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_Nine_ Inspire him; Let Poetic Fury fire him: Let the Poets one and all To his Genius Victims fall. [Decoration] * * * * * * * * * PROPOSALS For Printing by Subscriptions, The Antiquities of _Grub-street_: With OBSERVATIONS Critical, Political, Historical, Chronological, Philosophical, and Philological. By { JOHN WALTON and } { JAMES ANDREWS } Gent. [Decoration] This WORK will be Printed on a Superfine Royal Paper, in Ten Volumes, _Folio_: Each Volume to contain an Hundred Sheets; besides Maps, Cuts, and other proper Illustrations. The Price to _Subscribers_ is Fifty Guinea's each Set: Half Down, and Half on Delivery. No more to be Printed than what are Subscribed for. _Subscribers_ for Six Sets, have a Seventh _gratis_, as usual. The _Subscribers_ Names and Coats of Arms will be prefix'd to the Work. For those who are particularly Curious, some Copies will be Printed on Vellum, Rul'd and Illuminated, they paying the Difference. It is not doubted but this Great UNDERTAKING will meet with Encouragement from the Learned World, several Noble Persons having already Subscribed. SUBSCRIBERS are _Taken-in_ by the _Authors_, and most _Noted_ Booksellers in _London_, &c. _N. B._ The very _Cuts_ are worth the Money; there being, _inter alia_, above 300 curious Heads of Learned Authors, on large Copper-Plates, engraven by Mr. _Herman van Stynkenvaart_, from the Paintings, Busto's, and Basso-Relievo's of the Greatest Masters. [Decoration] * * * * * * * * * ADVERTISEMENT To all Gentlemen Booksellers, and others. At the House with Stone-Steps and Sash-Windows in _Hanover-Court_ in _Grape-Street_, vulgarly call'd _Grub-Street_, Liveth an _AUTHOR_, Who Writeth all manner of Books and Pamphlets, in Verse or Prose, at Reasonable Rates: And furnisheth, at a Minute's Warning, any Customer with Elegies, Pastorals, Epithalamium's and Congratulatory Verses adapted to all manner of Persons and Professions, Ready Written, with Blanks to insert the Names of the Parties Address'd to. He supplieth Gentlemen Bell-Men with Verses on all Occasions, at 12 _d._ the Dozen, or 10 _s._ the Gross; and teacheth them Accent and Pronuncia
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