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But no one could have suspected what "translation" meant in the estimation of the Signor Tamburini, whose name appears on the title-page as that of the translator. Traduttore traditore, "Translator traitor," says the proverb; and of all traitors shielded under the less offensive name, Signor Tamburini is beyond comparison the worst we have ever had the misfortune to encounter.
'Have you ever looked into that little book, Charley? I said, finding in my hands an early edition of the Christian Morals of Sir Thomas Browne. I wanted to say something, that I might not appear distraught. 'No, he answered, with indifference, as he glanced at the title-page. 'Is it anything particular?
He had been captivated with the very title-page; but the further he read, the more he was delighted. She seemed formed to love; her soft black eye rolled languidly under its long silken lashes, and wherever it turned, it would linger and repose; there was tenderness in every beam. To him alone she was reserved and distant.
One would never know from the publisher's part of the title-page that the house of Blackwood & Sons was still in existence.
I planned a great metaphysical and philosophical work I was a good deal younger than I am now and the preface was to be, 'As to the originality of these ideas, I have nothing more to say than that I do not remember that they have ever been printed with my name on the title-page. Of course, after that declaration, I felt at liberty to take any thing I wanted from any where; but, unluckily, my book never got beyond the preface."
Newbery the famous nursery story of Goody Two Shoes, which appeared in 1765, at a moment when Goldsmith was scribbling for Newbery, and much pressed for funds. Several quaint little tales introduced in his Essays show that he had a turn for this species of mock history; and the advertisement and title-page bear the stamp of his sly and playful humor.
In either case my little portion may come last, and after the fashion of orders to a country correspondent, I will give directions how I should like to have 'em done. The title-page to stand thus: Under this title the following motto, which, for want of room, I put over-leaf, and desire you to insert whether you like it or no.
The work appeared about the end of December 1818 with 1819 on the title-page. Schopenhauer had meanwhile proceeded in September to Italy, where he revised the final proofs. So far as the reception of the work was concerned there was reason to believe that the fears of Brockhaus would be realised, as, in fact, they came practically to be.
One edition could be distinguished from another by the dates on title-page and colophon; and work once done was done for all time, if enough copies of a book were taken off. This necessarily produced a great change in methods of study.
I must confess to some mirth when I read that title-page: HAMLET, PRINCE OF DENMARK A Tragedy By THOMAS BRAGDON, ESQUIRE The conceit was well worthy of my late friend in one of his most fanciful moods.
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