“ Elzevirs more or less grubby, and with pages more or less cut to the quick, are to be found in hundreds, and at very moderate prices. The beginner buys and buys, thinks himself a perfect "snuffy Davy" for luck, and never guesses that he is accumulating trash, and laying in stores of lively book-worms which will devour his treasures. ”

“ M. de Montesson's copy cost about 50l., and 20l'. is a not uncommon price. Alas! the right edition is of 1648; and that of 1649, in spite of the title-page and the figure of the old hermit, is a forgery, printed on larger paper, and probably published at Rouen. Let the Scotch Presbyterian also beware of spurious imitations. Who that has learned the "Shorter Catechism" in his youth, who that has blundered over "justification, sanctification, and adoption" would not willingly possess an Elzevir edition of his old enemy? ”

“ We can "see " these heresies now, as the Americans say, and "go a thousand dollars more," in the same direction. New editions of the classics, too, have made all but the masterpieces of Aldus, Musurus of Crete, Zacharias Calliergus, and other great scholars, seem superfluous. And in the search for Aldines, as of Elzevirs, the bibliophile must beware of the piratical counterfeits printed at Lyons. Aldus himself complained bitterly of the Lyons pirates. ”

“ One of the earliest symptoms of bibliomania is a passion for Aldines and Elzevirs. The young patient generally labors under the delusion that all books from the great Venice and Leyden presses are of equal value. Novels encourage this delusion; they always represent learned professors as "rich in Aldines and Elzevirs;" ”

“ His principal business was the publishing of college theses, and even these he turned out most execrably. The Elzevir types long survived the last printers of the family, but were destroyed by a publisher who was infatuated about the work of a German founder. ”