{13} That there ever were such editors is much disputed. The story may be a fiction of the age of the Ptolemies.

{14} Or, more easily, in Maury's Religions de la Grece.

{15} See Essay on 'Lady Book-Lovers.'

{16} See Essay on 'Lady Book-Lovers.'

{17} For a specimen of Madame Pompadour's binding see overleaf.

She had another Rabelais in calf, lately to be seen in a shop in Pall Mall.

{18} Mr. Payne does not give the date of the edition from which he copies the cut. Apparently it is of the fifteenth century.

{19} Reproduced in The Library, p. 94.

{20} Country papers, please copy. Poets at a distance will kindly accept this intimation.

{21} Bibliotheque d'un Bibliophile. Lille, 1885.