TO THE READER. 
When I begun this work I intended a whole fyftem of anatomy ador¬ 
ned with the comparative, in three volumes in this manner, provided I 
found any encouragement. This volume being nearly finifhed it was offered 
by fubfeription (without felicitations) at four guineas, with a promife that 
none fliould be fold afterwards for lei's than fix; but meeting with little 
fucccls, the further profecution of this defign was laid afide: This volume 
is made above twenty per cent, (which I always intended) better than the 
fubfeription propofals. There arc no more printed in englifh than three 
hundred, and one hundred prints are taken off defigned for a latin or 
french edition, which being finifficd, the plates fliall be deffroyed that the 
price of the book may never fink in the poffeffion of the fubferibers. 
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