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charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 1 resourceName b'3640.txt' Traceback (most recent call last): File "/data-disk/reader-compute/reader-classic/bin/file2bib.py", line 107, in text = textacy.preprocessing.normalize.normalize_quotation_marks( text ) File "/data-disk/python/lib/python3.8/site-packages/textacy/preprocessing/normalize.py", line 32, in normalize_quotation_marks return text.translate(QUOTE_TRANSLATION_TABLE) AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'translate' 3426 txt/../wrd/3426.wrd 3426 txt/../pos/3426.pos 3426 txt/../ent/3426.ent 22605 txt/../pos/22605.pos 22605 txt/../wrd/22605.wrd 22605 txt/../ent/22605.ent 626 txt/../pos/626.pos === file2bib.sh === id: 22605 author: Harper, Henry Howard title: Book-Lovers, Bibliomaniacs and Book Clubs date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/22605.txt cache: ./cache/22605.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; 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R. (Montague Rhodes) title: The Wanderings and Homes of Manuscripts date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/28187.txt cache: ./cache/28187.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 4 resourceName b'28187.txt' 28174 txt/../ent/28174.ent 38345 txt/../wrd/38345.wrd 38345 txt/../pos/38345.pos === file2bib.sh === id: 13852 author: Bennett, Arnold title: Literary Taste: How to Form It With Detailed Instructions for Collecting a Complete Library of English Literature date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/13852.txt cache: ./cache/13852.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 3 resourceName b'13852.txt' 3640 txt/../ent/3640.ent 44810 txt/../pos/44810.pos 44810 txt/../wrd/44810.wrd 44810 txt/../ent/44810.ent 38345 txt/../ent/38345.ent 30419 txt/../pos/30419.pos 443 txt/../pos/443.pos 30419 txt/../wrd/30419.wrd === file2bib.sh === id: 44810 author: Pym, Horace N. title: Chats in the Book-Room date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/44810.txt cache: ./cache/44810.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 4 resourceName b'44810.txt' 443 txt/../wrd/443.wrd === file2bib.sh === id: 443 author: Field, Eugene title: The Love Affairs of a Bibliomaniac date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/443.txt cache: ./cache/443.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 3 resourceName b'443.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 28174 author: Humphreys, Arthur Lee title: The Private Library What We Do Know, What We Don't Know, What We Ought to Know About Our Books date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/28174.txt cache: ./cache/28174.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 5 resourceName b'28174.txt' 443 txt/../ent/443.ent 41393 txt/../pos/41393.pos 18938 txt/../pos/18938.pos 41393 txt/../wrd/41393.wrd 18938 txt/../wrd/18938.wrd === file2bib.sh === id: 626 author: Bury, Richard de title: The Love of Books: The Philobiblon of Richard de Bury date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/626.txt cache: ./cache/626.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 3 resourceName b'626.txt' 41393 txt/../ent/41393.ent 44360 txt/../pos/44360.pos 22716 txt/../pos/22716.pos === file2bib.sh === id: 3426 author: Gladstone, W. E. (William Ewart) title: On Books and the Housing of Them date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/3426.txt cache: ./cache/3426.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 3 resourceName b'3426.txt' 30419 txt/../ent/30419.ent 18938 txt/../ent/18938.ent 22716 txt/../wrd/22716.wrd 44360 txt/../wrd/44360.wrd 22607 txt/../pos/22607.pos 28225 txt/../pos/28225.pos === file2bib.sh === id: 30419 author: Wheatley, Henry B. (Henry Benjamin) title: How to Form a Library, 2nd ed date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/30419.txt cache: ./cache/30419.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 5 resourceName b'30419.txt' 22607 txt/../wrd/22607.wrd 28225 txt/../wrd/28225.wrd 44360 txt/../ent/44360.ent 22607 txt/../ent/22607.ent 22716 txt/../ent/22716.ent 22136 txt/../pos/22136.pos 22136 txt/../wrd/22136.wrd 28225 txt/../ent/28225.ent === file2bib.sh === id: 36764 author: Browne, Irving title: In the Track of the Bookworm date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/36764.txt cache: ./cache/36764.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 4 resourceName b'36764.txt' 22136 txt/../ent/22136.ent === file2bib.sh === id: 18938 author: Elton, Charles Isaac title: The Great Book-Collectors date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/18938.txt cache: ./cache/18938.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 17 resourceName b'18938.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 38345 author: Slater, J. Herbert (John Herbert) title: Book Collecting: A Guide for Amateurs date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/38345.txt cache: ./cache/38345.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 7 resourceName b'38345.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 41393 author: Hazlitt, William Carew title: The Confessions of a Collector date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/41393.txt cache: ./cache/41393.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 9 resourceName b'41393.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 28225 author: Hazlitt, William Carew 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 date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/28225.txt cache: ./cache/28225.