Book Auctions in England: In the Seventeenth Century (1676-1700)

Excerpt from Book Auctions in England: In the Seventeenth Century (1676-1700); With a Chronological List of the Book Auctions of the PeriodEngland, that I could not do better than let the auctioneers of the' time speak for themselves, which they do in their quaint and often useful and informing Prefaces. The most interesting of these Prefaces have therefore been copied in full, with all their singular turns of spelling, grammar and phrase.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.