Note 42 — JOSEPH-MARIE QUÉRARD.

Le Quérard in announcing the Memoirs of Libraires, by Edward Edwards, of the British Museum, declares that the author wrote Die Maskirte Literatur der Alteren und neuren. Leipzig; 1856; imp. 8ᵛᵒ; von Emil Weller, and that Emil Weller is Mr. Edward Edwards’ pseudonym. We can scarcely credit this, seeing the number of works Dr. Petzholdt⁠[A] ascribes to the former, and the latter’s constant literary occupations at home. If the above is right, we may compliment Mr. Edwards upon his German, and Herr Weller upon his correct English titles and familiarity with our Institutions. We beg respectfully to suggest to Mr. Edwards, Notes and Queries, as a medium for contradicting this, if it is not a fact. We are glad of an opportunity of thanking him for the information we have derived from many of his works, and particularly his Memoirs of Libraries.

[A] Bibliotheca Bibliographica, Kritisches Verzeichniss der das Gesammtgebiet der Bibliographie Betreffenden Litteratur des in- und auslandes in systematischer ordnung bearbeitet von Dr. Julius Petzholdt. Mit alphabetischem namen- und Sachregister. Leipzig. Verlag von Wilhelm Engelmann. 1866; 8ᵛᵒ; xii. 939.