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THE HUNTERIAN CLUB.
GENERAL NOTICE. OF THE CLUB.
The Hunterian Club was founded in Glafgovv in the year
1 87 1 by a few men of literary tafles who were in the habit
of meeting each other frequently, fometimes in one another's
houfes, bat more often in the " back-fhop " of one of the local
bookfellers, where many an interefling fympofium was held.
About the " fixties " of laft century there arofe a marked
revival of the tafle for reprints of the works of authors of the
16''' and 17* centuries which had been fo prominent about
fifty years previoully, but in all the later fchemes far too little
attention appeared to be paid to fecure exact accuracy in the
tranfcripts of the original text of the authors chofen for
reprint, while there was a great mixing up of various editions,
and a conRant overloading with editorial notes more or lefs
relevant.
After long and anxious deliberation it was finally decided that
there was dill room for another reprinting club, more nearly
on the lines of the old Glafgow " Maitland Club " than any of
the recent ones, whofe object fliould be the reproduction of
the works of Scottifli writers of Elizabethan times, its motto
being more particularly a pure text, taken always from firll
editions when obtainable, and fo far as modern appliances lent
themfelves to it, giving an exact rendering of page, line, and
word, with the illuflrations, initial letters, &c., in facfimile.
For the new undertaking thus propofed to come into being,
under the fliadow, as it were, of the Univerfity of Glafgow, which
poffelTes the almofl pricelefs collection of manufcripts and printed