A NEW ERA
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.- SHAKESPEARE IN AMERICA!


The Cheapest and most splendidly Wumi"a'
ted and Illustrated Edition Of the Bard
of Aeon erer published. Edited by The
HON. GULIAN C. VERPLANCK.
DoBT. w. WEIR, Esq, will de.
sign, select, ahd arrange the illus
Sra,ions, OF which there will be about
400, executed on wood, in the very best
slyIs oil the UuUdeIu sUhVvi &c th~t act
In submi,tisg the prospectus of the
Editors to the public, the Publisher has on
Iv to add tina, he will spare neither ex'
pease nor pains to make this edition OF
ihe Wo.ld's Poet superior 10 any that has
heretofore appeared--in illustrations, ty.
biography and paper. The form will be
royai octave, and will be issued in week
ty parts, price l2i cents, which places 1t
within the means Of persons Of the most
limited fortunes, whilst on account of its
peculisr beauty, it will gain itself ad
mission into tho libraries Of the rich
and there prove to be one Of the choices
ornaments.


These who wish this work in the mos
psrlec, state will only be sure Of it by
taking ihs parts 30 they appear, which
vail contain the early proofs of the En-
cravings. ......


The Tragedy Of Hamlet is now il
press. The frs, part will be issued il
March.


v.-. PROSPECTUS.


The PlcroRiAL and ILLUSTRATED Edi
tiOHs Of SHAKsPEARE, lately published il
England, are amongst the most beauti
ful specimens Of the recent and remark
\ able improvement Of the Art Of Woo
Engraving, which, by combining grea
excellence Of execution with economy o
priee, has given al unprecedented dlffu
elon 10 the most useful as we'll as the
most exquisite productions Of the Arts o
Dosign. sa =. ... r. ....r.


The designs Of KENNY MEADOWS (o
shs illustrations Of Tyas' edition Of Shak
spsare, express the character Of tho sew
era personages, and the spirit Of tn
Bcene with woaderful truth and power
~hllat the wood engraving Of Knight


S~IHoHs SVIuulHo Win tue HiSu
ess merits Of art and taste, such a learn
% and minute accuracy as to scenery
costume, architecture aud antiquity, a
20 make them = perpetual and most in
sWuctlve commentary upon the Poet
text: II is now proposed to embody il
10 American Edition the admirable illus
tTatIons Of both these editions engrave,
With equal excellence Of mecha nical exc
cutlon, to add to these, other engraving
from eminent artists, Sas Reynolds, Fu
eell, s. Newton, &C., and to accompan
shsTn with beautifully printed and col
rect text. .... ..'.' .....-


But the publisher, anxious that his cour
Try should pay some part OF the hC
mage due from her to the greatest
f"ets, IS TO one who belongs not sole
20 England, but to all -. ..H


Who speaks the tongue


That Shakespeare spake,


Nouid not conten: himself with u nero r,
publication or compilation. Tie has thert
lore prevailed upon r. w. WElR, who's
<ePuta'loa as an Artist is already ident
pea with his ccuntry's history, to contr