ADVERTISEMENT. THE LITERARY SOUVENIR is, this year, presented to its readers in a new and considerably improved form, without any addition to its price. An anxiety to render it worthy of the high character it has hitherto maintained, has induced its Proprietors to meet the extraordinary competition that has lately arisen among the publishers of annual works, by augmenting, in an important degree, and at a large additional expense, the interest of their book. Whether or not this sacrifice will be repaid by a proportionate increase of public patronage, remains to be proved. At all events, they will have the satisfaction of knowing that they have, at least, laboured to deserve it. The immense expense attendant upon the publication of a volume containing twelve such embellishments as are here given,—an expense which has lately been increased by the unusual demand for the talent employed in their production, can only be covered by a sale which, to the ordinary observer, would appear to promise a large and certain remuneration. When, however, it is stated, that a circulation of less than from eight to nine thousand copies of the LITERARY SOUVENIR for 1829, would entail a serious loss upon its proprietors, it will readily be believed that they have been excited to no ordinary exertions. * Their object has been to enable it to compete, advantageously, not merely with annual works published at a similar price, but with * If the copyright and copper-plate printing be taken into account, only two of the engravings in the present volume will have cost less than a hundred guineas,and some from one hundred and fifty to one hundred and seventy guineas each, before they meet the eye of the public. |