THE

BIBLIOGRAPHICAL

MISCELLANY;

OR,

SUPPLEMENT

TO THE

BIBLIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY.

VOL. II.

CONTAINING

Marcum Ciceronem vidi in Bibliotheca sedentem, MULTIS cir-

cumfusum Stoicorum LIBRIS. Erat enim ut scis, in eo inerhausta

aviditus, legendi, nec satiari poterat. Quippe qui ne reprehensio-

nem quidem vulgi inanem reformidans, in ipsa curia soleret legere

sæpe, dum Senatus cogeretur, nihil operæ Reipublicæ detrahens;

quo majus tum in summo otio, maximaque copia, quasi heluari

libris, si hoc verbo in tam clara re utendum est, videbatur.

CICER. De Finib. lib. tii. s. 2.

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INTRODUCTION.

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AFTER considerable delays which could nei

ther have been foreseen nor prevented, the Bib-
liographical Miscellany is at last completed.
Great care and much pains have been taken
to make it as nearly as possible, what the
Editor designed it should be, a correct and use-
ful work. How he has executed his task, must
be left to his intelligent Readers to judge, from
whose candor he bespeaks indulgence for what-
ever errors or imperfections they may discover.
• The subjects he has introduced, he considers
to be all very intimately allied to the Science of
Bibliography, and on each of them he has en-
endeavoured to condense as much information as
possible. Other matters which had been pre-
pared for the press, might have been also inserted,
had the compass of the work admitted; but those
which appear, were judged to have a more inti-
mate connexion with the subject than those
which he was obliged to omit.

A Synopsis of the work in this place, cannot be deemed foreign to the design of an Introduction, as it will render an index or table of contents unnecessary.

As the Editor wished to produce the subjects of