[1282] Several of them were editors, printers, and proprietors of the
books which they sold.
[1283] Their lamentable petition of the year 1472 has been inserted by
Fabricius in his Bibliotheca Latina. Hamburghi, 1772, 8vo, iii. p. 898.
See also Pütter von Büchernachdruck, p. 29.
[1284] Von Stetten, Kunst-geschichte von Augsburg, p. 43.
[1285] Le Mire, a Catholic clergyman, who was born in 1598, and died in
1640, wrote a work De Scriptoribus Ecclesiasticis Sæculi xvi., which
is printed in Fabricii Bibliotheca Ecclesiastica, Hamburgi 1718, fol.
The passage to which I allude may be found p. 232; but perhaps 1564 has
been given in Fabricius instead of 1554 by an error of the press.
[1286] Labbe Bibliotheca Bibliothecarum, Lips. 1682, 12mo, p. 112.
[1287] Hist. Lit. i. p. 203.
[1288] Conspectus Reip. Litter, c. vi. § 2, p. 316.
[1289] [The earliest known catalogue of English printed books on sale
by a London bookseller, was published in 1595, by Andrew Maunsell, in
folio. It was classed and consisted of two parts; the first containing
_Divinity_, the second the _Arts and Sciences_; a third, containing
History and Polite Literature, was intended but never published.]
[1290] Frankf. 1765, 4to, p. 500.
[1291] [Bücher Lexicon; a Catalogue of books printed in Europe, to
1750; with supplements to 1758, 8 parts in 4 vols. folio. A very
elaborate compilation, in which the title, place of publication, name
of publisher, date, size, number of sheets, and publication price,
of all the books known at the time, are given, including even those
printed as early as 1462. It mentions however a great many books which
never existed.]
[1292] Francofurti, ex offic. Joannis Saurii, impensis Petri Kopffii,
1602, 4to. The first part contains 563 pages, and the second 292.