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APPENDIX.<br />

In <strong>the</strong> preparation <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> foregoing Catalogue, several works by o<strong>the</strong>r Authors were<br />

met with which have considerable interest from <strong>the</strong>ir connection with <strong>the</strong> works<br />

<strong>of</strong> Napier.<br />

It seemed desirable to preserve a record <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>m, and <strong>the</strong>y are accordingly<br />

given below, with such particulars as were noted at <strong>the</strong> time.<br />

Napiers I Narration I :<br />

Or, An Epitome | Of His Booke On <strong>The</strong>]<br />

|<br />

I<br />

Revelation. Wherein are divers Misteries disclosed,<br />

I |<br />

touching <strong>the</strong><br />

foure Beasts, seven Vials, seven Trumpets,] seven Thunders, and<br />

seven Angels, as also a discovery <strong>of</strong> | Antichrist : toge<strong>the</strong>r with<br />

very probable conjectures touching <strong>the</strong> <strong>the</strong> time <strong>of</strong> his destruction,<br />

and <strong>the</strong> end <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> World.]A Subject very seasonable for<br />

|<br />

I<br />

<strong>the</strong>se last Times.]<br />

Revel. 22. 12. 1 And behold I come shortly, and my reward is with me, to give to<br />

every man 1 according as his worke shall be.<br />

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London, Printed by R.<br />

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O. and G. D. for Giles Calvert, 1641.<br />

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4°. Size inches. Ai^ Title. Ai^ blank. A2^-C3^ 20 pages,<br />

^'Napier's Narration Or An Epitome <strong>of</strong> his Booke on <strong>the</strong> Revelation." C4,<br />

2 pages, blank.<br />

Signatures. A, B, and C in fours = 12 leaves.<br />

Paging. 2 + 20 + 2=24 pages, not numbered.<br />

Errors in Signatures. C2 numbered in error C3.<br />

This tract is written in <strong>the</strong> form <strong>of</strong> a dialogue, wherein RoUock is<br />

made <strong>the</strong> scholar and Napier <strong>the</strong> master : see Memoirs, p. 175.<br />

Libraries. Brit. Mus. Lon.; Bodl. Oxf.;<br />

<strong>The</strong>

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