It has been [the Publishers'] object to produce a manual or reference which, by systematic arrangement in the original design, and by care and accuracy in its execution, should secure the confidence of the public; and they believe they may without vanity assume that they have ... all the varied fund of information which might appropriately come within the compass of a national Scottish Almanac. ... They have thus succeeded in presenting a compendium of useful intelligence superior to most publications of the kind in the Empire. In England it has often been regretted that there is no annual work of reference so full and comprehensive..... (From the preface.)
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