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Eric Lease Morgan Number of items in the collection; 'How big is my corpus?' ---------------------------------------------------------- 20 Average length of all items measured in words; "More or less, how big is each item?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 67031 Average readability score of all items (0 = difficult; 100 = easy) ------------------------------------------------------------------ 72 Top 50 statistically significant keywords; "What is my collection about?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 15 book 12 Sir 12 John 11 Mr. 10 Library 9 Thomas 9 Lord 9 London 8 England 7 work 7 British 6 man 6 William 6 St. 6 Oxford 6 New 6 Henry 6 English 6 Dr. 5 Shakespeare 5 Queen 5 Paris 5 Museum 5 MSS 5 James 5 George 5 Charles 4 volume 4 illustration 4 history 4 Richard 4 King 4 France 4 Duke 4 Catalogue 4 Cambridge 3 time 3 print 3 library 3 great 3 good 3 english 3 copy 3 Street 3 Society 3 Literature 3 Lamb 3 Greek 3 Edward 3 Earl Top 50 lemmatized nouns; "What is discussed?" --------------------------------------------- 9636 book 2948 library 2735 volume 2453 work 2418 copy 2072 time 2054 man 1980 year 1701 edition 1533 collection 1463 day 1150 catalogue 1127 part 1111 sale 1101 collector 1014 author 968 hand 939 century 926 life 905 letter 897 paper 889 name 889 friend 866 price 844 page 843 one 805 history 802 literature 783 way 779 place 779 note 775 thing 769 number 754 bookseller 747 p. 715 subject 671 case 660 account 621 house 607 country 600 title 597 illustration 595 value 593 world 559 character 555 other 552 room 534 reader 506 nothing 493 death Top 50 proper nouns; "What are the names of persons or places?" -------------------------------------------------------------- 24867 _ 2202 Mr. 1247 . 1192 de 1108 John 986 London 935 Sir 834 Library 815 Dr. 717 c. 716 St. 702 English 678 et 635 Thomas 588 Lord 561 Henry 536 vol 534 England 527 Mr 482 W. 477 Paris 473 8vo 471 Book 470 Footnote 464 William 454 Johnson 450 Catalogue 440 MSS 440 King 419 Street 417 Charles 409 Oxford 403 George 400 J. 394 De 388 James 387 Museum 387 British 353 Richard 346 Earl 332 Duke 327 Books 324 New 322 Society 309 la 293 Queen 282 Shakespeare 279 4to 278 Caxton 276 Lamb Top 50 personal pronouns nouns; "To whom are things referred?" ------------------------------------------------------------- 11562 it 9638 he 8725 i 3240 they 3228 we 3094 you 2659 him 2501 them 1930 me 1153 us 944 himself 669 she 383 one 316 themselves 300 myself 277 her 240 itself 97 yourself 73 ourselves 57 herself 51 thee 45 mine 24 his 22 yours 13 oneself 9 theirs 9 ''em 8 ours 6 ye 6 mother,--i 5 hers 4 ay 3 thyself 2 yt 2 yourselves 2 thy 2 ne 1 ys 1 worn?--they 1 with--''i 1 with,-- 1 wi 1 unwelcome:-- 1 this:-- 1 themself 1 ten--_you 1 southey 1 religion.= 1 pelf 1 o''er Top 50 lemmatized verbs; "What do things do?" --------------------------------------------- 45166 be 14581 have 2879 do 2245 say 2101 make 1729 know 1725 find 1636 see 1557 print 1496 give 1477 take 1326 come 1184 write 1153 go 1006 sell 1006 read 910 publish 887 think 866 call 845 become 749 seem 739 contain 724 buy 720 tell 714 follow 695 bind 678 appear 676 bring 666 let 647 leave 593 get 580 look 551 pass 541 use 510 put 507 learn 491 live 486 mention 478 keep 477 form 477 collect 459 possess 459 pay 454 begin 446 describe 435 bear 432 die 431 hear 425 speak 411 purchase Top 50 lemmatized adjectives and adverbs; "How are things described?" --------------------------------------------------------------------- 6970 not 2856 so 2584 more 2406 very 2236 great 2070 first 1943 most 1918 other 1854 well 1826 many 1751 good 1718 only 1520 old 1512 now 1345 such 1308 as 1236 much 1210 up 1181 own 1166 few 1149 same 1121 little 1117 early 1096 large 995 then 954 even 948 long 919 never 874 rare 845 here 844 also 823 fine 807 out 786 last 747 too 736 however 714 curious 706 perhaps 687 small 680 ever 638 always 627 far 623 once 622 literary 603 late 602 almost 592 still 586 less 585 valuable 579 second Top 50 lemmatized superlative adjectives; "How are things described to the extreme?