entries relating to the place, and there was a further division 

 including the place in question with other places. Two or 

 three thousand cross references I had to take out to save 

 expense in printing — but this will be made good by the 

 index. 



The cards were 4f in. by 3 in., and cost 2s. 6d. per 1,000. 

 The cards relating to each place were held together by elastic 

 bands so as to allow fresh cards containing new entries to be 

 readily introduced in their proper place. I made special 

 pigeon-holes for keeping the cards in ; these holes being a 

 little larger than the size of the card, each division about a 

 foot high and slightly broader than the card. The divisions 

 were about 100 in number. Four long inch boards and small 

 pieces for the divisions, ordered to be cut to the right size and 

 so delivered, enabled the whole case to be put together in one 

 evening. 



I aiii rather particular in the details, as it was the considera- 

 tion given to these from the start which enabled the work to 

 be run through in so short a space of time. I estimate that 

 had I used paper instead of cards, besides the trouble and the 

 difficulty in substituting and writing fresh entries, the execution 

 of the work would have at least involved an extra year of 

 labour. I should mention that I had the help of my children 

 in sorting in the morning what I failed to sort at night, and 

 also in the re-writing and the putting in cross references. 

 I found that the printing in London entailed too heavy an 

 expenditure, and had the work done by Manchester printers. 

 It is not that I could not have obtained an estimate in London 

 almost as low as in Manchester, but the cost would have 

 ultimately proved, as I have learnt by experience, probably 

 a third higher. London printers run up a heavy bill for 

 alterations and so-called corrections ; here my payment on these 

 heads was practically nothing. The cost was under ^j, per 

 sheet of 16 pages for 250 copies; consequently the cost of 

 printing and binding each volume was about ;^ioo. There 

 were about eighty subscribers at ;^i is. a. volume. Practically 



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