m
beware of his MODERN VELLUMS!!]

[129] [I shall _now_ presume to say, that M. Renouard is a "VERY rich
man;" and has by this time added _another_ 500 bottles of
high-flavoured Burgundy to his previous stock. The mention of M.
Renouard's Burgundy has again chafed M. Crapelet: who remarks, that
"it is useless to observe how ridiculous such an observation is." Then
why _dwell_ upon it--and why quote three verses of Boileau to bolster
up your vapid prose, Mons. G.A. Crapelet.?]

[130] [The _second_ edition of this work, greatly enlarged and
corrected, appeared in 1825, in 3 volumes: printed very elegantly at
the son's (Paul Renouard's) office. Of this improved edition, the
father was so obliging as to present me with a copy, accompanied by a
letter, of which I am sure that its author will forgive the quotation
of its conclusion--to which is affixed his autograph. "Quoiqu'il en
soit, je vous prie de vouloir bien l'agreer comme un temoignage de nos
anciennes liaisons, et d'etre bien persuade du devouement sincere et
amical avec lequel je n'ai jamais cesse d'etre.

Votre tres humble Serviteur,

[Autograph: AulAug. Renouard]

[131] [Now completed in 60 volumes 8vo.: and the most copious and correct
of ALL the editions of the author. It is a monument, as splendid as
honourable, of the Publisher's spirit of enterprise. For particulars,
consult the _Library Companion_, p. 771, edit. 1824.]

[132] The year following the above description, the Catalogue, alluded to,
made its appearance under the title of "_Catalogue de la Bibliotheque
d'un Amateur_," in four not _very_ capacious octavo volumes: printed
by CRAPELET, who finds it impossible to print--_ill_. I am very glad
such a catalogue has been published; and I hope it will be at once a
stimulus and a model for other booksellers, with large and curious
stocks in hand, to do the same thing. But I think M. Renouard might
have conveniently got the essentials of his bibliographical gossipping
into _two_ volumes; particularly as, in reading such a work, one must
necessarily turn rapidly over many leaves which contain articles of
comparatively common occurrence, and of scarcely common interest. It
is more especially in regard to _modern_ French books, of which he
seems to rejoice and revel in the description--(see, among other
references, vol. iii. p