[213] See Grandidier, p. 177:  where the Latin inscription is given.  The
    Ephemerides de l’Academie des Curieux de la Nature, vol. ii. p.
    400, &c. are quoted by this author—­as a contemporaneous authority in
    support of the event above mentioned.

[214] My French translator will have it, that, “this composition, though
    not without its faults, is considered, in the estimation of all
    connoisseurs, as one of the finest funereal monuments which the modern
    chisel has produced.”  It may be, in the estimation of some—­but
    certainly of a very small portion of—­Connoisseurs of first rate
    merit.  Our Chantry would sicken or faint at the sight of such
    allegorical absurdity.

[215] [This avowal has subjected me to the gentle remonstrance of the
    Librarian in question, and to the tart censure of M. Crapelet in
    particular.  “Voila le Reverend M. Dibdin (exclaims the latter) qui se
    croit oblige de declarer qu’il n’a rien derobe!” And he then quotes,
    apparently with infinite delight, a passage from the Quarterly
    Review, (No.  LXIII.  June 1825) in which I am designated as having
    “extraordinary talents for ridicule!” But how my talents “for
    ridicule” (of which I very honestly declare my unconsciousness) can be
    supposed to bear upon the above “prick of conscience,” is a matter
    which I have yet to learn.  My amiable friend might have perhaps
    somewhat exceeded the prescribed line of his duty in letting me have
    the key of the Library in question—­but, can a declaration of such
    confidence not having been MISPLACED, justify the flippant remarks of
    my Annotator?]

[216] [It is now published in an entire state by the above competent
    Editor.]

[217] See the authorities quoted, and the subject itself handled, in the
    Bibliographical Decameron, vol. i. p. 316, &c.

[218] [Here again my sensitive Annotator breaks out into something little
    short of personal abuse, for my DARING to doubt what all the world
    before had held in solemn belief!  Still, I will continue to doubt;
    without wishing this doubt to be considered as “paroles d’Evangile”—­
    as M. Crapelet expresses it.]

[219] Fully described in the Bibl.  Spenceriana, vol. i. p. 39, with
    a fac-simile of the type.

[220] A fac-simile of this device appears in a Latin Bible, without name of
    printer, particularly described in the AEdes Althorpianae; vol. ii. p.
    41.  Hence we learn that the Bible in question, about the printer of
    which there appears to be some uncertainty among bibliographers, was
    absolutely printed by Gotz.

[221] The imperfect copy, being a duplicate, was disposed of for a copy of
    the Bibl.  Spenceriana; and it is now in the fine library of the
    Rt.  Hon. T. Grenville.  The very first glance at this copy will shew
    that the above description is not overcharged.