WHITE, 8 No WORKS, by O BYRON-CRA same proportion

Each author whole will bind Volumes, at le other Editions.

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SHAKSPEAR Uniform with the 6d. or 16 Parts

Bramatic

Printed from th Reed; with Gl on his Genius Esq.

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The Shaks Volume; unit tability, typogr cheapness.

The BRITISH I panion in 2 V Plays in the Eng In 58 Weekly Nos tifully printed finest vellum pa uniform with, a the Shakspeare Most Numbers com Farce for Sixve

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In Weekly Nos. price 6d. or Parts, 1s. each, beautifully and closely printed in a clear, bold type, double columns, 8vo. on fine vellum paper, hotpressed, and offering the same advantage in point of cheapness, as the foregoing Series: the Modern Poets of Great Britain ;

Comprising the whole of some and Select Works of other of the most esteemed Authors, viz. PETER PINDAR, 14 Nos.-KIRKE WHITE, 8 Nos.-COWPER, 7 Nos.-BURNS' WORKS, by CURRIE, 18 Nos.-DARWINBYRON CRABBE-CANNING, &c. in the same proportion.

**Each author may be had separate, while the whole will bind in either 2 or 3 Elegant Library Volumes, at less than one fourth the price of other Editions.

SHAKSPEARE, AND BRITISH DRAMA : Uniform with the other Elegant Series, 33 Nos. at 6d. or 16 Parts. 1s. each: the Complete Dramatic Works of Shakspeare,

Printed from the text of Johnson, Stevens, and
Reed; with Glossarial Notes, Life, and a Critique
on his Genius and Writings, By Nicholas Rowe,
Esq.

The Shakspeare forms one Elegant Library "Volume; uniting convenience for reference, por tability, typographical beauty, and unparalleled cheapness.

The BRITISH DRAMA, forms a uniform companion in 2 Vols. being a collection of the best Plays in the English Language.

In 58 Weekly Nos. at 6d. or 29 parts 1s. each, beau-
tifully printed in double columns, 8vo. on the
finest vellum paper: forming two elegant vols.
uniform with, and intended as a Companion to
the Shakspeare.
Most Numbers containing a Tragedy, Comedy, and
Farce for Sixvence.

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JONES'S

Diamond Classics,

Uniform in Size with the Diamond Poets, and on
Nonpareil Type.)

The Smallest and most Beautiful ever printed,
with Engravings from original Drawings by
HARVEY, &c.
PAUL and VIRGINIA, and the INDIAN COT-
TAGE, by SAINT PIERRE, with Portrait and
Vignette from a design by HARVEY-2s. Boards.
ELIZABETH, or, The EXILES of SIBERIA, by

MADAME COTTIN, 18. 6d.

VICAR of WAKEFIELD, by GOLDSMITH, 25.
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The CASTLE of OTRANTO, by HORACE WAL-

POLE, 18. 6d.
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IN THE PRESS:

STERNE'S SENTIMENTAL JOURNEY
The SORROWS of WERTER.
BELISARIUS, by MARMONTEL.
THEODOSIUS and CONSTANTIA.
ALMORAN and HAMET.
SOLYMAN and ALMENA.

&c. &c.

FORMING A SERIES OF

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Classic Tales, &c.

Uniformly printed in so clear and beautiful a type, that they may be read with equal ease as an Octavo Volume; and so portable as to be carried in the waistcoat pocket, being no greater incumbrance than a watch.

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