ergo literatos indulgentia Hujus fores (ut illæ Mufarum, apud Pindarum) omnibus patent. Teftes apello Theologos, Antiquarios, Jurifconfultos, Bibliopolas; qui quidem omnes, ex Cottoniana Bibliotheca, tanquam ex perenni, fed et communi fonte, fine impenfis et moleftiâ, abundè hauferunt." Rer. Anglic. Script. Vet. vol. i. præf. p. 3.

"The lofs of fuch character-the deprivation of fuch a patron-made the whole fociety of book-collectors tremble and turn pale. Men began to look fharply into their libararies, and to caft a distrustful eye upon those who came to confult and to copy for the fpirit of COTTON, like the ghost of Hamlet's father, was feen to walk, before cock-crow, along the galleries and balconies of great collections, and to bid the owners of them remember and beware!'-But to return. The library of this diftinguished bibliomaniac continued under fequeftration fome time after his death, and was preferved entire, with difficulty, during the fhock of the civil wars. In the year 1712, it was removed to Effex House, in Effex-ftreet, Strand, where it con tinued till the year 1730, when it was conveyed back to West. minfter, and depofited in Little Dean's Yard. In October 1731, broke out that dreadful fire, which Hearne (Benedict. Abbat. vol. i. præf, p. xvi.) fo pathetically deplores; and in which the nation fo generally fympathized-as it deftroyed and mutilated many precious volumes of this collection. Out of 958 volumes, 97 were deftroyed, and 105 damaged. In the year 1753 the library, to the honor of the age, and as the only atonement which could be made to the injured name of Cotton, as well as to the effectual laying of his perturbed fpirit-was purchased by Parlia ment, and tranfported within the quiet and congenial abode of the British Museum and here may it reft, unabufed, for revolv. ing ages! The collection now contains 26,000 articles. Confult Mr. Planta's neatly written preface to the catalogue of the fame ; vide p. 120, 350, ante. And thus take we our leave of the ever-memorable bibliomaniac, Sir ROBERT COTTON, KNT.” P. 351, note,

The fixth and laft part is devoted to a defcription of the fymptoms of Bibliomania, and the probable means of its cure. Two fymptoms unnoticed in the author's former publication on this fubject, are here explained and difcuffed; one the paffion for books printed for private distribution, the other for books printed at a private prefs.

We are forry that we can afford room but for one more fpecimen, but this, it is apprehended, will be more generally acceptable to Bibliomaniacs than any which have preceded.

"Museum Worsleyanum; by Sir Richard Worfley: 1798, 1802, atlas folio. 2 vols. The first volume of this work, of which 200 copies were printed, was finished in May, 1798, and circulated, with the plates only of vol, ii. amongst the chofen

friends

friends of Sir Richard Worfley, the author; who was, at that time, the diplomatic Refident at Venice from the Court. The fecond volume, with the letter-prefs complete, of which only 100 copies were printed, was finished in 1802. The entire expence attending this rare and fumptuous publication (of which a copy is in the library of the Royal Institution amounted to the enor mous fum of 27,000l. and from the irregularity of delivering the fecond volumes of plates, in the firft inftance, without the letter. prefs, many of the copies are incomplete.

"The Father's Revenge; by the Earl of Carlisle, K. G. &c. 1800, 4to. A limited impreffion of this very beautiful volume, decorated with engravings from the pencil of Weftall, was circulated by the noble author among his friends. I faw a copy of it, bound in green Morocco, with the original letter of the donor, in the library of Earl Spencer at Althorp.

Mount St. Gothard; by the late Duchefs of Devonshire, folio. Only 50 copies of this brilliant volume were printed; to a few of which, it is faid, Lady Diana Beauclerk lent the aid of her ornamental pencil, in fome beautiful drawings of the wild and romantic scenery in the neighbourhood of Mount St. Gothard. Differtation on Etrufcan Vafes, by Mr. Chriftie. Imperial

4to.

With elegant engravings. Only 100 copies of this truly claffical volume were printed. From the death of one or two of the parties, who became originally poffeffed of it, as a prefent from the author, it has fallen to the lot of Mr. Chriftie to be come, profeffionally, the vender of a work which he himself never meant to be fold. A copy was very lately difpofed of, in this manner, for 141.

