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188 -loo Fleet j ? jj iajsi- Street oxitJKjfi'i , , London ajujndujn : . jL December / ecemoer t 6 > . 1882 18 ft ? I
, HPH _ E season which thoug - h old is ever new , the festival which though _ often kept A — is ever w v Vl
-- * - welcome , is once more close at hand , and foremost among those who have made ready to keep jLoup the but ? i feast e « , » i » with wii / ii all an due uuo lvjuuur honour are vuio the tiio authors aiiisiiurB , , the i / iio book uuuH--iuaKers makers and anu the iu « publishers puDllsners Whosfl whn «« II
ingenuity in providing something new as the years pass round ia only equalled by their II success . They seem , in fact , to have made a compact with each other to accept the invitation 1
of Robert Herriek ' s * Star Song , ' written more than two centuries ago , to be sung at Whitehall 1 in which , in obedience to > the supposed invitation of the * Starto come in and see the 1
' Princel Y ^ . « y Babe "W ¦ V . / the . * chorus * repl y : ' III I Come then , come then , and let us bring I
Unto our pretty twelfth-tide king I Each one his several offering" . I
In strict fulfilment of the letter of this ' quaint conceit , ' books great and small , serious and I humorous , prosaic but never prosy , new books with antique facings , old books with all the I
luxury teacher , of for modern the richest garniture and the , books poorest for , come the tabl to e us and from the all boudoir sidesuntil , for the the several scholar offerings and —^— the ' I I
* ^ b * , f ^^^^ fc ^* ^ m of our worshipful masters of the * How ' and of the other literary quarters of the great city I make up a rich feast for the eye and for the brain . Even from beyond the Atlantic we receive
tokens that the * Christmas idea ' has its place in the life of the new world , and not a few of our own houses have set a good example to their cousins by borrowing , with consent , aomeot
their daintiest works , on which the double imprint of the New York and London firms proves that the old-fashioned theory that meum and tuum has a nobler meaning than * what is yours
is mine , and what is mine is my own , ' is obtaining due recognition . In a day when the latter translation of the fruits of of the the proverbial Christmas word book s has feas far t a too sort many of { belle adherents alliance , it ' is between pleasant New to find York as and one
London for the common good ; and in one volume , a noble illustrated edition of Herrick , we find American engravings combined with letterpress set up from the English founts of
Field & Tuer . In the piles of volumes , a brief description and illustration of which will he found in the
following pages , we can promise variety enough to suit every taste . ' Some bookesj quaintly wrote Francis Bacon , * are to be tasted , others to be swallowed , and some few to be chewed
and digested / and the reader will find types of each class in the issues for the present season . The Edition de luxe , in which pictures of high merit are served up with a slight literary
accompaniment ; the light and sparkling fairy-tale for the child , and the elegant work of fiction for the children of a larger growth , are mingled with those more solid volumes which , though
dressed 4 to be read in gay whol attire ly and as befits with dili books gence intended and attention for Christmas . ' The g growing ifts , are practice , as Bacon of sending further forth says ,
illustrated works of a high class in serial form throughout the year , and of reproducing them when comp leted in handsome volumes' , has had the tendency •/ (\ which we anticipated A . in
our Christmas issue some years ago ) of reducing the number of works specially brought out for the season ; but the publication of such noble volumes as Yriarte ' s ' Florence' and
Blackmore ' s Lorna Doone , ' and other equally beautiful works , show that many firms still prefer to bring forward their choicest works in absolute freshness for the Christinas market . There is
welcome wftlfiomft a steady improvement present T ^ res ^ nK a and nd in tlie the those multitude multitude books of of or fiction cneap cheap provided illust illustrate rate for d d young books books readers agreeably ayreeabl which v testines testifies form to to a very the w *
observance of the , good old custom of present-giving from rich to poor . If , a « Richard Aungervle trulsaidBooks are i deli ¦ g hk htful when prosperit h happ ~~ r ^^ m ily smiles ¦ ¦ ; when ~— adversity
threatens ^ without ^^^ 0 ^^^ ^^^^^ ^^ ^^^ ^^^^ fc ^^^^ ^^^ » y further ^ F ^^ they ^ ^^^^ ^^^ ^^^* ^^ ^^ * are ^^ y ^ F preface ^^^^ ^»* inseparable ^» ^ fc ^^^^^^ , ^ M ' , W ^^^^ we *^ — ~^ ¦ — ask r ^ - ^^ ¦ ^ comforters - ^~ ^ the ^ —— ¦ ^ - ^ reader ^— ^^^^— — ~^ , ' then - ^ to ^^ go — ^ - ^ ^^ sure ^^— with — ——— ly — — ¦ —~ ™ our us ^^ —^ r - in ~— task y v ^ our ^* ^^^ ¦ is ^ p ^^ ^ m . ^ r survey ^ a ^^ h H ri g ^^ ht ^ ^ m ^^ of k ^^^ pl some easan ^ m ™ — — — t among one ; and the
good things so liberally provided .
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fuvn Bent f Mr . us n « - some nnmi Aokermann > of of the the new new , of samples aimnles Regent . Street One Onfi , of of who them them is the is ia a a sole double double agent floral fl < for » r « . l Prang card r » 3 » . rr ? ' in in s American colour colour , the tne Card outsKJ ouiaiuv of s , haa
of which is a peculiarly delicate green , with satin fringe , tassels , & c . I ^ arger varieties , tlie ground fringed cards very happ are also ily relieved among the by specimens the gold of - a Among horse-shoe the oth intertwined er cards are with —nosegays the flowers on ; a l green arger
each collecti example on , s of flowers with another and leaves pattern , each on on a the suitabl back e , coloure subdued d ground in tone , . and Then , like there the last are -named ot wit V 5 , in cardsin colourand yet differing from their backs \ % & which Tf are lemon colour
appropriate nosegays 9 MA \ x 93 r 6 % JpZ * J . inches * Y O 111 W , devices «« with B . V 4 . tJ , « 1 IA . floral VV A / AV ^ l novelt * ' asides , «_»* . * - * y _* j ' is v ; V landscape presented Ul . iAVlllf g 1 JL scenes by U & U la U 11 ndsca , with , W ^ F * \ * pe j M birds . scenes , * 11-f and VAA , on mJ spray + M . *** cards j , * - * j s »» - * for - » which ¦•• . — ' all — — may V , ^ f ! L ^
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Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), Dec. 6, 1882, page 1210, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_06121882/page/2/
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