ON AND NEAR THE EASTERN COAST OF ENGLAND, COMPRISING THE ROMANTIC SCENERY OF THE RIVERS YARE, WAVENEY, AND BURE, FROM PICTURES PAINTED BY JAMES STARK, Consisting of 36 splendid Engravings by Geo. Cooke, W. J. Cooke, E. Goodall, John Burnet, and other eminent Engravers, WITH HISTORICAL AND GEOLOGICAL DESCRIPTIONS, BY J. W. ROBBERDS, ESQ. Imperial 4to. proofs, published at £4. 14s. 6d.-now Reduced to £1 16s. Imperial 4to. India proofs, pub. at £6. 6s.—now Reduced to £2. 12s. 6d. Sold at these prices in extra cloth boards, with stout glazed paper to each plate. BEAUTIFUL AND "AN EXCEEDINGLY INTERESTING VOLUME. THE PAINTINGS COMBINE IN SUBJECT, COMPOSITION, AND DETAIL, THE UNITED EXCELLENCIES OF HOBBIMA, RUYSDAEL, AND VANDER VELDE, and exhibit the known talents of Mr. Stark, and of the able engravers employed, to the greatest possible advantage. THEIR EXECUTION MAY VIE WITH THAT OF THE BEST PERFORMANCES IN THE SAME CLASS OF ART, WHICH THIS OR ANY OTHER COUNTRY HAS YET PRODUCED. The historical and geological descriptions by Mr. Robberds are perspicuous, and often highly poetical, and have this further recommendation, that the writer has spent his whole life in the scenes which he describes. The work was published under the patronage of his most gracious Majesty, and we feel ourselves bound to say, that the royal patronage was never better bestowed."-Literary Gazette. "A SINGULARLY BEAUTIFUL WORK, OF WHICH WE REALLY CANNOT SPEAK TOO HIGHLY. MR. STARK IS WELL KNOWN AS AN ARTIST POWERFUL IN LANDSCAPE, AND HE HAS HERE, IN SCENES RICH IN MATERIALS, PUT FORTH ALL HIS STRENGTH. His pictures have the delightful simplicity and effect of the best masters of the Dutch and Flemish Schools, and several forcibly remind us of Hobbima and Ruysdael. THE TASTE IN SELECTION, AND THE DELICACY AND BEAUTY OF THE EXECUTION, ARE ABLY SUPPORTED BY THE VERY FIRST ENGRAVERS OF THE DAY. Their names are a guarantee for excellence. The plates by GEORGE AND WM. COOKE are as remarkable in this as in their previous work of the same kind, THE SCENERY OF THE SOUTHERN COAST,' engraved after the paintings of MR. TURNER, and the admirers of that work will do well to secure this, its meet companion. We know no other English topographical work which can compete with it in its various excellent qualities."-Observer. "A WORK OF THE FIRST ORDER FOR PICTORIAL, GRAPHIC, AND LITERARY MERIT. IN FAITHFUL DELINEATION, IN JUDICIOUS SELECTION OF LOCAL BEAUTY, IN THE CELEBRITY OF THE ARTISTS EMPLOYED, AND IN MASTERLY EXECUTION, THIS EXQUISITE VOLUME HAS NO SUPERIOR. Mr. Stark is amongst the most eminent of our English Landscape Painters, and it would be difficult to find one more fitted to illustrate a work, in which accuracy and truth in delineating natural scenery, are to be blended with refinement in taste and striking character in effect. IT IS ABSOLUTELY DELICIOUS TO FIND A PURE BRITISH PAINTER NOW-ADAYS, SUCH AS MR., STARK, and we accordingly turn with fondness and delight to these pleasing pictures of our native vallies. We venture to affirm that the Rivers of Norfolk are as rich in beauty, and possess as many picturesque attractions as those, to behold which the traveller is satisfied to journey a thousand miles. Indeed, we have been com. paring British Scenery with that of France in the works of Mr. Stark and Mr. Brockedon, and the result of the comparison is by no means of disadvantage to Old England." -Norwich Mercury. "ONE OF THE MOST PLEASING AND MERITORIOUS OF ALL THE NUMEROUS WORKS WHICH HAVE FORMED THE PRESENT GOLDEN AGE OF PICTORIAL EMBELLISHMENT. THE GLORY OF ENGLAND, IN THE WAY OF LANDSCAPE, IS HER RIVER SCENERY-THERE IS NOTHING TO BE COMPARED WITH IT IN ANY OTHER COUNTRY. This beautiful volume presents us with the Scenery of Rivers which have not yet become common-places in the mouths and books of metropolitan tourists; THE VIEWS ARE SELECTED WITH THE EYE OF A PAINTER, WORTHY OF HIS COGNOMEN, 'THE ENGLISH HOBBIMA;' and the engravings executed by some of the most talented artists of the present day. See the List of Plates on next page. LIST OF THE PLATES, contained in Stark's Eastern Coast Scenery, COMPLETE COURSE OF PURE MATHEMATICS, By R. BLAKELOCK, M.A., Fellow of Catherine Hall, Cambridge. NOW