Select Books
PUBLISHED BY
Mr. T. Fisher Unwin
London:
26, Paternoster Square.
Mr. Unwin has pleasure in sendingherewith his Catalogue of Select Books.
Book Buyers are requested to orderany Books they may require from theirlocal Bookseller.
Catalogue of Select Books in Belles Lettres,History, Biography, Theology, Travel,Miscellaneous, and Books for Children.
Belles Lettres.
English Wayfaring Life in the MiddleAges (XIVth Century). By J. J. Jusserand. Translatedfrom the French by Lucy A. Toulmin Smith. Illustrated.Demy 8vo., cloth, 21s.
The Author has supervised the translation, and has added fresh matter, sothat the volume differs in some degree from “La Vie Nomade.” Many of theillustrations are taken from illuminated manuscripts, and have never beenpublished before.
Old Chelsea. A Summer-Day’s Stroll. By Dr. BenjaminEllis Martin. Illustrated by JosephPennell. Crown 8vo., cloth, 7s. 6d.
The stroll described in these pages may be imagined to be taken during thesummer of 1888; all the dates, descriptions, and references herein having beenbrought down to the present day.
The Twilight of the Gods. “The Purple Head,”“Madame Lucifer,”“The Demon Pope,” “The City of Philosophers,” “TheCup-bearer,” “Ananda the Miracle-Worker,” “The Bell ofSt. Euschemon,” and other Stories. By Richard Garnett.Crown 8vo., cloth, 6s.
The Coming of the Friars, And other MediævalSketches. By the Rev.Augustus Jessopp, D.D., Author of “Arcady: For Better,For Worse,” &c. Crown 8vo., cloth, 7s. 6d.
Contents.—I. The Coming of the Friars.—II. Village Life in Norfolk SixHundred Years ago.—III. Daily Life in a Mediæval Monastery.—IV. and V.The Black Death in East Anglia.—VI. The Building-up of a University.—VII.The Prophet of Walnut-tree Walk.
Arcady: For Better, For Worse. By Augustus Jessopp, D.D.,Author of “One Generation of a Norfolk House.”Portrait. Popular Edition. Crown 8vo., cloth, 3s. 6d.
“A volume which is, to our minds, one of the most delightful ever published inEnglish.”—Spectator.
“A capital book, abounding in true wisdom and humour.... Excellent andamusing.”—Melbourne Argus.
The Romance of a Shop. By Amy Levy, Authorof “The New Schoolof American Fiction,” &c. Crown 8vo., cloth, 6s.
The Paradox Club. By Edward Garnett. WithPortrait of Nina Lindon. Crown8vo., cloth, 6s.
“Mr. Garnett’s dialogue is often quite as good as his description, and indescription he is singularly happy. The mystery of London streets by night ispowerfully suggested, and the realis