A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume Three eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 453 pages of information about A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume Three.

A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume Three eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 453 pages of information about A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume Three.

[176] I should add, that the dotted manner of executing this old
    print, may be partly seen in that at page 280 of vol. iii. of the
    second edition of this work; but still more decidedly in the old
    prints pasted within the covers of the extraordinary copy of the
    Mazarine Bible, UPON VELLUM, once in the possession of Messrs.
    Nicol, booksellers to his late Majesty, and now in that of Henry
    Perkins, Esq.

[177] Travels in Lower Hungary, 1818, 4to. p.93.

[178] Buchhandler is bookseller:  and Antiquar a dealer in
    old books.  In Nuremberg, families exist for centuries in the same
    spot.  I.A.  ENDTER, one of the principal booksellers, resides in a
    house which his family have occupied since the year 1590.  My
    intercourse was almost entirely with M. Lechner—­one of the most
    obliging and respectable of his fraternity at Nuremberg.

[179] [Now of Henrietta Street Covent Garden.  As is a sturdy oak, of
    three centuries growth, compared with a sapling of the last season’s
    transplanting, so is the business of Mr. Bohn, NOW, compared with what
    it was when the above notice was written.]

[180] It is either 1607, or 1609.

[181] The reputation of the University of Heidelberg, which may contain
    500 students, greatly depends upon that of the professors.  The
    students are generally under twenty years of age.  Their dress and
    general appearance is very picturesque.  The shirt collar is open, the
    hair flowing, and a black velvet hat or cap, of small and square
    dimensions, placed on one side, gives them a very knowing air.  One
    young man in particular, scarcely nineteen from his appearance,
    displayed the most beautiful countenance and figure which I had ever
    beheld.  He seemed to be Raphael or Vandyke revived.

[182] See note at page 49-51.

[183] Since March 1819, called the firm of ARTARIA and FONTAINE.

[184] Among the prints recently imported from the latter place,
    was the whole length of the DUKE OF WELLINGTON, engraved by Bromley,
    from the painting of Sir Thomas Lawrence.  I was surprised when M.
    Artaria told me that he had sold fifty copies of this print—­to
    his Bavarian and Austrian customers.  In a large line engraving, of the
    Meeting of the Sovereigns and Prince Schwartzenberg, after the battle
    of Leipsic—­from the painting of P. Krafft—­and published by Artaria
    and Fontaine in January 1820—­it is gratifying to read the name of our
    SCOTT—­as that of the engraver of the piece—­although it had been
    previously placed in other hands.

[185] [It was brought to England about three years ago, and is YET, I
    believe, a purchasable article in some Repository.  It should at least
    be seen by the whole tribe of COGNOSCENTI in Pall Mall.]

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