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LETTERS OF ROYAL & ILLUSTRIOUS LADIES OF GREAT BRITAIN, ILLUSTRATIVE OF THE HISTORY OF ENGLAND; Now first published from the Originals, with Introductory Notices, BY MARY ANN EVERETT WOOD. Cheaper Edition, 3 vols, post 8vo, with Facsimile Autographs, &c. 189. bound, "This collection of letters is very curious and very valuable. The general reader will derive great instruction from its pages, and the reader of history will find it of considerable service. The editress has accomplished well a remarkably laborious task. She has collected together the letters of the most illustrious women of England, whose lives extend over a period of four centuries and a half, and has taken infinite pains to render the subject of the letters intelligible to the reader by prefixing notes, varying in length as the occasion requires. The work certainly deserves a wide success."--Sunday Times. BURKE'S PEERAGE AND BARONETAGE, NEW AND REVISED EDITION. 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BURKE'S DICTIONARY OF THE EXTINCT, DORMANT, AND ABEYANT PEERAGES OF ENGLAND, SCOTLAND, AND A COMPANION TO ALL OTHER PEERAGES. Cheaper Edition, beautifully printed, in one volume, 8vo, containing 800 double column pages, 21s. bound. It should be particularly noticed that this work appertains nearly as much to extant as to extinct persons of distinction; for though dignities pass away, it rarely occurs that whole families do. MEMOIRS OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS; Comprising the Lives of the Speakers and Eminent Statesmen, and Lawyers, from the Convention Parliament of 1688-9, to the passing of the Reform Bill in 1832; BY WM. CHARLES TOWNSEND, ESQ., M.A. RECORDER OF MACCLESFIELD. Cheaper Edition. 2 vols. 8vo, 21s. bound. "Much useful and curious information is scattered throughout these volumes."-Quarterly Review. 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