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Each County is published separately, (price 18.) and [The remainder of the Series is in a rapid course of is therefore complete in itself; containing a compen.

dious and accurate account of its History and Topography, its Antiquities, natural and artificial Curiosities, local Peculiarities, Commerce, Manufactures, &c.; comprising also the Biography of its most Eminent Persons; and every local information to be met with in larger Statistical Works; and embellished by a neat and correct Travelling Map.

The Publishers anticipate that the County Histo ries will meet with the liberal support of the public in general, as their contents are highly useful and interesting to people of every age, and in every class of Society; but they beg to insure the Instructors of Youth, who have been so long their liberal Patrons, that they are peculiarly adapted to the purposes of Education, and contain that kind of local information with which every Parent must wish his Child should be made acquainted; while not a phrase or sentence has been admitted into them that can be objected to.

Great care has been taken to ensure correctness; bat in a Work collected from so many sources, some errors will be unavoidable. The Publishers therefore beg to be favoured with any errata that their friends may discover, which shall be carefully attended to when the HISTORIES are reprinted.

Counties already published:
Hampshire
Herefordshire

Bedfordshire

Berkshire

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"The whole is a concise and excellent perform➡ ance, contrived to bring a vast deal of useful infor mation into a small compass; and there is no one proud of his native Country, but must feel a secret pleasure that its treasures, beauties, and interests, are so ably and familiarly delineated, and brought within the reach of the humblest individual.”

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In recommending the foregoing " Explanatory and Scientific School Books" to the notice of the Public, the Proprietors have great satisfaction in observing, that independent of the high enconiums which have been bestowed on these publications by numerous respectable Instructors of Youth, and their very general adoption in the first Seminaries in all parts of the Kingdom, they have separately and collectively uadergone the test of public criticism, and received a degree of praise, which operates as a powerful stimulus to pursue their system with increased ardour. Anxious, therefore, not merely to preserve the reputation which their Books have already attained, but to improve them in every possible manner, it will be their constant study carefully to revise every succeeding Edition, and to take advantage of every improvement in Literature and Science that can contribute to the Instruction of Youth, by introducing it in ami easy and pleasing form in these Elementary Treatises. For the further accomplishment of this most desirable object, they will at all times feel themselves indebted for the judicious remarks of their friends, either in suggesting such ideas as may appear likely to facilitate the progress of Education, or in pointing out any typographical inaccuracies which may have inadvertently crept into some of the publications.

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HISTORY OF FRANCE,

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mbles the writings of Goldsmith. The chronological and genealogical tables are excellent; the divisions and subdivisions of the work perfectly regular; and we recommend it as extremely amusing and instructive for youthful readers, and as a well-arranged help to the memory of the elder and better informed in historical science." Literary Gazette, May, 1820.

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