Sentinel of the valley. [volume] (Woodstock, Va) 1841-1848, 1844-03-14
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-hiEROR LIBRARY.
=, We nave long wished to have, for our own
ttoiaiy' uniform edition of cur favorite au
oiors; IN this gregarious world, ten thousand
fnay hdoe together achat one hare alone. and we
wish our readers 10 ioin ard give us our cove.
reo library by having one like it themselves
ny this combination We can have it cheap
tthat IS to say book of poems " hich costs a
uoliar he.e and two dollars in London, we
nave Tor shilling)-and instead of higgle.
oy plggledy shelf of books, one short and tall.
one Tat and one thin, we may have them of
one symmetrical shape, beautifully printed,
anc bound to our and your liking. You will
trust our taste to select the books, and we viii
thfow you in, in preface, what we know Of
the author, and what we think of his works;
and Tor our trouble in proofreading. publish
ing, packing and forwarding, we will paw our
selves out of that little I'm, missed and fecund
shilling. '''>'
We have insensbly arrived at this idea by
very blind steps. We tried in vain for wears
TO ind a publisher who would undertake
Assew edition of our poems-though they were
! 8npietely out of print, and though lit seem
.ss<<a TO us) there was a demand for them which
might justify the edition. Against advice we
thought we might at least furnish our friends
copies to read, by publishing them in an ex-
ira OF the Mirror, for price that would just
pay the expense of printing and circulating.
Q our no small establishment the orders for
them came in so rapidly while thew were in
press, that we published very large edition,
which is still selling freely, and it then occurr
ed to US very naturally, that one of two things
must be true.-either the publishers were
perfect cormoraEts as to the profits they OK
pected from books, or else they were not al
ways infalhble judges as to what works would
sell. The next thought was an easy one.
Could we not, out of onr own better judgment
and smaller erpeclGt:ons as 10 profit publish
as handsome and cheap editions OF Other au-
thoTs, whose works were not, now, easily
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LIBRARY. however, we had made arrange
ments to republish in the same cheap form,
other works of our own that were as much
called for as the Poems-In short all the
PRosE WoRKs of n. p. WLLls-(your hum
bic servant of this present writing, dear read
eri) Our dear ally, General Morris, had also
ertrG duced his popular SoNGs and BALLADS,
which have sold with the same electric rapid
ity as the Others Our LETTERS FROM IN
DER A BRIpGE' are ready now, and PENCIL
LIxGs BIZ THE WAY are in preparation and VIII
be issued in a week or two. Ihe da1erilSe.
,aents lciH duh announce all these We would
saw. en- Dussant, of 'Pencillings,' that only one
third Of them have ever been repdbnshed, ell
Their here or in England The trst. EngIsh
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tine. .PenciIlings By the Way Will be pril-
ted in a handsome and complete edition.
Of course, dear reader, we did not intend
the presumption (the General and y OF put
ting our avn works at the beginning OF a s IL
brapy of fayourite authors This is explained
above. But we shall SO arrange it, by giving
YOU an extra titepage, that you can bind up
or leave out, us or others, at your pleasure
Each author will be feparately PACED, and we
shall so arrange it that whatever you select
from our republications will bind INTO an lh'e-
gral and handsome volume. ~
There are now ready, therefore, the follow
ing:
l,s' ~ 1904 - 121 cts.
.. Poems Of Passio's,' by N. P. Will
NV Mp Wills. 1912
4 VIZ, ,Ihs Songs ana 0D'4D' =" 1919
S. The Little Frenchman and ms
JVater Lois, and other Tales Of his
Times bv G. p. Morris; illustrated
4, = '" Ioh,s =! 1912
6. .TEe Songs and Ballads Of Barry
C,rnwall.'a double number, q
7. Letters from under q Bridge by
Mp. Wills. The only complete
edition ever published. double
number,
8. 'TAs Rocco, No. I..'-containing
three of the most delicious Poems
ever written, viz: The 'CntPrt
Fau.' bv Joseph r. Drakei 'L'Man'
by w. NJ Praed; and Isl. -4gneS
L0s yv;il;s 1912
@ .THe Rocco, No II.'-containing
the entire Poems of VIM. Coa'e
P;nkney.with Biographical Sketch
nv the late William Leggett. Esq,
ana ORIGINAL NOTES by n. z. VIII
lis,
WE have four or Ave CONS to follow these
which we are sure will equally delight an'
surprise our readers and the puoils generaiy
We will not name them now. One or TWO
.bam are books we almost made secret
nossessinc-they were so rare, SO lnvaluaDie
and SO impossible to replace. We can ven
tmre to promise, that, (leavng our own WofS
asde no series Of uniform literature rs'tc, worth TIL
possessing moss s at any price-let alone shilling!
TO Our subscribers we wish to say that W
shall publish in our Library series n s,t
,eIieh ,oW again appear in The Ne,0 M"ross
The New Mirror Itself, we are coniident WI ",
he a valuable portion Of the Llbraryrof tn
came sive and shape, and containing, OF course
the best fugitice literature that we can choos
or procure. The New Mirror IS cur Priue
we shall spare no labou" upon 1t, ana II 81"