Notes and Queries, Number 04, November 24, 1849 by Various
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coloured, to be completed in three or four Parts.
ANTIQUARIAN GLEANINGS in the NORTH of ENGLAND: being Examples of Antique Furniture, Plate, Church Decorations, Objects of Historical Interest, &c. Drawn and Etched by W.B. SCOTT. "A collection of Antiquarian Relics, chiefly in the Decorative branch of Art, preserved in the Northern Counties, portrayed by a very competent hand. Many of the objects possess considerable interest; such as the chair of the Venerable Bede, Cromwell's sword and watch, and the grace-cup of Thomas à Becket. All are drawn with that distinctness which makes them available for the Antiquarian, for the Artist who is studying Costume, and for the study of Decorative Art."--_Spectator._ 8vo. cloth, price 12s., with a Coloured Plate of King Alfred's Jewel. THE LIFE and TIMES of ALFRED the GREAT. By the Rev. J.A. GILES, D.C.L., late Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, Author of "The History of the Ancient Britons," &c. "A useful volume, as collecting into one view all the facts that are known respecting the Life of Alfred, exhibiting the various opinions on disputed points, and containing a very fair, sensible summing up by the biographer."--_Spectator._ Two vols., 8vo, 30s. HISTORY of the ANCIENT BRITONS, from the Earliest Period to the Invasion of the Saxons Compiled from the Original Authorities. By the Rev. J.A. GILES, D.C.L., late Fellow of C.C.C., Oxford. |
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