Advice to Young Ladies/Advertisements
Elegant Gift Books,
published and for sale by
Phillips & Sampson,
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110 Washington Street, Boston.
Friendship’s Offering.
A Christmas, New-Year, and Birth-Day Gift.
A new volume of this work is published every autumn, each one of which, both in letter-press and engravings, is entirely new and complete in itself. For the convenience of those who may wish to possess uniform sets of the work, a uniformity of style in the binding has been carefully observed, which will always be found to be in splendid arabesque morocco, gilt edges. It is also embellished with nine beautiful mezzotint engravings, by Sartain. 1 vol. 12mo.
Christmas Roses,
and New Year’s Gift.
This work is designed for a handsome presentation book for the young, and is acknowledged by all to be the most elegant Juvenile Gift Book that has ever been published in this country. It is elegantly bound in English muslin, richly gilt sides and edges, and embellished with six splendid mezzotint engravings, and colored illuminations.—Small 4to.
Heroes of the American Revolution.
Lives of the Heroes of the American Revolution:—Comprising the lives of Washington and his Generals and Officers who were most distinguished in the War of the Independence of the United States. Also, embracing the Declaration of Independence and signers’ names; the Constitution of the United States and amendments; together with the Inaugural, first Annual, and Farewell Addresses of Washington. Complete in one volume, 12mo., illustrated; bound in handsome muslin and morocco.
This work contains the lives of Washington and nearly twenty of his officers and associates in the great struggle which resulted in the peace, union and strength which we now so eminently enjoy. It will be found a very valuable acquisition to the public or private library, as the perusal of no one volume in the English language will give the reader such a general idea of the leading incidents of the revolution as this.
Life of Washington.
“General Washington was from his youth devoted to his country; his character therefore cannot be portrayed without bringing into view many important public transactions. It has been the endeavor of the author to display the character of the man who is the subject of the work, by exhibiting in a connected view his actions and his writings; and he has, as far as possible, made this exhibition in the person of General Washington.”
In giving the lives of the conspicuous men of any period, it is believed the best history of that period is given; and in this instance, in giving the life of Washington, it is believed to combine with it a very graphic account of the prominent events and struggles of the American Revolution.
The whole is contained in one neat volume, 12mo., illustrated and handsomely bound in cloth.
The Amaranth:
Or, Token of Remembrance.
This work is issued annually, with entirely new matter, and is elegantly bound in morocco, richly gilt sides and edges, and is embellished with six beautiful steel engravings, by the first artists.—1 vol. 12mo.
Cowper’s Poems.
This is acknowledged to be the most complete edition of Cowper published in this country; and is bound in 1 vol. 12mo, muslin, plain edges; do. gilt and elegant Saxony, gilt sides and edges.
Advice to Young Ladies.
In his introduction, the author says: “Right modes of thinking are the basis of all correct action. This is just as true of one sex as the other. Although man has the power of abstract thought, and the faculty of reasoning, in a higher degree than woman, yet woman is none the less a rational being, and must, in all the various relations in life, come under the guidance of right reason.” 1 vol. large 18mo., bound in gilt and plain bindings.
Napoleon Bonaparte.
Life and Campaigns of Napoleon Bonaparte: Giving an account of all his engagements, from the siege of Toulon to the battle of Waterloo; also embracing accounts of the daring exploits of his Marshals; together with his public and private life, from the commencement of his career to his final imprisonment and death on the rock of St. Helena. Translated from the French of M. A. Arnault and C. L. F. Pauckoucke. New edition, in one volume, illustrated.
This is unquestionably the most authentic, impartial, and complete life of this great General now before the American public. The translator says in his preface: “In ushering these memoirs of the life of Napoleon Bonaparte into the world, we have not confined ourselves to the splendid work of M. A. Arnault; but, in order to furnish a faithful narrative, public, political, and private, have availed ourselves of every species of information afforded by different authorities, from the commencement of the career of the departed hero, to the closing scene of his last hours at St. Helena.”
Burns’ Poetical Works.
In comparing this edition with others, it will be found to possess several advantages. It contains, besides a number of other pieces not inserted in Dr. Currie’s edition, The Jolly Beggars, a cantata replete with humorous description and discrimination of character; as also his celebrated Holy Willie’s Prayer, a piece of satire unequalled for exquisite severity and felicitous delineation.
In the editions hitherto published, no regard is paid to method of classification. In this, the poems are disposed according to their respective subjects, and divided into books.
This edition is all comprised in one very neat 12mo. volume, with a beautiful portrait, and may be had in the various elegant and plain styles of binding described above.Pilgrim’s Progress.
Bunyan says of this work, that when formed into a book, and shown to his friends,
“Some said, John, print it; others said, Not so;
Some said, It might do good; others said, No.”
The public will not hesitate in determining which opinion was the result of the deeper penetration; but will wonder that a long apology for such a publication should have been deemed necessary, when it is stated, that perhaps this work has had a more universal and lasting sale than any other in the English language, save that of the Bible.
The work is complete in 1 vol. 12mo., embellished with fine engravings, and is done up in plain and rich bindings, suited to the tastes and means of all classes.
Milton and Young.
This volume is printed in very neat style, with line around the page, and contains a fine portrait of Milton; and is bound in the varieties spoken of above in connection with Cowper’s Poems.