Browse Items (3304 total)

This is the second page of the front advertisements in the 1853 H.G. Bohn "Standard Library" Reprint. These advertisements feature other books in Bohn's Standard Library, Bohn's Extra Volumes, and Bohn's Scientific Library. This page has a decorative blue border, and the words are written in blue as well.

This is the second page of the front advertisements in the 1853 Eli Charles & Co. "Pocket Library" Reprint. All the words are surrounded by a black lined border. It describes the editor's promise for the quality of their books. It ends with the address: London: Eli Charles Eginton & Co., 48A, Paternoster Row; And All Booksellers.

this is the second page of advertisements from the Ward, Lock & Co. 1882 edition. The heading is "Popular Books By Good Authors", below this is the subtitle "The Family Gift Series" followed by the list of books in the set.

This second page advertisement, which is a continuation of the one appearing on the front page, for the 1853 Charles H. Clarke and Samuel O. Beeton shows the prices of "LITERATURE FOR THE RAIL," available to those on trains in that time period. Bellow a simple zierrat is listed the titles of books for "One shilling each". Those titles include: Marvel's Romance of Forest and Prarie Life and Reveries of a Bachelor, Ware's Pictures of European Capitals, Southey's Life of Nelson, Joan of Arc, Curse of Kehama, Ballads, and Minor Poems, The Cavaliers of England, Uncle Tom's Cabin, D'Arbouville's Three Tales, The White Slave, The Guards, Life in the Woods, Beauties of "Shakespere", The Shot in the Eye, and Adventures with the Texian Rangers, The Sunny Side & a Peep at Number Five, Last Leaf from Sunny Side, The Cossack and the Turk, The Tell-Tale, Lamartine's Wellington and Waterloo, The Czar and the Sultan, Longfellow's Poems on Slavery, and Spirit Rapping in England and America.