Illustrated Exhibitor and Art Magazine Prospectus
The text touts new and continuing publications from Cassell including The Illustrated Exhibitor and Magazine of Art with plans for 1852. It promises a gallery of engravings, articles on masters, portraits, history, science, domestic life, needlework, and a Female Department, aiming for wide national appeal and 200000 subscribers. The Working Man's Friend and Fanhe Working Man's Friend are advertised with new series and Hungary history.
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C. &c. VII
Joan Cassell
Hungary
Literature of Working Men Supplementary Numbers
The monthly work devoted to contributions from the working classes is praised as a remarkable literary achievement. A first bound volume with an introductory essay by Benjamin Parsons is sold for one shilling and six pence. A letter to Lord Dudley Stuart from Osborne, dated March 20 1851, notes Prince Albert’s receipt and thanks, while critics commend the volume’s quality and the intellect it showcases among workers.
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Benjamin Parsons
Dudley Coutts Stuart
Phipps
Prince Albert
Lord Dudley
Osborne
Colonel Phipps
Cassell
Grey
Lord Dudley Stuart
Almanaces for 1852 Illustrated Exposer Almanack Prices
The notice advertises multiple almanacks for 1852 including the Illustrated Exhibitor Almanack with forty engravings and contents such as calendars, parliamentary lists, and census data, the Protestant Dissenters Illustrated Almanack with Gilbert engravings, the Penny Illustrated People's Almanack with fairs and articles, and the Temperance Penny Almanack urging circulation among temperance groups.
Cassell Prize Essay on the Condition of Ireland
The Cassell prize for the best essay on the moral social and political state of Ireland is awarded to William Se Hearn LL B professor of Greek at Queen's College Galway. The prize is two hundred guineas donated by John Cassell of London and the essay will be published soon. Also published are two temperance essays with prizes of twenty and ten pounds by the National Temperance Society. authors are Michael Spears of Edinburgh and Colin A Hunt of Cupar, Fife.
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Cassell
Ireland
William SE. Hearn
Queen’s College
Galway
John Cassell
London
Jonathan Pim
Hancock
National Temperance Society
Michael Spears
Edinburgh
Colin A. Hunt
Cupar
Fife
Prize Essay on Working Classes Elevation in Britain
A prize essay by Rev. Samuel G Green titled HE WORKING CLASSES of GREAT BRITAIN their Present Condition and Means of Improvement. Ad added appendix. Price 1s 6d in cloth 2s. A prize of fifty pounds offered by Mr John Cagsell for best essay awarded to Green by judges Rev T Spencer Edward Miall and Edward Swaine from nearly fifty submissions.
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Great
Britain
Samuel G. Green
Yarnton
John Cagsell
T. Spencer
Edward Miall
Edward Swaine
New and Popular Histories of Scotland and England Volumes
A list of Ferguson histories and companion works with pricing and formats. Includes New and Popular History of Scotland Vol I, completing Vol II, and England histories in multiple volumes. Also notes Ireland, Kennedy ethnography, Beard biography, Parson’s Greatness, and Cassell Library travel titles with prices.
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Scotland
Robert Ferguson
Ryde
Isle of Wight
England
Manual of the French Language for Progress and Perfection
An issue price two shillings advertises a comprehensive French language manual. It promises a concise grammar, entertaining dialogues and parallel English French reading lessons with explanatory notes, by the author of Lessons in French from The Working Man's Friend.
New Method for Learning French Without a Teacher
A price sixpence pamphlet advertises A SERIES of LESSONS in FRENCH on a novel plan to gain perfect knowledge of the language without a teacher. Reprinted in revised form from The Working Man's Friend.
London Strangers Guide Thirty-First Thousand Ad
The London guide offers a detailed visitor route to amusements exhibitions and sights in the metropolis with maps engravings and lists of churches dismissing chapels cab fares police conveyances and transport tips presented in a plain edition and a French version with modest prices.
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Zprice
London
The Great Military and Naval Parliament Analysis
A demy eightvo pamphlet of 32 pages priced 2d claims a standing majority of nearly 300 war-connected MPs. It lists 700 members linked to the military through marriage or kinship to expose the true governing body behind Britain’s military and naval expenditure.
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America
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Temperance Society
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Cortes
Mexico
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Peru
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Sweden
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