richly deserve the public patronage.

[Footnote 464: In the _Quarterly Review_ for August, 1810,
this my second remedy for curing the disease of the
Bibliomania is considered as inefficient. I have a great
respect for this Review, but I understand neither the
premises nor conclusions therein laid down concerning the
subject in discussion. If "those who cannot afford to
purchase original publications must be content with entire
reprints of them" (I give the very words, though not the
entire sentence), it surely tends to lessen the degree of
competition for "the original publication." A sober reader,
or an economical book-buyer, wants a certain tract on the
ground of its utility:--but take my own case--who have very
few hundreds per annum to procure food for the body as well
as the mind. I wish to consult Roy's tract of "Rede me and
be not wroth," (vide p. 226, ante)--or the "Expedition into
Scotland" of 1544 (see Mr. Beloe's _Anecdotes of Literature
and Scarce Books_, vol. ii., p. 345), because these are
really interesting, as well as rare, volumes. There is at
present no reprint of either; and can I afford to bid ten or
twelve guineas for each of them at a public book-sale?
But--let them be faithfully _reprinted_, and even a golden
guinea (if such a coin be now in the pocket of a poor
bibliomaniac like myself) would be considered by me as
_dear_ terms upon which to purchase the _original_ edition!
The reviewer has illustrated his position by a model of the
Pigot diamond; and intimates that this model does not
"lessen the public desire to possess the original." Lord
Mansfield once observed that nothing more frequently tended
to perplex an argument than a simile--(the remark is
somewhere in _Burrows's Reports_); and the judge's dictum
seems here a little verified. If the glass or crystal model
could reflect _all the lustre_ of the original, it would be
of equal utility; but it cannot. Now the reprint _does_
impart _all_ the intelligence and intrinsic worth of the
original (for "the ugliness of the types" cannot be thought
worthy of aiding the argument one way or another) therefore
the reprint of Roy's poetical tract is not illustrated by
the model of the Pigot diamond: which latter cannot impart
the intrinsic value of the orig