th a copious index--and proportionable improvements
in corrections and additions. It is now rare. I threw out
the old edition of 1729, four vols., 4to., upon LARGE PAPER;
and paid three guineas to boot for the new one, neatly
bound.]

[Footnote 138: It is quite delightful to read the account,
in the _Dict. Hist._, published at Caen, 1789, (vol. vi., p.
475) of JEAN PIERRE NICERON; whose whole life seems to have
been devoted to bibliography and literary history. Frank,
amiable, industrious, communicative, shrewd, and
learned--Niceron was the delight of his friends, and the
admiration of the public. His "_Memoires pour servir a
l'Histoire des Hommes Illustres, &c., avec un Catalogue
raisonne de leur Ouvrages_," was published from the years
1729 to 1740, in forty crown 8vo. volumes. A supplement of
three volumes, the latter of which is divided into _two
parts_, renders this very useful, and absolutely necessary,
work complete in 44 volumes. The bibliomaniac can never
enjoy perfect rest till he is in possession of it!]

[Footnote 139: QUIRINI published his "_Specimen variae
Literaturae quae in urbe Brixiae ejusque Ditione paulo post
Typographiae incunabula florebat_," _&c._, at Brescia, in
1739; two vols., 8vo.: then followed "_Catalogo delle Opere
del Cardinale Quirini uscite alla luce quasi tuttee da'
Torchi di mi Gian Maria Rizzardi Stampatore in Brescia_,"
8vo. In 1751, Valois addressed to him his "_Discours sur les
Bibliotheques Publiques_," in 8vo.: his Eminence's reply to
the same was also published in 8vo. But the Cardinal's chief
reputation, as a bibliographer, arises from the work
entitled "_De Optimorum Scriptorum Editionibus_." Lindaugiae,
1761, 4to. This is Schelhorn's edition of it, which is
chiefly coveted, and which is now a rare book in this
country. It is a little surprising that Lysander, in his
love of grand national biographical works, mingled with
bibliographical notices, should have omitted to mention the
_Bibliotheca Lusitana_ of Joaov and Barbosa, published at
Lisbon, 1741, in four magnificent folio volumes. A lover of
Portuguese literature will always consider this as "opus
splendidissimum et utilissimum."]

[Footnote 140: _La Bibliotheque Francoise, ou Histoire de la
Litterature Francoise_, of C