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Althorp anecdote auction autograph Bible Bibliomania bibliophile bibliopolic black-letter book-auctioneer book-collector book-hunting book-lovers bookseller bookseller's bookstalls bought British Museum catalogue Caxton Charles chiefly collection of books collector copy curious Dibdin died dispersed Duke Earl early editio princeps edition Edward English example famous Fleet Street folio French George guineas hammer Heber Henry Holborn Holywell Street included interesting James John King Lane large number last century late latter literary Little Britain London Lord lots realized manuscript Messrs number of books occupied Oxford Paul's Churchyard perhaps Piccadilly possession present century printed published purchased Quaritch quartos rare books rarities Richard Roxburghe Roxburghe Club Samuel scarcely second-hand book second-hand booksellers seller selling Shakespeare shops sold at Sotheby's Sotheby Sotheby's stalls Strand Thomas tion Tom Payne Toovey trade vellum volumes whilst William William Darton Wynkyn de Worde
Popular passages
Page 85 - Travels in Italy,' with an autograph inscription by the author : ' To Dr. Jonathan Swift, the most Agreeable Companion, the Truest Friend, and the Greatest Genius of his age, this Book is presented by his most Humble Servant the Author.' Among the many books on America, there is one with John Locke's autograph.
Page 190 - at the end of the seventeenth and beginning of the eighteenth centuries, was at the Gray's Inn Road gate of, or entrance to, Gray's Inn. His greatest coup was the purchase of the Harleian Collection of books—the manuscripts were bought by the British Museum for
Page 39 - Tom Folio' and other soi-disant scholars are trounced. ' He has a greater esteem for Aldus and Elzevir than for Virgil and Horace.' It is very doubtful whether Addison (who wrote this particular
Page 210 - and, when I come home, sat up late and read in it with great pleasure to my wife, to hear that she was long ago acquainted with it.' Kirton was one of the most extensive sufferers of the bookselling fraternity in the Great Fire ; from being a substantial tradesman with about
Page 76 - and William Hazlitt were book-collectors of a type which deserves a niche to itself. Writing to Coleridge in 1797, Lamb says : ' I have had thoughts of turning Quaker, and have been reading, or am, rather, just beginning to read,
Page xxvi - I replied that I had little doubt of its rarity, though comparatively a late edition of the Psalms, and at the same time gave Mr. Wilkinson a sixpenny nod. Thenceforward a " spirited competition" arose between Mr. Lilly and myself, until finally the lot was knocked down to Stevens for
Page 121 - and att this tyme can have it of a person of quality ; butt without flattery, I love to find a rare book for you, and hope shortly to procure for you a perfect's Hall's Chronicle.' With the books Scott sent his statement of account as follows: £ sd Campion, Hanmer and Spenser, fol. . . o 12 o Harding's ' Chronicle,
Page 10 - sylkwoman.' And again 'to Piers Bauduyn, stacioner, for bynding, gilding and dressing of a booke called " Titus Livius," xxs.; for bynding, gilding and dressing of a booke of the Holy Trinitie, xvjs. ; for bynding, gilding and dressing of a booke called " Frossard,
Page xxv - dollars. But can so much and so many rare books ever be collected again in that space of time ?' In December, 1855, Mr. Stevens offered Mr. Lenox in one lump about forty Shakespeare quartos, all in good condition, and some of them very fine, for £5oo, or, including a fair set of the four folios,
Page 78 - these he describes the translation as ' an exquisite poem, spite of its frequent and perverse quaintness and harshnesses, which are, however, amply repaid by almost unexampled sweetness and beauty of language.