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Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-08-17 00:00:00

NEW MAPS AND ATLAS

MICHELI'SMA.I3Oi THE UNITED STATES, to
which is added the greatest Part of BRITISH AMERICA,
MEXICO, and TEXAS ; the Lands belonging to the various
Tribes of Indians are distinctly defined. The Scale is Twenty-
five Miles to the Inch, the largest yet published, being, ac-
cording to the Government Surveys of the United States.—

Price £3 3s.
MICHELL'S MAP OF THE WORLD, tniAllercator's
Projection, with a Book of Reference of Nine Hundred
Pages, (Octavo.) This Map is justly considered by all who
have seen it to the best extant.—Price of Map and Book of
Reference, .£3 3s.
BRADFORD'S ATLAS OF NORTH AMERICA, com-
prising a General Map of North America, Maps of each of
the United States, Texas, Upper and Lower Canada, New
Brunswick, Nova Scotia, &c., &c., with a copious History
from the First Settlements, and full Statistical Information.
—Price £4 'is.
To be had of the Agent, Mr. FITZPATRICK, No. 20, Ex-
change-street East, or at the STANDARD-OFFICE,

Now publishing, in Monthly Parts, with Two Illustrations,
Price 3s each,
THE HOLY BIBLE, with Notes, Practical Observa-
tions, and Marginal References.
By the late Rev. THOMAS SCOTT,
Rector of Aston Sandford. .../
WITII EIGHTY-FOUR ILLUSTRATIONS AND MAP/
(To be completed in Forty-two Parts.) r
The Lord Chancellor having dissolved the injup6tion ob-
tained against Messrs. Fisher and Co., on the ground that
the distinction between the two editions was obvious that
,"obvious
no one would be deceived by their advertise nt, and there-
fore no injury would be sustained by the p intiffs, the Pro-
prietors of the Standard Edition (the only one which does
contain the author's last corrections and additions) feel it
necessary to state fully and explicitly the difference which
exists between that edition and the fourth, from which
Messrs. Fisher and Co. are reprinting.
Five successive editions of Mr. Scott's great work were
printed (excepting a few sheets of the last edition) in the
author's lifetime. The first edition appeared in the earsy
1788-1792 ; the second in the years 1802-1807 ; the third
in the years 1807-1811. All these three editions were re-
vised and carried through the press by Mr. Scott himself.
In the year 1811, Mr. Scott sold the copyright of his work
to the present proprietors, who, in the year 1812 published a
fourth edition, which was printed with too great haste, and
in carrying which through the press Mr. Scott had no part.
In a letter printed in his Life, of the date of March 3,1818,
he says., " As 1 was not employed about the last edition,"
&c. He continually complained of its incorrectness, and in
another letter, now in the possession of the proprietors, he
adds, "Few things have more mortified me than i
erat has
ill
done ; especially as, while I live, the public in genl w
impute its inaccuracies to me."
This edition, then, the fourth of the date 1812, being the
only one printed in his lifetime which Mr. Scott did not su-
perintend, and the one whose numerous errors caused him
so much mortification, is the one which Messrs. Fisher and
re
Co. are now publAin
"g; and which they announce as
the last which was published by Mr. Scott when in the
vigour of life." The fact being that it was never published
or edited by Mr. Scott at all!
Subsequently, however, to this edition of 1812, Mr. Scott
undertook, at the re
final revision of theciues of the proprietors,
,another and a
" work, " for an edition, as he himself
expresses it, which
worm as long as it should THE
be TILL STANDARD OF TE
might exist."—(Life, p. 310.) This
longest and most laboriouso revision occupied the greater part
of his time, for several the last years of his life. In the
course of this revision et
buelkmoade many most important addi-
tions ; increasing the
off the work to the extent of
lour hundred pages ' nmoneessrs.wpich new matter, being
miesher's edition.
copy-
right, can be given in
Under these circumstances,
purclsrsars. Fisher, foreseeing that
the public would not readily
ppearsethso defective an edition,
_, thatar
have latterly tried to make it a these improvements
Scott, like most
were not Mr. Scott's. Observinc,
other authors of voluminous works, was obliged to avail him-
selftleman of the
of the services of a literary assistant, a
(withouetstight years
name of Dawes, who resided with him for tgeel
that the additions of his life, they have recently asserted
ground whatever for such an assertion) any
, Mr.
Dawes
!
question were made by Mr. Dawes, and not by Mr.tigns in
In answer to which most unjustifiable assertion
April 12, has distinctly declared that
has himself come forward, and in a letter to the' editor o thees
Record newspaper, of
the whole authorship of that edition was Mr. Scott's, and
Mr. Scott's alone ; and that " it is insufferabl
Y -nsu.t.ng to
the memory of that great man, to convey the impression that
he would permit his principal work to be patched up by
another person."
la
And with this full expnation, the proprietors now leave
the whole case with the public. They cannot doubt that
every purchaser who is at all careful as mill the intrinsic
character of the work he is ordering,
prefer that
edition which Mr. Scott designed to be " the standard of
the work so long as it should exist." The price of the com-
plete work in six volumes, with a large type, is only six
guineas ; and a new edition, with engravings, is publishing
in 42 monthly parts, at 3s. each : while the imperial octavo
copy, which is greatly superior to Messrs. Fisher ri, is now
reduced to the very low price of three guineas in cloth.t
Published by L. and G. Seeley, Fleet-street; J. Hachard
and Son, Piccadilly, R. B. Seeley and W. Burnside, Fleet-
treet ; and J. Nisbet and Co., Berners-street.

rrHE commissioners in a fiat in bankruptcy, bearing date
1. the 2d day of April, 1841, awarded and issued forth
against RICHARD JONES, of Liverpool in the county of
Lancaster, blockmaker and shipsmith, deafer and chapman,
;intend to meet on the 30th day of August instant, at One
ei go
John-street, in Liverpool aforesaid, ' order to audit the
.accounts of the assignee of the estat nd effects of the said
:bankrupt, under the said fiat, pursuant to an act of parlia-
ment made and passed in the sixth year of the reign of His
late Majesty King George the Fourth, intituled, " An act to
amend the laws relating to bankrupts."
JOHN LOWE, Lord-street, Liverpool,
Solicitor to the Assignee.