BRISTOL, ETC., IN MAY AND JUNE, 1767. 
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have taken, I presume, to the trade after he had come to reside at 
Bristoh Gotham Tower was conveniently situated with regard to 
Hedland Court, and must have been for sale about the year 1757 
when John was settled at Redland. It is remarkable that a man 
who had been connected with books all his life should have taken 
to botany in such a practical form, unless some circumstance should 
have led him to do so, and that he should have selected officinal 
plants, to which class tobacco belongs : but I will now mention a 
collection he formed of a different nature. 
At page 46 of the Delineations of the County of Gloucester, it 
is stated that John Innys, who was brother of Mr. Innys, a book- 
seller, " made a celebrated, and perhaps matchless, collection of 
maps and views in nearl}^ 100 volumes." This collection was ac- 
quired for the library at Holkham, the seat of the Earl of Leicester, 
iis may be seen by referring to Gough's British TopograpJuj, vol. 
1, 1780, page 109, where, in connection with the subject of maps, he 
writes : — 
" The late Mr. John Innys, of Eedland Court, near Bristol, younger 
brother to William Innys, the bookseller, and some time in his 
business, had collected, in a number of volumes, all he could meet 
with for the whole world, but without specifying the maker or 
<ingraver, and had compiled an exact index referring to every place 
in each. This collection is now in the librarj^ at Holkham." 
The librarian at Holkham has been so kind as to inform me that 
this collection of maps and j)lans is called " A System of Cosmo- 
graphy," and is most interesting and valuable. It consists of 113 
folio volumes, and is prefaced by a written index, in two volumes, 
compiled by John Innys, to which is apj)ended a preface, in the form 
of a letter by John Innys to a friend, dated Chelsea, June 5, 1749. 
At the conclusion of the letter he writes : — 
"You have, sir, a short account of the work, or, rather, a plan of 
what is designed, for though it has been the amusement of my 
leisure hours for above thirty years, yet it is not so complete as I 
could wish ; I mean as to materials I have already by me, for new 
ones offer themselves daily." 
As John Innys was 83 in 1778, and the above letter is dated 1749, 
he must have commenced this collection about the year 1719, when 
he would have been in his 24th or 25th year. 
In a letter-book belonging to the collections of George Vertue in 
the British Museum, consisting of notes concerning antiquities and 
historical extracts, 1743-1746, is a copy of this letter in Vertue's 
handwriting. It is dated London, June 4, 1744, and differs from 
