JOHN RUSSELL SMITH, 36, SOHO SQUARE, LONDON. 15 Bibliography. LIBRARY OF THE BRITISH containing a brief History of its Formation, and of the various Collections of which it is composed; Descriptions of the Catalogues in present use; Classed Lists of the Manuscripts, &c.; and a variety of information indispensable for Literary Men; with some Account of the principal Public Libraries in London. By Richard Sims, of the Department of Manuscripts, Compiler of the "Index to the Heralds' Visitations." Small 8vo (pp. 438), with map and plan. Cloth, 5s. It will be found a very useful work to every literary person or public institution in all parts of the world. "A little handbook of the Library has been published, which I think will be most useful to the Public." Lord Seymour's Reply in the House of Commons, July, 1854. "I am much pleased with your book, and find in it abundance of information which I wanted."-Letter from Albert Way, Esq., F.S.A., Editor of the "Promptorium Parvulorum," &c. 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TUCKER AND CO., PRINTERS, PERRY'S PLACE, OXFORD STREET. shire. 1697-1702.-Household Inventory of the Fifteenth CenturyOur Old Public Libraries.-Religious Fragment in Anglo-Saxon, with a Translation.-The Order of Shooting with the Crossbow; a Poem of the Sixteenth Century.-Poem, supposed to be in the Lancashire Dialect of the Fourteenth Century.-A Burlesque Bill of Fare.-Scraps, English and Latin, from a MS. of the Fourteenth Century. CONTENTS OF VOL. II. 9. Drayton's Polyolbion. 1613. 10. William Penn and the Quakers-"No Cross, No Crown." 11. The first County Historian. 1576. 14. Leland-Thomas Hearne-Anthony à Wood, &c. 15. The Decay of Good Manners. 1669-1676. 1722. 16. Stephen's Essays and Characters-Law and Lawyers. 1615. 17. Historic Memorials of Ancient Paris. 18. John Davies the Epigrammatist. 1611. 1640. 19. The Emperor Sigismund at Windsor, A.D. 1416. 20. The Turks in the Seventeenth Century. 24. Collections of old French popular Literature. 1648-1678. 25. 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