Note 399 — The Drawing Room. (continued 4)

Mention has already been made of the different Catalogues of the Pinelli Collection: see p. 21, ante. Here, as Lysander has thought proper again to notice the name of the collector, I am tempted to add a few specimens of the extraordinary books contained in his extraordinary library: adding thereto the prices for which they were sold. But—again and again I observe, in limine—these sums form no criterion of the present worth of the books; be the same more or less! It is a document only of bibliographical curiosity.