REDUCED TO 12s. "One of the most useful of the many valuable works for which we are indebted to the French Mathematicians. It is adopted at most of the Foreign Universities, and this English translation will, there is no doubt, bring it into more general use in this country." NICHOLSON'S PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE OF ARCHITECTURE, Containing the Fundamental Rules of the Art, in Geometry, Arithmetic, and Mensuration, with the Application of those Rules to Practice. The true Method of Drawing the Ichnography and Orthography of Objects; including Treatises on Arches, Mouldings, Spiral Lines, and Foliage, and Geometrical Rules for Shadows; also the Five Orders of Architecture, with a great variety of beautiful examples selected from the Antique, and many useful and elegant Ornaments, with Rules for projecting them. Illustrated with 218 Copper Plates, Engraved in a superior manner by W. LOWRY. Fourth Edition, with Additions, Revised and Corrected by the Author. 3 vols. 8vo. published at £3. 3s. in extra cloth boards, NOW REDUCED TO £1. 16s. THE TEXT BOOK OF THE PROFESSION, THE MOST USEFUL GUIDE TO THE ARCHITECTURAL STUDENT, AND THE BEST COMPENDIUM FOR THE AMATEUR. This work has always been so highly appreciated, and its reputation is now so well established, that quotations in its praise would seem superfluous, but it may be permitted to adduce the opinion recently given of it by an eminent Architect, who declared it to be "NOT ONLY THE MOST USEFUL BOOK OF THE KIND EVER PUBLISHED, BUT ABSOLUTELY INDISPENSABLE TO THE STUDENT," and added, that "he always kept a copy on his own table, as well as another in the Office for the use of his pupils." "Architecture has now almost become a branch of polite education; and fortunately so, as it is impossible that bad taste can be universally prevalent, if those who patronise works of art, improve their judgments by studying the principles on which they are produced."-Shaw. This new and enlarged edition, with improved impressions of the numerous plates, is now offered at the singularly low price of 36s. in the hope that by bringing the work more within the reach of the Student, its sale will be adequately extended. ANTIQUE VASES, CANDELABRA, LAMPS, TRIPODS, PATERE, TAZZAS, TOMBS, MAUSOLEUMS, SEPULCHRAL CHAMBERS, CINERARY URNS, SARCOPHAGI, CIPPI; and other Architectural and Classical Ornaments. Selected from the most distinguished Museums and private Collections, English and Foreign: ENGRAVED BY HENRY MOSES, (Engraver of Hope's Ancient Costume, Canova's Works, &c.) Consisting of One Hundred & Seventy beautiful Plates, several of which are coloured; With Historical and Descriptive Letter-press, By the REV. H. H. BABER, of the British Museum. In 1 volume small 4to published at £3. 3s.-REDUCED TO £1. 11s. 6d. Elegantly bound in embossed cloth, lettered, and gilt on the sides. "The study of the unrivalled works of the ancients is essential to the establishment of good taste and correct judgment, and daily becomes a more indispensable part of polite education. The elegant and comprehensive volume before us is eminently calculated to promote this object, and cannot fail to prove as acceptable to the lover of the fine arts, as it will be found valuable to the student. In praise of the selection it will be sufficient to observe, that it was made under the direction of the late Mr. THOMAS HOPE, whose knowledge, taste, and judgment, command the admiration of all who have any acquaintance with the subject. The lover of antiquities and the classical scholar will do well to place this volume on the shelf by the side of Sir William Gell's similar work on Pompeii." As choice and beautiful specimens of the Antique are the most available models in the present day, this collection will prove of great practical use to Sculptors, Painters, Gold and Silversmiths, Chasers, Engravers, and ornamental Decorators and Artisans of every kind. CARTER'S ANCIENT ARCHITECTURE OF ENGLAND, Including the Orders during the British, Roman, Saxon, and Norman Eras; also under the Reigns of Henry III. and Edward III.; the whole Chronologically arranged. Illustrated by One Hundred and Nine large Copper-plate Engravings, comprising upwards of Two Thousand Specimens, shewn in Plan, Elevation, Section, and Detail. NEW AND MUCH IMPROVED EDITION, With Indexes, Alphabetical, Chronological and Systematic, and illustrative Notes, By JOHN BRITTON, Esq. F. S. A. &c. 2 vols. in 1, royal folio, fine impressions of the Plates, published at £12. 