but, like his predecessors, he was suddenly crushed within
the gripe of the demon, and fell one of the most splendid of his
victims. Even the unrivalled medical skill of Mead[38] could save
neither his friend nor himself. The Doctor survived his Lordship about
twelve years; dying of the complaint called the BIBLIOMANIA! He left
behind an illustrious character; sufficient to flatter and soothe
those who may tread in his footsteps, and fall victims to a similar
disorder.

[Footnote 31: Of MICHAEL MAITTAIRE I have given a brief
sketch in my Introduction to the _Greek and Latin Classics_,
vol. I, 148. Mr. Beloe, in the 3rd vol. of his _Anecdotes of
Literature_, p. ix., has described his merits with justice.
The principal value of Maittaire's _Annales Typographici_
consists in a great deal of curious matter detailed in the
notes; but the absence of the "lucidus ordo" renders the
perusal of these fatiguing and dissatisfactory. The author
brought a full and well-informed mind to the task he
undertook--but he wanted taste and precision in the
arrangement of his materials. The eye wanders over a vast
indigested mass; and information, when it is to be acquired
with excessive toil, is, comparatively, seldom acquired.
Panzer has adopted an infinitely better plan, on the model
of Orlandi; and, if his materials had been _printed_ with
the same beauty with which they appear to have been
composed, and his annals had descended to as late a period
as those of Maittaire, his work must have made us,
eventually, forget that of his predecessor. The
bibliographer is, no doubt, aware that of Maittaire's first
volume there are two editions. Why the author did not
reprint, in the second edition (1733), the facsimile of the
epigram and epistle of LASCAR prefixed to the edition of the
Anthology 1496, and the disquisition concerning the ancient
editions of Quintilian (both of which were in the first
edition of 1719), is absolutely inexplicable. Maittaire was
sharply attacked for this absurdity, in the "Catalogus
Auctorum," of the "_Annus Tertius Saecularis Inv. Art.
Topog._" Harlem, 1741, 8vo. p. 11. "Rara certe Librum
augendi methodus (exclaims the author)! Satis patet auctorem
hoc eo fecisse consilio, ut et primae et secundae Libri sive
editioni pretium suum constaret, et una aeque ac a