rien derobe!" And he then quotes,
apparently with infinite delight, a passage from the _Quarterly
Review_, (No. LXIII. June 1825) in which I am designated as having
"extraordinary talents for ridicule!" But how my talents "for
ridicule" (of which I very honestly declare my unconsciousness) can be
supposed to bear upon the above "prick of conscience," is a matter
which I have yet to learn. My amiable friend might have perhaps
somewhat exceeded the prescribed line of his duty in letting me have
the key of the Library in question--but, can a declaration of such
confidence not having been MISPLACED, justify the flippant remarks of
my Annotator?]

[216] [It is now published in an entire state by the above competent
Editor.]

[217] See the authorities quoted, and the subject itself handled, in the
_Bibliographical Decameron_, vol. i. p. 316, &c.

[218] [Here again my sensitive Annotator breaks out into something little
short of personal abuse, for my DARING to _doubt_ what all the world
before had held in solemn _belief_! Still, I will continue to doubt;
without wishing this doubt to be considered as "paroles d'Evangile"--
as M. Crapelet expresses it.]

[219] Fully described in the _Bibl. Spenceriana_, vol. i. p. 39, with
a fac-simile of the type.

[220] A fac-simile of this device appears in a Latin Bible, without name of
printer, particularly described in the _AEdes Althorpianae_; vol. ii. p.
41. Hence we learn that the Bible in question, about the printer of
which there appears to be some uncertainty among bibliographers, was
absolutely printed by Gotz.

[221] The imperfect copy, being a duplicate, was disposed of for a copy of
the _Bibl. Spenceriana_; and it is now in the fine library of the
Rt. Hon. T. Grenville. The very first glance at this copy will shew
that the above description is not overcharged.

[222] "These Duplicates related to some few articles of minor importance
belonging to the library of the Public School, and which had escaped a
former revision. The cession was made with due attention to forms, and
with every facility." Such (as I have reason to believe) is the remark
of M. Schweighaeuser himself. What follows--evidently by the hand of M.
Crapelet--is perfectly delicious ... of its kind. "That M. Dibdin
should have preferred such an indiscreet request to the Librarians in
q