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2000 ENGRAVINGS!!

A COMPLETE LIBRARY WITHIN ITSELF.

The London Penny Magazine, issued under the direction of the “Society
for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge,” is, unquestionably, one of
the most entertaining and useful of all the popular works which has ever
appeared in any age, or in any languages. Its pages embrace every
subject in the wide field of human knowledge, and as every article.
whether on

Science, History, Biography, Literature, or the Arts,

passed the careful scrutiny and critical ordeal of an able committee of
learned men, the work may be placed in the hands of the youth of the
country without danger or distrust. The popularity of the work in
England may be judged of from the fact that during the first year of its
publication

MORE THAN 80,000 COPIES

of the monthly parts were disposed of. In the United States too, the
work has acquired no inconsiderable popularity, though it has not heretofore
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a universal circulation. The numerous abortive imitations of it,
however, which have appeared from time to time, prove at once the great
value of the work, and the great difficulty and immense expense of successfully
accomplishing such an enterprise.

The undersigned having purchased the Stereotype plates, with the
Engravings, of the London edition of the above named work, has commenced
its republication in the city of New York. The whole work
consists of about 4000 large imperial octavo pages, and is Illastrated with
2000 Engravings. The original cost of the Stereotyping and Engraving
to the London publishers, was $25,000. The American Re-issue is printed
on good paper, and well done up in handsome paper covers, and issued
in

24 PARTS, AT 25 CENTS EACH.

The Parts average 170 pages each, and are published every other Saturday.
It is an exact reprint of the London edition, without alteration or
abridgment. The Work is sold by all dealers in Books and cheap Literature,
throughout the United States.

The Work may be had, bound in EIGHT VOLUMES—price
Eight Dollars; and, in FOUR VOLUMES—price Seven Dollars and
Fifty Cents.

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