[20] [And, till within these few months, those of the REV.  DR. NICOLL,
    Regius Professor of the Hebrew Language!  That amiable and modest and
    surprisingly learned Oriental Scholar died in the flower of his age
    (in his 36th year) to the deep regret of all his friends and
    acquaintances, and, I had well nigh said, to the irreparable loss of
    the University.]

[21] ["This observation is just; and it is to be hoped that they will soon
    carry into execution the Royal ordonance of October, 1816, which
    appropriates the apartments of the Treasury, contiguous, to be united
    to the establishment, as they become void.  However, what took place in
    1825, respecting some buildings in the Rue Neuve des Petits Champs,
    forbids us to suppose that this wished for addition will take place.” 
    CRAPELET, p. 93.]

[22] [M.  Crapelet admits the propriety of such a suggested improvement; and
    hopes that government will soon take it up for the accommodation of
    the Visitors—­who sometimes are obliged to wait for a vacancy,
    before they can commence these researches.]

[23] [Mons. Crapelet estimates the number of these splendid volumes (in
    1825,) at “more than six thousand!”]

[24] [M.  Crapelet might have considered this confession as a reason, or
    apology, sufficient for not entering into all those details or
    descriptions, which he seems surprised and vexed that I omitted to
    travel into.]

[25] An enquiry into the History of Engraving upon Copper and in
    Wood, 1816, 4to. 2 vol. by W.Y.  Ottley.  Mr. Ottley, in vol. i. p. 90,
    has given the whole of the original cut:  while in the first volume p.
    iii. of the Bibliotheca Spenceriana, only the figure and date are
    given.

[26] Idee generale d’une Collection complette des Estampes.  Leips.
    1771. 8vo.

[27] Since the above was written, the RIVAL ST. CRISTOPHER have been placed
    side by side.  When Lord Spencer was at Paris, last year, (1819,) on
    his return from Italy—­he wrote to me, requesting I would visit him
    there, and bring St. Christopher with me.  That Saint was therefore, in
    turn, carried across the water—­and on being confronted with his
    name-sake, at the Royal Library ... it was quite evident, at the first
    glance, as M. Du Chesne admitted—­that they were impressions taken
    from different blocks.  The question therefore, was, after a good
    deal of pertinacious argument on both sides—­which of the two
    impressions was the MORE ANCIENT?  Undoubtedly it was that of Lord[B]
    Spencer’s.

[B] [The reasons, upon which this conclusion was founded, are stated at length in the preceding edition of this work:  since which, I very strongly incline to the supposition that the Paris impression is a proof—­of one of the cheats of DE MURR.]

[28] He died in 1824 and a notice of his Life and Labours appeared in the
    Annales Encyclopediques.