is propagated in this said book, so
partially distributed. As to works printed at a _Private Press_, we
have had a very recent testimony of the avidity with which certain
volumes, executed in this manner, and of which the impression has been
comparatively limited, have been sought after by book _Cognoscenti_.

[Footnote 456: The reader may not object to be made
acquainted with a few distinguished productions, printed for
PRIVATE DISTRIBUTION. The reader is indebted to Mr. Bulmer,
at whose elegant press these works were printed, for the
information which follows:--MUSEUM WORSLEYANUM; by Sir
_Richard Worsley_; 1798, 1802, Atlas Folio, 2 vols. The
first volume of this work, of which 200 copies were printed,
was finished in May, 1798, and circulated, with the plates
only of vol. ii., amongst the chosen friends of Sir Richard
Worsley, the author; who was, at that time, the diplomatic
Resident at Venice from our Court. The second volume, with
the letter-press complete, of which only 100 copies were
printed, was finished in 1802. The entire expense attending
this rare and sumptuous publication (of which a copy is in
the library of the Royal Institution) amounted to the
enormous sum of 27,000_l._ and from the irregularity of
delivering the second volume of plates, in the first
instance, without the letter-press, many of the copies are
incomplete.----THE FATHER'S REVENGE; _by the Earl of
Carlisle, K.G._ &c., 1800, 4to. A limited impression of this
very beautiful volume, decorated with engravings from the
pencil of Westall, was circulated by the noble author among
his friends. I saw a copy of it, bound in green morocco,
with the original letter of the donor, in the library of
Earl Spencer at Althorp.----MOUNT ST. GOTHARD: _By the late
Duchess of Devonshire_, folio. Only fifty copies of this
brilliant volume were printed; to a few of which, it is
said, Lady Diana Beauclerc lent the aid of her ornamental
pencil, in some beautiful drawings of the wild and romantic
scenery in the neighbourhood of Mount St.
Gothard.----DISSERTATION ON ETRUSCAN VASES; _by Mr.
Christie_. Imperial 4to. With elegant Engravings. Only 100
copies of this truly classical volume were printed. From the
death of one or two of the parties, who became originally
possessed of it, as a pres