This Institution now offers to its members a collection of 60,000 volumes, to which additions are constantly making, both in English and foreign literature. A reading room is also open for the use of the members, supplied with the best English and foreign periodicals.
Terms of admission—entrance fee, 6l.; annual subscription, 2l.; or entrance fee and life subscription, 26l.
By order of the Committee.
September, 1851.
J. G. COCHRANE, Secretary and Librarian.
VERY IMPORTANT MANUSCRIPTS.
PUTTICK AND SIMPSON. Auctioneers of Literary Property, will SELL by AUCTION, at their Great Room, 191. Piccadilly, on THURSDAY, December 4, a collection of valuable Manuscripts, including many important Records of English Counties and Families, Deeds and Charters from a very early date, some having interesting and curious seals; numerous Original Documents relating to English monasteries; large collection of Drawings of Antiquities in various English counties, particularly Gloucestershire; most interesting MS. relating to London; Libellus Beati Misericordis, a legendary MS. of about the year 1350; "The Booke that ys cleped the Mirrour of the Blissed Liffe of Jhesu Criste," an English MS. of about the year 1449; Churchwardens' Accounts for Berkhampstead, 1585 to 1746, an important MS.; the unpublished Diary of Walter Yonge, 1640 to 1649, 6 vols.; Diary of the Rev. J. Hopkins, A.D. 1700; Gemistus and Phurnutus, an important Greek MS. of the fifteenth century; some interesting Italian Historical MSS., and Autograph Letters. Catalogues will be sent on application (if in the country, on receipt of two stamps).
In 2 vols. imperial 8vo., price 4l. 10s. Illustrated by upwards of 2000 Engravings on Wood.
THE IMPERIAL DICTIONARY, English, Technological, and Scientific; adapted to the present State of Literature, Science, and Art, on the Basis of "Webster's English Dictionary;" with the Addition of many Thousand Words and Phrases from the other Standard Dictionaries and Encyclopædias, and from numerous other sources; comprising all Words purely English, and the principal and most generally used Technical and Scientific Terms, together with their Etymologies, and their Pronunciation, according to the best authorities.
CHARACTER OF THE WORK.