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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 5218, 12 December 1877, Page 4

Books, Stationery, &cList of books SUITABLE FOB CHRISTMAS and NEW YEAR’S GIFTS IN STOCK AT LYON & BLAIR’S. The following Books, forming part of a very large consignment, are all Elegantly Bound, Superbly Illustrated by the best artists (including Gustave Dore, Ernest Griset, Birket Foster, &c , &<•.., &o.), and are specially suited for Gifts, Prizes, or Testimonials : Dante’s Inforno, illustrated by Gustave Dore, crown-folio ; cloth, extra gilt Dante’s Paradise and Purgatory, do, do, do Milton’s Paradise Lost, full-page illustrations by Gustave Dore ; cloth, extra gilt Don Quixote, illustrated by Dore, royal 4-to ; cloth, extra gilt La Fontaine's Fables, illustrated by Dore, royal 4-to ; cloth, extra gilt. Shakspere, edited by Mr. and Mrs. Cowden Clarke, in three volumes. Vol. 1— Comedies. Vol. 2 Historical Plays. Vol. 3—Tragedies. Cloth, elegant, extra gilt. History of Franco-Prussian War, 500 engravings, 2 volumes ; cloth, extra gilt. History of the United States, 400 engravings, 2 volumes ; cloth, extra gilt. History of India, maps, plans, and illustrations, crown, 4-to ; cloth, gilt. The Popular Educator, revised to the present date, 6 volumes in 3 ; half-calf, extra cloth sides. Vicar of Wakefield, 200 illustrations, royal 8-vo.; cloth, extra gilt. The Dore Bible, 220 illustrations by Gustave Dore, strongly bound in leather ; two volumes. Keble’s Christian Year, profusely illustrated, l crown 4-to; cloth, extra gilt. Robinson Crusoe, do., do., do. 1 rEsop’s Fables, new and enlaiged edition, 150 original grotesque illustrations by Ernest Griset ; cloth, extra gilt. British Battles on Land and Sea, profusely illustrated, crown 4-to; cloth, extra gilt. Baok of the Horse, by Sidney, colored facsimile plates and wood engravings ; cloth, bevelled, extra gilt. World of Wonders, in Nature, Science, and Art, 500 illustrations, imperial, 8-vo.; cloth, full gilt. Picturesque Europe—British Isles—with exquisite steel engravings and original wood engravings, elegantly bound in cloth, extra gilt edges. The Graphic Portfolio, a collection of the most admired pictures from the Graphic, and a description of the art of wood engraving, elegantly bound, half-morocco, cloth sides, extra gilt. Also, just opened up, a large and carefully selected assortment of children’s books, handsomely bound, all sizes and prices, including the celebrated “One-syllable Series,” Wonder Library, &c., &c., &c. LYON AND BLAIR, Lambton-quay. TTS’S DIARIES, 1 87 8. The undersigned have still on sale a large assortment of the above Diaries. 100 Varieties of Form, Size, and Price. LYON AND BLAIR, Importers of Books and Stationery. Lambton-quay. ART UNION OF LONDON, 1878 (Forty-second Year). Every Subscriber of One Guinea will receive, besides a chance of a prize at the annual distribution, an impression of a fine plate, “THE RETURN OF THE LIFE-BOAT,” From the original by E. Duncan. Intending subscribers must forward the amount of their subscriptions to the undersigned on or before the Bth January, 1878. LYON AND BLAIR, Local Agents. BOOKS. —The undersigned has received the following with his last shipments of GIFT BOOKS, AND PRIZES, SUITABLE FOR CHRISTMAS AND NEW YEAR. Earth and Sea, by Louis Figuier ; a superbly illustrated volume, bound in cloth, also in full morocco, extra gilt. The Ocean, by Reclus ; 2 vols., full green or blue calf, extra gilt. The Earth, by Reclus ; 2 vols., do., do., do. Pictorial Beauties of Nature, sketches in various departments of Natural History ; 24 full-page illustrations by the best artists ; cloth, extra gilt. The World of the Sea, by Tandon ; colored illustrations, bound in cloth, also in calf, extra gilt. Turner’s Art Studies of Home Life, illustrated by 24 full-page photographs ; cloth, extra gilt. English Painters of the Victorian Era, Mulready to Landseer ; 48 photographs ; cloth, extra gilt. Gems of Modern German Art, illustrated by Carbon ; photographs ; cloth, extra gilt. Picture Posies, poems and drawings, chiefly by living authors ; cloth (elegant), extra gilt. Nature, or the Poetry of Earth and Sea, by Michelet, with 200 designs by Gricomelli; bound in’ cloth (elegant), also in full morocco, extra gilt. Woods’ Illustrated Natural History, 500 illustrations, engraved by Dalziel Brothers ; cloth, extra gilt. Arabian Nights Entertainments, Dalziel’s illustrated editions ; cloth, extra gilt. The Midnight Sky, with notes, star-maps, and other illustrations, by Duukin ; cloth, gilt. The Authographic Mirror, inedited authographs of illustrious and distinguished men, and other interesting fac similes ; half-calf, gilt. Leopold’s Shakspere, from the text of Professor Delius ; cloth, extra gilt. American Pictures, drawn with pen and pencil; bound in cloth (elegant), also in full morocco, extra gilt. Italian Pictures, Spanish Pictures, Swiss Pio- | lures, &c., &c., &c. Also, Don Quixote, illustrated by Dore, royal 4-to ; j cloth, extra gilt, | La Fontaine’s Fables, do., do. Adventures of Baron Munchausen, do., do. Days of Chivalry, Tom Hood, do., do, ANNUAL VOLUMES, 1878, NOW OPENING UP. BSTINSPECTION IS INVITED.-®# L. T. BOWDEN, (Late T A. Bowden and Sons), F ea therstou-street. TT S’ DIARIES, 187 8, At Published Price. L. T. BOWDEN (Late T. A. Bowden and Son), Feathers ton-street. For Sale POTATOES. —A few tons Seed Potatoes For Sale. H. F. LOGAN. FOR SALE.—A Speedy’s patent WOOLPRESS. Took first prize at the Hutt Agricultural Show. ROBERTSON & CO., Phoenix Foundry.