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1851. Charles Pieters brought out his

enlarged in 1858, and a supplement in 1860.
 * Annales de 1'Imprimerie Elsevirienne,' much

1880 saw the publication of Alphonse Willems's ' Les Elzevier.' This is the best book and a mine of information.

1885. Dr. Berghman issued his ' Etudes sur la Bibliographie Elzevirienne basees sur 1'ouvrage de M. Alphonse Willems.'

This was followed a year or so later by


 * Nouvelles Etudes,' and in 1911 by his

viriennes de la Bibliotheque Royale de Stockholm.'
 * Catalogue Raisonne des Impressions Elze-

It should be added that in 1885 Mr. Edmund Goldsmid privately printed his complete catalogue of the Elzevir presses, but this is little more than an English edition of Willems.

Brunet has a long account of the books issued by the Elzevirs in his ' Manuel,' vol. v. col. 1709-84. The 1631 edition of

British Museum. I believe the Guildhall Library has a large collection of Elzevirs.
 * Donati lannotii Respublica ' is in the

A. L. HUMPHREYS. 187, Piccadilly, W.

This is one of the miniature editions of the famous " Elzevir Republics," printed between 1627 and 1649. Of this series 52 volumes are found in the Taylorian Library at Oxford, and may be seen there by MB. J. ISAACS, together with the book especially desired to be inspected by him.

H. KREBS. Oxford.

I do not think MR. ISAACS'S book can be a very rare one. There are copies of the 1631 edition of 'Donati lannotii Florentini Dia- log! de Repub. Venetorum,' of the same size as MR. ISAACS'S copy of the 1642 edition, i.e., 16mo, in the British Museum, the Bodleian, and the Library of this College. Giannotti, for that seems to have been his name, was a Florentine politician who migrated to Venice when he suspected that Cosmo I. was medi- tating an attack on the liberty of Florence. There he wrote in Italian his ' Republica di Venezia,' which was published at Rome in 4to in 1540. With the ' Dialogi ' in the Queen's College copy, and also, it would seem, in that in the British Museum, are bound up the ' Notes ' of Nicolas Crassus, of which the date is 1642; so the title-page of the ' Dialogues,' which is an engraved one, may have been prefixed without alteration to some copies of later impressions, as this title-page promises the notes and also a

book ' De Forma eiusdem Reip.,' which is not added either in the Queen's College or the British Museum copy. The book is one of a series of small books on the Italian republics issued by the Elzevirs in the first half of the seventeenth century.

JOHN R. MAGRATH. Queen's College, Oxford.

My edition of this little book one of the "Respublica" series has an engraved title as follows :

" Donati lannotii Florentini dialogi De Repub Venetorum cum Notis et Lib Singular! de Forma eiusdem Reip cum Privilegio. [Then come the Lion of St. Mark and other symbols. 1 Lugd. Batav. Ex officina Elzeveriana. Anno

CIO IOCXXXI."

The signatures are A-Gg, 467 pp. besides the index and fly-leaves. There are six curious engravings. If MR. ISAACS desires other details, I shall be pleased to give them if he will communicate with me direct.

E. E. STREET.

Chichester.

COL. GORDON IN ' BARNABY RUDGE ' (11 S. i. 11, 74; iv. 416). At the second reference evidence was given that the member of Parliament named by Dickens " Col. Gordon " was Col. Murray.

At the last reference I quoted the ' Dic- tionary of National Biography ' for the story that John Baker Holroyd, afterwards first Earl of Sheffield, threatened Lord George with summary vengeance if any of the mob made an entrance into the House. I remarked :

"It is quite possible that more than one member of Parliament threatened Lord George with death on the occasion referred to."

This was the case according to ' Journal of the Reign of George the Third, from the Year 1771 to 1783,' by Horace Walpole, 1859, vol. ii. p. 404. Under date 1780, 2 June, Walpole writes :

" Lord George Gordon, from the doors and windows of the House, denounced to the populace the Members who spoke against them. General Conway reprimanded him soundly in public and private, Colonel Murray told him he was a disgrace to his family, and that if anybody was killed he should not escape. Another Member followed him to every place he stirred, and vowed the same."

Col. Murray's reference to " his [Lord George's] family," as above, would appear to imply kinship between the two.

I do not suggest that Dickens's " Col. Gordon " was any one but Col. James Murray of Strowan, member for Perth- shire. ROBERT PIERPOINT.