No. Committee of Publication : WILLIAM H. WHITMORE. TWENTY COPIES, LARGE paper. ONE HUNDRed and fifTY COPIES, SMALL PAPER. TWENTY COPIES, UNNUMbered, for THE TREASURER. TO THE READER. HE "Life and Errors of John Dunton, late Citizen of London," first published in that city in 1705, has been for many years a standard book of reference for its defcription of New England in 1686. In that year Dunton paid a short visit to this country, and having written hence many letters to his friends in England, he made a free ufe of them in defcribing that portion of his life. This account of his vifit occupies p. 101-195 in the original edition. In 1818, a new edition, with an accompanying volume of extracts from Dunton's other books, was published in London, by John Bowyer Nichols, and was embellished with a portrait of the author. In 1814, the Massachusetts Hiftorical Society, in its 2nd S. vol. ii, p. 97-124, reprinted the portion of the "Life" which related to New-England. At the end of his fecond volume, Mr. Nichols added a lift of manufcripts formerly belonging to Dunton, which were contained in two volumes among the Rawlinfon MSS. in the Bodleian Library, Oxford. Among them he mentions. eight |