ae Typographicae_, Paris, 1760. These treatises are
sometimes bound in one volume. They are all elegantly
printed, and rare. We may also mention--5. _Epreuves de deux
petits caracteres nouvellement graves, &c._, Paris, 1757;
and especially his chef-d'oeuvre. 6. _Manuel
Typographique_, Paris, 1764-6, 8vo., two vols.: of which
some copies want a few of the cuts: those upon LARGE PAPER
(there is one of this kind in the Cracherode collections)
are of the first rarity. Fournier's typographical manual
should be in every printing office: his types "are the
models (says his namesake,) of those of the best printed
books at Paris at this day." _Dict. Port. de Bibliogr._, p.
218, edit. 1706.]

[Footnote 145: The _Origines Typographicae_ of MEERMAN, which
was published at the Hague in two handsome quarto volumes,
1765, (after the plan or prospectus had been published in
1761, 8vo.), secured its author a very general and rather
splendid reputation, till the hypothesis advanced therein,
concerning Laurence Coster, was refuted by Heinecken. The
reader is referred to a note in the first volume of my new
edition of the _Typographical Antiquities of Great Britain_,
p. xxxi. It is somewhat singular that, notwithstanding
Meerman's hypothesis is now exploded by the most knowing
bibliographers, his dissertation concerning the claims of
Haerlem should have been reprinted in French, with useful
notes, and an increased catalogue of all the books published
in the Low Countries, during the 15th century. This latter
work is entitled "_De l'Invention de l'Imprimerie, ou
analyse des deux ouvrages publies sur cette matiere par M.
Meerman, &c.; suivi d'une notice chronologique et raisonnee
des livres avec et sans date_," Paris, 1809, 8vo. The author
is Mons. Jansen. Prefixed there is an interesting account,
of Meerman. Lysander might have noticed, with the encomium
which it justly merits the _Vindiciae Typographicae_ of
SCHOEPFLIN, printed at Strasburg, in 1760, 4to.; where the
claimes of Gutenburg (a native of the same city) to the
invention of the typographic art are very forcibly and
successfully maintained.]

LIS. You absolutely transport me! I see all these interesting busts--I
feel the delicious coolness of the grotto--I hear the stream running
over a bed of