Vol. 1. On MANNERS and CUSTOMS.
Vol. 2. On DIALECT, PROVERBS, Etc.
Vol. 3. On POPULAR SUPERSTITIONS.
Vol. 4. On POPULAR LEGENDS and TRADITIONS.
“Not only full of value, but rich in popular interest in many
directions.”—_British Quarterly Review_.
“All who have not the _Gentleman’s Magazine_ will welcome this
book, and those who have will find it convenient as a companion and
guide.”—_Bibliographer_.
“As a work of reference it will possess a great value, and students of
local history will much appreciate its excellent index.”—_Whitehall
Review_.
∵ _A full Prospectus, giving Prices of the various Editions, will
be sent post-free on application._
• • • • •
In appropriate Binding, price 7_s._ 6_d._, post free.
_Silex Scintillans._
SACRED POEMS AND PRIVATE EJACULATIONS. By HENRY VAUGHAN (Silurist).
Being a _Facsimile_ of the First Edition, published in 1650.
_With an Introduction by WILLIAM CLARE, B.A._
• • • • •
Tastefully printed in Fcap. 8vo., and bound in cloth, price 6_s._;
also in half-morocco, 13_s._ 6_d._ net; and in whole polished
morocco, 21_s._ net.
_The Praise of Gardens:_
A PROSE CENTO. Collected and in part Englished by A. F.
SIEVEKING. With Proem by E. V. B.
“We have every reason to be grateful to the industrious compiler, who
has indefatigably ransacked a world-treasury of riches.”—_Times_.
• • • • •
In Fcap. 8vo., tastefully printed and bound in Parchment, 9_s._; in
Roxburgh, 15_s._
_Ros Rosarum, ex Horto Poetarum._
Dew of the ever-living rose, gathered from the poet’s garden of many
lands. By E. V. B.
“Full of the fairest blooms of the whole world of poetry.”—_Morning
Post_.
“E. V. B. has made a charming collection of what the poets have said
about the rose. She has drawn from many sources—from the Bible, from
the Palatine Anthology, from Hafiz, and from Omar Khayyam, from Dante,
from Ronsard, from Victor Hugo, from Heine—in fact, from the poets of
all ages and countries.”—_Athenæum_.
“With its lovely typography, its appropriate cover, and the general
excellence of its workmanship, this may claim to be one of the
daintiest volumes ever issued from the English press.”—_Notes and
Queries_.
• • • • •