LAUDE PIERRE GOUJET, in eighteen
volumes, crown 8vo., 1741, like the similar work of Niceron,
is perhaps a little too indiscriminate in the choice of its
objects: good, bad, and indifferent authors being enlisted
into the service. But it is the chef-d'oeuvre of Goujet,
who was a man of wonderful parts; and no bibliographer can
be satisfied without it. Goujet was perhaps among the most
learned, if not the "facile princeps," of those who
cultivated ancient French literature. He liberally assisted
Niceron in his Memoires, and furnished Moreri with 2000
corrections for his Dictionary.]

[Footnote 141: The "_Bibliotheque Curieuse, Historique et
Critique, ou Catalogue raisonne de Livres difficiles a
trouver_," of DAVID CLEMENT, published at Gottingen,
Hanover, and Leipsic, in 9 quarto volumes, from the year
1750 to 1760--is, unfortunately, an unfinished production;
extending only to the letter H. The reader may find a
critique upon it in my _Introduction to the Greek and Latin
Classics_, vol. i., p. 370; which agrees, for the greater
part, with the observations in the _Bibl. Crevenn._, vol.
v., 290. The work is a _sine qua non_ with collectors; but
in this country it begins to be--to use the figurative
language of some of the German bibliographers--"scarcer than
a white crow,"--or "a black swan." The reader may admit
which simile he pleases--or reject both! But, in sober
sadness, it is very rare, and unconscionably dear. I know
not whether it was the same CLEMENT who published "_Les cinq
Annees Litteraires, ou Lettres de M. Clement, sur les
ouvrages de Litterature, qui ont parus dans les Annees
1748--a 1752_;" Berlin, 1756, 12mo., two volumes. Where is
the proof of the assertion, so often repeated, that Clement
borrowed his notion of the above work from WENDLER'S
_Dissertatio de variis raritatis librorum impressorum
causis_, Jen., 1711, 4to.?--Wendler's book is rare among us:
as is also BERGER'S _Diatribe de libris rarioribus, &c._,
Berol. 1729, 8vo.]

[Footnote 142: The principal biographical labours of this
clever man have the following titles: "_Histoire de
l'Imprimerie_," La Haye, 1740, 4to.--an elegant and
interesting volume, which is frequently consulted by
typographical antiquaries. Of MERCIER'S supplement to it,