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occupies four substantial 8vo volumes, which were issued by 
the Ray Society, between 1848 and 1854.* 
Vol. I., issued in 1848, contains entries A-C (pp. 1-506). 
Vol. II., issued in 1850, contains entries C-F (pp. 1-492). 
Vol. III., issued in 1852, contains entries G-M (pp. 1-657). 
Vol. IV., issued in 1854, contains entries N-Z (pp. 1-694). 
Also of service is ' The Yorkshire Library : a biblio- 
graphical account of books on Topography, Tracts of the 
Seventeenth Century, Biography, Spaws, Geology, Botany, 
Maps, Views, Portraits and Miscellaneous Literature relating to 
the county of Yorkshire, with collations and notes on the books 
and their authors. By William Boyne, F.S.A., author of ' The 
Tokens of the Seventeenth Century.' Taylor & Co., London, 
1869, 304 pages, 4to. 
Another is The Book of British Topography, a Classified 
Catalogue of the Topographical Works in the Library of the 
British Museum relating to Great Britain and Ireland, by John 
P. Anderson, London, 1881, royal 8vo, 472 pages (Yorkshire, 
pages 308-333). A second edition is now in the press. 
More recently (1907), Messrs. Constable & Co., published an 
Index of Archceological Papers, 1665-1890, j- by George Laurence 
Gomme (910 pages). This contains particulars of several 
thousand papers appearing in the various publications of the 
numerous archaeological, etc., societies in the country (a list of 
which is given). The entries are in alphabetical order. Un- 
fortunately, there is no index to the index, and to ascertain 
what Yorkshire papers appear in it, necessitates an examination 
of every entry in the volume. 
Other useful items are : — 
British Topography, or an Historical Account of what has 
been done for illustrating the Topographical Antiquities of Great 
Britain and Ireland. Volume I., 4to, 1780, lii. and 792 pp. 
and 62 pages of indexes (unnumbered) ; Volume II., 1780, 
* On the last volume the name of Sir William Jardine is added to the 
title-page. Reference is made to a proposed supplementary volume, but 
this was never issued. 
f From 1 891 onward, and until quite recently, Messrs. Constable have 
published an 'Annual Index of Archaeological Papers,' which many of the 
societies purchased and had bound up with their Transactions. 