12s. NOW REDUCED TO £5. 5s. half-bound morocco. This original and important work contains, in 109 large plates, as many Architectural Examples, Ornaments, and Antiquities, as on the ordinary plan of publishing would suffice for at least twenty folios: and although scarcely a vacant space is left, the subjects are so judiciously arranged as not to appear crowded. In the descriptive accounts, which are sufficiently ample, space is economized in a similar degree. The plates are all drawn and etched by Carter himself, from actual admeasurement, and many of them are now perhaps the only records of old English Edifices since destroyed or fallen into decay. ،، The late Mr. Carter (says Mr. Britton) was the first to point out to the public the right way of delineating and representing the component and detached parts of the Old Buildings of England. His National Work on Ancient Architecture, occupied him in drawing, etching, arranging, and publishing, more than twenty years; and he himself declared it to be the result of his studies through life. It is highly respectable and valuable." -See Britton's Arch. Antiq. vol. v. pages 38 and 68. Mr. Pugin says of Carter-" The enthusiastic zeal of that able draughtsman and antiquary was undoubtedly effectual in checking the mutilation of ancient monuments- We ne'er shall look upon his like again."" "This Collection supplied a want which had long been felt, and enabled the architect to do his work. For this purpose, simple but accurate outlines, on an intelligible scale, are alone required; highly finished plates, on a small scale, though they may be liked by the amateur, are worse than useless to the art, as they encourage the builder who attempts Gothic Architecture, to content himself with a general resemblance, and to blur all the minor features. A work, professing to treat on architecture, and wanting in plans and sections, is no better than a treatise on anatomy which omits the representation of the bones. Sections of mouldings are indispenable; they vary in every specimen, and can never be made out from the elevation." Quarterly Review. To the Architect, the Antiquary, and the Artist, this celebrated work is alike indispen sable, and it should find a place in every good library, by the side of the Vetusta Monumenta, published by the Society of Antiquaries, and Gough's Sepulchral Monuments, two National Works, to which Mr. Carter contributed largely. The former edition had become very scarce and expensive. The present, besides having the advantage of Mr. Britton's illustrative Notes, is printed in a much handsomer manner, and the plates, which are strongly etched, are really finer impressions, owing to the improved method of copperplate printing. It is altogether one of the cheapest folios which has been offered to the public for many years. Among other very interesting illustrations contained in Carter's Work, Mr. Britton enumerates the following: Stonehenge, Roman Walls in Southampton, Northumberland, Derbyshire, St. Alban's, Cirencester, and Leicester; Roman Temple at Bath; St. Botolph's Priory; Peterborough, Gloucester, Durham, York, Canterbury, and other Cathedrals; the Palaces of Lambeth, Woodstock, Westminster; the Castles of Coningsborough, Farnham, Durham, Kenilworth, Rochester, Hexham, Raby, Nottingham, Exeter, Pontefract, Newcastle, York, Carisbrooke, Warwick, Tonbridge, Goodrich, Abergavenny, Chepstow, Caldecott, Tamworth, Ashby-de-la-Zouche, Crickhowel, Leeds, Sherborne, Hedingham, &c. ; the Abbeys, Churches, and Chapels of Salisbury, Westminster, Durham, Northampton, Dorchester, Little Maplestead, Glastonbury, St. Alban's, Waverley, Redcliffe, St. Augustine (at Canterbury), Waltham, Romsey, Dunstable, St. Stephen (Westminster), &c.; the Halls and parts of Domestic Buildings at Coventry, Lambeth, Crosby, Farnham Palace, Peterborough, Durham, &c.; Monuments, Crypts, Archways, Gates, Doors, Windows, Stained