With a pencil note to the limitation leaf describing this as "the scarcest of all Dibdin's works," and a further note to front pastedown stating "Marked £4 - 4 - 0 in Thorpe's catalogue for 1835." Dibdin was less than happy that Crapelet, not content with translation only, should have "the temerity, or the gross folly, to sit in judgement upon my work." Comments on his English were particularly resented. "I wish M. Crapelet would attend to his French, and leave my English alone. Thus, at page 56, he talks about my 'inconceivable indiscrétions.' There are few of these, I think, more inconceivable than that which M. C. has here committed." Of one particular example of mis-translation, Dibdin famously exclaims (p. 13): "Was there ever any thing more perfectly in the style of Noodleism than this?"