Footnotes:
Footnotes for Table of Contents:
[1] The poems thus marked were written or translated for the present collection.
Footnotes for "The Bibliomania":
[ [2] Sages, Count Hamilton, in the 'Quatre Facardins,' and Mr. M. Lewis, in his 'Tales of Romance.'
[ [3] See the 'Opulentia Sordida,' in his 'Colloquies,' where he complains feelingly of the spare Venetian diet.
[ [4] It may be said that Quintilian recommends margins; but it is with a view to their being occasionally occupied: Debet vacare etiam locus, in quo notentur quæ scribentibus solent extra ordinem, id est ex aliis quam qui sunt in manibus loci, occurrere. Irrumpunt enim optimi nonnunquam Sensus, quos neque inserere oportet, neque differre tutum est. 'Instit.' lib. x. c. 3.
He was therefore no Margin-man, in the modern sense.
[ [5] Fletcher. A translator of Martial. A very bad Poet, but exceedingly scarce.
Only the actions of the just
Smell sweet, and blossom in the dust.
Shirley.
Nunc non é tumulo, fortunataque favilla
Nascentur Violæ?
'Sat.' i. l. 37.
[ [7] 'Faërie Queene.'
[ [8] Aristophanes.
[ [9] See his exquisite hymn to the Nightingale in his Ornithes.
[ [10] Gray.
[ [11] The fire of London.
[ [12] Cloud-compelling Jove.—Pope's 'Iliad.'
. . . gaudent prænomine molles
Auriculæ.
Juvenal.
[ [14] The gallant Veres and one-eyed Ogle. Three fine heads, for the sake of which, the beautiful and interesting 'Commentaries' of Sir Francis Veres have been mutilated by the Collectors of English portraits.
[ [15] Generally known by the name of James Nicius Erythræus. The allusion is to his 'Pinacotheca.'
[ [16] 'Les Serées de Gillaume Bouchet,' a book of uncommon rarity. I possess a handsome copy by the kindness of Colonel Stanley.
[ [17] 'Les Regrets,' by Joachim du Bellay, contain a most amusing and instructive account of Rome in the sixteenth century.
[ [18] 'Pasquillorum Tomi duo.'
Errare per lucos, æmænæ,
Quos et aquæ subeunt et auræ.
Horat.
Footnotes for "The Rowfant Library":
[ [20] During the General Election, November, 1885.
Footnotes for "Ghosts in the Library":
[ [21] 'Histoire des Intrigues Amoureuses de Molière et de celles de sa femme. (A la Sphère.) A Francfort, chez Frédéric Arnaud, MDCXCVII.' This anonymous tract has actually been attributed, among others, to Racine. The copy referred to is marked with a large N in red, with an eagle's head.
[ [22] 'The Lady of the Lake,' 1810.
'The Lay of the Last Minstrel,' 1806.
"To Mrs. Robert Laidlaw. Peel. From the Author."
[ [23] 'Dictys Cretensis.' Apud Lambertum Roulland. Lut. Paris. 1680. In red morocco, with the arms of Colbert.
[ [24] 'L. Annæi Senecæ Opera Omnia.' Lug. Bat., apud Elzevirios. 1649. With book-plate of the Duke of Sussex.
[ [25] 'Stratonis Epigrammata.' Altenburgi, 1764. Straton bound up in one volume with Epictetus! From the Beckford library.
[ [26] 'Opera Helii Eobani Hessi.' Yellow morocco, with the first arms of De Thou. Include a poem addressed "Lange, decus meum." Quantity of penultimate "Eobanus" taken for granted, metri gratiâ.
[ [27] 'La Journée du Chrétien.' Coutances, 1831. With inscription, "Léon Gambetta. Rue St. Honoré. Janvier 1, 1848."
[ [28] Villoison's 'Homer.' Venice, 1788. With Tessier's ticket and Schlegel's book-plate.
[ [29] 'Les Essais de Michel.' Seigneur de Montaigne. "Pour François le Febvre de Lyon, 1695." With autograph of Gul. Drummond, and cipresso e palma.
[ [30] "The little old foxed Molière," once the property of William Pott, unknown to fame.
Footnotes for "The Souls of Books":
[ [31] 'Comus.'
[ [32] 'Gulliver's Travels.'
[ [33] Plut. in 'Vit. Cim.'