ch Academy) and a preface. _Three Supplements_ to
this catalogue were also, from time to time, circulated by
him; so that the purchaser must look sharply after these
acquisitions to his copy--as some one or the other of them
are generally missing. Peignot supposes there are only _two_
supplements. _Bibl. Curieuse_, p. 58. When Count Revickzky
came over to England, he made an offer to Earl Spencer to
dispose of the whole collection to his lordship, for a
certain "round sum" to be paid immediately into his hands,
and to receive, in addition, a yearly sum by way of annuity.
So speaks fame. Shortly after this contract was closed, the
Count died; and Earl Spencer, in consequence, for a
comparatively small sum (the result of an immediate and
generous compliance with the Count's wishes!), came into the
possession of a library which, united with his previous
magnificent collection, and the successful ardour with which
he has since continued the pursuit, places him quite at the
head of all the collectors in Europe--for early, rare,
precious, and beautiful, books. Long may he possess such
treasures!--and fleeing from the turbulence of politics, and
secluded as he is, both in the metropolis and at Althorp,
from the stunning noise of a city, may he always exclaim,
with Horace, as the Count did before him--

Sit mihi, quod nunc est, etiam minus; ut mihi vivam
Quod superest aevi, si quid superesse volunt Di.
Sit bona librorum et provisae frugis in annum
Copia, ne fluitem dubiae spe pendulus horae.

_Epist. Lib._ i.: _Epist._ xviii. v., 107.

Sir M.M. Sykes, Bart., has a copy of the edition of 1784
[which is in every respect the better one], printed upon
FINE VELLUM PAPER. A similar copy of the edition of 1794 is
noticed in the _Cat. de Caillard_,(1808) no. 2572. At the
sale of M. Meon's books, in 1804, a copy of the first
edition, charged with MS. notes of the celebrated Mercier
St. Leger, was sold for 30 livres.----RIVE. _Catalogue de la
Bibliotheque de l'Abbe Rive, par Archard_, Marseille, 1793,
8vo. A catalogue of the books of so sharp-sighted a
bibliographer as was the Abbe Rive cannot fail to be
interesting to the collector.----DU ROI [Louis XV.]
_Catalogus Codicum Manuscriptorum Bibliothecae Regiae (studio