W. C a r e w H a z l i t t Coinage of the European Continent

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SELECT LIST
OF
Moths or EMtions
BY
WILLIAM CAREIV HAZLITT
OF THE INNER TEMPLE
CHRONOLOGICALLY ARRANGED.
i860 1893.
1.
History of the Venetian Republic; Its Rise, its Greatness, and its Civilisation.
With Maps and Illustrations. 4 vols. 8vo. Smith, Elder & Co. 1860.
A new edition, entirely recast, with important additions, in 3 vols. crown 8vo, is in readiness for the
press.
2. Old English Jest-Books, 1525-1639. Edited with Introductions and Notes. Facsimiles.
3 vols. I21T1O. 1864.
3. Remains of the Early Popular Poetry of England. With Introductions and Notes.
4 vols. i2tno. Woodcuts. 1864-66.
4. Handbook to the Early Popular, Poetical, and Dramatic Literature of Great
Britain. Demy 8vo. 1867. Pp. 714 in two columns.
5. Bibliographical Collections and Notes. Three Series, with two Supplements and the
Handbook, together, 6 vols. Medium 8vo. 1867-92.
These volumes comprise a full description of about 25,000 Early English books from the books themselves.
" There never was a more accurate and painstaking bibliographer than Mr. Hazlitt, nor is there any
bibliography of English literature which can compete with his works. I have found from personal
experience that they are absolutely necessary to the English collector." BERNARD QUARITCH.
"This set of books is the result of more than thirty years' continuous labour, during which the author
doubtless has had submitted to his notice more English book -rarities than any other bibliophile in Europe.
" Mr. W. C. Hazlitt's second series of Bibliographical Collections and Notes (Quaritch) is the result of
many years' searches among rare books, tracts, ballads, and broadsides by a man whose speciality is
bibliography, and who has thus produced a volume of high value.
four closely-printed columns relating to Charles I., or the ten and If any one will read through the fifty-
half columns given to ' London from
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1541 to 1794, and recollect that these are only a supplement to twelve columns in Hazlitt's Handbook and
five and a half in his first Collections, he will get an idea-^f the>ark involved in this book. Other like
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entries are '
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James I.,' Ireland,' ' France,' ' '
En^l^SS,-'; ^ElizatetH," Scctteqd (which has twenty-one and
a half columns), and so on. As to the curipety~a'nd:rafeiry jjr .theWfdiiiks that^in Hazlitt has catalogued,
any one who has been for even twenty or.ljiiiwtf'.ekrs' among old books" will that the
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strangers
to him are far more numerous than the s&cnAftiBtancesojp^friep^s*!;
This seeoKLsewes of Collections will
add to Mr. Hazlitt's well-earned &s a reput/ycie^ bibliographer ,'arCcJ ^hcfild be inS2ve't^.real library through
the English-speaking world. The onlw thing we desiderate in it is more of his wferconrt marks and names,
B.M., Britwell, Lambeth, etc., to sjjow where Hfcthej boo%s fippnwcbirig rarity The service that
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these have done in Mr. Hazlitt's fomier books v>>.ers S6v4rie ^?ar,ly ^English Te^tt New Shakespere,
Spenser, Hunterian, and other societUK, has been so great that we hopre Re will alwajre say where he has
seen the rare books that he makes entriSfjfD(."---Acaifen',,Artj/^ 26, 1882.
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