"Indice" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... I learn that only 190 copies of so useful, as well as splendid, a work were printed, of which the French government took upon itself the distribution.——CORDES. Bibliothecae Cordesianae Catalogus, cum indice titulorum, Parisiis, 1643, 4to. The celebrated Naude had the drawing up and publishing of this catalogue, which is highly coveted by collectors, and is now of rare occurrence. De Cordes was intimate with all the learned men of his country ...
— Bibliomania; or Book-Madness - A Bibliographical Romance • Thomas Frognall Dibdin |
