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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... copy some day - if indeed the book be in your line - long buried in the dust of some old country bookshop . Upton died in 1457 , and his work was so popular that numerous copies of the manuscript were made . The treatise on coat ...
... copy some day - if indeed the book be in your line - long buried in the dust of some old country bookshop . Upton died in 1457 , and his work was so popular that numerous copies of the manuscript were made . The treatise on coat ...
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... copy . It may well be , considering these facts , that there were other intervening editions which have entirely ... copy of Caxton's ' Speculum , ' amongst some rubbish in the offices of a solicitor at Birkenhead . ' What a vast number ...
... copy . It may well be , considering these facts , that there were other intervening editions which have entirely ... copy of Caxton's ' Speculum , ' amongst some rubbish in the offices of a solicitor at Birkenhead . ' What a vast number ...
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... copy , more or less clean inside , but in a sad state of decay as regards the binding . On this account it is offered to us at one - half the price which a sound copy would fetch , perhaps even less . Of course we buy it , and many ...
... copy , more or less clean inside , but in a sad state of decay as regards the binding . On this account it is offered to us at one - half the price which a sound copy would fetch , perhaps even less . Of course we buy it , and many ...
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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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