Books published by Lackington & Co.
APPARITIONS; or, the Mystery of Ghosts, Hobgoblins, and Haunted Houses, developed: being a Collection of Entertaining Stories founded on fact. By Joseph Taylor. 12mo. 5s.
⁂ A large impression of this popular work having been sold off within a very few months, it is now republished, with the addition of many curious and interesting stories. The opinions of the various critical Journalists have been highly commendatory of it.
"This Collection of Stories is well chosen, and offers a fund of amusement, cheap at the price of Five Shillings. By putting such a book as this into the hands of children, parents will more effectually guard their minds against weak credulity than by grave philosophic admonition."—Vide Monthly Review.
"Mr. Taylor's entertaining volume is entitled to the most favourable reception; his motive is good, and the plan which he has adopted is probably better fitted to answer the purpose intended than any other that could have been devised."—Crit. Review.
The LIFE, PROPHECIES, and PREDICTIONS of MERLIN INTERPRETED; being a Chronographical History of all the Kings and memorable Passages in the History of these Kingdoms, from Brute to the Reign of Charles I.; 8vo. With the rare and curious Frontispiece. 10s. 6d.
"Instead of a large study book, and huge voluminous tractate, able to take up a whole year in reading, and to load and tire a porter in carrying, thou hast here a small manual, containing all the pith and marrow, made portable for thee (if thou so please), to bear in thy pocket; so that thou mayest say, that in this small compendium thou hast Hollingshed, the Polychronicon, Fabian, Speed, or any of the rest of more gigantic bulk or binding."—Vide Heywood's Preface to this curious book.
TOLAND'S CRITICAL HISTORY of the CELTIC RELIGION and LEARNING; containing an account or the Druids, or Priests and Judges, of the Vaids, or the Diviners and Physicians, of the Bards, Poets, and Heralds, of the Ancient Gauls, Britons, Irish and Scots. 8vo. 8s.
This very curious work contains likewise the history of Abiris, the Hyperborean Priest of the Sun.
TALES OF THE DEAD. Principally translated from the French. 8vo. 9s.
This volume contains, among others, the following tales, Family Portraits, The Fated Hour, Death's Head, Death Bride, The Storm, &c.
Printed by Macdonald and Son, Cloth Fair, London.
