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... once outbid at Sotheby's for a scarce volume which he found, a week later, on a barrow in Clerkenwell for fourpence! The same year he picked up for ten shillings, in London, an early sixteenth-century folio, rubricated and with ...
... once outbid at Sotheby's for a scarce volume which he found, a week later, on a barrow in Clerkenwell for fourpence! The same year he picked up for ten shillings, in London, an early sixteenth-century folio, rubricated and with ...
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... once saw in a catalogue for five shillings . He sent for it three days after the receipt of the catalogue , and of course it had gone . The other was an unknown , or at least undescribed , edition of Osorio's ' De Gloria et Nobilitate ...
... once saw in a catalogue for five shillings . He sent for it three days after the receipt of the catalogue , and of course it had gone . The other was an unknown , or at least undescribed , edition of Osorio's ' De Gloria et Nobilitate ...
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... once told me an interesting story . A certain young man of the working class , on his way to work every day , used to pass a bookstall situated in a narrow alley . Every day he glanced at the books , and as custom was scanty he would ...
... once told me an interesting story . A certain young man of the working class , on his way to work every day , used to pass a bookstall situated in a narrow alley . Every day he glanced at the books , and as custom was scanty he would ...
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... once popular book one copy only - that which was formerly in the Amherst Library - now survives . Then there is that ancient romance of European popularity ' The four Sons of Aymon . ' One of the great cycle of Charlemagne romances ...
... once popular book one copy only - that which was formerly in the Amherst Library - now survives . Then there is that ancient romance of European popularity ' The four Sons of Aymon . ' One of the great cycle of Charlemagne romances ...
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... Once, in the course of his rambles by the bookstalls of the Farringdon Road, [8] our book-hunter caught a glimpse of an old box almost covered by books and prints on one of the stalls. Being unearthed, it proved to be a veritable gem of ...
... Once, in the course of his rambles by the bookstalls of the Farringdon Road, [8] our book-hunter caught a glimpse of an old box almost covered by books and prints on one of the stalls. Being unearthed, it proved to be a veritable gem of ...
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CHAPTER II | |
CHAPTER III | |
CHAPTER IV | |
THE PERON page 96 | |
CHAPTER V | |
CHAPTER VI | |
CHAPTER VII | |
The first edition was put forth only after much hesitation and with | |
CHAPTER IX | |
The | |
INDEX | |
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