p. 8, edit. 1803. Bibl. Paris., no. 408. Clement. (vol.
iv. 352,) has abundance of reference, as usual, to
strengthen his assertion in calling the edition "_fort
rare_." The reprint, or spurious edition, has always struck
me as the prettier book of the two. These examples appeared
in the first edition of this work. I add to them what of
course I was not enabled to do before. In the second edition
of _The Bibliomania_, there are some variations in the
copies of the small paper; and one or two decided ones
between the small and large. In the small, at page 13, line
2, we read

"beat with perpetual _forms_."

in the large, it is properly

"beat with perpetual _storms_."

Which of these is indicative of the _true_ edition? Again:
in the small paper, p. 275, line 20, we read properly

"Claudite jam rivos pueri, sat _prata_ biberunt."

in the large paper,

"Claudite jam rivos pueri, sat _parta_ biberunt."

It was in my power to have cancelled the leaf in the large
paper as well as in the small; but I thought it might
thereby have taken from the former the air of a _true_
edition; and so the blunder (a mere transposition of the
letters _ar_) will go down to a future generation in the
large paper. There is yet another slight variation between
the small and large. At p. 111, in the account of the
catalogue of Krohn's books, the concluding sentence wholly
varies: but I believe there is not an _error_ in either, to
entitle one to the rank of _Truism_ more than another.[H]]

[Footnote H: During the youth of the printer of this book, a
curious mistake occurred: a splendid folio work was going on
for Dr. Bonnell Thornton; in a certain page, as printers
technically say, _a space stood up_; the Dr. (not
understanding printers' marks) wrote on a head page "take
out horizontal line at p. so and so"--the compositor
inserted these words as a _displayed line_ in the head-page
whereon they were written--the reader passed it in the
revise--and it was so worked off! Being eventually
detected--the leaf was of course cancelled.]

ALMAN. It seems to me to be downright idiotism. But I suspect you
exaggerate?

LYSAND. In sober truth, I tell you only what every day's experience in
the book-market will corroborate.

BELI