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2 courtier; and the rarity of such works increases in proportion to the remoteness of the period. But what adds to the value of this production is, that there is nowhere a more vivid and striking representation of the manners of that distant age."

Retrospective Review, No. IX.

or twelve manuscript copies of this most important work are known to exist in public or private libraries, and from one of those in the Archiepiscopal Library at Lambeth Dr. Wordsworth gave his edition. It has been the good fortune of the present Editor to have procured the undoubted authentic original copy of the work in the handwriting of the Author, George Cavendish; which, besides an improved text, contains some very curious historical poetry, relating to the eventful period in which he lived. From this a correct edition is preparing, with notes and illustrations, embellished with portraits. In Two Volumes Octavo. Which are printing at the Chiswick Press.


 * A very few copies will be taken off on large paper, in royal octavo, with proof impressions of the portraits; to secure which timely application will be necessary, to the Publisher,, 23, Old Bond Street.