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March i, 1886 The Publishers 9 . 'Circul...
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WARD and LOCK'S POPULAR LIBRARY OF LITERARY TREASURES.
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March I, 1886 The Publishers 9 . 'Circul...
March i , 1886 The Publishers 9 . ' Circular 225
Ward And Lock's Popular Library Of Literary Treasures.
WARD and LOCK'SPOPULAR LIBRARY OF LITERARY TREASURES .
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Edited by G . T . fiETTANY , M . A ., B . Sc , & c . Price in attractive wrappers , 3 d . each , or in neat cloth , 6 d . The life of a people may be read in its books . Schools by the recital of poems and the reading What a man reads determines very much what he of extracts from the best authors , Messrs . Wabd , is . The youth ' s reading brings forth the man ' s Lock & Co . have decided to nmke a great effort j di acting gesting . Home the best life thoug is knit hts together of the best by reading men , which and Literary to produce Treasures a truly Popuxar to be Libraey found in the of the Eng best lish are the richest legacy of great minds to mankind . language . While the best authors of all nations The barriers of the past are removed . Books will be included in the Popular Library , it is are no longer chained , hidden , costly , inaccessible . certain that the wonderfully rich stores of English The best books of the mighty dead , those which Classic authors will furnish a large proportion to have proved their worth to millions , are the the list . cheapest ; and Messrs . Ward , Lock & Co . may The volumes of the Popular Library will conjustly claim a foremost position among the pioneers tain from 128 to 160 dctavo pages , well and clearly of cheap literature . Their shilling books of poetry , printed on good paper , and wilL be sold at the low religion , philosophy , history , and fiction are un- price of Sixpence : bound in cloth , or Threepence surpassed for cheapness ; their shilling dictionaries in stout paper covers . Thus it will be possible J are unrivalled ; their complete editions of popular for every man , woman , or child , who can spare an poets , historians , philosophers , and essayists have odd threepence , to purchase a choice book , which hitherto been the principal channels through which may be a source of pleasure , education , and profit those of limited means could obtain them . From . for a lifetime . And thus a complete library of their Shilling Self-Instructor to their great Die- 0 NE flUNDEED LITERARY TREASURES | characteris tionanes Universal of Instructor ed , Universal by remarkable , all Information their cheapness books , have and and their been ex- F may ^ be Shillings accumuiat or ed at the tha smal n l cost of Twentyj cellence Primers . , by Their eminent Sixpenny authorities Series of orig in science inal Science , has whil SIXPENCE e for the PER Price WEEK of Half FOR -a- O Pint NE YEAR of Beer ; , millions been without of their a penny rival ; books while of the biograp sale hy of , poetry man , y BOOKS or One Penny could per be boug week ht , SEVENTEEN in Twelve Months CHOICE , and their fiction success sufficientl in meeting y attests every their taste and efforts accom and - vised The and Popula edited r by Lib Mr rakt . G . T will . Bkttany be carefully , M . A ., super B . Sc - , modating every pocket . of Caius College , Cambridge , author of ' Eminent The recent enormous spread of popular educa- Doctors , ' & c . Suitable introductions and sketches tion among vast numbers hitherto destitute of of the authors of the books brought out will be books has increased the reading public incal- supplied , and with this object the aid of a number Reeognising culably , while the it necessity has not yet for filled still further their pockets efforts . ments of gentlemen will be eminent secured . in The their first respective volume depart will , - it to provide entertaining and instructive reading for is expected , be ready by March 15 , and the early those whoso taste has been created in the Board issues in the series will include the following : — 1 . LONGFELLOW'S Voices of the Night , and Tales of a Wayside Inn . 2 . MACAULAY'S Lord Clive , Warren Hastings , and other Essays . 3 . EMERSON'S Representative Men , and English Traits . 4 . DE QUINjCEY'S Confessions of an Opium Eater , and Letters to a Young Man whose Education has been neglected . 5 . LOCKE'S Thoughts on Education . Introduction by Professor J . Stuart Blackie . 6- PLUTARCH'S Lives of Alexander the Great , Julius Csesar , and Pompey . % * Other Volumes are in active preparation . fL WARD , LOCK 1 $ ^* , Showbills & CO ., Warwick Prospectuses House "will , Salisbury be sent on app Square lication , London , E . C . I
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Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), March 1, 1886, page 225, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_01031886/page/31/
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