UPON VELLUM.
Catullus 1472 }
Plautus 1472 }
Ovidii Opera _Bonon._ 1471 }

The public is indebted to Mr. Edwards for the timely supply
of the foregoing bibliographical intelligence.]

Ever ardent in his love of past learning, and not less voracious in
his bibliomaniacal appetites, was the well known NARCISSUS LUTTRELL.
Nothing--if we may judge from the spirited sketch of his book
character, by the able editor[366] of Dryden's works--nothing would
seem to have escaped his Lynx-like vigilance. Let the object be what
it would (especially if it related to _poetry_) let the volume be
great or small, or contain good, bad, or indifferent warblings of the
muse--his insatiable craving had "stomach for them all." We may
consider his collection as the fountain head of those copious streams
which, after fructifying the libraries of many bibliomaniacs in the
first half of the eighteenth century, settled, for a while, more
determinedly, in the curious book-reservoir of a Mr. WYNNE--and hence,
breaking up, and taking a different direction towards the collections
of Farmer, Steevens, and others, they have almost lost their identity
in the innumerable rivulets which now inundate the book-world.

[Footnote 366: "In this last part of his task, the editor
(Walter Scott) has been greatly assisted by free access to a
valuable collection of fugitive pieces of the reigns of
Charles II., James II., William III., and Queen Anne. This
curious collection was made by NARCISSUS LUTTRELL, Esq.,
under whose name the Editor usually quotes it. The
industrious collector seems to have bought every poetical
tract, of whatever merit, which was hawked through the
streets in his time, marking carefully the price and date of
the purchase. His collection contains the earliest editions
of many of our most excellent poems, bound up, according to
the order of time, with the lowest trash of Grub-street. It
was dispersed on Mr. Luttrell's death," &c. Preface to _The
Works of John Dryden_, 1808: vol. i., p. iv. Mr. James
Bindley and Mr. Richard Heber are then mentioned, by the
editor, as having obtained a great share of the Luttrell
collection, and liberally furnished him with the loan of the
same, in order to the more perfect editing of Dryden's
Works. But it is to