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Title: A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume Two

Author: Thomas Frognall Dibdin

Release Date: November 19, 2005 [EBook #17107]

Language: English

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A

BIBLIOGRAPHICAL

_Antiquarian_

AND

PICTURESQUE TOUR.

PRINTED BY WILLIAM NICOL, AT THE
Shakespeare Press.

[Illustration: ANN OF BRITTANY.
From an Illustrated Missal in the Royal Library at Paris.]

London. Published June 1829. by R. Jennings. Poultry.

A

BIBLIOGRAPHICAL

_Antiquarian_

AND

PICTURESQUE TOUR

IN

FRANCE AND GERMANY.

BY THE REVEREND
THOMAS FROGNALL DIBDIN, D.D.

MEMBER OF THE ROYAL ACADEMY AT ROUEN, AND OF THE
ACADEMY OF UTRECHT.

SECOND EDITION.

VOLUME II.

DEI OMNIA PLENA.

LONDON:

PUBLISHED BY ROBERT JENNINGS,
AND JOHN MAJOR.

1829.

CONTENTS OF VOLUME II.

CONTENTS.

VOLUME II.

LETTER I.

PARIS. _The Boulevards. Public Buildings. Street Scenery.
Fountains_. 1

LETTER II.

_General Description of the Bibliotheque du Roi. The
Librarians_. 42

LETTER III.

_The same subject continued_. 64

LETTER IV.

_The same subject continued_. 82

LETTER V.

PARIS. _Some Account of the early printed and rare
Books in the Royal Library_. 101

LETTER VI.

_Conclusion of the Account of the Royal Library. The
Library of the Arsenal_. 144

LETTER VII.

_Library of Ste. Genevieve.