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HESIOD; the CASSANDRA of LYCOPHRON; with BION, MOSCHUS, MUSÆUS, and SAPPHO. 30.

OVID'S METAMORPHOSES and EPISTLES, by DRYDEN, POPE, CONGREVE, ADDISON, and others. 40, 41.

CICERO'S ORATIONS, OFFICES, and Treatises on OLD AGE and FRIENDSHIP.

ESCHYLUS. 45.

LIVY. 46-52.

42-44.

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VALPY'S SHAKSPEARE.

In 15 Volumes, 5s. each, uniformly with BYRON, POPE, and VALPY'S HISTORY OF ENGLAND,

SHAK SPEAR E;

WITH A LIFE, GLOSSARIAL NOTES,

AND ONE HUNDRED AND SEVENTY ILLUSTRATIONS
FROM THE PLATES IN

BOYDELL'S EDITION.

EDITED BY A. J. VALPY, M. A.

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The distinguishing features of this edition are-MALONE; GLOSSARIAL NOTES on all obsolete words; and an HISTORICAL DIGEST and ARGUMENT prefixed to each Play..

The work is embellished with ONE HUNDRED ARD SEVENTY ILLUSTRATIONS, executed on steel, in the first style

of outline engraving, from the Plates in BOYDELL'S SHAKSPEARE, originally published at £95, and large paper at £190.

The attention of the youthful reader is directed to the most striking and brilliant passages by the INDEX, which forms a complete reference to the BEAUTIES OF SHAKSPEARE.

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OPINIONS.

It is our duty to join the voice of the public press, which is unanimous in commendation of this most useful and elegant edition. Nothing evinces more pointedly the high refinement to which civilisation has attained amongst us, than the production of a work like this.'-Metropolitan Magazine.

'Among the numerous editions of celebrated authors which have lately been introduced to the public in an illustrated form, we know of none more deserving, or likely to become popular, than the one before us. Though all Boydell's plates are not equally excellent, nevertheless in the manner in which the present edition is got up, viz. in outline, the effect is almost invariably good. The typography is so beautiful, and the paper and manner of getting up so excellent, that this must be considered the cheapest and best edition of the bard of Avon extant. These united claims to patronage cannot be resisted; and we are certain that the work will find its way into the boudoir of every lady, and the library of every gentleman; at least, if it does not, it ought.'-Monthly Magazine.

An admirable idea, and capitally put in execution. The outline engravings abound, and are excellently done; type good, size convenient, price next to nothing, the subject Shakspeare.' If this combination do not attract, there is neither taste nor patriotism in England.'-United Service Journal.

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In these volumes the notes most required have been preserved, and the historical memoranda are reduced into a neat attracting compass; we are not withheld from reading them by their length, or by the diversity of their opinions: all is now proper, and Shakspeare has been given to us in the way we most wished to see him.'-Monthly Magazine.

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TACITUS, WITH ENGLISH NOTES.

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TACITI OPERA, BROTIER'S TEXT;

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This is the only Edition of Tacitus published with English Notes.

CHURCH REFORM.

AN ANALYTICAL VIEW OF THE PRINCIPAL PLANS OF CHURCH REFORM, as proposed by Lord Henley, Mr. Miller, Mr. Townsend, Dr. Burton, Professor Pusey, &c. &c. With a full and impartial Examination of their respective merits and practicability, and a Statement of the True Principles of Church Reform. By the Rev. S. T. BLOOMFIELD, D.D., F.S.A. Vicar of Bisbrooke, in Rutland. Price 38. 6d. 8vo.

The work will be illustrated with engravings like Byron, Pope, Shakspeare, &c., and published in ten monthly volumes.