[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.]