'Amongst the books destroyed are many of very great value, and some that can never be replaced. Not to mention a large quantity of handsome quarto Bibles, the works of Swift, Pope, Young, Thomson, Johnson, etc. etc., the _Annals of Commerce_, and other works which may still be elsewhere purchased, there are several consumed which cannot now be obtained at any price. The unsold copies of the introduction to the second volume of the _Sepulchral Monuments_; Hutchins' _Dorsetshire_; Bigland's _Gloucestershire_; Hutchinson's _Durham_; Thorpe's _Registrum_ and _Custumale Roffense_; the few numbers that remained of the _Bibliotheca Topographica_; the third volume of _Elizabethan Progresses_; the _Illustrations of Ancient Manners_; Mr. Gough's _History of Pleshy_, and his valuable account of the _Coins of the Seleucidæ_, engraved by Bartolozzi; Colonel de la Motte's _Allusive Arms_; Bishop Atterbury's _Epistolary Correspondence_; and last, not least, the whole of six portions of Mr. Nichols' _Leicestershire_, and the entire stock of the _Gentleman's Magazine_ from 1782 to 1807, are irrecoverably lost.' 'Of those in the press, the most important were the concluding portion of Hutchins' _Dorsetshire_ (nearly finished); a second volume of Manning and Bray's _Surrey_ (about half printed); Mr. Bawdwin's translation of _Domesday for Yorkshire_ (nearly finished); a new edition of Dr. Whitaker's _History of Craven_; Mr. Gough's _British Topography_ (nearly one volume); the sixth volume of _Biographia Britannica_ (ready for publishing); Dr. Kelly's _Dictionary of the Manx Language_; Mr. Neild's _History of Prisons_; a genuine unpublished comedy by Sir Richard Steele; Mr. Joseph Reid's unpublished tragedy of _Dido_; four volumes of the _British Essayists_; Mr. Taylor Combe's _Appendix to Dr. Hunter's Coins_; part of Dr. Hawes' annual report for 1808; a part of the _Biographical Anecdotes of Hogarth_; two entire volumes, and the half of two other volumes of a new edition of the anecdotes of Mr. Bowyer,' etc. Writing to Bishop Percy in July of that year, Nichols stated that he had lost £10,000 beyond his insurance in this outbreak.