SCOTLAND, AND IRELAND.

On the 1st of May next, will be Published, No. 1. (to be comprised in 36 Numbers, price 2s. 6d. each, or on large Paper, with Proof Plates, price 4s.) of

Excursions

through the counties of

SURREY, KENT, & SUSSEX;

COMPRISING

Brief Historical & Topographical Delineations

OF THE

CITY OF CANTERBURY, AND EACH TOWN AND VILLAGE,

TOGETHER WITH DESCRIPTIONS OF THE

RESIDENCES OF THE NOBILITY & GENTRY,

Remains of Antiquity,

AND EVERY OTHER MOST INTERESTING OBJECT OF CURIOSITY;

BEING A COMPLETE GUIDE

FOR THE TRAVELLER AND TOURIST THROUGH THE THREE COUNTIES.

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Illustrated with

Three Hundred Engravings.

Aud forming a continuation of the Excursions through England, which commenced with the Counties of ESSEX, SUFFOLK, and NORFOLK,

LONDON:

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This Work will be published regularly in monthly numbers, and the description of each County, accompanied with one hundred copper-plate engravings, will be comprised in twelve numbers; each number to con tain, at least eight engravings, and thirty-six pages of letter-press elegantly printed in Royal eighteens, price 2s. 6d. ; or in Demy octavo, with proof impressions of the plates, price 4s. per number.

Each County will be published separately, kept distinct from the others, and accompanied with appropriate Titles, Indexes, &c.

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In presenting this Work to the notice of the public, it appears ne cesssary for the Proprietors to state the views they have of its necessity and utility. The labors of those who have preceded them, have been either too voluminous for convenience, or too brief to contain all that is necessary to be said; neither has any prior work given engravings sufficiently illustrative of the subject. But the task would be merely invidions, were they building their hopes of success upon any deprecia tion of the efforts of their predecessors:-what has been executed relative to the descriptive and historical particulars of Surrey, Keut, and Sussex, will shew to those who possess a competent knowledge of the subject, how much remains undone even in the most voluminous productions. To obviate. as far as possible, this defect, is one object of utility the Proprietors have in view. Their means of accomplishment, arise from the promised assistance of resident gentlemen and antiquaries, whose collections and knowledge are of the most ample kind. Another useful object they trust they shall succeed in, is, to avoid repeating all that has been written unnecessarily; and thus to render as concise as is consistent with due perspicuity, the descriptive and historical particulars they intend giving.

The Plates will comprise an elegant assemblage of subjects interesting not only to the resident nobility, clergy, and gentry, but also equally acceptable to topographical and antiquarian collectors generally, and useful to illustrate other works on the three Counties. A principal feature of this portion of the work, will be ground plans of the City of Canterbury, and the principal Towus of Surrey, Kent, and Sussex.

The views of the seats of the nobility and gentry, will, the Proprietors trust, be a feature of an improved kind, as the unfmost care will be taken to make them faithful representations. On the whole, they hope that their labours will meet with that patronage and protection, which are ever afforded to those, whose efforts are directed to the attainment of excellence and ntility.

The success which the Proprietors have already met with, in their prereeding publication of the ExCURSIONS through ESSEX, SUFFOLK, and NORFOLK, will operate as an inducement to great care in the execution of this portion of their undertaking, and they are inclined to hope for a continuance of the patronage which has hitherto accompanied them.

THE EXCURSIONS THROUGH IRELAND, the publication of which will commence at the same time, will be comprised in 8 vols. and contain together with the necessary Historical and Descriptive Matter, FOUR HUNDRED ENGRAVINGS, of the most interesting objects in the sitter kingdom.

YOUNGMAN, PRINTER, WITHAM AND MALDON.

The following important Works will be published in the course of the ensuing Season, by

LACKINGTON, HUGHES, HARDING, MAVOR, AND JONES.

THE

VILT

HISTORY OF ANCIENT WILTSHIRE,

NORTHERN DISTRICT.

BY SIR RICHARD COLT HOARE, BART. F.R.S. & F.A.S.

