The Book Fancier: Or, The Romance of Book Collecting |
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... fine musical instruments ; you have no hair , and you get yourself a comb . " This is perhaps the most bitter stroke yet given to the bibliomaniac . More pleasantly sarcastic , too , are the lines of old Brandt in his " Ship of Fools ...
... fine musical instruments ; you have no hair , and you get yourself a comb . " This is perhaps the most bitter stroke yet given to the bibliomaniac . More pleasantly sarcastic , too , are the lines of old Brandt in his " Ship of Fools ...
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... fine large copy of this noble volume of early typography , new calf gilt , exceedingly rare , £ 2 , 12s . 6d . Venet . , A. de Toresanis de Ausla , 1488. " ― On which he comments : " This interesting publication is connected with the ...
... fine large copy of this noble volume of early typography , new calf gilt , exceedingly rare , £ 2 , 12s . 6d . Venet . , A. de Toresanis de Ausla , 1488. " ― On which he comments : " This interesting publication is connected with the ...
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... fine and beautiful specimen of early typography could not require a more desirable book than the above . In fact , a more noble volume could not grace the shelves of the finest collection . " Who would not be attracted by this glowing ...
... fine and beautiful specimen of early typography could not require a more desirable book than the above . In fact , a more noble volume could not grace the shelves of the finest collection . " Who would not be attracted by this glowing ...
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... fine summer's evening with a book under the trees in Trafalgar Square . " Foremost among them is the now celebrated Mr. Quaritch of London , the very Napoleon of book- sellers . His enterprise and daring has really had a momentous ...
... fine summer's evening with a book under the trees in Trafalgar Square . " Foremost among them is the now celebrated Mr. Quaritch of London , the very Napoleon of book- sellers . His enterprise and daring has really had a momentous ...
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... fine copy , of the full size , most of the leaves being rough and uncut , so as even to show the ancient MS . signatures and chapter- numbers , as written down by Guttenberg himself for the guidance of the binder and the illuminator ...
... fine copy , of the full size , most of the leaves being rough and uncut , so as even to show the ancient MS . signatures and chapter- numbers , as written down by Guttenberg himself for the guidance of the binder and the illuminator ...
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