00 florins. (Of this amiable foreigner,
see Stypye's [Transcriber's Note: Strype's] _Life of
Crammer_ [Transcriber's Note: Cranmer]; b. ii., ch. xxii.)
Nor did he--notwithstanding his services to booksellers--and
although every press was teeming with his lucubrations--and
especially that of Colinaeeus--(which alone put forth 24,000
copies of his _Colloquies_) ever become much the wealthier
for his talents as an author. His bibliomaniacal spirit was
such, that he paid most liberally those who collated or
described works of which he was in want. In another of his
letters, he declares that "he shall not recieve
[Transcriber's Note: receive] an _obolus_ that year; as he
had spent more than what he had gained in rewarding those
who had made book-researches for him;" and he complains,
after being five months at Cambridge, that he had,
fruitlessly, spent upwards of fifty crowns. "Noblemen," says
he, "love and praise literature, and my lucubrations; but
they praise and do not reward." To his friend Eobanus Hessus
(vol. vi., 25), he makes a bitter complaint "de Comite
quodam." For the particulars, see the last mentioned
authority, p. 363, 4. In the year 1519, Godenus, to whom
Erasmus had bequeathed a silver bowl, put forth a facetious
catalogue of his works, in hexameter and pentameter verses;
which was printed at Louvain by Martin, without date, in
4to.; and was soon succeeded by two more ample and
methodical ones by the same person in 1537, 4to.; printed by
Froben and Episcopius. See Marchand's _Dict. Bibliogr. et
Histor._, vol. i., p. 98, 99. The bibliomaniac may not
object to be informed that Froben, shortly after the death
of his revered Erasmus, put forth this first edition of the
entire works of the latter, in nine folio volumes; and that
accurate and magnificent as is Le Clerc's edition of the
same (may I venture to hint at the rarity of LARGE PAPER
copies of it?), "it takes no notice of the _Index
Expurgatorius_ of the early edition of Froben, which has
shown a noble art of curtailing this, as well as other
authors." See _Knight's Life of Erasmus_, p. 353. The
mention of Froben and Erasmus, thus going down to
immortality together, induces me to inform the curious
reader that my friend Mr. Edwards is possessed of a chaste