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edition of a guide-book to Bullock's Museum.* It bears the 

 following title : — 



A | Companion | to the [ LIVERPOOL MUSEUM, | 

 containing | A brief Description of upwards of Seven 

 Thousand | Natural and Foreign Curiosities, | Anti- 

 quities, ] and Productions of the Fine Arts, | collected during 

 several Years of arduous Research, and at an Expense | of 

 upwards of Twenty Thousand Pounds, | by | WILLIAM 

 BULLOCK, | of Liverpool; | And now open for Public 

 Inspection, in. the Great Room, | No. 22 Piccadilly, London, 

 | which has been fitted up for the Purpose in a manner 

 entirely new. 



" Nature ! how in every charm supreme ! 

 Whose vot'ries feast on raptures ever new, 

 ! for the voice and fire of Seraphim 

 To sing thy glories with devotion due." — Beattie. 



The Seventh Edition. | Printed for the Proprietor, | by ] 

 Richard Cruttwell, St. Jame's-street, Bath. | 1809. 



There is an engraved frontispiece, with three figures of men 

 in armour of different periods, each figure having a compart- 

 ment to itself, under a canopy on which appears the word 

 " MVSEVM." It may have been intended to represent the 

 entrance to the show, which must have been in existence for 

 some years, if the "Companion" had reached its seventh edition 

 in 1809. The title-page, on its reverse, publishes an announce- 

 ment that the Proprietor is willing to give the " full value for 

 rare and uncommon Quadrupeds, Birds, Fishes, Reptiles, Shells, 

 Old Paintings, Carvings on Wood or Ivory, Stained Glass, 

 ancient and foreign Arms and Armour, or any uncommon Pro- 

 duction of Art or Nature." 



Then follows a list of " Names of the Ladies and Gentlemen 

 who have presented curiosities to the Liverpool Museum," but I 

 do not detect any familiar name among the number of patrons, 

 though a "George Bullock" will be referred to later on. The 

 list of donors "non-residents in Liverpool" includes a few more 

 familiar names, such as S. Polito, Dr. J. E. Smith, President of 

 the Linnean Society, Lord Stanley (Knowsley), and a certain J. 

 Bullock of Surinam. 



A Preface, composed after the manner of the time, occupies 



* On the cover is a printed label: — "Descriptive Catalogue | of the | 

 LIVERPOOL MUSEUM, | now open | At the Great Room, | 22 Piccadilly, 

 near the Haymarket." 



