[68d] “The little old foxed Molière,” once the property of William Pott, unknown to fame.

[73] That there ever were such editors is much disputed. The story may be a fiction of the age of the Ptolemies.

[74] Or, more easily, in Maury’s Religions de la Grèce.

[94] See Essay on ‘Lady Book-Lovers.’

[102] See Essay on ‘Lady Book-Lovers.’

[107] For a specimen of Madame Pompadour’s binding see overleaf. She had another Rabelais in calf, lately to be seen in a shop in Pall Mall.

[119a] Mr. Payne does not give the date of the edition from which he copies the cut. Apparently it is of the fifteenth century.

[119b] Reproduced in The Library, p. 94.

[145] Country papers, please copy. Poets at a distance will kindly accept this intimation.

[148] Bibliothèque d’un Bibliophile. Lille, 1885.