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id: 22716
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  ''A Full and True Account of a Horrid and Barbarous Revenge by Poison on the Body of Mr. Edmund Curll, Bookseller


id: 22716
type: WORK_OF_ART
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  ''Catalogue of a Collection of Printed Broadsides in the Possession of the Society of Antiquaries of London''


id: 41393
type: WORK_OF_ART
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  The Romance of the Shepherd Sale--Its Confirmation of My Views--Small Proportion of Genuine Amateurs


id: 30419
type: WORK_OF_ART
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  "A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Obsolete Phrases, Proverbs, and Ancient Customs, from the Fourteenth Century, by


id: 30419
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  Quotations._--Noble Thoughts in Noble Language: a Collection of Wise and Virtuous Utterances in Prose


id: 443
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  "The Duke o'' Gordon''s Daughter," and two or three other famous songs which I had learned while sojourning among the humbler classes in the North of England


id: 28540
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  _A Plaister for a galled Horse_,"[317] which Raynald printed in a little thin quarto volume of six or seven pages.


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id: 28540
title: Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance
author: Dibdin, Thomas Frognall
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  book-collecting; and that Dean Colet[21] and his friend Sir Thomas madness of book-collecting rather increased--and the work of death manuscripts and printed books in the library of the French king, Louis printed volume upon the love and advantages of book-collecting was the mind--passionately addicted to rare and curious books--his library was Catalogue Raisonné of the early printed books in the library three copies upon LARGE PAPER) contains an account of books [Footnote 180: In a copy of this book, printed by Grafton in of English Printed Books_.[338] This little thin folio volume afforded title to the Catalogue of his Library.) His books were sold _large paper_ copy of a catalogue of his books, which, as well as the account of the books PRINTED UPON VELLUM in this collection, Large and Valuable Library of Printed Books, rare old first volume of this work, of which 200 copies were printed,


id: 28174
title: The Private Library What We Do Know, What We Don''t Know, What We Ought to Know About Our Books
author: Humphreys, Arthur Lee
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  so far has written a book to assist in making THE PRIVATE LIBRARY He who collects such large paper books as mature judgment become in time one of the most valuable books in one''s library.''[18] person, place, or subject, and keep reference books at hand to answer careful Pepys was not to admit into his library any ''risky'' books. Pepys'' books were numbered consecutively throughout the library, and his library and the various sizes of books, but he must be able to look will be anxious to form libraries and special collections of books, more applicable to an annexe library than to the housing of books in an any man who really uses his library as a work-room, whether it be for which are arranged a library of books which are seldom looked at, and libraries or to book collecting. side."'' ''Your house and library'' (says the dedication of a book to


id: 28187
title: The Wanderings and Homes of Manuscripts
author: James, M. R. (Montague Rhodes)
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  the history is a title written on the fly-leaf in the fifteenth century, written when the book came to Eton College. works, which the abbey libraries possessed in great numbers, and often sixth-century copy of the Book of Genesis, written in uncial letters and the book is called) do not give a set catalogue of his library, but Books are produced in considerable numbers in Italy, France, Spain; and Our libraries are crammed to-day with twelfth-century MSS. He got together a library of fine books, mostly recent I said, no catalogue, but there are many of its books in our libraries. library books, but rather properties of great ecclesiastics or nobles. books of the thirteenth century, well written and decorated. fourteenth-century catalogue of the books among the Harley MSS. I cannot doubt that among the books imported in the seventh century from fifteenth-century book, and the Theodore for whom it was written was I


id: 28225
author: Hazlitt, William Carew
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  important and enviable assemblage of literary monuments, like the Rev. Thomas Corser, who spent £9000 during a lifetime on books, which to his English possessions even a select collection of books in America--Early English books in foreign collections--Difference Eton College Library contains a small number of early printed books (including Caxton''s _Book of Good Manners_) and the unique copy of on the printed book-market in their time (to say nothing of MSS.) a privately printed catalogue of the books, of which two editions collection, restricted to English books dated prior to the year 1600, Any of us, taking in his hands the series of _English Book-Collectors_ second, collections of caricatures and prints in book-form; a third, books, or even works in two or three volumes, in historical bindings, ancient work and of historical copies of early books. The library of printed books and MSS. The catalogue of the Early English Books in the British Museum

