A BIBLIOGRAPHICAL Antiquarian ANDPICTURESQUE TOUR.
PRINTED BY WILLIAM NICOL, AT THE
Shakespeare Press.
ANN OF BRITTANY. From an Illustrated Missal in theRoyal Library at Paris.
London. Published June 1829. by R. Jennings.Poultry.
A
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL
Antiquarian
AND
PICTURESQUE TOUR
IN
FRANCE AND GERMANY.
BY THE REVEREND THOMAS FROGNALL DIBDIN, D.D.
MEMBER OF THE ROYAL ACADEMY AT ROUEN, AND OF THE ACADEMY OF UTRECHT.
SECOND EDITION.
VOLUME II.
DEI OMNIA PLENA
LONDON:
PUBLISHED BY ROBERT JENNINGS, AND JOHN MAJOR.
1829.
CONTENTS OF VOLUME II.
CONTENTS.
VOLUME II.
LETTER I.
PARIS. The Boulevards. Public Buildings. Street Scenery.Fountains
LETTER II.
General Description of the Bibliothèque du Roi. TheLibrarians
LETTER III.
The same subject continued
LETTER IV.
The same subject continued
LETTER V.
PARIS. Some Account of the early printed and rare Books in theRoyal Library
LETTER VI.
Conclusion of the Account of the Royal Library. The Library of theArsenal
LETTER VII.
Library of Ste. Geneviève. The Abbé Mercier St. Léger. Library ofthe Mazarine College, or Institute. Private Library of the King. Mons.Barbier, Librarian,
Introduction to Letter VIII
LETTER VIII.
Some Account of the late Abbé Rive. Booksellers. Printers. BookBinders
LETTER IX.
Men of Letters. Dom Brial. The Abbé Bétencourt. Messrs. Gail,Millin, and Langlès. A Roxburghe Banquet
LETTER X.
The Collections of Denon, Quintin Craufurd, and the Marquis deSommariva
LETTER XI.
Notice of M. Willemin's Monumens Français inédits. MiscellaneousAntiquities. Present State of the Fine Arts. General Observations upon theNational Character
LETTER XII.
Paris to Strasbourg. Nancy
LETTER XIII.
STRASBOURG. Establishment of the Protestant Religion. TheCathedral. The Public Library
LETTER XIV.
Society. Environs of Strasbourg. Domestic Architecture. Manners andCustoms. Literature. Language
LETTER I.
PARIS. THE BOULEVARDS. PUBLIC BUILDINGS. STREET SCENERY. FOUNTAINS.1
Paris, June 18, 1818.
You are probably beginning to wonder at the tardiness of my promisedDespatch, in which the architectural minutiæ of this City were to besomewhat systematically described. But, as I have told you towards theconclusion of my previous letter, it would be to very little purpose toconduct you over every inch of ground which had been trodden and describedby