Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1896-12-06

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In no corner Of this store is santa
Claus more congenial than in
THE BoOK-STORE.
1t would seem that fairy hands provided
the book pretties. What pleasure to
spend an hour among them! Come, you
are welcome. We have more than quad
rupied the stock of year ago.
1000 Handy Classics, beautifully bound
with white celluloid, comprising Sc
lections from Havergal, Drummond,
Brooks, A. Kempis. besides popular
fiction, poems. ana essays. $l.ls has
always been our price but hereafter
they will be sold for Sc each.
The same series of Celluloid Bindings,
hand-painted. s. value. 15c.
5000 Beautifully Bound Books by Carey
Corelli Lyall. Hope, Doyle. l2l2c
The Poets. in holiday attire, White and
Gold. with Dresden designs MUS
The Poets. different colors. silk cloth.
gold stamping on sides and back, 5yc.
Csc. Handy Classics, l9c. each. 49,,
Websters Unabridged Dictionaries, with
flags. appendix OF new words. etc, osc.
s225 edition Of Burns, Byron, scott,
Milton. Shakespeare, JoseDhus. @c'
The Poets. British. American, German,
padded leather, neatly boxed soc'
Augusta Evans's Novels. 81 and sl.75
values, Sis each.
Elmo. 2 volumes. embossed. SILK cl0th,
with etchings and half-tones under
the supervision Of the author. Sc is the
price but we say $3.50.
The Edition dc Luxe of Adam Bede.
Felix Holt. silk bound, volumes
each; six etchngs in each volume,
new holiday book. S. value, for 500
& edition of MASTERPIECES Of standard
authors, besides history, essays, hdlf
calf csc.
s. edition Of the Poets, %-calf. uncut
SOS edition Of the Poets real padded
seal. illustrated. boxed. S.i9.
Long elbow. Lowell. Bryant, Holmes.
Emerson. complete. Sis each.
Father RYAN. q. IS.
Father Tabb. Csc.
Eugene Fields Poems, different series
james Whitcomb Riley. different series,
Handy editions of Amelia Barr, L. p.
Roe's Novels, PC. each.
An overSocked publisher has sent US
5000 Cloth-Bound Books. gold 4 amp
ing. TO sell at a price. 2)c. might nave
been the price year ago. put sc. now.
Neatly boxed Two-N Volume Sets Of Ten
thousand a Year Monte CristO. Les
Miserehles. Carlyles French Revolu-
ton. McCarthy's History of our own
Times, etc, sl.es former value. S9c,
All of the Standard Sets. in plain cloth.
y and 2 cali. at one half publisher
EN0UGH TO LAST TO-DAY
George Eliot complete beautifully
bound IN Red six Repp, Illustrated,
gilt top, SSS the price year ago but
shakespeare. handy edition. buckram
bound. - 90 set.
Five-Volume Sets Cooper's Sea Tales.
Misunderstanding Tales. Macanley s
England and Macauley's Essays, 1Sc.
10 10 II O'CLOCK
Character Sketches from Dickens,
ana Tl!ackeray, beautifully bound
AL IL NEW NEW fB36oKs-2o per cent off
publishers prices.
Marie Corelli's new Book. Jane. 69c.
a Lady OF Quality, N5O value but TO-
O''' '''' BIBLES.
Special arrangements with the three
largest Bible-houses In this country
enable US to sell Bibles like TINS:
s. oxford international or Bagster
Bibles. silk sewn, limp back, S.S9
$3.50 Teachers Bibles. s2.19; 81 and $3.50
Teachers Bibles. $.ss.
Iarre-Type Bibles a speciality.
4 Real Leather-Boune Bible. gilt edge.
large type. $3.50 value H.9s; others,
sec TO $3.50.
FROM II TO 70 O'CLOCK
SOC. Bibles. S9c. each.
The art publishers have We'd with each
other in the beauty Of their Calendars.
Illustrated and Daintily-Bound Books.
etc. The result is an exhibition here OF
the greatest beauty that Richmonds pub
lie has ever witnessed.
Raphael Tuck's Artistic Calendars de-
serve special mention. The Calendars or
old, modern, and favorite masters
also. masterpieces of Turner elicit adj
The Bicycle and Poster Calendars are
here for the fin de steele.
Calendars from SC 10 $3.50.
SPECIAL FOR TO-DAY
The Tennyson Dickens. Scott, Byron,
Gothic Schiller and Beethoven Calen-
dars. 35c. regular value, lsc. each-
Myriis OF others. whose beauties are
beyond description.
Chndren's wishes hold high carnival
here. as everywhere Not popular
Child's Book that cannot be found here.
little Sweetheart Travellers by Crock
EFT the best juvenile OF the year,
beautifully illustrated, HlS.
Little Lord Fauntleroy; ND-@ value
Child's Classics. SO and 9sc. each
Grimm's Fairy Tales, Anderson 5
Fairy Tales. Gullivers Travels. SWISS
Family Robinson. profusely Illus
trated. decorated sides. S9c
29c. Books. colored illustrations, each
one a work OF art. l9c.
ColOred Picture Books. 3, 10, and l5c.
Soc Chatterbox Stories Illustrated, and
additional coored pictures. &c.
s9c. Books OF Poems and Short Stories.
23c.
35c. Books for l5c.
25c Books for lOc.
All the popular Fairy Tales, colored
Illustrations. decorated backs, 55c.
each.
eSc' edition OF Zlg-Zag Knockabout Vas
sar Series. 49c
GOc edition Mrs. Ewing's Laura Rich
ards. 3ec.
81 edition OF Standard Books for boys
and girls. 50c each.
FROM 10 TO II O'CLOCK
Henty Books, 2Sc. each.
ALL DAY
sSc edition of Mother Goose. complete.
. 39c
chatterbox for 1896. si.25 value. Sc.
Sunday Books for 1896 9Sc. value. 53c. :,
Evening at Home. Leisure Hour Wen
bound In different cOiorS o SIX cloth,
Csc former price. for to-day 4oc
3 TO 10 O'CLOCK
ChidrCns Bareback Books, Illus
trated. among them Mother Goose,
etc, l5c. value &c. each.
In our preparation for the holidays our
Stationery Department has not been over
looked. Hurd's. Cranes, and other popu-
lar Papers always here.