title:
  The Book-Collector A General Survey of the Pursuit and of those who have engaged in it at Home and Abroad from the Earliest Period to the Present Time


id: 18938
title: The Great Book-Collectors
author: Elton, Charles Isaac
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  [Illustration: The Great Book-Collectors Charles & Mary Elton] great Alexandrian library, and these books, we suppose, must have books in School Street, and their brothers in London had a good library, OXFORD--DUKE HUMPHREY''S BOOKS--THE LIBRARY OF THE VALOIS. OXFORD--DUKE HUMPHREY''S BOOKS--THE LIBRARY OF THE VALOIS. regulation of Cobham''s Library, the best of the books were to be sold so His library was said to contain as many books as there were year 1510, and was able to collect a second library of printed books. library,'' said Fuller, ''two long galleries full, the books sorted in library at his death in 1677 contained nine of Grolier''s books, and rest of his books to the public library of the city of Berne. His library contained several books that had belonged to Grolier; but it books in the Royal Library. Library, where the printed books and certain other MSS. manuscript on London Libraries, with its anecdotes of book-collectors and


id: 30419
title: How to Form a Library, 2nd ed
author: Wheatley, Henry B. (Henry Benjamin)
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  contains classified lists of library books, but these are not now of much _Catalogue of my English Library_, which contains a very useful selection Catalogue of Books fitted for the Libraries of Institutions was raised, suitable for Libraries, and Periodicals for Reading Rooms_, by W.H.J. Traice." A second edition of this book was published in 1863. When we come to consider libraries of printed books in place of libraries were first formed, collections of books were usually intended public libraries, a well-selected collection of standard books will be of Publishing Societies form quite a library of themselves, and an account second volume forms a good book of reference.[22] Many other catalogues such a list, and in 1631 was published a catalogue of books issued between [48] Catalogue of the American Books in the Library of the British Museum. Catalogue of Books in the Library at books are Dr. Billings''s Index Catalogue of the Library of


id: 22136
title: The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author
author: Burton, John Hill
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  The Author, in again laying his little book before the public, has taken like his books, brought together after some self-willed and peculiar law subtle influences at work in the mind of the book-hunter, often make book-buyers among whom his great critical works are forgotten, and his way in book-collecting, if the collector be true to the traditions of buy books at any time with money, but you cannot make a library like one books from what might be called natural causes, keeping, like the decay by the world; and institutions of the nature of the book clubs might at that time, done nothing in serious book-club business, having let club books, that although these volumes profess to be printed from old fact, the editor of a club book is, in the general case, a sort of --rare books printed by early English printers, 218 _et seq._ Boswell, Sir Alexander, as a book-club man, 292 _et seq._


id: 22607
title: The Book-Hunter in London Historical and Other Studies of Collectors and Collecting
author: Roberts, W. (William)
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  the leading book-collectors and booksellers in London, not to mention a bookseller catalogued a copy of the ''Book of Job'' at a very low figure. Richard of London, who had a ''private library'' of ten books, including rehabilitated the great ecclesiastic''s library in the first part of Mr. Quaritch''s ''Dictionary of English Book-collectors.'' Another [Illustration: _John, Duke of Roxburghe, Book-collector._] of book-collectors, James Bindley, whose library was sold after his book-collectors of this period we may mention particularly the Rev. Henry Joseph Thomas Drury, whose library was rich in classics, all for books, whilst the library of his friend and executor, John Forster The British Museum copy of this book belonged to Dr. Mead, at whose sale it was purchased for £25 for the French King; the 1742 he published ''a catalogue of several libraries of books lately Mr. Crossley''s library for many years, and at the sale of his books in


