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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.

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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.

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, (containing 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.

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.

OF BRITISH CLASSICS.

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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, portability, 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, beautifully 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 Sixpence.

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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.
RASSELAS, by DR. JOHNSON, 18. 6d.

The CASTLE of OTRANTO, by HORACE WAL-
POLE, 1s. 6d.

GULLIVER'S TRAVELS, 2 VOLS, 4s. 6d.

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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 OP

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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