Excerpt from A Handbook to County Bibliography: Being a Bibliography of Bibliographies Relating to the Counties and Towns of Great Britain and Ireland Perhaps too few writers and compilers of books of reference openly acknowledge their indebtedness to the resources of the Library of the British Museum. As a youth I began to study in that magnificent Library, and I have used the Reading Room almost daily ever since. I wish to pay a tribute to its admirable organiza tion. I believe that there could be no better advice to a student beginning the study of Topography than to tell him to first make himself acquainted, as far as he can. With the books of reference, specially chosen and placed in the Reading Room of the British Museum, in the sections devoted to Topography, Genealogy, and History. 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.