Volume 1

Curiosities of literature / edited with memoirs and notes by his son, B. Disraeli.

  • Isaac D'Israeli
Date:
1868
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Curiosities of literature / edited with memoirs and notes by his son, B. Disraeli. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    COMPENDIUMS OF ENGLISH LITERATURE. Library Edition. In Four Volumes, crown 8vo, price 21s. cloth, new style; beautifully printed by Ballantxne & Co., with New Steel Illustrations. HALF-HOTJES with the BEST AUTHORS. Remodelled throughout by its original Editor, CHARLES KNIGHT, with Selections from Authors added, whose works have placed them amongst the “Best Authors since the publication of the First Edition. *,* This book contains Three Hundred Extracts of the best efforts of our great Standard Authors, whether they be poets or historians, essayists or divines, travellers or philosophers, arranged so as to form half an hour's reading for every day of the year. The student finds a taste of every quality, and a specimen of every style. Should he grow weary of one author, he can turn to another; and if inclined to be critical, he can weigh the merits of one writer against those of his fellow. It gives us a glimpse of the celebrities assembled within its portals. At a glance the student can obtain some idea of the subject. Such books as these are the true foundations of that knowledge which renders men celebrated and famous. The People’s Edition. In Two Volumes, demy 8vo, price 10s. cloth; 12s. with gilt edges; or half-calf extra, 16s HALF-HOURS with the BEST AUTHORS^ SELECTED AND EDITED BY CHARLES KNIGHT. With Sixteen Steel Portraits. In this Edition, the Biographies are revised to 1866, the Pagination of the Volumes completed, and the Serial Nature of the original work entirely done away with; it now forms a Handsome Library Book. In One Volume, demy 8vo, cloth, 5s.; or half-calf extra, 8s. HALF-HOURS of ENGLISH HISTORY. SELECTED AND ARRANGED BY CHARLES KNIGHT. Forming a Companion Volume to the “ Half-Hours with the Best Authobs. Contains the Choicest Historical Extracts from upwards of fifty Standard Authors, including Burke, Palgrave, Guizot, Sheridan Knowles, Thierry, H. Taylor, Rev. James White, Charles Knight, G. L. Craik, Landor, Hume, Keats, Hallam, Southey, Shakspeare, Froissart, Sir Walter Scott, Hall, Barante, Lord Bacon, Cavendish, Bishop Burnet, Rev. H. H. Milman, Wordsworth, Lord Macaulay. Is now issued, carefully printed, in a complete Volume, paged throughout, with a General Index. The articles are chiefly selected so as to aflord a succession of graphic parts of English History, chronologically arranged, from the consideration that the portions of history upon which general readers delight to dwell are those which tell some story which is complete in itself, or furnish some illustration which has a separate as well as a general interest.
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