A SELECTED LIST. If a book is worth reading it is worth buying. No book is worth anything which is not worth MUCH, nor is it serviceable until it has been read and re-read and loved and loved again. We call ourselves a rich nation and we are filthy and foolish enough to thumb each others books out of circulating libraries.-JOHN RUSKIN. BIOGRAPHY, 42. FICTION, 43. FOR THE YOUNG PEOPLE HISTORY, 39. ADVENTURE, 40. SCIENCE, 41. WORKS ON MISCELLANEOUS SUBJECTS, 48. TO THE READER.-The aim of this list is to present in compact form, notes of the best books of all American publishers so classified as to be readily referred to. We would call special attention to our list of new holiday and juvenile works. New subjects will be added to the list from time to time. Books specified only in cloth can be supplied in any binding desired, by ordering sufficiently in advance for re-binding. Special lists of books and full particulars on any question as to books that may be wanted. Care and attention will be given through our foreign agencies to importation of books and periodicals. BRENTANO'S NEW YORK-5 Union Square. WASHINGTON-1015 Penn. Avenue. LONDON-430 Strand. CHOICE POETICAL WORKS. The study and reading of poetry exercises and cultivates the imagination and in this way imparts intellectual power. It is impossible to read the products of any poet's imagination without using our Own.-President Noah Porter. Shakespeare. Works. Edited by Chas. Knight. 3 vols., 12mo, clo., per set, 3.75-Handy Volume Ed. With Glossary. 13 vols., clo., per set, 7.50Ed. by Henry Irving and Frank Marshall. With Notes. Over 600 Illustrations by Gordon Browne. in 8 vols., sq. 8vo, decorated clo., each, 3.00 -The "Readers "Edition. Clarendon Press, Oxford. With Portrait. 9 vols., 8vo, extra clo., gilt tops, 15,00From the Text of the Rev. Alexander Dyce's Ed. With Portrait, Memoir and Glossary. 7 vols., 16mo, half Russia, gilt top, per set, 9.00--Friendly Ed. Illust. 20 vols., sets only, 16mo, sheets, 27.00; clo., gilt tops, 30.00-The Stratford Shakespeare. Ed. by Chas. Knight. With Life by the Editor. 6 vols., 12mo, clo., 10.00-12 vols., 16mo, parchment, uncut, set, 15.00-The Warwick Ed. 12 vols., 16mo, clo., set, 9.00-Ed. by Mary Cowden Clarke. 50 Ill. Royal 8vo, half calf, 12.00; 2 vols., 8vo, half calf, 18.00; 1 vol., mor., antique, 8 00-Octavo Ed. With Notes, Concordance, Glossary, Life, Index to Characters, and 23 Steel Engravings and 2 Photogravures. 4 vols., 8vo, clo., uncut, gilt tops, 9.00-Revised from the Original Text. With Remarks and Copious Notes, by Samuel Phelps. With Numerous Illustrations by H. K. Browne and other Artists. Royal 8vo, cloth gilt, 3.50-Riverside Ed. Edited by Richard Grant White. With Glossarial, Historical and Explanatory Notes. 