Revickzkiana we are informed that the
_true_ Elzevir edition is known by having the plate of a
Buffalo's head at the beginning of the preface, and body of
the work: also by having the page numbered 153, which
_ought_ to have been numbered 149. A further account is
given in my Introduction to the Classics, vol. i., 228.

_Horace_: Londini, 1733, 8vo., 2 vols. Published by Pine.

The _true_ edition is distinguished by having at page 108,
vol ii, the _incorrect_ reading 'Post Est.'--for 'Potest.'

_Virgil._ Lug. Bat. 1636, 12mo. Printed by Elzevir.

The _true_ edition is known by having at plate 1, before the
Bucolics, the following Latin passage _printed in red ink_.
"Ego vero frequentes a te litteras accipi"--Consult De Bure,
No. 2684.

_Idem._ Birmingh. 1763, 4to. Printed by Baskerville.

A particular account of the _true_ edition will be found in
the second volume of my 'Introduction to the Classics' p.
337--too long to be here inserted.

_Boccaccio._ Il Decamerone, Venet. 1527, 4to.

Consult De Bure, No. 3667: Bandini, vol. ii., 24: (who
however is extremely laconic upon this edition, but copious
upon the anterior one of 1516) and Haym., vol. iii., p. 8,
edit. 1803. Bibl. Paris. No. 408. Clement. (vol. iv., 352,)
has abundance of references, as usual, to strengthen his
assertion in calling the edition 'fort rare.' The reprint or
spurious edition has always struck me as the prettier book
of the two.]

VIII. Books printed in the _Black Letter_. Of all symptoms of the
Bibliomania, this eighth symptom (and the last which I shall notice)
is at present the most powerful and prevailing. Whether it was not
imported into this country from Holland, by the subtlety of
Schelhorn[66] (a knowing writer upon rare and curious books) may be
shrewdly suspected. Whatever be its origin, certain it is, my dear
Sir, that books printed in the black letter are now coveted with an
eagerness unknown to our collectors in the last century. If the
spirits of West, Ratcliffe, Farmer and Brand, have as yet held any
intercourse with each other, in that place 'from whose bourne no
traveller returns,' what must be the surprise of the three former, on
being told by the latter, of the prices given for some of the books in
his library, as mentioned below!?[67]

[Footnote 66: His words are as follow: "Ipsa typ