enriched with
copious and valuable additions. This latter work is quite
unrivalled: no young or old theologian, who takes any
interest in the various editions of the Holy Scriptures, in
almost all languages, can possibly dispense with such a fund
of sacred literature. The _Bibliotheque Historique de la
France_, 1719, folio, by the same learned and industrious
bibliographer, has met with a fate equally fortunate.
FONTETTE republished it in 1768, in five folio volumes, and
has immortalized himself and his predecessor by one of the
most useful and splendid productions that ever issued from
the press. De Bure used to sell copies of it upon LARGE
PAPER, in sheets, for 258 livres: according to the
advertisement subjoined to his catalogue of Count Macarty's
books in 1779, 8vo. The presses of England, which groan too
much beneath the weight of ephemeral travels and trumpery
novels, are doomed, I fear, long to continue strangers to
such works of national utility.]

[Footnote 133: The chief labours of Fabricius ("Vir [Greek:
ellenichotatos]"--as Reimannus truly calls him), connected
with the present object of our pursuit, have the following
titles: 1. "_Bibliotheca Graeca, sive Notitia Scriptorum
Graecorum, &c._," Hamb. 1705-8-14-18, &c., 4to., 14 vols.--of
which a new edition is now published by HARLES, with great
additions, and a fresh arrangement of the original matter:
twelve volumes have already been delivered to the public. 2.
_Bibliotheca Latina_; first published in one volume,
1703--then in three volumes, 1721, and afterwards in two
volumes, 1728, 4to.;--but the last and best edition is that
of 1773, in three vols. 8vo., published by Ernesti at
Leipsic--and yet not free from numerous errors. 3.
_Bibliographia Antiquaria_, 1716, 4to.: a new edition of
Schaffshausen, in 1760, 4to., has superseded the old one. A
work of this kind in our own language would be very useful,
and even entertaining. Fabricius has executed it in a
masterly manner. 4. _Bibliotheca Ecclesiastica, in qua
continentur variorum authorum tractatus de scriptoribus
ecclesiasticis_, Hamb., 1718, folio. An excellent work; in
which the curious after theological tracts and their authors
will always find valuable information. It is generally
sharply contended f