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New and Enlarged Edition (1884, D.V.)—To be
printed for Subscribers only.

MEMOIRS OF LIBRARIES

(PUBLIC AND PRIVATE);

OF MUSEUMS, AND OF PUBLIC
ARCHIVES;

AND OF SOME OF THEIR CHIEF FOUNDERS, COLLECTORS,
KEEPERS, AND BENEFACTORS.

[VOLUME I.]

Part I. MEDIEVAL.

Part II. MODERN:

(LONDON AND OXFORD.)

BY EDWARD EDWARDS,

AUTHOR OF "THE LIFE OF SIR WALTER RALEGH" (1868);
EDITOR OF "LIBER MONASTERII DE HYDA," IN THE Chronicles and
Memorials of Great Britain (ROLLS SERIES; 1866);
AUTHOR OF THE TWO Articles "LIBRARIES," in the Eighth
Edition of Encyclopædia Britannica (1857): and of

the Articles "NEWSPAPERS, History of," and "POST-OFFICES, British and Foreign," in the Ninth Edition of the same Encyclopædia (1883).

Second Edition, revised, continued, and (in great part)

re-written.

"I SHALL NOT be offended (as I certainly ought not to be) at any due corrections given me by others. Great room there is for amendments, as well as additions; and either of these, in what dress soever they come,-rough or smooth, will be very heartily welcome to me."

Archbishop NICOLSON (of Cashel): "Irish Historical Library," Pref., p. xxxvi. [Edit. of 1724.]

"AS FOR the remainder of the Work, all that I can say is that it is my design, BY GOD'S PERMISSION, to publish at least another volume. But as for the time, I have been so often deceived in the Printing-House, and also by wrong calculations myself, that I have learnt it is vain to fix any time for publication" [otherwise than as a hope]. Edward LHUYD: Appendix to NICOLSON, as above, p. 241. [Same Edit.]

I. THIS book was originally published in London by Messrs. Trübner and Co., in January, 1859, in demy 8vo., and in two volumes; of which Vol. I. contained 870 pages, and Vol. II. 1142 pages 2012 pages in all. The type (exclusive of quotations) was Pica; the number printed 1000. The place of printing was Leipsic (F. A. Brockhaus and Co.).

The price to Subscribers was £2: the publication price was £2 8s.

A small additional impression, on large and thick paper, was also printed, of which the publication price was £4 4s.

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II. The New Edition will be of like size and type, but on paper of far superior quality. Both paper and print will be English. The 'quotations' are very much compressed, and will be printed in one and the same type with the rest of the book,-differentiated only by being indented throughout. It will (D.V.) be in three volumes, each containing, on the average, sixty-six sheets € 1056 pages, or, in the whole, 3168 pages. It will not become a 'trade-book,' but will be printed exclusively for Subscribers, and will be sold only by the Author (Sea-View, Niton, Isle of Wight), and by the Printer. Each volume is so arranged as to be a book complete in itself; i.e. it embraces a strictly definite section of the general subject, and is furnished with a special title-page, expressive of that section only, as well as with a general title-page, common to the three. So that if the Author (who has now entered into his seventieth year) should not be permitted to see the completion of the printing, his re

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