Then he'd coutiM a cBAriiAN or khiobt to the traat. Which the bittleb utd cooki •err'd with obakd that was beat.
Wise ot woo* he would aoxT a bold aiDia for ■ii.i.t, With aTiaBurft aarvcs seeking iohx, nick, and will's. As a rooLXB he'd wtir that no woodcocs could spring i At the MxcsB, or in hakshm, cast of mbrlin like ktmob.
As he tippled his ypocras, malmser, or sack. With riNSON like bidil, standing close at his back. He hdd converse with bkrthxlbt, oonrRAT, or faqobs, Or would chaunt all the earofa of kblb* with new shakes.
If careless with billt hacblina he sate, A WOLTB upon this side, and a ltok on that. Why his poRTiR, or cartxr, or SHBprBRDB was bid, Of late, to place nblson as a guard to his am.
InsoauoB as twaa princelr he ne'er would complain. Hut DO spinster once pbbst him when lvstb fill'd his brain; He in $AeeU long'd for widows ; widow aBDMAN his Jof , He dasp'd widow cBABLxwoooand kept flxaroBD to TOT.
Thus his heart was unbound, as love's Bower gave room; Widow Yetsweirt was there, and the widows Joan Broome, Joan Wolfe and Joan Orwim, and while soft thing's he'd utter, Of famous Joan Jugge, he would melt for Joan Butter.
The iigne of the lunme might Its radiance exhaust. To count up firom trxtxris to old Oerman faitst ; He had powsll for Jrelandj lbkprxwie the scott, Bat WBLCB thackwbli., uncertain, my Kame never got
Wlien tii» rLOWXR was cnpt he'd show hantbll mwut. He'd a vowxl inlaid, and made h arrt tar stmt By Ckmriet Lewia in hagtkinf who bound his tall man,
- Twas with SCARLBT in bamdt, dxztxb gilding the van.
Herea learned clabxb's fin might most glowingly speak. Of the bright blazing red in the leltree gothiquet : Of margins ilhnnin* it and how bordere diapltt$ Death and cardinal virtues, inviting to pray.
Hien rich nteoi unfold, where the faintir bears part, Wboae oolooring, though matchless, shows inlkntine ait . In romance seek a monsts that with no text agreeth. Nor thing heavenly, earthly, or in wave benea&i.
Nor forget the wood cute that such raptures afltmi. Whose inventor fimnds lineage of Jmireas Boarde: And refer for choice epecimene stole firom that mint. Unto Dibdin's new Amet, or a Tbipbook's reprint.
But he's gone:— can one Triplet his memory save, Can his Bishop interr him? his boys Wal-de-Grave? With but putting in boards can his spirit be fled? Why he ne'er got a coffin until he was dead !
Ah, no, with his votumes would tarry his soul, Could folios, could big belly'd quartos control, Or octavus et infra; nay, studious be seen, With a twelve in morocco, or russia sixteen.
Shade of Paterson, shall his collection disperse, And one alphabet crush ev'ry class, prose and verse? Nor tell all that the imp. on fly-leaf can portend? Nor imp. that he hallow'd and no devil could mend?
What his coll. and per. means, leave the novice to gness ; Or, when made In facttmite per. by M.S. Leave snrpriae and delight far maniacal lover, Ntat >oMt, Mlow back, and email tquaree to discover.
Leave BniTio princxps, uncut, oniqitb, rare. With SMALL CAPS, and italiee, blend Lxiob to declare By large paper catalogue at Aammer't decision. As BxN nwoswes margin to enter commtM^em.
The book trade, particularly that branch denominated "the rare and curious," was never in such a flourishing state as at the period of the dispersion of the magnificent library of the duke of Roxburghe: then truly was Bibliomania at its
- The faint rays of a well-preserved youth illumined his eyes, even at the verge of ninety-six, at the first perusal of those singular specimens of ancient Christmas melodies, reprinted in the Bibliographical Miscellanies, Oxford, 1813. It would be difficult to describe his joy when informed by his bookseller, that he had secured for him the last remaining copy.
height—every book stall was ransacked for old books, and the price rose with the universal desire to possess them: the infatuation was compared to the tulip mania;[1] yet a few years afterwards, the late earl Spencer became the purchaser of the identical Decamerone of Boccacio, for less than £900. The taste for book rarities seems to have passed away in a great degree. One volume, which sold at the Roxburghe sale for £l50, was offered by Longmans', in Paternoster-row, for a third of that sum, and no desire was evinced by any "bibliomaniac" to possess it.
1812. At this time there were only twelve working wood engravers in London.
1812. Died, Henry Faulkner, celebrated as a honest, industrious, and excellent bookbinder, who, in his mode of rebinding ancient books, was not only scrupulously particular in the preservation of that important part of a volume, the margin: but in his ornaments of tooling, was at once tasteful and exact. Faulkner, after thus giving satisfaction to his patrons, and bidding fair to be the first binder of his day, died of a consumption, leaving a large family, which, it is but justice to state, were materially assisted by those who had respected their father.
1812, April 30. Died, Henry Lemoine, bookseller, who was for many years known to
the trade as a translator of German and other languages, and compiler of many of the numerous tracts with which London abounds; he was also a frequent contributor of poetical essays to the Gentlemen's Magazine,[2] and other periodical works: he had for some years been a bookseller, in Bishopsgate church-yard. He published, in 1797, Typographical Antiquities; history, origin, and progress of the art of printing, from its first invention, in Germany, to the end of the seventeenth century; and from its introduction into England, by Caxton, to the present time: including, among a variety of curious and interesting matter, its progress in the provinces, with chronological lists of eminent printers, in England, Scotland, and Ireland. Together with anecdotes of several eminent literary characters, who have honoured the art by their attention to its improvement; also a particular and complete history of the Walpolian press, established at Strawberry-hill—with an accurate list of every publication issued therefrom, and the exact number printed thereof. At the conclusion is given a curious dissertation on the origin of the use of paper; also a complete history of the art of wood-cutting and engraving on copper, from its first invention in Italy, to its latest improvements in Great Britain: concluding with the
- ↑ The tulip mania reached its height in the city of Haarlem, in the years 1636-7, when 10,000 florins were known to have been paid for a single root of that flower.
- ↑ Mr. Lemoine was the author of some verses to the memory of Mr. Francis Eginton, of Wandsworth, near Birmingham, justly celebrated for his ingenious discovery of painting and staining glass for surpassing that of the ancients, in which his numerous wrorks (of which a good specimen may be seen in the window of stationers' hall, London, presented to that company by alderman Cadell,) will long continue a monument of his unrivalled abilities. He died March 23, 1805.
