to T K « 



READER, 



tti THE PUBLICATIOK OF THE 



ELEVENTH EDITION. 



T T would be a tacit acknowledgment of* the au- 

 thor's total infenfibility to every gratification of 

 ambition, was he to omit the communication of ac- 

 knowledgments, that, in their general diffufion, con- 

 tribute fo very much to his own honour. And he 

 nluft everconfider it no fmall compliment to his en- 

 deavours, that the work is univerfally known to havd 

 been crowned with the moil perfedl fuccefs. The very 

 great and almoft unlimited portion of fupport that 

 has fo fingularly fandioned its birth, fufficiently de- 

 monftrates the abfolute want of fuch publication. 



This pleafing incenie to literary vanity could be 

 increafed only by the conftantly accumulating, enco- 

 miums, and mojl fubjlantial proofs of private appro- 

 bation, from fome of the firft charaders within the 

 circle of The Royal Hunt and Favour* Sportfmen, 

 ^e propitious omen of whofe patronage not onl)^ 



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