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 19 resourceName b'28225.txt' 28540 txt/../wrd/28540.wrd 28540 txt/../pos/28540.pos === file2bib.sh === id: 22716 author: Allan, P. B. M. (Philip Bertram Murray) title: The Book-Hunter at Home date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/22716.txt cache: ./cache/22716.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 5 resourceName b'22716.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 44360 author: Newton, A. Edward (Alfred Edward) title: The Amenities of Book-Collecting and Kindred Affections date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/44360.txt cache: ./cache/44360.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 8 resourceName b'44360.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 22607 author: Roberts, W. (William) title: The Book-Hunter in London Historical and Other Studies of Collectors and Collecting date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/22607.txt cache: ./cache/22607.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 11 resourceName b'22607.txt' 28540 txt/../ent/28540.ent === file2bib.sh === id: 22136 author: Burton, John Hill title: The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/22136.txt cache: ./cache/22136.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 10 resourceName b'22136.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 28540 author: Dibdin, Thomas Frognall title: Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/28540.txt cache: ./cache/28540.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 36 resourceName b'28540.txt' Done mapping. Reducing subject-bookCollecting-gutenberg === reduce.pl bib === id = 28174 author = Humphreys, Arthur Lee title = The Private Library What We Do Know, What We Don't Know, What We Ought to Know About Our Books date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 34894 sentences = 2023 flesch = 75 summary = 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 cache = ./cache/28174.txt txt = ./txt/28174.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 28540 author = Dibdin, Thomas Frognall title = Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 304828 sentences = 23970 flesch = 76 summary = 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, cache = ./cache/28540.txt txt = ./txt/28540.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 18938 author = Elton, Charles Isaac title = The Great Book-Collectors date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 58463 sentences = 2987 flesch = 74 summary = [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 cache = ./cache/18938.txt txt = ./txt/18938.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 22136 author = Burton, John Hill title = The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 135043 sentences = 5744 flesch = 65 summary = 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._ cache = ./cache/22136.txt txt = ./txt/22136.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 28187 author = James, M. R. (Montague Rhodes) title = The Wanderings and Homes of Manuscripts date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 23529 sentences = 1387 flesch = 75 summary = 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 cache = ./cache/28187.txt txt = ./txt/28187.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 22605 author = Harper, Henry Howard title = Book-Lovers, Bibliomaniacs and Book Clubs date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 13483 sentences = 570 flesch = 62 summary = 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 cache = ./cache/22605.txt txt = ./txt/22605.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 41393 author = Hazlitt, William Carew title = The Confessions of a Collector date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 77629 sentences = 3654 flesch = 69 summary = 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 cache = ./cache/41393.txt txt = ./txt/41393.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 30419 author = Wheatley, Henry B. (Henry Benjamin) title = How to Form a Library, 2nd ed date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 43364 sentences = 4338 flesch = 73 summary = 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 cache = ./cache/30419.txt txt = ./txt/30419.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 22607 author = Roberts, W. (William) title = The Book-Hunter in London Historical and Other Studies of Collectors and Collecting date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 112083 sentences = 5490 flesch = 72 summary = 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 cache = ./cache/22607.txt txt = ./txt/22607.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 13852 author = Bennett, Arnold title = Literary Taste: How to Form It With Detailed Instructions for Collecting a Complete Library of English Literature date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 25007 sentences = 1795 flesch = 76 summary = 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 cache = ./cache/13852.txt txt = ./txt/13852.txt === reduce.pl bib === === reduce.pl bib === id = 28225 author = Hazlitt, William Carew 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 date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 90130 sentences = 4217 flesch = 65 summary = 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 cache = ./cache/28225.txt txt = ./txt/28225.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 443 author = Field, Eugene title = The Love Affairs of a Bibliomaniac date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 37583 sentences = 1712 flesch = 71 summary = 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! cache = ./cache/443.txt txt = ./txt/443.