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![Spanish Grammar : ALONSO'S Elementary Grammar and Guide to Conversation forthe Use of Tr avellers in Spain, 12mo. 176 pp. cl. 2s 6d 1867 Romancero del Cid. Romancero é Historia general del muy valeroso caballero e] Cid Ruy Diaz de Vibar, en lenguage antiguo recopilado por Juan De Escoxar, edicion completa afiadida con una version Castellana de la Vida del Cid por el historiador Aleman, Miller, 12mo. frontispiece, pp. wit and 368, half bound morocco, 6s Francoforto, 1828 These famous Ballads are so excessively rare in any of the old editions that one is glad to meet with a good reprint like the above, which is besides much more complete than those. Licknor says—“ Nic. Antonio gives 1612 as the date of the oldest Romancero del Cid. The oldest I possess is of Pamplona (1706, 18mo.); but the Madrid edition (1818, 18mo.), the Frankfort (1828, 12mo.), and the collection in Duran....are more complete.” ‘Turner's England and Wales: Picrurmseuz Vinws in ENGLAND axp WALES, from Drawines by J. M. W. TURNER, R.A. engraved under the superintendence of ban a Chante ‘Huarta, with Descriptive and Historic Ilus- trations by H. E. Lrorp, Largest Paper, 2 vols. colombier folio, 96 ate engravings, Proots before Letters, unbound, £80. 1827-38 -~-— the same, Large Paper, 2 vols. imperial 4to. 96 plates, Proofs on India paper, brillant cmpressions, in parts, 0 1827-38 —— the same, Large Paper, 2 vols. impl. 4to. 96 plates, Proofs, unbound, £12. 1827-38 *.* The copper plates are destroyed. (<= Copies of the above are in the binder’s hands, the Binding will be charged : 2 vols. imperial 4to. half red morocco, 30s ;—tree-calf extra, £2. 8s ;— red morocco extra, gilt tops, uncut, £3 ; The grand and picturesque effects of this great master of the school of English Landscape Painters are truthfully exhibited in this, which, after the Liber Studiorum, may be considered his finest work ; the engraving was executed hy the best English Artists, and possess all the fidelity to nature of the original drawings. Collectors of really fine works of art should loge no time in securing copies, as they will soon disappear froin the market. CONTENTS OF VOL. i. NAMES OF PLACES, COUNTIES. ENGRAVERS. Rievaulx Abbey . =. =. ~~. Yorkshire . . ‘EB. Goopmatz.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b3085815x_0106.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
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