In parting with “Loves Garland” I would here offer my sincere thanks to our distinguished typographer, who has spared no pains to place before the reader as nearly as possible a fac-simile of the copy in the British Museum. The quaintness of the little work will I hope commend it to every “Odd Volume”; it is, moreover, now very scarce, which you will readily believe when I tell you that I have not been able to procure a copy—for “love” or “money”—even with our far-famed Librarian’s assistance.
Lowndes mentions Utterson’s copy as fetching £2. 14s. as far back as 1852; now, it is simply not to be had at all.
I have been at some trouble to gather together from various sources, public and private, the following collection of Posie Mottoes; I trust that
“Ye Garland of Ye Sette of Odd Volumes”
may be deemed a fitting and not altogether uninteresting “finale” to my first Opusculum, now offered to the members of the Sette.