3 vols., crown 8vo, gilt top, sold only in sets, 7.50: 6 vols., 8vo, gilt top, per set, 12.00: on thinner paper, 6 vols., 8vo, gilt top, per set, 10.00 -The Bankside Shakespeare. As presented at the Globe and Blackfriars Theatres, Edition Limited, Each Play occupying 1 vol., 8vo, boards, 2.50 net-Bowdler's Family Shakespeare. Genuine Edition, with Large Type and Woodcuts, in 1 vol., medium 8vo, 5.00; in 6 vols., fep. 8vo, half Roxburgh, 8.00-Edited by W. G. Clark and W. Aldis Wright. Globe 8vo, 1.25-The Victoria Shakespeare. 3 vols., 12mo, each, 1.75; per set, in a box, 5.00Edited by Chas. and Mary Cowden Clarke. 20 Illustrations from Designs by Smirke and others. 4 vols., 8vo, fine clo., gilt top, 12.00-Chiswick Press Ed. Edited by S. W. Singer. Illust. 10 vols., 16mo, full alligator, 25.00-Bell's Ed. Illust. 6 vols,, clo., 7.50 Handy Volume Ed. 13 vols., 32mo, clo., 7.50Albion Ed. With Steel Plates. 8vo, clo., 1.75Variorum Ed. Embracing the Various Readings of the Principal Editors of Shakespeare. 8vo, clo. extra, gilt top, 6 vols., ready, Each, 4.00 Edited, Tupper, Martin F. Proverbial Philosophy. A Bryant, Wm. Cullen. Poetical Works. Edited With Copious Notes. 2 vols., by Parke Godwin. sq. 8vo, clo., 6.00.-Illust, with 100 Engravings on Wood. 8vo, clo., gilt edge, 4.00.--Household Ed. 12mo, clo., 1.75. -Cabinet Ed. 16mo, clo. 1.00 Byron's Poetical Works. Edited by W. B. Scott. 3 vols. 12mo, cloth., 3.75. Copious Illustrative Notes and a Memoir of His Life. Allig., 2.50 Handy Volume Edition. Original and Notes. 12 vols., clo., 7,50.- -6 vols., 8vo, half calf, 33.00 -Red-Line Edit., clo., 12mo, 1.25--Blackfriars Edit. With Memoir. 16 Illust. 8vo, 1.50-Edited by Thomas Moore. Life and Portrait. 4 vols., 12mo, 5.00--Riverside Edit., 5 vols., clo., 7.50 Campbell, Thomas. Presentation Edit. Edited by Rev. P. A. Wilmott. 12mo, clo., 1.50. .18mo, halt cloth, cut edges, 40c.--Riverside Edit. 8vo, clo., 1.50. A New Edition, with Notes by the Rev. W. A. Hill. Illust. with 20 beautiful Engravings, from Designs by J. M. W. Turner. 8vo, clo., 5.00 Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. Crown 8vo, clo., 1.50. Pocket Edit. fcap. Svo, clo., 1.00.by Derwent and Sarah Coleridge. 12mo, clo., 1.75. Allig., 2.50--Edited with Memoir and Illust. by W. B. Scott. 16mo, clo., 1.50--Riverside Edit. With Critical Notes, &c. 8vo, clo., 2 vols., -Edit. 3.00 Works. -5 vols., clo., 6.25 Browning, Eliz. Barrett. Poetical Portrait. 5 vols., 16mo, 12.00.Bulwer-Lytton, Sir Edward. Dramas and Poems. Portrait on Steel. Sq. 18mo, cloth, 1.00 Longfellow, Henry W. Complete Poetic Works. New Riverside Edit., from new electrotype plates. With Text from the last revised by the author, and including all Poems which have been authorized to appear since his death. With Notes and Three Portraits. 6 vols., cr. 8vo, the set 9.00; half calf, 16.50; half levant, 24.00-Poetical Works (including Christus). Cambridge Edit. Portrait. 4 vols., 12mo. gilt top, 7.00-Cabinet Edit., 16mo, 1.00-Household Edit. Portrait, Illust., and Notes. 12mo, 1.75 Family Edit. Illust. 8vo, full gilt, 2.50-RedLine Edit. 12 Illust. and Portrait. Sm. 4to, fullgilt, 2.50-Illust. Library Edit. Portrait and 32 Full-page Illust. 