id: 22605
title: Book-Lovers, Bibliomaniacs and Book Clubs
author: Harper, Henry Howard
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  and Book Clubs,--not for publication before the great audience of collection of good books for a library, for fear of being called a public library where such books as they desire are readily counterfeiters later on when I come to the subject of Book Clubs; in certain book-buyer joined the club some time ago, and subscribed for the past twenty years, the legitimate Book Club has been one of the In this country there are private book clubs and societies that have president''s annual address to the members of an old and honored book members or even the book-loving public. print the name of some book club or society. Most book clubs print only such number of copies of one of these book-treasures of his own club''s production, and latest publications of the leading book clubs of this country, and to bibliophiles who belong to two or three book clubs at once, finding it


id: 22716
title: The Book-Hunter at Home
author: Allan, P. B. M. (Philip Bertram Murray)
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  early days of collecting has our book-hunter hesitated and finally left a unearth a copy some day--if indeed the book be in your line--long buried Antiquities,'' asserts that Upton''s work was reprinted from the St. Albans book in folio, 1496, ''with the King''s Arms and Caxton''s mark book-collectors, and that is the enforced acquisition of certain volumes collection of books printed by that great family of printers than with Of all the _rarae aves_ sought by book-collectors this little volume is In the case of early-printed books and works of great rarity, never, upon little volume is really a list of books (under their authors'' names) title ''A Catalogue of Books in the Library of the British Museum, printed publication an important work entitled ''A Catalogue of Books printed in that the work presents merely a list of books catalogued under their work on his very subject and yet unknown to him; for book-collecting is


id: 13852
author: Bennett, Arnold
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  bound to have read somewhere that the style of Sir Thomas Browne is Let us begin experimental reading with Charles Lamb. think of Charles Lamb as a book, because he has arrived at the Charles Lamb was a man, not a book. form an idea of the man behind the book. You will find that, in classical literature, the style always follows But what do those people mean who say: "I read such and such an author influence of literature, there _is_ no such thing as literary style. prose and verse of Charles and Mary Lamb, edited by that unsurpassed learning about literature in general; for books were his hobby, and he little for books and enjoys reading, and knows the classics by name Second: Read William Hazlitt''s essay "On Poetry in library of English literature, in comely and adequate editions. For the purposes of book-buying, I divide English literature, not

title:
  Literary Taste: How to Form It With Detailed Instructions for Collecting a Complete Library of English Literature


id: 3426
title: On Books and the Housing of Them
author: Gladstone, W. E. (William Ewart)
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  of pressure upon available space from the book population than from more as we get in view of the coming period of open book trade, and of for the Common Council of Aix purchased books for a public library in In a private library, where the service of books is commonly to be one gallery of books a room should not be more than from sixteen to simply a face of books with the lines of shelf, like threads, running inches of this may be given to shallow cases placed against the wall. arrangement, in bringing great numbers of books within easy reach. for great public libraries alone. might be formed a library of twelve hundred volumes upon chess. of books: a vast economy which, so far as it is applied, would probably A room of 40 feet by 20 (no great size) would receive 60,000,


id: 443
title: The Love Affairs of a Bibliomaniac
author: Field, Eugene
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  my heart went out in love to this little book, no change of scene or of came into my life at the time when I was reading and loved that book. Another famous man who made a practice of reading books as he walked those old books of mine, which from the years and from the ship''s hold and worthy are the things we call books." And Judge Methuen''s favorite not human life too short for the lover of books to spend his precious For, having to do with books, these men in due time come to resemble As I entered the shop I heard the bookseller ask: "What books shall I twenty years old--so long as it was a catalogue of books he found the books, old friends, old times; "he evades the present, he works at the And what books they were in those old days!


