Archdeacon Cotton, whose endeavours to ascertain and record the succession
of the Prelates and Members of the Cathedral Bodies in Ireland are probably
known to many of our readers (at least, by the Queries which have appeared
in our Columns), has just completed his _Fasti Ecclesiae Hiberniae_, in 4
vols. 8vo. From the nature of the work, it is obvious that it could never
have been undertaken with a view to profit. The printing, &c., has cost
upwards of six hundred pounds, and the Archdeacon, naturally unwilling to
lose the whole of this outlay, is circulating a prospectus offering copies
at fifty shillings the set. Of these, there are but two hundred. The
utility of a book which contains the names and preferments of every
occupant of an Irish see, dignity, or prebend, from the earliest period to
the present day, so far as existing materials permits, is so obvious, that
it can scarcely be doubted that it must eventually find a place in all
public and official libraries.
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Nattali and Bond's (23. Bedford Street, Covent Garden) Catalogue of Ancient
and Modern Books in all Languages; W. Heath's (29-1/2. Lincoln's Inn Fields)
Catalogue No. III. for 1851, of Valuable Second-hand Books in all classes
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Catalogue Part XIV. of Second-hand Books English and Foreign; J. Tupling's
(320. Strand) Catalogue of Books on Divinity, so classified as to form a
guide to Students in their choice; J. Lilly's (7. Pall Mall) Catalogue No.
III. of Valuable Books relating to English History, Antiquities, &c.; Olive
Lasbury's (10. Park Street, Bristol) Catalogue No. XI. of Books now on
Sale; J. Petheram's (94. High Holborn) Catalogue Part CXXII. of Books Old
and New; W. S. Lincoln's (Cheltenham House, Westminster Road) Catalogue No.
LXVIII. of Cheap Second-hand Books.
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