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 | John Wilson - 1842 - 360 pages
...friendship has been the chief blessing of our life—CHRISTOPHER NORTH. What a treasure, for instance, during a rainy forenoon in the country, is such a gloriously illuminated work as this of Mr. Selby, to a small party uncertain in what spirit they shall woo the hours! Let them assemble A GLANCE OVER... | |
 | Johann Beckmann - 1846 - 602 pages
...size, beautifully and accurately drawn, with all the spirit of life/'— Ornithologist1! Text Book. " What a treasure, during a rainy forenoon in the country,...and will stand a comparison, without any eclipse of it? lustre, with the most magnificent ornithological illustrations of the French school. Mr. Selby... | |
 | Anthony Hamilton (Count) - 1846 - 602 pages
...size, beantifully ami accurately drawn, wit lt all the spirit of life. — Ornithologist't Text Book. " What a treasure, during a rainy forenoon in the country, is such n gloriously illimrinnted work as this of Mr. Selby. It is, without doubt, the most splendid of the... | |
 | Charles Wheatly - 1848 - 590 pages
...size, beautifully and accurately drawn, with all the spirit of life."— Ornithologist's Text Book. " What a treasure, during a rainy forenoon in the country,...doubt, the most splendid of the kind ever published ia Britain, and will stand a comparison, without any eclipse of its lustre, with the most magnificent... | |
 | John [prose] Milton - 1848 - 590 pages
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 | Charles Wheatly - 1848 - 588 pages
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 | Richard (of Devizes.) - 1848 - 618 pages
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 | 1848 - 476 pages
...life.''— Ornitluiloffiet'i Text Book. " What a trcfuurc, during a rainy forenoon In the country, le such a gloriously Illuminated work as this of Mr. Selby. It Is, without doubt, the most splcnoidof the kind ever published in Britnin, and will stand a comparison, without any eclipse of... | |
 | 1848 - 536 pages
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 | George Ellis - 1848 - 660 pages
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