SPENSER, PRIOR, DICKENS, BROWNING,
BEN JONSON, RICHARDSON, THACKERAY, COOPER,
SHAKESPEARE, STERNE, ELIOT, IRVING,
BUNYAN, SWIFT, READE, HAWTHORNE,
DE FOE, COWPER, BLACK, BRET HARTE,
POPE, COLERIDGE, KINGSLEY, LONGFELLOW,
ADDISON, WHITTIER.
TERMS OF PUBLICATION.
The work, “Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction, and the Drama,” will be published in sixty-eight
parts, at twenty-five cents each; it will be printed on paper made expressly for it; each part
will contain five full-page engravings, making a total of three hundred and forty in the entire work,
of which thirty-four will be etchings and photogravures by Messrs. Goupil & Co., of Paris, and other,
eminent makers. There will be twenty-four pages of letterpress in each part.
No subscriber's name is received for less than the entire set, and no order can be canceled after
acceptance. The Publisher guarantees to complete the work in sixty-eight parts.
The parts are payable only as delivered, the carrier not being permitted to receive money in advance,
nor to leave parts on credit.
Subscribers who remove, or who are not regularly supplied, will please address the Publisher by
mail.
SELMAR HESS, Publisher, 557 & 559 Broadway, New-York.
