and elegant painting, by Fuseli, of this distinguished
author and printer--the portraits being executed after the
most authentic representations. Erasmus is in the act of
calmly correcting the press, while Froben is urging with
vehemence some emendations which he conceives to be of
consequence, but to which his master seems to pay no
attention! And now having presented the reader (p. 221,
ante) with the _supposed_ study of Colet, nothing remains
but to urge him to enter in imagination, with myself, into
the _real_ study of Erasmus; of which we are presented with
the exterior in the following view--taken from Dr. Knight's
_Life of Erasmus_; p. 124.

[Illustration]

I shall conclude this ERASMIANA (if the reader will premit
[Transcriber's Note: permit] me so to entitle it) with a
wood-cut exhibition of a different kind: it being perhaps
the earliest portrait of Erasmus published in this country.
It is taken from a work entitled, "_The Maner and Forme of
Confesion_," printed by Byddell [Transcriber's Note:
Byddel], in 8vo., without date; and is placed immediately
under an address from Erasmus, to Moline, Bishop of Condome;
dated 1524; in which the former complains bitterly of "the
pain and grief of the reins of his back." The print is taken
from a tracing of the original, made by me, from a neat copy
of Byddel's edition, in the collection of Roger Wilbraham,
Esq. I am free to confess that it falls a hundred degrees
short of Albert Durer's fine print of him, executed A.D.
1526.

[Illustration: 1524]]

LIS. Let me go and bring it here! While you talk thus, I long to feast
my eyes upon these grand books.

LYSAND. You need not. Nor must I give to Erasmus a greater share of
attention than is due to him. We have a large and varied field--or
rather domain--yet to pass over. Wishing, therefore, Lorenzo speedily
to purchase a small bronze figure of him, from the celebrated large
one at Rotterdam, and to place the same upon a copy of his first
edition of the _Greek Testament_ printed _upon vellum_,[301] by way of
a pedestal--I pass on to the notice of other bibliomaniacs of this
period.

[Footnote 301: In the library of York cathedral there is a
copy of the first edition of Erasmus's Greek and Latin
Testament, 1516, fol., struck off UPON VELLUM. This, I
believe, w