id: 626
title: The Love of Books: The Philobiblon of Richard de Bury
author: Bury, Richard de
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  for the first time, made accessible to the larger book-loving public, and treasure that is not seen; but truth which shines forth in books maintained and contained in holy books--nay, they are written truth books does not suffer the operation of the intellect upon the truths king by this bold deed, except that the vessels of wisdom, holy books, words: Let books be asked for each day at a given hour; he who asks the love as well as the study of books; and thus poverty in these days social commune with learned men and lovers of books, yet when we that the love of books is the same thing as the love of wisdom, as was The same men love not books and money both, books is the life of man. teach, who write books of sacred learning. the sciences and writing them in books; amongst which the wonderful


id: 38345
title: Book Collecting: A Guide for Amateurs
author: Slater, J. Herbert (John Herbert)
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  In the year 1699, for example, a book was published, entitled British Museum _Catalogue of Early Printed Books in English_, 3 vols., and the book is an old one, then study the position of the water-mark. these old books were printed, is the name of the place of publication, date is that of the first book known to have been printed at the in King James''s time say that if he would have a book sell, he would on old paper of a perfect match, the book and these leaves sized and years, on publishing certain classes of books, to print off a limited so are any books from the presses of the early English printers. the first book of Caxton with a date, and a perfect copy, but The first book known to have been printed by Redman bears date 1523. _Great_ or _Cromwell''s Bible_, a folio book dated 1539, a fair copy of


id: 41393
title: The Confessions of a Collector
author: Hazlitt, William Carew
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  Rarity of Old English Books--Curiosities of Cataloguing and Library--His Manuscript Notes in the Books--A High Estimate of Heber books, for which we had a common liking, naturally led to Mr Huth, in the Mr Huth was not a Heber; but he liked to look into his books, and of many Although Mr Huth cannot be said to have been a mere amasser of old books, this or that book or tract, of which very possibly no second copy was to collection of English books, printed not later than the year 1600. time--about 1863 or 1864--purchasing rare old books, for which my late thirty years from auction-room and book-shop, whenever an item, which I had put into my hands at Reeves''s one day the catalogue of a house-sale the circumstances was appreciated by Messrs Sotheby and Co. At one of the coin-sales in Wellington Street four successive lots were


id: 36764
title: In the Track of the Bookworm
author: Browne, Irving
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  bibliomaniacs who reprint rare books from their own libraries in limited "Where we know that a book is at once both good and rare--where the Modern paper however has one advantage: Mr. Blades, in his pleasant "Enemies of Books," tells us "that the worm will thirty years'' haunting of the book-shops and print-shops of New York, I money for books unless they are meant to be a gift for some man." Mr. Martin is a little too hard here, for I have been told of such clubs which generally the books compelled to surrender their prints to the Illustrator little illustrated volume, like "Ballads of Books," compiled by Brander book ought to be illustrated in the spirit and costume of its time. taste for collecting book-plates of distinguished men or famous and say to me, "I know you are a great man to buy books--have you seen book, although it is good for nothing but to read.


id: 44810
title: Chats in the Book-Room
author: Pym, Horace N.
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  When those acquaintances had read the little book, they asked, like English water-colourists, to many of whom he was a good friend, and Mr. George Redford makes some notes of the best pictures for the Press; but One curious little history I can tell concerning a sale in recent years The best holiday for an over-worked man, who has little time to spare, One day a pleasant little American neighbour at dinner touched one''s "There''s nothing like work," said Mr. Boffin; "look at the bees!" present craze for work, and again proves, like Dickens'' bee, that we My good and kind old friend Robert Baxter, who now rests from his the first time an old friend and his wife in their pleasant country Staying many years ago in a pleasant country-house, whilst walking home a lovely little wretch, and you say he has eyes like mine.


id: 44360
title: The Amenities of Book-Collecting and Kindred Affections
author: Newton, A. Edward (Alfred Edward)
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  Some years ago a very learned friend of mine published a book, and in I am aware that my friend, Dr. Johnson, once remarked that no man but a block-head writes a book except tell ourselves, we expect some day to read, the books written by men of How little the old man knew that this son, when the time came, would Twenty-five years ago, in London, early in my book-collecting days, I Pounds Forty Hut_." To me it was perfectly clear that Mrs. Thrale-Piozzi''s copy of Johnson''s Dictionary in two volumes folio was to It is like reading the not very funny book of an old-time comic opera Book-Collector." I had just given an old-time year''s salary for a house in Great Queen Street, in London, in which Boswell lived when he Boswell''s "Life of Johnson" was the dedication copy to Sir Joshua Boswell''s "Life of Johnson" was the dedication copy to Sir Joshua


