Contents
Chap
I. Notes on Mediæval Monastic Libraries.
II. The Monastic Scriptorium.
III. A Forgotten English Preacher.
VI. Religious Instruction in England during the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries.
VII. A Royal Christmas in the Fifteenth Century.
VIII. The Canterbury Claustral School in the Fifteenth Century.
IX. The Note-books of William Worcester, a Fifteenth-Century Antiquary.
X. Hampshire Recusants. With a complete Index.
Some Press Notices.
Times.—“Full of the learning and research which Dr. Gasquet has made so peculiarly his own.”
Athenæum.—“Whatever Dr. Gasquet writes is of interest, and thanks are due to him for these essays.… Full of rare information, and real contributions to history.”
By the late MISS MANNING.
The Household of Sir Thos. More.
Some Press Notices.
Spectator.—“A delightful book.… Twenty-five illustrations by John Jellicoe and Herbert Railton show off the book to the best advantage.”
Graphic.—“A picture, not merely of great charm, but of infinite value in helping the many to understand a famous Englishman and the times in which he lived.”
Literary World.—“A charming reprint.… Every feature of the pictorial work is in keeping with the spirit of the whole.”
Scotsman.—“This clever work of the historical imagination has gone through several editions, and is one of the most successful artistic creations of its kind.”
Glasgow Herald.—“An extremely beautiful reprint of the late Miss Manning’s quaint and charming work.”
Sketch.—“In the front rank of the gift-books of the season is this beautiful and very cleverly illustrated reprint of a work which has lasting claims to popularity.”
Magazine of Art.—“The grace and beauty of the late Miss Manning’s charming work, ‘The Household of Sir Thomas More,’ has been greatly enhanced by the new edition now put forth by Mr. John C. Nimmo.… This remarkable work is not to be read without keen delight.”
Academy.—“It is illustrated cleverly and prettily, and tastefully bound, so as to make an attractive gift-book.”
Liverpool Post.—“We welcome the tasteful reprint with its artistic illustrations by John Jellicoe and Herbert Railton, and its helpful introduction by the Rev. W. H. Hutton.”
NEW ILLUSTRATED EDITION IN SIXTEEN VOLUMES.
THE REV. S. BARING-GOULD’S
Lives of the Saints.
With a Calendar for Every Day in the Year.
Contents of the Volumes.
APPENDIX VOLUME.
Additional Biographies of English Martyrs, Cornish and Welsh Saints, Genealogies of Saintly Families, and two Indices to the entire work (Vol. 16).
Some Press Notices.
Daily Chronicle.—“When it is remembered that in these two volumes (January and February) the biographies of more than four hundred saints are to be found, and that in every case the authorities from which they are derived are set forth; that in the Introduction the reader is furnished with a succinct account of the literature of the subject which is the best résumé that we have in English; that errors in the previous edition are not left uncorrected—it will be seen how much is to be expected from this new issue of Mr. Baring-Gould’s wonderful work, and how much will be found in the sixteen volumes which will be required to complete it.… No student of history—to go no further—can dispense with such a valuable book of reference. There is nothing like it in our language.”
Standard.—“The earlier volumes of the new edition are before us, and even a cursory examination is enough to show that the work has been thoroughly revised.… The book is of real value, since it is written with scholarly care, imaginative vision, and a happy union of charity and courage.”
Guardian.—“Whoever reads the more important lives in the sixteen volumes of which this new edition is to consist, will be introduced to a region of which historians for the most part tell him little, and yet one that throws constant light upon some of the obscurest points of ordinary histories. For this, and for the pleasure and profit thence derived, he will have to thank Mr. Baring-Gould.”
Scotsman.—“Mr. Baring-Gould, Anglican priest though he be, fulfils the promise of his original edition in so far as he does not obtrude either prejudice or sectarianism into his record of these Saints.”
British Review and National Observer.—“The new edition of Mr. Baring-Gould’s familiar work may well be called monumental, both on account of its size, and the variety and completeness of the information to be found in it.”
Notes and Queries.—“It is impossible to mention the various sources whence have been drawn the illustrations, which will render this work, to those to whom the subject appeals, the most acceptable, as it is certainly the handsomest, of existing editions.”
Weekly Sun.—“We unhesitatingly commend it as well to the lover of mediævalism as the student who must have at hand encyclopædic volumes of reference. No library that aims at being comprehensive can afford to be without it. No student of ecclesiastical and cathedral antiquities can neglect it if he wishes to make a successful study of his particular subject.”
Christian World.—“The new edition is tastefully got up, and is a worthy setting of a great literary enterprise. The ‘Lives of the Saints’ is a human story of unfading interest.”
London: 14 King William Street, Strand
John C. Nimmo’s
New & Recent Publications
New Work by the Rev. F. A. GASQUET, D.D., O.S.B.
Important to Students of the Reformation Period.
The Eve of the Reformation.
Studies in the Religious Life and Thought of the English People in the Period preceding the Rejection of the Roman Jurisdiction by Henry VIII. By Francis Aidan Gasquet, D.D., O.S.B., Author of “Henry VIII. and the English Monasteries,” “The Old English Bible, and other Essays,” &c.
