It is now high time to relieve you; as you must begin to be almost wearied
with BIBLIOGRAPHY. You have indeed, from the tenor of these five last
letters, been made acquainted with some of the chief treasures in the
principal libraries of Paris. You have wandered with me through a world of
books; and have been equally, with myself, astonished and delighted with
what has been placed before you. Here, then, I drop the subject of
bibliography--only to be resumed as connected with an account of book-men.

[91] [Because I have said that M. FLOCON was "from home" at the time I
visited the library, and that M. Le CHEVALIER was rarely to be found
abroad, M. Crapelet lets loose such a tirade of vituperation as is
downright marvellous and amusing to peruse. Most assuredly I was not
to know M. Flocon's bibliographical achievements and distinction by
_inspiration_; and therefore I hasten to make known both the one and
the other--in a version of a portion of the note of my sensitive
translator: "M. Flocon is always at work; and one of the most zealous
Librarians in Paris: he has worked twenty years at a Catalogue of the
immense Library of Ste. Genevieve, of which the fruits are,
twenty-four volumes--ready for press. Assuredly such a man cannot be
said to pass his life away from his post." CRAPELET, vol iv. p. 3, 4.
Most true--and who has said that HE DOES? Certainly not the Author of
this Work. My translator must have here read without his spectacles.]

[92] _Editiones Italicae_; 1793. _Praef._

[93] Vol. i. p. 63-7. It is there observed that "there does not seem to be
any reason for assigning this edition, to a _Roman_ press."

[94] See page 116 ante

[95] See page 139 ante.

[96] See page 145 ante.

[97] [Now the property of the Right Hon. T. Grenville; having been
purchased at the sale of Mr. Dent's Library for 107_l_.]

[98] M. Crapelet doubts the truth of this story. He need not.

[99] [See the account of M. Barbier, post.]

[100] It is on a small piece of paper, addressed to M. Barbier: "Cherchez
dans les depots bien soigneusement, tous les ouvrages d'ANDRE CIRINE:
entr'autres ses _De Venatione libri ii: Messanae_ 1650. 8vo. _De natura
et solertia Canum; Panormi_, 1653. 4to. _De Venatione et Natura
Animalium Libri V. ibid_, 1653. 3 vol. in 4to.--tous avec figures
gravees en bois. Peut etre dans la _Bibl. des Theatres_ y etoient-ils.