8vo, full gilt, 3.50-New Illust. Octavo Edit. Portrait and 300 Illust. 8vo, full gilt, 7.50. Single volume editions do not include Longfellow's Dramatic Works, The Divine Tragedy, The Golden Legend, and The New England Tragedies, which are grouped in Christus.-Christus, Cabinet Edit. 16mo, 1.00: Household Edit. Ill., 12mo, 1.75; full gilt, 2.00: Red-Line Edit. 16 Illust. Sm. 4to, full gilt, 2.50. These editions of Christus, with the corresponding editions of the Poems, form the complete Poetical Works in two uniform volumes. -Poetical Works. Subscription Edit. Portrait and over 600 Illust. 30 4to parts, each part, 50c.-Complete Prose Works, with Later Poems and a Biographical Sketch. Superbly Illust. 15 4to parts, each part, 50c.-Complete Poetical and Prose Works. New Riverside Edit. Text revised. Notes giving various readings, and literary information, indexes, etc., 11 vols., cro, 8vo. clo. The set, 16.50 Sq. NY BOOK ON THIS LIST SENT BRENTANO'S New York, Union Bash Av. Fashington-1015 Penn. Av London-430 Strand. STANDARD POETICAL WORKS. Poetry is the breath of beauty, flowing around the spiritual world, as the winds that wake up the flowers do about the material world.-Leigh Hunt. Shelley, Percy B. Poetical Works. Red-line, clo., 1.25. Edited by Harry B. Forman. With Portraits. 2 vols., 12mo, 6.40. Edited by Wm. M. Rossetti. With Notes and Memoirs. 3 vols., 8vo, 14.00. Edited, Prefaced and Annotated. By R. H. Shepperd. 3 vols., clo., 3.75. Presentation Edit. 12mo, Illust., 1.50.--Riverside Edit., Biographical and Critical Notes. 2 vols. 12mo, clo., 3.00. Edited by Mrs. P. B. Shelley, alligator, 12mo., 2.50 Southey, Robert. Poetical Works. Red-line, clo., 12mo, 1.25. With Author's Last Corrections and Additions. Portrait. 8vo., 5.00. Presentation Edition. 12mo, clo., Illust., tree-calf, 5.00. Steel Engravings. Mor., 8vo, 8.00. Portrait, and 4 Plates. Sheep, 3.00. Riverside Edit. Biographical and Historical Notes, 8vo, gilt top, 5 vols., 7.50 Meredith, Owen. Poems. Household Edit. Portrait and Illust. 12mo, 1.75. Illust. Lib. Edit. Portrait. 8vo, full gilt, 3.50. 12mo, clo., 1.25 Saxe, John G. Poems. Cabinet Edit. 16mo, 1.00. Household Edit. Complete. 12mo, 1.75. Farringford Edit. Portrait. 16mo, gilt top, 2.25. Red-Line, 16 Illust., 4to, full gilt, 2.50 Moore, Thomas. Poetical Works. Steel Plates. And a Sketch of Life. Diamond Edition. 16mo. Paper, 50c. Allig., 2.50. 8vo. Sheep, 3.00. Globe Edit., 16mo, clo, 1.00. Blackfriars Edit., 8vo, clo., 1.50. Riverside Edit., 3 vols., 8vo, cloth, 4.50 Goldsmith's, Oliver. Complete Works. Edit. by P. Cunningham. 4 vols., 8vo, clo.,8.00. Engl. Edit. with Vignettes, 4 vols., half calf, 22.60. Edit. by J. W. Gibbs. 5 vols., 12mo, 7.00. Poems only. Memoir by Rev. J. Mitford. 16mo. 60c. Riverside Edit. with Notes. 8vo, clo., 1.50. Illust. by 38 Engravings, from Designs by the London Etching Club. Memoir and Notes. Hand-made Paper. The Illustrations on Japan Paper. Large Paper Copy. Copies, 1 vol., large 4to, 7.50. Levant mor., elegant, 17.50. Small Paper, 4to, cloth, Schiller's Works. Illust. 