Excerpt from Peri Deisidaimonias: Plutarchus and Theophrastus on Superstition; With Various Appendices and a Life of Plutarchus

About the 5th. of March last year, I published a reprint of the text of the. Orphica. In the preface to that "Typographical Experiment" I said (p. vi & vii): "I am preparing an edition of Plutarch"s treatise on Superstition, in Greek and English, which will serve to occupy my compositor, "till I can ascertain from the sale of the present volume, whether it is worth my while to continue printing." This I said, writing on the 9th. Jan. 1827.

The fate of my "Experiment" was soon decided. Very few booksellers condescended to let a copy of the unfortunate production remain in their shops on sale or return. Some said, they did not deal in Greek books; some that they did not deal in new books; and one even said, that the book was too thin and might be lost.

When I received this disastrous information I would willingly have renounced printing altogether; but two or three half sheets of the Plutarchus were already worked off; nay, supposing that a book with an English translation might he more sought after than a work entirely Greek, I had been guilty of the folly of having each time 300 copies taken, and all too on fine paper.

But I had still a hope. I had sent copies of the Orphica to two or three of the Newspapers and to most of the principal Reviews.

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