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BURNETS HISTORY OF THE REFORMATION.
The History of the Reformation of the Church of England , by Gilbert Burnet , D.D., late Lord Bishop of Salisbury—with the Collection ofRecords and a copious Index, revised and corrected, with additionalNotes and a Preface, by the Rev. E. Nares, D.D., late Professor ofModern History in the University of Oxford , lllustrated with a Fron-tispiece and twenty-three elegantly engraved Portraits, forming fourelegant Svo. volumes.
*** The established eharacter of Bishop Bumet’s History of the Reformation as a Stand-ard work, and most Yaluable historical authority, renders it unnecessary for the AmericanPublishers to enter into any analysis of its merit, further than briefly to state the advanta-ges of this edition over all others.
“ Often as this celebrated History of the Reformation of the Church of England hasbeen printed and published, often as it has been read, and continually as it has been refer-red to by successive writers, interested in the important subject of which it treats; yetone thing seems to have been constantjy overlooked, namely, the necessity of a distinctPreface to pomt out, and to explain to readers in general, the particular eharacter of thepublication.
“ It is a work of too great magnitude to be repeatedly read through, and though its emi-nence as an historical work, must always be such as to renderit imperatively necessary forcertain writers to consult its pages, yet in every reprint of it, it should be comemplated bythe publisher not merely as a book of reference, but as one to he read like other books ofhistory regularly from the beginning to the end, not by professed scholars only, or by per-sons already versed in history, civil or ecclesiastical, but by such as maybe only beginningtheir historical inquiries and researches—young readers and mere students.
“ Scarcely any other bookof equal importance, perhaps, Stands so mueh in need ofprelimi-nary explanations, as this great work of the celebrated writer whose name it bears. And itmust often, we should think, have been a matter of just surprise to the readers of this his-tory, that, in the editions hitherto published, the errors in the first and second volumes havebeen reprinted, which the author himself noticed at the end of the third volume. In thepresent edition the text will be found corrected as it should be, and many explanatory notesadded throughout the work.”— Editor's Preface.