IV ADVERTISEMENT. 



can employ to bring tbcfe into difcredit, is to add 

 fomething new, to every new genuine Edition. 



Thefe piracies have done, and are ftill doing, me 

 inconceivable mifchief. I do not fpeak of thofe of 

 my firft Edition, with which the fouthern pro- 

 vinces of France have been filled * ; but fcarcely 

 had the fécond appeared, when it was counter- 

 feited, with it's additions, approbations, privilege ; 

 nay, with the very titles containing the addrefs of 

 my bookfellers. Other plunderers have had the 

 audacity to announce, in the catalogue of books of 



* M. Marin, fuperintendant of the prefs at Marfeilles, feized a 

 whole bale of thofe counterfeits, about a year and a half ago, 

 which, in defiance of all his remonftrances, was confifcated to the 

 benefit of the Syndical Chamber of that city, and not, as jufticc 

 required, to mine. M. de Chajfel, fuperintendant of the prefs at 

 Nancy, flopped there, about fix months ago, fome fpurious co- 

 pies of my fécond Edition, which M. Kidaud-de-la-Tour took 

 care to remit to me, conformably to the decifion of M. de La' 

 moignon, keeper of the feals. The Pirate had only retrenched, ia 

 the advertifement, what I there faid of the beauty of the charac- 

 ters of my fécond Edition j fimilarto thofe of the prefent, becaufe 

 the pitifulnefs of his own, would prefently have deteéled the 

 fraud. I have now reafon to expeél, from the vigilance of M. 

 Vidaud-de-la-Tour, whofe zeal for the interefts of literary pro- 

 ^perty fo well fupports the jiiftice of M. de Laymignon, a name fo 

 dear to the i-epublic of letters, that we fliall fee at length repref- 

 fed, in the kingdom, the plundering committed by literary pi- 

 rates, in defiance of Royal authority, and fo injurious to the in- 

 tereft of Aiithors, efpecially of fuch as have no other property 

 ^•xcept their Work?. 



' Leipfic-fair, 



