A Collection Of Scarce Curious And Valuable Pieces

Author : William Oldys
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780484228886
Total Pages : 572 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (288 download)

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Download or read book The Harleian Miscellany, Vol. 1 written by William Oldys and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-20 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Harleian Miscellany, Vol. 1: Or, a Collection of Scarce, Curious, and Entertaining Pamphlets and Tracts In another respect, indeed, it has been determined, after a few sheets were printed ofl, to place the rest, as nearly as possible, ina chronological order. To the historian and man of letters, this will prove a very striking advantage; for at the same time that every document will be given entire, the whole will form a mass of records, though some of them were only the productions of the passing times, of the utmost mo ment to authenticate the history of each year progressively. To those pieces, contained in a'very few only of the first sheets, a reference will be made in their respective places by which every publication or ms. Of every year, included in the col lection, will converge to one focal point, and greatly assist every class of readers, no less than the historian andthe antiquary. When we add, that this mode has been adopted, on the intimation and at the desire of many of our liberal subscribers, we need not say more to convince the public of our anxious wish to deserve their countenance and support. It equally corresponds with our own ideas and will remove one very strong ob'ection to the use of the former original edition, from which this is re-printed, of the difficulty of finding a relation of the various occurrences of any attien lar period. But for such an useful purpose, neither t etable' of contents prefixed to each volume, nor the copious in dexes annexed, nor even both united, are in any degree com petent; and much time and labour must be lost to run over the contents of all the volumes to know what is preservedtin this collection of the transactions of any specific year. These are obviated by this improved arrangement of the present edition which, so far as these papers contain any accounts, will form a summary, and, in many instances, a very minute' and particular detail, of the history of England, not frequent ly to be found in many of our best and most extended annals. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.