ODDS and ends! The compiler of a volume of this sort is sure to find plenty of these,--scraps worth putting in somewhere, yet not coming precisely under any particular head. In the first place, 'Portrait' book-plates claim attention. We have seen that they exist, but, alas! that they are so few; for, to any reasonable person, members of the Heralds' College, of course, excepted, a man's features are certainly more interesting than his armorial bearings. In England, Sam. Pepys adopted the style, which was not then unknown on the Continent. Pirckheimer perhaps originated it, by placing, as I have already said, a portrait of himself at the end of the volumes, which contained his now familiar book-plate by Dürer on the front cover; and there are many other early foreign examples. One of the most conspicuous is the bust-portrait of John Vennitzer, of Nuremberg, engraved by Pfann, and dated in 1618, to which I have already alluded (p. 140). Pepys used to place the small variety of his portrait book-plate--that figured opposite--at the commencement of many of his books, and that showing his interwoven initials ('the little plate for my books') at the end. Both his portrait book-plates are by White. I have failed to find any allusion in his _Diary_ to the engraving of these book-plates, though, as we have seen, he refers to the preparation of another (see p. 8). He very likely took the idea of a 'Portrait' book-plate from that which Faithorne, either in or soon after 1670, prepared to place in the volumes left by good Bishop Hacket to Cambridge (see p. 201). [Illustration] It is possible that we have a portrait in the figure on the book-plate, already noticed, of Louis Bosch, a clergyman of Tamise, near Antwerp; but the head is too small to afford an interesting likeness. The priest sits at a table in his study, the walls of which are lined with volumes, and beneath him is written in Latin: 'A hunt in such a forest never wearies,'--the 'forest being,' as Lord De Tabley observes, 'the rows and ranks of his reverence's books.' In France the 'Portrait' book-plate is not uncommon; that of a French clergyman, Francis Perrault, figured opposite, is a nice piece of work, and bears the date 1764; but portraits, possibly or indeed probably, of the owners occur on French book-plates at an earlier date. In Italy there is an example in 1760, the book-plate of Filippo Linarti. [Illustration]