of this short
treatise; only I may be permitted to observe, with satisfaction, that
the head of the same see, at the present day, has given many proofs of
his attachment to those studies, and of his reward of such merit as
attracted the notice of his illustrious predecessor. It is with pain
that I am compelled to avow the paucity of publications, in our own
country, of a nature similar to the _Philobiblion_ of De Bury, even
for two centuries after it was composed; but while Leland was making
his library-tour, under the auspices of that capricious tyrant Henry
VIII., many works were planned _abroad_, which greatly facilitated the
researches of the learned.

[Footnote 99: "Anglica gens longe fuit negligentior in
consignandis ingeniorum monumentis; nihil enim ab illis
prodiit, quod mereatur nominari, cum tamen sint extentque
pene innumera ingeniossimae gentis in omnibus doctrinis
scripta, prodeantque quotidie, tam Latina, quam vernacula
lingua, plura," Morhof: _Polyhist. Literar._ vol. i. 205,
edit. 1747.

Reimmannus carries his strictures, upon the jealousy of
foreigners at the success of the Germans in bibliography,
with a high hand: "Ringantur Itali, nasum incurvent Galli,
supercilium adducant Hispani, scita cavilla serant Britanni,
frendeant, spument, bacchentur ii omnes, qui praestantiam
MUSARUM GERMANICARUM limis oculis aspiciunt," &c.--"hoc
tamen certum, firmum, ratum, et inconcussum est, GERMANOS
primos fuisse in Rep. Literaria, qui Indices Librorum
Generales, Speciales et Specialissimos conficere, &c. annisi
sunt."--A little further, however, he speaks respectfully of
our James, Hyde, and Bernhard. See his ably-written _Bibl.
Acroamatica_, pp. 1, 6.]

[Footnote 100: "_Sive de Amore Librorum._" The first
edition, hitherto so acknowledged, of this entertaining
work, was printed at Spires, by John and Conrad Hist, in
1483, 4to., a book of great rarity--according to Clement,
vol. v. 435; Bauer (_Suppl. Bibl. Libr. Rarior_, pt. i.
276); Maichelius, p. 127; and Morhof, vol. i. 187. Mons. De
La Serna Santander has assigned the date of 1473 to this
edition: see his _Dict. Bibliog. Chois._ vol. ii. 257,--but,
above all, consult Clement--to whom Panzer, vol. iii. p. 22,
very properly refers his readers. And yet some of Clement's
authorities do not exactly bear him out i