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☞ This series of Re-prints from the rare _Drolleries_ is now completed in Three Volumes (of which the first published was the _Westminster Drollery_): that number being sufficient to afford a correct picture of the times preceding and following the Restoration 1660, without repetition. The third volume contains “_Choice Drollery_,” 1656, and all of the “_Antidote against Melancholy_,” 1661, which has not been already included in the two previous volumes; with separate Notes, and Illustrations drawn from other contemporary Drolleries.
“Strafford Lodge, Oatlands Park, Surrey, Feb. 4, 1875.
I received the “Westminster Drolleries” yesterday evening. I have spent nearly the whole of this day in reading it. I can but give unqualified praise to the editor, both for his extensive knowledge and for his admirable style. The printing and the paper do great credit to your press.... I enclose a post-office order to pay for my copy.
“No. 11, Tregunter Road, West Brompton, London, S. W., 25th Feby. 1875.
I am charmed with the edition of the “Westminster Drollery.” One half of the reprints of the present day are rendered nearly useless to exact students either by alterations or omissions, or by attempts to make eclectic texts out of more than one edition. By all means let us have introductions and notes, especially when as good as Mr. Ebsworth’s, but it is essential for objects of reference that one edition only of the old text be accurately reproduced. The book is certainly admirably edited.
“3, St. George’s Square, Primrose Hill, London, N.W., 2nd February, 1875.
I have received the handsome large paper copy of your “Westminster Drolleries.” I am very glad to see that the book is really _edited_, and that well, by a man so thoroughly up in the subject as Mr. Ebsworth.
_From the Editor of the “Fuller’s Worthies Library,” “Wordsworth’s Prose Works,” &c._
“Park View, Blackburn, Lancashire, 13th July, 1875.
I got the “Westminster Drolleries” _at once_, and I will see after the “Merry Drollery” when published.