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Ticknor and Company Ticknor and Company Book Catalog…

The continued popularity of these inimitable stories has compelled the issue of this new and enlarged edition, with new illustrations and type. "The Lady from Philadelphia," "Agamemnon," "Solomon John," and other characters of these stories have become household words in thousands of American families; and the publication of a worthy and comely edition of so delightful a classic will be hailed with joy by many old friends and new.
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Ticknor and Company Ticknor and Company Book Catalog…

Each sonnet is prefaced by a richly ornamental half-title, on a full page, and is surrounded by a handsome border, emblematic in its design and composition. Mr. Ipsen has for many years been recognized as the foremost leader of art-decoration for books, both inside and outside, and has set more fashions for imitation than any other artist. This book is his crowning work, and will afford an inexhaustible treasury of decoration for students of art, and a life-study for all lovers of beauty and symmetry. Mrs. Browning's sonnets are among the noblest productions of ancient or modern literature
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Ticknor and Company Ticknor and Company Book Catalog…

The lively fancy of the author touches lightly and wittily upon several of the popular interests of the day, such as Shakespeare societies, the Browning craze, mind cure, etc., and from titlepage to finis there is not a dull paragraph. So brilliant and entertaining a story as 'Sons and Daughters' is not often met with, and it should have, as it deserves, the widest reading."
The remarkable popularity and great sales which made "Margaret Kent" one of the foremost books of the last year (or of the last decade) seem likely to be repeated in this new novel by the same author.
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