pistle._ [These last seven articles are
taken from Mr. Cuthell's catalogue of 1811.] I should add
that a much more copious and complete list, though not
possessing all the intelligence here communicated, was
prepared by the late Mr. George Baker for press; and printed,
since his decease, for donations to his particular friends.
Only twenty copies of this bibliographical brochure are said
to have been executed. We will now take leave of the PRELUM
WALPOLIANUM by subjoining a copy of the most elegant
title-page vignette which ever issued from it.

[Illustration: FARI QUAE SENTIAT]

Before the reader's eyes are finally turned from a
contemplation of this elegant device--and as connected with
the subject of PRIVATE PRESSES--let me inform him that the
Marquis of Bute is in possession of a thin folio volume,
exhibiting paintings, upon vellum, of the various devices
used by Pope Sixtus V., in the frontispieces of the several
works which issued from the APOSTOLICAL PRESS, while he
filled the Papal Chair. To a tasteful bibliomaniac, few
volumes would afford so much delight as a contemplation of
the present one. It is quite a _keimelion_ in its way!]

LYSAND. I do; but I have not so ardent an admiration of these
volumes, as the generality of collectors. On the contrary, I think
that the _Hafod Press_ has, by one single production only, outweighed
the whole of the _Walpolian_ lucubrations; at least on the score of
utility.

I might here add, to the foregoing symptoms, a passion to possess
works which have been _suppressed_, _condemned_, or _burnt_; but all
these things rank under the head of _causes of the rarity_ of books;
and as an entire volume might be written upon _this_ symptom _alone_,
I can here only allude to to [Transcriber's Note: second 'to'
erroneous] the subject; hoping some diligent bibliographer will one
day do for _us_ what foreigners have done for other nations.

Thus have I, rather slightly, discussed the _Symptoms of the Disease,
called_ =The Bibliomania=. During this discussion, I see our friend has
been busy, as he was yesterday evening, in making sketches of notes;
and if you examine the finished pictures of which such outlines may be
made productive, you will probably have a better notion of the
accuracy of my classification of these symptoms.

It is much to be wished, whatever may be the whims of des