A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Том 2author, 1821 - Всего страниц: 622 |
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Стр. 186 - tis faery art,' says the inspired imagination of every bibliographer of taste and feeling, on turning over the leaves of this enchanting Ritual. My friend, you are to know, in the first place, that of all the volumes in this most marvellous library, the present is deemed THE MOST PRECIOUS. Not even the wishes and regulations of Royalty itself allow of its migrations beyond the walls of the public library. There it is kept ; there it is opened, and shewn, and extolled beyond any limits fixed to the...
Стр. 249 - A fine and desirable copy, printed UPON VELLUM. It is tolerably fair: measuring fifteen inches, by ten inches and three quarters. I have little hesitation in estimating these five copies of the earlier editions of the Psalter, to be worth, at least, one thousand pounds. BIBLIA LATINA. (Supposed to have been printed in 1455.) Folio. This is the famous edition called the MAZARINE BIBLE, from the first known copy of it having been discovered in the library of that Cardinal, in the college founded by...
Стр. 389 - He will be also thanked as well as known; for his Manuel du Libraire is a performance of incomparable utility to all classes of readers and collectors. You mount up one pair of stairs: - the way is gloomy, and might well lead to a chamber in the monastery of La Trappe. You then read an inscription, which tells you that "in turning the button you pull the bell. " The bell sounds, and Mons. Brunet. Pere. receives you — with, or without, a silken cap upon his head. He sits in a small room, sufficiently...
Стр. 190 - It is really impossible to describe many of them in terms of adequate praise. The downy plum is almost bursting with ripeness : the butterfly's wings seem to be in tremulous motion, while they dazzle you by their varied lustre: the hairy insect puts every muscle and fibre into action, as he insinuates himself within the curling of the crisped leaves; while these leaves are sometimes glittering with dew, or coated with the finest down. The flowers and the vegetables are equally admirable, and equally...
Стр. 390 - The door is immediately opened — and there sits the son, surrounded by, and almost imprisoned in, papers and books. His pen is in his hand : his spectacles are upon his nose : and he is transcribing or re-casting some precious little bit of bibliographical intelligence ; while, on looking up and receiving you, he seems to be " full of the labouring God !" In short, he is just now deeply and unintermittingly engaged in a new and third edition of his Manuel.* The shelves of his room almost groan...
Стр. 350 - Il avoit de la gaieté dans l'esprit, de la facilité dans le style, un fonds inépuisable d'anecdotes, de traits inconnus; ainsi ses articles étoient toujours ceux que les amateurs lisoient les premiers. Il étoit d'ailleurs consulté de toutes parts, et par écrit et de vive voix; ceux qui formoient des bibliothèques, ceux qui dressoient des catalogues, ceux qui s'occupoient de quelque partie de l'histoire littéraire, s'adressoient à lui comme à un oracle qui ne les trompoit jamais. La célèbre...
Стр. 331 - Cest ici la plus ancienne edition. Elle est rare." The present is a sound copy. There are some pleasing wood-cuts at the end. CRONIQUE DE CLERIADUS, &c. " On les vend a Lyon au pres de nostre dame de confort cheulx Oliuier Arnoullet.
Стр. 190 - The Calendar follows, in which, in one of the winter months, we observe a very puerile imitation of flakes of snow falling over the figures and the landscape below. The Calendar occupies a space of about six inches by four, completely enclosed by a coloured margin. Then begins a series of the most beautiful ornaments Of FLOWERS, FRUITS, INSECTS, &C., for which the illuminators of this period were often eminently distinguished. These ornaments are almost uniformly introduced in the fore-edges, or...
Стр. 378 - ... me gently, and naturally, as it were, conduct you towards BIBLIOPOLISM. In other words, allow me to give you a sketch of a few of the principal Booksellers in this gay metropolis; who strive, by the sale of instructive and curious tomes, sometimes printed in the black letter of Gourmont' and Marnef, to stem the torrent of those trivial or mischievous productions which swarm about the avenues of the Palais Royal. In ancient times, the neighbourhood of the SORBONNE was the great mart for books....
Стр. 469 - Boiastuau calls them*) seem to retain their former lustre and expression. This highly curious portrait is a half length, measuring only ten inches by about eight. It represents the original without any drapery, except a crimson mantle thrown over her back. She is leaning upon her left arm, which is supported by a bank. A sort of tiara is upon her head. Her hair is braided. Above her, within a frame, is the following inscription, in capital roman letters: " Comme le Cerfbrait apres le decours' des...