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An introduction to the study of bibliography (Volume 1-2); to which is prefixed A Memoir on the public libraries of the antients - Softcover
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1814 Excerpt: ... Inns of Court, and many other Places, of which no vestige now remains. Some fine old Maps, and a number of Historical Views; the whole, forming a Collection of more than eUren hundred Engratings, most of which are rery rare, or fine impressions: the judicious and masterly Manner in which they are arranged to Correspond with the Letter-press, and the neatness and ingenuity by which they are affixed to the blank leaves, are such that it is doubtful if such a fine Copy can be procured at any price. There are a few blank leaves interspersed throughout the Work, 7 vols, imperial folio, handsomely bound in russia, gilt leaves. 270/. Some curious particulars, relative to Unique and Illustrated Copies, may be seen in the Bibliomania, pp. 664, 670, 685, 687. No. VI. WORKS IN THE MACARONIC STYLE. (Referred to, page 332.,) "It is the characteristic of a Macaronic Poem, to be written in Latin hexameters, but so as to admit occasionally vernacular words, either in their native form, or with a Latin inflexion: other licences, too, are allowed in the measure of the lines, contrary to the strict rules of prosody." (Goode's Life of Dr. Geddes, p. 255.) For the origin of this term, different derivations have been assigned: the most rational is that of Mr. Mason Goode, who deduces it from the Italian term Maccheroru, "significative of a blockhead, an ignoramus, or in equivalent English, pudding-fated fellow; Maccheronea (Macaronics) are obviously therefore burlesque imitations of the unclassical style of such writers." (Life, &c. p. 256.) The following is a brief notice of the principal Macaronic Works, abridged from De Bure (Belles Lettres, torn. i. pp. 445--459), compared with Brunet's Manuel de Liiraire, torn. l. ii. under the different articles, with the addition of a few...
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