A Martyr to Bibliography:

A NOTICE OF THE

LIFE AND WORKS OF

JOSEPH-MARIE QUÉRARD,

Bibliographer.

PRINCIPALLY TAKEN FROM THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF
MAR. JOZON D’ERQUAR, (ANAGRAM);
WITH THE NOTICES OF GUSTAVE BRUNET, J. ASSEZAT, AND PAUL LACROIX,
(BIBLIOPHILE JACOB);
AND A LIST OF BIBLIOGRAPHICAL TERMS, AFTER PERQUIN.
WITH NOTES AND INDEX.

BY
OLPHAR HAMST, ESQ.
BIBLIOPHILE, M.O.T.I.L.S.O.T.U.K., T.S.B.A., AND A.O.A.F.W.O.S.

“Un bibliophile après tout n’est qu’un homme perfectionné.”

LONDON:
JOHN RUSSELL SMITH, 36, SOHO SQUARE.
EDMUND NETHERCLIFT, 9, NEWMAN STREET, OXFORD STREET.
PARIS: MAISON A. FRANCK, 67, RUE DE RICHELIEU.
1867.

London:
Printed by Edmund Netherclift,
9, Newman Street, w.

“The Common World will judge, that it is much more of Reputation to be an Author, than to be a bare Collector: And this will be a standing Reason, why the Multitude of Writers shall aim at the more creditable Name, and why so few seem willing to submit to that lower Character. But however, to write for Praise and Popularity is one Thing, and to write for Publick Use and Service is a different Thing: The first is indeed more natural, the latter has somewhat of Self-Denial and Mortification in it.

The Author has not only the Pleasure of hunting after the Applause of others, but he enjoys a quicker Taste of pleasing himself, being at Liberty to indulge his Invention, his Judgment, his Fancy, Wit, Oratory, or any other prevailing Talent in him: While the dull Collector is confin’d to the sort of mechanick Drudgery, to the running, stooping, searching, poring, picking out, and putting together, a Mass of Authorities; and often revising, collating and transferring of them, without being able to bring them soon into any regular Form and Fashion. As inglorious, as for the Day-Labourer to be throwing up an Heap of Stones and Rubbish, while the noble Architect alone has the Satisfaction and Credit of raising and perfecting his own Model.

“And yet, in compiling any History fit to be read, the proper Materials are to be sought out with Diligence, and before they are compacted, they must be examin’d, compar’d, corrected, and adjusted in due Order, and mark’d out for the respective Use and Application of them.” White Kennet. Register and Chronicle. 1728. Fol. Preface.

“Our nation has been too inattentive to bibliographical criticisms and enquiries, for generally the English reader is obliged to resort to foreign writers to satisfy his mind as to the value of authors. It behoves us however to consider, that there is not a more useful or a more desirable branch of education than a knowledge of books, which being correctly attained, and judiciously exercised, will prove the touchstone of intrinsic merit, and have the effect of saving many a spotless page from prostitution.” Bridgman, Legal Bibliography. 1807. 8ᵛᵒ, p. v.

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