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Excerpt from Hand-Book to the Popular, Poetical, and Dramatic Literature of Great Britain: From the Invention of Printing to the Restoration
Independently of all the foregoing sources of information, there is one still to be adverted to, and it is the sum and extent of my own researches. I am happily m a position to assert that here, for the first time, hundreds of unique 01 near lg unique volumes are set down from the examination of the originals by myself, and, apart from that, a large number of early English books of the first rarity are catalogued agreeably to the descriptions forwarded to'me from Oxford and Cambridge by gentlemen whose precision I have no ground to doubt.
The British Museum has acquired of late years a rich supplement of im portant articles in the class of literature which I have endeavoured to treat, and every use has been made' of the extraordinary assemblage of title pages, which are preserved in the ms. Department of the Museum (harl. Mss. 5900 and in the Printed Book Department under the press-mark 463, h. The latter collection, which has never hitherto been examined, was most kindly pointed out to me by a gentleman in the ms. Room the title-pages, &c., which are pasted, like those in the Harleian mss., into large folio volumes, were discovered in a chest at a date posterior to the publication, I believe.
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