DEFENCE OF A BALD HEAD—THE STATIONERS' REGISTERS

I am about to supply a deficiency in my last volume of *Extracts from the Register of the Stationers' Company* (printed for the Shakespeare Society, 1849), and thereby set an example that I hope will be followed, in order that various works, regarding which I could give no, or only incomplete, information, may be duly illustrated. It is impossible to expect that any one individual could thoroughly accomplish such an undertaking; and, by means of your excellent periodical, it will be easy for literary men, who possess scarce or unique books, mentioned in the Registers and in my quotations from…