4 vols., clo., 3.00 net. -8 vols., clo., 4.50 net.-6 vols., 12mo, 8.40.Poetry only, Red-line, clo., 12mo, White, Henry Kirke. Poetical Works. Globe Edit. With Life by Robert Southey. 16mo, clo., 1.00. Riverside Edit. Notes. 8vo, clo., 1.50 Hugo, Victor. Poems. Chiefly Lyrical. Translated. Now first collected by H. C. Williams. 12mo, 1.40. Red-line, 1.00. Dramatic Works. Tr. by F. L. Slous and Mrs. N. Crosland. 12mo, 1.40 Virgil. Works. Transl. into English Verse, with Variorum and other Notes and Readings. By John Wilstach. Index 2 vols., 8vo, 5.00.-The Eneid. Transl. by C. P. Cranch. 8vo, gilt top, Hood, Thomas. Complete Works. 14 Steel Engravings on Steel, and 1700 Illustrations on Wood, from His own Designs. Aldine Edit. 7 vols., 8vo, clo., 14.00. Engravings on Steel. 4 vols., 12mo, clo., 6.00. Poetry only. Presentation Edit. 12mo, 1.50. Poetry only. Red-line Edit., 1.00. Poetry only. Riverside Edit. Notes. 8vo, 2 vols., 3.30 ANY BOOK ON THIS LIST SENT POSTPAID AT ABOVE PRICES. 4.50 1.25 4.50 Whittier, John Greenleaf. Poems. Cabinet Edit. 16mo, 1.00. Household Edit. Portrait. 12mo, 1.75. Family Edit. Illust. 8vo, gilt, 2.50. Red-line Edit. Portrait and Illust. 4to, full gilt, 2.50. Illust. Lib. Edit. Portrait and 32 Illust. 8vo, full gilt, 3.50. Cambridge Edit. Steel Portrait. 3 vols. 12mo; gilt top, 5.25. Riverside Edit. Notes by Mr. Whittier. 4 vols. 8vo, cloth, 6.00 Herrick, Robert. Poetical Works. Memorial Introduction and Notes. 3 vols., crown, 8vo, 6.75. Riverside Edit. With critical notes. 8vo, clo., 1.50 Rossetti, Dante G. Collected Works. Preface and Notes by W. M. Rossetti. 2 vols., crown, 8vo, 7.20. American Edit. 2 vols., 12mo, gilt, 6.00 1 vol., 12mo, 2.00. Red-line, clo., 12mo, cloth, 1.25 Halleck, Fitz-Greene. Poetical Works. 12mo, clo., 1.75.-18mo, blue and gold, cloth, 1.00 Moliere's Dramatic Works. Rendered into English by Henri Van Laun. Memoir and Notes. Illust. with 19 Steel Engravings. By Desenne, Johannot and Hersent. 8vo, 3 vols, 7.50. Transl. by C. H. Wall. Portrait. 3 vols., 12mo, 4.20. Same Transl., 3 vols., 12mo, 4.50 Arnold, Edwin. Poetical Works. Collected Edit. 6 vols., 14.40. Household Edit. 12mo, cloth, 2.00 Emerson, Ralph Waldo, Household Edit. Portrait. 12mo, 1.75. Riverside Edit. 12mo, 1.75. Little Classic Edition. 18mo, cloth, 1.25 Procter, Adelaide A. Poems. Cabinet Edit. 16mo, 1.00. Blue and Gold Edit. 32mo, full gilt, 1.25. Red-line Edit. Illust. 4to, full gilt, 2.50 Miller, Joaquin, Poems. Red-line. 12mo, 2.00 Houghton, Lord. Poetical Works. trait. 2 vols. 16mo, cloth, extra, Herbert, George. Poetical Works. Edited with Memoir by Rev. A. B. Crosart. 12mo, 2.00. 16mo clo., 1.00. 8vo, gilt top, 1.50. 12mo, Steel Por 5.00 1.25 2.00 Eliot, George. Poems. Illust. 8vo, cloth, 4.50. 12mo, cloth, 1.25. Limited Edit., 200 copies. Hand-made Linen Paper. 13 Artist Proofs on Parch. cloth, Japan Paper 8vo, parchment, 7.50. 600. Duodecimo Poets, blue clo., flat back, 1.25. 