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*Readers who approved of this Author's quaint story of "The Jumping Frog," will be very well satisfied with the "New Pilgrim's Progress:" there has been no work like it issued here for years.

Mark Twain's Innocents Abroad. THE VOYAGE OUT. Price 38. 6d. cloth extra; a paper edition, 18.

**A delightful, fresh, and amusing volume of travels. Readers who appreciate true wit and humour will be well satisfied with "The Innocents Abroad." The Luck of Roaring Camp, and other Stories.

By BRET HARTE. Crown 8vo, toned paper, 3s. 6d.; a paper edition, Is. *The Work of a new candidate to literary honour. The Publisher of a book is not perhaps always the most unbiassed person to give an opinion about it; but in the present instance the writer has no hesitation in saying that English readers will be charmed with these inimitable stories of strange life in the Far West-away on the Pacific slope. The fun, the very humour of the thing, has a May freshness about it, which smacks not of the Old World.

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VERY IMPORTANT NEW BOOKS.

The History of Advertising in all Ages and Countries. A Companion to the "HISTORY OF SIGNBOARDS." With many very amusing Anecdotes and Examples of Successful Advertisers. By MESSRS. LARWOOD and HOTTEN. [In preparation. Signboards: their History. With Anecdotes of Famous Taverns and remarkable Characters. By JAGOB LARWOOD and JOHN CAMDEN HOTTEN. "A book which will delight all."-Spectator. This day, Fourth Edition, pages 580, price 78. 6d. only.

From the "Times.

"It is not fair on tne part of a reviewer to pick out the plums of an author's book, thus Alching away his cream, and leaving little but skim-milk remaining; but, even if we were ever so

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From the "Timer.

we could not in the present instance pick out all Messrs. Larwood and Hotten's plums, because the good things are

80 numerous as to defy the most wholesale depredation."Review of three columns.

BULL AND MOUTH.

(Angel St., St Martin's-le-Grand, circa 1800.

Nearly 100 most curious illustrations on wood are given, showing the various old signs which were formerly hung from taverns and other houses. The frontispiece represents the famous sign of "The Man loaded with Mischief," in the colours of the original painting said to have been executed by Hogarth.

Notice. "Large-paper Edition," with Seventy-Two extra Illustrations (not given in the small edition), showing Old London in the days when Signboards hung from almost every house. In 4to, half-morocco neat, 30s.

Only a small number printed on extra fine paper with wide margins for the lover of fine books.

The Parks of London.

Their History and Associations from the Earliest Times. By JACOB LARWOOD. WITH ILLUS. TRATIONS BY THE AUTHOR. [In the Press.

99

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VERY IMPORTANT NEW BOOKS.

The History of Advertising in all Ages and Countries. A Companion to the "HISTORY OF SIGNBOARDS." With many very amusing Anecdotes and Examples of Successful Advertisers. By MESSRS. LARWOOD and HOTTEN. [In preparation. Signboards: their History. With Anecdotes of Famous Taverns and remarkable Characters. By JAGOB LARWOOD and JOHN CAMDEN HOTTEN. "A book which will delight all."-Spectator. This day, Fourth Edition, pages 580, price 78. 6d. only.

From the "Times.

"It is not fair on ene part of a reviewer to pick out the plums of an author's book, thus Alching away his cream, and leaving little but skim-milk remaining; but, even if we were ever so maliciously inclined,

From the "Timer.

we could not in the present instance pick out all Messra, Larwood and Hotten's plums, because the good things are 80 numerous as to defy the most wholesale depredation."Review of three columns.

BULL AND MOUTH.

(Angel St., St Martin's-le-Grand, circa 1800.

Nearly 100 most curious illustrations on wood are given, showing the various old signs which were formerly hung from taverns and other houses. The frontispiece represents the famous sign of "The Man loaded with Mischief," in the colours of the original painting said to have been executed by Hogarth.

Notice.-"Large-paper Edition," ," with Seventy-Two extra Illustrations (not given in the small edition), showing Old London in the days when Signboards hung from almost every house. In 4to, half-morocco neat, 308.

The Parks of London.

Only a small number printed on extra fine paper with wide margins for the lover of fine books. Their History and Associations from the Earliest Times. By JACOB LARWOOD. WITH ILLUS. TRATIONS BY THE AUTHOR. [In the Press.

AN EXTRAORDINARY BOOK.

Hotten's Edition of "Contes Drolatiques" (Droll Tales collected from the Abbeys of Loraine). Par BALZAC. With Four Hundred and Twenty-five Marvellous, Extravagant, and Fantastic Woodcuts by GUSTAVE DORE. Beautifully printed, thick 8vo, half morocco, Roxburghe, 129. 6d.

The most singular designs ever attempted by any artist. This book is a fand of amusement. crammed is it with pictures that even the contents are adorned with thirty-three illustrations. Direct application must be made to Mr. Hotten for this work.

John Camden Hotten, 74 and 75, Piccadilly, W.