 ... confine his loans to those who would follow it. This reminds me of a very nicely put passage of Lord de Tabley's, apropos of the subject of book-borrowing in general : — ' Now this batch of mottoes raises the point, whether valuable books should...  A Guide to the Study of Book-plates: (ex-libris) - Page 79by John Byrne Leicester Warren (Baron de Tabley) - 1900 - 228 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William John Hardy - Bookplates - 1893 - 278 pages
...raises the point, whether valuable books should be lent to persons who treat volumes like coal scuttles; who perpetrate such atrocities as moistening their...and use, as a book-marker, the butter-knife. Ought Garrick to have lent the cream of his Shakespeare quartos to slovenly and mole-eyed Samuel Johnson... | |
 | William John Hardy - Bookplates - 1893 - 274 pages
...raises the point, whether valuable books should be lent to persons who treat volumes like coal scuttles; who perpetrate such atrocities as moistening their...and use, as a book-marker, the butter-knife. Ought Garrick to have lent the cream of his Shakespeare quartos to slovenly and mole-eyed Samuel Johnson... | |
 | Art - 1904 - 680 pages
...persons who treat volumes like coal scut-tles; who perpetrate such atrocities as moisNumber 6 tening their thumbs to turn a page over; who hold a fine binding before a roaring 1 fire; who, horribilc dictu, read at breakfast, and use as a book-marker the butter knife. Ought Garrick... | |
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