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8 BOOKS PUBLISHEDBYCrown Svo, cloth gilt, Two very thick Volumes, ys. 6d. each.Cruikshank's Comic Almanack.Complete in Two Series:The First from 1835 to 1843;theSecond from 1844 to 1853. A Gatheringof the Best Humourof Thackeray, Hood, Mayhew, Albert Smith, A'Beckett,Robert Brough, &c. With 2000 Woodcuts and SteelEngravings by Cruikshank, Hine, Landells, &c.To be Completed inTwenty-four Parts, quarto, at 5^. each, profuselyillustrated by Coloured and PlainPlates and Wood Engravings,The CyclopædiaofCostume;or, A — — Dictionary of Dress Regal, Ecclesiastical, Civil, and Militaryfrom the Earliest Period in England to the reign of Georgethe Third. Including Notices of Contemporaneous Fashions onthe Continent,andprecededby a General History of the Costumesof the Principal — Countries of Europe. By J. R. Planch£,Somerset Herald. A Prospectus will be sent uponapplication.Part XVI.just ready."A most readable and interesting work — and it can scarcelybe consulted invain, vjhetlier the reader is in searchfor information as to military, court,ecclesiastical, legal,orprofessionalcostume. . .. All the chromo-lithographs,andmostof the woodcut illustrations — the latteramountingto several thousands— areveryelaboratelyexecuted;andthe work forms — alivre de luxe whichrendersitequallysuitedtothe library andthe ladies'drawing-room." Times.* * PartXIV. contains the Corns lesionofthe DICTIONARY, which,as Vol. I.of the Book,forms a Complete Work in itself. This volumemay now be had, handsomely bound in half redmorocco,gilt top,price,£3 13J. 6d. Casesfor binding the volume may alsobe had,price $s. each.The remainingParts willbe occupiedby the GENERAL HISTORYOF THE COSTUMES OF EUROPE, arranged Chronologically.Parts I. to X. now ready, 2ii, each.A History ofHertfordshire.ByJohn E. Cussans. Illustrated with full-page Plates on Copperand Stone, and a profusion of small Woodcuts." Mr. Cussans has, from sources not accessible to Clutterbuck, made mostvaluableadditions to the manorialhistoryofthe county from the earliest perioddownwards, cleared up many doubtful points, and given original details concerningvarioussubjectsuntouchedorimperfectly treated by that writer. Thepedigreesseemtohavebeen constructed withgreat care, andarea valuableadditionto the genealogical history of the county. Mr. Cussans appears to have donehis work conscientiously, and to havesparedneither time, labour,nor expensetorender his volumes worthy ofrankingin tliehighest class of CountyHistories."— Academy.Demy 8vo, half-bound morocco, 2U.Dibdin's Bibliomania;or, Book-Madness : A Bibliographical Romance. With numerousIllustrations. A New Edition, with a Supplement, including aKey to the Assumed Characters in the Drama.