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PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION.

THE design of the Author has been to attempt the compression of the greatest body of general information that has ever appeared in a single volume, and to produce a Book of Reference whose extensive usefulness may render its possession material to every individual-in the same manner that a London Directory is indispensable, on business affairs, to a London merchant. . . .

The Compiler persuades himself that the DICTIONARY OF DATES will be received as a useful companion to all Biographical works, relating, as it does, to things as those do to persons, and affording information not included in the range or design of such publications.

LONDON, May, 1841.

JOSEPH HAYDN.

[Died Jan. 17, 1856.]

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