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NOTES AND QUERIES. [2««>s.no28.,July12.'56. 



with useful Notes and Observations, on the further Im- 

 provement of this part of Ireland. Embellished with a 

 large Map of the County from an actual Survey ; a Per- 

 spective View of the Lake of Killarney, and other Plates. 

 Undertaken with the Approbation oip the Physico-His- 

 torical Society. By Charles Smith, Author of the Natural 

 and Civil Histories of the Counties of Cork and Water- 

 ford." Then a Latin motto from Pliny, which it is not 

 here necessary to give, followed by — " Dublin: printed 

 for the Author, and sold by Messrs. Ewing, Faulkner, 

 Wilson, and Exshaw, mdcclvi." 



The title of my later purchase is — 



" The Ancient and Present State of the County of 

 Kerry. Containing a Natural, Civil, Ecclesiastical, His- 

 torical and Topographical Description thereof. By Charles 

 Smith, M.D., Author of the Natural and Civil Histories 

 of the Counties of Cork and Waterford " Then the same 

 quotation from Pliny as on the other title-page, after 

 which a vignette of the Irish harp, between two branches, 

 followed by — " Dublin: printed for the Author." 



Facing this latter title is a portrait of " C. Smith, 

 M.D.," the author. The books are in all other 

 respects the same, except that the " contents' " 

 leaf is placed before the "dedication" in the copy 

 lately obtained ; but the paging settles this. 



I have seen several copies of Smith's Kerry, 

 and I do not remember that any of them had the 

 portrait except two — my own and one other. 

 Can any one explain for me, why the title-pages 

 of my two copies are different ? and why one has 

 the portrait, which the other has not ? Has the 

 second title, above given (without date, as will 

 have .been observed), been substituted for the 

 original ' one, and the portrait added by some 

 bookseller after the first publication of the work ? 



E. H. 



BIKCHS "LIVES. 



Wishing to ascertain the relative value and 

 estimation of a particular edition of Birch's 

 Lives of Illustrious Men, with portraits by Hou- 

 braken and Vertue, I have consulted such biblio- 

 graphical works on the subject as were within my 

 reach, and am surprised to find them generally so 

 unsatisfactory. 



Lowndes mentions the edit. Lond. 1743, 52 pi., 



two vols., saying that two hundred copies were 



struck off on large paper, viz. one hundred before, 



and one hundred after the small paper copies. 



oj /(/^Jso, that an edition, with retouched impressions 



" I have a St'®®' appeared in 1813, on small and large 



subject just as i 



rebus optare, so an his Library Companion, says that in 

 known by the w^rth in one magnificent folio volume 

 speaking truly. Tgads of Illustrious Persons, but does 

 faulty, because imp ^, -^ , , ■ ^^im x 



■' the second volume m 1752. rn a 



This is the paste he describes the edition of 1756 ; 

 his posthumous v^q there being three sorts of paper, 



_. _ ;; iTTd imperial, as noticed by Brilnet. 



ofLtro7t;;ssa?-f- ^-^•. article - Birch,- says 

 J or this work, which came out m 



numbers, was completed in 1747, and the second 

 in 1752. 



Brunet gives the edition 1743-52, two tom. in 

 one. He calls the edition of 1756 the second 

 edition, in which the plates are generally chiffres^ 

 which those of the first edition are not. 



De Bure gives only the edition of London, 

 1756. 



Now this appears a loose and imperfect account 

 of this celebrated publication, since none of these 

 bibliographers, except Dr. Kippis, appear to men- 

 tion the edition which I have before me, viz. 

 Lond. 1747, two vols, in one, and which may 

 properly be considered as the second edition — as 

 far as relates to the letter-press — for tliat, no 

 doubt, as Dibdin mentions, was several times re- 

 printed, but the plates in my copy are, I conceive, 

 of the first impression. 



I should be glad to receive a more precise and 

 full account of the several editions of this work, 

 and to learn whether there is any material differ- 

 ence between them in the estimation of book col- 

 lectors. R. G. 



Admission of Foreigners to Corporation Honours. 

 — A Citizen of Edinburgh desires information on 

 the point as to whether a foreigner not natu- 

 ralised by Act of Parliament, or otherwise, can 

 receive the freedom of a city or other munici- 

 pality in this country. The question is suggested 

 by the fact of the freedom of the city of Edin- 

 burgh having been conferred on Dr. D'Aubigne, 

 the historian of the Reformation, during a visit 

 made to Scotland recently by that distinguished 

 and estimable man. 



Crests and Mottoes. — The subjoined extract, 

 from the National Index to the Harl. Mis. (vol. ii. 

 p. 43.), suggests a question not undeserving the 

 attention of your correspondents versed in he- 

 raldry : 



" Num. 1422., art. 16. Arms (mostlj' without erests) 

 given in the time of Henry 5 ; and since, in the reigns of 

 Henry 6«^ Edward 4*^, Richard S^d, Henry 7, and Henry 

 ^^\ &c. &c." 



Without assuming or denying the fact, that 

 occasionally arms were granted during the period 

 of those reigns without crests, it is but a reason- 

 able question to ask why many coats do not pos- 

 sess the usual, and frequently the most significant 

 additions of a crest ? 



The same Query may be extended to the motto, 

 or rather the omission of a cherished sentence or 

 abbreviated allusion to some event sought to be 

 recorded, and interesting to the bearer's family. 



The omission, in both instances, is not to be 

 doubted ; but, whether station in society, merit, 

 services, oi* pecuniary considerations had any in- 



