[60] [The very sound copy of it, upon paper, belonging to the late Sir M.M. Sykes, Bart. was sold at the sale of his library for 100 guineas.]
[61] That sigh has at length ceased to rend my breast. It will be seen, from the sequel of this Tour, that a good, sound, perfect copy of it, now adorns the shelves of the Spencerion Library. The VIRGILS indeed, in that library, are perfectly unequalled throughout Europe.
[62] [There is a fine copy of this very rare edition in the Public Library at Cambridge.]
[63] [Fine as is this book, it is yet inferior in altitude to the copy in the Public Library at Cambridge.]
[64] [There was another copy of this edition, free from the foregoing objections, which had escaped me. This omission frets M. Crapelet exceedingly; but I can assure him that it was unintentional; and that I have a far greater pleasure in describing fine, than ordinary, copies--be they WHOSE they may.]
[65] [Not so. There was another copy upon vellum, in the library of Count Melzi, which is now in that of G.H. Standish, Esq. I know that 500 guineas were once offered for this most extraordinary copy, bound in 3 volumes in foreign coarse vellum.]
[66] Vol. ii. p. 11: or to the Bibliotheca Spenceriana; vol. iv. p. 385.
[67] Now in Lord Spencer's Collection.
[68] Vol. i. p. 281-2.
[69] [To the best of my recollection and belief, the finest copy of this most estimable book, is that in the Library of the Rt. Hon. Thomas Grenville.]