[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.]

[70] [The finest copy of this valuable edition, which I ever saw, is that
    in the Public Library at Cambridge.]

[71] See Bibl.  Spenceriana; vol. i. page 272.

[72] [I had called it a UNIQUE copy; but M. Crapelet says, that there was a
    second similar copy, offered to the late Eugene Beauharnais.]

[73] [It is the Edition of Verard, of the date of 1504.  The copy looks as
    if it had neither Printer’s name or date, because the last lines of
    the colophon have been defaced.  See Cat. des Livr.  Iniprim. sur Velin
    de la Bibl. du Roi. vol. iii. p. 35.  CRAPELET.]

[74] At page 599, &c.

[75] [See Cat. des Livr. sur Velin, vol. iv.  No. 236.]

[76] Vol. iii. p. 176.

[77] [Mr. Hibbert’s beautiful copy, above referred to, is about to be sold
    at the sale of his library, in the ensuing Spring; and is fully
    described in the Catalogue of that Library, at p. 414:  But the
    fac-simile portrait of Francis Sforza, prefixed to the Catalogue,
    wants, I suspect, the high finished brilliancy, or force, of the
    original.]

[78] [Not so:  see the Introduction to the Classics, vol. 1. p. 313. edit.
    1827 The only known copy of the first volume, UPON VELLUM, is that
    in the Library of New College, Oxford.]

[79] See the Bibliographical Decameron; vol. iii. p. 165.

[80] [The only ENTIRELY PERFECT copy in Europe, to my knowledge, is that in
    the library of the Right Hon. Thomas Grenville.]

LETTER VI.

CONCLUSION OF THE ACCOUNT OF THE ROYAL LIBRARY.  THE LIBRARY OF THE ARSENAL.

My last letter left me on the first floor of the Royal Library.  I am now about to descend, and to take you with me to the ground floor—­where, as you may remember I formerly remarked, are deposited the Aldine Vellums and Large Papers, and choice and curious copies from the libraries of Grolier, Diane de Poictiers, and de Thou.  The banquet is equally delicious of its kind, although the dishes are of a date somewhat more remote from the time of Apicius.