izie dell' Opere stampate dall' Anno
1462, sino all' Anno 1500_." Bologna, 1722, 4to. Of this
work, which is rather a compendious account of the several
books published in the period above specified, there are
copies upon strong WRITING PAPER--which the curious prefer.
Although I have a long time considered it as superseded by
the labours of Maittaire and Panzer, yet I will not withhold
from the reader the following critique: "Cet ouvrage doit
presque necessairement etre annexe a celui de Maittaire a
cause de plusieurs notices et recherches, qui le rendent
fort curieux et interessant." _Bibl. Crevenn._, vol. v.,
286-7. As we are upon publications treating of Typography,
we may notice the "_Annalium Typographicorum selecta quaedam
capita_," Hamb., 1740, 4to., of LACKMAN; and HIRSCHIUS'S
supplement to the typographical labours of his
predecessors--in the "_Librorum ab Anno I. usque ad Annum L.
Sec. xvi. Typis exscriptorum ex Libraria quadam
supellectile, Norimbergae collecta et observata, Millenarius
I._" &c. Noriberg, 1746, 4to. About this period was
published a very curious, and now uncommon, octavo volume,
of about 250 pages, by SEIZ; called "_Annus Tertius
Saecularis Inventae Artis Typographicae_," Harlem, 1741--with
several very interesting cuts relating to Coster, the
supposed inventor of the art of printing. It is a little
strange that Lysander, in the above account of eminent
typographical writers, should omit to mention
CHEVILLIER--whose _L'Origine de l'Imprimerie de Paris, &c._,
1694, 4to., is a work of great merit, and is generally found
upon every bibliographer's shelf. Baillet had supplied him
with a pretty strong outline, in his short account of
Parisian printers. All the copies of Chevillier's book,
which I have seen, are printed upon what is called Foxey
paper. I believe there are none upon LARGE PAPER. We may
just notice LA CAILLE'S _Histoire de l'Imprimerie et de la
Librarie_, 1689, 4to., as a work full of errors. In order
that nothing may be wanting to complete the typographical
collection of the curious, let the "portraits of booksellers
and printers, from ancient times to our own," published at
Nuremberg, in 1726, folio--and "the Devices and Emblems" of
the same, published at the same place, in 1730, folio,