Footnotes

  1. See illustrations, pp. 114, 115. ↩

  2. “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. ↩

  3. 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. ↩

  4. The Lady of the Lake, 1810.
    The Lay of the Last Minstrel, 1806.
    “To Mrs. Robert Laidlaw, Peel. From the Author.” ↩

  5. Dictys Cretensis. Apud Lambertum Roulland. Lut. Paris., 1680. In red morocco, with the arms of Colbert. ↩

  6. L. Annæi Senecæ Opera Omnia. Lug. Bat., apud Elzevirios. 1649. With book-plate of the Duke of Sussex. ↩

  7. Stratonis Epigrammata. Altenburgi, 1764. Straton bound up in one volume with Epictetus! From the Beckford library. ↩

  8. 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. ↩

  9. La Journée du Chrétien. Coutances, 1831. With inscription, “Léon Gambetta. Rue St. Honoré. Janvier 1, 1848.” ↩

  10. Villoison’s Homer. Venice, 1788. With Tessier’s ticket and Schlegel’s book-plate. ↩

  11. Les Essais de Michel, Seigneur de Montaigne. “Pour François le Febvre de Lyon, 1695.” With autograph of Gul. Drummond, and cipresso e palma. ↩

  12. “The little old foxed Molière,” once the property of William Pott, unknown to fame. ↩

  13. That there ever were such editors is much disputed. The story may be a fiction of the age of the Ptolemies. ↩

  14. Or, more easily, in Maury’s Religions de la Grèce. ↩

  15. See Essay on ‘Lady Book-Lovers.’ ↩

  16. See Essay on ‘Lady Book-Lovers.’ ↩

  17. 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. ↩

  18. Mr. Payne does not give the date of the edition from which he copies the cut. Apparently it is of the fifteenth century. ↩

  19. Reproduced in The Library, p. 94. ↩

  20. Country papers, please copy. Poets at a distance will kindly accept this intimation. ↩

  21. Bibliothèque d’un Bibliophile. Lille, 1885. ↩

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