The Book Fancier: Or, The Romance of Book Collecting |
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... styles and forms , there are treatises without end ; grand encyclopædic dictionaries written by the pundits— Hain , Panzer , De Bure , the greater Brunet , and many more . There can be no doubt , indeed , that a book falls within the ...
... styles and forms , there are treatises without end ; grand encyclopædic dictionaries written by the pundits— Hain , Panzer , De Bure , the greater Brunet , and many more . There can be no doubt , indeed , that a book falls within the ...
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... style of his own , and I often envy his readiness of knowledge and resource . His bazaar has an antique look ; the venerable boxes and shelves look into the street ; within these are the darkened chambers where volumes are stored and ...
... style of his own , and I often envy his readiness of knowledge and resource . His bazaar has an antique look ; the venerable boxes and shelves look into the street ; within these are the darkened chambers where volumes are stored and ...
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... style ; indeed , he had once been a schoolmaster . He collected folk - lore , and at last made a collection of stories of fairies , & c . , which he had picked up himself , and which was published with much success . He signed himself ...
... style ; indeed , he had once been a schoolmaster . He collected folk - lore , and at last made a collection of stories of fairies , & c . , which he had picked up himself , and which was published with much success . He signed himself ...
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... style . The volume is ab- solutely cased in mail by a binding of three hundred years ' standing , upon the exterior of which are knobs and projections in brass , of a durability and bullet - defying power which may vie with the coat of ...
... style . The volume is ab- solutely cased in mail by a binding of three hundred years ' standing , upon the exterior of which are knobs and projections in brass , of a durability and bullet - defying power which may vie with the coat of ...
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... style , which gave quite a free artistic air to the whole page . This decoration , while it added seriously to the expense , imparted a separate indi- viduality to each copy . The front page was always Concerning the Incunables or ...
... style , which gave quite a free artistic air to the whole page . This decoration , while it added seriously to the expense , imparted a separate indi- viduality to each copy . The front page was always Concerning the Incunables or ...
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