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The proofs of his irritability are undoubted. He married, after banns, in his parish church of Horsleydown, on 12 July, 1768, " George Colman [the elder] of this parish, Bachelor, and Sarah Ford of this parish, Spinster." I am informed by the Rev. H. Fulford Williams, who has kindly furnished me with this information, that it was the first marriage performed by Penneck at Horsleydown. But he and Colman quarrelled not long afterwards through jealousy of Miss Miller, an actress, and " this pious clergyman, who is twice the heightt [sic] at least of Mr. Colman, one night in the streets knocked him down when he was quite unprepared for any attack " ('Early Diary of Frances Burney,' ii. 29). He accompanied Signora Agujari on her visit to the Burney family in 1755, but did not give complete satisfaction to the girls :

" We were not much delighted with Mr. Penneck, who is generally believed to be half a madman ; though by no means from flighfiness, which some- times occasions a mighty agreeable craziness, for he is perfectly wmttre. He 1 looks dark and designing and altogether in-favoured." Nevertheless he kept up his acquaintance with the family, " purred after Charlotte like a huge black tom-cat," and " broke his heart because Fanny did not make her fortune by ' Evelina.' "

James Northcote, the artist, tells an amus- ing story of him. He and Mr. A had a quarrel at the theatre. The latter, present- ing his card, " said with great pomposity, ' My name is A, Sir.' to which the other answered, ' I hear it, Sir, and am not terri- fied ' " (Xorthcote's conversation in Hazlitt's ' Works,' 1903, vi. 390). A is said to have been " our ambassador to some of the petty German states." W. P. COTTKTXEY.

LOWNDES'S 'BIBLIOGRAPHER'S MANUAL. 1

WHAT appear to be some new facts in regard to this work have recently come to light. The various editions or impressions of the ' Manual,' especially those edited and published by Bohn between 1857 and 1869, are, from a bibliographical point of view, very puzzling ; but in this note I shall confine myself to the editions or impres- sions that appeared in or before 1834.

What has apparently always been regarded as the first edition was published in 1834. A copy of this edition in two volumes is in the Harvard College Library. Vol. i. con- tains title, p. (i) ; printer's imprint, p. ("ii) ; dedication, p. (iii) ; Preface, pp. (v)-xii ;

text, pp. (D-1054. Vol. ii. contains title, p. (i) ; printer's imprint, p. (ii) ; text, pp. 1055-2002. A copy of the 1834 edition in three volumes is in the Boston Public Library, Vol. i. contains title, p. (i) ; printer's imprint, p. (ii) ; dedication, p. (iii); Preface, pp. (v)-xii; Address, two leaves, pp. (i)-iii; text, pp. (l)-638. Vols. ii. and iii. contain each title, p. (i) ; printer's imprint, p. (ii) ; and text, pp. 639-1316, 1317-2002, respec- tively. Two copies of the 1834 edition in four volumes are in the Boston Public Library. Vol. i. contains title, p. (i) ; printer's imprint, p. (ii) ; dedication, p. (iii) ; Preface, pp. (v)-xii; text, pp. (D-530. Vols. ii., iii., and iv. contain each title, p. (i) ; printer's imprint, p. (ii) ; and text, pp. 531-1054, 1055-1528, 1529-2002 respectively. A copy of the 1834 edition in four volumes is in the Boston Athenaeum. Vol. i. contains title, p. (i) ; printer's imprint, p. (ii); dedication, p. (iii); Preface, pp. (v)-xii ; Address, two leaves, pp. (i)-iii ; text, pp. (l)-498. Vols. ii., iii., and iv. contain each title, p. (i) ; printer's imprint, p. (ii) ; and text, pp. 499- 994, 995-1524, 1525-2002 respectively. Here, then, are five copies of the 1834 edition, of which all but two differ in contents or in make-up. In the Address we read : " Th? ' Bibliographer's Manual ' will extend to Three Volumes " (p. ii). Perhaps, therefore, the Address properly goes only with the three- volume edition of the work ; and, if so. it was bound into vol. i. of the Boston Athe- naeum copy by mistake.

In his Preface, dated 1 Jan., 1834, Lownde* says that " this Manual was commenced in the year 1820 " (p. xii). And also :

" It was stated in the prospectus that these notices would exceed twenty thousand ; but as the Editor proceeded, he was insensibly compelled to extend the limits which he had prescribed to himself ; and the work does, in fact, contain notices of upwards of fifty thousand distinct books, published in, or relating to, Great Britain and Ireland, from the invention of printing to the present time." P. vii.

In his Address we read: "In submitting the First Part of the ' Bibliographer's Manual,' the Compiler deems it necessary to state briefly the objects and plan of the work " (p. i). And again : " The ' Biblio- grapher's Manual ' will. . . .comprize up- wards of Thirty Thousand Articles " (p. ii'. Unfortunately, this Address is not dated, but it must have been written long before the Preface; and it clearly indicates that a portion or portions of the ' Manual ' must have been issued before 1834. That this was the case can now be shown from other