ti, of other countries as well as our own, of the
book treasures contained in the libraries of Cambridge. It
is simply this. Let the books in the Public Library form the
substratum of the _Catalogue Raisonne_ to be printed in
three or more quarto volumes. If, in any particular
department, there be valuable editions of a work which are
_not_ in the public, but in another, library--ex. gr. in
Trinity, or St. John's--specify this edition in its
appropriate class; and add _Trin. Coll., &c._--If this copy
contain notes of Bentley, or Porson, add "_cum notis
Bentleii_," _&c._: so that such a catalogue would present,
not only _every_ volume in the _Public Library_, but _every
valuable_ edition of a work in the whole University. Nor is
the task so Herculean as may be thought. The tutors of the
respective colleges would, I am sure, be happy, as well as
able, to contribute their proportionate share of labour
towards the accomplishment of so desirable and invaluable a
work.]

The opening of the 18th century was also distinguished by the death of
a bibliomaniac of the very first order and celebrity. Of one, who had,
no doubt, frequently discoursed largely and eloquently with Luttrell,
(of whom presently) upon the rarity and value of certain editions of
old _Ballad Poetry_: and between whom presents of curious black-letter
volumes were, in all probability, frequently passing. I allude to the
famous SAMUEL PEPYS;[364] Secretary to the Admiralty.

[Footnote 364: "_The Maitland Collection of Manuscripts_ was
ever in the collector's (Sir Richard Maitland's)
family."--"His grandson was raised to the dignity of Earl of
Lauderdale." "The Duke of Lauderdale, a descendant of the
collector's grandson, presented the Maitland Collection,
along with other MSS., to SAMUEL PEPYS, Esq. Secretary of
the Admiralty to Charles II. and James II. Mr. Pepys was one
of the earliest collectors of rare books, &c. in England;
and the duke had no taste for such matters; so either from
friendship, or some point of interest, he gave them to Mr.
Pepys,"--who "dying 26 May, 1703, in his 71st year, ordered,
by will, the PEPYSIAN LIBRARY at Magdalen College,
Cambridge, to be founded, in order to preserve his very
valuable collection entire. It is undoubtedly the most
curious in England, those of the Briti