[26] _Idée générale d'une Collection complette des Estampes. Leips._
1771. 8vo.

[27] Since the above was written, the RIVAL ST. CRISTOPHER have been placed
_side by side_. When Lord Spencer was at Paris, last year, (1819,) on
his return from Italy--he wrote to me, requesting I would visit him
there, and bring St. Christopher with me. That Saint was therefore, in
turn, carried across the water--and on being confronted with his
name-sake, at the Royal Library ... it was quite evident, at the first
glance, as M. Du Chesne admitted--that they were impressions taken
from _different blocks_. The question therefore, was, after a good
deal of pertinacious argument on both sides--which of the two
impressions was the MORE ANCIENT? Undoubtedly it was that of Lord[B]
Spencer's.

[B] [The reasons, upon which this conclusion was founded, are
stated at length in the preceding edition of this work: since
which, I very strongly incline to the supposition that the Paris
impression is a _proof_--of one of the _cheats_ of DE MURR.]

[28] He died in 1824 and a notice of his Life and Labours appeared in the
_Annales Encyclopèdiques_.

[29] "M. Dibdin may well make the _fourth_ copy--as to size."
CRAPELET, p. 115.