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London, England, 1846-10-14 00:00:00

NEW WORK by O. A. a BECKETT & JOHN LEECH.
Now published, pekIKE e One ghilling, No. IV. of
COMIC HISTORY of ENGLAND.
BY GILBERT ABBOTT a BECKETT.
WDID •COLOWD ETC
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la announcing a Comic History of it may be neemmiry to
observe that the levity implied in the title will relate to the manner,
but by no means to the matter of the work, which will be collected
with the gravest regard to the truth and accuracy that the sated
require,. The aim of the writer will be to present a faithful iterative,
Oneida the best authorities will be the meet carefully eonsulted,and
to aerie It up to the reader in a more palatable form than has hitherto
been thought compatible with the dignity of history. There is not
the smallest intention to sacrifice fidelity to fun in the forthcoming
ret:clion, which is designed to show that the utile et dul—are not
bk.. The advantages of blending amusement with instme-
don are universally allowed ; and there is an end to the once titrourite
bine, that food for the mind remikrea the uninviting devour cth
aar,.
Tote 00 e MiC HISTORY of ENGLAND will not be amen t
of any other work, nor will it loam mervilely la ers dips of log
hlotorno. The satiny here not mko teirdk in the slane at
Name, the easy 'Uppers et Muni" Se Goillowirk agile
reeve or Pima*. In Mont an tlks ins of eastkor are tea a$ to
.ore clogs to the party anaropther to mho lie way in a ehmanare
Le which he was raver flderl. The Coen% Illseory Eseasil will,
therefore, be sneak* Mend earopontios, the ateterlale for which
well he derived from a consultation of all the beet histories already in
existence, whose accuracy will be tested by direct reference to the
most undoubted authorities.
The eidef purpose of this preliminary announcement is to guard
the public against any misconception of the intended character of the
work on account of its title. A narrative may, it is hoped, be correct
sometimes ss comic; for, as " truth is stranger Mum fiction," history is
much more ludicrous than the fancies of the humorist
The purpose of the work being explained. it remains only to
announce the form of publication. It will appear in Monthly Parts,
price One Shilling each, handsomely minced in Ivo., and copiously
illuArated by loter LLEXH, with One large Etching and from Six
to Twelve Wood Engravings.
The COMIC DISTORT of ENGLAND will compri.e from Twelve
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