Note.—This is not a controversial work, but a study chiefly of the literature, &c., of the period in order to see what people were doing, saying, and thinking about before the change of religion. As touching upon rather new ground, and at the same time widening the field of view in the Reformation question, it should be of great interest at the present moment.
New Illustrated Work on Palestine.
Two Years in Palestine and Syria.
By MARGARET THOMAS,
With 16 Illustrations reproduced in Colours in facsimile of the Original Paintings by the Author.
Note.—This book is being looked forward to with great interest by travellers, so many people have in one out-of-the-way corner or another of Europe, Asia, Africa, and Australia met this versatile lady. A Royal Academy Silver Medallist, she has had many pictures and pieces of sculpture exhibited in the Royal Academy. This (her new book) will be illustrated with sixteen reproductions in colours of her oil paintings. The subjects of these were painted on the spot, and the reproductions are by a new process not as yet employed for book illustration.
An Artist in Spain.
Spain: The Story of a Journey.
By JOZEF ISRAËLS.
With a Portrait in Photogravure, and 39 reproductions of Sketches by the Author. Translated from the Dutch by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos.
Note.—The author and illustrator of this book (Jozef Israëls) has long been acknowledged the most popular painter of the day, in this, the best sense, that his work claims the admiration not only of the critics, the collectors, and the dilettanti, but also of those uncultured people who, understanding nothing of painting, having no care for artisticity or virtuosity, cannot fail to be penetrated by the poetry that fills each of the veteran’s canvases.
A History of Steeple-Chasing.
A History of Steeple-Chasing.
By WILLIAM C. A. BLEW, M.A.,
Author of “The Quorn Hunt and its Masters,” Editor of Vyner’s “Notitia Venatica,” and Radcliffe’s “Noble Science of Fox-Hunting.”
With 12 Illustrations, chiefly drawn by Henry Alken, and all coloured by hand, also 16 Head and Tail Pieces, drawn by Henry Alken and others.
New Volume, being the Fifth of the Works of the late Miss Manning,
The Colloquies of Edward Osborne.
Citizen and Cloth-Worker of London.
With 10 Illustrations by John Jellicoe.
Uniform in Size and Price, by the same Author.
The Household of Sir Thos. More.
Cherry and Violet. A Tale of the Great Plague.
The Maiden and Married Life of Mary Powell (AFTERWARDS MISTRESS MILTON);
And the Sequel thereto, Deborah’s Diary.
The Old Chelsea Bun-Shop. A Tale of the Last Century.
Some Press Notices.
Athenæum.—“The late Miss Manning’s delicate and fanciful little cameos of historical romance possess a flavour of their own.… The numerous Illustrations by Mr. Jellicoe and Mr. Railton are particularly happy.”
Public Opinion.—“It is an example of a pure and beautiful style of literature.”
Spectator.—“A delightful book.… Twenty-five illustrations by John Jellicoe and Herbert Railton show off the book to the best advantage.”
Graphic.—“A picture, not merely of great charm, but of infinite value in helping the many to understand a famous Englishman and the times in which he lived.”
Literary World.—“A charming reprint.… Every feature of the pictorial work is in keeping with the spirit of the whole.”
Scotsman.—“This clever work of the historical imagination has gone through several editions, and is one of the most successful artistic creations of its kind.”
Glasgow Herald.—“An extremely beautiful reprint of the late Miss Manning’s quaint and charming work.”
Sketch.—“In the front rank of the gift-books of the season is this beautiful and very cleverly illustrated reprint of a work which has lasting claims to popularity.”
Magazine of Art.—“The grace and beauty of the late Miss Manning’s charming work, ‘The Household of Sir Thomas More,’ has been greatly enhanced by the new edition now put forth by Mr. John C. Nimmo.… This remarkable work is not to be read without keen delight.”
Academy.—“It is illustrated cleverly and prettily, and tastefully bound, so as to make an attractive gift-book.”
A Cheaper Edition.
The Reminiscences and Recollections of Captain Gronow.
Being Anecdotes of the Camp, Court, Clubs, and Society, 1810-1860. With Portrait and 32 Illustrations from Contemporary Sources by Joseph Grego.
⁂ This is a remarkably cheap edition of this favourite and popular book.
Words on Wellington.
The Duke—Waterloo—The Ball.
By Sir WILLIAM FRASER, Baronet,
M.A., Christ Church, Oxford.
With 6 Photogravure Portraits, and 30 other Illustrations from Contemporary Sources.
⁂ This book was published in 1889, and the whole of the edition printed was immediately absorbed. The present new edition is illustrated with Photogravure Portraits and other illustrations reproduced especially for this edition from rare and contemporary engravings selected by Mr. Joseph Grego.
New Volume of Poems by Violet Fane.
Betwixt Two Seas. Poems and Ballads.
By VIOLET FANE.
Written at Constantinople and Therapia.
New Library Edition of
STEELE AND ADDISON’S “SPECTATOR.”
The Spectator.
Edited with Introduction and Notes
From the Editor’s Preface.
