Front matter
Reading edition
Transcriber’s Note:
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MERCIA, THE ASTRONOMER ROYAL: A Romance.
BY
A. GARLAND MEARS,
AUTHOR OF
‘IDYLLS, LEGENDS, AND LYRICS,’ ‘THE STORY OF A TRUST,’ ‘TALES OF OUR TOWN,’ ETC.
LONDON:
SIMPKIN, MARSHALL, HAMILTON, KENT & CO. Ltd.
4 STATIONERS’-HALL COURT.
1895.
All rights reserved.
PRINTED BY
SPOTTISWOODE AND CO., NEW-STREET SQUARE
LONDON
MERCIA
THE ASTRONOMER ROYAL.
‘Whoever knows the origin, the entrance, the locality, and the five-fold power of life enjoys immortality.’
From The Prasna, in Bibliotheca Indica.