And including also, a small, but curious Collection of Manuscripts WHICH ARE NOW SELLING, FOR READY MONEY, AT THE PRICES AFFIXED TO EACH ARTICLE By W. FORD, Bookseller, COMMERCIAL EXCHANGE BUILDINGS, MANCHESTER ; Where Catalogues may be had, price Three Shillings; and of Messrs. HATH any wrong'd thee? be bravely reveng'd, slight [p. 19, Religion of a Bookseller.] * Qui capit ille facit. MANCHESTER: Printed by C, WHEELER and SON, 16, Tipping's Court. : ON thus presenting to the Public, the second and last part of my Catalogue; I cannot omit this favorable opportunity of making a few observations on bringing to a close my arduous undertaking-a catalogue of one thousand pages, and comprising upwards of fifteen thousand articles, in the short space of one year, Ir was at first my intention to have published the whole together, but I soon experienced that the frequent calls upon my time from various avocations, with other more serious obstacles, which on proceeding, presented themselves and im peded its progress, and more especially the great extent of the collection, would render a division of it on many accounts, both more judicious, and more convenient, and those remarks which I intended to have prefixed to the first, will precede with more propriety, this second, and concluding part of my labours; and however unusual (in the present day) such a mode of addressing the Public may be considered, yet the few remarks which I shall venture to make, will not, I hope, be deemed either out of place, or inapplicable to the subject. Or the collection which is now offered for public-inspection and sale, I can speak with confidence, that it will not be thought unworthy of notice and attention, as it comprises many works which lay claim in a peculiar degree, both to scarceness and intrinsic merit: and at a period when the Literature of past Ages is sought after, and cultivated, with an unprecedented degree of avidity, the number, rarity, and intrinsic |