The Author gratefully acknowledges his indebted ness to his esteemed friend john bullock, Esq., of Sevenoaks, for the generous loan of his valuable col lection of old and scarce handbills, advertisements, and engravings relating to giants and dwarfs, by the use of which materials the Author has added much to the interest and importance of this book. He also tenders his best thanks to Dr. Robert bigsby, the learned historian of Repton; to Dr. W. T. Iliff, and to T. C. Noble, Esq., for many useful hints and notes upon the subject-matter of this work.
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