"Bentleii Epiftolæ; Edited by [the Rev.] Dr. Charles Burney; 1807, 4to. This is one of the most beautiful productions of the Shakspeare prefs; nor are the intrinfic merits of the volume inferior to its external fplendour. The fcarcer copies of it are thofe in medium quarto; of which only 50 were printed: of the imperial 4to. there were 150 executed.

"I add two more fimilar examples; which were not printed at the Shakspeare prefs.

"Lord Baltimore's Gaudia Poetica; Lat. Eng. et Gall. with plates, (No date.) Large 4to. Only ten copies of this rare volume were printed, and thofe diftributed among the author's friends: a copy of it was fold for 61. 10s. at the fale of Mr. Reed's books: fee Bibl. Reed, No. 6682. It was inferted for fale in the catalogue of Mr. Burnham, bookfeller at Northamp ton, A. D. 1796-with a note of its rarity fubjoined.

"Views in Orkney and on the North-Eastern Coast of Scotland. Taken in 1805. Etched 1807. Folio. By the prefent Marchionefs of Stafford.

"The letter-prefs confifts of 27 pages; the first of which bear this unaffuming defignation; "Some Account of the Orkney Lands, extracted from Dr. Barry's Hiftory, and Wallace's and

Brand's

Brand's Defcriptions of Orkney." To this chapter or division is prefixed a vignette of Stroma! and the chapter ends at p. 5. Then follow four views of the Orkney Islands.

"The next chapter is entitled "The Cathedral of Kirkwall," which at the beginning exhibits a vignette of the Cathe dral of St. Magnus, and at the clofe, at p. 9, a vignette of a Tomb in the Cathedral. To thefe fucceed two plates, prefenting Views of the Infide of the Cathedral, and an Arch in the Cathe dral,

"The third chapter commences at p. 11, with "The Earl of Orkney's Palace," to which a vignette of a Street in Kirkwall is prefixed. It ends at p. 12, and is followed by a plate exhibiting a View of the Door-way of the Earl's Palace; by another of the Hall of the Earl's Palace; and by a third containing two Views, namely, the Infide of the Hall, and, upon a larger scale, the Chimney in the Hall.

Then

"The Bay of the Frith" is the fubject of the fourth chapter; which exhibits at the beginning a vignette of the Hills of Hoy. It clofes at p. 14, with a vignette of the Dwarfy Stone. follow fix plates, containing a view of the Bay of Frith, a View from Hoy, two Views of the Eastern and Western Circles of the Stones of Stennis, and two Views of Stromness.

"The next chapter is entitled "Duncanfbay or Dungbyhead," which bears in front a vignette of Wick, and at the end, in p. 16, a vignette of the Caftle of Frefwick. Three plates folthe first prefenting a, View of Duncanfbay-head; the fe cond, Views of the Stacks of Hemprigs and the Hills of Schra biner or Schuraben; the third, a View of the Ord.

low;

The Castle of Helmfdale" is the title of the fucceeding chapter, to which is prefixed a vignette of Helmfdale Cattle. It ends at p. 19, with a vignette of the Bridge of Brora. Then follow two plates, prefenting Views of Helmfdale Castle, and the Coaft of Sutherland.

"The fubject of the next chapter is "Dunrobin Castle,'' (the ancient feat of her Ladyship's ancestors, and now a refidence of her Ladyship,) which prefents, at the beginning, a vignette of Dunrobin Caitie, and after the clofe of the chapter, at p. 23, four plates; the first of which is a View of Dunrobin Castle and the furrounding fcenery; the fecond, a fmaller View of the Cafle; the third, a View of Druid Stones, with another of Battle Stones in Strathflete; and the fourth, Dornoch, with the Thane's Cross.

"The laft chapter is entitled " The Chapel of Rofslyn," to which is prefixed a vignette of Rofslyn Chapel. It is followed by four plates; the firft exhibiting a View of a Column in Refslyn Chapel; the fecond, a Door-way in the Chapel; the third, the Tomb of Sir William St. Clair; and the fourth, Hawthomden, the refidence of the elegant and plaintive Drummond; with whofe beautiful Sonnet, to this his romantic habitation, the .o. Jume clofes :

"Lear

"Dear wood! and you, fweet folitary place,

Where I eftranged from the vulgar live," &c.

