A third volume includes only such titles as have the printer's device.

If you shut your eyes to the injury done by such collectors, you may, to a certain extent, enjoy the collection, for there is great beauty in some titles; but such a pursuit is neither useful nor meritorious.

By and by the end comes, and then dispersion follows collection, and the volumes, which probably Cost L200 each in their formation, will be knocked down to a dealer for L10, finally gravitating into the South Kensington Library, or some public museum, as a bibliographical curiosity.

The following has just been sold (July, 1880) by Messrs.

Sotheby, Wilkinson and Hodge, in the Dunn-Gardinier collection, lot 1592:-- "TITLEPAGES AND FRONTISPIECES.
_A Collection of upwards of_ 800 ENGRAVED TITLES AND FRONTISPIECES, ENGLISH AND FOREIGN (_some very fine and curious) taken from old books and neatly mounted on cartridge paper in 3 vol, half morocco gilt.