[142] When he waited upon Lord Spencer at Paris, in 1819, and was shewn by
    his Lordship the Ulric Han Juvenal (in the smallest character of the
    printer) and the Horace of 1474, by Arnoldus de Bruxella, his
    voice, eyes, arms, and entire action ... gave manifest proofs how he
    FELT upon the occasion! [It only remains to dismiss this slight and
    inadequate account of so amiable and well-versed a bibliographer, with
    the ensuing-fac-simile of his autograph.]

    [Autograph:  Brunet, Libraire, rue Git-le-Couer, No 10.]

[143]

  Chardin passe surtout parmi les amateurs
  Pour le plus vetilleux de tous les connaisseurs;
  Il fait naitre, encourage, anime l’industrie;
  LES BEAUX LIVRES font seul le CHARME DE SA VIE. 
          LA RELIURE, poeme didactique. 
               Par LESNE’. 1820, 8vo. p. 31.

[144] [This curiosity is now in the limited, but choice and curious,
    collection of my old and very worthy friend Mr. Joseph Haslewood.  The
    handle of the stick is decorated by a bird’s head, in ivory, which I
    conjectured to be that of an Eagle; but my friend insisted upon it
    that it was the head of an Hawk.  I knew what this meant—­and what
    it would end in:  especially when he grasped and brandished the Cane,
    as if he were convinced that the sculptor had anticipated the
    possession of it by the Editor of Juliana Barnes.  It is whispered that
    my friend intends to surprise the ROXBURGHE CLUB (of which he is, in
    all respects a most efficient member) with proofs of an Engraving of
    this charming little piece of old French carving.]

[145] Mons. Chardin is since dead at a very advanced age.  His mental
    faculties had deserted him a good while before his decease:  and his
    decease was gentle and scarcely perceptible.  The portrait of him, in
    the preceding edition of this work, is literally the MAN HIMSELF.  M.
    Crapelet has appended one very silly, and one very rude, if not
    insulting, note, to my account of the deceased, which I will not
    gratify him by translating, or by quoting in its original words.

[146] [A copy of the Horace UPON VELLUM (and I believe, the only
    one) with the original drawings of Percier, will be sold in the
    library of Mr. Hibbert, during the present season.]

[147] ["And unquestionably the best Letter Founder.  His son, M. Amb.  Firmin
    Didot; who has for a long time past cut the punches for his father,
    exhibits proof of a talent worthy, of his instructor.”  CRAPELET.]

[148] [The translation of the above passage runs so smoothly and so evenly
    upon “all fours,” that the curious reader may be gratified by its
    transcription:  “On ne doit pas etre surpris que le meilleur vin de
    Champagne et de Chambertin ait ete servi sur la table de celui qui, au
    milieu des toasts de ses convives, avait pour accompagnement le bruit
    agreable. des frisquettes et des tympans de vingt-deux presses.".Vol.
    ii. 102.]