n livre Allemand_ (which is the
famous TEWRDANNCKHS; and about which is to be hoped that Mr.
Douce will one day favour us with his curious remarks): 4.
_Addition au meme_: 5. _Memoire sur l'histoire et les
procedes du Polytypage et de la Stereotypie_: 6. _Rapport
sur la continuation de la Collection des Historiens de
France, et de celle des Chartres et Diplomes_: 7. _Notice
d'un livre imprime a Bamberg en 1462_. All these works are
thus strung together, because they occur in the first three
volumes of the _Memoires de l'Institut_. This curious book,
printed at Bamberg, was discovered by a German clergyman of
the name of Stenier, and was first described by him in the
_Magasin Hist.-Litt., bibliogr._ Chemintz, 1792: but Camus's
memoir is replete with curious matter, and is illustrated
with fac-simile cuts. In the "_Notices et Extraits des MSS.
de la Bibl. Nationale_," vol. vi., p. 106, will be found a
most interesting memoir by him, relating to two ancient
manuscript bibles, in two volumes folio, adorned with a
profusion of pictures: of some of which very elegant
fac-similes are given. These pictures are 5152 in number!
each of them having a Latin and French verse beautifully
written and illuminated beneath.--Camus supposes that such a
work could not now be executed under 100,000 francs!--"Where
(exclaims he) shall we find such modern specimens of
book-luxury?" In the year 1802, he published an admirable
"_Memoire sur la collection des grands et petits voyages, et
sur la Collection des Voyages des Melchesedech Thevenot_,"
4to., with an excellent "Table des Matieres." Of his own
journey into the Low Countries, recently published, I never
met with a copy. All the preceding works, with the exception
of the last, are in my own humble collection.]
[Footnote 157: A short bibliographical memoir of HERBERT
will be found in the first volume of my edition of the
_Typographical Antiquities of Great Britain_. Since that was
published, I have gleaned a few further particulars relating
to him, which may be acceptable to the reader. Shortly after
the appearance of his third volume, he thus speaks in a
letter to Mr. Price, librarian of the Bodleian library, "If
at any time you meet with any book of which I have not taken
notice, or made any m
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