...out, however, while he was absent from Vienna, and the bookseller was so indiscreet as to announce it, in some way publicly, as the work of Mr. Von Hammer, in consequence of which he hastened back to Vienna , avowed himself as the writer, but, to prevent being ruined by it, went directly to the censors, and had a damnatur put upon the book, which excluded it entirely from circulation. He gave me a copy...