16mo., 2 vols., parchment paper or cloth, 2.00 Heine, Heinrich. Poems. Complete. From the German. By E. A. Bowring. 12mo., Swinburne, Algernon C. Red-line cloth, 1.25. 17 vols., odd vols., not in set, 12mo, 8vo, 61.00 Wordsworth. Poetical Works. Edit. by Henry Reed. Alligator, 2.50. In 6 vols. 8vo, 18.00. Portrait. 8vo, clo., 4.00. Imp. 8vo, clo., 6.00. New Centenary Edit., 8vo, clo., 15.00. 6 Pocket Vols., 8vo, clo., 7.50. With proof impressions of the etchings. Only 115 copies printed. 72.00. Riverside Edit. Notes. 8vo, clo., 3 vols., 4.50 Tasso's Jerusalem Delivered. Trans. into Spenserian Verse, with a Life of the Author, by J. H. Wiffen. 8 Steel and 24 Wood Engrav. by Thurson. 12mo, 2.00 BRENTANO'S New York-5 Union Sq. Washington-1015 Penn. Av. Chicago-204-206 Wabash Av. Paris-17 Ave. de Opre London-430 Strand. STANDARD POETICAL WORKS. In all ages poets have been in special reputation, and methinks not without great cause: for besides their sweet inventions and most witty lays they have always used 10 set forth the praises of the good and the virtuous.-Edmund Spenser. Milton, John, Poetical Works. Memoir by J. Montgomery. Todd's Verbal Index and Notes. 120 Engravings from Drawings by W. Harvey. 2 vols., 12mo, 4.00. Memoir by the Rev. J. Mitford. 3 vols., 16mo, 1.80. 2 vols. Elzevir 8vo. Ideal Series, 4.00. Edited with Notes and Memoir, by Prof. Masson. Portraits. 3 vols., 16mo, 5.00. Globe 8vo, 1.25. Edited by R. C. Brown. 2 vols., 1.75. Riverside Edit. Notes. 2 vols., clo., 8vo, 3.00. Red-line clo., 12mo, 1.25. Presentation Edit., 3.00. Empyreal Edit. 2 vols., clo., gilt top, 2.00. Duodecimo Poets. Clo. 2 vols., 2.50 3.00 Scott, Sir Walter. Red Line. Cl., 12mo, 1.25. Ed. with Memoir, by F. T. Palgrave, 8vo, 1.25. Riverside Edit. With Biographical Notes. Cr. 8vo, clo., 5 vols., 7.50. 12 vols. 12mo, halfcalf, gilt, 36.00. Ed. by W. Minto. Illust. 2 vols. 8vo, 3.00. Handy Vol. Edit. 7 vols., clo., 5.00. Select Edition. 6 vols. 18mo, Each volume with mor. back and bound in enameled Tartan boards, box, velvet lined, 25.00, Blackfriar's Edition, 12mo, clo., 1.50. Empyreal Edition, 4 vols., clo., 4.00. Sheep, 8vo, Jonson, Ben. Works. With Notes, Critical and Explanatory Memoir by W. Clifford. Edit. by F. Cunningham, 3 vols., 12mo, 6.75. 8vo, sheep, 3.00 Holmes, Oliver Wendell. Poems. Household Edit. Portrait and Illust. 12mo, 1.75. Family Edit. Illust. 8vo, gilt, 2.50. Handy Volume Edit. Steel portrait. 2 vols., 24mo, gilt top, cloth, 2.50 Pope. Poetical Works. Edited, with Notes, by Prof. Ward. 8vo, 1.25. Edited by Rev. H. F. Cary, with Biographical Notice. 8vo, clo., Old Poet's Edit., 3.50; Globe Edit., 16mo, clo., 1.00. Illust. by John Gilbert. 12mo, clo. Presentation edit., 1.50. With a Life by Dr. Johnson. AlligaWith Memoir by the Rev. A. Dyce. 3 tor, 2.50. vols., 16mo, 1.80. With Notes by W. Elwin and Wm. J. Courthope. 4 vols., 8vo, per vol., 4.20. Illust. 