Note 4 — CATALOGUE OF HOGARTH'S PRINTS.[1] (continued 4)
Reading edition
The following story was told by St. André to an eminent bookseller, from whom I received it:
"Once when I was in Paris," says our hero, "I went to a sale of Missals, most of them bound in crimson velvet. Among these, and in the same binding, I discovered a fine impression of the Duke of Orleans's celebrated publication of Les Amours Pastorales de Daphnis et de Chloe, &c. which I purchased for a mere trifle. On taking off the velvet, I found the cover underneath was ornamented with as many jewels as I sold afterwards for five hundred pounds."——Who can believe a circumstance so utterly improbable?