INTRODUCTION. 



An asterisk (*) replacing the usual decimal point indi- 

 cates that the book to whose number it is prefixed is shelved 

 in a special collection of early Law books, many of the 

 fifteenth century. A prefixed letter/ indicates a book shelved 

 apart as a folio. 



It is, of course, not expected that readers can remember 

 all the numbers corresponding to the different subjects. A 

 full alphabetical index of classes and sub-classes is appended, 

 forming a key, not merely to this catalogue, but to the books 

 themselves as they stand on the shelves, where the order of 

 ascending decimals coincides exactly with that followed in 

 the catalogue. A second index is added of authors' names. 



P. J. A. 



DECEMBER, 1906. 



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