Volume 23 — STANDARD WORKS BY GREAT WRITERS.
Reading edition
THE WORLD LIBRARY OF STANDARD BOOKS.
A Series of Standard Works, including many of the acknowledged Masterpieces of Historical and Critical Literature, made more accessible than hitherto to the general reader by publication in a cheap form and at a moderate price.
Crown 8vo, cloth gilt or buckram, label on back, uncut edges.
(Those marked * can also be had at same price in half-cloth, marbled sides.)
Price
5/- *1 Hallam’s Constitutional History of England. With Lord Macaulay’s Essay on the same. 970 pp., 5s. Library Edition, demy 8vo, 7s. 6d.; half-calf, 12s.
3/6 *2 Hallam’s Europe during the Middle Ages. By the Author of “The Constitutional History of England.” 720 pp., 3s. 6d.; half-calf, 7s. 6d. Library Edition, 894 pp., demy 8vo, 6s.; half-calf, 10s. 6d.
2/6 3 Hallam’s Church and State. By the Author of “The Constitutional History of England.” 400 pp., 2s. 6d.
3/6 *4 The Wealth of Nations (Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of). By Adam Smith. 832 pp., 3s. 6d.; half-calf, 7s. 6d. Library Edition, demy 8vo, 6s.; half-calf, 10s. 6d.
3/6 6 M’Culloch’s Works: Principles of Political Economy, Notes, &c., to “Smith’s Wealth of Nations,” &c. 700 pp., 3s. 6d.
3/6 *7 Adam Smith’s Essays: Moral Sentiments, Astronomy, Physics, &c. 476 pp., 3s. 6d.
10/6 8 Hume’s History of England. In Three Vols. 2,240 pp., 10s. 6d. Library Edition, demy 8vo, 18s.; half-calf, 31s. 6d.
3/6 9 Hume’s Essays: Literary, Moral, and Political. 3s. 6d.
3/6 *10 Montaigne’s Essays. Complete. 684 pp., 3s. 6d.; half-calf, 7s. 6d. Library Edition, 920 pp., 6s.; hf.-calf, 10s. 6d.
6/- 11 Warton’s History of English Poetry, from the Eleventh to the Seventeenth Century. 1,032 pp., 6s.
3/6 12 The Court and Times of Queen Elizabeth. By Lucy Aikin. 530 pp., 3s. 6d.
3/6 *13 Edmund Burke’s Choice Pieces. Containing the Speech on the Law of Libel, Reflections on Revolution in France, on the Sublime and Beautiful, Abridgment of English History. 3s. 6d.
3/6 14 Herbert’s Autobiography and History of England under Henry VIII. By Lord Herbert of Cherbury. 770 pp., 3s. 6d.
3/6 *15 Walpole’s Anecdotes of Painting in England. By Horace Walpole. 538 pp., 3s. 6d.
3/6 17 Locke’s Essays: On Toleration, Education, Value of Money. 700 pp., 3s. 6d.
3/6 18 Bolingbroke on the Study and Use of History. 3s. 6d.
3/6 19 Essays on Beauty and Taste: On Beauty, by Francis, Lord Jeffrey; On Taste, by Archibald Alison, LL.D. 324 pp., 3s. 6d.
3/6 20 Milton’s Early Britain. With More’s England under Richard III., and Bacon’s England under Henry VIII., 430 pp., 3s. 6d.
3/6 21 Marvell’s Poems and Satires. With Memoir of the Author. 3s. 6d.
3/6 *22 Macaulay: Reviews, Essays, and Poems. 650 pp., 3s. 6d. Library Edition, demy 8vo, 6s.
3/6 23 Sydney Smith’s Essays, Social and Political. 3s. 6d.; Library Edition, demy 8vo, 6s.
3/6 *24 Lord Bacon. Proficience and Advancement of Learning, Historical Sketches and Essays. 530 pp., 3s. 6d.; half-calf, 7s. 6d.; Library Edition, demy 8vo, 6s.
3/6 25 Essays by Thomas de Quincey. Confessions of an Opium Eater, Letters to a Young Man, &c. 550 pp., 3s. 6d.; Library Edition, demy 8vo, 6s.
3/6 *26 Josephus (The Complete Works of). By Whiston. Life and Marginal Notes. 810 pp., 3s. 6d.; half-calf, 7s. 6d. Library Edition, 6s.
3/6 27 Paley’s Works: “The Evidences of Christianity,” “Horæ Paulinæ,” and “Natural Theology.” With Life and Notes. 3s. 6d.; half-calf, 7s. 6d.
2/6 28 Taylor’s Holy Living and Dying. With Life, Introduction, and Notes. 2s. 6d.
3/6 29 Dean Milman’s History of the Jews. 520 pp., 3s. 6d.
2/6 30 Macaulay: Reviews and Essays. 2nd Series. 2s. 6d.
3/6 *31 Locke on the Human Understanding. 670 pp., 3s. 6d.; half-calf, 7s. 6d.
3/6 *32 Plutarch’s Lives. By Langhorne. 750 pp., 3s. 6d.; half-calf, 7s. 6d.
3/6 33 Addison’s Essays from “Spectator.” 3s. 6d.
3/6 34 Shakespere’s Complete Works. With Life and Glossary. 1,000 pp., 3s. 6d. Library Edition, 6s.
5/- 35 Cook’s Boston Monday Lectures. 640 pp., 5s.
5/- 36 Todd’s Complete Works. Sunday School Teacher, Lectures for Young Men, &c. 920 pp., 5s.
3/6 37 D’Aubigne’s History of the Reformation. 870 pp., 3s. 6d.; half-calf, 7s. 6d.
3/6 38 The Arabian Nights’ Entertainments. 430 pp., 3s. 6d.
3/6 39 Heroes for the Faith: Scottish Worthies who suffered during the Reformation. 3s. 6d. (Also in boards, 2s. 6d.)
3/6 40 Martyrs for the Truth. Last Words and Dying Testimonies of the Scottish Worthies. Revised, with Notes. 3s. 6d.
2/6 41 Cook’s Boston Monday Lectures. 1st Series. 340 pp., 2s. 6d.
2/6 42 Cook’s Boston Monday Lectures. 2nd Series. 300 pp., 2s. 6d.
3/6 43 Newman Smyth’s Works. Containing “Old Faiths in New Light,” “The Religious Feeling,” and “Orthodox Theology.” 3s. 6d.
5/- *44 Hallam’s Literature of Europe during the 15th, 16th, and 17th Centuries. Complete. 900 pp., 5s.
3/6 *45 Lamb’s Essays of Elia and Eliana. 850 pp., 3s. 6d.
3/6 46 History of Rome. By D. Rose. Edited by H. W. Dulcken, Ph.D. 500 pp., 3s. 6d.
3/6 47 History of Greece. By D. Rose. Edited by H. W. Dulcken, Ph.D. 480 pp., 3s. 6d.
2/6 48 Palgrave’s History of the Anglo-Saxons. 2s. 6d.