LORD ORD Orford offered a valuable present to the antiquarians of his day in the edition of Hentzner's Travels in England, which he published at Strawberry Hill in 1757. It has since been reprinted, but several inscriptions on the public buildings, which appear in the original, have been uniformly omitted. The editor of this work having met with an original Hentzner has restored them, as they are not to be found in any other publication. It was also his intention to have added a few notes on those parts of the work, in which the author differs from some of the best topographers of bis time, but the attention required of him to a business of another nature has prevented the execution of it; the encouragement he has received from some few friends has induced him to proceed thus far. |