THE HISTORY of the NORTHERN DIVISION of ANCIENT WILTSHIRE is written on the same Plan with the former Division of the County, SOUTH WILTSHIRE, and will describe the Antiquities most worthy of remark. Much new and interesting matter will come under investigation. The whole course of that mighty bulwark, the WANSDYKE, through the Counties of Somerset and Wilts, will be accurately laid down on a Map, and its extended tract minutely described. The Religious Circles at MARDEN and AVEBURY will be examined with fidelity; the Opinions of Dr. Stukeley respecting the latter will be canvassed with impartiality, and his Plans corrected. The Course of the RUDGE-WAY, passing from Wiltshire into Berkshire, by the Vale of WHITEHORSE, will be described, and the British Villages, Earth Works, and other Relics, will be pointed out to the Antiquary, and illustrated by Plans and Engravings, in a style equal, if not superior, to those of South Wiltshire. This Portion will form the First Part of the present Division of the Work, and will terminate the Author's Researches, as far as regards the History of the Britons in Wiltshire.

The Second, and concluding Part of the Volume, will be allotted to the Romans, and will describe their Towns, Stations, Villas, and Roads of Communication, the latter of which will be accurately marked out on Maps. This is already in great forwardness; and, unless delayed by any unforeseen event, will be ready for the Press in the ensuing Autumn.

The Size, Style of Printing, and the Embellishments, will accord with the three Portions of the Work already published, which form the First Volume, or Southern Wiltshire; and the present Division of the County will be completed in Two Parts, forming the Second Volume, or Northern Wiltshire.

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CHESHIRE.

A HISTORY OF THE COUNTY PALATINE AND CITY OF CHESTER. By GEORGE ORMEROD, of Chorlton, Esq. M.A.F.S.A. Including King's Vale Royal and Leycester's Cheshire Antiquities.

This Work will be comprised in ten Parts, forming three splendid Volumes in folio. The principal Subjects engraved on the larger Plates consist of Views of distinguished Mansions and Architectural Antiquities: subordinate subjects, engraved on a smaller scale, consist of the representations of Armorial Bearings, Seals, and other remains of Antiquity, amounting to nearly five hundred. The number of Copies is limited to 350 upon small Paper, of which eight only remain unsubscribed for, and the Price is 21. 12s. 6d. per Part. Sixty-five Copies are taken upon large Paper with Proof Impressions of the Plates, Price Five Guineas each Part.

Eight Parts are already published, and the remaining two will appear in the course of the Spring of the Year 1819.

COINAGE OF BRITAIN.

ANNALS OF THE COINAGE OF BRITAIN AND ITS DEPENDENCIES, from the earliest Period of authentic History to the present Time. By the Rev. ROGERS RUDING, B. D. Vicar of Maldon in Surrey, F.S. A. and H. M. A.S. of Newcastle-upon-Tyne.

In five large Volumes, Octavo, and one Quarto Volume. Containing about one hundred and fifteen Plates, comprising a Series of Coins, which extends, nearly unbroken, through a period but little short of 1800 years; a Plan and Elevation of the New Mint, with the Seals of Office; and a Map containing all the various Mints which have been established by our Monarchs in Great Britain, Ireland, and France. £6. 6s. boards.

The additional Plates and Supplemental Matter, not contained in the 4to Edition, will be printed separately for the Subscribers to that Edition.

THE ENGLISH GRADUS;

OR,

SYNOPSIS OF ENGLISH POETRY.

BEING an arrangement on a plan nearly similar to that of the Latin Gradus, of all the Synonyms, Epithets, and Phrases in the English Language, faithfully collected from the works of our principal Poets, from the time of Chaucer to the present period.

Whilst adapted in every respect to all the purposes of a common Dictionary, this Work will open to the philological inquirer a new view of our language. It will exhibit, under each given word, every mode and form of expression, which has been used to signify, to illustrate, and to adorn it, and will comprize, with our national idioms, every classical metaphor for which authority has been found in the abounding pages of English Poetry.