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 [15] (17) We have heard of a case in which a publisher contracted to pay a certain sum to an author, on the appearance of a second edition. Forgetting this contract, and finding the book sell but slowly, he tried to help it forward by the bait of a new title-page, with the words second edition. The author immediately claimed his due, which the publisher was obliged to pay. O si sic omnia!

[17] (18) The author of this article showed, in his 'Arithmetical Books,' that there are two commencements of this edition. Prince Boncompagni, to whose researches the early scientific bibliography of Italy is much indebted, and will be more, has since found a third.

(19) Particularly (No. 12, p. 378) a letter addressed by Mr. Panizzi to Lord Ellesmere, the chairman, at the commencement of the proceedings: this letter ought to be republished in a separate form.