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 44810 author = Pym, Horace N. title = Chats in the Book-Room date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 23855 sentences = 1380 flesch = 80 summary = 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. cache = ./cache/44810.txt txt = ./txt/44810.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 626 author = Bury, Richard de title = The Love of Books: The Philobiblon of Richard de Bury date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 24979 sentences = 863 flesch = 65 summary = 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 cache = ./cache/626.txt txt = ./txt/626.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 22716 author = Allan, P. B. M. (Philip Bertram Murray) title = The Book-Hunter at Home date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 96385 sentences = 5912 flesch = 76 summary = 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 cache = ./cache/22716.txt txt = ./txt/22716.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 44360 author = Newton, A. Edward (Alfred Edward) title = The Amenities of Book-Collecting and Kindred Affections date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 96806 sentences = 5673 flesch = 79 summary = 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 cache = ./cache/44360.txt txt = ./txt/44360.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 38345 author = Slater, J. Herbert (John Herbert) title = Book Collecting: A Guide for Amateurs date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 43115 sentences = 3017 flesch = 76 summary = 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 cache = ./cache/38345.txt txt = ./txt/38345.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 3426 author = Gladstone, W. E. (William Ewart) title = On Books and the Housing of Them date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 6483 sentences = 292 flesch = 69 summary = 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, cache = ./cache/3426.txt txt = ./txt/3426.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 36764 author = Browne, Irving title = In the Track of the Bookworm date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 25939 sentences = 1427 flesch = 78 summary = 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. cache = ./cache/36764.txt txt = ./txt/36764.txt Building ./etc/reader.txt 28540 22607 22716 22607 28540 44360 number of items: 20 sum of words: 1,273,598 average size in words: 67,031 average readability score: 72 nouns: books; book; library; time; copy; volumes; years; work; man; collection; volume; works; edition; day; sale; part; copies; life; century; literature; catalogue; paper; history; men; p.; way; one; libraries; number; author; collector; year; name; place; account; world; hand; editions; value; letter; others; friend; country; subject; note; nothing; price; illustration; house; title verbs: is; was; be; have; are; had; were; has; been; printed; do; being; made; said; found; see; sold; published; did; read; known; find; make; know; say; having; let; take; am; called; came; come; written; bound; think; given; put; does; says; give; seen; brought; go; following; bought; used; left; seems; gave; became adjectives: other; many; great; first; old; such; good; own; same; few; little; more; large; rare; last; curious; much; fine; early; literary; small; valuable; second; certain; best; present; english; interesting; new; late; original; several; ancient; most; famous; long; full; whole; latter; modern; beautiful; general; true; public; worth; private; important; better; high; common adverbs: not; so; very; more; most; now; only; as; well; up; then; even; never; here; also; out; too; however; perhaps; ever; always; once; almost; still; far; rather; much; yet; thus; down; there; just; again; indeed; long; first; probably; often; on; ago; together; less; all; away; sometimes; about; off; no; nearly; quite pronouns: his; it; he; i; my; they; we; their; you; him; them; its; me; our; her; us; your; himself; she; one; themselves; myself; itself; thy; yourself; ourselves; herself; thee; mine; yours; oneself; ours; theirs; ''em; ye; mother,--i; hers; ay; yt; thyself; yourselves; y^e; ne; ys; your----; worn?--they; with--''i; with,--; wi; were,--his proper nouns: _; mr.; de; .; john; sir; london; library; c.; dr.; thomas; english; st.; et; lord; henry; book; vol; mr; england; william; johnson; w.; paris; 8vo; footnote; catalogue; george; king; charles; la; street; james; mss; oxford; richard; books; j.; british; museum; i.; earl; new; duke; folio; society; robert; queen; caxton; le keywords: book; library; john; sir; mr.; thomas; lord; london; english; england; work; william; british; st.; oxford; new; man; henry; dr.; shakespeare; queen; paris; museum; mss; james; george; charles; volume; richard; king; illustration; history; great; french; france; footnote; duke; catalogue; cambridge; time; street; society; print; old; literature; life; lamb; greek; good; edward one topic; one dimension: books file(s): ./cache/28187.txt titles(s): The Wanderings and Homes of Manuscripts three topics; one dimension: books; books; books file(s): ./cache/22136.txt, ./cache/22607.txt, ./cache/28540.txt titles(s): The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author | The Book-Hunter in London Historical and Other Studies of Collectors and Collecting | Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance five topics; three dimensions: books book library; books mr library; books book great; books book mr; books 8vo london file(s): ./cache/22136.txt, ./cache/28540.txt, ./cache/44360.txt, ./cache/22607.txt, ./cache/30419.txt titles(s): The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author | Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance | The Amenities