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ENGELMAN'S BIBILIOTHECA SCRIPTORUM CLASSICORUM
By A. DE MORGAN.
A little while ago, I ordered Engelman's *Bibliotheca Scriptoram Classicorum*, purporting to contain all such works published from 1700 to 1846. It was furnished to my bookseller by a foreign bookseller in *London* with an English title, having *his own* name on it as publisher, and an invitation to purchase the books described in it *from him*. As the paper and type were German, I objected and received in consequence a new English title, with the same name upon it, and a *shorter* invitation to purchase from him. I was captious enough to object even to this; and I then received a Leipzig titl…
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