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BOOKS AND ODD VOLUMES WANTED TO PURCHASE

JONES (EDMUND) GEOGRAPHICAL, HISTORICAL, AND RELIGIOUS ACCOUNT OF
ABERYSTWITH. 8VO. Trevecka, 1779.

CARTARI.--LA ROSA D'ORO PONTIFICIA, ETC. 4to. Rome. 1681.

SHAKSPEARE'S DRAMATIC WORKS.--The _Fourth_ Volume of WHITTINGHAM'S
Edition, in 7 vols, 24mo. Chiswick. 1814.

M. C. H. BROEMEL, FEST-TANZEN DER ERSTEN CHRISTEN. Jena, 1705.

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_The matter is so generally understood with regard to the management of
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that_ HE CANNOT UNDERTAKE TO RETURN MANUSCRIPTS; _but on one point he
wishes to offer a few words of explanation to his correspondents in
general, and particularly to those who do not enable him to communicate
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arising from an opposite course._

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MYTHOS is thanked for his kind hints, which shall not be lost sight of.
We have abundance of NOTES on the subject, not only of the SEVEN WISE
MASTERS, but of that other treasury of ancient fictions, the GESTA
ROMANORUM, which we shall bring forward as opportunity offers.

S.Y. The edition of Chaucer, in five volumes 12mo, edited by Singer,
in 1822, was the only modern library edition of the "_W