The Book-hunter at HomePhilip Allan, 1920 - 391 páginas |
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... original oak and pig - skin binding . We failed to trace the work in any of the biblio- graphies , nor could the British Museum help us to locate another copy . David's stall at Cambridge once yielded to us a scarce Defoe tract for six ...
... original oak and pig - skin binding . We failed to trace the work in any of the biblio- graphies , nor could the British Museum help us to locate another copy . David's stall at Cambridge once yielded to us a scarce Defoe tract for six ...
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... . Alas ! the list of works by ' rare Ben Jonson ' now lost to us , it is feared , for ever , is quite a lengthy one . Who has seen the original issue of ' Gude and Godlie Ballatis , ' printed 18 The Book - Hunter at Home.
... . Alas ! the list of works by ' rare Ben Jonson ' now lost to us , it is feared , for ever , is quite a lengthy one . Who has seen the original issue of ' Gude and Godlie Ballatis , ' printed 18 The Book - Hunter at Home.
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... original quarto edition ( 1594 ) of Shakespeare's ' Titus Andronicus ' was known to exist , when a copy was discovered and sold for £ 2000 . Books travel far afield . At the dissolution of the monasteries the rich libraries that many of ...
... original quarto edition ( 1594 ) of Shakespeare's ' Titus Andronicus ' was known to exist , when a copy was discovered and sold for £ 2000 . Books travel far afield . At the dissolution of the monasteries the rich libraries that many of ...
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... original binding , and was bound , probably , by one of Caxton's workmen , whose initials it bore . On being put up for sale at Sotheby's , it changed hands at £ 2,600 . The account which Gairdner gives in the Introduction to his last ...
... original binding , and was bound , probably , by one of Caxton's workmen , whose initials it bore . On being put up for sale at Sotheby's , it changed hands at £ 2,600 . The account which Gairdner gives in the Introduction to his last ...
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Philip Bertram Murray Allan. is only the translation , published two years after the original appeared . ' This puzzled us rather . If he had been eighteen in 1902 , he must have been a mere babe in 1885 . ' Rather young , were you not ...
Philip Bertram Murray Allan. is only the translation , published two years after the original appeared . ' This puzzled us rather . If he had been eighteen in 1902 , he must have been a mere babe in 1885 . ' Rather young , were you not ...
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Página 185 - And yet, on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book. Who kills a man, kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were in the eye.
Página 135 - Where throngs of knights and barons bold, In weeds of peace, high triumphs hold, With store of ladies, whose bright eyes Rain influence, and judge the prize Of wit or arms, while both contend To win her grace whom all commend.
Página 129 - ... al noble lordes and ladyes wyth al other estates, of what estate or degree they been of, that shal see and rede in this sayd book and werke, that they take the good and honest actes in their remembraunce, and to folowe the same...
Página 367 - Be she as chaste as was Penelope, As wise as Saba, or as beautiful As was bright Lucifer before his fall.
Página 128 - And if aught else great bards beside In sage and solemn tunes have sung, Of turneys, and of trophies hung, Of forests, and enchantments drear, Where more is meant than meets the ear.
Página 367 - Philosophy is odious and obscure; Both law and physic are for petty wits; Divinity is basest of the three, Unpleasant, harsh, contemptible, and vile: 'Tis magic, magic, that hath ravish'd me.
Página 367 - Turns to them. Faust. Now would I have a book where I might see all characters and planets of the heavens, that I might know their motions and dispositions. Meph. Here they are too. Turns to them. Faust. Nay, let me have one book more, — and then I have done, — wherein I might see all plants, herbs, and trees that grow upon the earth.
Página 367 - Thanks, Mephistophilis: yet fain would I have a book wherein I might behold all spells and incantations, that I might raise up spirits when I please.
Página 54 - I love all waste And solitary places; where we taste The pleasure of believing what we see Is boundless, as we wish our souls to be...
Página 44 - With awe, around these silent walks I tread; These are the lasting mansions of the dead:— " The dead," methinks a thousand tongues reply: " These are the tombs of such as cannot die ! " Crown'd with eternal fame, they sit sublime, " And laugh at all the little strife of time.