of Book-Collecting and Kindred Affections | The Book-Hunter in London Historical and Other Studies of Collectors and Collecting | How to Form a Library, 2nd ed Type: gutenberg title: subject-bookCollecting-gutenberg date: 2021-06-01 time: 17:06 username: emorgan patron: Eric Morgan email: emorgan@nd.edu input: facet_subject:"Book collecting" ==== make-pages.sh htm files ==== make-pages.sh complex files ==== make-pages.sh named enities ==== making bibliographics id: 22716 author: Allan, P. B. M. (Philip Bertram Murray) title: The Book-Hunter at Home date: words: 96385.0 sentences: 5912.0 pages: flesch: 76.0 cache: ./cache/22716.txt txt: ./txt/22716.txt summary: 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 title: Literary Taste: How to Form It With Detailed Instructions for Collecting a Complete Library of English Literature date: words: 25007.0 sentences: 1795.0 pages: flesch: 76.0 cache: ./cache/13852.txt txt: ./txt/13852.txt summary: 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 id: 3640 author: Bennett, Arnold title: Literary Taste: How to Form It With Detailed Instructions for Collecting a Complete Library of English Literature date: words: nan sentences: nan pages: flesch: nan cache: txt: summary: id: 36764 author: Browne, Irving title: In the Track of the Bookworm date: words: 25939.0 sentences: 1427.0 pages: flesch: 78.0 cache: ./cache/36764.txt txt: ./txt/36764.txt summary: 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: 22136 author: Burton, John Hill title: The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author date: words: 135043.0 sentences: 5744.0 pages: flesch: 65.0 cache: ./cache/22136.txt txt: ./txt/22136.txt summary: 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: 626 author: Bury, Richard de title: The Love of Books: The Philobiblon of Richard de Bury date: words: 24979.0 sentences: 863.0 pages: flesch: 65.0 cache: ./cache/626.txt txt: ./txt/626.txt summary: 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: 28540 author: Dibdin, Thomas Frognall title: Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance date: words: 304828.0 sentences: 23970.0 pages: flesch: 76.0 cache: ./cache/28540.txt txt: ./txt/28540.txt summary: 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: 18938 author: Elton, Charles Isaac title: The Great Book-Collectors date: words: 58463.0 sentences: 2987.0 pages: flesch: 74.0 cache: ./cache/18938.txt txt: ./txt/18938.txt summary: [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: 443 author: Field, Eugene title: The Love Affairs of a Bibliomaniac date: words: 37583.0 sentences: 1712.0 pages: flesch: 71.0 cache: ./cache/443.txt txt: ./txt/443.txt summary: 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: 3426 author: Gladstone, W. E. (William Ewart) title: On Books and the Housing of Them date: words: 6483.0 sentences: 292.0 pages: flesch: 69.0 cache: ./cache/3426.txt txt: ./txt/3426.txt summary: 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: 22605 author: Harper, Henry Howard title: Book-Lovers, Bibliomaniacs and Book Clubs date: words: 13483.0 sentences: 570.0 pages: flesch: 62.0 cache: ./cache/22605.txt txt: ./txt/22605.txt summary: 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: 28225 author: Hazlitt, William Carew 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 date: words: 90130.0 sentences: 4217.0 pages: flesch: 65.0 cache: ./cache/28225.txt txt: ./txt/28225.txt summary: 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 id: 41393 author: Hazlitt, William Carew title: The Confessions of a Collector date: words: 77629.0 sentences: 3654.0 pages: flesch: 69.0 cache: ./cache/41393.txt txt: ./txt/41393.txt summary: 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: 28174 author: Humphreys, Arthur Lee title: The Private Library What We Do Know, What We Don''t Know, What We Ought to Know About Our Books date: words: 34894.0 sentences: 2023.0 pages: flesch: 75.0 cache: ./cache/28174.txt txt: ./txt/28174.txt summary: 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 author: James, M. R. (Montague Rhodes) title: The Wanderings and Homes of Manuscripts date: words: 23529.0 sentences: 1387.0 pages: flesch: 75.0 cache: ./cache/28187.txt txt: ./txt/28187.txt summary: 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: 44360 author: Newton, A. Edward (Alfred Edward) title: The Amenities of Book-Collecting and Kindred Affections date: words: 96806.0 sentences: 5673.0 pages: flesch: 79.0 cache: ./cache/44360.txt txt: ./txt/44360.txt summary: 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 id: 44810 author: Pym, Horace N. title: Chats in the Book-Room date: words: 23855.0 sentences: 1380.0 pages: flesch: 80.0 cache: ./cache/44810.txt txt: ./txt/44810.txt summary: 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: 22607 author: Roberts, W. (William) title: The Book-Hunter in London Historical and Other Studies of Collectors and Collecting date: words: 112083.0 sentences: 5490.0 pages: flesch: 72.0 cache: ./cache/22607.txt txt: ./txt/22607.txt summary: 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: 38345 author: Slater, J. Herbert (John Herbert) title: Book Collecting: A Guide for Amateurs date: words: 43115.0 sentences: 3017.0 pages: flesch: 76.0 cache: ./cache/38345.txt txt: ./txt/38345.txt summary: 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: 30419 author: Wheatley, Henry B. (Henry Benjamin) title: How to Form a Library, 2nd ed date: words: 43364.0 sentences: 4338.0 pages: flesch: 73.0 cache: ./cache/30419.txt txt: ./txt/30419.txt summary: 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 ==== make-pages.sh questions ==== make-pages.sh search ==== make-pages.sh topic modeling corpus Zipping study carrel