2 vols, 12mo, 4.00. Red-line, etc., 1.25. Riverside Edit., 2 vols., 8vo, 3.00 Gray, Thomas. Poetical Works. With Notes and Edit. 3.00. 3.50 SENT 3.50 Ingelow, Jean. Poems. Library Edit., 2 vols., 16mo, 2.00; Blue and Gold Edit., 2 vol., 2.00; Cabinet Edit., 16mo, 1.50; Diamond Edit., sq. 18mo, 1.00. Household Edit., 16mo, 75c. Red line, sq. 12mo, 2.50. Home Edit., 18mo, 75c. Illust.,8vo,7.50 Rossetti, Christina G. Poems. 12mo, clo., 2.00 Hemans, Felicia D. Poetical Works. Edited by Mrs. Sigourney. Allig. 2.50. Red-line, clo., 12mo, 1.25. 8vo, sheep, 3.00; 2 vols., 16mo, clo., 2.00. 12mo, Illust., 1.50. Crown, 8vo, clo., 1.50 Sheridan, Richard B. Complete Works, with Poems. 10 Plates, 8vo, 2.75 With a Memoir. Steel Portrait. 8vo, cloth, Burns, Robert. Poetical Works. With Critical and Biographical Notes, by Allan Cunningham, and a Glossary. Allig., 2.50.- -Illust. 8vo, gilt edges, 2.00.- -Edited with Memoir, by Alexander Smith. 8vo, 1.25.-Riverside Edition. 8vo, clo, 1.50. -Edited by Rev. R. A. Wilmott. 12mo, clo., 1.50. -8vo, sheep, 3.00.-Edina Edition. With Original Illust. by Scotch Artists. 4to, clo. 6.00 Carleton, Will. Farm Ballads.-Farm Legends. -Farm Festivals.-City Ballads. Each 8vo, square. Fine cloth, illustrated. Barham, Richard Harris. Ingoldsby Legends. Illust. Laid Paper. Popular Ed. 12mo, clo. 1.50 Calderon. Select Plays. Edited with Introduction and Notes, by N. Maccoll, M.A. Cloth, 4.00 2.00 Lang, A. Helen of Troy. 12mo, 1.50, -Ballads and Verses Vain. 12mo, 1.50.--Thirty-two Ballads in Blue China. 16mo, 2.00.-Rhymes à la Mode. 16mo, 2.00 Taylor, Benjamin F. Poetical Works. Portrait from a Painting by G. P. A. Healy. 12mo, 1.75 Stedman, Edmund. Poems. Farringford Edit. 16mo, gilt top, 2.00. Household Edit. 12mo, 1.75 Cary, Alice and Phoebe. Poems. Household Ed. 12mo, clo., 1.75.-Illust. Lib. Edit. 24 Illust, and Portraits. Memorial by Mary Clemmer. 8vo, 3.50 Tennyson, Alfred. Works. With a sketch by Anne Thackeray Ritchie. Portraits and Illust. 8vo, clo., 2.00.--Parchment Series. 2 vols., 16mo, 2.50- New and Complete Edit. Illust. by Church, Dielman, Schell, Harry Fenn and others. Portrait. 24 Full-page Illust. and Vignettes, eng. by Andrew. Royal 8vo, clo., gilt edge, 5.00.--Favorite Edit. 16 Illust. Sq. 8vo, clo., 2.50. Handy Volume Edit. 8 vols., clo., 6.00--Library Edit. 7 vols., 8vo. Portrait on Steel, 22.50--Vols. I. and II. 16mo. parchment, 4.50.--Miniature Edit. Ten Vols. in box, 6.00.--New and Complete Edit. in 8 Vols., Containing Everything the Author has Published. 8vo, 1.50 each- -New Riverside Edit. Portrait. 6 vols., 16mo, uncut, 6.00--Cabinet Edit. 16mo, 1.00--Household Edit. Portrait and 60 Illust. 12mo, 1.75--Blue and Gold Edition. Portrait. 2 vols., 32mo, full gilt, 2.50--Red-Line Edit. Portrait and 16 Illust. 4to, 2.50--Illust. Lib. Edit. Portrait and 60 Illust. 8vo, 3.50, calf 7.50 -Crown Edit. 48 Illust. 2 vols., 8vo, clo., 5.00 New York-5 Union NY BOOK ON THIS LIST IN BRENTANO'S Chicago 204-206 Wabash Av. Paris 11 Ave. do opera. Washington-1015 Penn. Av. London-430 Strand. |