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fince, and bound up in 2 Volumes in large Folio, are now 
to be feen in the Library of his Grace the Archbifhop of 
Canterbury, in St Martins , collected and put together at 
no fmall coft and pains ^ perhaps the fir It of that kind 
that ever was done in any part of Europe. 
I conclude wich informing you, that iri this Treat ife I. 
fhall give an Hiftorical Account of the fevera! V^rfions 
and Impreffions of the Holy Bible , Tefiament , Pfalms, Pri- 
.mr, and other Books of Devotion, from the beginning of 
the Reformation down to 1600. At firft I had no thought 
to have inferted them, but fome Collections coming into 
my Hands of late, wherein I find feveral material Paffages 
not mentioned by any that have gone before me, fo am- 
ply and fully, as I (hall for the Information, and at the 
Requeft of ray particular Friends, treat of them in a di* 
ftinft Chapter. 
* 
An Account of Mr. Bagford’r Colle&ions for bis HU 
Jlory of Printing, by Mr. Humfrey Wanley, 
f. % S. 
H is Collection confifts chiefly of Title-Pages and other 
fragments put together into Books, many of them 
in tome fort of Order and Method, and otheis not. 
Ex. gr. 
In one Volume there are Specimens of Letters of all 
forts, as well of thofe ufed in Foreign Countries, as in 
England. 
In another are Titles and Fragments of Almanacks from 
A.D. 1 537. downwards ^ with Titles of Bibles, l uvp- 
Bo»ks, &c. Printed by tne Company of Stationers tn Lon- 
don. 
14 X 2 
In 
