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REPLY1850

ENGLEMANN'S BIBLIOTHECA SCRIPTORUM CLASSICORUM

By A. DE MORGAN.

The sort of defence, explanation, or whatever it may be called, founded upon usage, and offered by ANOTHER FOREIGN BOOKSELLER, is precisely what I wanted to get out, if it existed, as I suspected it did. If your correspondent be accurate as to Engelmann, it appears that no wrong is done to *him*; it is only the public which is mystified by a variety of title-pages, all but one containing a suppression of the truth, and the one of which I speak containing more. I now ask you to put in parallel columns extracts from the title given by Engelmann with the substitutes given in that which I received…

Topics: Literature, Publishing Practices

Locations: Germany, England