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APPENDIX 
TO 
THE THREE TOWNS BIBLIOTHECA. 
BY R. N. WORTH, F.G.S. 
To compiling a Bibliotheca there is certainly no end. Eight years 
ago, in 1872, there appeared in the Transactions of the Plymouth 
Institution, under the title of the " Three Towns Bibliotheca," a 
list of works and papers in various ways connected with Plymouth 
and its sister towns, the result of several years' continuous re- 
search. That list contained the heads of about 1900 articles by 
some 700 authors, and appeared at the time to be as complete as 
circumstances admitted. In the following year I was enabled to 
add a supplement, partially as the result of the interest awakened 
in the subject by the appearance of my catalogue. Since then, 
thanks in no small degree to the growing claims upon public 
attention of all matters connected with Bibliography, I have been 
able so largely to add to the list, that, with the local productions 
dating between 1873 and 1880, the appendix now presented con- 
tains the record of upwards of 800 books and papers, all of local 
interest and connection, by over 300 authors, many of whom are now 
recorded for the first time. There must still remain many omissions ; 
but I do not think that, as a rule, they can be of any great 
importance. The Bibliotheca with its supplement and appendix 
in all probability presents therefore a fair and, with a few exceptions, 
a full statement of the literary work of the Three Towns for the 
three centuries over which its recorded history ranges, from the 
Treatise on Education, published by William Kempe, school- 
master here in the eventful year of the Armada, down to the date 
of the present volume of our Transactions. It is certain, moreover, 
that for a very large proportion of the entries there will ere long 
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