the prices for which the Books mentioned in it have been sold; a
    Notice of the “Hours of Charlemagne” (see vol. ii. 199) and some
    account of the late Mr. Porson “Librarian of the London
    Institution”—­form the remaining portion of this little volume of
    about 160 pages.  For the “Curiosites Bibliographiques,” consult the
    Bibliomania, pp. 90, 91, &c. &c.

[7] This letter accompanied another Work of M. Peignot, relating to
    editions and translations of the Roman Classics:—­and as the reader
    will find, in the ensuing pages, that I have been sometime past
    labouring under the frightful, but popular, mania of AUTOGRAPHS, I
    subjoin with no small satisfaction a fac-simile of the Autograph of
    this enthusiastic and most diligent Bibliographer.

    [Autograph:  Votre tres humble et obeissant serviteur, G. Peignot]

[8] See page xviii.—­ante.

[9] M. Licquet goes on to afford an exemplification of this precipitancy of
    conjecture, in my having construed the word Allemagne—­a village
    near to Caen—­by that of Germany.  I refer the reader to p. 168 post,
    to shew with what perfect frankness I have admitted and corrected this
    “hippopotamos” error.

[10] More especially at pages 82, 100, 367.

[11] “Sharp” as they may be, they are softened, in some measure, by the
    admission of my bitterest annotator, M. Crapelet, that “I speak and
    understand the French language well.” vol. ii. p. 253.  It is painful
    and unusual with me to have recourse to such apparently
    self-complimentary language; but when an adversary drives one into a
    corner, and will not allow of fair space and fair play, one must fight
    with feet as well as with hands ... “manibus pedibusque” ...

[12] This hiatus must not be filled by the Author:  ... “haud equidem
    tali me dignor honore.”

[13] See vol. ii. p. 210-11.

[14] See vol. i. p. 186, vol. ii. pp. 49, 296, 392.  The other fresh plates
    are, Portrait of the Author, frontispiece; Bird’s-eye views of the
    Monasteries of St. Peter’s, Salzburg, and of Molk: vol. iii. pp.
    195, 248, 381, Black Eagle Inn, Munich, p. 156.  But the Reader will
    be pleased to examine the List of Plates prefixed—­in a preceding
    page.

[15] Among these distinguished Literati, I here enrol with peculiar
    satisfaction the names of the MARQUIS DE CHATEAUGIRON and Mons. DURAND
    DE LANCON.  No opportunity having occurred in the subsequent pages to
    incorporate fac-similes of the Autographs of these distinguished
    Bibliophiles, they are annexed in the present place.

    [Autographs:  M. de Chateaugiron, D. de Lancon]