As the augmentation of information introduced into this Directory, is so considerably more weighty than was originally intended, or at all contemplated, the Editor judges it
expedient to explain the mode of its arrangement, and he begs to impress on the recollection of the Subscribers, and others who may have the Work in their possession, that the alphabetical lists of the names, which are annexed to London, Edinburgh, Glasgow, etc, are as plain, simple, and easy of comprehension, as the alphabet of a Ledger, and are for the express purpose of finding any name in the classification, when the trade or designation of a person is not precisely known. The figures in these lists point to the columns in the trades, which are all numbered at the top, and the pages are numbered invariably at
the bottom.
