best works, as well as the result of many years practical experience, have been thrown into the form of a Poem; and those technical terms and phrases, as well as instructions and directions in the art, which could not well be brought into the smoothness of rhyme, have been added in the form of Notes, Appendix, &c.
To offer a poem of this kind to the Public, has been the sole aim of the Author, Editor, or Compiler (or whatever other appellation critical judgment shall be pleased to bestow on him ;) and if his work shall be allowed the further merit of being deemed worthy of a humble place in the library, he will have attained all, and even more, than he ever dared to hope for, as a pretender to poetry.