A BIBLIOGRAPHICAL Antiquarian AND PICTURESQUE TOUR.
PRINTED BY WILLIAM NICOL, AT THE
Shakespeare Press.
ANN OF BRITTANY. From an Illustrated Missal in the Royal Library at Paris.
London. Published June 1829. by R. Jennings. Poultry.
A
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL
Antiquarian
AND
PICTURESQUE TOUR
IN
FRANCE AND GERMANY.
BY THE REVEREND THOMAS FROGNALL DIBDIN, D.D.
MEMBER OF THE ROYAL ACADEMY AT ROUEN, AND OF THE ACADEMY OF UTRECHT.
SECOND EDITION.
VOLUME II.
DEI OMNIA PLENA
LONDON:
PUBLISHED BY ROBERT JENNINGS, AND JOHN MAJOR.
1829.
CONTENTS OF VOLUME II.
CONTENTS.
VOLUME II.
LETTER I.
PARIS. The Boulevards. Public Buildings. Street Scenery. Fountains
LETTER II.
General Description of the Bibliothèque du Roi. The Librarians
LETTER III.
The same subject continued
LETTER IV.
The same subject continued
LETTER V.
PARIS. Some Account of the early printed and rare Books in the Royal Library
LETTER VI.
Conclusion of the Account of the Royal Library. The Library of the Arsenal
LETTER VII.
Library of Ste. Geneviève. The Abbé Mercier St. Léger. Library of the Mazarine College, or Institute. Private Library of the King. Mons. Barbier, Librarian,
Introduction to Letter VIII
LETTER VIII.
Some Account of the late Abbé Rive. Booksellers. Printers. Book Binders
LETTER IX.
Men of Letters. Dom Brial. The Abbé Bétencourt. Messrs. Gail, Millin, and Langlès. A Roxburghe Banquet
LETTER X.
The Collections of Denon, Quintin Craufurd, and the Marquis de Sommariva
LETTER XI.
Notice of M. Willemin's Monumens Français inédits. Miscellaneous Antiquities. Present State of the Fine Arts. General Observations upon the National Character
LETTER XII.
Paris to Strasbourg. Nancy
LETTER XIII.
STRASBOURG. Establishment of the Protestant Religion. The Cathedral. The Public Library
LETTER XIV.
Society. Environs of Strasbourg. Domestic Architecture. Manners and Customs. Literature. Language
