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Excerpt from Hand-Book to the Popular, Poetical, and Dramatic Literature of Great Britain: From the Invention of Printing to the Restoration
Lowndes went further than Herbert and his follower, and gives us a good deal which was unknown to both of these gentlemen, and a good deal, of course, which did not fall within their scopes. To the bibliographer and col lector of l 834, the Bibliographic Mammal was a valuable present. In thirty years it has become an anachronism.
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