rare engraved title page will be reproduced in facsimile. 

 The edition of 1625 contains a very inadequate index. 

 This index will be superseded in the reprint by a complete 

 index drawn up on modern lines. 



The favourable reception given to the reprint of 

 Hakluyt's Voyages (which was completely subscribed for 

 before publication), and the numerous requests to continue 

 the series by the addition of Purchas, have induced the 

 publishers to undertake this reprint. 



The work will be printed at the University Press, 

 Glasgow, on antique paper specially made by Messrs. 

 Dickinson & Co., and will be similar to Messrs. 

 MacLehose's edition of Hakluyt's Voyages which is now 

 passing rapidly through the Press. It will be contained in 

 twenty volumes of about 600 pages each. The size will be 

 octavo, the same as this prospectus, and the binding will 

 be cloth, gilt top. The first two volumes of Purchas will 

 be issued in the Autumn, and it is hoped that the whole 

 work may be published within two years. 



The edition for sale in this country will be strictly limited 

 to 1000 copies, of which 100 copies, numbered and signed, 

 will be printed throughout on the finest hand-made paper 

 with proofs of the engravings. The price to subscribers 

 to the ordinary edition will be 12/6 net per volume, and 

 to the edition on hand-made paper with proofs, 25/- net 

 per volume. 



The work will be sold in complete sets only, and it 

 would be obliging if intending subscribers would send in 

 their names without delay to their bookseller. 



Glasgow : James MacLehose & Sons 



Publishers to the University 



London : Macmillan and Co., Limited 



