Excerpt from A Catalogue of Some Printed Books and Manuscripts: At St. Dunstan's, Regent's Park, and Aldenham House, Herts I have before me the interesting and carefully elaborated Catalogues of the Libraries of my friend, mr. Locker-lampson, and my late friend, mr. Henry huth; and they make me have doubts of the wisdom of putting into type a record, itself so incomplete, of a collection so much inferior to theirs. But every collection has an individuality of its own, and must correspond in some degree to the mind of the collector and those of my friends who do me the favour to accept this volume may perhaps like it the better for that. In distinguishing between the books that are contained in it, and the other contents of my Library, I have followed, but not uniformly, the plan adopted by mr. Locker-lampson in the First Part of his Catalogue. I have made the year 1700, generally, the dividing line; but I have included very many books of a later date, which either from being privately printed, or being rare from other causes, or else having some signal merit. 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.