Identifier: bibliographicala02dibd (find matches)
Title: A bibliographical, antiquarian and picturesque tour in France and Germany
Year: 1821 (1820s)
Authors: Dibdin, Thomas Frognall, 1776-1847
Subjects: Libraries Libraries Bibliography Literary journeys Literary journeys
Publisher: London : Shakespeare Press
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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: a group of heroes, veiled in a mist, forms the back-ground. Theonly other modern curiosity, in this vvay, which I deemit necessary to notice, is a collection of originalDRAWINGS of flowers, in water colours, by Redoute, upon vellum : in seven folio volumes ; and which cost24,000 francs. Nothing can exceed—and very fewefforts of the pencil can equal—this wonderful perfor-mance. Such a collection were reasonable at the fore-mentioned price. And now, my good friend, suppose I furnish youwith an outline of the worthy head-librarian himself?A. A. Barb IE R has perhaps not long turned the cor-ner of his fiftieth year. Peradventure he may be fiftythree. In stature, he is above the middle height, butnot very tall. In form, he is robust; and his counte-nance—but pray view the enclosed fac-simile* of this said figure and face, as executed after the original by Mr. Lewis, in pencil; and while that said original wasever and anon broken in upon by literary gossipers, * See the Opposite Plate.
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I.T Wedfwoodsc A^A.IBAmBIIEIE, Biblioftecairp dm Roi, er de son C<sms®il d El-a.t, Zondon/, Pu/hUshed for !he,Re- PRIVATE LIBRARY OF THE KING. 377 and transporters of proof-sheets. 1 can assure you itis a most faithful resemblance. There is a dash of the old school about the attire of M. Barbier, which I amGoth enough to admire : while his ardour of conver-sation, and rapidity of utterance, relieved by frequentand expressive smiles, make his society equally agree-able and instructive. He is a literary bibliographer to the very back bone; and talks of what he has done,and of what he purposes to do, with a gaiete decoeur which is quite delightful. He is now engagedin an Ejcamen Critique et Complement des Diction-naires Historiques les plus repandus ;* while his Dic-tionnaire des Auteurs Anonymes et Pseudonymes, in4 vols. 8vo., and his Bibliotheque dun Homme degout, in five similar volumes, have already placed himin the foremost rank of French bibliographers. Suchis his attention to

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