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RY OF HER TRAVELS IN BARBARY. 2 vols., post 8vo. * * * * * FRESTON TOWER; OR, THE EARLY DAYS OF CARDINAL WOLSEY. BY THE REV. RICHARD COBBOLD. 3 vols., post 8vo., with Illustrations. * * * * * A CHEAPER EDITION OF BURKE'S HISTORY OF THE LANDED GENTRY; FOR 1850. A Genealogical Dictionary OF THE WHOLE OF THE UNTITLED ARISTOCRACY OF ENGLAND, SCOTLAND, AND IRELAND: And comprising Particulars of 100,000 Individuals connected with them. CORRECTED TO THE PRESENT TIME. =A COMPANION TO ALL THE PEERAGES.= In 2 volumes, royal 8vo., beautifully printed in double columns, comprising more matter than 30 ordinary volumes, price only _2l. 2s._ elegantly bound in gilt morocco cloth. *** The great cost (upwards of L6000) attending the production of this National Work, the first of its kind, induces the Publisher to hope that the heads of all Families recorded in its pages will supply themselves with copies. * * * * * The Landed Gentry of England are so closely connected with the stirring records of its eventful history, that some acquaintance with them is a matter of necessity with the legislator, the lawyer, the historical student, the speculator in politics, and the curious in topographical and antiquarian lore; and even the very spirit of ordinary curiosity will prompt to a desire to trace the origin and progress of those families whose influence pervades the towns and villages of our land. This work furnishes such a mass of authentic information in regard to all the principal families in the kingdom as has never before been attempted to be brought together. It relates to the untitled families of rank, as the "Peerage and Baronetage" does to the titled, and forms, in fact, a peerage of the untitled aristocracy. It embraces the whole of the landed interest, and is indispensable to the library of every gentleman. "A work of this kind is of a national value. Its utility is not merely temporary, but it will exist and be acknowledged as long as the families whose names and genealogies are recorded in it continue to form an integral portion of the English constitution. As a correct record of descent, no family should be without it. The untitled aristocracy have in this great work as perfect a dictionary of their genealogical history, family connexions, and heraldic rights, as the peerage and
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