The Book Fancier: Or, The Romance of Book Collecting |
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... late Dr. Hill Burton - perhaps the first in our time to deal popularly with such matters ; Mr. Andrew Lang being the latest to illustrate this subject from his abundant stores of knowledge . Having from the earliest date had a.
... late Dr. Hill Burton - perhaps the first in our time to deal popularly with such matters ; Mr. Andrew Lang being the latest to illustrate this subject from his abundant stores of knowledge . Having from the earliest date had a.
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... - binding I am indebted to the papers of the late Mr. Sanders of Oxford . Other obligations I have acknowledged in the notes . ATHENÆUM CLUB , September 1886 . CONTENTS . OF THE MAZARIN BIBLE · · CONCERNING THE vi Preface .
... - binding I am indebted to the papers of the late Mr. Sanders of Oxford . Other obligations I have acknowledged in the notes . ATHENÆUM CLUB , September 1886 . CONTENTS . OF THE MAZARIN BIBLE · · CONCERNING THE vi Preface .
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... late Mark Pattison had a special fancy for the little antique Latin pocket volumes pub- lished in myriads a couple of centuries ago . It is curious to think of scholars " wise and old " issuing their profoundest lucubrations in volumes ...
... late Mark Pattison had a special fancy for the little antique Latin pocket volumes pub- lished in myriads a couple of centuries ago . It is curious to think of scholars " wise and old " issuing their profoundest lucubrations in volumes ...
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... late Earl of Crawford , whose body was stolen . But , as I have said , the fashion has changed now - a - days . Col- lectors go in for first editions of Keats , Shelley , Thackeray , Dickens , and for the engravings of Cruikshank and ...
... late Earl of Crawford , whose body was stolen . But , as I have said , the fashion has changed now - a - days . Col- lectors go in for first editions of Keats , Shelley , Thackeray , Dickens , and for the engravings of Cruikshank and ...
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... late , deserves to be told , like that of some well - known historical personage . Other works issued by the Mayence press about the same time - so far as can be speculated — as the famous Bible , are not of the same importance , such ...
... late , deserves to be told , like that of some well - known historical personage . Other works issued by the Mayence press about the same time - so far as can be speculated — as the famous Bible , are not of the same importance , such ...
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