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ADVERTISEMENT.

A FINAL volume of the Literary Illustrations is now presented to the public.

It is useless to regret that it did not sooner appear.

The first portion of the volume concludes the Correspondence of Dr. Percy, Bishop of Dromore. For some judicious notes on these Letters I am indebted to Sir Frederic Madden, K.H., F.S.A., and to the Rev. John Mitford, M.A. Joseph Hunter, Esq. V.P.S.A., has also favoured me with valuable assistance.

The Correspondence between Bishop Percy and Mr. Pinkerton has been rendered more complete by the kind permission of Dawson Turner, Esq. F.R.S. (with the concurrence of Mr. Bentley), to insert some letters of Pinkerton to Bishop Percy, from Mr. Turner's volume. Bishop Percy's Miscellaneous Correspondence includes letters from many eminent individuals, which will be found to possess considerable interest.

To the Rev. John Webb, F.S.A., I am indebted for some early specimens of Mr. Bowyer's lighter correspondence with Mr. Penoyre, a college friend.

Dr. Thomas Forster has contributed from his "Epistolarium Forsterianum," privately printed, memoirs of several members of his family, and also favoured me with some valuable letters to the Rev. Benjamin Forster, Rector of Boconnoc, from Bishop Warburton, Thomas Warton the Poet Laureate, the Poet Mason, Baron Maseres, and the Rev. John Whitaker, the historian of Manchester.