Historical Notices of the Worshipful Company of Stationers of London: With Descriptions of Their Hall, Pictures, and Plate, and of Their Ancient Seal of Arms (Classic Reprint)

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IT is scarcely possible, within the limits set to papers read before this Society, to embrace the full development of any of the sub jects to which our attention is in turn directed; but I conceive that it should be rather our aim to elicit new and unpublished facts, or to place known facts in a more clear and intelligible light. For the history of the Stationers' Company many highly interest ing materials have been collected by my grandfather in the third volume of his Literary Anecdotes of the Eighteenth Century, and they only require to be somewhat amplified and arranged to form a very satisfactory memoir upon the subject; but on this occa sion it is necessary to take a more concise and summary course.

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