ome herself has
ventured to present to the world, and which, soon after the deed
was done, she condemned and withdrew.... After a selection of
some of the rules in the last edition of the Expurgatory Index,
the editor in his address informs the reader, that,
understanding the expurgation of books to be not the least
important part of his office, and wishing to make books more
accessible to students than they were without expurgation, he
had availed himself of the labours of his predecessors, and,
adding his own, issued the present volume, intending that a
second, which was in great readiness, should quickly follow;
(but, alas! it was not allowed so to do). Dated Rome, from the
Apostolic Palace, 1607.... Nothing more remains on the subject
of this Index, than to report what is contained in the
inaccessible work of Zobelius, _Notitia Indicis_, &c., but
repeated from by Struvius or Ingler, his editor, in the
_Bibliotheca Hist. Lit._--that Brasichellen or Guanzellus was
assisted in the work by Thomas Malvenda, a Dominican; that
another edition was printed at Bergomi in 1608; that when a
fresh one was in preparation at Antwerp in 1612, it was
suppressed; and that, finally, the author, like Montanus, found
his place in a future index."

The second volume promised never appeared. The work, however, became
exceedingly scarce; which induced Serpilius, a priest of Ratisbon, in
1723, to print an edition so closely resembling the original, as to
admit of its being represented as the same. The imposition, however,
being detected, another edition was prepared by Hesselius, a printer of
Altorf, in 1745; and then the remaining copies of the former threw off
their mask, and appeared with a new title-page as a second edition. The
original and counterfeit editions of this peculiar work are sufficiently
alike to deceive any person, who should not examine them in literal
juxtaposition; but upon such examination, the deception is easily
apparent. The one, however, may be fairly considered as a {38}
fac-simile of the other. (See the Rev. Joseph Mendham's _Literary Policy
of the Church of Rome exhibited_, &c., chap. iii. pp. 116-128.) Mendham
adds, that "there is a copy of the original edition" of this index "in
the Bodleian Library, Oxford," presented to Sir Thomas Bodley by the
Earl of Essex, together with the Belgic, Portuguese, Spanish and
Neapo