Rogers' Directory of Norwich and Neighbourhood

By Edward Dawson Rogers

It is never pleasant to have to make apologies; and yet there are some circumstances under which an apology is a duty, and therefore, whether pleasant or not, should be ten-dered cheerfully. The present is a case in point. The work should have been published earlier, and would have been had it been possible. The truth is that the "Guide to Streets, &c.," was a novel experiment, and the compiler-having nobody's experience to guide him-thought the task an eas-ier one than it turned out to be. It was at first imagined that the matter for this "Guide" could be obtained simultaneous-ly with the information for the Directory itself. The attempt proved the mistake. It was found that to do both well they must be done distinctly and independently. Hence chiefly came the delay, to say nothing of the fact that for many "lo-cal habitations" it was very difficult to find the "name." In yards and courts not a few, and in some out-of-the-way streets even, not one of the inhabitants could give his whereabouts a designation The task, however, has been achieved at last; and it is trusted that upon the whole the public will think that it has been achieved well. A few er-rors have crept in, doubtless; but no labor and no care have been spared to avoid them. The hope is confidently cher-ished that the faults of the work will be forgiven for the sake of its excellencies, especially as the compiler promises to "do better next time."

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B08QBS1VHK
• ISBN13: 9798580061788
• Release Date: January 1
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 650 Pages
• Weight: 1.89 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"