“The present edition of the ‘Spectator’ has been printed from a copy of the original collected and revised edition published in 1712-15, with the exception that modern rules of spelling have been followed. The principal variations between the text as corrected by the authors and the original version in the folio numbers have at the same time been indicated in the notes; it has not been thought necessary to point out slight differences of no importance. In the notes I have aimed at the greatest conciseness compatible with the satisfactory explanation of the less obvious allusions to literary or social matters. I have acknowledged my principal obligations to more recent editors, but in some cases notes have been handed down from one editor to another, and cannot be traced to their original author. Many of the older notes, moreover, were obsolete, or needed correction in the light of subsequent knowledge. I have endeavoured to preserve what is of value, without burdening the pages with the contradictions and inaccuracies which are inevitable in a variorum edition.”
Some Press Notices.
Pall Mall Gazette.—“Undoubtedly the best library reprint of this famous periodical that has been published.”
Daily News.—“If handsome print, paper, and binding, together with careful annotation, have attractions in the eyes of lovers of standard books, there ought to be a good demand for this new edition.”
Scotsman.—“An edition in which it is a pleasure to read, and one which would adorn any library.”
Notes and Queries.—“We congratulate the publisher and the editor on the termination of a useful task, and we commend to the public this eminently desirable edition of our English masterpiece—the most attractive and serviceable yet printed.”
Birmingham Post.—“An edition of the ‘Spectator’ which, as a book for the library, has no equal, whether we consider the stately and appropriate form, the typographical excellence, or the erudite and finished editing. Added to these is the crowning grace of a full and complete index. It is a luxury to read the early eighteenth century classic in such an edition as this.”
Glasgow Herald.—“All that the most fastidious lover of books could desire. Its size—extra crown octavo—is stately, without being cumbersome. The buckram cloth binding is neat, substantial, and serviceable—exactly what is required for a library of which the contents are intended for use as well as for show. The notes supplied by Mr. George A. Aitken, as might be expected from his exceptional acquaintance with the period, enable the reader to understand and appreciate the numerous allusions to literary and social matters which occur in most of the papers.”
NEW ILLUSTRATED EDITION IN SIXTEEN VOLUMES.
THE REV. S. BARING-GOULD’S
Lives of the Saints.
With a Calendar for Every Day in the Year.
Contents of the Volumes.
APPENDIX VOLUME.
Additional Biographies of English Martyrs, Cornish and Welsh Saints, Genealogies of Saintly Families, and two Indices to the entire work (Vol. 16).
Some Press Notices.
Daily Chronicle.—“When it is remembered that in these two volumes (January and February) the biographies of more than four hundred saints are to be found, and that in every case the authorities from which they are derived are set forth; that in the Introduction the reader is furnished with a succinct account of the literature of the subject which is the best résumé that we have in English; that errors in the previous edition are not left uncorrected—it will be seen how much is to be expected from this new issue of Mr. Baring-Gould’s wonderful work, and how much will be found in the sixteen volumes which will be required to complete it.… No student of history—to go no further—can dispense with such a valuable book of reference. There is nothing like it in our language.”
Standard.—“The earlier volumes of the new edition are before us, and even a cursory examination is enough to show that the work has been thoroughly revised.… The book is of real value, since it is written with scholarly care, imaginative vision, and a happy union of charity and courage.”
Guardian.—“Whoever reads the more important lives in the sixteen volumes of which this new edition is to consist, will be introduced to a region of which historians for the most part tell him little, and yet one that throws constant light upon some of the obscurest points of ordinary histories. For this, and for the pleasure and profit thence derived, he will have to thank Mr. Baring-Gould.”
Scotsman.—“Mr. Baring-Gould, Anglican priest though he be, fulfils the promise of his original edition in so far as he does not obtrude either prejudice or sectarianism into his record of these Saints.”
British Review and National Observer.—“The new edition of Mr. Baring-Gould’s familiar work may well be called monumental, both on account of its size, and the variety and completeness of the information to be found in it.”
Notes and Queries.—“It is impossible to mention the various sources whence have been drawn the illustrations, which will render this work, to those to whom the subject appeals, the most acceptable, as it is certainly the handsomest, of existing editions.”
Weekly Sun.—“We unhesitatingly commend it as well to the lover of mediævalism as the student who must have at hand encyclopædic volumes of reference. No library that aims at being comprehensive can afford to be without it. No student of ecclesiastical and cathedral antiquities can neglect it if he wishes to make a successful study of his particular subject.”
Christian World.—“The new edition is tastefully got up, and is a worthy setting of a great literary enterprise. The ‘Lives of the Saints’ is a human story of unfading interest.”
Extracts from Press Notices.
Athenæum.—“We may say in brief, if what we have already said is not sufficient to show it, that a very important chapter of English history is here treated with a fulness, minuteness, and lucidity which will not be found in previous accounts, and we sincerely congratulate Dr. Gasquet on having made such an important contribution to English historical literature.”
Guardian.—“A learned, careful, and successful vindication of the personal character of the monks.… In Dr. Gasquet’s skilful hands the dissolution of the monasteries assumes the proportions of a Greek tragedy.”
The Old English Bible, and other Essays.