Books and Bookmen

Ghosts in the Library

{3} Histoire des Intrigues Amoureuses de Moliere, et de celles de sa femme. (A la Sphere.) A Francfort, chez Frederic Arnaud, MDCXCVII. This anonymous tract has actually been attributed to Racine. The copy referred to is marked with a large N in red, with an eagle's head.

{4} The Lady of the Lake, 1810.

The Lay of the Last Minstrel, 1806.

"To Mrs. Robert Laidlaw, Peel. From the Author."

{5} Dictys Cretensis. Apud Lambertum Roulland. Lut. Paris., 1680. In red morocco, with the arms of Colbert.

{6} L. Annaei Senecae Opera Omnia. Lug. Bat., apud Elzevirios. 1649. With book-plate of the Duke of Sussex.

{7} Stratonis Epigrammata. Altenburgi, 1764. Straton bound up in one volume with Epictetus! From the Beckford library.

{8} Opera Helii Eobani Hessi. Yellow morocco, with the first arms of De Thou. Includes a poem addressed "LANGE, decus meum." Quantity of penultimate "Eobanus" taken for granted, metri gratia.

{9} La Journee du Chretien. Coutances, 1831. With inscription, "Leon Gambetta. Rue St. Honore. Janvier 1, 1848."

{10} Villoison's Homer. Venice, 1788. With Tessier's ticket and Schlegel's book-plate.

{11} Les Essais de Michel, Seigneur de Montaigne. "Pour Francois le Febvre de Lyon, 1695." With autograph of Gul. Drummond, and cipresso e palma.

{12} "The little old foxed Moliere," once the property of William Pott, unknown to fame.