The Book-hunter at HomeP. Allan, 1922 - 275 páginas I. Adventures among books.--II. The library.--III. Books which form the library.--IV. Chivalry and romance.--V-VI. The care of books.--VII. Books of the collector.--VIII-IX. A plea for specialism.--Index |
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... King Henry the Second to the military spirit of Mohammedanism , from the Troubadours to the early dissipations of King John , and devotes two of his five volumes to the Literature of England with copious examples of early poetry . It is ...
... King Henry the Second to the military spirit of Mohammedanism , from the Troubadours to the early dissipations of King John , and devotes two of his five volumes to the Literature of England with copious examples of early poetry . It is ...
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... king was a great benefactor to Winchester , that he held the castle to have been built by King Arthur , and that he brought hither his queen to be delivered of his first - born ( whom he named Arthur ) , point to something more than a ...
... king was a great benefactor to Winchester , that he held the castle to have been built by King Arthur , and that he brought hither his queen to be delivered of his first - born ( whom he named Arthur ) , point to something more than a ...
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... King Arthur is more likely to have been on the site of the more ancient one which stood near the river ( now known as Wolvesey ) , and that the great round table ( eighteen feet in diameter , of stout old English oak , cunningly bolted ...
... King Arthur is more likely to have been on the site of the more ancient one which stood near the river ( now known as Wolvesey ) , and that the great round table ( eighteen feet in diameter , of stout old English oak , cunningly bolted ...
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CONTENTS CHAP PAGE I ADVENTURES AMONG BOOKS I | 25 |
THE LIBRARY | 31 |
BOOKS WHICH FORM THE LIBRARY | 58 |
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