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Wyss, Johann David, 1743-1818

"The Swiss Family Robinson; or Adventures in a Desert Island"

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Life of Mahomet and his Successors.
By Washington Irving. A new edition, complete in one volume,
foolscap 8vo., with an illustration. Bound in cloth, full gilt back, and
emblematical design on side, 3s. 6d.
"As a piece of literary work, we can award high praise to this Life of
Mahomet. The narrative flows on without interruption from the first page
to the last, and is brightened by passages of unusual beauty of diction
and pictorial effect, in the grouping of ideas and of situations."
--_Athenaeum_.

The Sketch-book, and Bracebridge Hall;
Or, Pictures of Life and Manners in England, by Washington Irving. A new
edition, complete in one volume, foolscap 8vo., with an illustration.
Bound in cloth, full gilt back and sides, 3s. 6d.
"The Sketch-book is as quaint and amusing a work of light literature as
exists. Bracebridge Hall is well known from its genuine merit, and has
taken its place among the standard works in the English language."
Tales of the Alhambra,
Don Roderick, and Conquest of Granada. A new edition, complete in one
volume, foolscap 8vo., with an illustration. Bound in cloth, full gilt
back, sides, and edges, 3s. 6d.
"There is a charm about this book to which the old and young, the
educated and the simple, bear cheerful witness.


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