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    This day . Price One Guinea , Illustrated . A BOOKSELLER OF THE LAST CENTURY . Being some Account of the Life of JOHN NEWBERY , and of the Books he Published ; with Chapters on the later Newberys . BY I Cjx—T A h ? iT ¦ "" FTIF ^ " \ Ar IEjIIIji 3 IE 3 I . 1 Vicar ' The of p Wakefield hilanthrop / ic has publisher called him of , is St a . fi Paul gure ' s of Church some interest yard / as in the Goldsmith literary , history in his of the eighteenth century . The first bookseller who made the issue of books for children a business of any importance , he brought before the world a number of works which have proved of incalculable benefit . But not only is he to be remembered as the publisher of ' Goody Two Shoes' and kindred books ; he was intimately associated with Doctor Johnson , Oliver Goldsmith , Smart the divine , and several others ; and he busied himself with many projects of a seemingly more important character than the publication of works for the young . The volume is supplemented by an alphabetical list of books published by the Newberys from about 1740 to 1800 . GRIFFITH , FARRAN , OKEDEN , & WELSH , Corner of St . Paul ' s Churchyard , London .

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    A very Charming Floral Gift-Book . INDIGENOUS FLOWERS OF THE HAWAIIAN ISLANDS . Forty-four Plates painted in Water Colours , and described by Mrs . FRANCES SINCLAIR , Jun . 1 CHROMO-LITHOGEAPHED BY MESSRS . LEIGHTON BROTHERS . Imperial folio , cloth , extra , gilt edges , Sis . 6 d . plenty * We of are them accustomed there , and to still think the of peop the Hawaiian display an Islands almost as passionate a paradise of love flowers of them ; and . there But it is still seems a of that European the Hawaiian civilisation flowers . . are . . also Mrs . amongst Sinclair the tell things s us that that " are the doomed Hawaiian to disappear flora will before not long the advance survive II t he i it nv has asion probabl of fore y ign had plants something and changed to do conditions with the . production . . . " This of is this a bad book look , in -out which for the about Hawaiians fifty of ; these native flowers hues on are large carefull quarto y dep plates icted ; for and our curious pleasure and sp and lendid instruction some of . them They are are . '—St represented . James ' s G in -azbtte their . search * Will for blossoms be -welcome , as to the all fo lovers rty-four of p botany lates of . . exquisite . . Certainl flowers y the testif artist y . ' has — Mohning been most Post fortunate . in her Sinclair ' This , and magnificent reproduced on volume thick comprises plate paper forty by Messrs -four . larg Leig e h p ton lates Broth , painte ers d with and a described delicacy , a b richness y Mrs . | of of colouring the perfection , and to a minuteness which the art of of detai colour l which -printing would has render attained it remarkabl in these days e were . The it onl work y as is a , specimen however , a contribution to botanical science of no slight interest . '—Daily News . ! — Ijondon : SAMPSON LOW , MARSTON , 8 EARLE , & RIVINaTON , 188 Fleet Street , E . O .

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  • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), Dec. 18, 1885, page 1595, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_18121885/page/27/