The Illustrated Exhibitor and Magazine of Art Prospectus
A long prospectus announces The Illustrated Exhibitor and Magazine of Art to publish January 1852 at low price. It promises engravings by top artists, wide topics from masters portraits and architecture to science and industry, plus a women’s embroidery section. John Cassell seeks 200000 subscribers nationwide.
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Magazine OF Art
Europe
England
Continent
C. &c. Vhi
John Cassell
Literature of Working Men Supplementary Numbers
The Working Man's Friend issues monthly supplements devoted to contributions by the working classes. The first bound volume with an introductory essay by Benjamin Parsons is available at sixpence. It is praised as a remarkable literary achievement showing working class intellect and morality with praise from British senators and the press.
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Benjamin Parsons
Senate
Illustrated History of Hungary and Religious Magazine Offer
An issue announces an illustrated history of Hungary begun in No 8 dated November 22 with over 100 engravings and portraits of major figures, plus battle scenes. Also promotes The Pathway religious magazine new issue at Three halfpence with Vol I bound edition pricing and page count.
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New StEnries
Hungary
Illustrated Exhibitor Almanack Promises Engravings
Sixty thousand edition of the Illustrated Exhibitor Almanack is issued at sixpence. It features twelve Phenomena engravings, monthly and seasonal plates by Harvey and Johannot, views of Paris, Anglo-Saxon employments, zodiac signs, Foucault’s experiments, and works like The Avalanche. The issue includes explanatory articles, calendar, tide tables, Parliament lists, offices, census of 1851, Acts abstracts, and other trade and family content.
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Almanack
Harvey
Tony Johannot
Champ Elysées
Paris
Cottonian
Foucault
Protestant Dissenters' Illustrated Almanack Engravings List
The almanack priced sixpence features Gilbert designs depicting John Owen before Parliament Precautions against Civic intrusion The Reception of William Penn The Interruption of Jacob's Church The Act of Toleration Royal Assent Milton Cromwell's Latin Secretary The Covenanters Women of Bristol with Frome Gate Woolsacks Prynne in the Pillory The Appeal of Mrs Bunyan The Pilgrim Fathers Landing Plymouth Rock The Westminster Assembly.
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Gilbert
John Owen
America
William Penn
Jacob's
Milton
Cromwell
Bristol
Bristol, With the Help of Some Men, Stepping Up Frome Gate
Charles I
Prynne
Mrs. Bunyan
Hale
Justice Chambers
Plymouth Rock
Westminster Assembly
Penny Illustrated Almanack 1852 temperance edition
The 1852 Penny Illustrated Almanack includes a list of fairs and original articles of interest to the British public. It features pictorial illustrations and a temperance edition with explanatory articles on teetotal principles and progress. Members of temperance societies are urged to own and circulate the publication.
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Temperance
Temperance Society
Cassell Prize Essays On Ireland And Temperance Published
A cascade of prize notices announces Cassell Prize Essay on the condition of Ireland by William E. Hearn with two hundred guineas awarded, plus published works on total abstinence by Spears Hunt and Green. Also a fifty pound prize for a temperance essay awarded amid extensive notice and listing of adjudicators.
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Cassell
Ireland
William E. Hearn
Queen’s College, Galway
John Caesell
London
Jonathan Pim
Professor Hancock
National Temperance Society
Michael Spears
Edinburgh
Colin A. Hunt
Cupar
Fife
New and Popular Histories and My Wonders of the Heavens
A mid 19th century library circular announces a January publication of My Wonders of the Heavens in one volume. It promotes Ferguson’s History of England Ireland Kennedy Ethnography and the People’s Biographical Dictionary with prices and binding details.
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J. R. Beard
D.D
The Greatness of the British Empire Traced to Its Sources
Benjamin Parsons presents a two volume set from Cassell’s Library detailing maritime history. It covers early navigation, Vasco da Gama, Columbus, Cortes, Magellan, Drake, and polar voyages, with recent explorations by Scoresby, Parry, Ross, and Franklin. Volumes priced sixpence each. bound sets available.
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Benjamin Parsons
Ibrary
Globe
John Cassell
Vasco de Gama
Mendez Pinto
Magellan
Columbus
Cortes
Mexico
Pizarro
Peru
Commodore Byron
Captain Wallis
Captain Cook
Scoresby, Parry, Ross
Franklin
Footprints of Travellers Third and Fourth Volumes Offered
Footprints of Travellers assembles Capel de Brooke in Norway and Lapland Lyal in Crimea Caucasus and Georgia Inglis in the Tyrol and Tartare missions Zwick Schill Barnes Heber Bruce to Nile and India travels. Priced 6d per volume or 1s 4d for the two bound in cloth.
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Capel de Brooke
Norway
Sweden
Lapland
Lyal
Crimea
Caucasus
Georgia
Inglis
Tyrol
The
Tartare
Zwick and Schill—Barnes
Bokhara
Heber
India
Bruce
Nile
C. Price
Manual of the French Language for Rapid Mastery
A priced immediate publication offers a comprehensive manual in French comprising a compact grammar and engaging dialogues with English and French reading lessons in parallel columns. Explanatory notes cover difficult points, by the author of Lessons in French in The Working Man's Friend and Family Instructor.
New French Lessons Series Promises Self-Study Mastery
A revised reprint advertises a sixpence priced collection titled A SERIES of LESSONS in FRENCH. The guide claims an entirely novel, simple plan to acquire perfect French knowledge without a teacher, reprinted from The Working Man's Friend in a revised form.
Thirty-first Thousand Fourth Edition London Visitor Guide
Phe London conductor offers a illustrated visitors guide to London sights with a map, routes, cab fares, churches, police, and transport details. Includes five day itineraries and descriptions of amusements, exhibitions, docks, bazaars, and landmarks with English and French editions available at nominal prices.
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London
The Great Military and Naval Parliament Analysis
A demy 8vo pamphlet of 32 pages priced 2d claims to expose the true secret of rising military and naval expenditure. It charts a standing majority in both Houses tied to the war system and asserts many MPs are connected by appointment, marriage, or kinship.
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Strand
Almanackes
Great
Britain
Samuel G. Green
Taunton
R. Spencer
Edward Miall
Edward Swaine
John Cass
Scotland
Robert Ferguson
Ryde
Isle of Wight
John Kennedy
A.M
Stepney
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