Glass, Altars, Fonts, Basins, Cups, Piscinas, Chairs, Niches, Seats, Chests, Stalls, Thrones, Baptisteries, Gate-houses, Bosses, Cornices, Brackets, Buttresses, Iron Screens, and Shields of almost every County in England; Bridges at York, Winchester, Huntingdon, &c. ; Crosses, Grave-stones, Tombs, Tablets, Coffins, &c.; Cells in Derbyshire, &c. &c. CARTER'S SPECIMENS OF ANCIENT SCULPTURE & PAINTING NOW REMAINING IN ENGLAND; FROM THE EARLIEST PERIOD TO THE REIGN OF HENRY VIII. CONSISTING OF. Statues, Basso-relievos, Sculptures, &c. Brasses, Monumental Effigies; Paintings on Glass and on Walls; Carvings, Seals, &c. &c. Designed to shew the Rise and Progress of Sculpture and Painting in England; to explain obscure and doubtful parts of history, and to preserve the Portraits of great and eminent personages. With historical and critical Illustrations by the following distinguished Antiquaries :-The late FRANCIS Douce, RICHARD GOUGH, WM. BRAY, JOHN FENN and J. S. HAWKINS, Esqrs., and the REV. J. MILNER, of Winchester. 2 Vols. royal folio, With 120 large Engravings, many of which are coloured. Half-bound morocco. A few copies of Vol. 2 remain for sale at £3. 3s. in bds. This celebrated and curious work illustrates remarkable Antiquities of almost every County in England, and has deservedly obtained the appellation of THE ENGLISH MONTFAUCON. The greater portion of the letter-press is written by the late FRANCIS DOUCE, Esq., whose literary and antiquarian productions are justly treasured by all. On Mr. Douce's own copy, now preserved in the Bodleian Library, is written—“ May every hand be blasted which is eager to destroy whatever has given pleasure to mankind for centuries." DAWSON TURNER'S PICTURESQUE AND ANTIQUARIAN TOUR Undertaken chiefly for the purpose of investigating the Architectural Antiquities of the Duchy, with observations on its History, on the Country, and on its Inhabitants. Illustrated with 50 Etchings by Mrs. TURNER and J. S. COTMAN, Esq. 2 Vols. royal 8vo. extra cloth boards. Published at £2. 12s. 6d. NOW REDUCED TO £1. 6s. Or with proof impressions on India Paper, of which very few were printed, This well known and esteemed work has hitherto maintained its full price without deviation, and proof copies have been sold by public auction as high as £5. 15s. 6d. "Though the principal object of this pleasing Tour has been to examine the rich and curious Ancient Architecture of Normandy; and though by far the largest portion of the volumes is devoted to the illustration of that interesting inquiry'; the collateral parts, the historical debris, and the remarks on customs, manners, costume, and internal economy, are written in so agreeable a style, that the general reader will find as much to please him, as the antiquary to admire, in Mr. Turner's labours. The charm of the whole lies in the easy gentlemanly way in which the facts, gathered by an enlightened perception and an elegant feeling for the fine arts, are communicated. It is like being in company with persons of taste and understanding: they not only take up such matters as are most worthy of atten tion, and reject what are trite and frivolous; but they place in the clearest view what they do take up, and adorn whatever they deem deserving of their regards. "This is the character of Mr. Turner's Norman Tour: and we are the more desirous of stating it impressively, because it would carry us to an inconvenient length, to display the principal merits of his publication in our limited pages; and we are compelled to leave the most important circumstances, in order to select the most striking and entertaining anecdotes."-Literary Gazette. "It was full time that some attempt should be made to illustrate the Antiquities of Normandy, the most important of our trans-marine provinces of olden time. In Normandy an Englishman feels himself as much within the pale of English history, as if he were in Yorkshire. The theme is so congenial to us, that for want of a better work, even the meagre compilation of Ducarel has long since become as valuable as scarcity and high prices could possibly make it. The work now before us, therefore, is one in which we stood much in need.”—Quarterly Review. |