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W. Kent & Co's Annual Catalogue, April 1859
W. Kent and Co.
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=The Book and its Story=; a Narrative for the Young. By L. N.
R., dedicated to the British and Foreign Bible Society, with an
Introductory Preface by the Rev. T. Phillips, Jubilee Secretary.
Eleventh Edition, on fine paper, with a new Plate, "The First Reading
of the Bible in Old St. Paul's," engraved expressly for this edition.
Crown 8vo, cloth, price 4s.
=The Book and its Story.= Twelfth and People's Edition. Seventy-second
Thousand. Price 2s. in paper boards or limp cloth; 2s. 6d. cloth
boards; ditto, gilt edges, 3s.; handsomely bound in morocco, 8s.
=The Book and its Story, in the French Language=, having been issued
by the Société des Livres Religeux à Toulouse, the Publishers of the
English Edition have imported a quantity for the use of Schools, and
Students of the French Language. Price 4s.
=The Book and its Story, in the German Language=; with a Preface by Dr.
F. W. KRUMMACHER. Price 4s. cloth.
"This is an entire translation of that noble English work, of which
Dr. Osterlag, of Basle, had already given us an abstract. No one would
suspect from the simple headings of this attractive and popular volume,
that they are the doors to such treasure-houses of instruction and
edification."--_German Review._
=The Book and its Missions, Past and Present.= A Monthly Magazine,
of which three volumes are already published; containing not only a
survey of the progress of the Bible among Heathen nations, but France,
Brittany, Spain, Italy, and Sardinia also pass under review. The
particulars of the FEMALE BIBLE MISSIONS, which are now beginning to
excite general interest, and which are being carried on in St. Giles's,
among the dust-heaps at Paddington, in Westminster, Spitalfields,
Clerkenwell, etc., are at present only to be found in these volumes.
Demy 8vo, cloth, 3s., gilt edges, 3s. 6d. each. Continued in Monthly
Parts, at 2d.
=The History of the Painters of all Nations.= By M. CHARLES BLANC,
late "Directeur des Beaux Arts" of France. The Illustrations executed
under the artistic direction of M. ARMENGAUD, of Paris. In one handsome
volume, half-roan, royal 4to, price 30s.
*** Only a few copies of this splendid work remain in print.
=Memoirs of the Queens of Prussia.= By EMMA WILLSHER ATKINSON. This
work especially includes the period between 1701, the date of Frederic
the First's assumption of the title of King, and the present time, and
is intended to describe the lives, and as much as can be ascertained of
the private history of the six Princesses who bore the titles of Queens
of Prussia during that period. Demy 8vo, price 10s. 6d. cloth.
=St. Leonard=; or, The Missionary: A Vision. The scene of the Poem is
laid in India in the days of Akbar; the hero suffers death at an _auto
da fé_ at Goa. Price 3s. 6d., 12mo, cloth.
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