"Of the volume which has been thus defcribed, only 120 Copies were printed. The views were all drawn and etched by her Ladyship; and are executed with a fpirit and correctnefs which would have done credit to the moft fuccessful difciple of Rembrandt. A copy of the work, which had been prefented to the late Right Hon. C. F. Greville, produced, at the fale of his books, the fun of fixteen guineas." P. 712, note.

The embellishments introduced into this clofely and elegantly printed volume are, it is evident, both appropriate and beautiful. Each part begins with an ornamented initial capital letter, furrounded by a fimilar wood-cut border, after the manner of ancient books. A fanciful vignette, cut in wood, concludes every part. The following are the por-. traits introduced: Magliabechi, Erafmus, Leland, Bale, Abp. Parker, Sir Thomas Bodley, Anthony Wood, Hearne, Mr. Thomas Miller, Trithemius, and a filhouette of the author: the ornamental illuftrations are, Friar Bacon's ftudy, Eraf mus's ftudy, fac fimile of an ancient book-room, torments of hell, arms of the Univerfity of Oxford, John Bagford's arms, ornaments of Grollier's binding, and a pilgrim hawker: all these are cut in wood. In copper there are, a vignette of the interior of the Bodleian Library, of the golden covers of Q. Elizabeth's Manual of Devotion, of the interior of Mr. Johnes' principal library, and of the vignette prefixed to the Strawberry-hill books: an outline etching alfo of the whole-lengths of Luther and Calvin, being a fac-fimile of thefe figures on the exterior of the vellum covers of an old book.

There are three indexes: namely, chronological, bibliographical, and general: the two latter are both copious and

exact..

It can hardly be neceffary to add, that we have received particular gratification from the perufal of this volume, which difplays extraordinary diligence, a prodigious variety of information, combined with much vivacity of thought and style, and is in every refpect very highly creditable to the author. We much doubt, however, its efficacy in contributing to the cure of the difeafe, which is here the fubject of animadverfion. We rather think it will tend to fpread the infection, and add fuel to the flame; and to this the author has, probably, no very serious objection.

ART.

ART. VII. Columbanus ad Hibernos; or a Letter from Columban to his Friend in Ireland, on the prefent Mode of appointing Catholic Bishops in his native Country." 8vo. 128 PP.

3s. 6d. Payne. 1810.

ART. VIII. Columbanus ad Hibernos, No. 2; or a second Letter, with Part I. * of an hiftorical Addrefs, on the Calamities occafioned by foreign Influence, in the Nomination of Bishops to Irife Sees. By the Rev, C. O'Conor, D.D. 8vo. 68 and 264 pp. 7s. 6d. Seeley and Payne. 1810. ART. IX. Columbanus's third Letter, on the Liberties of the Irish Church, and on fome Points of Irish Hiftory, connected with the Catholic Question: or a Letter from the Rev. C. O'Conor, D, D. to Owen O'Conor, Efq. Delegate from the C. of Rofcommon to the General Committee of the Catholics of Ireland. 8vo. 160 pp. 3s. 6d. Payne, &c. 1810.

THE importance of these tracts is confiderable. They

detect abufes of great magnitude, and tend to remove delufions into which vaft numbers have been led, by the cir culation of false ideas, on a matter in which they feel a deep concern. We obferved fome time ago the violence with which Lord Grenville and Sir John Hippelley had been attacked by the very perfons whom they were labouring to ferve, the Roman Catholics of Ireland, on account of what has been called the Veto; that is, the negative which he proposed to give to the King and his Minifters, upon the nomination of Romish Bishops in that country t: a condition without which he has pledged himfelf not to fupport the claims of their petitions for power and influence. It is here proved by a moft unexceptionable witnefs, because he appears not only to be an able and a learned man, but a true Catholic and a true patriot, not only that the proposed reftriction is confiftent with the canonical order of fuch a Church, but that the difcipline introduced in the mean while by the nominal Bishops of Ireland, and for which they have contrived to get the popular cry on their fide, is the moft corrupt and improper that was ever introduced into any ecclefiaftical body. What indeed can be worse than that Bifhops fhould be allowed to name their own fucceffors, and

A fecond part of this Hiftorical Address is announced as to appear on St. Patrick's Day, (March 17, 1811,) but we do not find that it is yet published.

+ See vol. xxxvi. p. 640.

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