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 559 good 357 most 282 least 214 great 148 early 125 fine 94 high 81 rare 50 late 50 large 47 Most 40 bad 31 old 30 eld 30 choice 26 slight 23 near 22 noble 18 scarce 16 low 14 young 14 pure 13 rich 13 common 12 small 12 safe 12 keen 11 happy 10 wise 10 manif 10 fair 9 deep 8 strong 8 full 7 simple 7 poor 7 long 7 fond 7 dear 7 cheap 6 true 6 strange 6 brief 5 wide 5 tall 5 sweet 5 short 5 new 5 faint 5 e Top 50 lemmatized superlative adverbs; "How do things do to the extreme?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1586 most 76 well 41 least 2 ¦ 2 highest 1 warmest 1 soon 1 palimpsest Top 50 Internet domains; "What Webbed places are alluded to in this corpus?" ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 6 www.ebookforge.net 4 www.gutenberg.net Top 50 URLs; "What is hyperlinked from this corpus?" ---------------------------------------------------- 6 http://www.eBookForge.net 1 http://www.gutenberg.net/dirs/2/8/5/4/28540/28540-h/28540-h.htm 1 http://www.gutenberg.net/dirs/2/8/5/4/28540/28540-h.zip 1 http://www.gutenberg.net/dirs/2/2/1/3/22136/22136-h/22136-h.htm 1 http://www.gutenberg.net/dirs/2/2/1/3/22136/22136-h.zip Top 50 email addresses; "Who are you gonna call?" ------------------------------------------------- Top 50 positive assertions; "What sentences are in the shape of noun-verb-noun?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 14 books are not 9 _ see _ 8 _ read _ 7 book is not 7 copy is now 6 _ is _ 6 _ is not 6 books is not 6 books were not 5 books do not 5 books printed abroad 5 library was not 5 name does not 5 sale took place 5 time goes on 5 volume is not 4 _ printed _ 4 _ reading _ 4 author did not 4 book is worth 4 books are now 4 books are so 4 catalogue is most 4 days gone by 4 man does not 4 time went on 3 _ prints _ 3 book was first 3 book was originally 3 books are valuable 3 books is more 3 books were chiefly 3 collector is not 3 collectors are not 3 collectors do not 3 copies are now 3 day is not 3 edition is not 3 library is rich 3 life was not 3 man is not 3 time be nameless 3 work is always 3 work is rare 2 _ are exceedingly 2 _ are not 2 _ are very 2 _ brought still 2 _ do _ 2 _ does _ Top 50 negative assertions; "What sentences are in the shape of noun-verb-no|not-noun?" --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2 books are not easily 2 catalogue was not better 2 day is not very 2 edition is not necessarily 1 _ are not vehicles 1 _ does not entirely 1 _ is not only 1 _ is not probably 1 _ is not unreasonably 1 _ takes no notice 1 _ was no sooner 1 book appeared not long 1 book has no stomach 1 book is no longer 1 book is not _ 1 book is not always 1 book is not now 1 book was not badly 1 books are not absolutely 1 books are not as 1 books are not everlasting 1 books are not generally 1 books are not good 1 books are not literature 1 books are not mere 1 books are not readily 1 books are not so 1 books have not so 1 books is not enough 1 books is not necessarily 1 books is not only 1 books were not always 1 catalogue contained not fewer 1 catalogue is no mean 1 catalogue makes no mention 1 collection is not extensive 1 collection is not unworthy 1 collection was not strictly 1 collector has no such 1 collector is no more 1 collector is not necessarily 1 collectors are not only 1 collectors are not so 1 collectors are not specialists 1 copies are not necessarily 1 copy has no price 1 copy was not unique 1 day brought no aggravation 1 day is not far 1 day were not necessarily A rudimentary bibliography -------------------------- id = 22716 author = Allan, P. B. M. (Philip Bertram Murray) title = The Book-Hunter at Home date = keywords = Bibliography; Bibliotheca; British; Cambridge; Catalogue; Caxton; England; English; France; French; Henry; John; King; Library; Literature; London; Mr.; Museum; New; Paris; Sir; Society; St.; Thomas; book; copy; early; edition; great; history; man; print; sidenote; volume; work 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 = keywords = Classics; Edition; English; Everyman; John; Lamb; Library; Poems; Sir; Thomas; Universal; Wordsworth; Works 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 = 36764 author = Browne, Irving title = In the Track of the Bookworm date = keywords = Book; Illustrator; Mr.; New; Shakespeare; Worm; York; good; great; library; man; paper; plate; portrait; print; read; time; woman 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 = keywords = Aberdeen; Act; Britain; British; Burton; Church; Club; Columba; Craighouse; DEAR; Dibdin; Edinburgh; England; Footnote; Grandholm; Ireland; John; Joseph; Law; Library; London; Lord; Mrs; New; Queen; Rome; Roxburghe; Scotland; Scott; Shakespeare; Sir; William; author; book; come; day; english; french; good; great; history; life; man; old; roman; seq; time; volume; work 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 = keywords = Aristotle; Athens; Bishop; Bury; Church; God; Lord; Richard; Thomas; book; chapter; man; study; thing 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 = keywords = A.D.; Antiquities; Archbishop; Askew; Baker; Bale; Bibliographical; Bibliomania; Bibliotheca; Bibliothéque; Bishop; Britain; British; Bure; Cambridge; Canterbury; Cardinal; Catalogue; Caxton; Charles; Classics; Collection; College; Dr.; Duke; Earl; Edward; Elizabeth; England; English; Erasmus; Esq; Europe; Folio; Footnote; France; French; George; God; Great; Greek; Hearne; Henry; Herbert; Hist; Index; James; John; King; LIS; LYSAND; Latin; Leland; Library; Librorum; Life; Lisardo; Literature; London; Lord; Lorenzo; Lysander; MSS; Majesty; Martin; Morhof; Mr.; Museum; Old; Oxford; PHIL; Paris; Paul; Philemon; Pope; Pynson; Queen; Rev.; Richard; Robert; Royal; Shakspeare; Sir; Smith; Spencer; St.; Steevens; Thomas; Transcriber; University; VELLUM; West; William; Worde; Wynkyn; book; copy; edition; history; illustration; large; loren; paper; print; sale; volume; work 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 = keywords = Archbishop; Bishop; Cardinal; Charles; Dr.; Duke; Earl; France; Greek; Grolier; John; King; Library; Lord; Louis; MSS; Mr.; Oxford; Paris; Queen; Rome; Sir; St.; Thomas; University; book 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 = keywords = Boccaccio; Bonaparte; Captivity; Dr.; Johnson; Judge; Methuen; Miss; Mr.; Napoleon; O''Rell; Susan; Villon; book; bookseller; come; know; love; man; old; time; year 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 = keywords = book; bookcase; footnote; library; room 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 = keywords = Club; Council; Dibdin; Ferdinand; Society; book; copy; library; man; member 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 = keywords = Bible; British; Cambridge; Catalogue; Caxton; Duke; Edward; England; George; Heber; Henry; Huth; John; Lamb; Library; London; Lord; MSS; Mr.; Museum; New; Oxford; Queen; Shakespeare; Sir; Thomas; William; american; book; early; english; french; work 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 = keywords = British; Daniel; Ellis; English; George; Heber; Henry; Huth; James; John; London; Lord; Miller; Museum; New; Pyne; Quaritch; Richard; Sir; Son; Sotheby; Street; Thomas; book; roman; sale 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 = keywords = England; Florence; Gladstone; Library; Lord; MSS; Mr.; Pepys; Sir; Urbino; book; footnote; good; volume; work 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 = keywords = Cambridge; College; England; France; Greek; Italy; John; Library; MSS; Oxford; Paris; St.; book 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 = keywords = Bar; Boswell; Charles; Dickens; Dodd; Dr.; England; English; George; Godwin; JOHN; Johnson; Lamb; Life; London; Mary; Miss; Mr.; Mrs.; New; Piozzi; Queen; Shakespeare; Sir; Streatham; Street; Temple; Thrale; Trollope; WILLIAM; Wilde; book; illustration 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 = keywords = CHAT; Cardinal; Charles; Foxwold; General; John; Lord; Louis; Mr.; Mrs.; Paris; Sala; Sir; day; friend; little; work 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 = keywords = Bible; British; Charles; Dr.; Duke; Earl; Edward; George; Henry; Holborn; James; John; King; Library; London; Lord; Mr.; Museum; Oxford; Richard; Robert; Samuel; Shakespeare; Sir; Sotheby; St.; Strand; Street; Thomas; William; book; illustration 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 = keywords = Aldus; Co.; Elzevir; James; John; London; Oxford; S.W.; Son; Sons; St.; W.C.; William; book; english; illustration 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 = keywords = 8vo; Books; British; Catalogue; Club; Dictionary; Dr.; England; English; Henry; Index; James; John; Libraries; Library; Literature; London; Mr.; Public; Rev.; Sir; Society; Thomas; United; William; history; work 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