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Title: A bibliographical, antiquarian and picturesque tour in France and Germany
Year: 1821 (1820s)
Authors: Dibdin, Thomas Frognall, 1776-1847
Subjects: Libraries Libraries Bibliography Literary journeys Literary journeys
Publisher: London : Shakespeare Press
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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, in the Rue St. Anne, no. 19; run-ning nearly at right angles with the Rue St. Honordynot far from the Eglise St. Roq. M. Chardin is the lastsurviving remains of the Old School of booksellers inParis; and as I love antiquities of almost all kinds,I love to have a little occasional gossip with M. Char-din. A finer old man, with a more characteristic phy-siognomy, hath not appeared in France from the timeof Gering downwards. M. Chardin is above the meanheight; is usually attired in a rocquelaure ; and his fineflowing grey locks are usually surmounted by a smallblack silk cap. His features .. but I enclose you theman to the life \-\ from two sittings afforded by him • When he waited upon Lord Spencer at Paris, last year, and wasshewn by his Lordship the Ulric Han Juvenal (in the smallest charac-ter of the printer) and the Horace of 1474, by Arnoldus de Bruxella. . his voice, eyes, arms, aud entire action . , gave manifest proofs howhe FELT upon the occasion ! f See the Opposite Platk,
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M©H§« CBIAmDIfH 1L2BEA21EE Iondon,fuiUs-h^fbrch£lUyT.F.IiCbcUth /KV. BOOKSELLERS. 401 to Mr. G. Lewis. From this you will remark that hisexpression of countenance is penetrating-, but mild:and that he has a certain air of the Old Schoolabout him, which is always, to my old-fashioned taste,interesting and pleasing. I may be scolded for all this fuss and detail aboutan old and fast-wearing out bookseller ; but say it ismy fancy— and moreover, where is the harm in seiz-ing upon these characteristic traits, which cannot failto be interesting to a very large body of collectors—some of whom may yet remember Chardin when hewas a pretty fellow in his day—and divided his timebetween his books and the society of the ladies. Inhis youth he must have been handsome, and his com-plexion is yet delicate. But good old M. Chardin isan oddity in his way. He physics according tothe book—that is, according to the Almanack ; andyet I should think he had scarcely one spare ounce ofblood in his

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