{12} See illustrations, pp. 114, 115.
{19} “Slate” is a professional term for a severe criticism. Clearly the
word is originally “slat,” a narrow board of wood, with which a person
might be beaten.
{66} _Histoire des Intrigues Amoureuses de Molière_, _et de celles de sa
femme_. (_A la Sphère_.) A Francfort, chez Frédéric Arnaud, MDCXCVII.
This anonymous tract has actually been attributed to Racine. The copy
referred to is marked with a large N in red, with an eagle’s head.
{67a} _The Lady of the Lake_, 1810.
_The Lay of the Last Minstrel_, 1806.
“To Mrs. Robert Laidlaw, Peel. From the Author.”
{67b} _Dictys Cretensis_. Apud Lambertum Roulland. Lut. Paris., 1680.
In red morocco, with the arms of Colbert.
{67c} _L. Annæi Senecæ Opera Omnia_. Lug. Bat., apud Elzevirios. 1649.
With book-plate of the Duke of Sussex.
{67d} _Stratonis Epigrammata_. Altenburgi, 1764. Straton bound up in
one volume with Epictetus! From the Beckford library.
{67e} _Opera Helii Eobani Hessi_. Yellow morocco, with the first arms
of De Thou. Includes a poem addressed “LANGE, _decus meum_.” Quantity
of penultimate “Eobanus” taken for granted, _metri gratiâ_.
{68a} _La Journée du Chrétien_. Coutances, 1831. With inscription,
“Léon Gambetta. Rue St. Honoré. Janvier 1, 1848.”
{68b} _Villoison’s Homer_. Venice, 1788. With Tessier’s ticket and
Schlegel’s book-plate.
{68c} _Les Essais de Michel_, _Seigneur de Montaigne_. “Pour François
le Febvre de Lyon, 1695.” With autograph of Gul. Drummond, and cipresso
e palma.
{68d} “The little old foxed Molière,” once the property of William Pott,
unknown to fame.
{73} That there ever were such editors is much disputed. The story may
be a fiction of the age of the Ptolemies.
{74} Or, more easily, in Maury’s _Religions de la Grèce_.
{94} See Essay on ‘Lady Book-Lovers.’
{102} See Essay on ‘Lady Book-Lovers.’
{107} For a specimen of Madame Pompadour’s binding see overleaf. She
had another Rabelais in calf, lately to be seen in a shop in Pall Mall.
{119a} Mr. Payne does not give the date of the edition from which he
copies the cut. Apparently it is of the fifteenth century.
{119b} Reproduced in _The Library_, p. 94.
{145} Country papers, please copy. Poets at a distance will kindly
accept this intimation.
{148} Bibliothèque d’un Bibliophile. Lille, 1885.