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 114 Report of Brand Coniviittee.

convenient volume to consult. The title is as follows : " Observations on Popular Antiquities, including the vvhole of Mr. Bourne's Antiquitates Vulgares, with an Addenda to every chapter of that work, also an Appendix, contain- ing such Articles on the subject as have been omitted by that Author. By JohnBrand,A.B. Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 1777."

Brand continued to collect further materials, with the intention of publishing a new edition on a new plan. He did not live to carry out this intention, and left his materials in an unfinished state. He had, however, prepared a preface for this edition which was dated August 4, 1795. At the sale of Brand's librar\- in 1808 his MSS. were purchased for the purpose of publication. Mr. (afterwards Sir Henry) Ellis took the matter in hand, and in 181 3 two handsome quarto volumes were published with this title: " Observations on Popular Antiquities. ... By John Brand, A.M. Arranged and revised with additions by Henry Ellis, F.R.S."

Ellis's edition was republished with considerable addi- tions in Bohn's Antiquarian Library in 1848 (3 vols.).

In 1870 Mr. W. C. Hazlitt published a revised edition with additions; and in 1905 he brought out another edition rearranged in alphabetical order.

The basis of the new work will be Ellis's "Brand," but it will be necessary to a large extent, to rewrite the articles of Brand, so that owing to our fuller knowledge at the present time they may be more complete and less disconnected than they appear at present. It will be at once seen that the new materials are so considerable that Brand's contri- butions will be largely outnumbered. With every wish to do honour to Brand, it will not be possible to mark the text of any particular edition of his work. Moreover, we cannot attribute with certainty any particular portion to Brand himself. An endeavour will be made to quote in Brand's own words anything of special importance in his own original work of 1777.