A CATALOGUE OF A UNIQUE AND INTERESTING COLLECTION OF UPWARDS OF TWENTY-SIX THOUSAND ANCIENT AND MODERN TRACTS AND PAMPHLETS, D.22.1.89 On Sale at the affixed Ready Money Prices, by 36, SOHO SQUARE, LONDON. "From Pamphlets may be learned the genius of the age, the debates of the learned, the follies of the ignorant, the bévues of government, and the mistakes of courtiers. Pamphlets are as modish ornaments to gentlewomen's toilets as to gentlemen's pockets, they carry their reputation of wit and learning to all that make them their companions." -MYLES DAVIES'S Icon Libellorum. “ All these, and many other causes too tedious to be enumerated, have contributed to make Pamphlets and small Tracts a very important part of an English Library, nor are there any pieces upon which those, who aspire to the reputation of judicious Collectors of Books, bestow more attention, or greater expense; because many advantages may be expected from the perusal of these small productions, which are scarcely to be found in that of larger works."-Dr. Johnson on the Origin and Importance of Fugitive Pieces. |