Notes and Queries, Number 41, August 10, 1850

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Just published, No. 48., price 6s. (completing the work),

GOTHIC ORNAMENTS, Drawn from existing Authorities. BY J.K. COLLING, Architect. Containing four plain and two coloured plates, and Title and Index to the second volume.

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A SYNOPSIS of AUTHORITIES on the DOCTRINE of BAPTISM. By J.A. Wickham, Esq. Edited by his son, the Rev. H.D. Wickham, M.A., Exeter College, Oxford.

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THE FOLK-LORE of ENGLAND. By William J. Thoms, F.S.A., Secretary of the Camden Society, Editor of "Early Prose Romances," "Lays and Legends of all Nations," &c. One object of the present work is to furnish new contributions to the History of our National Folk-Lore; and especially some of the more striking Illustrations of the subject to be found in the Writings of Jacob Grimm and other Continental Antiquaries.

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