nds with interesting Musical Anecdotes; the Greek Fables
respecting the origin of Music; the rise and progress of Musical
Instruments; the early Musical Drama; the origin of our present
fashionable Concerts; the first performance of the Beggar's Opera, &c.

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Now ready, Part XII., completing the Work, containing Fifteen Plates and
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THE MONUMENTAL BRASSES of ENGLAND: a Series of Engravings on Wood, with
Descriptive Notices. By the Rev. CHARLES BOUTELL, M.A., Rector of
Downham Market, Norfolk.

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MONUMENTAL BRASSES and SLABS: an Historical and Descriptive Notice of
the Incised Monumental Memorials of the Middle Ages. With upwards of 200
Engravings.

"A handsome large octavo volume, abundantly supplied with
well-engraved woodcuts and lithographic plates; a sort of
Encyclopaedia for ready reference.... The whole work has a look of
painstaking completeness highly commendable."--_Athenaeum._

"One of the most beautifully got up and interesting volumes we have
seen for a long time. It gives in the compass of one volume an
account of the History of those beautiful monuments of former
days.... The illustrations are extremely well chosen."--_English
Churchman._

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By the same Author, to be completed in Four Parts,

CHRISTIAN MONUMENTS in ENGLAND and WALES: an Historical and Descriptive
Sketch of the various classes of Monumental Memorials which have been in
use in this country from about the time of the Norman Conquest.
Profusely illustrated with Wood Engravings. To be published in Four
Parts. Part I. price 7s. 6d.; Part II. 2s. 6d.

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