{1} See illustrations, pp. 114, 115.--In this Project Gutenberg
eText none of the illustrations are included. However, the
references to them are included.--DP
{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 Moliere, et de celles de
sa femme. (A la Sphere.) A Francfort, chez Frederic 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. Annaei Senecae Opera Omnia. Lug. Bat., apud Elzevirios.
1649. With 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 gratia.
{9} La Journee du Chretien. Coutances, 1831. With inscription,
"Leon Gambetta. Rue St. Honore. Janvier 1, 1848."
{10} Villoison's Homer. Venice, 1788. With Tessier's ticket and
Schlegel's plate.
{11} Les Essais de Michel, Seigneur de Montaigne. "Pour Francois
le Febvre de Lyon, 1695." With autograph of Gul. Drummond, and
cipresso e palma.
{12} "The little old foxed Moliere," 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 Grece.
{15} See Essay on 'Lady Lovers.'
{16} See Essay on 'Lady 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} Bibliotheque d'un Bibliophile. Lille, 1885.
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